Have you considered decorating your house/ workplace with hand-made stuff this new year eve? There are some quite easy-to-do New Year craft ideas that you can try out. Also, help kids at home learn to make these craft items this new year eve and make celebrations a lot more fun for them.

Chinese Lantern

It's possibly the easiest of New Year craft ideas to make a Chinese Lantern. All you need is a square piece of paper, preferably colored from at least one side. Fold the paper into two equal parts and hence make two rectangles. Now face the folded corner of the rectangle and start making equidistant cuts along the breadth of the rectangle, leaving about half an inch distance between two cuts. Now flip open the square piece of paper. Paste one side of the square half an inch overlapping the other side into a cylinderical shape such that all cuts made are vertical along the length of the cylinder. Now cut a narrow strip of paper of the same color and paste it across the sides of the lantern over the top. Press the cylinder from the top a little and you'd have the Chinese lantern made before you. Make many such colorful lanterns and string them into a rope and hang it across the threshold for decoration.

Noisa Maker

Making noisemaker at home is another one of New Year craft ideas that are easy and fun. All you need is an empty toilet paper/ paper towel roll, 4 by 4 square piece of wax paper, a hole punch, a rubber band . Make a hole with hole punch in the empty paper roll at about an inch from the edge. Now wrap the piece of wax paper over the mouth of the paper roll at the same end, where you just punched the hole and hold it using the rubber band. The noismaker is ready. Speak in the other side of the roll and listen to how it sounds. You can now use some colorful markers/ crayons and/ or stickers for decorating the noise maker.

Lighted New Year's Ball of Time Square

One of the most sought after New Year craft ideas around is to make your own Times Square lighted new year's ball. For this you'd need three metal hangers, wire and Christmas lights. It would require you to bring all three hangers together at the hook and secure their base using the wire. Now bend the rest of the body of the hangers into circles, interwined into a sphere. Again use the wire to secure hangers in place to form a sphere. Now, carefully wrap Christmas lights all along the sphere skelenton made from the hangers, starting right from the top. Your own lighted new year ball is ready to be hung from the ceiling by the hooks.