Trampoline jumping, reindeer farm and floating
If you are thinking about how to celebrate the New Year in Moscow, we recommend paying attention to a lot of interesting places in the capital. For example, take up a now fashionable sport - trampolining. This entertainment is available to both children, adults, extreme sports enthusiasts, and completely inexperienced athletes. The organizers promise that jumping will help relieve stress, chronic fatigue syndrome, vascular problems and even help you lose weight.
You don't need to have any special skills to start jumping; you can do it in groups or individually. A safe environment in such clubs is created by definition, so there is nothing to be afraid of, but it is, of course, possible and necessary to do what you have dreamed of since childhood - to fly up to the very sky.
Another method of dealing with stress and just a fun activity is horse riding. Take a horseback ride through the forest (if you are doing this for the first time or have a child on a horse, an instructor will be walking nearby) or take things more seriously - take hippotherapy lessons (exercises on a horse without a saddle).
You can take your children to a deer farm. Surely, at first, children won’t even believe you, because it seems that deer only exist in fairy tales. But it turns out that you can pet them, hug them, and feed them! You will see how animals are harnessed to a sleigh, which you can then ride on.
Another original and fashionable entertainment and relaxation today is floating. This is a dive into an unusual bath filled with water and salt. There are walls around, through which neither sounds, nor light, nor smells penetrate - complete darkness and silence, the force of gravity does not act on the body, the muscles are relaxed, the brain stops processing tons of information. Some feel such catharsis that they begin to go to this procedure regularly.
Want something “hot”? Then check out our top ten most extreme winter activities!
New Year's surprise box
You will need: a scoring board, fantasy knives, scissors, a ruler, moment glue “Crystal”, PVA glue, scrapbooking paper, watercolor paper, acrylic plastic, Raffaello sweets, decorative elements - a snowman, a pom-pom and other decorations...
Master Class
- Prepare a sheet of white scrap paper measuring 21x26 cm. The size of the finished box is 5x10x4 cm.
- Make a scoring (draw lines with a non-writing object) along a side equal to 21 cm at a distance of 4;4;5;4;4; and on the side 26 cm – 4;4;10;4;4;
- Cut off the excess and assemble the box.
- Make the lid of the box in this way: take watercolor paper, make a crease by adding 1 mm to each side - 5.1; 4.1; 5.1; 4.1; + 2 cm for gluing (see photo).
- Cover the outside with scrap paper, glue it and try it on the box.
- Glue a strip of acrylic plastic to the back of the snowman and wait until it dries.
- Glue the snowman by the strip to the inside of the box and wait until it dries.
- Decorate the box to your liking, glue on a pompom and place the candies inside the box.
The New Year's surprise box is ready! I recommend watching this video! To view even more surprise boxes, click HERE!
DIY Explosive Surprise Box with your own hands
Jar of nuts
You will need: a glass jar with a lid, nuts, half a plastic transparent ball, white cardboard, scissors, glue, artificial snow, pencil, small snowman and Christmas tree (or other figures), red ribbon.
Master Class
- Trace a plastic circle onto white cardstock, then cut out a circle.
- Glue the snowman and Christmas tree onto the white circle.
- Place some artificial snow in a plastic circle.
- Glue the white circle and the plastic circle together as shown in the photo instructions.
- Glue the decoration onto the lid of the jar.
- Fill the jar with nuts and close it.
- Decorate the gift with a red ribbon.
The jar of nuts is ready!
Christmas candy wreath
You will need: CD, candy, spray paint with glitter, snowflake stencil, scrap of felt, cardboard, glue, satin ribbon.
Master Class
- Paint one side of the disc.
- Glue the candy canes to the back of the disk.
- Attach satin ribbon as a large hanging loop.
- Cut out hexagons from felt and cardboard.
- Make a snowflake on cardboard and attach the cardboard with felt.
- Glue the hexagon to the craft.
The candy composition is ready!
Gift snowman
You will need: a glass jar with a screw-on lid, a foam ball with the diameter of the jar's circumference, chocolate candies, a glue gun, a brush, PVA glue, white glitter, scissors, white Christmas tree tinsel, small black pompoms, orange polymer clay, colored lace, red felt and green, cotton wool, knife.
Master Class
- Using a sharp knife, cut off a small portion of the foam ball to create a flat bottom.
- Attach the ball to the jar lid using a glue gun.
- Grease the ball with pva and sprinkle with glitter.
- Make a carrot from clay.
- Glue a carrot as a nose, and use pompoms to make eyes and a mouth.
- Cut 2 circles of the same diameter from felt and glue them together.
- Glue 2 candies and glue them onto a felt circle, forming a cylinder hat, then wrap the fastening area with lace.
- Make headphones from a strip of felt and two candies, glue them to the snowman's head, and attach a hat on top.
- Place cotton wool at the bottom of the jar and fill the rest with candy.
- Connect the head to the jar and wrap the white rain as a scarf.
The gift snowman is ready! You can find even more snowmen HERE!
Original cone
You will need: dark brown and light brown corrugated paper, a 17 cm high foam egg, scissors, a ruler, a pencil, toothpicks, candy, foam, glue.
Master Class
- Cover the foam egg with dark brown paper.
- Prepare pieces of corrugated paper of two colors measuring 5x2.5 cm.
- Glue the squares of two colors together, then cut out the scales (to the shape of a petal).
- Glue the scales to the toothpicks, then shape them into a curved shape.
- Make 70 blanks this way.
- Glue the candies to the toothpicks.
- Insert toothpicks with scales, filling the top of the Styrofoam egg without candy.
- Lay out rows of scales along with candies, following the photo diagram as a guide. Place each next row in a checkerboard pattern.
- Make scales without toothpicks as indicated in steps 2 and 3.
- Cover the bottom of the egg with scales without toothpicks.
- Crumble the foam and glue it onto the lower scales as snow.
The original corrugated paper cone is ready! I recommend watching this video!
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Gastronomic tour to Georgia
Have you been on gastronomic tours in Spain, tasted cheeses in France and Italian dishes somewhere in Rome? To have a luxurious dinner, you don’t have to sit in a Michelin-starred restaurant with well-trained waiters and a fancy menu. Go to Georgia! Whatever, you will be provided with an interesting cuisine. And don’t even worry about how to celebrate the New Year: at midnight you will be offered not just a festive table, but a real culinary feast.
Khinkali, satsivi, chakhokhbili, khachapuri and achma - all this is probably familiar to you, thanks to Georgian restaurants, which have recently opened in almost dozens in Moscow alone, but, of course, in their native land and from other products, the dishes will taste a bit different. Don’t be surprised if they bring you shish kebab, salad and freshly baked pita bread for breakfast. In general, get ready not to taste, but to eat - in the full sense of the word. In addition, you can look at Tbilisi from a bird's eye view by climbing the mountain in a funicular (both during the day and in the evening to take stunning shots), walk along interesting streets, choose and take home a lot of famous local wine.
Find flights to Tbilisi
By the way, we have a whole guide to Georgia on our blog!
Pineapple made of champagne and sweets
You will need: a bottle of champagne, 50 Ferrerro Rocher chocolates, a glue gun, green and gold papyrus paper, scissors, tape, a sleeve, gold ribbon.
Master Class
- Wrap the bottle in gold paper and secure with tape.
- Glue the candy to the bottom of the bottle.
- Glue the candies to form the first bottom circle.
- Glue the second circle of candies, staggering them from the first bottom circle.
- Cover half the bottle with candy in the same way.
- Fold the green paper and cut out the leaf garland as shown in the image.
- Wrap the leaf garland around the sleeve and secure with tape.
- Place the sleeve on the neck of the bottle and glue the remaining sheets.
- Decorate the pineapple with a gold ribbon bow.
Champagne pineapple is ready! I recommend watching this video!
Raffaello and champagne pineapple. DIY. Candy Pineapple
