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Often a person needs an outlet from the surrounding hustle and bustle. Women are most often engaged in decorating their home, so it is worth considering the most interesting and simple crafts with your own hands step by step. The thing you made, regardless of whether it is simple or complex, will give you a lot of pleasure and will look original and unique.

Although needlework is considered an occupation for housewives, it also develops brain activity. And if you involve children in these activities, then there will be more benefits, as well as joyful moments in life. Below are some step by step crafts that you can make yourself.

Below will be presented paper crafts with your own hands in stages. Most of all, children love such crafts, so the selected options are easy to perform so that the little master can be proud of a hand-made creation.

It can be made by anyone, but the work is mainly designed for older children, parents and teachers. What might be needed to get the job done? Napkins in color, a glass of water, PVA, a disposable plate, To make it easy to mix the composition, take any stick, a picture template, a multifora.

Stages of work:

  1. Prepare templates - an image of the globe, 5 palms, 2 doves.
  2. Next come colorful napkins and finely torn, you can take 5 colors - yellow, pink, green, red and orange.
  3. Moisten the scraps of a napkin in water, put them, wrung out, on a plate and add PVA glue, then mix everything with a stick.
  4. Now carefully lay out each color on the palm templates, crushing it with a stick, wait for it to dry and detach from the template. You should get 5 multi-colored palms.
  5. The same is done with the drawing of the globe, green, blue yellow and white colors are combined here.
  6. Now proceed to the pigeons, they can be made lilac with a white breast and head.
  7. Upon completion of work, form an image: on top of the globe there are 2 doves turned towards each other, below are multi-colored palms.

The application "Dove of Peace" is designed for older children

paper snowflake

New Year is magical holiday and want to decorate your home as much as possible.

Attention! Do-it-yourself paper snowflakes will be an excellent decoration for the walls and windows of the apartment, and they can also decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year.

In order to make such beauty, you only need suitable paper and scissors.

DIY crafts in stages - snowflake:

  1. cook paper sheet, if it's rectangular, make it a square. To do this, fold the sheet at an angle and cut off the excess piece of paper.
  2. Now the square is folded diagonally several times.
  3. If you turn the resulting angle, then you should get an octahedron. But this is not necessary, since we still have to cut out the snowflake patterns.
  4. Take a pencil in your hands and draw patterned lines on the workpiece along which you will cut the snowflake. Or use ready template.

Below you can watch a video of do-it-yourself paper crafts in stages. Also, do-it-yourself crafts are presented in stages in the attached photos.

Use of plasticine

Beautiful do-it-yourself plasticine crafts should be done step by step with the children, since modeling develops the child very much, and also develops imagination.

How to make a dolphin step by step

The dolphin belongs to the category of mammals, it is a very popular animal, as there are legends about its kindness and friendliness.

Attention! A dolphin is able to cure some diseases, so a handmade dolphin figurine will be a good talisman in the house, it can be put in the most prominent place.

In addition, the child who made it will be proud of his craft.

Stages of work:

  1. The first step is to prepare a gray or blue block of plasticine. If you want to dazzle more large item, then take 2 or more bars.
  2. The second stage - roll the plasticine into a ball.
  3. The third stage - now start rolling the ball on a hard surface, giving it the appearance of a sausage, and crush one side more: this way, you will get a dolphin's body, where head part will be wider, and the tail is narrower.
  4. The fourth stage is the part that will be wider than the head, form the nose of the fish, and make eyes out of two black balls of plasticine and attach next to the nose.
  5. The fifth stage - attach 3 identical parts to the back and sides of the body, this will be the comb and fins of the dolphin. On the tail section, make double tail and with a stack make stripes on it in different directions, these are its membranes.

Dolphin is ready. Nothing complicated, but how beautiful!

Crafts from disks

Surely everyone in the house has unnecessary old disks, but you can also create unusual crafts. And if you have a little helper, then he will definitely be interested in such master classes. So, below are do-it-yourself crafts step by step from disks.

Mosaic-style flower pot decoration with discs

Attention! Pots decorated with disk mosaics will give your interior a touch of unusual view, besides, the time and cost of materials will be minimal.

Work elements step by step:

  1. Prepare old CDs and large scissors, cut them into small pieces like pieces of a mosaic.
  2. Take a plastic pot, and wipe the places where you intend to glue the discs with acetone or an alcohol solution, so you degrease the surface.
  3. Then apply on right places PVA containers and stick pieces of disks in a chaotic manner.
  4. Wait for everything to dry, then cook acrylic paint dark color and draw in a thick layer all the seams between the mosaic.
  5. After the paint has dried, wipe the entire surface of the product with a damp cloth.

Now you can plant a house plant in such a pot. Any container can be decorated with a similar design - a pencil holder, a vase, caskets, etc.

Mosaic disk pot will give your interior an unusual look.

necklace around the neck

  1. Prepare a disk, draw its surface in half and cut the product in two so that the 2 parts match. You will only need 1 half.
  2. Now, on both sides of the halves of the disk, make 2 holes at an equal distance.
  3. Next, rhinestones are taken, best of all in the form of an oval and large in size, with a flat surface and glued at an equal distance in a semicircle along the disk using a glue gun.
  4. With the same gun, apply glue in strips to the entire remaining surface of the disc and lay out the white mother-of-pearl beads, so that there is no space between them.
  5. Previously made holes are not sealed.
  6. So that the necklace can be hung around the neck, prepare a shiny cord, fold it in half, and thread it through two holes so as to tighten the loop.
  7. The laces are attached to the clasp of any jewelry.

The work is over. Now you can show off your charming necklace.

You can create a charming necklace from disks

DIY crafts in stages from cotton pads

From ordinary cotton pads you can make a gift composition "White roses in a pot".

What needs to be prepared:

  1. 50 cotton balls.
  2. Large beads with mother-of-pearl shimmer 25 pcs. Preferably lilac and pink.
  3. Satin ribbon 5 cm wide, it should be 1 m long.
  4. Glue gun.
  5. A small plastic jar, you can take from under the cotton swabs.
  6. Brown satin ribbon 5 cm wide and 40 cm long.
  7. Satin ribbon thin white color, 40 cm long.
  8. Foam for mounting.
  9. Pins for tailors with a round head.
  10. White threads.
  11. Sewing needle.

Every modern man dreams of living in a comfortable home. Of course, all houses today are equipped with modern systems. But you can make the comfort of home even more pleasant. For example, with your own hands you can create interesting products that can become beautiful decoration for him. And in this article we will tell you how to make crafts for home comfort with your own hands. Especially for you, we will provide interesting ideas crafts that will be very easy just to do.

What crafts to make for your home

Creative lamp.

New Years is a wonderful time. However, I want to extend this time as long as possible. So why not try doing just that? We offer to decorate your home with an unusual lamp. For it you will need a garland and simple discs.

Progress:

  1. With the help of adhesive tape it is necessary to glue the garland. It should form a ball out of it.
  2. After that, discs are glued to the garland by means of glue.
  3. It is also worth making a stand.

Clock out coffee beans.

The interior of your home can always be made creative. To do this, you just need to make a clock from coffee beans. A craft of this kind will look stylish and very beautiful. Making watches is very easy. You will need thick cardboard, glue, coffee beans and arrows.

Progress:

  1. A circle is cut out of cardboard. It must be even.
  2. Coffee beans are glued onto the surface of the circle.
  3. Then it is necessary to mount a clockwork in this circle.
  4. It is also worth making numbers. They can also be made thick cardboard. Such numbers are glued on top of coffee beans.

Beautiful candlestick

It is worth saying that crafts for the home can be done with your own hands. Take a look at the next photo. See how an ordinary glass can be turned into a beautiful candle holder. In order to make such a product you will need:

  • beautiful glass,
  • paraffin, wick.

Progress:

  1. Using a sushi stick, the wick is placed on the bottom of the glass.
  2. Separately, paraffin is melted in a bowl.
  3. It is poured into a glass and allowed to cool.

On a note! There may be several of these candlesticks in your home.

Bright rugs and blankets made of yarn.

The easiest way to decorate your home is bright rugs. They are easy enough to tie with your own hands. If you have these skills, then you can do this job quickly. Get inspired by our ideas! Try to make a beautiful product.

In the same way, you can make a unique throw for a sofa or bed. It can be created from a variety of motifs, or it can be a huge canvas with a beautiful pattern.

Interesting weirdos from old CDs.

If you are a creative person, then the next craft will take its rightful place in your home. You probably have old CDs at home. So, don't throw them away. They can be useful for creating beautiful product. For crafts, you also need to prepare:

  • Coasters and glue
  • Long metal sticks and plasticine,
  • Old yogurt bottles and wire.

Progress:

  1. First, make the base for the sticks from plasticine. It may be a small slide of plasticine. Insert a stick into it and fix it on a stand, which can be a piece of plastic.
  2. Using plasticine, fix the disks on these sticks and place the little men on top of them.
  3. Little men can be decorated as you wish and make them arms out of wire. You can also make funny-shaped ears from plasticine.



A small curtain made of: glass, rhinestones and pebbles.

Unique crafts that make home decor magical exist today. Do you want to live in a palace? Then take a look at the next idea. To create such a decoration, take:

  • small glasses,
  • thick thread of silk
  • scissors, a candle and a lighter.

Progress:

  1. Before proceeding with the creation of the product, you need to measure the doorway. You need to do this in height. These values ​​will be equal to the length of the future finished thread.
  2. Now it is worth deciding on the number of such decorations. It can be one thread per 2 cm or some other options. It all depends on your preference.
  3. Then cut the threads to length and add another 5 cm to them.
  4. The ends of the threads must be burned with a candle flame.
  5. Tie one end of the thread into a knot. It must be big.
  6. After that, glass pieces can be strung on a thread. However, this should be done as follows: the first glass goes down to the very bottom to the knot, tie the second knot at a distance of 5-7 cm from the glass. After that, you can string the second glass.
  7. The above steps should be repeated until your thread runs out.

On a note! The distance between the glass pieces can be different. Also, each thread cannot be similar to the previous one. In addition to glass, you can use: rhinestones, figurines or beads.

As soon as all the elements are ready, the threads with glass can be attached to the doorway.

Vase decor.

If your house has a little-beautiful vases, then you should not despair. And all because they can always be decorated using ordinary stockings that you no longer like.

Progress:

  1. From a golf course with some kind of ornament, the toe part is cut off.
  2. The part that remains is put on the vase, and the rubber band should be on top.
  3. Cut off a small circle from the toe. It is glued to the bottom of the vase.

crafts from plastic spoons.

If you have a lot of plastic spoons left after a picnic, then you do not need to throw them away. They can always find a great use. A handle is simply cut off from them and the spoons themselves are glued to some object. For example, in this way you can decorate a flower pot or make a unique lamp of its kind.

Pots for seedlings or flowers from plastic bottles.

If you like interesting crafts that you can make with your own hands for the home, then you should like the following idea. From old plastic bottles and unnecessary CDs, you can make pretty pots for seedlings. They will look great on your windowsill. Moreover, they will not be able to take up much space on it.

Lamp for home.

Beautiful crafts that you make with your own hands for the home can make your home beautiful. By not cunning movements with the help of handy materials, you can make an original lamp for the home. To make a lamp, you will need yarn and a balloon. Also stock up on glue. Inflate the balloon, and soak the thread in glue. Then wrap it around the ball and wait until it dries completely. Balloon is pierced, and you have a ball of threads left. That's what it should be put on a light bulb.

Decoration from old bushings from toilet paper and paper towels.

Even old bushings can be freely used to decorate your apartment or house. You can make cute snowflakes out of them, which will be glued to the wall.

  • Making this decoration is incredibly easy. First, the bushings are cut into rings.
  • After that, these rings are glued together with clothespins.
  • Ready-made snowflakes are nailed to the wall with small carnations.

A beautiful decorative element made of iron cans.

Iron cans can make the atmosphere in your home charming. Just cover them with bright paper, hang them by strings from a hanger and insert candles into them.

Decoration of the room with a garland.

Even an ordinary garland can decorate a room. magic lights make her very pretty. To decorate the room, you will, of course, need a long garland. It can be made from different figures that will match the style of your living space.

Finally

As you can see, for home comfort today there are many different crafts. These products own production very easy to decorate your house or apartment. In this case, your home will be filled with warmth and comfort. And this means that living in it will be doubly pleasant.

Typing in the search engines "DIY interior crafts", you are faced with this huge selection design ideas that run your eyes? What can be created without having special skills to make it not very expensive, beautiful, functional?
And it's still spring outside! Days come when the hands themselves reach out to renew the surrounding space, change the familiar, following the rhythms of nature. It often happens that our means and possibilities are limited, and we are eager to bring to everyday life something bright, unusual, to please friends, loved one, relatives with unique, beautiful and useful new clothes, moreover, putting a particle of your warmth into the object. What then can be done?

Crafts for the interior are a great solution. They are functional, emphasize the individuality of the author and the owner of the thing, meet the tastes of the owner of the thing, and arouse the admiration of others. Below you will find inspiring ideas for creating crafts for the interior.

Types of crafts

You need to decide on the purpose of the decor that you are going to make: who, where, why they will use it.

Interior crafts can be conditionally divided by type, for convenience:

  1. By appointment: for yourself, as a gift (to whom?), for children, for pets.
  2. By place of application: apartment or cottage, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or hallway, or maybe this is a gift to a colleague in the office. Having a clear idea of ​​​​this point before starting work will help determine the style and materials.
  3. By function: storage (containers, coasters, hooks), just decorative elements (panels, paintings, frames, sculptures), textiles (create softness, comfort, warmth, noise insulation: rugs, pillows, furniture covers, tablecloths, curtains), lighting (lamps, candlesticks, lampshades), etc.
  4. According to the materials used: from fabrics, threads, jute, stones, shells, paper, wood, etc.
  5. According to the method of decoration or manufacture: painting using various paints and techniques, weaving, assembly, mosaic, decoupage, papier-mâché, embroidery, knitting, sewing, appliqué, mixed media.

Having answered for yourself with the help of these 5 points what exactly you would like to do, for a start you can choose the option you like homemade crafts for the interior, from those presented below. Make sure you have all necessary materials and get creative!

Crafts-alterations

Things available at home, as a rule, are updated and decorated using paints, brushes, glue, rhinestones, eggshell, buttons and other available items.
For example, from an old vase, bottles, jars, boxes, you can create original jewelry for the home, painting them with paints, pouring multi-colored sand into transparent containers, decorating them with a jute rope or a decorative cord.


Before this, the thing should be primed. If the jar or bottle is transparent, consider using stained glass paints, you can get a very original vase or lampshade leg in the Tiffany style.

Crafts for the interior of fabric, thread

Do not know how to embroider, knit and sew on a typewriter according to patterns? It doesn’t matter, not only in these ways you can make a piece of decor that radiates comfort, softness and warmth.

For example, everyone, even the smallest home designers (with the help of adults), can make creative blankets, rugs, pillows, seat covers, decorative flowers Or a pom-pom toy.

Materials:

  • threads or yarn for knitting, best soft, synthetic: acrylic, polyamide, lycra. Choose medium, thick, fluffy or voluminous threads(from 100 to 370 m/g). Pay attention to yarn with an interesting structure and color: terry, ribbon, gradient, melange. Think over the combination of colors of your decor, pattern, shape;
  • needle with a thick eye;
  • base, it is very convenient to use a plastic mesh, but any mesh fabric will do, you can also crochet the mesh yourself, crocheting with single crochets. Fabric for the bottom of the base;
  • scissors;
  • cardboard.

From cardboard, cut a circle (or 2) with a hole in the center. Tightly wrap the thread around the cardboard circle, pulling the thread from the center to the edge, and winding under the cardboard circle again to the center in 2-4 layers. Then cut the wound yarn with scissors along the outer circumference of the cardboard circle (it is more convenient to cut when there are two circles - cutting between them). Remove the cardboard and tie the resulting bunch of threads in the middle, straighten the pompom. Continue making pom-poms in the same way as needed.


Instead of cardboard circles, you can wind the thread on the fork around the extreme teeth, then fasten the thread around the winding between the middle teeth and cut it from the sides of the fork.
After all these manipulations, you need to sew the balls to the base, quite tightly and evenly. Here you need to show imagination - create a geometric pattern, smooth transition colors or leave the product plain.


Connect the fabric for the bottom to the base, carefully stitch along the edges connecting seam.
Beautiful panels, paintings and frames are created from pompoms.

Crafts for the interior of stones, glass, mirrors, shells

Excellent stylish DIY interior crafts for the hallway, bathroom, kitchen can be made using solid materials.

Broken mirrors, glass, beautiful dishes like mosaics are decorated with vases, various boxes, caskets, wall mirrors, frames, panels, as well as countertops. A special small mosaic, sold on Chinese websites and in hardware stores, is also perfect for this. Consider a method for making a mosaic frame for a mirror.

Materials:

  • plywood or chipboard;
  • PVA glue, or liquid nails, special glue for tiles;
  • tongs or tongs / pliers - if you need to move the parts of the mosaic planted on the glue;
  • gypsum grout for tiles or plaster / tile adhesive;
  • spatula (applying grout, but you can also use a finger in a signet);
  • cloth / sponge to remove excess glue, grout
  • mosaic or broken glass, ceramics, chipped mirror (or small round mirrors), shells;
  • if the decorative elements are heavy (like large shells, starfish, etc.), you will need a reinforcing layer of special tape or mesh;
  • sealant or putty to fill voids (protect from dust).

First, you better draw a sketch of how the mosaic pieces will be located in order to clearly know which pattern with which colors you will need to lay out. Geometric it will be a pattern, vegetable, animal, abstract, or you will want to lay out flowers in a mosaic. From the base, cut with a jigsaw (or leave the piece as it is, if it suits you in size and shape) a circle or rectangle of the required parameters.


Glue the mirror on liquid nails or special glue to the base. Around on the appropriate glue to plant the parts of the selected decorative elements: a broken mirror, pieces of a mosaic, shells in the intended order. After drying, wipe the gaps between the elements, remove the excess with a cloth. After drying, fill the voids carefully with sealant or putty.

Wicker crafts

This includes macrame, beading, rattan, weaving from leaves, cattail, paper - rolled newspapers. The last method is one of the most affordable, and it turns out really beautiful and stylish things for the home, and even useful ones.

Yes, from newspaper tubes you can weave boxes, baskets, a vase for flowers, planters, a bottle stand, cat houses, laundry baskets, panels, an armchair, furniture legs and much more. It’s better to start with something simple, for example with a box:

Materials:

  • newspapers, cardboard;
  • PVA glue;
  • scissors, knife, ruler;
  • pencil or knitting needle;
  • container, in the form of which the box will be woven (box, jar, vase, bottle);
  • paints: stain or food colorings(for eggs);
  • clothespins for fixing tubes;

A newspaper sheet (or thin rough paper) is folded in half, cut into 4 identical parts. Then a pencil or a knitting needle is applied to the corner of the sheet, and a newspaper is twisted around it (at an angle), the rod can be removed from the middle of the tube, the edges should be fixed with glue. You need to use it to a minimum, as it will not stain. The tubes are also extended along the length with the help of glue. It will take a lot of such blanks, then dry them for at least 4 hours, after which they are painted in the desired colors and dried for another 8 hours. You should get beautiful even tubes of the same thickness.


From cardboard or thick paper, cut 2 bases of the desired shape and size. Mark one base with a ruler at regular intervals (you will need to calculate the exact value) and glue the tubes to this base along the edge (if the bottom is square, 1 tube is required at 45 degree corners). The second part of the base is glued on top. This is the bottom. Then a tube (or several) is glued to one “beam” near the bottom and weaving begins in one of the ways (there are many videos on the network with various weaving techniques). A mold is inserted inside and braided to the desired height. At the end, the product is varnished and dried.

Composition and accents

Decided on the future use of interior crafts? Great! If you are a beginner, then you will need some knowledge about style directions - in order for your design masterpiece to fit perfectly. It's not difficult at all.


You should consider common features decoration of the room where the product is supposed to be used. Perhaps the room already has an accent (and according to the rules of composition, it should be one) - a certain detail that stands out from the rest of the decoration and decor in color, size, shape. For example, in a classic interior, it can be a luxurious crystal chandelier, a carved fireplace or a patterned carpet. In modern interiors, these can be 3D photo wallpapers, an unusual plasterboard design, interestingly placed lighting, beautiful porters, and the like.


Always pay attention to art objects, other home decor: paintings, carpets, pillows, curtains, figurines: whether your craft will argue with them, stand out from the overall picture. If your fashion decoration The interior itself is conceived as an accent; when making it, it is worth considering the style of the room and the combination of colors.

A short guide to style and color

Today, the Internet is replete with pictures of various beautiful combinations of colors and their shades, inspired by nature itself. From them, you can choose a suitable ready-made combination table similar to your interior story.


The basis of such tables is the color wheel. In it, the colors and their shades are arranged in a circle, in a rainbow order, in extended versions - taking into account the darkness and lightness of the tone (multi-row color circles). The main thing you need to know: those colors that are located next to each other in color wheel. These are neighboring companion colors, they work well with a nuance, halftone or transition, for example, blue and green. Also located clearly opposite each other, they combine well (then we get a bright contrast, the colors complement each other and give richness, such as yellow and purple, blue and orange).

If the decor element does not imply a Christmas theme, the neighborhood of red and green should be avoided - this combination creates ripples in the eyes.
If you are not sure about the combination of beautiful complex shades (such as mustard, aqua, terracotta, marsh, etc.) - look at these color charts.
In order for your decor element to fit into the interior of the house most successfully, try to determine the general style of the room and follow it so that the ideas embodied by your own hands will live happily. living together in space.

Here are 8 common in rooms modern home styles and their general characteristics that will help you decide on the idea:

  1. Classical (English, French) - calm, strict forms. Carved elements, stucco, columns with classical Roman floral ornaments are allowed. Representative, prim furniture. The colors are calm, warm: brown, ocher, white. Deep blue, burgundy, green are also used. Invoices - wood, gypsum, leather (or their imitation). In the variants of the Rococo, Baroque style, the number of details, decorations, curlicues increases significantly, pink and gold colors are added.
  2. Post-modern (derivatives: fusion, eclecticism, pop art, contemporary) - welcomes unusual, multidimensional frame structures on walls, ceilings, floors (niches, tiers, drywall, wood partitions), asymmetry. Uses bright accents on a plain background, loves geometric patterns (think of clothes and furniture from the 60s and 70s). Likes plastic, metal, glass, unusual textured fabrics, contrasting color combinations. Derivatives this style characterized by a combination of seemingly incongruous things, a bright mix, sometimes a little crazy.
  3. Ethnic (Japanese, African, Egyptian, Indian, Arabic, Moorish, etc.) - designed in accordance with the traditional arrangement of the house of a particular nation. For example, Japanese style involves the use of mats, rice paper, partitions, fans, white, black flowers. African - replete with shades of yellow, brown, red with the inclusion of characteristic color patterns, includes cane products, native figurines made of precious woods (imitations), and so on.
  4. Provence (similar to country music, believe me art, shabby chic) ​​- country style in its various manifestations. A lot of wood, often deliberately aged, unevenly painted. The textures are as follows: rough plaster, checkered fabrics, flower, brick, stone. The number of pieces of furniture and decor varies between styles, for example, art believe is close to minimalism, and shabby chic is ready to arrange cute beautiful little things with craquelure, decoupage and other decorations on all available surfaces. Paints are actively used to give old things a new look.
  5. Minimalism (constructivism) - everything is simple, clear, no frills. Straight lines, versatility, folding and sliding (secret) designs are best friends. Color palette concise, 3-4 chromatic shades (gray, white, black, metallic) with one bright accent. Invoices: plain fabrics, glass, metal.
  6. Hi-tech - a high-tech interior, saturated with modern gadgets and developments, akin to minimalism. He likes gloss, achromatic colors, clear lines.
  7. Loft / Scandinavian / Chalet / Eco-style - the house of a hunter, a traveler in the mountains or in the urban jungle, often a bachelor's dwelling. These styles are united by an abundance of wood in various rough finishes, and others. natural materials, in the loft - brick (graffiti is appropriate). Nordic patterns, cage, natural fabrics give comfort.
  8. Mediterranean (Greek) style is generally great for a bathroom, but not only. Replete with white and shades of blue, blue, welcomes mosaics, beautiful frescoes, marine motifs.

Styles, of course, can be combined, flow into one another and skillfully use elements of each other, bring national features.


By following the tips above, you will fill the space with creative personalized crafts made with love, thus attracting love, luck and prosperity, as well as admiring glances, into your home!

make out various crafts for children with their own hands together with their child is an exciting activity that significantly contributes not only to the development of the child, but also to the strengthening of your relationship with him. Any child will be very happy if he has the opportunity to do something beautiful with his parents. Therefore, even in the busiest schedule, try to set aside a piece of time to devote it to activities with children. Sections of our article will present useful advice how to make DIY crafts from various materials, taking into account age features kids.

DIY paper crafts for children

Most commonly used material applied art It's definitely paper. Moreover, it is worth paying attention not only to the usual color sets, but also to other types of it: corrugated, velvet, designer. You can create do-it-yourself crafts for children from paper, flat (applications), as well as voluminous, using various techniques. For example, having learned how to fold a flower using the origami technique, to form beautiful bouquet tulips.


The easiest DIY crafts for beginners

For those who are just starting to teach their child applied arts, we advise you to start with the simplest solutions, making easy crafts for children with your own hands. Perhaps you will like examples of caterpillars made of paper rings, an application of colorful fish, or funny mice on a piece of cheese.



DIY cardboard crafts for children

Cardboard is an easily accessible material that is well cut, bent, painted, it is often used in children's creative works. In addition to a set of cardboard purchased at the store, apply carton boxes, disposable tableware, cereal packaging, egg "honeycombs", as well as toilet paper sleeves. In our photo catalog you will see what kind of cardboard crafts do-it-yourself craftsmen make for children. For example, a stand for pencils, funny animals, boxes.


Craft "house" do it yourself

Cardboard houses are made at will of any size - it all depends on their purpose. Perhaps it will be a large structure with child growth, "dwelling" for dolls or do-it-yourself craft "house" made as christmas decoration, gift wrap. In any case, the manufacturing technology is the same, the differences will be in size and design. We have prepared some sketches on which you can make blanks. If you are making small structures, PVA glue and adhesive tape are enough to hold the parts together. Building big house, it is better to use a thermal gun for reliability. New Year's craft The do-it-yourself “house” is complemented by a decor that imitates snow on the roof (cotton wool, foam balls), and gift wrapping must have at least one opening sash, for example, a door, a roof slope.





How to make DIY crafts from fabric

Wonderful do-it-yourself toys are sewn using fabric. Moreover, not only a solid cut, but various shreds, household napkins and even socks. Look at the photo, isn't it, a cute bunny came out of a sock? An older child will do it on his own, and the baby will have to help. Make the necessary cuts and seams, and instruct the child to fill the figure tightly, as well as draw a muzzle.

You can also sew crafts for children with your own hands, which will become not only a decoration, a toy, but also a useful little thing, for example, a large soft ottoman duck, the photo of which is in our catalog, a star pillow.




Children's DIY crafts from felt

Felt is a wonderful comfortable fabric that has a bright palette of colors. It allows you to sew a variety of DIY crafts for children, and then decorate the children's room with them. Household napkins will help replace the fabric (usually they are sold in a set of four colors). Such crafts-toys are sewn with their own hands without help sewing machine, manually.

Children's crafts for the New Year do it yourself

In anticipation new year holidays, children's matinees, rooms are decorated everywhere, lush Christmas trees are dressed up. It is quite possible to make a lot of interesting symbolic additions on your own without spending money on purchases. These can be the most original balls for the Christmas tree, garlands, and other decorations that are quite within the power of a child to make.



DIY snowman craft

The snowman is a kind of symbol of winter and, of course, his presence for the New Year's interior will come in handy. The photos of our selection show options for how to make such crafts with your own hands in stages, using foam balls, socks, pompons. A larger figure, decorated with a thread, will suit the kindergarten matinee, balloons, glue. Inflate five balloons of different sizes (two of the same size for the handles). Wrap each of them with a thread dipped in glue (PVA is quite suitable). When the blanks are completely dry, the balls need to burst, get it from the inside. Finished balls are fastened together. The do-it-yourself snowman craft is almost ready. It remains to draw eyes (beads, buttons), a mouth from a thread, a nose-carrot (sew from fabric). Traditionally, the head is complemented with a bucket, the neck is decorated with a scarf.




Santa Claus DIY craft

IN New Year's interior not without Santa Claus. Most easy way- arrange it with thick paper (cardboard). Use a ready-made template, or make a conical shape from a sheet, which then, using colorful paper, "dress", having issued a face, a beard, handles. Similar children's crafts New Year they make it with their own hands using fabric (here you will find examples of patterns), plastic bottles, and other improvised means.




DIY crafts for kindergarten

Various creative work for small children of kindergarten age should differ more simple techniques, materials. The child is just starting to learn how to make something beautiful on his own, so you need to choose the most simple, but interesting options.



DIY crafts for kindergarten children: applications

The most common way to teach children how to create pictures is through appliqué. Such crafts in a kindergarten with your own hands (photos are presented below) can be designed not only using colored paper, take also dense fabric, faux leather, velvet paper, improvised materials ( cotton pads, cereals, etc.), natural raw materials (leaves, seeds). Older children can start voluminous works, for example, to make an applique in an "aquarium" box with hanging representatives of the water world.



DIY crafts in the garden from natural material

Often, especially in autumn, there are exhibitions of works demonstrating crafts for kindergarten handmade from natural ingredients. Chestnuts, acorns, cones, sunflower seeds, pumpkins, colorful autumn foliage - all this provides great ground for the development of children's imagination. To make various figures, the compositions additionally use plasticine, which fastens the parts or forms the base. Pictures of DIY crafts using natural raw materials are presented by our photo selection. Feel free to try using them by making a chestnut caterpillar, a hedgehog, and other patterns.

DIY crafts for school

Schoolwork varies in complexity. If crafts in primary school have their own hands simple shapes, then high school students with enough skills are able to arrange more complex compositions, for example, a bouquet of roses from maple leaves, cardboard town or paper basket with asters.

Do-it-yourself crafts to school, the photos of which are posted below, involve the use large selection raw materials, including all sorts of improvised means (plastic utensils, DVDs, matches, buttons).




Do-it-yourself crafts for schoolchildren with trimming technique

Facing - quite entertaining creative process suitable for children of all ages. It allows you to create "fluffy" pictures that will decorate the room, as well as original gift relatives. Crafts in elementary school with their own hands have simplified options until the child acquires certain skills. For example, in this way you can only draw the outlines of the picture.

To make a magnificent application you will need corrugated paper, scissors, glue, match or toothpick with a blunt end, sketch drawing on cardboard. Before making a craft with your own hands, we cut the paper into small squares (0.5 cm), which we sort by color. Lubricate the sketch with glue. We put the match in the center of the square, turn it (so that the corrugation is fixed on it), then glue the end to the sketch. Thus, we draw up the entire drawing, applying the necessary colors of the corrugated squares.


Learning how to create beauty yourself is The best way development creativity child. Children's crafts with their own hands greatly develop the imagination, giving the joy of an interesting joint pastime with adults.

DIY crafts for children: a selection of 50 ideas with step by step examples updated: May 2, 2018 by: Kyiv Irina