Handmade crafts for girls - original master classes, photo ideas and practical tips

Beautiful and original crafts for little princesses

Organize your and children's leisure, make unusual decorations for the house or crafts for the exhibition will help creative inspiration. Collected in this article photos and descriptions of finished products can easily be used as a basis for creating unusual products that a girl of any age will like.

What materials and processing techniques can be used

Handmade ornaments or original handicrafts will play with bright colors, if you choose the right materials. For their treatment use special techniques that help enrich a child's skills and expand the boundaries of his imagination, children are very interested in creating such handicrafts:

• simple and volumetric paper applique;
• Quilling or origami technique, from cardboard and paper;
• sewing and embroidery to create soft toys;
• drawing with paints and stamping the surface;
• modeling with plasticine and clay, salt dough;
• working with woolen threads of any type.

Creative activities develop fine motor skills and explore colors or shapes, textures, and properties of materials. Older girls will love sewing and knitting, the ability to create three-dimensional and complex crafts, home decor, and practical items such as handbags and jewelry.

The best ideas and solutions for making beautiful crafts

Starting their creative journey, a child always wants to create an original thing, and pick up the appropriate ideas. Work with large parts is under the power of kids, but school-age girls or teenagers will like to make bright and stylish decorations, costume jewelry, bags and purses on their own.

To the kindergarten or school

Choosing ideas for crafts for kindergarten or school, it is important to focus on the age of the child and the theme of the future project:

• Paper applique, in this technique it is easy to make figurines of animals and people, fairy tale characters and entire installations with a certain theme;
• Threaded paintings, to implement such projects will need a wooden board, small nails and bright threads, they are entangled in the hammered nails;
• volumetric cards, using the technique of gluing and different materials can be made greeting cards for any holiday.

For preschoolers and elementary school students the best solution will be to work with paper, it can be colored or office paper and even soft colored cardboard.

Decorating a child's room

An entertaining activity will help to captivate girls and instill in them a taste for beautiful things made to decorate the house or children's room:

• Frame for a mirror from natural materials collected during the summer or autumn, it can be cones and pebbles, dried flowers or seashells;
• flower pots made of plastic bottles, beautifully trimmed and painted, painted crafts are used as planters for fresh flowers;
• pompom garlands, dense woolen threads are soft and easy to work with, girls of any age will be interesting to work with them.

Choosing an interesting and simple design will help to realize any creative idea and create an exquisite and unique atmosphere in the room.

For the play area

The most expensive toy will not compare with the one made with their own hands and a good idea will create the optimal conditions for the implementation of an original idea:

• a large doll's house from a cardboard box is supplemented with furniture from matchboxes;
• board games with cut-out figures and hand-painted playing field;
• soft toys sewn from felt or soft fabric, decorative pillows for the play area.

Felt toys and cute souvenirs can be used as an exclusive gift for girlfriends and classmates, loved ones and relatives.

Jewelry and costume jewelry

Cozy children's world parents try to decorate with beautiful things, and using interesting ideas can help the girl to create stylish jewelry:

• bracelets and earrings made of fabric and beads, woven ribbons and leather strips or fabric;
• hairpins and headbands with flowers from salt dough or polymer clay, ribbon flowers;
• set beads and necklaces from beads and twisted paper and cardboard beads.

Choosing the right material and technique of treatment, it is easy to create an exclusive piece of jewelry that outshines the beauty of commercially available products.

Themed crafts

Creative skills and practical abilities will be useful to girls to create decorations for the New Year, Halloween or Birthday:

• New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree from improvised and natural materials, festive garlands on the wall or window;
• festive masks for a carnival or a school performance to complement a girl's beautiful outfit;
• a birthday crown for the birthday girl and decorations for the birthday table, souvenirs for guests.

Complex products are better made together, trusting the girl to make simple elements of the composition, not ignoring the diligence and effort of the little craftswoman.

How to make an original wreath from improvised materials

Bring variety to the design of the children's room will help themed wreath, made for any holiday. A simple master class will help create an exclusive décor and for the work you will need paint and cardboard tubes from paper towels, air plasticine and glue gun:

• The cardboard sleeves are neatly folded and traced into transverse strips 1.5 cm wide, their number can be adjusted depending on the size of the wreath;
• Individual parts should be painted inside and outside, using gouache, watercolor or acrylic paint in the desired color to match the decor theme;
• While the paint on the future petals is drying, you can make additional decorations, sculpting berries and leaves from air plasticine;
• To create one flower, seven elements are required, they are glued at the foot with a glue gun, PVA glue can be used;
• The edges of the flowers formed glued together, from them formed a large circle (12-14 colors), to create a three-dimensional craftwork created a smaller circle;
• The middle flowers of a small circle are decorated with made berries and leaves, and on the back side of the wreath it is necessary to glue a small loop.

Red and green colors will help maintain the atmosphere of the New Year, orange and yellow flowers will emphasize the autumn mood. For spring and summer you can choose subtle shades of purple and pink, and to complement the handicraft will help ribbons and beads, additional decorations from improvised materials.

To create most simple crafts you won't need a special video, just choose an idea and choose materials. Beginners home crafters are recommended to choose simple ideas, they are easy to implement at home, using inexpensive purchased materials and improvised means. Involving a child in the creative process, parents stimulate his all-round development and practical skills.

Photo ideas of homemade crafts for girls