Simple crafts from paper, ribbons, cardboard, fabric and other hand-made materials - master classes for beginners, photo ideas and examples
Creating charming handicrafts with their own hands is not difficult at all. And the material for them can easily be found in any home or quite inexpensive to buy in a store. But cute little things will help beautifully and completely unique design a house or apartment, create a beautiful garden, make an unusual gift to relatives or friends, spend your free time with your family and create something that will long remember the wonderful time spent.
And kids love to create with their own hands, especially if there is mom or dad, who admire the crafts and proudly put them in a prominent place.
The simplest crafts can be made from the materials at hand. It can be cardboard, paper, fabric, wool.
Postcards from paper
The simplest material provides a huge variety for creativity. It can be used to make cards, baskets, flowers, napkins, paintings and much more.
Postcards can be made with techniques of applique, quilling, scrapbooking.
A child can paint a pretty picture postcard, cut out and glue beautiful pictures or make a collage of photographs.
Older children can be trusted to make paper decorations in the technique of quilling. For this narrow strip of paper is twisted into spirals and give them different shapes. The resulting blanks are connected together, creating from them charming crafts. These can be flowers, butterflies, snowflakes, and anything else that is then placed on the paper of a greeting card.
Such a craft can also be created using scrapbooking techniques. This kind of creation will require a little more money, but the result will meet the aspirations of the creator. The first times you can not buy expensive paper and special devices and can do with flowers from paper and satin ribbons, butterflies and bows, cut out of plain or colored paper.
Flowers from paper
It is hardly possible to imagine a postcard without flowers. And beautiful volumetric plants will turn an ordinary greeting into a real work of art, which can be placed on the desktop or dressing table.
An example of a simple work can be a pretty aster made from double-sided colored paper. To make it you will need paper, glue, scissors, a piece of yellow yarn.
From the colored paper you need to cut 6-8 circles, with a diameter slightly different from each other. The more circles there are, the more puffy the finished flower will be. Each circle is bent in half, half and half again, cut blanks leaves of the flower. Carefully unroll the resulting blanks and glue them one to another, slightly twisting the petals inside. In the center of the last circle glue yellow wool. It can be finely chopped beforehand, so the middle will be more fluffy.
Similarly, you can make daisies, chrysanthemums, dahlias, changing the shape of the petals.
It is quite easy to make calla lilies out of paper, for this purpose it is enough to cut out a blank in the form of a heart and roll it with the base down. The core can be plasticine, a paper tube, a piece of ice cream sticks.
Pretty hyacinths can be made from rings of colored paper attached to a culinary skewer.
Our photos in the gallery will help make and the rest of the kingdom of flowering plants.
Flowers from ribbons
Such handicrafts are somewhat more difficult to make and will require the help of adult family members. But even in this case, a child can be trusted to beautifully place them in a bouquet or glue them on a sheet of paper or packaging.
Gift boxes
The idea of gift wrapping is usually to create boxes from cardboard. Making them is very simple. To do this, you need to copy or make yourself a sketch of the future creation and carefully cut it out of cardboard, glue and decorate it with decorative elements. These can be the same paper flowers or ribbons, decorative braid, rhinestones and beads.
On the lid of the box you can even put the name of the recipient. This will be a stylish and beautiful addition to any presentation.
However, packaging can be made in the form of a cute bag made of organza or even burlap (it is necessary to sew two pieces of fabric on three sides, trim the fourth side and put a ribbon or cord through it), baskets made from strips of newspaper or paper in the papier-mache technique, from salt dough.
Vases made of improvised materials
Any novice decorator can make such a handcraft. The simplest vase is easy to create, using a glass bottle (preferably an unusual shape), twine or woolen thread and decorative elements that are available.
To begin, the bottle is coated with a lot of glue, tightly wrapped with thread or twine, so that there are no gaps between the coils. The resulting vase is decorated with artificial flowers, coffee beans, rhinestones, decorative cords, quilling patterns.
Next, you can put tree branches with half-opened leaves, decorated with flowers from paper or ribbons in the water. Such a craft will come in handy for a contest in kindergarten or elementary school class.
Toilet paper sleeves for crafts
Toilet paper sleeves can also be an element of design.
They make cute snowflakes for the New Year or flowers on March 8. You can even create a whole castle, equipping each sleeve with a roof made from a cone of colored paper, and combining them with walls made of cardboard.
A sock weaver
For those who like to do non-standard things, the creation of a grass sock is suitable. Such a gift will be especially good for the winter and spring holidays, when you want to have more fresh greenery.
To make an unusual gift, you will need an old sock, earth, cat grass seeds. Soil is poured into the sock, seeds are placed on top, the top is stitched or fixed with a rubber band for money, the face is decorated with eyes and mouth.
You can give a grass knob shape and put on top of a small hat, a snowman, intercepting the "waist" elastic band or string and decorating the head with a scarf and a cylinder.
Handicrafts made of fabric
Affectionate sunshine can appear in the room, if you sew it from yellow fabric and stuff it with cotton or synthetic fiber. If the child is still small, then the blank can sew his mother out of two circles, and the baby is happy to stuff the craft with cotton and draw a funny face.
From the fabric can also make a napkin or towel, sachet or needle case.
All these simple handmade crafts are not difficult, but allow you to have a great time, introduce the child to the possibility of creating, develop their thinking, imagination and fine motor skills.
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