It is not necessary to have a special gift to create something beautiful and unusual. If you know some tricks, then it is quite possible to make a beautiful decoration for a home or a gift, with a minimum of effort and using very few materials.
Here are just a few of the simple crafts that absolutely anyone can do:
Autumn candles
You will need:
- leaves (real or artificial)
- PVA glue (or mod podge),
- brush or sponge,
- bank,
- alcohol,
- a thread.
1. Rub the jar with alcohol to get rid of fat.
2. Apply glue to the jar.
3. Use straight leaves to decorate the jar.
4. You can grease the glued leaves with decoupage glue.
5. Add a thread and a candle for beauty.
Painted cup
You will need:
- oily markers,
- cardboard,
- scissors.
1. Cut out a stencil of any pattern or letter from cardboard.
2. Place the stencil on the cup and start marking dots around it with different colored markers.
Painted jars
You will need:
- bank,
- alcohol (for cleaning the jar),
- acrylic paints,
- decorations (flowers).
1. Clean the jar with rubbing alcohol.
2. Paint the jar any color and leave to dry.
3. You can add a watermark with a marker (in this case, a relief is applied to the can, which is erased).
4. Insert the flowers into the vase.
Colored sneakers
You will need:
- fabric marker,
- white (light) sneakers,
- pencil.
1. With a pencil, draw the desired pattern on the sneakers.
2. Circle the drawing with a marker and start coloring as you like.
Craft from wine corks
You will need:
- wine corks,
- paper,
- pencil,
- Super glue.
1. Draw any simple shape on paper - in this example, it is a heart shape.
2. Start gluing the plugs to each other (apply glue only to the sides, do not apply to the ends, so as not to stick them to the paper), placing them on the drawing to end up with a heart.
Snood scarf from an old T-shirt
You will need:
- old / unnecessary jersey,
- scissors,
- thread and needle (sewing machine).
1. Cut off the left and right edges of the T-shirt (see image). The width of the shirt will then become 35 cm.
2. Cut off a small piece at the bottom and top (where the neck is).
3. Sew both halves from the inside to create a scarf.
Bright vases from glass bottles
You will need:
- watercolor paints,
- bottles,
- bowl and brush (if necessary),
- syringe (if necessary).
1. Pour some paint into a bowl. You can mix several colors to get a different color.
2. Pour the paint into the bottle. It is more convenient to do this with a syringe - you draw paint into the syringe, and then inject it into the bottle.
3. Rotate the bottle so that the paint covers the entire glass inside.
4. Turn the bottle over and leave in this position in the sink - excess paint will drain out.
5. When the paint is dry, you can add water to the vase and insert flowers into it.
Towel dryer
If you have an old ladder, you can clean it, sand it if necessary, and even paint it. After that, you can put it in the bathroom to hang towels.
Garland of paper cups
You will need:
- paper cups,
- ordinary garland,
- knife or scissors.
- Make a cruciform incision in each cup.
- Insert a light bulb from a garland into each hole.
- Decorate the room with a garland.
Golden canvas
Even if you do not know how to draw at all, you can make a very beautiful project and decorate the interior with it.
You will need:
- 2 white canvases,
- gold, blue and orange acrylic paint,
- sponge brush.
- Paint each canvas with 2-3 coats of gold paint - let the paint dry after each coat.
- With a sponge brush, start painting over the canvases. One will be blue and the other orange. Make some lines shorter and others longer.
Multi-colored keys
If you have several of the same keys for different locks, use nail polish to paint them.Thus, you will know which key from which lock.
Colored candlesticks
You will need:
- a wide glass and a narrow glass (or vases of different sizes),
- Super glue,
- food coloring,
- candle.
- Place the small glass in the large one, and secure both with glue - apply glue to the bottom of the small glass.
- Pour water between glasses and add food coloring.
- Place a candle inside a small glass.
Light bulb vase
You will need:
- light bulb,
- pliers,
- screwdriver,
- wire (if necessary),
- cover for the base of the vase (if necessary),
- Super glue,
- gloves and specials glasses (to protect hands and eyes).
- Use pliers to remove the tip of the light bulb.
- Use a screwdriver or pliers to remove excess glass at the base. You may need to get rid of multiple layers of glass - be careful and careful.
- Glue the light bulb to the base (plastic cover).
- You can also hang the light bulb by using a wire.
- You can complicate the task and add an LED light bulb. For this, in addition to the light bulb, you will need small batteries. All instructions can be seen in the video:
A drawing of a ghost on a t-shirt
You will need:
- wide adhesive tape,
- light T-shirt,
- scissors.
1. Cut out the details of your ghost from the duct tape (eyes and mouth, for example)
2. Glue all the details neatly to the T-shirt.
Congratulations from the keyboard
Such a congratulation is very easy to make. All that is needed for this is the usual keys from the keyboard.
