Quick and easy crafts

2024 Author: Arianna Cook | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:55

So that you have a great mood in any weather, make new things from available tools. Quick crafts that will take less than an hour to make. Sometimes you want to pamper your child with a new toy, but there is no financial opportunity and time to make it. Therefore, we decided to choose the fastest simple crafts for you, on which you will spend no more than an hour. The family budget will not be affected, as they make their work mostly from junk material and all sorts of leftovers.

How to make a doll from threads and a dandelion with your own hands?

You will create it while relaxing in a comfortable armchair. The main thing is to arrange everything you need nearby so that you don't have to get up again. It:

• threads;
• half a sheet of cardboard;
• scissors;
• a strip of flesh-colored fabric;
• markers.

If you don't have cardboard on hand, but you have a card, use it. How tall this paper material will be, how tall the doll will be.

1. Wrap the thread around the card with an impressive layer.
2. Tie up the finished winding with thread. Determine where the doll's head will be. Mark it by rewinding it with thread as well.
3. Design the right and left arms in the same way. To make the doll's hands from threads, rewind your hands at wrist level, cut the yarn around the toy's fingers.
4. Also separate the torso from the legs with threads, and they perform in the same technique as the arms, just make them longer.
5. Measure a strip of flesh-colored fabric along the volume of the head, glue its sides.
6. Wind the thread around your hand and cut through the resulting roll on one side. Glue to head, trim bangs if desired.
7. Use markers of different colors to draw the facial features.
8. Sew a jacket for the toy or tie it with a piece of cloth to make an apron. You can tie a handkerchief to make it a raincoat. Such clothes are made with pleasure by children who will surely appreciate the new doll made of threads.

If you are making a girl doll, then you do not need to designate her legs. Let the threads cut exactly at the bottom become a skirt. Such simple crafts will surely delight children. You can also create a fluffy dandelion from the leftover threads.

For this charm you will need:

• yellow and green yarn;
• wire;
• PVA glue;
• knitting fork or metal staple;
• scissors;
• gypsy and thin needle.

Manufacturing sequence:

1. Wind the yellow yarn around the knitting fork. Thread the gypsy needle with a thread of the same color. Sew in the middle with it.
2. Lubricate the resulting line well with glue. Remove the created yarn from the fork, roll it with a roller.
3. A thread is wound in the middle to give the workpiece the shape of a dumbbell. On top, coat the middle of this part with glue, wait until it dries.
4. Such simple crafts are interesting for both adults and children. They are made quickly, but some of the time is spent waiting for the glue to dry. Therefore, it is better to tinker in the evening, and the next day to continue entertaining needlework. What are we going to do now.
5. Cut the resulting dumbbell in the middle. On the first and second flower, you need to cut the loops with scissors, comb carefully to get fluffy hats of two dandelions.
6. The green yarn, from which we will make sepals, needs to be cut into 4 cm long pieces. We insert the same thread into a gypsy needle, sew the pieces across, but not in the middle, but stepping back from the edge 2/3.
7. Trim the top with scissors, trimming it, make another stitch parallel to the first.
8. Lubricate the back of the flower with glue, attach the sepal here. Wrap it with the same thread that was stitched. Glue both ends together and leave to dry.
9. In the meantime, you will wind the green thread around the greased wire. The stem will turn out.
10. Stick a thick needle into the sepal from below, twist to make a hole for the stem. Install it there, having previously greased this part with glue.
11. The leaves can be crocheted, but since we are making simple crafts, cut them out of green paper or cardboard, glue them to the stem.

How to quickly make crafts from animal tissue?

If you want to spend less than 30 minutes making a new toy, then make these funny mice. They don't even need to be sewn. By making the slits in a certain way, you will craft these rodents.

See if you have:

• pieces of felt;
• juice straws;
• beads or small buttons.

If so, then put some more scissors, glue next to it and start an exciting activity.

1. For each mouse, you need to cut two pieces from the same fabric. The first will become a body, pointed at the muzzle, rounded on the other side. Cut the ears in a figure eight.
2. From a fabric of a different color, you need to cut out a small circle for the nose and two larger ones for the ears, glue them into place.
3. Use scissors or a clerical knife to make 4 cuts on the body of the mouse. Two will be vertical, at the back of the head, and the other two you will make in the rump area to put a straw here. Place the ears on the head by passing them through the incisions.
4. All that remains is to glue beads or buttons instead of eyes and marvel at how quickly crafts are made from simple materials.

The next one is also created in a very short time. Cut out a hedgehog, a Christmas tree from felt or rubberized fabric. Poke holes in them with the tips of the scissors. This is necessary so that with the help of laces the child attaches fruits and vegetables here, thereby training his fingers.

If the child is bored, you can make a fabric applique with him. Such funny bunnies are sewn onto the worn knees of children's trousers to update this thing.

Transfer the applique to the fabric, cut it out. Decorate the bunny by sewing a bow to its ears, and a carrot on its body. Attach the eyes and other facial features. If this is an applique, then you need to glue the hare to the cardboard.

And here are some more simple crafts - in the form of birds. You can cut these out of the remnants of felt, glue the nose, eyes, wings and play a home show.

Crafts from cones with their own hands for children

They are also made simply and quickly.

To make gnomes, take:

• Pine cones;
• light plasticine;
• pieces of felt or fleece;
• glue;
• brush.

Follow this procedure:

1. Let the child roll a ball out of plasticine, make recesses in it for the eyes, mouth, nose with the back of the brush. They will be filled with pieces of plasticine of the corresponding color. So, the eyes can be brown or blue, the mouth is red.
2. Attach the head to the top of the bump. Cut a triangle out of felt, glue its sides to make a cone. Put this hat on your character's head.
3. Cut out mittens from the remnants of the fabric, attach them to the bump with plasticine.

For such a craft made of cones, like an owl, we also need:

• 2 acorn caps;
• yellow paint with a brush;
• plasticine;
• accessories in the form of feathers, ribbons.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. First, the bump and cap from the acorns need to be painted, continue the subsequent work when they are dry.
2. Let the child roll small balls out of black plasticine, stick them to the inverted acorn caps - these are the pupils.
3. Make a nose out of orange plasticine, attach it to its place.
4. Such an owl made of cones is decorated with feathers or a ribbon.

To make a snowman, take:

• pine cone;
• pieces of dense fabric;
• two toothpicks;
• cotton wool;
• 2 ice cream sticks;
• white paint.

Then work in this order:

1. Let the child paint the bump, remove it until it dries completely.
2. Mom will cut a scarf out of checkered fabric and tie it around the snowman's neck. She will make headphones from felt and stick them to the character's head.
3. The child will make the nose and mouth of a snowman out of plasticine, attach it to his face.
4. Make your arms out of wire wrapped in a strip of fabric or ribbon. You need to wrap a bump with a wire.
5. Put toothpicks in the hands of the snowman, with pieces of cotton glued to the bottom of these sticks.
6. Color the ice cream sticks, when dry, place a snowman on these skis.

The fourth craft is a pine cone tree and an owl. The bird is made from a small cone. Fill the acorn caps with plasticine to make the eyes. Attach the plasticine nose, after which the cone owl is finished.

Piglets like this are made quickly and easily. Glue the ear-shaped cone scales to the spruce cones. Attach also the patches, which will become acorn caps. You can use not glue for this, but plasticine.

Paint the piglets pink, you can use spray paint for this. When it is dry, only then will you attach the small black beads that will become the eyes.

For this craft, you need an unopened bump. But over time, the scales open up. To avoid this, dip the cones in wood glue diluted with water for half an hour. Remove them from the solution, shake them off. After 3 days, the bump will dry completely, securing the scales, which now will not open. After that, you can paint this natural material and make new items.

The next simple craft is a forest corner. For her, take:

• CD disk;
• plasticine;
• spruce and pine cone;
• an acorn cap;
• glue;
• paints;
• eyes for toys.

It is better to make this craft with the whole family - someone will take care of the hedgehog, another will issue a disk, and the child will paint the Christmas tree, let it dry for now.

1. Paint the disc green, draw flowers on its surface.
2. Let the child roll up the caps and legs of the mushrooms, connect them.
3. The base for the hedgehog can be molded from plasticine or polymer clay. Then cover it with brown paint.
4. When it's dry, stick the spruce cone scales into the back of the hedgehog. Place a hat on his head.
5. Glue the eyes, nose, mouth, put a cane in your hand. The other will contain a basket with mushrooms, which are molded from plasticine.
6. Attach the hedgehog to the stand, after which another wonderful craft is ready.

If you remove part of the cone from one side, paint the blank white, you get wonderful flowers. You just need to attach circles of yellow plasticine in the middle.

Tie a floral wire to the cones, put the picturesque flowers in a jar previously wrapped with twine.

You can make another craft out of cones for the garden, such a wonderful decorative basket.

If you need to quickly make a hedgehog to bring to kindergarten, mold his body and head from beige plasticine, and roll his eyes and nose from black. Stick in the seeds, which will become thorns.

Simple crafts for a great mood

Now the sun rarely peeps out, the weather is increasingly cloudy. In order not to succumb to despondency at this time of year, make mischievous tricks that will certainly improve your mood.

Set these cheerful flowers in a vase at home, which are made from almost nothing. For them, you just need to take:

• colored paper;
• cardboard from a white box;
• marker;
• stationery knife;
• PVA;
• tape;
• scissors.

For each flower, you need to cut three blanks. Two - from the same colored paper, they will contain six petals. Put one of them in front of you, glue a circle on top, with holes pre-made with a clerical knife for the eyes and mouth.

Paint the eyes with a black marker, bend the petals forward.

Cut the stem out of the cardboard. At the top, on one side, glue the finished part, on the other - a pre-cut flower with petals.

Fold a green sheet of paper in half, draw an oval line on it, cut along it. If available, use zigzag scissors. Make the notches simple.

Tie the paper flowers with a ribbon, and if there is taffeta, then use this fabric for decoration. You have got a bouquet that will never fade, will amuse you.

You can attach the flowers with a toothpick to washed beets or pineapple. You will get a beautiful shell for a turtle. You will make her arms, legs and head with a neck from carrots. Attach these parts to the body with toothpicks too.

If you want the New Year to come as soon as possible, decorate the white objects in the apartment by turning them into snowmen.

Attach black magnets to the refrigerator, and now the character of the holiday has settled in your kitchen. If you paint on a white vase or glue round eyes and an orange nose in the form of a carrot, then another snowman will amuse everyone at the table.

See what other quick and easy crafts you can make.