Someone will certainly look at this collection of ideas and say that it would be easier to buy new furniture or decor. But this article is not for them, but only for true connoisseurs of unique style and products self made. Here you will find 10 of the most beautiful interior items that you can make for your home with your own hands without spending extra money.
The best DIY home crafts from scrap materials for 2018!
1. Decoupage and other DIY furniture repair ideas
Restoring old chests of drawers and sideboards is perhaps one of the main trends of our time. Many pieces of furniture fail over time: the cabinets of tables and chairs become loose, upholstered furniture is dented and requires new “filling.” But chests of drawers and sideboards can stand for themselves long years and bother you with their outdated appearance.
Home crafters and decoupage masters not only found a way to update the design of old furniture, but also created a fashion for using vintage “grandmother’s” chests of drawers in the interior. Detailed instructions on painting and decoupage you will find in our article .
Below are some photos of amazing home projects to inspire you.
Restoration of an old chest of drawers with replacement of handles and hand painting: 
Painting and finishing an old cabinet with metal buttons: 
As a result, the furniture acquired an original decorative effect in the Moroccan style. Simple, like everything ingenious: 
By the way, in this way you can create more sophisticated things for the home:
Decoupage and painting amazingly transform old furniture facades, but not every person has enough time and patience for this painstaking task. Therefore, the best DIY home ideas will also include remodeling furniture using duct tape to look like marble, gold, and other fancy finishes. A minimum of effort - and the most ordinary piece of furniture will turn into the main decoration of your interior.
2. Beautiful things for the home with your own hands: carpets
Perhaps the most pleasant thing about creating things for the home with your own hands is when one of the guests asks: where did you buy such beauty? A stylish rug with a zebra print (or other motif of your choice) is sure to earn such a compliment. And more than once.
The fabric can be any. The main thing is that it is not too demanding to care for: it is not afraid of moisture and is easy to clean. In this case, the master chose vinyl fabric. It is heavy and durable enough to look like a true carpet. Moreover, the quality of vinyl these days is very impressive and it is available in wide selection colors and interesting textures.
All necessary materials and tools:
- Thick paper;
- Vinyl upholstery fabric;
- Scissors;
- 2 Krylon pens or regular fabric paint.
Procedure:
- Create a stencil from paper. Draw and cut out the outline of the zebra skin, then the drawing itself on it. Don't worry about your artistic talent - a zebra's skin shouldn't look uniform or symmetrical. As a last resort, the pattern can be copied from a picture on the Internet or even printed to cut out.
- Attach the stencil to the vinyl fabric and trace the outlines of the stripes with Krylon pens (apply paint with a spray or brush). After this, the stencil can be removed and you can continue painting the areas inside the contours.
- Let the paint dry and you're done! To make sure the pattern will stick, you can “seal” the rug by spraying it with a clear coat of acrylic spray paint.
Krylon pens create a stunning gold leaf effect on the surface of the fabric. In addition, the paint in them dries quickly and adheres very reliably. If you cannot buy them in your city, then use regular paint for fabrics or walls. As the next hero of our article.
He took a cheap white rug as a basis and decided to give it interesting view do it yourself using a chevron pattern. All he needed was thin duct tape, scissors, a thick brush and latex paint in two different shades.
Finally, another inspiring example in which a makeshift stamp is used instead of a stencil. The craftsman had a rubber bath mat, leftover wall paint (it was slightly diluted with water to achieve a vintage effect), a roller and an old IKEA wool rug. Let's look at the photo what he managed to cook from these ingredients.
3. Unusual “marble” DIY crafts (photo)
7. Turn photos into wall decor
It's much cooler than just hanging framed photos! Your personal photos or any images you like from the internet can be turned into beautiful wall art for any room. To make this decor with your own hands, you can use any of the following methods.
- Find or buy a backing. It can be played by a thick sheet of polystyrene foam or polystyrene foam (as in in this case), board and other available materials.
- Print the photo, having previously edited its dimensions so that they are approximately 5 cm more sizes substrates. These “extra” centimeters will be used for folds.
- Cut the photo and backing into pieces if you want a modular set rather than a whole painting. IN otherwise skip this point.
- Place the photo on the backing and fold the ends. The author of this product used a double-sided duct tape for attaching photos. You can attach with regular glue or other available funds. The surface of the photographs itself can also be treated with glue or paste for shine.
- Print the image and prepare a canvas onto which it will be transferred.
- Stretch the canvas over the frame and apply a thick layer of gel medium on it. These gels are widespread and today they can be bought at any finishing materials store.
- Place the photo on the greased canvas and press down. Leave it like this for several hours, but periodically spray it with water from a spray bottle.
- Carefully, using your fingertips alone, begin to erase the back surface of the image from the canvas. Remove all paper in this way.
The result is a beautiful one with wear and tear that will only give it a touch of vintage style. All that remains is to apply the final layer of gel medium on it as a protective coating.
For inspiration, we’ll give you a couple more ways to decorate your interior using photos.
We use an old window frame as a photo frame. What do you think of the idea? 
8. Creative homemade lampshades for lamps
Homemade lampshades made from fabric, paper, thread and other improvised means will not only decorate your home, but also bring an unusual atmosphere to it every dark time of the day.
Look for the best ideas to suit your taste in our article . The next photo shows a popular creative lampshade made of threads.
9. Succulents - living home decor with your own hands
A succulent living wall is perhaps the most amazing of all the DIY home crafts you can make. Agree: if you saw it in someone’s living room or other room design, you wouldn’t be able to remain indifferent!
Dekorin will tell you how to get such impressive and environmentally friendly decor:
- You will need a shallow wooden container for planting and a metal mesh.
- To secure the mesh to the container, use an improvised wooden frame, which can be made from small boards or wood chips. Attach to staples or nails.
- Prepare any for composition. They easily take root in the most difficult conditions and look most advantageous when you combine different shades and leaf shapes. Common examples of succulents: aloe, various cacti, young or rock rose (Sempervivum), sedum (Sedum), rockweed (Orostachys), etc.
- Fill the container with soil and plant your chosen plants in it. Use any cactus mixture for drainage.
Here are examples of crafts for the home that you can make with your own hands using the above method.
10. DIY home crafts from glass containers
Glass bottles and jars often accumulate on balconies and in storage rooms. What they are not turned into today: lamps, candlesticks, vases, table decor... It’s simply amazing how easily they become part of stylish interior, you just need to use a little ingenuity, as well as paints, fabrics, threads, paper and other improvised means. Last batch of photos for today. Also read:
10 best ideas what you can do for your home with your own hands updated: March 21, 2018 by: Margarita Glushko
You can find improvised materials in any home. Some people store them on the balcony, others in the garage, others in the barn. The mentality of our people does not allow us to throw away old things, even if they don’t need them. We'll show you how to put your trash to good use. You will be surprised at what crafts you can make with your own hands from scrap materials. With a little imagination and work, you can turn useless things into real works of art. Perhaps such an activity will become your hobby, and you will be able to decorate not only your home, but also country cottage area incomparable products.
Plastic containers
The most affordable material is plastic bottles. At first glance, an unattractive container can easily turn into original decoration for the garden or home. Even a child can handle plastic. It is enough to use scissors to cut out the shapes for future figures and secure them together.
Try making butterflies. You can decorate every corner of your garden with them or stick them on furniture in your house.
For work, prepare the following materials:
- plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- marker or felt-tip pen;
- nail polish of different colors;
- beads;
- sequins;
- rhinestones;
- tweezers;
- toothpicks.
Step 1: Make butterfly templates. Draw them yourself, cut them out from coloring books, or find them online and print them out.
Step 2. Wash the bottles and apply the templates to the plastic, tracing along the contours with a marker.
Step 3. Carefully cut out the butterfly blanks without damaging the antennae and legs.
Cover the blanks with nail polish, glue the sequins using toothpicks and tweezers, and sprinkle with beads.
Step 5: Paint over reverse side butterflies with a felt-tip pen or marker, and cover with colorless varnish.
Step 6. Tie a thread to the craft and hang it on a branch of a bush or tree.
Work is done.
Tropical palm trees made of plastic bottles. Even in winter they will delight with their green foliage.
To work you will need:
- plastic bottles in two colors: brown and green;
- wire;
- scissors.
Step 1. Cut off the bottoms of the brown bottles and insert them into each other. Determine the height of the trunk yourself.
Step 2. Palm leaves are made from bottle necks. The leaves should be curly. Shape and size don't matter.
Instructions.
Master class on palm trees made from plastic containers.
Panels for home
To create a craft with your own hands from scrap materials, you don’t need a lot of time and money. Everything you need is at your home. Any unremarkable material will become the basis for creative crafts. For example, such a panel made of tubes will decorate your home.
Prepare the following materials:
- multi-colored plastic tubes;
- glue;
- cardboard;
- frame.
Step 1. Prepare cardboard and apply an image of an angel with wings to it. You can use ready-made template, taken from the Internet.
Step 2. Cut tubes of the same length in the corresponding colors (see image). Make the edges beveled.
Step 3. Glue the blanks onto the template, focusing on the Angel’s face. The edges of the tube should be directed away from it.
Note. The hair is made from short-cut straws with straight edges.
Crafts for the home from scrap materials that you can make yourself
If you want to decorate your home or garden, we will help you with this. The variety of available means has no limit. In every home there are old things or objects from which you can create a real masterpiece. Just watch how forks and spoons are transformed into works of art.
Have you seen the animated film “Despicable Me”? You have the opportunity to place the main character of this cartoon in your dacha. It is made from old tires.
Summer residents say: “Everything will come in handy on the farm.” They even create original crafts from old tires.
They are used not only to make garden figures, but also into original flower beds and flower beds.
Flower beds, flower beds and flowerpots are made in the shape of animals, birds, multi-tiered. They can be hung horizontally on the wall or installed vertically. People's fantasies are limitless.
If you are interested in such flower beds, we offer a master class on easy-to-make flower beds.
You can decorate your home with the first flowers of spring – snowdrops.
- disposable spoons;
- plasticine.
To make flowers, prepare:
- disposable spoons;
- green crepe paper;
- wire;
- plasticine.
Step 1. Break the spoons at the base.
Step 2. Stick several spoons into the plasticine to make a bud.
Step 3. Wrap the wire in paper and stick it into the plasticine that holds the petals.
Make several of these flowers and you will have a spring bouquet.
Decorate your home and cottage original crafts. Video instructions and a selection of the simplest, but beautiful crafts will help you in the creative process.
Children love to watch cartoons. Of course, educational animated films benefit the baby. But it’s still better to do what you can do with your own hands. This process develops fine motor skills, logical thinking and imagination. As Vasily Sukhomlinsky wrote: the child’s mind is on his fingers.
Therefore, develop your baby in game form. Find interesting craft, and invite your child to make it themselves. Some processes will require your help, but your son or daughter will be happy with the result, because they are confident that they did it themselves.
To create a variety of figures, you don’t need to go to the store; you can make them from what you usually throw in the trash. We will show you several master classes on creating original products.
DIY crafts from scrap materials for children, photos accompany each description
Children will really like theatrical dolls. They are made from paper plates.
Step 1. Take a disposable paper plate and fold it on both sides - this will be a raincoat.
Step 2: Paint the piece a bright color.
Step 3. Cut a cone from the plate. Apply the same paint to it as for the cloak - this will be the cap.
Step 4. Arms, legs and face can be cut out from the same plate or cardboard. Whatever suits you.
Step 5. Place all the parts in place and secure them. Draw the gnome's face.
Step 6. Use wool instead of hair. Glue them on the head and the cap on top.
It is best to fasten the elements of the product with a stapler. Theatrical puppet making is not difficult. A 5-6 year old child can do it without difficulty. The main thing is to show what the result should be.
Another craft a child can make from disposable plates is a flying bird.
It is performed as follows.
Step 1. Take disposable plate and cut it in half.
Step 2. Cut the other half in half again.
Step 3. Fasten the parts together using a stapler, as shown in the figure.
Step 4. Take a disposable spoon and attach it to half of the plate with the convex side facing you, glue the eyes and beak there, cut out of colored paper.
Step 5: Decorate the bird with feathers.
Work is done. You can make a cute yellow chicken using the same method.
Everything in the house
It turns out that you can do the most various crafts with your own hands from available material, the photos show with your own eyes how to do them.
Just look at these gnomes.
To make them, prepare the following materials:
- paint brushes;
- paint;
- beads;
- wool or cotton wool.
Step 1. Place the brush in front of you.
Step 2. Paint the handle with red paint and varnish.
The beard is the bristles of the brush, and the handle is the hat.
Step 3: Glue cotton wool between the bristles and the handle. It will act as the trim of the hat. If you have wool, use it.
Step 4. Glue beads instead of eyes, and half a ball or cap instead of a nose. Basically, you can use whatever comes to your mind.
And such cute monkeys come from disposable cups. This is a great option for holiday crafts. For the New Year, put candy in cups and place it under the Christmas tree.
Step 1. Cut out of paper white circle and divide it in half - this will be the muzzle.
Step 2. Cut out a similar circle from beige paper.
Step 3. Cut out eyes from black paper.
Step 4. Glue all the elements as shown in the picture.
See what other crafts you can make from improvised materials, the video will clearly show the variety of works.
Napkins to the rescue
It would seem that you can make something from an ordinary napkin. Although many have observed how beautifully they are folded in the restaurant. Savvy people came up with the idea of creating crafts from this scrap material. For example, elementary school students can make a beautiful autumn tree.
To do this, prepare napkins and colored paper.
Step 1. Prepare the base - a sheet of blue cardboard.
Step 2. Cut out a trunk from brown paper.
Step 3. Cut a strip of green paper into grass, it should look like a fringe.
Step 4: To make the foliage, cut the tissue paper into small pieces. Select the material to match the color of autumn foliage.
Step 5: Use a shape punch to make falling leaves.
Original crafts are made from clothespins.
Just color them acrylic paints and glue on fabric caps and pompoms. By completing various details, clothespins will turn into funny cartoon characters.
Making various crafts for children with your own hands together with your child is an exciting activity that significantly contributes not only to the development of the child, but also to strengthening 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 to activities with your children. The sections of our article will present useful recommendations how to make a craft with your own hands from various materials taking into account age characteristics kids.
DIY paper crafts for children
The most commonly used material for applied arts is, of course, paper. Moreover, it is worth paying attention not only to the usual color sets, but also to its other types: corrugated, velvet, designer. You can create do-it-yourself crafts for children from paper, flat (appliques), as well as voluminous, using various techniques. For example, having learned to fold a flower using the origami technique, form beautiful bouquet tulips.
The easiest DIY crafts for beginners
For those who are just starting to teach their child arts and crafts, we advise you to start with the simplest solutions, making easy crafts for children with your own hands. You might like examples of caterpillars made from paper rings, an applique of colorful fish, or funny little mice on a piece of cheese.
DIY cardboard crafts for children
Cardboard is an easily accessible material that can be easily cut, bent, painted, and is often used in children's creative works. In addition to a set of cardboard purchased in a store, we use carton boxes, disposable tableware, cereal packaging, egg honeycombs, and toilet paper rolls. In our photo catalog you will see what craftsmen make from cardboard for children. For example, a stand for pencils, funny animals, boxes.
DIY “house” craft
Cardboard houses are made to suit any size - it all depends on their purpose. Perhaps it will be a large structure the size of a child, a “home” for dolls, or a do-it-yourself “house” craft, made as New Year's 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 from which you can make blanks. If you are making small structures, PVA glue and tape are enough to hold the parts together. When building a large house, it is better to use a heat gun for reliability. New Year's craft The “house” with your own hands is complemented with decor that imitates snow on the roof (cotton wool, foam balls), and the gift wrapping must have at least one opening flap, for example, a door, a roof slope.
How to make a DIY craft from fabric
Wonderful DIY crafts and toys are sewn using fabric. Moreover, not only a single piece, but various shreds, household napkins and even socks. Look at the photo, isn’t it true, the cute bunny came out of a sock? An older child will be able to do it on his own, but the baby will have to help. Make the necessary cuts and seams, and instruct the child to tightly stuff the figure and also draw a face.
You can also sew crafts for children with your own hands, which will become not only a decoration, a toy, but also a useful thing, for example, a large soft duck ottoman, a photo of which is in our catalog, or a star pillow.
DIY children's crafts made from felt
Felt is a wonderful, comfortable fabric that comes in a vibrant range 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 (usually sold in a set of four colors) will help replace the fabric. You can sew these crafts and toys with your own hands without help. sewing machine, manually.
DIY children's crafts for the New Year
In anticipation New Year's holidays, children's matinees, rooms are decorated everywhere, they dress up lush Christmas trees. It’s quite possible to make a lot of interesting symbolic additions yourself without spending money on purchases. These may be the most original balls for the Christmas tree, garlands, and other decorations that a child can easily make.
DIY snowman craft
The snowman is a unique symbol of winter and, naturally, his presence will come in handy for the New Year’s interior. The photographs of our selection show options on how to make such crafts with your own hands step by step, using foam balls, socks, and pom-poms. A larger figure, decorated with thread, will suit a 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 workpieces are completely dry, the balls need to burst and be taken out from the inside. The finished balls are fastened together. The DIY “snowman” craft is almost ready. All that remains is to decorate the eyes (beads, buttons), the mouth from thread, and the carrot nose (sew from fabric). Traditionally, the head is complemented with a bucket, and the neck is decorated with a scarf.
DIY Santa Claus craft
IN New Year's interior You can't do without Santa Claus. Most easy way- make it out of thick paper (cardboard). Use a ready-made template, or make a cone-shaped shape from a sheet, which you then “dress” with the help of multi-colored paper, shaping your face, beard, and hands. Similar children's crafts at New Year They make it with their own hands, using fabric (you will find examples of patterns here), plastic bottles, and other improvised means.
DIY crafts for kindergarten
Various creative works for small children of kindergarten age should differ more simple techniques, materials. The child is just beginning to learn how to do something beautiful on his own, so you need to choose the simplest but most interesting options.
DIY crafts for kindergarten children: applications
The most common way to teach children to create pictures is through appliqué. Such crafts for kindergarten with your own hands (photos are presented below) can be constructed not only using colored paper, you can also take thick fabric, artificial leather, velvet paper, available materials (cotton pads, cereals, etc.), natural raw materials (leaves, seeds). Children of older groups can begin extensive work, for example, making an applique in an “aquarium” box with hanging representatives of the aquatic world.
DIY crafts for kindergarten from natural materials
Often, especially in the fall, exhibitions of works are held demonstrating crafts for kindergarten with your own hands from natural ingredients. Chestnuts, acorns, pine cones, sunflower seeds, pumpkins, colorful autumn foliage - all this provides great soil for the development of children's imagination. To make various figures and compositions, plasticine is additionally used to hold the parts together or form the base. Pictures of DIY crafts using natural raw materials are presented in our photo selection. Feel free to try using them by making a chestnut caterpillar, a hedgehog, and other samples.
DIY crafts for school
School work varies in complexity. If crafts in primary school have simple shapes with their own hands, then high school students with enough skills are able to design more complex compositions, for example, a bouquet of roses from maple leaves, cardboard town or paper basket with asters.
DIY crafts for school, photos of which are posted below, involve the use large selection raw materials, including all sorts of improvised means (plastic dishes, DVDs, matches, buttons).
DIY crafts for schoolchildren using the cutting technique
Trimming is quite entertaining creative process which is suitable for children different ages. It allows you to create “fluffy” pictures that will decorate the room, as well as an original gift relatives. Do-it-yourself crafts in elementary school have simplified versions until the child acquires certain skills. For example, in this way you can design only the outlines of a drawing.
To make a lush applique you will need corrugated paper, scissors, glue, match or toothpick with a blunt end, sketch drawing on cardboard. Before making the 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 place the match in the center of the square, turn it (so that the corrugation is fixed to it), then glue it with its end to the sketch. Thus, we decorate the entire drawing using the necessary colors of corrugated squares.
Learning to create beauty yourself is The best way development creativity child. DIY children's crafts significantly develop imagination, giving the joy of interesting time spent together with adults.
DIY crafts for children: a selection of 50 ideas with step by step examples updated: May 2, 2018 by: Kyiv Irina
Based on the results of many experiments, it is clear that making unique and non-standard souvenirs with your own hands is very exciting and interesting job. It promotes the development of flexible thinking, creative taste and aesthetic imagination.
Even small children can participate in such a cognitive process, because making crafts from improvised materials with their own hands takes a long time even for children who are not assiduous and not very obedient.
For production, any materials of natural and artificial origin are used. After all, available raw materials are always available and do not require any waste.
And masterpieces that are made from unnecessary or unsuitable materials are fully competitive with store-bought counterparts, since they have no analogues. Such products will organically fit into any interior, which will add exquisite originality to it.
What crafts can be made from improvised materials?
- a variety of photo frames;
- coasters for hot cups;
- many different toys;
- decorations for every taste and color;
- key holders;
- original souvenirs using quilling technique;
- various candlesticks;
- crafts for flower beds and garden plot;
- designer suits and dresses for matinees;
- design of a playground for children;
- graceful decorative flowers;
- interesting decorations;
- and many other various design masterpieces.
To make it easier to make souvenirs with my own hands, photos of crafts made from improvised materials that can be found on the World Wide Web will help with this. There is no need to copy, you just need to understand the technique and do something of your own.
Using the same principle that postcards are made, it is possible to make a bright panel from paper and cardboard. But in this case, to make the souvenir look complete, you also need to think about a frame that can be made from various materials.
Instructions for crafts using improvised materials
Let's take a closer look at the example of crafts made from plastic bags - kite, which is what kids like so much. For manufacturing, you need to prepare:
- 2 polyethylene bags;
- 2 skewers;
- scotch;
- black marker;
- scissors;
- fishing line, which can be seen with strong threads.
The process of creating a masterpiece:
Straighten the bag and place skewers on it, as if in a cross, but the longitudinal one should be a third higher, from the middle. Now, using a marker, you need to draw lines that connect the ends of the skewers.
Then, it is advisable to cut out the resulting figure. The skewers are glued to the bag with tape.
From the second plastic bag, you need to cut a piece, 4-5 cm wide, of any length - for the tail of the snake. It is possible to make a tail from several short pieces of bags, first combining them with tape. After this, you should tie the tail to the lower half of the flying kite.
At the end, you need to make a hole in the place where the skewers intersect, and securely tie the fishing line there. Ready!
Step-by-step making of crafts for beginners
To make a craft - a goose made from Kinder eggs, you will need:
- yellow eggs from kinders;
- buttons: 1 for the nose, 1 for the tail and 2 for the eyes;
- ribbon;
- awl;
- elastic thread;
- glue.
The process of creating a masterpiece:
Using a preheated awl, all the eggs are pierced, one opposite hole at a time.
Then the elastic is threaded from the ponytail to the head. Next, you need to put on the nose button and thread the elastic in the opposite direction, through the other hole.
Since both ends of the thread appear in the tail, it is advisable to secure them using a button. Now you need to glue in the eyes and strengthen the button on the tail of the caterpillars. In this way it is possible to produce a whole family of similar caterpillars.
Master classes on crafts from improvised materials
For a cardboard Christmas tree you need to prepare:
- cardboard;
- glue;
- scotch;
- paints, markers, pencils;
- scissors;
- glitter, stickers, or something else - for decorations.
The process of creating a masterpiece:
The cardboard must be folded in half and cut where it bends. The halves that came out are folded in half again.
On one piece, on the opposite side of the fold, half of the Christmas tree is drawn.
The sheets are folded together and cut along the drawn line; This is how you get two identical Christmas trees. Then you need to secretly mark the centers of both Christmas trees.
On one Christmas tree, an incision is made from the top to the middle along the midline, and on the second, from bottom to middle. Now, it is advisable to insert the Christmas trees into the cuts, and you get one lush Christmas tree.
To make the Christmas tree more stable, tape is used to glue both halves together.
Pencils, felt-tip pens, glitter, paints, etc. are used to decorate the Christmas tree. At this stage, everything that only the imagination suggests is done.
Conclusion
Every parent who loves their child sooner or later thinks that it is useful for the child to do at least something with his own little hands.
After all, in the lives of children, gadgets take up more and more space, and real exciting activities are of much higher value. That’s why making crafts from scrap materials will be an ideal activity for kids and adults.
Photos of crafts from improvised means
