Table of Contents
- 16 Craft ideas
- 1. Making origami
- 2. Painting (by numbers)
- 3. Macramé or wool knots
- 4. Making toilet paper mandala
- 5. Making a bath basket
- 6. Create a keyboard
- 7. Making a coat rack/wardrobe
- 8. Mandarin/walnut candle making
- 9. Create calendar
- 10. Making lanterns
- 11. Embroidering cushions
- 12. Making jewelry boxes
- 13. Recycling your clothes
- 14. Fairytale Light
- 15. Making a four-poster bed
- 16. Coffee capsule decoration
Everyone cleans out their closet sometimes. Many of the materials found can be used for crafting. We have 16 ideas for crafting with this!
16 Craft ideas
1. Making origami
You can make angels, stars, flowers, cones or abstract figures from paper, newspapers and book pages and shape them creatively with beads and colours.
2. Painting (opnumber)
Do you happen to have some paint left, a canvas and brushes? Then go Paint by Numbers or painting! Paint a beautiful motif of an animal, landscape or flowers.
3. Macramé or wool knots
You can make many different things from macramé cord, which you can order in different colours on the internet, such as baskets, wall hangings or coasters. You can also make buttons with wool, for example friendship bracelets, and then decorate them with beads.
4. Making toilet paper mandala
Use scissors to cut wide rings of five to ten millimeters from the cardboard of the toilet rolls and fold and crease them into different shapes or join the rings by sliding them into each other. You can then use your shapes to create a mandala, glue the individual rings together and spray paint, paint or place them in theirleave a natural look.
Are you curious about how to paint a Mandela? Then read our blog article: '' Mandala Painting - Instructions for Your First Mandala Pictures ''.
5. Making a bath basket
For a bath basket you need textiles, for example an old T-shirt or an old bed sheet. Cut it into strips and crochet a basket, then use another fabric to make the lining.
6. Create a keyboard
You will need a branch, a sturdy piece of cardboard, a picture frame or a wooden strip. Attach sticks or screws to itfixed, be creative and hang keys on it. Another option is to glue thin Lego plates, attach Lego pieces to them and hang the keys on them.
7. Making a coat rack/wardrobe
Bend an old spoon and hit it against the wall, screw drawer handles onto a wooden strip or hammer pieces of a fork into the wall or onto a wooden strip - you have coat hooks. For a coat rack, you can find a sturdy, long branch in the woods, attach ropes to it and anchor it to the ceiling.
8. Mandarin/walnut candle making
Cut the mandarin in half, loosen and pull out the flesh, leaving the stem and peel intact. Lubricate the peel with sunflower oil. The stem becomes the fuse. Before it burns it should be dried for a minute or two by holding a lighted flame to the end. You can fill the walnut shell halves with wax from leftover candles, for example by melting them. Then all you have to do is stick a fuse in the middle.
9. Create calendar
You can also make a calendar or birthday calendar for yourself or as a gift. You will need cardboard, string and a hole punch. Poke holes in the top of thepages and bind them together. Stick a cardboard stand on the last page or hang it up as a wall calendar. You can design the monthly pages with drawings, photos and postcards or, for example, painting.
10. Making lanterns
Use old canning jars to make lanterns. Sticks, leaves, fabric, macramé or paper can be glued or pasted at your own discretion. Everyone made mosaic patterns from transparent paper in kindergarten! A fun activity to remember this fun time!
Curious about how mosaics are possible? Then read our blogarticle: '' Make your own mosaic - This is how it works '' and learn all about mosaics.
11. Embroidering cushions
Decorate your living room or bedroom by embroidering boring cushion covers or decorating them with macramé feathers, fringes, crochet patterns, patches or buttons.
12. Making jewelry boxes
Jewelry boxes can be made from wood if you have some building materials at home. Another method is to use matchboxes. Gather eight boxes of the same size, glue four of them together, and then glue the two towers together. You already have the drawers for the jewelry box. You can cover them with fabric, felt or wrapping paper. You can stick glass beads on the individual boxes as handles. The outside of the jewelry box can be creatively painted or plastered. Glass or gemstones or ribbons are particularly elegant.
13. Recycling your clothes
In almost every wardrobe there are pieces that are no longer goodfit, have holes and stains, are faded or simply no longer beautiful. Instead of throwing them away, you can dye, cut, batik or sew them over.
14. Fairytale Light
You can brighten up fairy lights by placing origami figures or paper funnels over them. Coffee capsules with holes in them can also be placed on the lights to make them unique.
15. Making a four-poster bed
Find a branch in the forest, attach it to the headboard with ropes and nails to the ceiling and lightly wrap a cord around it - the four-poster bed is ready. You can also make a string of lights withfasten pins above the bed, so that it hangs slightly, and stretch a cloth over it, also with pins.
16. Coffee capsule decoration
You can make unique jewelry from coffee capsules.
