by Alexey | For Kids Crafts Gifts Decor Workshop Cheap Accessories | Wednesday, September 07, 2016
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Handmade gifts for children are beautiful, cheap and pleasant. Every child needs original and educational toys, but it is not always possible to purchase them. Today we will show you 5 examples of toys that you can make yourself. They can be made of cardboard, paper or wood... In general, get inspired and make your children happy more often.
Why is LEGO so popular?
This brand is distinguished from all others by the highest quality characteristics of both the material from which the small parts are made, and the very shapes of these same parts: you can step on them as much as you like, but it is extremely difficult to break the discrete part of the construction set itself.
And given the wide range of different shapes and types of components, any designs from them can be made very beautiful.
Here we will look at a wide variety of DIY Lego crafts, so that parents and children can work together to do something cool for the child, and something useful for everyone.
Designer made from toilet paper rolls
What you need: toilet paper rolls or disposable dish towels, scissors and paint.
First, make 4 slits on each end of the cardboard sleeve.
Then paint the cardboard.
And start imagining!
Here's another idea for your bushing constructor:
DIY wooden toys
In the process of home renovation and creativity, sometimes there are scraps of planed boards left behind. When used carefully, these wood scraps become an excellent material for making various crafts, such as wooden toys for children. Moreover, such toys that cannot be bought in the store.
How to make wooden toys with your own hands
Let's cut a small menagerie out of the board. To make toys with your own hands, you will need a jigsaw and sandpaper. And for finishing crafts, you can use an electric burner or paint. To make the work easier, a menagerie stencil has been prepared. The manufacturing scheme is simple.
1. We print a stencil with the outlines of animals on the printer.
2. Glue the animal stencils onto the board, oriented along the length of the wood fibers.
3. We cut out the toy blanks along the contour.
4. Sand the crafts with sandpaper.
Paste stencils
The blanks are cut
Grinding the workpieces
5. Draw the eyes and faces of animals with a pencil.
6. Burn out the contours outlined in pencil or paint the crafts with paints. See photos and videos.
7. Coat the finished children's toys with oil or varnish.
Draw faces
Burning out drawings
Wooden toy
As you can see, I managed to make a whole menagerie with my own hands from a waste board - a horse, a hippopotamus, a monkey, an elephant, a rhinoceros, a giraffe and a crocodile.
Don't forget to share the link to the craft on social networks, with your friend or your craftsman.
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LEGO building rules
A separate point worth mentioning are the rules for making Lego crafts with children:
- When you buy construction sets in a store, be sure to look at the recommended age, as it affects the size of the parts and the ease of construction for the child.
- If you are buying a construction set for a small child, then you need to purchase sets with larger sized parts and be careful that the child does not put them in his mouth.
- Children should not immediately purchase complex and large sets - it is better to start with something simpler and gradually teach them how to make crafts and construction sets.
- At first, you should stick to the instructions included in the kits. This way, children will be able to understand the logic of the structure of crafts and in the future they themselves will learn to build their own structures, looking back at their imagination.
New Year themed buildings
Often during the New Year holidays, children, and not only them, want to decorate their home with something extremely unusual, and this is where New Year’s crafts from Lego come to the rescue.
Any standard New Year's holiday items made from colorful construction sets will look beautiful and please the eye.
This can be a composition of a decorated Christmas tree, gifts, Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, a snowman, a sleigh, etc.
You can use the following selection of photos for beautiful and original home decoration ideas.
Tools and materials
If you are seriously interested in manufacturing, without purchasing wooden blanks for painting, the master’s set will be quite large.
Professionals need a lot of tools, beginners can make a toy out of wood armed with a jigsaw and sandpaper
The tools used are:
- saw;
- drill with a choice of drills;
- jigsaw (ideally electric);
- cutters, knives and chisels;
- grinder with a set of attachments;
- pliers;
- hammer;
- self-tapping screws, furniture screws, rods and wire - fasteners.
Our article will help you choose the right tools for the job: “What electric tools are used in wood carving: pros and cons of use, best manufacturers, cost.”
Wooden toys can be painted or tinted with wax and wood oils. The last option, by the way, has become especially popular. Work must be carried out with paints whose quality certificate is EN 71. The color is selected according to the tinting fan.
The main requirements for wood are as follows: the selected species should not form long chips and sharp edges. Pine is completely unsuitable in this case, but birch, linden and poplar are convenient materials. The wood should dry well, have no knots, and not exhibit rotting processes.
Practical crafts
In addition to structures intended exclusively for games or collections, you can also build structures that are more practical in use. This will be useful not only for children, but also for adults if they want to diversify their home with things made from bright and beautiful construction sets.
First of all, when we talk about the practical use of Lego, we mean a variety of organizers: boxes and not only with many compartments and other things.
- This could be a key holder, or stands for pencils, pens, toothbrushes, etc.
- The color scheme can be either colorful or strict and monotonous, depending on the needs and the overall interior of the house.
Flower vases are also often made from Lego. There are simple square or rectangular vases, as well as more specific and elegant shapes.
And thanks to the multi-colored cubes, you can build any beautiful pattern for any taste and preference.
Another striking example is designer lampshades for any lamp: the only limit is the number of details and imagination.
If you want a truly original design for a lamp, then the designer and many instructions from the Internet will help in this matter for creating cool crafts from Lego.
