Even a paper craft can be a great gift if it is made with love. Do you want to know, how to make a vase out of paper with your own hands? Here are some examples for you to get creative.
Origami vases or handmade crafts are not just acceptable home decor options but also suitable gifts for your friends or family. But first, you have to do something, and one of the first things you need is an idea. Many ideas. That's why this article was written and why you're here. The article presents different models of paper vases that anyone can make, regardless of skill level.
Framed panel
Where to begin? Start by finding a base: this is a frame to which cardboard or thin plywood is attached. This is our working area and future painting! Before starting creation, designers recommend deciding on the location of the future masterpiece: bedroom, hallway, kitchen. Determine where the lighting will come from. And also where approximately the panel will hang or stand.
So, we've decided. Next we prepare the existing elements. If something needs to be washed from dust or glue removed, we do everything. To paint something, we paint it and dry it. If you plan to create a panel of dried flowers, then we do that too.
Common product decor options
Whatever base is chosen, it can be decorated using several methods:
- Using the decoupage technique (transferring the finished design and then fixing it with glue or varnish).
- Painting and drawing using durable acrylic paints or special ones for stained glass.
- Simple wrapping with twine, cord, thread, ribbons, braid.
- Gluing bulk materials (cereals, sand, salt, seeds, shaped pasta, etc.).
- The use of plasticine and clay.
- Use of beads, beads, buttons, sparkles.
Also in the photo of craft vases you can see amazing creations woven from simple newspaper tubes, made in papier-mâché style, etc.
Any base can also be tied with beautiful threads using a hook or knitting needles. A variety of decorative additions will help turn any creation into a unique masterpiece.
Where to get ideas and instructions for work
The most important source of any idea is your own imagination. Well, instructions or tips with photos can easily be found on the Internet, in special books, magazines. If you want to study this area in depth, you can attend master classes, watch video lessons on the Internet, purchase specialized literature and get information from there.
Spring is one of the most wonderful periods of the year. In spring, nature comes to life, animals wake up, birds return from warm countries, trees acquire white outfits, rivers melt, the first rays of the sun begin to warm...
At this time of year, you want to admire all the delights of nature and try to remember these moments. Spring crafts are one of the best ways to present, convey, and share the spring mood with others!
How to draw spring? DIY painting:
First we draw a sketch with a pencil. We drew a stream, birch trees, forests and snowdrops. You can add flying birds, a birdhouse, the sun or any other spring attributes at your request.
Pencil sketch
Using a wide brush, wet a sheet of paper. Draw the sky on a damp sheet of paper with watercolors. Thanks to moisture, it will have a very delicate tint of color.
Sky on a wet leaf
We color the stream and grass, forest, birch trees and flowers. We've had a very beautiful spring!
Stream and grass, forest, birch tree and flowers
In this winter forest, spring has just arrived. We are greeted by bare earth, the first stream and timid snowdrops.
Early spring in the forest
And this picture shows bright bullfinches being warmed by the first sun. There is freshness and lightness in the air and the first drops herald the imminent arrival of spring.
Bullfinches and the first drops
In this picture, the snow has almost melted, the first shoots in the forest are visible. A satisfied starling and a cheerful sun add warmth and joy from the coming spring to this drawing.
Spring forest with birdhouse
And in this picture, the starling and birdhouse occupy the central place of the spring composition.
Spring birdhouse and starling
A beautiful drawing “spring with birds and a blooming apple tree” is drawn in gouache.
Spring drawing with birds and a blooming apple tree
Look at the video on how to draw a very delicate “blooming spring” pattern with a bird on a branch:
Drawing “Spring Sakura”
Classification of crafts
There is no comprehensive classification of children's art products. For orientation, ordering is used according to several criteria.
Plastic bottle and decoupage
First of all, you will need to cut off the neck and give the plastic the desired shape. For the decoupage technique, you can use beautiful openwork napkins or any pattern cut out of fabric.
Sequence of work:
- PVA glue is applied to the prepared surface.
- An image is attached and smoothed with a wet brush.
- Acrylic varnish is then used to secure the top.
If desired, you can add decorative details (rhinestones, beads, etc.).
Handmade vases can never be compared to store-bought items. Any creation has a special value, can become one of the attributes of a special event, and will help diversify the space.
Advantages and disadvantages of topiary figures in the garden
Beautiful topiaries, like other objects on a personal plot, have their advantages and disadvantages. First, about the pros:
- original and unique exterior;
- the design is preserved in any season;
- the design is stable;
- the figure can be easily transported.
These types of jewelry have several disadvantages:
- the need for regular haircuts;
- correct planting scheme;
- Not every culture is suitable for creating a masterpiece;
- you need to fill your hand.
In recent years, similar decorations in the garden have begun to be used for the purpose of functional delimitation of space.
Spring work with scrap materials
Using the materials at hand, you can create unique works on the theme of spring. It is interesting to make crafts from this type of material not only for young children, but also for older ones and adults. You can use whatever you see fit, as long as you have enough imagination and ideas.
Simple and easily accessible materials for such an activity are:
- disposable tableware (spoons, glasses, boiler tubes);
- sewing materials (buttons, rivets, sequins, pins, threads);
- some hygiene products (cotton pads, cotton swabs for ears, paper napkins)
- light bulbs.
To create a work on a spring theme, you should use your imagination, and you can easily find available materials. With their help, flower arrangements, nests with chicks, houses with birds, rafts, boats, spring panels and much more are created.
Classic origami - snowdrops
School-age children know how to make an airplane or a boat from a piece of paper. The Japanese turned this skill into an art called “origami”. Only paper is used, no glue or scissors. Art has become international. There are classic and modular origami. One of the simplest crafts is snowdrops.
We take a sheet of ordinary white office paper, mark it into squares with a side of 5 cm, and cut it with scissors. We bend the workpiece in half to form a rectangle.
On the long side, we bend both sides of the workpiece so that we get a parallelogram (this is a figure in which the opposite sides are parallel and the angles are not right); this is a petal.
For a snowdrop, three such petals are made: one in the middle and two on the sides. Place on a colored sheet of hard paper. Plasticine is used to make stems; the stems bend down. The corners of the snowdrop bud are also attached to the paper with a plasticine ball.
To create a composition, several snowdrops with different stem heights are used. Spring crafts for school using this technique are easy to do and do not require much time.
