These little pendants are a nice occupation for children and an alternative to playing with dough. The work with self-drying clay/modelling clay is suitable for creating beautiful things even without a kiln. With this adventure you can deal with several children of different ages or with different interests. Everyone can become active here according to his imagination and his skill.
Pendant of clay/modelling mass (pearls, buttons, houses)
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Snowmen from peanuts – small winter landscapes
A tiny winter landscape fits into a screw-glass lid. With a snowman from a peanut, the winter motif is complete. This filigree work is something for patient hobbyists and a beautiful gift idea for bringing along in the winter season.
Three Kings Make – Crafting with Corks
The three kings are easy to make from cork. They are suitable as nativity figures or as game figures for a king from a fairy tale, as carnival theme or for a table theatre. Your creativity is not limited. Make these little kings and princes from cork, crown corks and fabric or felt remnants. Be creative. You can find a guide for the kings here!
Crafting King with Cork – Crafting Princess of Cork
These princesses or kings are made of cork and crown cork and embellished with wool.
Makes the cork kings and cork princesses to play for a puppet theatre or role playing. They are also suitable for a Christmas crib as figures. Have fun crafting with cork!
Kings (Upcycle)
Steckenfiguren are great for theater playing, especially popular when children have even made the figures themselves.
Whether you want to make a play with princesses and kings at Carnival or just visit the princess with the Kasperl. Make figures with packaging materials, styrofoam foil, fruit nets, aluminium lids, crown caps and what else you can find in your packaging waste.
You will surely find wooden sticks in the forest or garden. With a small hand saw, even thicker sticks can be cut off or sawed.
Have fun beautifying your studs.
Mobile made of wire
This mobile is a nice threading exercise for children. The rigid wire can be easily stuck through the holes of beads and buttons. The wire allows small children to attach objects to each other and thus to design a mobile. How this works is described here step by step vividly.
This small craft shop is also suitable for a children's birthday party or as a small gift.
Building standing birdhouse
This birdhouse is attached to a stick and can be easily placed in the garden or in a flower pot.
An empty beverage box forms the basic structure of this bird house. A wooden cooking spoon serves as a landing place in front of the entry hole. It is completely inserted through the beverage box and is so very stable. If a large screw glass lid is attached to it as a roof, this upcycling bird house is also protected from rain weather.
See for yourself, – you may want to implement this craft action.
Penguin Pencups or Brush Holders
This little colorful penguin serves as a pen cup or brush holder. Design it cheerfully with many bright colors. This beautiful craft action is suitable for the carnival days, a children's party or a children's birthday party. Whether you use the little penguins as a table decoration for a disguise party or as a brush holder or pen box, with the bright colors they attract all eyes.
Have fun doing crafts!
Tip: If the drinking yoghurt cup is not stable, then weigh the cup with a small stone.
Build your own bird food house (from yoghurt bucket)
Build a bird food house from a yoghurt bucket (500g capacity). This unique bird food place is weatherproof, very robust and protects the food from rain weather. For this purpose, you paint the cup on two large windows, which allow the birds to access the food. A branch serves the birds as a landing place. It is glued to the cup. The lid protects the food from rain. You can decorate it with some moss. Finally, the self-built upcycling bird house hangs it with the handle of the bucket on a branch or in a place protected from cats.
Look at the instructions and have fun building!
Birdhouse made of packaging material
This charming bird house looks beautiful in the garden or on the balcony. The crafting serves to deal with the material, to see how beautiful packaging material can emerge. This bird house is a design idea and serves only for decoration, but maybe a bird comes by and admires your building. Try it out and let your own ideas arise! Have fun!