Birthday crafts: how to make a worthy gift with your own hands

Birthday crafts like to get everyone. A real handicraft, made with love and warmth, will outshine any expensive gift from a prestigious store or add an inexpensive gift.

Handmade crafts for birthdays can be made from any materials. It can be paper, cardboard, woolen threads, fabric and anything else that has long lay idle in the apartment.

Postcards

The tradition to complement the gift with a postcard with warm words and fond congratulations occurred very long ago. Such a greeting can easily be created from the materials at hand.

The simplest version would be a folded in half sheet of paper or soft cardboard. On top, you can draw or glue flowers, images of yachts, fruit, a cozy house. It depends on what you like best. Inside you can write a simple or poetic message.

Help diversify your usual card with unusual bows from satin ribbons, airy buds from corrugated paper, curved lines of the edges of the craft. To create such an unusual creation, you can buy special tools and paper for scrapbooking, or you can start by using ordinary ribbons, leftover beads, sequins and all other decorative elements.

Three-dimensional letters

An unusual volumetric letters can be a good decoration for a birth. They are made from thick cardboard. To begin with a base is cut out of this material, the sides are glued to it. The resulting blank is painted or glued with colored paper. Inside you can put the gifts themselves or decorate the surface with artificial flowers, small toys.

Wall newspaper

Unusual wall newspaper will help to tell the story of the birthday child in pictures and photographs. Such a creation can be an unusual surprise and be used as a craft for Dad's birthday. After all, it is so difficult for men to choose a suitable gift. Unconventional decoration of a large greeting can be chocolate bars, fixed on absorbent cotton.

Photo frame

Your favorite photo can be made into a charming frame. To do this, you will need to take two sheets of cardboard. In one of them, a hole is cut out for the photo. It can be a standard rectangle, a funny circle, an unusual oval.

The hole must be slightly smaller than the photo, otherwise the image will fall out of the design created for it. The rest of the cardboard is painted, decorated with ribbons and beads, lace and flowers, shells and cones. The decor depends on the desire of the creator and the theme of the photo.

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It remains only to connect the base and the frame itself, it is easiest to do it with glue, and so that the photo can be easily inserted and pulled out, between the two blanks glued pieces of cardboard.

Edible bouquets

For those who have a sweet tooth, sweet bouquets will be a good option for congratulations. They can be made in the form of:

a traditional bouquet in transparent paper;
a bouquet in a pot or a tea cup;
cars, dolls with a puffy skirt, other toys.

For fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sweets can be replaced by more harmful, but so tasty smoked sausages, croutons, chips, salted dried goods and other goodies. The addition of such a surprise would be a can of beer or a bottle of wine.

For mothers or grandmothers, quality liquor can be supplemented with expensive chocolate and make an elegant box of thick cardboard.

The top of the box is decorated with flowers, ribbons, embroidery. Using cellophane paper, you can make a transparent window through which you can see the contents of the presentation.

Unusual gifts

If you want to move away from fairly standard surprises, you can make absolutely amazing and fantastic handicrafts for mom for her birthday. These can be:

Soaring cups. A unique surprise will come out of an ordinary tea pair and a fork. At the tip of the fork, fix the cup so that it is slightly tilted with the bottom up. The inside of the cup is lined with artificial flowers, they also mask the fork. The fork tines are glued to the saucer and also decorate it with flowers. The machinations result in an unusual handicraft, which invariably gives pleasure to the birthday girls.
Herbalist. Funny fluffy grass crafts are especially useful in winter and early spring. To make it, you will need a piece of burlap or a simple sock, soil and grass seeds. You can buy a cat mix, it grows especially fast. The mixture of earth and grass is poured into the sock, forming the silhouette of an ordinary sack or figurine of an animal. Arms and legs can be made of wool or leather. For the animal sew buttons-eyes and nose, put a cap or hat, the neck can be decorated with a scarf. It only remains to put the blade of grass in a saucer with water and wait for the appearance of fresh shoots.
Topiary. An amazing tree will become a beautiful addition to the table, shelf, nightstand. To make it you will have to inflate a balloon of not very large size, carefully blot it with glue and wrap it with thread. When the workpiece finally dries, the balloon is pierced and removed. The resulting crown is decorated with artificial flowers, leaves, beads, sequins, butterflies. The ornately decorated ball is attached to the trunk. It can be a cocktail straw, an ice cream stick, a small twig of a tree. The bottom of the trunk is fixed in a pot with decorative balls.

Instead of colorful flowers, you can use more austere coffee beans. Such a craft can also decorate the desk of your favorite man.

Soap. For girlfriends and sisters, you can make an exclusive handmade soap. To do this, pieces of multicolored soap slightly dissolve in water, fill the prepared form with the resulting suspension and "bake" in the microwave. Hand soap can be supplemented with a drop of fragrant oil, flower petals, coffee beans, and strips of mandarin skins.
A pillow with embroidered initials or the name of the birthday child will be an object for a cozy rest at night or during the day.

And you can also make vases or lampshades from woolen thread or twine, create a comfortable rug from pompoms or a massage rug from pebbles.