DIY birthday crafts for family and friends. How to make a surprise: making gifts from polymer clay Clay crafts for birthdays

27.08.2024

Who always has sweet treats? Who will always forgive and understand, help at any time, and sometimes even “not betray” to their parents? Of course, grandma! This is why grandchildren love their grandmothers so much. Grandmothers love their grandchildren even more, and especially when it turns out that a handmade gift for a grandmother’s birthday, made with her own hands, into which they invested their love and a part of themselves, is not a grandmother’s dream, but a reality.

What crafts can you make for your grandmother’s birthday:

Crafts made from natural materials

Many at school made herbariums for biology lessons or simply saved beautiful leaves of trees or flowers for themselves. But they are not the only ones suitable for decorating your gift - pine cones, orange peel, Christmas tree needles, pieces of bark, birch bark, tea bags, even small semi-precious stones like quartz - all of this can be used to create a greeting composition.

You can depict grandma’s favorite animal in an original, beautiful and simple way: just draw its outline on paper, cover it evenly with glue and pour out a thin layer of tea leaves from a cut bag. Complete the eyes and mustache with either a pencil or paint.

Drawings with applique elements

To create a craft, you only need scissors, colored paper, glue and an interesting idea. On the main paper - the background - various figures and images are created from cut out and pasted applique elements. It could be flowers, the sun, clouds, or it could be completely fictitious lines and shapes. Even the smallest grandchild will find it easy to make a craft for grandma’s birthday, like the one described above.

Paper crafts

Such a gift requires not only paper and an idea, but also sleight of hand. A paper craft is more difficult to make than an applique, but it will be very nice to receive such a craft for your grandmother’s birthday! There are many techniques for creating three-dimensional shapes from paper: you can even make roses from ordinary napkins. Currently, quilling and origami are popular.

The essence of quilling is to create compositions from paper strips of different lengths, twisted into a spiral. In origami, sheets of paper are turned into “details” of a composition, like a construction set. Paper crafts are great for developing fine motor skills, which is extremely important for a child’s development., so origami, for example, would be a very useful hobby.

Figures made of salt dough, clay and plasticine

Those who love to sculpt can try making a craft for their grandmother’s birthday in the form of a figurine of an animal, a house, a flower, a loaf of bread, an apple, or whatever! Like the previous option, modeling develops fine motor skills well! Unlike clay or salt dough, plasticine is easier to use and allows you to correct mistakes at any stage of creativity. Clay and dough have better strength and durability. In addition, figures made of clay and dough can be painted as you like. Figures made from dough and clay are dried after modeling before painting. This can be done quickly in the oven, after which you can start painting.

Burning on the board

A fairly simple and interesting way for boys to give grandma a gift. Such a souvenir-drawing for a grandmother’s birthday, for example, a wooden spoon with a pattern or a cutting board, will also have practical value, because many grandmothers love to cook. And cutting vegetables on a board given by your grandson is much more enjoyable! The complexity of the method lies in the fact that not many people have the necessary tool at home - a burner, and not many can make or buy a wooden blank - a board, spatula or spoon. After applying the design with a burner, the craft can be painted, after which it should be varnished for a longer service life. Special talents can make a picture burn out!

Wool toys

It’s quite a labor- and time-consuming task, but for the sake of a good craft for grandma’s birthday, you won’t mind anything! To create a toy from wool, in addition to the wool itself (of different colors), you also need to purchase special needles for felting wool. The needles are sharp, so this method carries some danger of pricking yourself, but what beautiful wool toys you get! You can make a caricature of your grandmother's favorite cat or dog; such a gift will certainly evoke a lot of positive emotions in your grandmother. In addition to needle felting, there is also a wet felting method, convenient for creating all kinds of wallets, handbags, and phone cases. As a rule, objects made by the wet felting method are taken as a base, on top of which the main design is “felt” using needles.

Beaded jewelry

Many girls love jewelry, so almost all of them enjoy weaving jewelry from beads. Why not weave a decoration for your grandmother? Great craft for grandma's birthday!
It could be just a bracelet or pendant, or you could make a keychain in the shape of an animal. It is better to put beads on a strong fishing line than on a thread, because... the latter is easier to break if it accidentally gets caught on something, and besides, the fishing line is transparent.

And these are just a few of the various options for creating gifts with your own hands. You can choose 1-2 options and combine them in one composition, making a voluminous greeting card, or you can make a “useful” gift, stored not only as a memory, useful in everyday life. The most important thing is that a grandmother will always appreciate a gift in which a piece of her soul and love is invested higher than even the most necessary thing bought in a store.

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In recent years, polymer clay (also known as plastic or thermoplastic) has become a real “hit” among craft lovers. This material is very cheap, easy to work with, and a regular oven is suitable for baking finished creations.

Therefore, polymer clay is often one of the main materials in the manufacture of hand-made jewelry and jewelry. Such things are a great idea for a surprise - they are very cheap, while being very original and aesthetically pleasing.

On the Internet you can find many offers for making custom-made jewelry and souvenirs from polymer clay, but why waste money and time waiting for an order if you can easily do the same thing yourself? This article is dedicated to this very topic!

Thermoplastic Basics

Wash your hands thoroughly before working - dirt and sweat can leave marks on the plastic. Take a piece of the size you need in your hand and remember it in your hands for a while.

When it warms up and becomes more pliable, you can begin to work. You may need tools such as: toothpicks, plasticine stacks, knife, etc.

You also need to know about the basic techniques of thermoplastic sculpting:

Gift ideas

Plastic provides enormous space for imagination and skillful hands, so gifts from it can be made to anyone:

Various decorations will be an excellent gift for your mother, sister or friend on March 8th or birthday. These can be various earrings, bracelets, beads, pendants and much more. However, to make them you will need numerous accessories - do not forget to buy them in advance. You can buy accessories for jewelry in the same place where you buy thermoplastics - in stationery stores, as well as specialized stores for handicrafts.
You can give your dad, brother, or any other man various funny souvenirs as a gift. On February 23, you can build a tank or an airplane, and on New Year, a Christmas tree or a snowman.
You can make a pleasant surprise for your grandmother by making some cute little animal from polymer clay.
If you are looking for an original wedding gift, make beautiful flowers from thermoplastic, or even comic ones for the newlyweds. And you can complement your surprise with something romantic or practical. Here are some great options:
At Easter, it is customary to give each other Easter eggs and krashankas, which can easily be made from plastic. At the same time, such “eggs” will look much more original, because techniques for working with thermoplastics give you many opportunities to show your imagination.

Once you master the fairly simple skills of making things from thermoplastic, you'll never have to struggle with surprise ideas again!

The most important and expensive holiday in every person’s life is, of course, a birthday.

And it is on this special day that you want to give the birthday person a special, unforgettable gift that he will cherish with trepidation for a long time.

Naturally, the most expensive and best gift is a DIY birthday craft.

Such a gift will be remembered and will please much more than a ready-made gift bought in a store.

"Paper" gift

The simplest original gift can be prepared from plain paper; examples are shown in the photo of birthday crafts.

Paper does not require any special financial costs and preparing a present will not take much time.

It is possible to give paper crafts for a birthday to absolutely any loved one.

After all, a thing prepared with all your heart with your own hands will undoubtedly be a unique and non-standard surprise.

For example, you can make a small mysterious chest of drawers from numerous boxes, inside which interesting trinkets or a message with wishes to the birthday boy are hidden.

Or a mug, the layout of which is made of bright colored paper, will undoubtedly attract attention.

It makes sense to fill it with delicious candies or vitamins.

If you want to present not only a beautiful, but also a useful surprise, you can prepare an original personal calendar, which is covered with joint photographs or pictures on a topic that is interesting for the birthday person.

A bouquet of paper flowers is an excellent gift for your beloved women, which even the smallest family member can handle (of course, not without the help of an adult).

Another original gift is a piece of festive paper cake with good, sincere wishes on it.

Some simple materials will be useful for this:

paper glue (you can use glue or a pencil);
ruler;
a simple pencil;
colored paper or thick cardboard (a gift made from cardboard will be much stronger and more reliable);
beads, ribbons, beads and rhinestones for decoration.

The work of making such a tasty morsel consists of several steps:

We prepare the required template for the future piece. It’s more convenient to find it on the Internet and transfer it to a sheet of cardboard, then carefully cut it out.
According to the finished diagram, carefully bend the necessary places, using a ruler for greater convenience.
You need to make a small cut on the back of the piece so that the cake closes.
Glue them in the right places with glue.
Then the most interesting painstaking process is decorating the gift. Feel free to use your imagination: rhinestones, ribbons, bows. But it’s worth considering that everything should be in moderation!
We place the prepared wish inside the so-called gift box.

"Sweet" gift

A gift of sweets will undoubtedly delight even an adult, not to mention children. You can use candy in bright wrappers or a chocolate bar.

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As an example: a candy bouquet that will not take much time and expense. Will come in handy:

wrapping paper;
scissors;
glue for paper or PVA (you can use a special glue gun);
round sweets in beautiful packaging;
“crispy” paper in gold or silver finish;
a basket or a regular metal coffee can;
decorative elements: beads, rhinestones, small bows;
toothpicks or skewers;
scotch.

We do the following work:

Cut several squares of gold or silver foil. Then you need to wrap the candies in them, securing the ends with wire or strong thread - this is the core of the future flower.
The petals will be made from small cut squares of colored corrugated paper, which should be enough for the entire candy shape. For one piece you need to cut two petals rounded at the top.
One candy must be placed in the center of each petal, forming a bud. We again secure the structure with wire or thread.
We take green paper and form small leaves, attach them to the base of the rose, that is, candy. In each you need to insert a wire, which is also wrapped in green paper.
Carefully insert the required number of finished roses into an already decorated vase (prepared decorated jar). To ensure that the flowers fit tightly together, you should place ribbons or leaves of paper in the gap between them.

A gift for daddy

To give a gift to dad for his birthday, you will have to use your maximum imagination.

For example: a card with a festive shirt and tie.

To do this you need:

Fold a sheet of cardboard in half, in the shape of a postcard.
A sheet of colored paper of a similar format should also be folded in half, making cuts on the sides and bending the corners - this is the collar of our shirt.
Take paper of a different color and form a tie, then glue it under the collar.
The shirt is attached to the main side of the cardboard postcard using PVA glue.

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Inside the finished gift, wishes for the holiday are written, and you can even glue daddy’s postcards inside, or your photo as a souvenir.

You always look forward to your favorite holiday with anticipation and anticipation of a miracle.

And DIY birthday crafts allow you to preserve warm, joyful memories!

Photos of birthday crafts

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