DIY arts and crafts. Useful decorative crafts

Do-it-yourself decorative crafts - this concept includes a huge number of types of needlework, where everyone can find something that suits their soul. The scope for imagination is limitless. You can sew, knit or embroider. You can make toys or make cards. You can make unusual lampshades, vases or even furniture. Look how simple it is.

An ottoman is, like, a piece of furniture, but it’s an object that a woman can make with her own hands, without resorting to the help of the stronger sex. And everyone at home will surely enjoy this soft, cozy craft.

For this decorative craft you will need the following:

• cotton wool;
• fabric for upholstery (the fabric must be durable, it can be upholstery material for furniture, a very thick furniture cover or a cape);
• fabric for the ottoman cover;
• paper for patterns.

Make a paper pattern for the future ottoman: draw a circle of the required diameter according to the desired seat size. Or rather, there will be two such circles: for the top and the bottom. Don't forget that you need to add 2 cm - these will be seam allowances.

The sides of the ottoman are a long rectangle. Its width is the height of your ottoman, and its length is the circumference. Again, don't forget about allowances.

Cut out your future ottoman and start stitching the resulting segments together. Connect the large rectangle slowly and carefully to the circle, be careful. Having basted, stitch the resulting cylinder.

Advice! For the lower (bottom) part of the ottoman, you can use some kind of leatherette so that the ottoman can be wiped if it gets dirty on the floor.

Sew the cover in the same way as you sewed the base of the decorative craft, using the same patterns. For it, it is better to add another 1.5-2 cm to the patterns so that the cover can be put on more easily, otherwise it may turn out to be small, being sewn close to the base.

You can sew a decorative ribbon or lace along the borders at the top and bottom of the pouf. There is already room for your imagination. You can sew a pouf cover, for example, in a large or small fold or gather the sides.

Such an ottoman will look great in a children's room, and it will decorate your bedroom as well.

Decorative vases

Decorative crafts made of wood always add coziness and romance to the interior. For example, such a vase will fit perfectly into the kitchen interior, and not only into the kitchen. The original look and at the same time asceticism of its design are well suited for everyday life and will certainly look good, for example, in the living room.

Tools and materials for decorative crafts:

• sticks and tree branches;
• empty tin can;
• glue;
• knife;
• dark paper.

The sticks must be trimmed to make them the same size. The length of the sticks should be 2-3 cm higher than the tin can you choose. Wrap the jar in dark paper to hide the drawings and inscriptions and prepare an even, plain base. Then glue the sticks along the “body” of your jar as tightly as possible to each other, selecting them so that there are no gaps left: glue the thinnest branches into the narrow cracks. The bottom of the sticks must be at the same level so that the vase looks neat and is stable.

Another beautiful vase - a decorative craft - can be made using any beautifully shaped bottle and colored yarn. Lubricate the bottle with PVA glue and wrap yarn around the treated area.

Important! Be sure to wind the thread tightly, leaving no gaps.

An even more effective option is to use rope or colored twine instead of yarn. This vase will fit perfectly into the interior.

For the New Year, your table will certainly be decorated with champagne from the kingdom of the Snow Queen. So that no one has any doubts that it is from there, let’s use our imagination and cover the bottle with magical frost. To make a similar decorative craft, apply a spray primer to a bottle of champagne or wine, then spray the bottle with a sticky aerosol and roll it in coarse salt. The bottle will take on an enchanted snowy look and decorate your table. Despite the simplicity of the idea, this craft looks impressive and festive.

DIY lampshade

You will need threads or jute twine at least 100 m long, PVA glue, Vaseline and a balloon. Inflate the balloon, draw two holes at the top and bottom, with the hole at the bottom being larger. Treat the threads with PVA glue, and lubricate the ball itself with Vaseline. There is a good way: pierce a bottle of glue through a large needle with a thread threaded through it. Now you can remove the needle, and the thread, passing through the holes, will already be in the glue (if you do not use all the glue, cover the holes with a plaster or tape).

Wind the threads around the ball, creating a web: the pattern and density of the winding determines how your lampshade will look. Don’t forget that you need to carefully go around the holes drawn on the ball - you will then need to secure your lampshade over the lampshade and screw the light bulb into it. The product should dry for at least a day, after which hole the ball and remove it from the cocoon of threads. The lampshade is ready. You can decorate it to your liking. Instead of threads they also use lace - it also turns out beautifully.

If your mirror breaks

A broken mirror can be used to create beautiful things. Any surface can be covered with mirror pieces. It could be a vase, a watch frame, a small table - whatever your imagination tells you.

Apply a thin layer of PVA glue to the surface, then begin to arrange the pieces of the mirror in the order you need, you can also glue beads here. Leave the composition until completely dry, then apply white grout to the exposed areas using a rubber spatula. Remove any excess from the mirror pieces with a damp cloth and leave to dry for about two hours.

The fabulous twinkling of such decorative crafts will create a festive mood.

DIY tablecloth

A craft like a tablecloth can be a real work of decorative and applied art, but today we will talk about an ordinary everyday tablecloth, sewn with your own hands.

Measure the length and width of the tabletop, add the length of the overhang to the resulting dimensions, then another 15-20 cm (you will need to tuck the material when you hem it, and it will probably shrink after washing) - and go buy fabric for your future tablecloth.

The overhang of the tablecloth is on average 20-40 cm, or to the floor (ceremonial holiday option). The longer the overhang, the more elegant the tablecloth.

Advice! For everyday use, it is better to sew a tablecloth with an overhang of 20-30 cm - this is the most optimal length.

It remains to process the edges and corners of the tablecloth. Lay the fabric right side down, then baste the edges, topstitch and iron. The tablecloth is ready. If it is a bright fabric with a printed pattern, then it probably does not require any more decoration. And if it’s monochromatic, then you can continue to handicraft, figuring out how to enliven your craft: embroidery, applique, elegant braid, hemstitching - there are many options, each better than the other.

A bag doll in the shape of a chef will look great in the kitchen.

So, draw a head and torso on paper. To do this, draw a straight vertical line of 24 cm and divide it into 4 parts, marking them with points A, B, C, D. At each marked point, draw a horizontal line of 14 cm perpendicularly.

The top point is the crown. The second point from the top, B, is the line of the cook's ears. The third point, C is the line of the collarbones, and the last one, D is the line where the torso of the chef doll ends. Having planned the proportions and physique of the doll, begin to carefully draw parts of its body.

Next, take the fabric prepared for the doll’s body, fold it in half with the front side inward and draw details on it: a head with a torso and arms. Cut along the contour, baste the parts together and stitch. Fill the doll's body parts with padding polyester (you can also use cotton wool, but in this case the toy will be more difficult to wash).

Having sewn the body, make clothes for the doll: a shirt and a skirt. To make the craft look more interesting, add details: for example, a bow in your hair, a scarf on your head, an apron with a pocket.

Such simple but very interesting decorative crafts for the home communicate that the house has a soul. Interior items created with your own hands not only please the eye and add pride to the owners, but also ennoble the house. Such things can be considered talismans, kept as a memory and for good luck - after all, you made them with your own hands.

People have long sought to decorate everything that surrounds them, their homes, clothes, utensils. The craftsmen were famous not only for the quality of their products, but also for their beauty. Each item created by the hand of a craftsman was invested with his soul and his own vision of the world around him. And in our time, there are a huge number of types of decorative and applied arts; masters create real masterpieces with their own hands, using the technologies of their ancestors and adding their own inventions and innovations.

Applied art is a whole layer of people's culture and a great variety of crafts that are used in a wide variety of areas of everyday life, have practical application and bring aesthetic pleasure. In the modern world, there is a colossal number of different types of applied creativity; absolutely any available means are used - paper, beads, threads, ribbons, straw, wood, fabric, leather, fur and much more. A variety of techniques and different methods of processing materials are used. For example, the simplest paper is the basis for such techniques as origami, paper-making, rainbow folding, quilling, papier-mâché, scrapbooking, embossing, trimming, and these are just the main directions.

Snow Maiden made using the paper quilling technique:

Since childhood, we have been accustomed to creating crafts dedicated to certain events and holidays; for some this remains just children's entertainment, but for others it becomes an exciting hobby and even work. Every creative person finds something to their liking, because there really is plenty to choose from. Knitting techniques, sewing, modeling, wood carving, embroidery, beading, drawing, appliqué, modeling from various materials, soap making, felting and much more, as well as a combination of several techniques - anyone will choose the sphere of embodiment of their own creative impulses, regardless of gender and age.

Let's learn arts and crafts with our own hands step by step

Sewing is one of the major branches of applied art. It includes both the traditional production of clothing and household items. So are decorative techniques:

• embroidery - cross stitch, satin stitch, ribbons, etc.;
• patchwork or quilting - joining pieces of fabric into whole canvases, with a certain pattern, used to create blankets, clothes, etc.;
• Tsumami Kanzashi is a technique of folding pieces of silk, similar to origami, but the basis of the products is fabric.

Knitting also has many forms, crocheting, knitting, fork knitting, Tunisian knitting, jacquard knitting and more.

The types of handicrafts where weaving technology is used traditionally include the following types of art:

• beading;
• ganutel;
• macrame;
• lace weaving.

Beading is one of the oldest types of jewelry creation. It originated among the ancient Egyptians, who learned to weave necklaces and bracelets from beaded threads. The heyday of this technique came in the 10th century, when Venetian craftsmen began to create real works of art, and clothes, shoes and household items decorated with beads became very popular. American aborigines created cradles, headbands, and jewelry from beads. Also interesting are the products of the peoples of the north, who decorated fur coats, high fur boots, hats and even reindeer sleds with beads.

Ganutel is a traditional Maltese technique of creating flowers using thin wire, silk threads and beads.

Macrame is an ancient knot weaving technique.

Typically, woodworking techniques are traditionally considered an activity for boys, but there are many examples when representatives of the fair half find themselves in wood burning, sawing or carving.

The list of types of applied creativity can be endless. It is reflected in almost all areas of our lives. A talented craftsman finds inspiration in everything - in clothes, shoes, jewelry, bags, household items and household utensils.

If you want to make a nice gift for yourself and your loved ones with your own hands, then you should not be afraid of failure. You definitely need to try, try different techniques, work with different materials, search for yourself, because folk experience acquired over centuries has given us a huge variety of types of applied art. And it doesn’t matter what occasion your gift will be dedicated to: the New Year or anniversary, Easter or birthday, or maybe just your day off. The main thing is that any thing made with your own hands carries your warmth, care and is capable of giving the most real, joyful and lively emotions.

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It’s been so long since I’ve diversified my LiveJournal with exhibition projects! I'm correcting myself)

Do you want, without leaving Moscow, without having to navigate the traffic jams of the Ostashkovskoe highway to the village of Zhostovo, to get an idea of ​​its main museum, exhibits and history - dare I say it - of luxurious folk crafts? Then everything is simple: you go to Kolomenskoye, walk to the palace of Alexei Mikhailovich, take a ticket for 100 rubles and get simply fabulous pleasure! No, well, not everyone, of course, but only lovers of something bright, festive, juicy and colorful. Like this!

Or something like this.


Or something like this.


In general, the construction of such exhibitions and stories about them requires the classic “from old to new,” but I and everyone who was nearby stood still and held their breath so much in front of the most modern works of the masters that I would break all the rules! What if you don’t scroll further and see such a miracle?)) But right now Zhostovo trays have become a genuine and completely unique art, completely cleansed of the former ideology. Laura Bush, Queen Elizabeth II of England, Jacques Chirac, Spanish King Juan Carlos II or Pope John Paul II were pampered with such luxurious gifts.

Well, now you can look into the history of the Zhostovo tray.


A stand dedicated to Affony Vishnyakov - the last direct descendant of the Vishnyakov family, the founders of the craft, hierodeacon of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra...
"Hierodeacon Afphonius (in the world Alexander Grigorievich Vishnyakov, 1870 † 1938). Born in the village of Zhostovo, Moscow district, Moscow province, into a family of hereditary masters of lacquer painting.
His great-uncle F.N. Vishnyakov was the founder, at the beginning of the 19th century, of the production of the famous Zhostovo trays, decorated with paintings mainly in the form of flowers on a black background.
Alexander Vishnyakov acquired the skills of a painter in one of the family workshops, where he painted trays and papier-mâché products.
Since 1892, he labored in the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, serving as the head of the book warehouse.
On August 12, 1904, novice Alexander Vishnyakov was tonsured a monk at the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. He served obedience in the icon shop, then was transferred to the icon painting workshop.
After the revolution, he rejected the offer to take up teaching and open a workshop.
After the Lavra was closed, he painted artistic items made of tin, papier-mâché, and wood - trays, vases, boxes, pencil holders.
Art critic A.V. Bakushinsky wrote in 1933: “A very old man, but alive and vigorous, A.G. Vishnyakov gives decorative still lifes that are remarkable in their sensual power. They are simple, bright, spontaneous, artistic in the nature of the image, impeccably skilled and original in technique.” Bakushinsky emphasized in his works "cheerful sensuality, the immediate charm of naive realism."
Father Affoniy was arrested in Zagorsk in January 1938, convicted by a troika of the NKVD in the Moscow region on charges of “active participation in a counter-revolutionary group”, Article 58-10, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. The sentence is capital punishment - execution, in the group case "The Case of the Former Monks of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. 1938."
Hierodeacon Affoniy was shot on February 17, 1938 in the village of Butovo, Leninsky district, Moscow region, at the Butovo training ground."

XIX - early XX centuries. Works have reached us only from the middle of the 19th century, although the history of the tray begins at its very beginning.

20s. In 1922, in the village of Novosiltsevo, the Novosiltsevo Labor Artel arose to produce lacquered iron trays; in 1924, the Zhostovo Labor Artel and Spetskustar were organized in Zhostovo; in 1925 - "Vacifier" and at the same time in the village of Troitskoye - the "Own Labor" artel for painting trays. All of them were united in 1928 into a specialized artel "Metal Tray" in the village of Zhostovo. This is exactly its layout.

30th. Don’t ask me what “easel painting” is, I haven’t found an exact definition, but in all the articles these years and the Zhostovo tray are described by this term. Actually, I suddenly discovered that all I had left in the photo from these years was a sketch of a drawing and a panel.

40-50s. During the war, Zhostovo was in a fighting zone, there was no time for art, but immediately after the craft was revived through the efforts of the few remaining outside the front and surviving craftsmen.

The 60s were a time of experimentation, the transformation of a tray from a utilitarian household item into a work of art, the first steps towards what we see in these trays now.


I even remember these black vertical ones, one of my relatives had one)

Keep in mind that much of this exhibition was taken not from the factory museum, but from private collections, so even a trip to Zhostovo will not give you the opportunity to see it all with your own eyes. For those who are geographically accessible, don’t be lazy, because Kolomenskoye itself is beautiful at any time of the year, and something new has appeared in the palace (but more on that in the next story in pictures).

A special and deep nod to the workers of the palace museum and specifically the exhibition! Why? Yes, because smart and far-sighted art guardians are only happy to have bloggers with cameras; they encourage the dissemination of information in every possible way, and do not send us to buy a colorful album instead of taking photographs. In general, I would buy the album, but I still want to do it in Zhostovo itself sooner or later...

Decorative crafts- this is a wonderful way to decorate your own home, which is used not only in our time, but also for many centuries. It is not without reason that the traditions of decorative and applied arts of different countries and peoples are studied today with close attention, and folk crafts are valued much higher than factory products. And who knows, maybe what we do today will one day be perceived by our grateful descendants as a real work of art.

DIY decorative crafts

Find master classes on manufacturing DIY decorative crafts you can based on what exactly the finished work will need to decorate. Whether it’s a living room or a kitchen, a city apartment, or what you need, the options can be very different. The second criterion for choosing one or another example is, of course, accessibility, which implies both the cheapness (even relative) of all consumables and the necessary degree of your training as a master.

Decorative crafts for the garden

IN decorative crafts for the garden It would be nice to combine the beauty of natural materials, practicality and a little originality. Then such a union will give rise to truly interesting works that all your guests, both lovers of practicality and connoisseurs of beauty, will gaze at.

Crafts and arts and crafts

Many lessons in schools are devoted to arts and crafts crafts. This includes painting, modeling, and lace weaving. Even if you don’t follow the canonical methods of making panels, you can make several successful examples of wall decor using basic techniques and simple materials. You can stick on pieces of premises, cereals, beads, and coins.

First sample arts and crafts- a panel depicting a tree. To base it, you need to take photo frames that have a hard bottom backing, most often a piece of thick cardboard. First, we drape the cardboard with burlap, cut out a piece slightly larger in size than the base (leave allowances for the hem), coat the surface of the cardboard with glue and apply the fabric. We fold the rest to the wrong side and also fix it with glue. We form the trunk and branches of the tree with a rope, cutting off small pieces of it and laying it on the surface. With threads everything is even simpler - each of them is impregnated with glue, so after drying it becomes hard and durable, and even sticks to the surface without difficulty. Additionally, you can glue a vase or felt pot to the bottom of the fabric. In order for the base to be uniform, you need to completely cover it with paint of one color, in our case it is brown, but if, in addition to the relief, you want to give the work shine, then apply another layer of gold or silver paint, but not with a brush, but with a piece of foam sponge.

You can find other examples arts and crafts. Crafts These most often require slowness, attentiveness, and the ability to feel the right shade, the right texture. After all, creations in folk style are still real works of art.

Decorative crafts made of wood

Examples decorative wood crafts We have already given a lot, be it interior details. This material is affordable, both for purchase and for processing, which means that you can make products for quite a long time without compromising the family budget. But when you come up with something interesting, such decor will serve you for a long time and is unlikely to go out of fashion in the coming years.

Decorative crafts for home

Tatyana Perova

Folklore is of great importance in the education of preschool children. arts and crafts. The teacher should introduce children to folk products masters, thereby instilling in the child a love of the Motherland, folk art, and respect for work.

Work to familiarize children with decoratively-applied creativity involves the creation of a developing environment - a place for an exhibition should be allocated in the group room samples of folk arts and crafts.

And since they are genuine samples I have not yet acquired some crafts, and the development environment needs to be enriched, I decided to find a way out of the situation and make your own samples.

And this is what I got!

1. Shelf based on Gzhel.

IN their in previous posts I suggested master-classes on making plates and panels based on Gzhel. Today I want to continue this topic and propose make a Gzhel clock.

To make a watch like this,needs to be printed image such watches on a color printer, cut them out, laminate them and cut them out again.

When the glue dries, you can safely put the watch on the shelf.

2. Shelf with nesting dolls.

Making nesting dolls,How made Gzhel clocks.

We find pictures from image nesting dolls or print on a printer, cut out, laminate and cut out again.

Matryoshka dolls are ready to decorate the shelf!

Craft, surprise, delight, develop their pupils and enrich the environment in your group!

I wish you creative success and thank you for your attention!

Publications on the topic:

Moral and patriotic education of preschool children through arts and crafts with elements of folklore PROJECT “Moral and patriotic education of preschool children through arts and crafts with elements of folklore” “Love.

Work program of the arts and crafts group “Masterilka” Work program for the arts and crafts group “Masterilka” Developed by: teacher Beschastnaya T.V. Children’s age: 4-6.

I bring to your attention a busy board - a do-it-yourself educational board for children. The purpose of creating this board is to keep children busy with interesting research.

Dandelions grew in the clearing in the morning. I'm walking through a sunny meadow, hurray! I don’t pick spring flowers, but I make them with my own hands! To do.

Self-education report “Formation of artistic abilities of preschool children through arts and crafts” My topic on self-education is “Formation of the artistic abilities of middle and senior preschoolers within their means.

Pedagogical possibilities of decorative and applied arts in the development of color perception of older preschoolers In older preschool age, children already master symmetrical, multi-layer and silhouette cutting, as well as weaving and tearing, and learn.

Working educational program for additional education for children, arts and crafts group “Lesovichok” Prepared by: teacher Chumak E.V. Explanatory note in the draft Federal component of the state Educational standard.