The best gift is flowers
What woman would refuse flowers? Any lady will be pleased to receive a bouquet. But you don’t have to visit a flower shop for this. Flowers can be made from paper, especially since such a gift will last much longer than a purchased one. Paper flowers will not wither, will not crumble, and they are quite easy to make.
To make paper crafts for March 8, you will need regular napkins or corrugated paper. You can make a bud out of them by folding them like an accordion. Any tube or rod will serve as the stem. You just need to wrap it with green paper. You can tie several flowers into a bouquet using a ribbon or simply put it in a vase. Homemade will work well.
Crafts using fresh flowers
There is no limit to imagination in this performance technique. For example, a primary school child can cut out a photo of his mother, stick it on a card, and attach small flower buds in place of the hair.
To add more originality to a simple bouquet, place it in a cardboard mold that resembles a bee.
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Crafts using a “floral sponge” will require a little more effort. Separate parts of the composition are cut out of the sponge and fastened together with wire. At the last stage, the flowers are inserted as tightly as possible so that there are no gaps.
Unusual flowers made from buttons
Crafts for International Women's Day can be made from the most unexpected materials. For example, you can assemble a nice composition from buttons and wire.
The main thing is to choose beautiful and unusual buttons and some kind of container where you can put the finished bouquet. The wire will serve as a stem. For leaves, you can pick up small green buttons or cut out leaves from paper.
Craft templates for mom
- Tender aster. It looks organic both in a large composition and completely alone. Harmonizes in bouquets, paintings, boxes, envelopes, wall newspapers;
- Hydrangea. One of the famous flowers that has only recently become popular in modern bouquets. It looks no less impressive in a paper composition. Such a craft will definitely not wither and will not fail in the competition;
- Chamomile-cornflower bouquet. You can make an amazing composition from colored paper and plastic bottles. A rather simple bouquet, which is found in lush nature in summer, looks no less elegant and attractive than a living composition. Follow the plan and perhaps your result will surpass the previous creator;
- Bouquet of peony roses. A very unusual composition that amazes with its tenderness. It would seem that it is impossible to get something like this from paper, but these are just a few flowers tied with a thread, or rather beautiful pieces of paper;
- Purple flowers. What could be nicer than flowers as a gift? - a surprise hidden in the bud. Remember your mother’s favorite preferences and fill the center of the flower with delicious candies, arrange a purple bunch according to the pattern and hand it to the recipient.
Bouquet of cotton pads for March 8
Surprisingly, even cotton pads can be used to create crafts for March 8th with your own hands. To do this, cotton pads need to be soaked in paste, wait until it dries, and paint them in any color. From the resulting multi-colored disks you can already cut out petals and collect flowers. A wire is taken for the stem. You can even glue a stem from cotton pads by rolling them into a tube and soaking them in the paste.
How to make an edible sweet bouquet
For a craft for kindergarten on March 8, you can collect a bouquet of sweets. People with a sweet tooth will appreciate such a gift, which will delight its owner not only in appearance, but also in taste.
The candies are taped to a wire or tube, and then wrapped in a bud - paper. Corrugated or regular napkins work well. The color and frame can be whatever your imagination is capable of. The main thing is not to get carried away in the process of assembling such a bouquet and not to taste the flowers, especially if you are making the flowers together with your child.
By the way, you can use lollipop instead of chocolate candies. The round part can also be wrapped in paper, and the stick will become a stem. It can be painted or wrapped in something green.
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The finished product can be wrapped in paper or beautiful film for flowers or placed in a vase or decorated jar.
From sweet flowers you can assemble not only a bouquet, but also some kind of three-dimensional figure. You can even make the number 8 to symbolize International Women's Day.
Gifts for the holidays
For the eighth of March, a postcard in the form of the number 8 is made from natural or natural flowers. Congratulatory text is written on its smooth side.
For mom's birthday, the birthday cake is decorated with natural or self-made artificial paper flowers. To make them, tightly crumpled newspapers and tied with thread are used.
Any children's crafts made independently from any materials using a variety of techniques will become the most expensive holiday gift for a mother.
DIY gift card for March 8
The easiest craft for March 8th is, of course, a postcard. Any woman will be pleased to receive this memorable present as a gift. The postcard can stand on the owner’s shelf and, just like flowers, delight with its warm wishes for a long time.
First you need to think about what the postcard will be like. Will it be just a drawn plot or some kind of application? A simple sheet of cardboard can be folded in half, and any idea can be embodied on the front side. Inside the card they usually write some kind of warm wish, in verse or simply in their own words.
In a postcard you can use different materials for the volumetric part:
- Make a relief from plasticine or salt dough
- Cut out volumetric parts from paper
- Use cereal or pasta for appliqué
- Decorate with fabric or lace
- Take thin felt or foamiran
- Glue beads or buttons
- Fasten satin ribbons
Beads for mommy
Wet felting wool is a very simple and original method. Even a baby can handle it. The costs are minimal, and the result will exceed even the most optimistic expectations. To work you will need wool fibers and a soap solution.
Decide on your mom's favorite color and style of clothing. In order for the person closest to you to wear the jewelry with pleasure, it must be in harmony with the image, giving femininity and tenderness.
The main material, unspun wool, is inexpensive and can be purchased in specialized stores or departments. Its quantity and color scheme depend on the intended model: plain or multi-colored, short or long.
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Important! Remember that wool shrinks. To make a bead, you will need fibers twice the size of the expected finished product.
Materials
- Not spun wool (combed sliver).
- A bowl of hot soapy water (the solution can be prepared using any liquid soap).
- Toothpicks (for drying preparations).
- Thick needle with strong thread.
Blanks (beads)
Tear a long strand of fiber from the wool. Roll it into a tight wool ball. Soak the ball well with soapy water and squeeze lightly.
Roll the workpiece between your palms like plasticine, but very carefully, without pressing. Gradually increase the pressure. Excess soap suds will appear on your hands and on the surface of the ball. It can be removed by dipping the ball into a container of water.Interesting! While felting beads, you can do other things: talk with friends or watch TV programs.
When the ball becomes dense and the fibers do not stick out above the surface, felting can be completed. Prepare the required number of beads in the same way.
Wash and dry
Rinse the beads thoroughly, first in warm running water, then in cold water. Even out the shape of the balls by rolling them in your palms again.
Pierce each bead through with a toothpick and dry the balls on them. At this stage of work, the workpiece will resemble a lollipop.
The next day we start assembling.
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Assembly
Take out the toothpicks. To prevent dried beads from rolling out, spread them out over the fabric. Thread on a strong thread threaded through a thick needle.
You can alternate wool balls with beads from other materials (wood, metal, plastic), decorate with embroidery and beads.
You can make a bracelet from the same beads with your own hands and give it as a gift for Mother’s Day, adding to your jewelry set.
Your loved one will receive as a gift not only a fashion accessory, but also a unique work of art - billions of wool fibers will never be intertwined in the same way.
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By tinkering with felt, you can create bright and cute toys, appliqués, postcards, covers for books and notepads, bookmarks, cases for various things, decorate photo frames and much more.
Beautiful brooches made of satin ribbons
Little girls, with their mother’s help, can make a brooch as a craft for their aunt on March 8th. To do this, you will need a satin ribbon of any color, preferably wide, beads for decoration if desired, and a cardboard base. The cardboard is wrapped with tape, the middle is stitched, after which the cardboard base is removed. The result is a bow that can be decorated with beads or narrow ribbons or lace. You need to attach a pin to the back so that the brooch can be worn on clothes.
Such a craft will also be relevant for a long time, and the owner of the gift will be able to wear it when going out or to some events.
Inedible crafts made from food
Master classes on creating crafts for Women's Day offer to assemble an inedible gift from food. Dry pasta is well suited for this, preferably in the form of tubes. First you need to paint the pasta with gouache or acrylic paints, let it dry and then you can assemble it.
Pasta in this case is well suited for:
- Photo frame decorations
- Bead creations
- Use in applications for postcards
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By the way, you can immediately give a photo frame with a printed photograph, for example, a joint portrait of the gift owner with his donor.
Crafts made from salt dough
By analogy with plasticine, you can make a craft from salt dough. The only downside to this craft is time. You need to dry the finished product well, and only then cover it with paint and varnish if desired.
You can even combine salt dough with other craft materials. For example, make a vase from salt dough and put the same sweet bouquet in it. Or use dough with plasticine. Salt dough also looks good on postcards.
Salt dough makes excellent photo frames. They can decorate both a finished frame and sculpt their own. You can also paint it after drying the product.
Jewelry and figurines made of beads
Older children or preschoolers together with their parents can make bead crafts on their own. Bracelets, brooches, earrings, or figures simply assembled using beads and wire or fishing line will make a good gift for International Women's Day.
Beaded figures can be made in the form of flowers or animals - whatever your imagination dictates. For a craft for mom on March 8, you can make a decoration, even a whole set - a bracelet, earrings and a necklace. And if you decorate it yourself in a festive paper box, the gift will become especially valuable.
Crafts for kindergarten
Preschool institutions often hold holidays and matinees dedicated to Mother's Day. A very touching memorable gift for this date will be bouquets made by children with the help of teachers from children's handprints, with a photo of the baby glued to each one.
The room can be decorated with festive garlands of leaves cut out of paper. The details of the composition made by the children are then assembled by teachers into a finished decoration.
Embroidery for March 8
Schoolchildren can independently embroider a picture or some story as a gift for March 8th. The technique can be different - cross stitch or satin stitch, depending on who knows what. You can frame the finished product in a purchased or home-made frame.
Diamond or bead embroidery will look good. Such work will be more painstaking and complex, but the result will please both the master and the recipient of the gift.
How to give a gift to your mother on Mother's Day
Beautiful handmade fabric flowers will be a chic and lasting gift for mom on Mother's Day. These flowers can be the same, or you can make them from different fabrics and assemble them into a beautiful bouquet. The design options for fabric tulips can also be different.
Materials:
- Fabric for flowers
- Green leaf fabric
- Filler
- Wire
First you need to make a pattern by printing it from your computer. Transfer all the details to the fabric and make as many copies as you want to make flowers.
The fabric for the tulip bud must be folded in half and a pattern made. Let's sweep away this detail. The same process is necessary for the leaves and stem of the future tulip. Don't forget to leave a hole to turn the parts out. We stitch all the parts manually or by machine.
Fill them with cotton wool or padding polyester. Attach the buds to the wire, which will act as a stem. To hide the wire there is one more piece that we have already sewn and turned out earlier. All parts must be fastened together with a hidden seam. Also attach a leaf to each flower, and soon your bouquet will be ready.
Crafts for March 8th from threads
Children's crafts for March 8 can be made well from ordinary knitting threads. By the type of production they resemble the same New Year's balls, only the shape of the product is given a different one.
For such a figure you need a regular balloon, glue and thread. The ball is wrapped with threads, and a heart needs to be formed. Then the threads are coated with glue, it dries, the ball bursts and is taken out. The figure is ready! The heart turns out to be very light and tender, just the kind to give to your mother on such a beautiful spring day.
Drawing for International Women's Day
A child of any age can easily draw a picture for a gift. This option is also good for crafts for school on March 8th. Often, a school or kindergarten organizes an exhibition on the eve of the holiday, hanging portraits of mothers drawn by children on the walls.
If drawing a portrait is difficult or you don’t want to, any subject can be suitable for drawing. The main thing is that it will be drawn with your own hands and with all your heart.
Crafts for older people
Older children can knit some product as a gift for March 8th. This can be either a toy or a set of a hat and scarf, socks, or a more complicated option – gloves.
You can also sew something for the home as a gift for your mother or grandmother, for example, oven mitts or towels. It won’t be very difficult, and your loved ones will love such a handmade gift.
There are many options for crafts for gifts on International Women's Day. The complexity depends on the age of the child and on the imagination shown. Of course, older children, with the help of adults, can do something more complex than a small child. But any gift is important because of attention, not labor or quality of execution.
Dad can always help children if the gift is for mom, and mom can help make a craft for a grandmother, aunt or sister.
Original gifts for mom on Mother's Day
Of course, the main goal of this holiday is to remind mothers of their happiness of motherhood, to allow children to once again show their feelings. And how nice it will be if they are supported by a beautiful and original gift for mom on Mother’s Day.
For a beautiful woman, jewelry will never be superfluous. Therefore, you can make a simple but stylish necklace or bracelet.
This necklace option is suitable for extravagant women.