Manual activities for children, family crafts
- Activities with wooden letters
- Mother's Day crafts
- Decorate your pens for back-to-school
- Notebook collage and makeover
- Painting dinosaurs
- DIY with straws
- Cardboard castle
- Cardboard dragon
- Making girly beaded barrettes
- Design your own soccer jersey
- Decoration recipe for children
- Making stickers
- Wooden bookmark
- Pyrography box
- Indiana Jones crafts
- Indiana Jones model
- Lego Indiana Jones sets
- Autumn crafts
- Halloween activities
- Carnival crafts
Weaving and macramé decoration
Handcrafted home decorations: circular weavings, woven frames and macramé hangers
Handcrafted home decorations: circular weavings, woven frames and macramé hangers
Cork or leather bracelets personalized with children's names
Leather or natural cork bracelets personalized by engraving first names or sweet words
Leather or natural cork bracelets personalized by engraving first names or sweet words
Children's DIY: decorating with straws
Titouan, 5 years old, made this craft: the start of his personalized bedroom decoration ...
A mirror in pop colors!
The equipment
- a wide-framed mirror (wood or medium)
- straws (DIY )
- white glue (or napkin glue )
- a pair of scissors
- a glue brush.
Manufacturing stages
Using the brush, glue part of the outer edges of the mirror: lay out a straw, complete with another by cutting the piece of straw that is sticking out, and so on... Glue the rest of the outer edges, arrange the straws, then work on the inner edges of the mirror.
The space for gluing the straws is now defined. In this space, create large rectangles, or squares with different color combinations for each area, it will be prettier!
Glue an area, not too large, and arrange the straws.
Continue, gluing as you go. Remember to arrange the straws vertically, horizontally and diagonally (a good opportunity to learn a new word!).
For a young child, it's a bit difficult to cut the straws (craft straws are tough!) and the activity could be too long and tiring... It's better to cut the straws for them and leave the gluing/arranging of the straws to them, as well as the choice of colors - in short, the most artistic part!