Teen DIY
What You Need:
-1/2 yard tan felt or fleece.
-1/2 yard felt or fleece in a colour of your choice.
-Small pieces of different coloured felt.
-Thread in the colours needed.
-Fabric scissors
-Sewing machine/needle.
-Fabric pen
-Large circular object (laundry basket)
-small circular object (cereal bowl)
-A stuffing material of your choice.
Doughnut Pillow
Method:-
Step One: Fold the tan fabric in half and using a fabric pen, trace around a large, circular object from your home (like a laundry basket). Cut out the two layers of fabric at the same time.
Step Two: In the middle of the circles you just cut, trace around a bowl to make the inside donut hole. Then cut out the opening.
Step Three: Now trace the large circle onto the frosting-coloured fabric, cut out the circle, and trace a bowl in the middle like you did in step two.
Step Four: With a fabric pen, draw a free-form shape on the fabric to look like frosting dripping down the doughnut and then cut out the shape.
Step Five: Cut out sprinkle shapes from the different coloured felt and using the same coloured thread sew them onto your frosting felt.
Step Six: Finally sew the frosting onto the felt but leave a small opening to stuff it. Then sew it closed.
Make-Up Brush Holders
What You Need: Method:
-An old jar. Step One: Wash out the old jar.
-Sand or stones in a colour of your choice. Step Two: Label jars
-Make-up brushes. Step Three: Fill with sand or stones of your choice.
-Sharpie Step Four: Place make-up brushes into jar.
Mason Jar Vases
What You Need: Method:
-A mason jar. Step One: Wash out the Mason jar.
-Paint in a colour of your choice. Step Two: Paint the jar and leave to dry.
-Glue. Step Three: Paint a layer of glue.
-Paint brushes. Step Four: Add in flowers.
-Fake or real flowers of your choice.
Clothesline Photo Collage
What You Need:
-String
-Tape/ Thumbtacks/ Nails
-Clothes Pegs
-Fairy Lights
-Photos
Method:
Step One: Chose your pictures and print them off.
Step Two: Hold your string across your wall or the space you chose like the back of a door then measure and cut.
Step Three: Use nails/ tape/ thumbtacks to hang the string on your wall/ door. Make three or more of these lines.
Step Four: Wrap fairy lights around the string before you hang your pictures
Step Five: Using clothes pegs hang your pictures evenly across the string. You can also decorate your clothes pegs using marker or paint.
Mod Podge Disney Letter
What You Need:
-Wooden Letter
-Mod Podge/Glue
-Disney Pictures
Method:
Step One: Use scrapbook paper to cover the wooden letter.
Step Two: Cut disney pictures to size and using mod podge (glue) cover the letter.
Step Three: Add a final layer of mod podge over the whole letter to seal it.
Method:
Step One: Remove the glass out of the picture frame.
Step Two: Paint the back of the frame, the wood, with blackboard paint.
Step Three: Leave to dry.
BlackBoard
What You Need:
-BlackBoard Paint
-Picture Frame
Pencil Holders
What You Need:
-Paint
-Old Soup Cans
-Ribbon
Method:
Step One: Wash out some old soup cans.
Step Two: Paint them using a colour of your choice and tie them together sing decorative ribbon.
Straw Letter
What You Need:
-Coloured Card
-Glue
-Straws
-A Frame
Method:
Step One: Cut straws to size and place them in the shape of the letter you want to use.
Step Two: Once you have the shape you want glue them onto a piece of coloured card and frame it.
Extension Lead Box
What You Need:
-A Shoe Box
-Decorative Items; Ribbon, Lace, Paint.
-Scissors
Method:
Step One: Get an old shoe box and decorate it any way you like.
Step Two: Cut out small circles near the bottom of the box and spread them evenly across.
Step Three: Cut a larger circle out at the back of the box for the extention lead wire.
Step Four: Place the extention lead inside and pull all the leads through the different holes to prevent them from tangling.
Phone Case
Method:
Step One: Buy a plain white phone case.
Step Two: Using diferent coloured markers decorate the phone case any way you want.
What You Need:
-A Plain White Phone Case
-Different Coloured Sharpies/ Permanent Markers
Method:
Step One: Cut any quote from cardboard.
Step Two: Cut out magazine pictures to size.
Step Three: Using mod podge/ glue stick the pictured to the cardboard letters and add another layer of mod podge/ glue over the letters.
What You Need:-Mod Podge/ Glue
-A Magazine
-Cardboard
-Scissors
Mod Podge Quote
Fairy Lights
What You need:
-Colourful paper cups
-Fairy Lights
-Cellotape
Method:
Step One: Punch holes in the centre of the bottom of each cup, not too big.
Step Two: Place the heads of each bulb of the fairy lights into the hole.
Step Three: Use the tape to secure them in Place.
Love Heart Photo Collage
What You Need:
-Pictures Printed Out
-Blue Tacl
Method:
Step One: Get your favourite pictures printed out.
Step Two: Use blue tack to stick them to your wall in the shape of a heart.