Thread crafts - making practical and beautiful crafts with children

Needleworkers always have leftover materials after knitting or embroidery. They are easy to make beautiful and stylish things to decorate the interior. Amazing crafts from thread and create their own hands and children, if they have a little help in this.

Artisans often offer a lot of interesting ideas that can be used to get your own masterpieces.

Tools and materials

First of all, you should prepare a workplace where you can create in a quiet atmosphere. You should think about what colors of thread you will need, and whether the amount available will be enough. It is necessary to prepare the following tools:

to cut out parts you need sharp scissors;
needles of different sizes;
glue (PVA, Moment);
colored cardboard to give the crafts the desired shape;
wire to create a frame.

Everything should be on hand, so you do not have to be distracted during the work. It remains only to decide on the type of crafts, and you can begin the creative process.

Toys .

Soft pompoms make cute animals. For the handicraft pick up yarn of the right color, take cardboard, glue. Also need felt. Instead of it, you can buy colored paper.

To make a pompon, two circles with holes should be cut out of cardboard. Then the parts are folded. Thread is wound in several layers. The more of them to make, the more fluffy the handicraft will turn out. Wound yarn is carefully cut by pulling apart the cardboard parts. It is necessary to well fasten the wound threads. The resulting blank will be the basis of the toy.

Yellow chicken

Bright cute lumps will love children, will decorate the house. It is easy to make them, it is enough to pick up a yarn of yellow color. After you can get to work. Artisans use cotton yarn, acrylic, wool. It is necessary in advance to cut round eyes for a chicken or find two small black buttons. You will also need red cardboard for the feet and scallop.

The size of circles for the pompom depends on the parameters of the finished toy. It should be decided what will be the chicken. The outer diameter of the cardboard circle is equal to the size of the handicraft. And the internal parameter depends on the density of the pompom. If the toy will be large, it is easy to wind the thread without using a needle. Cut the yarn with scissors with sharp ends, a office knife or a blade.

The resulting pompon should be trimmed. For shearing take sharp scissors. After that, paws and scallop are drawn on the red cardboard. You can do it yourself, or use ready-made patterns. First of all, the paws are attached to the toy. Then you should worry about the scallop and beak. The last thing to the handicraft glued mischievous eyes.

If you make a few different chicks, you get a cheerful family of yellow lumps. Toys can be decorated by attaching multicolored bows to them.

Jolly piglet

A beautiful souvenir or decoration for the house is made of pink pompom. It will only be necessary to complement the workpiece with ears, eyes, paws and a tail.Thread crafts for children will cheer up, become favorite toys.

Sequence of work:

Make a pompom of pink yarn.
Spread the thread and trim them if necessary.
Paws are made from small pompoms or use cardboard for this purpose.
Ears for toys cut out of felt of a suitable shade.
Piglet will be pink button.
The tail is made of wire wrapped with pink corrugated paper, or glue a cardboard piece.
Eyes can be bought in a store or black buttons can be used.

Complement the figure can be a nice bow. Looks interesting cute hat or cap on the pig.

Pom-pom kitten

There are never many toys. You can make a new friend for the baby out of thread. Funny and original kitty will surely please the whole family, will take a place of honor in the nursery among other toys.

To work use gray and white threads. Stages of work:

For the head make a large gray pompom and a small detail for the muzzle. These elements are connected.
Three pompoms are needed for the body. For each part is used gray and white yarn.
Need a cord, which must be cut into several pieces. From him make paws and tail. A wire is inserted inside all parts. This will allow you to get the limbs of the desired shape, which will hold the torso.
A long wire is inserted into the cord designed for the tail, and then three pompoms are strung on it.
To the body sew the head, to which you need to attach ears.
It remains to sew eyes and nose, attach paws.

Cute kitty ready for fun games. He only needs to put on his feet.

Flowers .

Harvested bud is made from half of a Kinder-surprise. On this part is applied glue and winding yarn. After drying, the product is removed. With scissors make petals.

Yarn and floss crafts will decorate the apartment. You can use for flowers pompoms of different colors. To do this, they are attached to a wire wrapped with green corrugated paper or ribbon. From felt cut leaves and complement the plants with them.

Paintings

Colorful and unusual handicrafts surprise and cheer up. It will take time to make the appliqué paintings. Remnants of yarn in different colors, cardboard and paper, scissors and glue are needed.

A sheet of white paper or cardboard is taken as a base. On it draw a picture with the help of outlines. Threads need to be cut into small pieces. A certain element of the picture is smeared with glue. Then threads of the desired color are placed on it. This should be continued until the entire base is covered with yarn.

There are a huge number of options for using yarn for crafts. Create a unique masterpiece with your own hands is easy. It is enough to decide what kind of product will be made. After carefully studying the instructions offered by masters, and you can begin to create.