The Day of the Elderly is celebrated quite rarely, so it will be especially pleasant to receive an unusual gif.webpt for this holiday of grandparents. And for kids, this will be a great opportunity to make something beautiful or useful with their own hands.
Moreover, most of the crafts do not require complex tools or special skills. As you can see in the photo of crafts for the day of an elderly person, even simple and uncomplicated gif.webpts can be prepared for dear people. But very often such crafts give more joy than “cool” purchases in stores.
Postcards
The master class for beginners opens with the making of postcards. The simplest congratulation can be made from a sheet of colored cardboard or plain white paper. Inside, they usually paint flowers and write kind, pleasant words.
But even from an ordinary postcard, you can create a real work of art. For this, the postcard is given an unusual shape, for example, in the form of a cup or a sun with rays, and leaves with congratulations from all family members are put inside.
Artificial flowers from satin ribbons, light bows, delicate butterflies from colored paper can become a decoration of the front part. In this case, the latter can be glued only for the "little body", leaving the wings to flutter from the slightest breeze.
You can also make a voluminous postcard with a multi-colored umbrella that will shelter loved ones from emotional experiences. To create such a creation you will need:
- Sheets of brightly colored paper;
- White cardboard;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Felt pen.
The manufacturing technology is quite simple:
- Not wide (about 10 centimeters) sheets of paper are folded with an ordinary accordion.
- The resulting bright accordions are fastened together in the middle. This can be done with a stapler, glue or thread and a needle.
- The edges of the resulting semicircle are glued to a sheet of cardboard.
- Draw an umbrella leg in the center.
- The postcard is folded in half
A cute and unusual craft is ready
On the front, it can be supplemented with any decorative elements or images of umbrellas.
Vitamins
Grandparents always have delicious sweets or cookies hidden away for their beloved grandchildren. For such gif.webpts, you can thank them with unusual sweet crafts.
Such ideas for creating crafts for the day of an elderly person can be very different, but the easiest thing will be to make delicious vitamins.
This requires very little:
- A small glass jar (for example, baby food or coffee);
- Sweets or multicolored dragees;
- A piece of white paper;
- A sheet of colored paper or a piece of bright fabric;
- Glue;
- Openwork ribbon or elastic band for money.
The jar is carefully cleaned of all inscriptions, candies are placed inside, an inscription of the type is glued to the glass side:
- Vitamins for health;
- Remedy for all diseases;
- Elixir of happiness.
From above, the jar is covered with a sheet of colored paper and tied with a ribbon around the neck. To prevent the paper from running away, you can pre-fix it with a rubber band.
Sweet bouquet
If you want to make something no less tasty, but more voluminous, then unusual edible compositions will do. Most often, they are charming bouquets of sweets.
To make a surprise you will need:
- Candy;
- Corrugated paper;
- Wooden skewers;
- Scotch;
- Threads.
To begin with, you need to make quite a few petals out of light paper, straightening them in the manner of roses.
- Each candy is wrapped in petals, forming beautiful and lush buds, fastening the whole creation with threads and fixing it on a skewer with tape.
- The stick itself can be pre-painted green and green electrical tape can be used to fix the flowers.
- You can decorate the stems with paper leaves.
- Finished flowers are placed in a vase, basket or box, wrapped in wrapping paper.
To prevent the craft from falling apart into its component parts, the skewers are fixed with a tape or stuck into the foam laid on the bottom of the container.
Fruit baskets
Fruit compositions will bring more benefits, especially since it is not at all difficult to buy bananas, apples and oranges now. It will be a little more difficult to make a suitable container for them. She can become:
- Papier-mâché plate;
- Crocheted fruit vase made of thick wool;
- A basket woven from a vine or newspaper tubes;
- An ordinary cardboard box, neatly wrapped in an elegant cloth;
- Gif.webpt bag made of colored paper;
- Patch bag.
Dumochki
Older people sometimes want to lie down during the day. Charming little dummies will be able to provide a comfortable stay.
To make them, you can take an existing small pillow or buy stuffing material in a store. But you can create a pillowcase for her yourself.
- Patchwork sewing. In any home, there are scraps of fabric or clothing that no one will wear. All these pieces of fabric are sewn together, forming an unusual pattern or a pretty pattern. Two finished canvases are sewn together on three sides with the front side inward. The craft is turned inside out and smoothed out. A pillow is inserted inside the resulting bag, the fourth side is neatly swept away.
- Old shirt. An old shirt will make a nice pillowcase too. For this, the back and shelves are cut out of it according to the size of the pillow. All this is grinded, leaving the neck open. The pillow is placed inside, buttons are fastened. For originality, the creation can be decorated with a tie.
- Children's sweater. A small children's sweater does not even need to be sewn. It is simply pulled over the pillow, the bottom is hemmed. Sleeves can be additionally stuffed with padding polyester or left hanging down.
Mat
A cozy and soft rug can easily be made from old terry towels or bathrobes.
For this:
- The material is cut into narrow strips.
- They are woven in the manner of a child's pigtails.
- The resulting terry braid is laid in a spiral or rectangle, sewing adjacent layers together.
You can decorate the edges of the rug with fluffy pom-poms.
Warm gif.webpts
Well, and of course, on the eve of winter, older people will come in handy:
- Felt slippers;
- Warm woolen socks;
- Fluffy scarves and mittens. They can be made the same so that all passers-by understand that they are a happy couple who retained their feelings until old age.
Crafts for the Day of the Elderly can be very different. The main thing is that they are made and presented with love.
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