10 manual jobs that will hook you

Origami is one of the most creative ways to entertain us. It consists only of fold different types of paper and be surpassing ourselves getting increasingly complex figures. You can get spectacular forms with a very simple technique. You can start with napkins and then experiment with colored papers. Remember two things before getting to work: Always use used or recycled paper And recycle it at the end and, above all, do not impatient if you don’t become an expert in a few hours! Everything good takes time, but even the least tricky can learn to fold the paper creating beautiful forms with this technique.

Origami is a Japanese art of great tradition so suitable for adults as for children. It is a beautiful activity that you can start today and that you can practice alone or in a group. You can use your creations to decorate school supplies, rooms, envelopes, gifts or everything you can think of. You can do all kinds of shapes: airplanes, flowers, animals, ships, houses and a long etcetera. You will never get bored because the forms you can get are infinite and everything simply, folding paper!

If you are a beginner, start with these Basic forms: A plane, a ship, an envelope you can use for gifts or to send cards, a cup, a penguin, a dog, a hat, a bow tie, a rose, a frog, a butterfly or a star ..

After practicing a little, you can build with just a little paper and your own hands things like a dragon, a demon, a swan, a horse or a real turkey. Create your own origami jungle! YouTube books and videos can be very easy for you to develop this beautiful hobby.

An ecological and simple way to obtain natural soaps that your skin will appreciate. Manufacturing your own soaps, you can take care of your health and that of yours and make beautiful gifts to your relatives. Doing Homemade ecological soapsyou will save a lot of money and protect the environment.

There are many ways to do it, one of them is using used oils, with water, essential oils that give it fragrance and caustic soda. You’ll see how simple it is. You can also integrate during the accounts process, glitter, branches or dry flowers so that its result is much more beautiful.

The felt or the Eva of colors, which you will find in any craft store, leaves us countless options for Create all kinds of ornaments. You can make fantasy flowers to dress your parties, brooches to look in your flap, toys to give away or for your children to entertain, bags and cases that will help you always have everything ordered … You can also make signs for your doors, mouse carpets, decorate pillows, decoration of boxes or blades.

It is very easy to work with felt, it is only about starting to master the basic techniques, knowing how to take advantage of each fabric and to make our creativity to the maximum.

Modeling and creating are two fundamental activities also for the motor development of children and that help adults relax. Salt paste is a material that It does not contain toxins, it is ecological and cheapso you can start from today to experiment with the modeling technique and create incredible figures. With the salt pasta we can model our narrow until we find the favorite figure. Once dried, it will last a lot of time and we can then paint it to our liking.

To do it, we will need a glass of fine salt, another of water and two of flour. We will also need tempers or dyes to paint the figures created.

First we will mix the salt and the flour and add the water little by little, as long as we do not stop kneading. At this time, we can introduce the painting if they are adults who are going to model it, for children it is better not to do it, since they could take it to the mouth, so we would have to paint it after modeling. The excess salt paste can be kept in the fridge, but well covered because this paste dries with the air. After doing our art work, we have to let it dry until it is totally hard.

If within you you have a born designer, you can start to Create your own jewels. You will only need accounts of different colors, sizes and shapes, in addition to strings or threads to insert them. You can make necklaces, earrings, bracelets, brooches, belts and all kinds of beautiful jewels. A hobby that will occupy your afternoons and that you cannot stop practicing.

With different recycled materials or used objects that we can reuse, we can create endless Toys or board games.

It is a great idea to do with our children, who will enjoy as never making their fantasy toys and also, with a little tomorrow, you can have a great collection. There are people who even make a living or get a bonus selling recycled artisan toys. What you can do is unlimited: ornaments with eggs, dolls with cartons of toilet paper, rings launch games, table games, baskets, puppets, zoos with figures and a long etcetera.

It would be a dream to be able to devise the aroma that we want to accompany us. It is possible if we learn to Prepare our own perfumes.

We will begin by simply experiencing three aroma notes from Essential oilssuch as pink, lavender, sandalwood or citrus, and then manage to experiment with nine. If you want to know more about how to do it, consult our post “How to make perfumes”, which will explain it to you in detail.

The cross point is a very entertaining craft that will guarantee you hours of fun. You will get a PRECIOUS PICTURES COLLECTION that will allow you to be your hands that decorate the walls of your house. You will only need a needle, colored threads and a cloth. With very few materials, you can be entertaining until you finish that picture in which you have been working for so long.

The candles are a wonderful element for household decoration, which give aroma to our tables and provide color to our spaces. We can start by making simple candles, to then experiment with colored and aroma candles. Do not forget to acquire vegan and non -toxic materialsso that your hobby does not contaminate the environment in any way.

Painting our own t -shirts and scarves is simple, although we will need a space for it. We will start trying with a piece of old white fabric. You will also need a brush, a cardboard to make the templates, another cardboard to stretch the shirt and special fabric paint.

The first thing you should do, once you have your idea clear, is to extend newspapers on a table to avoid staining the surroundings. You must also protect your own clothes, because paint is very difficult to remove.

Enter the shirt into the cardboard so that the surface of the fabric is smooth and without wrinkles. Then you can create paper and cardboard templates, pose them on the fabric and fill them with the paint. If you look capable of painting by hand, you can do without the templates. T -shirts should be painted by layers. So you must let a color dry before starting to paint the other.

This is the simplest way to paint t -shirts, but there are countless techniques. For example, with newspaper balls, making degraded, with different utensils …

If you want to make a very special gift, try painting a silk handkerchief or a black shawl with light colors, such as white. Stamp Flowers using templates and you will see how you love the result.

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