Grandmother is a true friend to her grandchildren. Having gained solid life experience, grandmothers do not try to raise their children, they simply love them. Grandsons and granddaughters always reciprocate.
By giving gifts to grandma, grandchildren express their gratitude and care for a loved one. The most expensive gifts from grandchildren who do not yet have their own money are handicrafts.
Grandmothers - they are so different
Typically, grandmothers are considered to be women of very advanced age. They spend their days napping in a chair with a cat on their lap, knitting endless scarves or baking pies.
However, a relatively young, active woman who, instead of cooking cutlets and borscht, goes in for sports, has hobbies, and goes to work can also become a grandmother.
It is better to give such grandmothers something more suitable to her hobbies than homemade vases or photo frames. Although they, if done well, will give the grandmother a reason to be proud of her grandson or granddaughter.
So, what can you give your grandmother for her birthday, March 8, New Year or any other holiday?
In principle, grandma will be delighted with any craft. But, if you want to do something really pleasant, you will have to try a little.
Postcards
This is the simplest and most logical craft that can be quickly made from cardboard, paper, glue, and paints.
But a postcard can look much more attractive if you make it using the following technique:
- origami (folding three-dimensional figures from paper);
- scrapbooking (decoration with flowers, ribbons, bows, finishing edges with special hole punches);
- quilling (drawing patterns from twisted strips of paper).
To do this, it is not at all necessary to purchase expensive paper or special devices. At the first stage, you can get by with ordinary sheets, ribbons, beads and sequins, which will definitely be found in every home where a little fashionista lives. And boys can ask their mother to buy decorative cords or beautiful artificial flowers.
A good postcard will perfectly complement the main gift and will take pride of place on the shelf with souvenirs.
Just remember to write words of love and gratitude there.
Book of recipes
Your grandmother probably has an old notebook with her favorite family recipes that everyone still uses. Why not make a nice thick cover for it? Just don’t overuse the decor, because it won’t be too practical!
You can completely organize your grandmother's notes and make a cover with rings or any other fastener inside. Cover the cover made of thick cardboard with fabric, decorate it with embroidery and mark the binding.
To attach larger pieces, use craft wire. Seal the inside sides of the cover with the same cardboard covered with fabric so that nothing sticks out.
DIY fabric bull: beautiful patterns and ideas (photo)
Flowers
It is unlikely that a small child will be able to independently buy an expensive bouquet of flowers or ask for one flower to be beautifully packaged.
But he can create a homemade flower arrangement with his own hands. To do this, you don’t have to be a super master; just watch a video lesson or master class.
Beautiful bouquets can be made from paper, magazines, satin ribbons, and fluffy wool.
If you want to create an original craft, you can make an unusual floating cup or topiary.
Beauty or benefit
Decorative items, homemade or purchased, will undoubtedly help you decorate your home beautifully. But, usually, any grandmother has already accumulated everything she would like to decorate the house with.
But things that make household work easier or help you relax are not always available. Therefore, if you want to present a really good thing, it is better to make or buy a gift that your grandmother has long dreamed of.
The easiest way is to ask the birthday girl herself about such a gift, but in this case there will hardly be a surprise. And if you want to pleasantly surprise a loved one, you will have to observe her daily affairs and worries or what she likes to do in her free time.
Although caring grandchildren most likely already know the aspirations of their beloved grannies. So a gift for grandma will not be a big problem for them.
floating cup
To make a craft in the form of a cup hanging in the air you will need:
- set of cups and saucers;
- a fork that can be bent. Aluminum material is ideal;
- high-quality glue;
- artificial flowers (you can make it yourself), ribbons, bows.
Making a beautiful and unusual gift only at first glance seems like a complex and time-consuming process. In fact, everything is much simpler. The base of the fork bends at an angle of 40-60 degrees.
A cup is glued to the end of the cutlery, bottom up. After the glue has hardened, the inside of the cup and fork are decorated with flowers, beads, and bows. The base of the fork is glued to the saucer and the top is also decorated.
Such a simple idea will help make a worthy surprise for any grandmother.
How to make a box
You can make a beautiful box using cardboard, thread and long toothpicks.
Execution order:
- Two heart-shaped pieces are made from thick, thick cardboard - the base for the body and the top of the lid. The blank for the lid is slightly larger in size for fitting the lid onto the body.
- At a distance of 8-10 mm from the edge of the base, small holes for toothpicks are made along the entire perimeter. Their installation step is 2-3 cm.
- Long toothpicks are installed strictly vertically and secured with glue.
- A thick thread is woven between the toothpicks, forming walls. The rows of threads are laid tightly to each other. You can use multi-colored material to form patterns.
- The top edge is edged with ribbon or braid.
- The lid is made in the same way, but toothpicks no more than 3-4 cm long are used for it.
The top of such a box can be decorated with ribbon bows, beads, and seed beads. A bright tape is glued along the edge.
You can make a beautiful box using cardboard, thread and long toothpicks.
An original box or basket is made from newspaper tubes. Tightly rolled paper in the shape of a tube of small diameter becomes a fairly durable ornamental material from which you can weave, like a vine. When making such crafts at the initial stage, adults should also participate along with children.
The manufacturing process is as follows:
- A frame is formed from paper tubes with the bottom laid out and the vertical posts raised.
- The bottom is woven: the tubes are laid in a spiral between the lower frame elements.
- The walls are made by weaving between the posts. The pitch of the vertical tubes is 4-5 cm. Before laying, the paper tubes are painted in the desired color so that after weaving the intended pattern is formed.
An original box or basket is made from newspaper tubes.
An original gift for grandmother in the form of a plywood box. To do this, a preliminary cutting of the parts is made - the bottom, the top of the lid, the side walls of the body and the lid. First, the frame of the box is assembled from wooden blocks of 15x15 mm. Then, plywood blanks are fixed on it.
An original gift for grandmother in the form of a plywood box
Decoration is the most important thing in a craft. A design is thought out in advance and transferred to the surface of the plywood. Using the device, the pattern is burned out. Acrylic varnish is applied on top in 2-3 layers.
Topiary
A beautiful decoration for a shelf or table is made from a balloon, glue and thread.
A layer of glue is applied to the slightly inflated ball. Threads are wound over the glue in a completely random order. When the workpiece is completely dry, the ball is carefully pierced and removed from the craft.
The thread sphere is decorated with butterflies and ribbons, flowers and sequins.
The finished ball is glued to a cocktail straw or pastry skewer.
The resulting trunk is wrapped with green or brown tape and placed in a pot with decorative stones.
A good gift is ready.
Emotions
For those grandmothers who “have everything” and who love to return gifts with the words “you need more,” you can give amazing and unforgettable emotions.
What it will be depends on the character of the grandmother. Some people will be happy to visit a cinema hall and cheerfully crunch popcorn in the dark, others will get much more pleasure from the theater or concert hall of the conservatory.
Some grandmothers will remember their youth while ice skating, while others will fulfill an old secret dream by riding in a hot air balloon or going up to the observation deck.
And some may like to go down a mountain river, ride horses, buggies or go-karts, attend a dance master class or have a swimming pool membership.
Of course, grandma will not refuse a trip to a resort or a vacation in a sanatorium, but even a trip to a neighboring city or a fun family hike in the forest can become an unusual adventure, but everything needs to be organized in such a way that the recipient of such a surprise does not have to think about organizational issues.
You can send your grandparents to the cafe where they first met, decorate the room with balloons, and give them the opportunity to visit the petting zoo.
Flowerpots and vases
A nice flowerpot can be a good preset. Especially if grandma is interested in growing plants.
For the simplest flower pot you will need:
- mayonnaise bucket;
- glue;
- twine or ribbons;
- elements for decoration (coffee beans, buttons, beads, flowers, coins, lace).
The mayonnaise bucket must be smeared with glue and tightly wrapped with twine, woolen threads, and ribbons. You can wind it both horizontally and diagonally. This will make the craft look more attractive. You can lay several layers of threads.
When the glue dries, decorate the resulting craft.
Now you can put a layer of pebbles on the bottom of the bucket, sprinkle some soil and plant some kind of flower.
Or you can make several of these pots and plant herbs in them by buying seeds. This gift is perfect for any spring holiday, as the seeds will quickly sprout and the windowsill will be decorated with fresh and healthy herbs.
Beautiful vases can be made from any bottle, but for stability it is better to use glass containers. The bottle is wrapped in thread, wool is applied to glue, rolled in cereal or rhinestones, even coarse salt is used.
You can make an original candlestick from an old glass in the same way, additionally beautifully decorating the remaining glass with toothpaste or paints.
Travyanchik
This craft will be a good window sill decoration.
For a grasshopper you need to take any sock, soil and grass seeds. Soil is poured into the sock and seeds are placed on top. The craft is formed in the form of a funny kolobok or smesharik, with eyes sewn to the muzzle.
This herb can be made in the form of a snowman, hare, or kitten. Everything will depend on the imagination of the homemade master.
Simple from colored paper
Applications made from colored paper will help make the card bright and festive. A child attending kindergarten, and even more so a schoolchild, already has experience with such crafts.
To create a postcard with a bouquet of tulips, you need:
- prepare cardboard measuring 20x24 cm for the base, colored paper, glue, scissors;
- bend the cardboard in half to make the base of the card. If desired, you can cover it with colored paper;
- To create tulips from colored paper, cut out petals in the form of ovals with sharp tips measuring 4x1.5 cm - for one tulip you will need three ovals of the same color. Cut straight stems from green paper;
- on the title side, form a bouquet of 5-7 tulips. To create a tulip, three petals are glued together at the lower ends, the upper ones are moved apart to form a bud. A stem is glued to each tulip;
- At the bottom of the stems, glue a bow of two ovals;
- decorate the inside with a frame made of colored paper, in which a congratulation should be written. You can add a small tulip, butterfly and other decorations.
For a birthday cake card:
- on the title side, sequentially glue three tiers of the cake - three brown rectangles with rounded upper corners measuring 10x4, 8x4, 5x3 cm;
- stick on cake decorations - roses, diamonds, etc. - from colored paper. For a volume effect, you can use double-sided tape;
- decorate the inside.
Useful gifts
You can make not only cute but also useful crafts with your own hands.
- The granddaughter can independently knit a fluffy scarf or mittens, cozy socks, sew towels and potholders for the kitchen, embroidering them with beautiful patterns.
- The grandson will delight his granny with homemade shelves and cutting boards.
- Beautiful jewelry boxes and baskets for needlework can be made from toothpicks or pastry skewers, woven from wicker or newspaper tubes.
- Delicious cookies or a homemade cake can be prepared even without baking, as well as beautifully made sandwiches or cut salad.
- You can make a wall newspaper with photos or an electronic presentation.
- For those who love gardening, garden crafts will come in handy.
- For work, you can make a notebook or planner.
In general, you can make a beautiful or useful gift with your own hands from almost any material. The main thing is that it is made with soul, and grandma will definitely notice this.
