4 Ideas to Decorate Your Home with DIY Arts and Crafts
Eplore four ideas for home decoration that can be accomplished with DIY arts or crafts.
26/10/2020
We’ve all been spending a little more time than usual at home lately. Both children and grownups alike need some new activities to keep their hands and minds occupied. Crafting can be an excellent way to spend time together and find a little bit of peace and relaxation amid this otherwise crazy year.
To add to the fun, DIY arts and crafts that can be used to create accent pieces for your home decor. They can produce beautiful twists on everyday items as well as heartwarming decorative keepsakes for you and your friends and family. The result is an inexpensive sprucing up of your space, leaving everyone feeling a little bit fresher when inside.
The following will explore four ideas for home decoration that can be accomplished with DIY arts or crafts. Of course, this list is just a jumping-off point. Use it to spark ideas within yourself and turn this period of instability and lockdown into one of creativity and family-focused activities.
1. Holiday And Festivity Decorations
When people think of crafted home decor, the holidays often come to mind. This type of decorative craft comes first on our list because of this. Holiday decorations are one of the most fun ways you can use arts and crafts to create decor for your home. They also help shift you into the holiday spirit if you’re having trouble finding it on your own due to the stressors of everyday life.
Creating holiday decorations with your hands works especially well for families with small children who want to join in the arts and crafts. This is because kids are often beyond excited for the upcoming holidays. Beyond this, crafting items together to celebrate a religious or civic holiday can make for beautiful family traditions.
Whatever holidays you and your family celebrate, you can bet that there are thousands of craft ideas listed online that suit your family’s traditions and crafting skill levels. Beyond this, once the holiday has passed the items get packed away for a year. When you unpack the holiday decorations in future years, you’ll be reminded of the sweet memories from when the items were made.
2. Seasonal Decorations
Similar to the holiday and festive decorations mentioned above, seasonal arts and crafts make a great addition to the feeling of your home. Things like dried leaves, acorns, pinecones, twine, and squash make for excellent autumn decorations when woven together.
Cut out snowflakes and cover them in glitter to embrace winter in your decor. These look excellent when displayed in windows or on mirrors.
Floral-based crafts are excellent for spring—try drying some of your favorite wildflowers and arranging them into a bundle to be displayed in a vase or hanging over a doorway.
Wreaths can be made to suit any weather and season, so don’t think of them as a winter-only decoration.
Try taking your regular crafts and putting a seasonal spin on them, you might be surprised by how sweet the results are.
Take the kids for a walk outside and gather up some seasonal items that would make for good crafting. Combine your finds with some DXF files as templates for cutting wood plaques or display them in mason jars. Let the seasons guide your crafting. As a bonus, if you have the time or energy, seasonal-based craft sessions are fantastic opportunities to get children interested in scientific phenomena (let’s not have this entire year be a wash as far as schooling goes).
3.Repurpose Old Items
We all have those things that don’t quite belong in our homes anymore. As it turns out, these items can make for excellent crafts. Take an old suitcase and add legs to it and you now have a cute, unique end table that doubles as storage space. Take those old shrunken sweaters or the kids' old clothes you can’t bear to get rid of because of their sentimental value and turn them into a quilt. Before you toss out an old piece of furniture, see if a fresh coat of paint and some stenciling will give it a new and vibrant life. Not only is this a fun way to get creative with your days, repurposing items is good for the environment as well. If you’re feeling up to it, you can use the time to teach your little ones about the importance of minimizing waste. Beyond this, repurposing items can help you save money on craft supplies, because, let’s be honest, sometimes crafting adds up.
4. Explore Your Family Heritage
No matter where your ancestors were from or how you ended up where you are, a little research will likely produce some traditional craft and decor ideas. Most cultures have specific items kept in specific parts of the house, and back in the day, things were often made by hand. Not only does making a traditional craft provide all the typical benefits of crafting, but this type of work can leave you feeling more connected to the humans who came before you, and the ones who are to come after. You might even find you can’t imagine your home without a dash of the past in it once you’ve found a place to display your work.
Hopefully, the above suggestions have kickstarted your arts and crafts creativity and given you countless ideas for beautiful crafts that can double as home decor. It is important to remember that usually the first time you do any craft it's always a big experiment. You might be surprised to find something that is far easier or far harder than you initially thought. You might discover that what you made looks nothing like the picture you saw on Pinterest, and that’s okay.
Crafting has been proven to induce feelings of calm and relaxation, so even if you’re unhappy with the result, remind yourself that your time was still well spent. We could all use a little extra calm these days. Beyond this, crafting teaches children many valuable skills and encourages the development of fine motor skills among toddlers as well as expands their attention span.