DIY toys for Christmas: do you love to create, get to work and dedicate yourself to crafts or simple DIY? Christmas is the right occasion to amaze children with beautiful toys made by your hands. We give you 10 great ideas to create them!
What would Christmas be without toys? A very sad Christmas, impossible even to think of it. Moreover, the Christmas is a party loved by the little ones, a day of celebration, to be with the family, to dedicate oneself to the game and to the beautiful moment of the opening of the gifts under the Christmas tree, amid the laughter of parents, grandparents, uncles and cousins.
It is known, however, that Christmas is not just a symbol, religious or pagan, depending on your tastes, strongly felt in the West, but also a period, especially in the most industrialized countries, in which consumerism is skyrocketing. Never as in the Christmas period so much money is spent in futile things: decorations, greeting cards, gifts that may later lie, unused, in a corner.
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And here, it comes into play our idea for a fun Christmas, in the name of family, play, joy but also sustainable, economic, non-consumerist. Why not make beautiful DIY toys for Christmas?
Building toys yourself has many advantages. The first reason is that you will have fun designing them and to create them. The second reason is that it is toys that your children, or grandchildren or younger brothers, will keep them forever in the box of the most precious and sweet memories. The third reason, of which we have already said in reality, is that it is about gifts that they can be made with a minimal budget, therefore very cheap. For those who hate the most consumerist aspect and impersonal of Christmas, these these are all very valid reasons to think about building DIY toys for Christmas.
If you are not very familiar with DIY, Do not worry. They are all rather simple projects to carry out, with a little patience and dexterity. And if you have no idea what DIY toys you could build this Christmas, then we thought we’d give you well 10 great ideas. Here they are below!
1. DIY toys for Christmas in cardboard
The cardboard is a poor material and found in every home. Just get the right amount to make some fantastic gifts that will drive the little ones crazy. So you need heavy cardboard, acrylic paints (always take non-toxic, child-proof ones), markers, scissors, cutters is glue to glue the parts. Here are some ideas.
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Let’s start with one beautiful miniature classroom, realized inside a shoe box. Instead of the classroom, you can very well make the gift recipient miniature room, it will be even more amazing. Not you need that a shoe box, of the wrapping paper to wrap it, del white adhesive tape to mark the edges and the scissors or a utility knife, for make the windows, i paintings hanging on the walls and the blackboard. You can complete the creation with puppets.
Very nice, for future chefs, the idea of a pizza oven entirely made in cardboard. Children can have fun creating beautiful paper or cardboard delicacies!
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2. DIY rag dolls for Christmas
The rag dolls they are a toy that not only appeal to children, but also and above all to adults: object vintage, romantically retro, able to recall the Christmas atmosphere of mothers and grandmothers. A collector’s item and beautiful to display, in short, a gift not only for children but also for their mothers.
For the doll model in the image below, you will need some wire for the body, of the cloth or felt for clothes and skin and a lot of imagination.
3. A garden of cloth
Cute idea for all future gardeners or farmers: to achieve a mini vegetable garden with products made of fabric and upholstered. A simply delicious idea!
4. Drums of recycled cans
Old cans they can become fantastic percussion instruments, self covered with cloth colorful!
5. A bookcase with fruit boxes
A bookcase made with wooden fruit boxes it’s a wonderful idea for a children’s room. You can work the wood of the boxes to leave it natural, but you can also think of color the cassettes with bright and different shades, for a touch of color and joy.
6. Garage for wooden and cardboard cars
A garage to park all his cars, made with a wooden box, of those for fruit, and the interior in toilet paper rolls carton. It turns out a great gift that also has a bright side for adults: no more cars scattered on the floor!
7. Tepee: the do-it-yourself Indian tent for children
A refuge for your children, a way to play, hide, feel safe, all made entirely by you. For this project you need to be skilled enough with craftsmanship, but you can easily do it, because it’s not very complicated. It’s all about being able to put on one good wooden structure, you will need them 4 light wooden poles, to be arranged so that the tops touch. You will then have to keep them together with wire.
For the base, you will need them 4 pieces of wood to join the ends of the posts, then you’ll cover it all up with a quite heavy drape.
8. A plastic dinosaur wall
For this project, you just need clean canvases, very bright colors, better if spray e old toys. In this case, dinosaurs, but any unused toy of the right size to fit into a canvas will do.
9. Funny stuffed monsters
Funny faces and strange shapes: they are the little monsters in fabric that will make you laugh a lot and will conquer all children. Making them is very simple: it will be enough for you draw the silhouette, cut it out twice in the fabric is sew it together. Then you will have to stuff it with cotton wool and make the details. Being little monsters you can literally give bottom to your imagination.
10. Felt sweets
DIY toys for Christmas that make you want to devour them, the sweets of felt they are colorful and soft and they are perfect for playing in the restaurant: Plus, you’ll have a lot of fun making them. It will be enough for you create the initial structure, triangular in shape for the slice of cake, and then cover it with felt.
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Toys made entirely by you: one thing is to imagine them, another is to see them concretely: the satisfaction for the work done will be immense. Then, you can really say that those are gifts made with the heart, not the usual toy chosen on the shelf in a few minutes, but something created by you, made with the heart, with commitment, dedicating time to it.
