7 Easy Arts And Crafts Ideas You Can Do Over The Weekends

Decorating your home is key if you want to truly inject your personality into the place you live. You may have held back in buying art to hang though because it can cost a lot of money. However, with a little bit of effort, there are many arts and crafts that you can do yourself that won’t take up all your time.

Here are our top 7 cool arts and crafts that you can do over a weekend.

1. Use mason jars as vases

Mason jars are extremely popular these days, and you can find many sizes and varieties at your local grocery store or dollar store. They are incredibly useful, but did you know they make great flower vases? They have a super rustic charm about them, so if that’s your style then pick up a few. You can tie ribbons or lace around them to give them an extra level of elegance.

2. Make your own chalkboard

There’s nothing better than having a something in your home that looks great but also serves a purpose. DIY chalkboards are great for writing lists or messages for your family, and they are super easy to make. Just get some chalkboard paint and a canvas or piece of board and voila!

3. Add color to your sofa

There’s no need to have a single color sofa. You can add color to your sofa by crafting some cushions in complementary colors. Fabric can be very cheap, especially if you buy offcuts, as you don’t need much to make a nice cushion.

4. Give your old tumblers new life

If you have mismatched tumblers and you don’t know what to do with them, you can give them new life (and make them match each other) if you dip them in paint. Gold paint is a great color that screams high class, so try dipping the bottom half of your tumblers.

5. Create a jewelry organizer

Sometimes it’s hard to keep all of your jewelry in order, especially if you have a lot of it. One way you can do this on the cheap is to repurpose a plastic cutlery tray. Use scrapbooking paper to line the tray in the colors that speak to you and add hooks that can hold your necklaces tangle free.

6. Make a door sign

One crafty thing you can do that your kids will love is to make door signs for them. You can feature their names or a word they love prominently on their door. Find wooden letters at your nearest craft store and paint them in the colors your kids love. You can hang them from the doorknobs using ribbon.

7. Find inspiration everywhere

If you’re not very creative, then you just need to look around to be inspired. There are tons of ideas at Pretty Neat Creative that you can check out. If you’ve never been inspired to paint before, all you really need is a set of inexpensive paints and a blank canvas. The possibilities are endless.

If you’re stuck for something to do on the weekend and the kids are complaining of boredom, arts and crafts are the perfect way to solve this problem. In turn, you’ll have a number of new or repurposed items that you can use to decorate your home. Once you get the creative juices flowing, there’s no limit to what you can make!