Crafts

With just a couple of materials you might already have in your house, you can set up your own home-made cinema. 5-Minute Crafts has prepared a guide to help you do exactly this.

Chewing gum is a popular candy and it’s even known for improving memory. Making it at home is not only a great way to spend time with your children, but also a great way to reduce the sugar content they encounter when consuming candy. It’s easy and cheap to make as well. 5-Minute Crafts shows you 2 ways of making your own chewing gum.

Beads are very popular and in fashion. You can see them in the fashion collections of famous designers, and internet users publish many master classes where they show how to make DIY straps, charms, keychains, and other accessories from colorful beads.

If you want to enjoy an immersive experience with real-looking scenes and objects from the comfort of your home, you can choose to build your own virtual reality glasses. By doing so, you’ll not only be contributing to protecting the environment since you’ll only need a few everyday items to build them, but above all, you won’t spend a lot of money. 5-Minute Crafts wants to show you how to turn a piece of cardboard into your ticket to a whole new virtual world.

If you like making crafts, you know that adhesive material is the main ingredient to glue paper or cardboard. You can actually make it yourself, giving you an organic and chemical-free product. 5-Minute Crafts offers you some methods to make paste quickly and easily using different elements we likely already have at home.

Children aren’t the only ones who love costume parties. Many adults also like to go back to their childhood and dress up as their favorite fairy-tale characters. It’s just that these costumes can be quite expensive, which can keep you from participating in these magical stories. 5-Minute Crafts wants to share simple hacks to help make your costume look amazing, complete with simple details you can make yourself using stuff most people have at home.

Here are 4 simple and quick ways to make a pompom yourself.

Light rings have become very popular, either to decorate spaces or to add extra lighting when taking photos and videos. Although it’s an electronic object, it’s possible to make one at home in a very simple way, using easily available elements and saving some money along the way. 5-Minute Crafts has prepared a tutorial so you can make your own.

Nowadays, many people prefer to make their own shampoos, creams, and makeup in order to reduce the use of beauty products with chemicals that could be harmful to the skin. 5-Minute Crafts is showing you how to make soaps at home in a simple way and with natural elements. We also wrote a bonus at the end of the article that will show you how to make a scrub for your hands.

Making crafts with children is an ideal option for spending free time with the family. It helps to test their skills while they entertain themselves. In addition, it’s a process that has many physical and emotional benefits that, in the future, will play an important role in the lives of little ones. The best way to learn is to have fun. 5-Minute Crafts tells you, step by step, how to make a waterfall photo album so they can use their free time in an educational and creative way.

If you don’t want to throw away old clothes and boxes, you can recycle them by making a simple yet comfy bed for your dog or cat. Not only will you be contributing to saving the planet, but you’ll be able to show your pet how much they mean to you.

Making your own jewelry is the best way to create personalized and unique pieces that no one else will have. Also, they won’t cost a fortune. 5-Minute Crafts came up with some cool jewelry ideas and wants to share them with you. You are free to change them a bit to make the end result fit your own style.

The Barbie doll is an iconic toy that many girls and boys still want to play with nowadays. There are several models and many accessories to play with. The way you play with it can change completely with every new accessory you buy or, in this case, make. Considering the prices and the amount of the existing accessories there are out there, it’s quite difficult to get all of them without having to spend a lot of money.

Isn’t photographing children just as difficult as photographing pets? They move all the time and we can hardly get them to pose naturally. For this, the best thing to do is to become a “documentary maker” and train your eye to capture the magical moments that happen every day. At 5-Minute Crafts, we give you some little tricks for taking very good photos without any tools other than a camera.

It often happens that our clothes need a simple fix or 2. However, we do not dare to repair them ourselves for fear of ruining them. 5-Minute Crafts will offer you some simple and useful tricks that you can use when sewing or mending a garment.

Currently, children are very interested in stress relief toys. It’s pleasant to fidget with them because they make funny sounds when you squeeze them. But you don’t have to buy them. Try making a squishy toy in the shape of a panda, or a simple dimple from paper.

If you have a cat at home, at some point you will have to deal with them scratching on your furniture, doors, and even walls. This destructive behavior occurs when felines want to sharpen their claws, mark their territory, or sometimes out of sheer boredom. 5-Minute Crafts wants to show you some helpful tips for repairing your furniture, and a bonus step-by-step on how to fix scratched walls.

Anyone can learn to draw. And the more often you use watercolor, the better the results will be. Of course, if you are already talented, it will make the learning process faster but even if you are a novice, by following certain rules and using special tricks and techniques, you will be able to create really good paintings. Every beginner pursues their own goals, but watercolor is probably the best choice for anyone when they are just starting out. It allows the artist to create illustrations pretty fast, and even draw landscapes and portraits. And it’s also relatively cheap.

You can reduce the noise that enters your home, either produced by annoying neighbors or street traffic, with some elements that you already have or you can make some adaptations that isolate it. 5-Minute Crafts will show you 8 tips so that you can noticeably reduce the noise level in your home.

The water heater is an essential household appliance, so we all want it to work well and properly. But sometimes, it can stop working for various reasons. However, you don’t have to call a specialist to turn it back on. 5-Minute Crafts will show you how to turn it on step-by-step.