These colorful crayon hearts wood crafts

These colorful crayon hearts make a great gift for Valentine's Day. Plus, they are so simple (and inexpensive) to make!
I used silicon heart cupcake molds, with scalloped edges, which are available online and where cooking supplies are sold.

How to make it
Place broken, unwrapped crayon pieces into silcone heart molds.
If you want a specific color scheme, you can buy several different single-color crayon boxes, which are now available everywhere. Peel the crayons, and then break them into smaller pieces.
Set the crayon-filled molds on a baking sheet.
Place the tray and molds in your oven at 250 degrees until completely melted -- about 15 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to set before removing them -- about 30 minutes.
Then, just pop the crayons out of their molds -- and admire the swirls of color!

balsa wood made birds - simple craft

 

Do you like those balsa wood made birds?

Tips For wood craft working

 

Tips & Warnings for wood craft working
Choose good quality brushes that don’t shed bristles
Clean paint brushes soon after painting—don’t allow paint to dry on the brushes
Always allow paint brushes to dry with the bristles pointing straight
Sand wood in the direction of the wood grain or else you will not have a smooth finish
If your balsa wood-craft has removable parts, paint these separately and attach later
Apply any primer or sealant in a well-ventilated area and away from flame
Avoid prolonged skin contact with primer or sealant

An easy wood craft sticks ideas

Wood was for centuries among the main raw material being used for making tools, utensils and household items, to manufacture the furniture. Wood craft ideas can be innovative and interesting. But, before starting to make balsa wood crafts make sure you have all the information with the procedure and materials needed to make it. Here you will find out some easy wood craft ideas which are very simple to make.
To create wood crafts with Popsicle stick is one of the easiest wood craft ideas. You need to come up with different items using sticks and apply glue on both the sticks, so to be glued together. There is a lot to create with these sticks simply by using strong glue. An easy wood craft sticks ideas is making simple accessories or create ornaments for Christmas.

• Plywood wood is a great choice for making wood crafts. To measure and cut pieces of plywood is very easy. You can make models of houses by using them or other simple things like a jewelry box.
• Wood spoon crafts can be used as decorative pieces. You can paint it and make it smooth to create beautiful patterns. Use wood spoons in different sizes and hang in the kitchen. Hang wood spoons in the dining room and use various motifs to highlight them.
• To create wood crafts with wood spool is another simple and great wood craft idea. You can stack up many wood spools to create wonderful candle holders. You can paint them or accessorize them with beads and place them in the room. You can also make from wood spools, wood dolls. Buy wood balls, paint them and make the heads of the dolls.
• Some more simple wood crafts to make are pen stands, birdhouses, door signs, Christmas ornaments and many others. The wood crafts can be used as gifts for festive occasions.

Colorful wooden flowers art

Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree , Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light wood. The name also is used for the wood of this species , which is commercially important, and despite being very soft, is classified as a hardwood—the softest commercial hardwood.

As a light, soft, and buoyant wood, with good insulating properties, balsa provides innumerable uses, from use in life preservers and floats, to model building, to fishing lures, to insulation use in refrigerators.Now to enjoy these balsa wood made flowers.

The colorful flowers are great and nice.

Creative Wood Blocks To Make

Although most of my work is two-dimensional, I also love to work in 3-D. I have often painted wooden objects for parts of my exhibitions and they always end up being my favourite bits. The wooden shapes in my exhibitions are custom-made, but it’s just as easy to create something similar using regular wooden blocks. They can be recycled or off cut pieces (try your local hardware store) or you could buy a set of children’s wooden blocks (preferably natural wood, not painted). Play around with the expressions you give them to make different personalities, as this will make the interactions between them lots of fun.
For the wood varnish, I use a water-based polyurethane varnish in a satin finish, available from craft stores.
You will need:

• – wooden blocks
• – sandpaper, if required
• – pencil
• – acrylic paint
• – paintbrushes
• – eraser
• – wood varnish
  

1. Smooth off the blocks using sandpaper if necessary. You can also use sandpaper to remove varnish. The blocks I used had varnish on them, but as they were quite old I was able to paint over it. I liked their worn look and didn’t want to lose this

2. Pencil out your ideas – draw the rough shapes of your blocks and have a play with different patterns and faces within the shapes. Think about colours and have a play around with the paints you have chosen.

3. Draw your designs on the blocks lightly in pencil. Don’t press heavily as you may leave a permanent impression on the wood.

4. Start painting. It can take a few goes to get used to painting the wood, so I usually keep a practice block to test colours and different paintbrushes on. This makes starting the final pieces less intimidating!

5. When you have finished painting, set the blocks aside to dry, then erase any visible pencil lines. Pencil can show through some light-coloured paints, but I like this – it adds to the hand-painted effect. You can cover it up with extra coats of paint, if you prefer.

6. If your blocks are going to be used by children, give them a few coats of varnish. This will also give your pieces a polished appearance. Once finished, go forth and build your wooden block empire!

DIY Puzzle Cube - Using Balsa Wood

DIY Puzzle Cube
Puzzles and games have always been a thing in our house. Canasta , scrabble, words with friends, connect four, Cranium, Tripoli, Cribbage, memory , Pictionary… Although no one will play with my sister and I because we’re kind of awesome and perhaps a tad obnoxious and a lot competitive! I’ll play any game that does not involve singing, and that is only because I would big time lose, and what fun is that! (humdingers in Cranium are as close to singing as I’ll get, and still there is an 80% chance I either will not know the song or have no idea how to hum the tune!) My youngest brother, Steven, taught himself the Rubicks cube a few years ago (with the help of youtube videos ), and I know he would enjoy this easy homemade gift…

Here’s what you need:

• wood glue
• q-tips
• paint
• wooden cubes

The best dea lon craft cubes I’ve found is at Hobby Lobby. Each pack has 72 individual cubes, each 3×3 cube needs 27 individual cubes. (insert nerd voice) According to my calculations, if you bought 3 packs (72 x 3= 216 and 216/27=8) you could make 8 cubes! A few more calculations tell us that each 3 x 3 cube costs only $1.12 a piece to make.

Here’s what I did to make my cube puzzle…

Let me explain:

• Step 1: Count out 27 cubes
• Step 2: Build your 3×3 cube so you have something visual to work with…
• Step 3: Use a q-tip to carefully start gluing your cubes together. It gets kind of tricky.
• Step 4: A few times I glued only 2 cubes together so I could keep the 3×3 cube shape, and better see what I’m working with.
  

Here are my 5 puzzle pieces (picture them not yet painted)…

Now, it’s time to paint… I picked an Americano theme only because those are the Plaid paints I had on hand
I don’t suggest painting with q-tips… I tried since the Q-tips were out and I didn’t want to dirty a paint brush… trust me on this one, it’s not worth it
Not to mention why I tried to paint and glue on a magazine, another dumb move… I culd have at least opened the magazine up for more surface area!

I used sand paper after the cubes dried because a few pieces were clumpy. I like how it turned out. Take a few pictures like the ones below so that you can remember how the pieces go back together!

I think it might also be fun to give someone all the materials to make this little craft! Are you a puzzle person? Do you think someone in your life would enjoy this toy? I think this would make a great stocking stuffer too.