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12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Looking for quick and easy craft ideas?

It's true that it's nice to tinker for the house!

And it's not just children who can do manual activities.

Adults also like to spend time tinkering.

Storage, decoration, gardening, creative ideas...

Without being a DIY pro, you can do lots of useful and decorative things. And in the end, we save money.

Do you have items to throw away? Plastic bottles, empty jars, cans... Keep them safe!

Thanks to these ideas, you will be able to give them a second life.

Here are 12 quick and easy DIY tutorials . Watch:

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Contents
  • 1. Ping-pong balls turned into a garland
  • 2. Old tin cans turned into storage
  • 3. Old paint cans turned into flower pots
  • 4. A plastic bottle transformed into a piggy bank
  • 5. Gutters transformed into a hanging garden
  • 6. Stress balls to decorate a t-shirt
  • 7. A label to write on with chalk
  • 8. A paper plate transformed into a cake box
  • 9. Candles transformed into photo holders
  • 10. Pompoms transformed into Angry Birds
  • 11. A rolling pin to make a unique wrapping paper
  • 12. An old chest of drawers transformed into a bench
  • Your turn...

1. Ping-pong balls turned into a garland

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Why buy a fairy light that costs a fortune when you can make it yourself?

Here is an easy DIY to make a beautiful light garland.

All you need are ping pong balls and a light string.

Make a small hole in the ping pong balls.

Insert the LED... And that's it!

For the decoration of a child's or little girl's room, it's magnificent.

2. Old tin cans transformed into storage

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Cans are an inexhaustible source of storage ideas.

In a pencil holder, for kitchen utensils, to store the mess in the drawers...

It doesn't take much to turn tin cans into a money-saving storage trick.

You can even use it to make an original storage for towels.

To discover: 48 Brilliant Ideas For Reusing Empty CANS.

3. Old paint cans turned into flower pots

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Do you have a lot of empty paint cans?

Don't throw them away. And turn them into a flowerpot.

To make it even prettier, paint them in different colors. And hang them from a garden trellis.

All that remains is to plant your aromatic herbs!

To discover: Herbs:18 Clever Ways to Grow Them Indoors.

4. A plastic bottle transformed into a piggy bank

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

To save money on a daily basis, you need a nice piggy bank!

And no way to buy one when you can easily make it yourself.

It is enough to cut a plastic bottle into three parts. Then you have to assemble the top and bottom of the bottle.

A splash of spray paint, funny eyes...

You can also add ears and a little corkscrew tail.

And we made a great pig piggy bank. Now all that's left to do is save money!

In addition, this simple and quick little DIY allows you to recycle plastic bottles.

And that's always one less waste.

To discover: 18 Creative Ways to Recycle Your Plastic Bottles.

5. Gutters transformed into a hanging garden

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

If you have a few gutter scraps, don't throw them away.

The gutters can easily be transformed into a planter.

Just put hooks under the gutters.

This allows you to attach a flexible and strong steel cable to hang them.

You can grow salads, flowers, aromatic herbs, strawberries...

Did you know that you can grow a lot of vegetables in pots?

And with this system of hanging gutters, you don't even have to bend down to pick them up. Handy, isn't it?

To discover: Garden:20 Ingenious Ways to Use PVC Pipes.

6. Stress balls to decorate a t-shirt

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Are you looking for an idea for an easy manual activity to do with children?

They will love this one. All you need are some stress balls, some paint and a white t-shirt.

And let the artists do it. They will love decorating their t-shirt. And they will be so proud to wear them!

It's a great activity for kindergarten and early primary children, up to about 6 or 7 years old.

7. A label to write on with chalk

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

When you use jars to put food in...

We tend to forget the name of some of them:sesame or sunflower seeds, Thai rice or basmati rice...?

Fix this problem permanently by making labels for your jars.

Just take masking tape to delimit a label on the pot.

Then paint the inside with chalkboard paint.

And There you go ! Now you know what's in your pots.

And no need to put on a label that is difficult to peel off!

Just write with chalk and erase with a sponge or cloth.

8. A paper plate transformed into a cake box

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Need boxes to offer your homemade cookies?

No need to buy it! With this super easy DIY, you can make an adorable cookie box.

Just fold and stick a paper plate with tape. Add a ribbon... and you're done!

It's a great idea for a school fair, a birthday party or a baby shower, isn't it?

9. Candles transformed into photo holders

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

If you have candles lying around your house, turn them into a display for your photos.

It couldn't be simpler! Simply remove the wick. And make a cut in the candle with a cutter.

All you have to do is insert your photo in it. Nice, right?

10. Pompoms transformed into Angry Birds

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Are your children fans of the Angry Birds?

So make them happy by making Angry Birds with pompoms.

All you need is some wool and cardboard to make your pompoms. Then glue wiggly eyes.

Don't forget to make your characters angry eyebrows.

And the kids will be super happy!

It's a manual activity that will amuse them a lot (and keep them busy!) for a good while.

Kindergarten and primary school children will be happy to create their funny little birds.

And in addition, it is a very economical activity.

11. A rolling pin to make a unique wrapping paper

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

Have you seen the price of pattern rolls? It's a bit pricey though!

Luckily, you can make one at home easily.

Just stick a piece of lace on your classic rolling pin.

Then run the roller through the paint and roll it on a sheet of paper.

Result, you have a great unique and personalized homemade gift wrap.

It's super pretty, original and not expensive.

To discover: 25 Great Ideas To Wrap Your Christmas Gifts (Easy &Original).

12. An old chest of drawers transformed into a bench

12 Quick and Easy DIY Ideas for Home and Garden.

This DIY idea is a little more complex than the others.

But this piece of furniture made with a chest of drawers is awesome.

But given the result, it's worth it, isn't it?

Your turn...

Have you tried making any of these DIY ideas? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!