5 Free Tutorials to Make Crafts at Home with Few Supplies

Discover how to create pom-poms, flowerpots, and other handy objects with materials you have at home

You don't need lots of resources to get crafty. With a few materials and the help of expert tutorials to spark your creativity, you can quickly make all kinds of decorative, handy, and even sustainable objects by using and recycling readily available materials, all while developing new skills as you go.

Are you ready to get crafty at home? Learn how to build a flowerpot, make a pom-pom, use printed paper to create collage art, craft bookmarks using pressed flowers, or assemble homemade packaging with these easy hands-on DIY tutorials. They're packed with all the inspiration, ideas, tips, and techniques you need to get you started.

Ceramics Tutorial: Ceramic Tutorial: How To Make A Pinch Pot At Home

In this tutorial ceramist Lily Maetzig (@mae_ceramics) teaches you how to create a pinch pot from scratch using minimal resources. Pinch pots are an easy way to create ceramics at home that have an authentic, handmade look.

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DIY Tutorial: Creative Techniques to Make Colorful Paper

In this tutorial, artist and collage expert Estrellita Caracol (@estrellita_caracol) explains how to create your own papercrafts from simple, cheap, and readily available materials. These can be the basis for your illustrations, cards, or really anything else you can imagine.

DIY Tutorial: How to Make a Spotted Wool Pom-Pom

Christie Leech (@sewyeah) is an author, maker, and stylist who specializes in creating art with pom-poms. In this tutorial, she shares a simple method for how to make a wool pom-pom with a spot pattern from scratch.

DIY Tutorial: How to Create Bookmarks With Pressed Flowers

Camila Hurtado is the founder of creative botanical lab Happy Green Family (@Happy_Green_Family). She has many years’ experience applying botany to publishing, collage, jewelry, and a range of DIY projects. In this tutorial, she teaches you how to create easy, beautiful, and practical bookmarks using pressed flowers.

DIY Tutorial: The Easy Way to Create Packaging

The founders of creative studio Fatto (@fatto), Elsa and Dani design accessories using beads. In this tutorial, they teach us how to quickly and easily create decorative gift packaging for jewelry, in this case, a bracelet.

What are your thoughts on these tutorials? If you want to keep developing your creative skills, check out Domestika's online crafts courses.

English version by acesarato.

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