DIY Wall Artwork Made out of a Pantry Staple

DIY wall artwork that doesn’t price ANY cash in any respect to make? YES!

Right now, I’m launching a brand new collection known as Zero Greenback DIY and that is the very first mission in that collection. It’s a DIY wall artwork concept that entails cereal containers and one different materials (I discovered in one in all my son’s craft baskets).

The thought behind this collection is to make one thing cool / cute / helpful with out spending ANY cash in any respect. Nothing. It’s largely to show to myself that I could make issues with out spending cash on one thing new. And the principles are: I can solely use issues that I discover laying round my home (no dishonest) and ideally these objects are issues that you simply’ll have in your house as nicely. Like, cereal containers for instance. All of us have one thing like that within the pantry, proper?

Due to the supplies I’m utilizing for this mission, the artwork items can be on the smaller facet. However you could possibly simply use another materials to make them bigger if you happen to like. And with a number of the smaller scrap items, I used to be in a position to create some actually tiny squares that I become a patchwork on the finish as nicely. So there’s a lot that may be performed with such a easy materials.

P.S. My 4 12 months previous even made a handful on his personal that turned out fairly cool. So ANYONE could make these. Click on by way of to see all of the artwork items I constituted of only a handful of containers I plucked from our recycling bin.

DIY Artwork Supplies

• cereal containers / cracker containers you have already got
• scissors
• one thing to paint or paint with (I used children paint sticks)
• (optionally available for hanging) blue painters tape
• (optionally available) glue / glue stick – provided that you’re making a collage

Easy methods to Make Zero Greenback DIY Wall Artwork

1. Seize your cardboard.

I like to make use of actually skinny cardboard, like cereal containers, as a result of they’re an honest measurement for paintings, sturdy, and easy. They’re additionally nice for layering with different items if you happen to determine to do extra of a collage.

Different skinny cardboards that may work simply as nicely: cracker containers and different snack containers and even some frozen meals containers (we now have a frozen waffle field that we used, together with some applesauce pouch containers). Simply use no matter you will have. You possibly can even use giant packing containers, like what you’ll get within the mail from Amazon and different deliveries. However that sort of (thicker) cardboard typically has seen ridges, which I don’t love.

2. Subsequent, lower the cardboard down into flat sheets.

Lower the cardboard all the way down to no matter measurement you need your paintings to be. I saved some full measurement and lower others all the way down to be a lot smaller, so I may collage all of them collectively.

I normally don’t use the perimeters of the field bc they’re typically too small. So I simply lower up the back and front and recycle the remainder.

3. Subsequent, seize one thing to paint / paint with.

Use no matter craft provides you will have readily available to create some easy summary shapes. You possibly can search ‘summary shapes’ on Pinterest or Google to get concepts. And even higher, search ‘aerial landscapes’ and discover inspo by way of the distinctive shapes present in nature. Sounds tacky, and it’s, however you possibly can pull out some actually attention-grabbing shapes from taking a look at aerial panorama images.

You may as well get some cool ‘summary’ shapes by drawing letters in a extra stylized method. For instance, I made some ‘T’ shapes that sort of seem like mushrooms and there are some upside-down ‘M’ and ‘N’ shapes too.

Again to the coloring / portray supplies… I used tempera paint sticks from my son’s craft cubby for all of this artwork items and I like how one can construct them up with a number of layers. I caught with only a handful of colours, in order that all the items would really feel cohesive. However once more, since that is zero greenback DIY, use no matter you will have. This could possibly be markers, crayons, some leftover wall paint you had from a room makeover mission, and so on.

4. Ending your paintings and/or grasp on the wall.

You possibly can cease right here and tape the items up on you wall right away. I like to make use of blue painters tape and roll the tape into loops on the again so you possibly can’t see the way it’s hooked up and it doesn’t harm the partitions.

Or decide to collage a number of the smaller items collectively to make one greater piece. And even add a body, which you can also make your self, reuse one you have already got, or purchase one thing new. However since that is zero greenback DIY, I left every thing frameless, at the least for now. I do have scrap wooden within the storage that may technically match the invoice for hold the fee at zero {dollars}. Perhaps that’s a mission for subsequent time.

This can be a nice mission to do with children, after college or on a wet day too, if you happen to’re a father or mother / caretaker with a artistic kiddo. I’ve performed this one a number of occasions with Hayes and he completely loves serving to to chop up the cereal containers and creating little items with the paint sticks as nicely.

I feel it might work for practically any age. And in case your youngster isn’t comfy with scissors but, have them stick to the coloring / portray a part of the method. And perhaps allow them to pick which kind of cardboard they wish to use from no matter you discover within the pantry or recycling bin.

Like this zero greenback DIY? Listed below are a number of extra artistic concepts that use supplies you possibly can doubtless discover round your home already…

• Easy methods to make unpaper towels with material scraps you have already got.
• Easy methods to make cute notebooks with simply two supplies. You possibly can additionally use a few of your leftover paintings from this mission as a canopy for one in all these DIY notebooks, as one other thought.
• A paper mache approach that makes use of material as a substitute of paper, to make actually distinctive bowls. I like this one! Its messy however so enjoyable and the bowls end up actually cool imo.