How to make a house out of a jar

We create miniature houses from polymer clay

In this master class I want to tell you how I made small houses from polymer clay, which I used here >>

For work we will need: polymer clay, acrylic paints, a stationery knife or blades, a white acrylic outline (I have some kind of paste, although I always thought it was an outline), a needle or a toothpick.

To begin, take a piece of polymer clay and make a square sausage out of it so that the cut ends up as a square.

Let's cut it. I will be making 2 houses, so I cut them into 2 pieces.

I take one piece and make a roof. I cut a piece at an angle on one side. And then on the other side.

It turns out something similar to a house.

Now I want to make a pipe for the house. For this I also make a square sausage, only very small.

I cut a piece at an angle so that the pipe sticks evenly to the roof.

And on the other side I evenly cut off another piece - this is the top of the pipe. I apply it to the house and press it a little with a needle or toothpick so that the plastic sticks together.

This is what happened.

The first house is ready. I decided to make the second one very tiny (for my new idea). To do this, you need to do the same thing, but in smaller sizes. We make a tiny square sausage.

We cut a piece from both sides and get a roof.

We make a small pipe and glue it to the house.

Then I put my houses in the oven. I fire them there at a temperature of 120 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Don't forget that different clays need to be fired at different temperatures, this is indicated on the packaging.

After firing, we begin painting. I mixed black and red paints on paper and got a dark brown color. I will use it to draw the pebbles on the houses, doors and windows. I don’t have a thin brush, so I use improvised tools - a pin, a wire, a toothpick or a wooden kebab stick.

When we're done with the dark paint, let's move on to the orange. I use this paint to paint the light in the windows.

And now the most interesting thing is the snow on the roof. For this I use this paint. When I bought it, I thought it was an ordinary acrylic contour, and then I read that it was a relief paste. But I think a white acrylic outline should also work.

I take the house and apply paint to the windows and door first.

After this, all that remains is to make the roof; for this it is better to place the houses on the surface where they will dry.

Carefully apply paint to the roof.

We put the houses away to dry for several hours.

As a result, we get this result

Afterwards I also drew the windows.

Thank you for your attention

How to make a house out of a jar

Little children, like many adults, love to create various masterpieces with their own hands and always do it with delight. Today it is popular to make crafts from polymer clay and other materials that can be found without much difficulty.

Using this technique, you can make incredibly beautiful and original gifts for your loved ones, as well as exclusive decorations that will fit perfectly into the interior of any home. In particular, most children, together with their parents, take great pleasure in creating fairy houses from cans and polymer clay. Using the step-by-step instructions given in our article, you can also make a magnificent accessory without much effort.

How to make a candlestick house from a jar and polymer clay?

Carefully follow the step-by-step instructions, and you will definitely get an excellent gift for your loved ones:

1. Prepare the necessary materials. You will need: a small jar with a lid, polymer clay of different colors, metal baking molds, as well as a tablet candle or materials for making it yourself.
2. Roll out the white polymer clay into a thin layer, cut a strip of the desired size from it and wrap it tightly around the jar. Press the seam neatly.
3. Using a square cutter, cut out a window.
4. Use brown clay to make a door, a frame for it and a door handle. Decorate the window.
5. Use a small heart-shaped cutter to cut out a window on the door.
6. Decorate the house to your liking, for example with flowers and greenery.
7. Decorate the lid - cover it with red polymer clay, and stick several white circles on top.
8. Preheat the oven to 130 degrees, place the house in it and bake for 15 minutes. After this, let your craft cool and then coat it with varnish.
9. Pour paraffin into the jar, place the wick there and secure it with kebab sticks. If you don’t have all this, just put a tablet candle in the house.
10. This is such a wonderful house you will get!

Here are some more ideas on how to make real masterpieces from ordinary jars and polymer clay:

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Thursday, September 27, 2012 19:33 + in quote book Today we will talk about making handicrafts from clay. You can use both ordinary river clay and special clays for modeling in this handicraft. The latter come in both plain and colored. One of these crafts can be found below. Clay modeling is an entertaining handicraft, and when you make a souvenir miniature with your own hands, it is not necessary to have great artistic abilities. It is enough to take a ready-made drawing or photograph of the house and you can start working.

Making a clay house begins with selecting a photograph or sketching the original. English houses in the Victorian style are usually used, this is done due to the fact that such houses are extremely beautiful and will easily decorate your home or will be gratefully accepted as a hand-made gift. However, you shouldn’t get hung up on photographs; you can stretch your imagination and make an elf’s house located on an old stump. Or, say, an entire village inside a fortress wall. After you have decided on the sample, it is best to make a drawing of the future details: walls, roof slopes, the platform on which the house itself is installed. This is necessary to ensure that parts do not mismatch during assembly.

The clay is rolled out in a layer of 3-4 mm and the details are cut out with a knife or scalpel. Windows are cut into the walls, do not try to observe the geometry particularly clearly, small distortions will only look more interesting in the finished structure. To ensure that the knife blade does not catch on the material from which you are making the craft, moisten the knife blade with water. Decorative patterns are applied to the walls and roof slopes. For example, a coating that imitates straw can be easily made using grooves with a needle, and brick walls can be made using a toothpick. And roof tiles can be easily created using a specially sharpened stick. By the way, sushi shelves from Chinese restaurants are very suitable for making various sticks.

To make a souvenir house from clay with your own hands, it is better to use a mass that self-hardens in air. If you use plastic mass for modeling and then bake it in the oven, then after applying the decorative details, the mass must be baked in the oven. For baking temperature and time, see the instructions for the plastic modeling mass. Don’t forget that in miniatures small details give a special flavor; don’t be lazy to make a decorative lattice or ivy covering the wall. Moss on the lower stones of a tower or house located near a pond is also suitable. You can reproduce in miniature part of the surrounding interior - for example, a boat.

Often, an LED flashlight, or rather its luminous part and a switch with a battery, are often inserted into a homemade clay product made in the form of a house. If you want to make lighting, then do not forget to immediately make holders for these parts. In this case, the back wall is made either with a large hole for access to changing the battery or opening (on hinges). The hinges are very easy to make from a strip of tin (from a beer can) wrapped around a U-shaped paperclip (its upper part). Such a hinge is inserted with the tin part into the part to be torn off and baked together with it, and punctures are made in the mating part for inserting a paperclip. During assembly, the “legs” of the hinge are inserted into these punctures and fixed with glue. After the parts have acquired the necessary hardness (they have been baked or hardened by exposure to air), it is time to paint. It is better to paint parts before assembly. At the same time, you can easily place the part in front of you in the most successful and convenient way.

Acrylic works well as a paint. At the same time, there is no need to buy expensive paints in art stores; ordinary “school” acrylic paints from office supplies are quite suitable! Of course, painting with a brush is a rather delicate task; it’s much easier to use a cheap airbrush. Its price is not high, and its lifespan (unless, of course, you forget to rinse it after use) is more than 2 years. At least, it has already been working for me for 2.5 years at the time of writing this article. Of course, I use it for hobby purposes and it usually works 4-5 times a month, but it has such a simple design that there is simply nothing to break! To assemble, or rather fix the structural elements, the same mass from which the souvenir house itself is made is used. However, if your material requires firing to harden, you can also use an adhesive connection. Butt parts do not glue very well; it is better to use pieces of fabric soaked in glue to connect parts from the inside of the structure. The souvenir house can also be used as a decorative lamp with a candle inside. For such a house, it is best to use self-hardening clay. Then, after the house has completely hardened, it will be completely fireproof, because all connections are made of the same non-combustible clay. However, the baked mass also has the opportunity to participate in the manufacture of a decorative lamp with your own hands - it is enough to make a separate part of the structure for the lamp, for example, a tower adjacent to the house. Remember - the part of the craft in which the candle will burn must have an open space at the top; hot air from the candle and combustion products will escape through it. However, you can also use a fairly large number of windows located under the roof of a homemade souvenir house. If you use an LED flashlight as a backlight, then before assembling your clay craft, you can glaze the windows - the glass is cut out of transparent plastic (use bottles from under carbonated drinks or beer) and are slightly colored. You can apply a design on the glass in the form of curtains. The glass is glued to the windows from the inside of the structure, so make them slightly larger than the window openings. As you can see, making a craft with your own hands - a house from a souvenir shop - is not such a difficult task! The main thing is to choose free time for this needlework and commit to not giving up until you get a finished souvenir! Well, at the end of the article I will give a few more different types of homemade souvenir crafts in the form of houses made of clay.

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