Do It Yourself Craft for Teenager: 13 Ways to Boost Creativity

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Are you a teenager? Or do you have a teenage daughter? Are you looking for some do it yourself craft for teenagers?

If you are a teen girl, we have some fun crafts and DIY projects in this blog post that are easy and will help you save money.

If you are a mother looking for something creative, then too, we have creative DIY crafts for teenage girls that they can enjoy with all their friends.

DIY projects are fun to keep teens and tweens busy and enhance their creativity. Also, DIY Crafts are great gifts.

Do it yourself craft for teenager
Modern Holiday Centerpiece supplies, by ProFlowers.com on Flickr

1) Paper Fun Crafts for Teens and Tweens

Paper crafts are easy DIY projects for teen girls. Many things can be made just by using paper creatively. To keep kids busy, here are some cool crafts that can be tried at home.

Paper Flowers

There is an abundance when it comes to the type of paper flowers. These papercraft flowers can be used as a wall hanging, stuck to a cardboard frame, kept in a flowerpot, or stuck on DIY gift cards.

To make these, you need simple supplies like washi tape, colourful paper, scissors, and a scale or ruler for the measurement.

Paper Pencil Case

Paper Pencil cases are adorable and super fun to make. For these, too, you need simple supplies. Along with pencil Cases, you can also make mini pencil stationary. Little pencils, pen, eraser, and journals.

Paper Mini Animals

Do you love having a pet, and your parents don’t allow them?

Make mini papercraft animals. These are simple DIY crafts yet engaging.

Mini animals look cute on a desk, or you can use them as a hanging on the wall. These are easy DIY project ideas that you can try when you are bored.

Bookmarks

For book lovers, bookmarks are essential. And when you make them yourself, the feeling is different. You can make  designs using designer paper, pasting, or writing a famous quote by your favourite author.

DIY Magnetic Bookmarks
By Kidz Activities, Flickr

2) DIY Bath Bombs

Who doesn’t love these colourful bombs?

Bath Bombs are cool DIY projects for teens and tweens. Nowadays they are getting very popular. So why not make your bath bombs? Here is an easy tutorial for you.

Heart shaped bath bombs
By Erika van Rijssen, on Flickr

Supplies that you need to make bath bombs-

  1. Half cup Baking Soda
  2. A quarter cup of Citric Acid
  3. A quarter cup of Corn Starch
  4. A quarter cup of Epsom Salt
  5. Soap/ Food Coloring
  6. Castor oil
  7. Plastic mould/ soap mould
  8. Essential oil

Easy Tutorial on how to make bath bombs step by step.

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients ( Baking Soda, Citric Acid, Corn Starch, Epsom Salt)
  2. Take 3 tablespoons of castor oil in a glass jar.
  3. Add 1 tablespoon essential oil.
  4. Add 1 tablespoon of water and a few drops of Soap colour.
  5. Now mix the liquid with dry ingredients. (add the liquid slowly.)
  6. Whisk it well.
  7. After whisking, fill the plastic mould with the bath bomb powder you just made.
  8. You are ready to enjoy a great bath.

Add many colours for some extra fun. You can also hide something inside these to make great gifts. Like, hide friendship bracelets to surprise your best friend.

3) Jute DIY Crafts for Teens

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With jute, unleash your creativity and make great DIY crafts. Here is a list of jute crafts for teens.

Tote Bag

Teen girls love these. A tote bag is cool to take for shopping or taking many things at a time. Stitch it on a sewing machine and make some embroidery with an embroidery hoop. Or use acrylic paint, beads, and flower patches to decorate it.

Jute Flower Vase DIY Crafts

We all love having a lovely flower vase at our home. All you need to make these fun DIY crafts are old mason jars, Jute rope, and a hot glue gun.

It is good to use recycled materials for decoration. Use buttons of your old shirt, Jewellery, CD, bottle caps, duck tape, and acrylic paints.

Jute Lamps

This a great idea is to use Jute to make beautiful lamps. Use cardboard or balloons to give the shape you want. Then paste it with a mod podge.

Add light, and you are ready to shine.

Storage Space Bucket

Take square cardboard, paste the boundaries with mod podge or glue and then stick Jute rope on it and you have an easy craft bucket.

All these ideas are the best DIY projects to do with Jute. So, get your art supplies and start making.

Jute Cup Rings

Do you love to drink coffee and tea but are always worried about cup stains on the table?

Here is our next craft idea. Jute Cup Rings are easy DIY crafts for teens and tweens.

Take a cupboard, cut it in a round shape and paste jute rope with the help of a mod podge. And your fun craft is ready. These are good DIY gifts too.

The best part of Jute Cup rings is that jute is non-slippery.

4) Popsicle Sticks Craft Ideas

Wooden sticks are good room Decor. We can make creative DIY crafts with these. So let’s dive into the pool of these craft ideas with a wooden stick.

Sun Rise Wooden Lamp Do It Yourself Craft for Teenagers

This is a perfect craft with popsicle sticks. Make a sun-rising structure by sticking the sticks with the mod podge.

Add a bulb inside, and paint if you like. And be ready to have a mesmerizing view.

In the same way, you can make your designs.

Popsicle Friendship Bracelets

These bracelets are the easiest crafts for teens and tweens to try at home. To make them, boil these sticks in hot water.

Put them in mason jars to give a round shape. Paint with acrylic paint. Make creative designs or write the name of your best friend and exchange them on this friendship day.

These bracelets are cool DIY crafts for teenage girls.

Mini Keyholder

Mini key holders are adorable DIY crafts for teens and tweens. These are easy to make with popsicle sticks. Like a friendship bracelet, mould one end round and have a keyholder.

Mini Home Do it yourself crafts for teenagers

Make a new home for your Barbie. Mini homes are the next DIY crafts for teens. It’s a fun project to do if you like decorating your room.

Popsicle DIY ideas

5) Nail Art

Teens girls are fond of experimenting with nail polish. You can paint your nails with many DIY ideas. We have got some for you here in the list of DIY crafts.

Thread Lines Design DIY crafts

These nail polish thread designs are easy crafts to do for teenage girls.

You can come up with your ideas to do better. Paint your nails with a base color. Then dip a dental floss or a thread in the nail polish, and make cool stripes.

Flowers on Nail Paint

Flower designs are the best DIY crafts for teen girls. Make these designs with the help of wooden toothpicks.

You can also use some dry and crushed rose petals on nail polish to give a real look.

Sponge Sprinkle Crafts for Teens

After applying the base, tap the sponge (dipped in another colour) on the nails. This gives a sparkling look.

Lipstick Nail Paint

Yes, you heard right. When you don’t have nail paint at home, use lipstick.

Teen girls love to carry lipstick, so take the one you want to use as nail paint. Apply it with the brush and add a final coat of transparent nail paint.

6) Creative DIY Crafts with Mirrors

To do these craft projects, you need basic supplies. Take bamboo sticks, thin tree branches, mod podge, a mirror, cardboard, or popsicle sticks.

Steps to Make Cool Crafts Mirror

1) Take the mirror for your favourite shape.

2) Cut the cardboard of the same shape.

3) Stick bamboo sticks, tree branches, popsicle sticks, glass magnets, or papercrafts flowers for decoration.

4) And you have a beautiful mirror to hang on the wall.

7) Woolen DIY Projects

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There are numerous DIY crafts for teens to make with wool. Some best DIY crafts are here for teen girls.

Woolen Door Hangings DIY Crafts for Teens

Door hanging is an amazing craft idea to engage your teen girls in something productive. The craft supplies that you need to make woolen door hangings are…

Wool, Cardboard, beads, bangles, and mod podge.

Cushion Cover Decoration

Cushion Covers are fun things to design. Fold round the yarn in your hand 3-4 times. Then tie from the middle like a bow. Comb the yarn to give a fluffy hair look.

Use different colors. Make a heart shape with red yarn bows and cover the rest with sky blue. Stick on Pillow or cushion cover with mod podge.

For more ideas, visit Spruce Crafts.

Yarn Ball Hangings

This craft idea is a very easy craft for teen girls. You need Yarn, a balloon, glue, and water.

Steps to Make This Cool Stuff

Take a balloon.

Mix water and glue in equal quantities.

Dip the yarn in the mixture and remove it by wiping extra glue.

Now, wrap the yarn around the balloon.

Pop the balloon after it gets dry.

Take yarn string to make hanging.

Pom-Pom Teen Crafts

Woolen pom-poms are great DIY crafts for teenage girls. These are super easy to make and go with every do-it-yourself craft for teenagers.

Woolen Pom Pom
DIY Modcloth by Stacie, Flickr

Steps to make pom-poms at home.

Wrap the yarn around your fingers or any object.

Tie in the middle.

Cut and trim the yarn in a round shape.

These are some great ideas for home decor to keep kids busy on holidays.

8) Painting Ideas for Teen Girls

Paint the Pots

Teenagers or an adult, everyone loves to paint. You can paint small pots and make cute emojis with a brush. These look very attractive. You can keep them in your room or on shelves with books.

Painting the Wall

Wall paintings look stunning. There are various ways to makeover your room by painting the wall. Some ideas that you can try…

Tape Designs

With tape, you can make brick designs, square or triangle designs. Just paint the wall and paste duck tape in the pattern you want.

Now, paint the shapes with another color. And remove the tape.

Beautiful Art with Acrylic Paints.

You can make arts like a peacock sitting on a branch, a girl with an umbrella of hope, a deer roaming in the jungle, and sparkling stars in the sky.

Bubble Design

Make a bubble design by wrapping bubble wrap on a roller brush. Try to make white bubbles on a pink/ blue wall. It looks magical.

Hang Christmas light and artificial tree branches, dream catchers, or flowers to embellish the wall.

9) Mason Jar fish tank

Mason Jar Aquarium Garden DIY

You can make an artificial fish tank of any glass jar or bowl. Add sparkle, bubbles, artificial shrubs, twinkling stars, and seashells.

If you don’t want to make a fish tank, use these jars to make a lamp. Put some colorful Christmas light and marbles to make it more attractive.

Or, use Christmas lights to make beautiful clouds with cotton. Paste the lights on the ceiling, make a pattern, and hide them with cotton. Your enchanted clouds are ready.

10) Cardboard Crafts for Teen Girls

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Cardboards are essential for making do-it-yourself crafts for teenagers. Here are some DIY crafts that you can make with your entire family.

Book Shelf

We all love to keep our books on a creative shelf. So, why not make one yourself?

Cut the cardboard to the size you want. Stick 2-3 cardboards together to make it thick. Then paste a creative paper sheet to it.

Mini drawers

You can make mini drawers with old shoe boxes and keep your stuff inside them. You can use it as socks or tie a drawer.

Makeup Brushes Stand

Like mini drawers, you can make makeup brushes stand with cardboards. Paste jute rope, designer paper, or other decorative things like buttons.

11) Cool DIY Projects with Old Clothes

Old t-shirts and clothes can be used to make creative DIY crafts for teens and tweens. Let’s begin the journey.

Tote Bag from Old T-shirt/ Jeans

Do you have an old t-shirt?

  • Grab that t-shirt.
  • Cut a deep scoop shape on the neckline and sleeves.
  • Make 3-4 inches cut to make fringe in the bottom.
  • Tie the fringe to each other, and your tote bag is ready.

Pouch for Makeup Brushes

We often lose one of our makeup and paintbrushes here and there. A pouch is always a good idea to store these safely.

For those teen girls who love their makeup brush a lot, we have this pouch that you can make by reusing your old clothes.

You need a sweeping machine or fabric glue, a zipper, and DIY crafts to decorate it yourself.

Take a square-sized cloth, sew from the sides and paste a zipper.

You have a pouch that can be used as a makeup accessories pouch or pencil case.

12) Phone case and laptop covers

It is the best DIY craft for teens and tweens. We all have mobiles and laptops or pads. Buying cool and creative covers is expensive.

You can make these covers at home.

Measure the size of your device.

Cut the paper or cloth and paste on it.

Add other things to make it more creative.

Acrylic paint phone case

Take an old phone case and paint it with a base color. Draw something creative DIY crafts to enhance its beauty.

Glitter Phone Case

Apply some glue on the phone case and sprinkle glitter of the color you want. And, you have a new phone cover.

Cloth Phone/ Laptop Cover

You can stitch a cover with a cloth. Add foam in cloth to make it safer.

13) DIY Bookends

Bookends make your book stand straight. Adorable animal bookends are fun and cool crafts for teens and tweens.

For this craft, too, we need cardboard, glue, paint, glitter, and other decorative supplies.

Take some stones or marbles to add weight. Check out this video to learn to make creative DIY crafts bookends.

Paper Bookends
By Mosman Library, Flicker

Till now, we have looked at many DIY crafts. Let’s briefly recap on do-it-yourself crafts for teenagers that we  learned to make.

Paper Fun Crafts for Teens and Tweens

  • Paper Flower
  • Paper pencil case
  • Paper mini animals
  • Bookmarks

DIY bath bombs

Jute DIY crafts for Teens

  • Tote bag
  • Jute Flower vase DIY Crafts
  • Jute Lamps
  • Storage Space Bucket
  • Jute Cup Rings

Popsicle Sticks Craft Ideas

  •  Sun Rise Wooden Lamp do it yourself craft for teenager
  •  Popsicle friendship bracelets
  •  Mini keyholder
  •  Mini home do it yourself crafts for teenagers

Nail Art

  •  Thread Lines design DIY crafts
  • Flowers on Nail Paint
  •  Sponge Sprinkle Crafts for Teens
  •  Lipstick Nail Paint

Creative DIY crafts with Mirrors

Woolen DIY Projects

  • 1) Woolen door hangings DIY crafts for Teens
  • 2) Cushion Cover Decoration
  • 3) Yarn Ball Hangings
  • 4) Pom-pom teen Crafts

Painting Ideas for teen girls

  •  Paint the Pots
  •  Painting the wall

Mason Jar Fish Tank

Cardboard crafts for teen girls

  • Book Shelf
  • Mini Drawers
  • Makeup Brushes stand

Cool DIY projects with old clothes

  • Tote Bag from Old T-shirt/ Jeans
  • Pouch for Makeup Brushes

Phone case and laptop covers

DIY bookends

Which do it yourself craft for teenagers are you going to make?

Last Updated on by Himani Rawat

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