How to make a frame with your own hands?

Decorating the wall of the room with drawings is a great idea. The art of your children will look great in the interior, regardless of its style. But any picture, even if it is performed by a child, should have a worthy frame.

In this article, we will not consider the option of ordering frames in a framing workshop. Without a doubt, it will look nice and expensive, but the self-made frame looks just as good. Also it is possible to make own frames from various improvised materials. In our case, such a thing will be a non-working wall clock, which we will slightly redesign.

Option frame for children's drawings with their own hands

So, let's get down to work:

1. Remove the glass frame, previously unscrewing all the bolts on the back of the clock.
2. Carefully remove the arrows - we do not need them.
3. Prepare a sheet of ordinary office paper - with it we will make an oval pattern. This is necessary in order for the pattern to fully coincide with the central part of the workpiece.
4. Lightly pressing with a pencil, we will draw on the sheet an oval of the right size.
5. Then we transfer it to paper for drawing. Since the drawing will be done in watercolor, then it is better to take the appropriate paper.
6. Offer your child to depict something specific (a cat, a tractor, a tree or a simple landscape). And you can just give the child the paint, and let him depict everything he wants.
7. In the photo, you see a drawing of a 5-year-old child - an aquarium with three colorful fish. It turned out creatively and childishly directly.
8. Glue the picture on the inside of the watch. If desired, you can slightly improve the future picture - for example, to make the background a little bluish.
9. At the bottom of the painted aquarium glue small pebbles and seashells - this perfectly complements the seascape. Just consider the height of these elements - they should be placed under the glass frame.
10. To glue pebbles is best for a thermo-pistol - this is a guarantee that they will hold well, besides hot glue freezes very quickly, which means that you can make such a frame for a child's drawing with your own hands in half an hour.
11. Do not forget to remove thin threads of frozen glue from the craft.
12. The composition of the picture will be more successful if you picture air bubbles above each fish.
13. The joint of paper and plastic looks not so beautiful, therefore it is better to decorate it. We will do this with the help of large decorative sand - here it will be very useful.
14. Using a thin brush, apply the PVA glue with a thin strip to the edge of the paper, and then gently place the sand there (it can be replaced with very small stones).
15. Allow the glue to dry well, and then turn the product over. If some particles are not stuck, they will fall down - you can paste them again.
16. Glass frames should be perfectly clean from the inside - wipe it with a special tool.
17. Turn the frame over and screw all the bolts into place.

The handicraft is ready! It will look great on the wall of the nursery . As you can see, it's very easy to make a frame from an old watch with your own hands. And if the clockwork is working, then the arrows can be left - and you get the original wall clock-aquarium.