How to do anti-stress at home?

Slimes, coloring books for adults, legos and all kinds of stress management toys are all the rage right now. They help you relax after a work day and distract yourself from negative thoughts. It is quite possible to make a toy to deal with stress on your own.

You can easily find products for creating these crafts in hardware stores, pharmacies, and supermarkets.

Small balls are very popular now. You can use different materials to create them.

1. Flour. This product can be used to create colorful balls. They are soft and elastic. To make such toys, you will need a bag of flour and two balloons. Using a funnel, pour a little flour inside each of them. To make the ball tight, it must be tamped with a pencil. The edge of the ball must be tied with colored thread. You can decorate the ball with a funny face.
2. Orbiz. These soft polymer absorbents are often used as fillers. Orbiz, like flour, are poured into colored balls, and their edges are tied with threads. Using these types of balls can also quickly relieve stress.
3. Buckwheat. This material has an excellent massage effect. Like the previous fillings, this one is used to create small balls. Crafts from it can be of any shape and size.

Elastic slimes can also be made from available tools. You can do them in different ways.

1. Sodium tetraborate. This substance is also known as borax.It is great for making elastic slimes. Before work, sodium tetraborate is poured with warm water and mixed thoroughly. After that, the rest of the ingredients are added to it. For example, office glue and dye. The mass turns out to be viscous and does not stick to your hands.
2. Shampoo. Several types of slimes can be made using this product. Most often, a glass of shampoo is mixed with a little glue, dye and glitter. Slime turns out to be bright, elastic and pleasantly smelling. You can also use liquid soap instead of shampoo.
3. Shaving foam. From this improvised means, slimes are soft and airy. In addition to water and dye, a little glue and borax are usually added to shaving foam.
4. Starch. Almost everyone can find this product at home. You can use either corn starch or potato starch to create slimes. To create an elastic mass, in addition to starch, glue and sodium tetraborate are also used. The finished toy stretches well and even crunches a little.
5. Film mask. This cosmetic product is often used by girls for skin care. It has the consistency of a cream, but upon contact with air, it quickly thickens to a dense film. This product is mixed with moisturizer, thickener and color to create slime. Handgam from such a mixture stretches well and does not stick to the hands.

You can now buy anti-stress coloring books in many bookstores and art stores. Coloring them allows you to quickly relieve stress and get rid of stress. You can make a homemade coloring in just a couple of minutes. All you need is to pick up pictures and print them on quality paper.

Using the selected drawings, at home, you can create a small book, fastened with a stapler. Large paintings that are hung on the wall after painting also look beautiful. Such a drawing can be a great gift for a loved one or friend.

It is a well-known fact that animals are great at helping to cope with stress. To help a person relax can not only his four-legged friend, but also a toy in the form of a cat or cat. There are several ways to do it.

To create such a simple craft, a white balloon is suitable. The first step is to make a small funnel out of a sheet of paper and insert it into the neck of a plastic bottle. Millet must be carefully poured into it.

The balloon must be inflated and twisted so that it does not deflate immediately. The tip of the balloon with air inside must be put on the bottle. Millet is carefully poured inside. You need to release air from the ball slowly. If you do this abruptly, the filler can fly out with the air. To prevent the toy from tearing, it must be carefully shoved into another ball.

It must be tied using thread or a neat ribbon. A beautiful bow perfectly complements the kitten's figure. When everything is ready, you need to draw a cat's face on the surface of the ball.

Squishies in the form of cats, made of plasticine, are also popular among children and adults. Such toys-crinkles are distinguished by their attractive appearance and soft texture.

To create a squishy with a filler, a large bath sponge and light plasticine of a suitable color are used. A base for the toy is cut out of the sponge. After that, the base is wrapped with plasticine. Using a toothpick, holes are made in the craft for air circulation.In this form, the workpiece must be left for 12 hours.

You can also make other toys with your own hands, for example, a cute pig. To create it, an oval must be cut out of a rectangular piece of sponge. The sharp edges of the sponge are carefully rounded off, cleaned with sandpaper to make the shape of the product smoother.

An acrylic primer is applied to the surface of the sponge. Everything must be done quickly so that it does not freeze in the process. When the toy is completely processed, you must wait until the soil is completely dry.

After that, you can proceed to painting the craft. Red and white paints are mixed in a small container. The sponge must be carefully painted over and dried. After that, ears, a patch and eyes are painted on the pig's face with colored paints. Two small ears are cut out of felt. They are attached to the head of the toy with hot glue. The stress management toy is ready.

In addition to balls, slimes and squishies, there are other anti-stress things. Original stationery is popular among schoolchildren and students.

In order to decorate a notebook or notebook for school, the core of the cover is cut out, stepping back one centimeter from the edges. Two pieces of the desired size are formed from a piece of polyethylene. The open edges of the bag must be smoothed with an iron, leaving a small hole.

Dye of any color is diluted in glycerin. Glitter or small decorative figures are added to this liquid. The finished mixture is poured into the remaining hole. After that, the edge is sealed with an iron. The jewelry bag is glued to the wrong side of the cover. Its edges need to be decorated with tape. The notebook will turn out to be original and beautiful.

A small bookmark will perfectly fit into the collection of stationery. It can be done using the doodling technique. The anti-stress bookmark will always be at hand. Therefore, it will be possible to paint it not only at home, but also at school.

You can make the bookmark more original and unique by inventing your own pattern and applying it to the surface of the paper with a marker with a thin rod.

Making an anti-stress pen at home is even easier than making a bookmark or notebook. For this it is enough to fill its body with a colored viscous mass, which will shimmer beautifully when moving. You can also attach a small anti-stress ball or cube to the top tip of the pen with a glue gun.

Other crafts can be used to combat stress. They are easy to make and can be a great gift for a loved one.

This simple workshop will help you easily make a colorful phone case with your own hands. To do this, a novice master will need:

• transparent phone case;
• acrylic paint and brush;
• hair straightener;
• scissors and glue;
• cotton wool;
• black marker;
• foamiran.

The craft creation process consists of several stages.

1. To begin with, the inner surface of the cover is covered with a layer of acrylic paint of the desired color. If desired, this material can be replaced with nail polish.
2. The foamiran sheet is ironed using a hair straightener. This will make it elastic.
3. Two round parts are cut out of it and the product is filled with cotton wool or padding polyester. We fix the edges of the craft with glue. It also needs to be used in order to glue the part to the cover.
4. From foamiran of a different color, you can cut out ears, tail and paws for the animal.
5. The rest of the details are drawn on the surface of the face with a black permanent marker. Clouds, hearts and other details can be painted with acrylic paint on the surface of the case.

To make such a craft, you will need polymer clay and nail polish of any color. Small balls are formed from a soft base. For the convenience of staining, a toothpick is inserted into each of them. The product is covered with a layer of nail polish. There should be no unpainted places on it. Otherwise, the clay will dry out and it will be inconvenient to play with the balls.

While drying the toothpicks, stick them into a sponge or a piece of styrofoam. After the first layer of varnish is dry, it can be covered with a second one. It is very pleasant to play with such crispy balls.

Helps to relax and distract from bad thoughts and play with kinetic sand. If you follow simple instructions, you can do it yourself the first time.

1. First you need to prepare the sand. If material from the street is used, it must be dried in a pan and sieved through a sieve. You can also buy pure white sand at the pet store. It is inexpensive and much more pleasant to work with.
2. A bottle of boric acid and a tube of liquid glue are mixed in a separate container. The finished mixture will be viscous and elastic.
3. This viscous liquid is poured into a container of clean sand.
4. Stir the mass thoroughly with your hands.

From the materials at hand, you can make not only a simple ball or squishy egg, but also a large ball. It can be used for stress management and various games.

To create such a toy, you will need several bright pieces of fabric, strong threads and filler. You can use buckwheat, rice or pearl barley to create a ball. For reliability, the cereal should be placed in a small plastic bag. It should be soft and not rustling. To make this type of ball, you need to follow simple instructions.

1. Draw a neat pentagon on paper.
2. Transfer this pattern to the fabric and cut 12 even pentagons out of it.
3. The edges of each shape must be carefully folded, ironed, and hemmed.
4. Details are sewn in pairs. After that, they connect to each other. There should be a small hole in one of the edges to turn the toy inside out.
5. The finished craft should be turned out, filled with any filler.
6. The hole must be sewn up with a blind stitch.

Anti-stress pillows improve a person's well-being, help him to relax and fall asleep faster. They are soft, comfortable and very pleasant to the touch. The process of creating such a pillow consists of several stages.

1. To begin with, we draw a drawing of the future toy on paper, then transfer it to the fabric with chalk. Cut out two symmetrical parts from a piece of fabric, retreating a couple of centimeters from the edge.
2. After that, cut out the resulting figure with sharp scissors.
3. We decorate the front side of the toy with pieces of felt, buttons or sequins.
4. We put the details of the pattern with the front side to each other and carefully pin with safety pins.
5. Then they need to be sewn, leaving only a small hole at the bottom. We process this part of the fabric with an overlock and sew a hidden fastener there.
6. After that, the product must be turned out and filled with cereals or polystyrene.

All these simple crafts from scrap materials can be done with your child. The process of creating things to deal with stress is exciting for both adults and children.

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