Wooden clock how to decorate with your own hands. DIY wood clock: handmade in the interior

reservoirs 26.06.2020

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Hooray! I'm officially a shoemaker with boots. I’ve seen enough of how the participants of our master class in KhVOE made wall clocks, and now (less than half a year has passed) we have a tropical timekeeper in our kitchen.

At the beginning of May, a master class was held in our KhVOE, where we made wall clocks with our own hands. The idea of the workshop came up in January, and it was a pleasure to implement it. Here, by the way, the clock broke in the kitchen, which I had long ceased to like. She combined the pleasant with the useful. Firstly, I made a new device for determining the time, secondly, an article for a blog, and thirdly, I added my favorite tropical decor this summer.

Why make a watch with your own hands when you can buy

And so it is clear that made with your own hands, it is with soul and from the heart. Perhaps the purchased ones will be of better quality and with a guarantee, but there are more advantages to making a wall clock with your own hands:

you can implement any idea (for example, like mine with the tropics)
choose the size you need
find the correct arrows and mechanism
start a little better understanding of how wall clocks work
proudly tell everyone that you made them yourself (and this is not just a postcard or a flower, but a whole device).

What to make a dial for a wall clock

Thinking about the panel under the dial, it is worth remembering that the watch can be not only round, but also triangular, square, even in the shape of a flower.

Panels can be ordered at the laser cutting workshop
find and buy finished plywood in an online store or in a store with goods for needlework
make from a cork backing or thick thick cardboard
cut out drywall
make from sawn wood
or from a vinyl record.

How to decorate a wall clock

There are a lot of ways to decorate a wall clock, it all depends on your desire to create and bother.

You can print and paste the finished picture
paint with acrylic paints
draw something with watercolor, cut and paste
glue volumetric parts from thin plywood
embroider something on the fabric and fit the workpiece
you can draw or stick numbers.

Wall clock - materials and tools

The time taken is one and a half hours. We will need:

round plywood panel with a diameter of 30 cm
clock mechanism with hands
paper and pencil
ruler
acrylic paints and brushes
palette for mixing paints
pliers
scissors.

DIY wall clock - work progress

The mechanism can be ordered in the online store or used left over from an old watch. There are a couple of points to pay attention to:

dial thickness
thread diameter (should match the diameter of the hole in the middle of the panel)
and the height of the stem (the stump on which everything rests, and on which the arrows are put on).

For example, in my mechanism, the stem height is only 8 mm, which means that the thickness of the plywood blank should not exceed 4 mm, otherwise there will not be enough space to tighten the nut. The best overall stem height is 16mm and the thread height is 9mm. This mechanism is suitable for most wooden blanks.

If there are volumetric details on the dial, you need to make sure that the arrows will not cling to them.

1. Before you start making a wall clock with your own hands, you need to decide where the number 12 will be. To do this, you need to turn the panel over, insert the clockwork, mark the middle of the top of the mechanism with a pencil (it will coincide with the middle of the loop) and draw a perpendicular line. It is from here that the countdown will begin and the distance between the numbers will be marked (if they are planned).

2. We take a sheet of paper, trace the outline of the dial on it and draw the decor. This is useful for seeing if the composition looks harmonious before it's too late to change something. I drew the outlines of the leaves on paper, then cut them out and transferred them to the plywood blank with a pencil.

3. We color the blank in accordance with the decor. I used white construction acrylic, art acrylic and colored paste for tinting.

4. When the paint dries, fasten the clockwork. It can have many details that can be used or ignored depending on the thickness of the dial. Usually, an assembly diagram is attached to the clock mechanism, which I advise you to follow. We string a rubber backing onto the stem and apply it to the dial from the reverse side. The top (middle of the loop) should match the pencil mark (see point 1).

5. Turn the workpiece over, put a washer on the rod and tighten the nut. Here we need pliers so that we can twist it tighter.

6. We string the arrows. By the way, I repainted the arrows from white to black. There are also two points here. Firstly, there may be a protective film on the hands that needs to be removed. Secondly, the black art acrylic did not fit the metal very well, so I had to first prime the arrows with building white acrylic, and then apply black after drying.

Before stringing, you need to make sure that all the arrows are straight. First we string the hour, then the minute. Second is dressed last. They are strung to a slight click. It is important not to overdo it and not be too zealous so as not to break the delicate fasteners. The hands must be strictly parallel to each other and not touch, otherwise the watch simply will not work.

7. We set all the hands to 12 o'clock according to the mark, insert the battery and set the correct time using a special wheel, which can be found on the mechanism on the reverse side.

A couple of evenings, an hour and a half - and I gladly launched my time. Take care of your time, spend it with those who give you joy!

Best,

It's no secret that the easiest way to transform the interior of a room is to add a stylish accessory to it. Puzzling over what it could be, think about such a solution as how to make a clock with your own hands.

Why hours?

From what to collect?

Simple do-it-yourself clock master classes

Do-it-yourself old clock in a new way

New Year's clock do it yourself

Conclusion

Photo gallery - do-it-yourself clock

This piece of furniture will be appropriate in a room of any purpose. Moreover, for its creation it is not necessary to be seven spans in the forehead. Just the desire to work is quite enough, and we will try to give you interesting master classes on assembling watches with your own hands and non-trivial ideas for their design.

To begin with, do-it-yourself watch crafts do not have to be working. They can play a purely decorative role. But even in this hypostasis, they will not cease to be a mystical object, carrying the mysterious energy of the invisible all-penetrating Time. It can fly or stretch, make a person happy or sad, and constantly requires monitoring of its course. Isn't this the best reason to make a watch with your own hands, not just a chronometer that counts minutes monotonously, but a real highlight of the interior?

Decorative clock will be the highlight of any interior

From what to collect?

“You can use a lot of different things and materials for do-it-yourself watch crafts”

Look at the photos of watches assembled by craftsmen with their own hands, and you will understand that you can really make an accessory out of everything that comes to hand! Creative thought, especially when given a direction, will generate incredibly fruitful designs.

Someone will see the dial of the future masterpiece in the lid of a wooden cable reel, someone in an old record, and someone will even think of taking a wall surface under it.

Original clock from an old record

You can assemble a magnificent wall clock with your own hands from the halves of a globe. Although it will take a lot of space to implement such a project, it will look amazing in the interior. Such chronometric compositions are very relevant for design trends with a geographical bias. You can make a decoupage geographical clock or use parts of ready-made globes. This accessory carries with it the spirit of wandering, so it can be safely added to the decor of tourist offices or used to decorate travelers' homes.

Globe clock for design directions with a geographical bias

To decorate the hall and hall, try to create a clock-picture with your own hands. The dial plot can be either a portrait or an originally printed fabric enclosed in a frame.

Clock-picture in the interior of the living room

Of interest among the photos of watches assembled by one's own hands is the kitchen model of a chronometer, the basis of which was a tin can. Here, such an abstract part of the clock as the spring of the mechanism is put on display.

It is fashionable to make a watch with your own hands from a tin can

For an office and a library, a clock made of cardboard, decorated to look like a chessboard, is very suitable.

In principle, you can use a lot of different things and materials for do-it-yourself watch crafts. You can launch:

paper;
gramophone records;
computer disks;
saw cuts of a tree;
plates;
glass, etc.

A plate clock is perfect for kitchen decor.

Whatever you stop at, the result will be worthy of attention in any case.

Simple do-it-yourself clock master classes

Model "Needlewoman"

To create this clock, you will need decorative buttons and ordinary hoops used in embroidery. The fabric will act as a dial, the coloring and print of which is suitable for the room design. In addition, prepare:

tape;
a piece of cardboard;
internal mechanism from old walkers.

Now let's see how to make such a clock with your own hands.

The process is intuitive. We stretch the fabric on the hoop, cut off the excess and sew buttons to the resulting base so that they imitate the location of the numbers on the dial.

Sew buttons onto fabric

Now we need to prepare the substrate. We will cut it out for our cardboard clock. The part must have a hoop diameter and be inserted from the inside. Its strength is enough to hold the arrows and the movement itself. For reliability, the insert can be glued to the fabric. It remains to attach a loop and hang the accessory on the wall.

Attach clockwork

This technology is often used to assemble themed clocks, for example, New Year's clocks. To emphasize their attachment to the event, it is enough to add an adequate decor in the form of: serpentine, golden cones, improvised snowdrifts. You can easily change the theme if you want. The ability to change the design of the accessory will allow you to play with the perception of the environment of the entire surrounding space, which will be very appealing to those who like frequent changes of scenery.

DIY hoop clock

Paper clock

Wonderful colorful do-it-yourself wall clocks can be assembled from magazine and newspaper sheets. Cooking:

pencil;
scissors;
silk thread;
adhesive tape on a transparent basis;
needle;
cardboard;
24 magazine sheets of identical format;
a pair of transparent plastic discs.

The last thing you can get hold of is the packaging of CDs.

There are different master classes for making paper clocks with your own hands, but in our case we will twist paper blanks. To do this, wrap the magazine sheet on a pencil and get a tube. In order for the workpiece to retain its shape, we fix the free edge with adhesive tape.

Roll paper blanks

When all 24 parts are ready, each of them will need to be bent, thus separating 1/3 of the length.

Along this fold, we will sew the tubes, collecting them into a ring.

Gather the tubes into a ring

We carefully lay out the sewn paper clock blanks on the table and put a transparent disk on top. This must be done so that the central holes of the elements coincide.

Insert and assemble clockwork

We insert and assemble the clock mechanism. From the back side, we will hide it under the second plastic disk and a cardboard base of a similar shape. Now fasten the arrows - and you're done!

Ready watches from magazines

Cardboard clock

They can be made simple, in a flat projection, or you can sweat a little and assemble a real imitation of walkers. This do-it-yourself watch craft is quickly assembled from boxes. On the case you will need a rectangular packing box, perhaps even from shoes. Everything will depend on what size you plan to make the product.

Example of a watch from a cardboard box

The first thing we will do is attach two ribbons to the bottom of the box. Then we will hang cones on them. The assembly of watches from cardboard will continue to work on the dial. We cut it out using a stencil and attach it to the front side of the craft.

Now let's take a look at the roof. We assemble its design from two thin boxes and two triangular pieces of cardboard.

Decoration ideas will be prompted by a photo of a watch made by one's own hands, which can be found in unlimited quantities on the Internet.

Bicycle wheel

Cardboard clocks, paper clocks… What do you think of the idea of a bicycle wheel clock? Since the base is quite large, it will be necessary to find an appropriately sized clockwork capable of rotating large hands. Working on a wall clock with our own hands, we will take ordinary school rulers. Let's give them the required length. Attach triangles to the ends, symbolizing an arrow. Moving elements should be clearly visible against the background of the disk, so if the design of the product allows, the arrows can be painted in a suitable color.

Attach the tin cover

There is one trick to creating such a watch with your own hands. To balance the movement of the arrows, a counterweight will need to be attached to the larger of them. In his role are usually pucks. This makes it easier to find the right weight.

DIY clock from a bicycle wheel

Decoupage clock

Decoupage technique is more popular today than ever. It is used in the decoration of a wide variety of things. It allows you to create a real exclusive. In this way, you can restore old watches in a new way or finish those just about to be born.

Clock decor using decoupage technique

DIY wall clock decoupage technique is not too complicated. It is rather demanding in detail, so the new hand-made can be considered quite an acceptable hobby for beginner designers. In a similar way, you can decorate watches made of cardboard, records, wood. For pasting the base, you should choose a pattern that you personally would like and do not dislike the interior style.

Decoupage watches should be in harmony with the style of the interior

Do-it-yourself old clock in a new way

If we discard the decoupage technique, then you can restore watches that have lost their attractiveness or do not fit into the interior in a completely ordinary way, accessible to every needlewoman. Try dressing them up in fun knitted clothes.

Update your watch with knitted decor

An unusual solution will help in creating a New Year's clock with your own hands. If in the ordinary everyday version the products are simply tied around the perimeter, then in honor of the celebration they are put on hats and scarves in the spirit of Santa Claus.

New Year's clock do it yourself

Preparing for this holiday is a separate topic. This is a whole section of master classes on creating watches with your own hands. And all why? Yes, because at this time the clock can be not only a decoration of the house, but also a wonderful gift for loved ones. Cheap? Yes! But exclusive and memorable!

Disc clock

A stunning watch model will come out of the disk. With the part of the mechanism fastening, everything is standard here. It is located in the center, but the peripheral design can be the most enchanting. There you can glue snowflakes, make a snow frame, etc.

Do not be too lazy to make a clock for the Christmas tree with your own hands. Here you can do without any frills and just paint the disk with a marker.

Do-it-yourself clock from a CD

If you want to try your imagination, try to imagine a watch made of discs in a more complex design. Glue them together or otherwise combine them into intricate compositions.

Styrofoam clock

Working with malleable material will be challenging even in the hands of beginners. Find watch crafts in the photo and try to assemble them with your own hands. Cut out the blank of the shape you like and tighten it with a cloth or paint it with paints. It remains to give the product a festive mood. Decorate it with shiny tinsel and other New Year's paraphernalia.

Styrofoam clocks can be made even by beginners

Dough clock

Also not too difficult way to make a New Year's clock with your own hands. In the course of work, you will need to knead the salty dough and bake figurines in the form of Christmas trees, stars, snowflakes from it. The main emphasis when conducting master classes of baked clocks with your own hands is done precisely on the kneading of the dough, since the success of the enterprise as a whole depends on its quality.

Essential Ingredients for Salt Dough

Having kneaded 250 ml of water, 250 g of salt and 0.5 kg of flour, immediately proceed to the formation of a curly base. For beginners, do-it-yourself watch crafts are better cut out of dough rolled into a layer. For those who already have some experience, you can try to assemble the watch case from small parts. Next, the workpiece is sent to dry in the oven. The decoration and decoration of the received will complete the work.

Bright do-it-yourself clock from salt dough

Advice. Do not add vegetable oil to the dough, even in small quantities. Its elasticity may improve, but the quality will drop sharply. Crafts from it will crumble.

Food plastic watch

A wonderful do-it-yourself clock for the new year can be assembled from a plastic box that served as a package for a cake or other goodies. Put a colored rain inside the box, you can mix it with small toys. Cut out numbers and hands for the dial from bright paper and stick them on the front side of the product. Sculpt from plasticine or cut out blanks for cones from plasticine and wrap them in shiny foil. Hang the decor to the finished craft and additionally wrap its body with fluffy rain. DIY decorative Christmas wall clock is ready!

New Year's clock from food plastic

How to decorate the New Year's clock?

“When making a New Year’s clock with your own hands, it would be nonsense to forget about coniferous branches”

In addition to all kinds of tinsel and toys, it is recommended to attach real cones, placers or clusters of berries, bows to crafts. Snow imitations are welcome. It can be drawn, sprayed with a toothbrush and paint, pasted with appliqué. Naturally, when making a New Year's clock with your own hands, it would be nonsense to forget about coniferous branches. However, live options are not always suitable. For example, they simply cannot hold on to paper watches because of their weight, so in such a situation you will have to use their artificial counterparts.

New Year's clock do it yourself

Conclusion

You can talk about how to make a watch with your own hands all day long. This direction is so rich in ideas that it seems simply unrealistic to exhaust this storehouse. Try at least once to immerse yourself in the mysteries of creating a masterpiece, and maybe an exciting activity will become your hobby.

Photo gallery - do-it-yourself clock

Surely you guessed that skilled people can transform anything and, as a rule, this does not require a lot of money or unique materials. Enough improvised means and good imagination.

We wrote in the previous article, so check it out. Perhaps you can pick up a few ideas for yourself.

Today we will talk about how to transform a wall in your house or apartment by creating a clock. If you want to learn how to make a wall clock with your own hands, then this article is for you.

Clock "Flower"

To make this watch you will need:

Plastic teaspoons of any color - 220-250 pieces;
silicone adhesive;
Scissors;
Dial from an old clock;
Paint (optional);
Screwdriver and screws;
Expanded polystyrene or ordinary foam of medium thickness - one square.

Take the styrofoam base and cut a hole in the inside for the dial. Using self-tapping screws and a screwdriver, make fasteners so that the future product can be hung on the wall.

Then take the spoons and glue the heads in the form of a flower around the hole, as shown in the picture.

When the gluing is over, you can paint the spoons in any color if you chose white.

When the paint dries, put together the dial and the "petals".

As a result, you will get such a clock.

moon clock

Such a clock will be the perfect solution for a nursery, especially if your child loves space and everything connected with it. In addition to the Moon, you can take any satellite or planet of the solar system.

You will need:

Plywood sheet;
White cardboard;
Scissors;
fasteners;
Glue;
Clockwork;
Printed print of the moon or planet.

Take a sheet of plywood and cut out a circle of the desired size. Based on the resulting circle, cut out the backing for the watch from white cardboard. Next, glue the cardboard onto the plywood.

After that, take a printout of the moon and cut it to fit the base, then glue it on. When the print is dry, drill a hole in the center and install the mechanism.

Attach the fasteners to the back of the plywood and hang the product on the wall. This way you can make a big clock. The main thing is good print resolution and high-quality printouts.

watercolor clock

In order to make this clock out of wood, you will need:

birch plywood;
Watercolor paints;
tassel;
Wooden numbers for decoupage and silicone glue (optional);
Clockwork;
Fasteners.

Take plywood and cut out a circle. After that, using a brush, moisten the base with water and begin to carefully make paint stains. The color scheme can be any, according to your desire. When the paint dries, you can glue the numbers. If you decide to do without them, then you can proceed with the installation of the mechanism. To do this, just drill a hole in the center and set the arrows. You can also varnish the watch.

Finally, install the fasteners and everything, your watch is ready.

If the interior in your house or apartment is made in a minimalist style, you can make a wall clock with your own hands following all the rules of minimalism.

You will need:

Plywood;
Black paint;
Gold colored clock mechanism;
Fasteners.

Cut out a circle from plywood and paint it black, then varnish it. Cut a hole for the mechanism and install it. Attach fasteners and hang on the wall.

Knitted watch

If you ask how to make such a watch, we will answer - very simple. The only condition is that you need to be able to knit. Otherwise, there are no problems. You won't even need a crate.

You just need to have an old round watch, thread and knitting needles (hook). Knit a watch case and put it on top.

The result is this beauty.

Dominoes

Beautiful and original watches for which you need:

Base - plywood, wood;
Dominoes - 12 bones;
Clockwork;
Dye;
Silicone adhesive.

Take the base, cut a square out of it and paint it any color you like. If you wish, you can varnish the base. After that, cut a hole in the middle and install the mechanism. After that, glue the bones according to the time. Attach fasteners and everything, the product is ready.

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In order to introduce clocks to older preschool children, to teach them how to set the time, we need a clock layout with arrows that can be rearranged.

For handouts or a didactic game, you can make a do-it-yourself clock layout from cardboard and cocktail tubes.

prepare white cardboard, the black cardboard, glue, adhesive tape, tube, matches, clock face printed on a colored office leaflet (downloaded from internet)

Cut out the dial, stick on white cardboard, "laminate" with adhesive tape. With the help of an awl do a hole for a cocktail tube in the center of the circle. Cut from black cardboard arrows short and long. punch holes with a hole punch.

piece of tubule (1 - 1.5 cm) insert into the center of the dial, insert the arrows. With the help of matches or a lighter, set fire to the horses of the tube and press it down. The same on the other side.

These watch can be used in a didactic game to consolidate the parts of the day, to consolidate the numbers.

Hour hand

hour hand

Hour after hour,

Slowly, not lagging behind

And he takes us with him.

Minute hand

Minute hand

You are the watch sister.

Minute hand,

You are long and fast.

Count down the minutes

It's not a joke!

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Stylish wall or table clocks can drastically affect the mood in the interior, add some kind of shade to it. And wrist chronometers can change the image of a person. However, in search of a suitable option, you can spend a lot of time and still not find the right one. In today's article, we bring to your attention ideas on how to make a watch yourself, a master class describes in detail the various techniques for making and decorating watches.

Do-it-yourself watch from a record

From the plate, using the decoupage technique, you can make very beautiful chronometers that can be a gift for loved ones, especially those who are constantly late.

1. We find an unnecessary vinyl record, remove the label. It is better to choose one so that the middle is white - it is almost impossible to paint red with white acrylic.

2. We purchase a clockwork or take it out of an unnecessary watch.

3. We prime the plate from the can. You can simply paint the surface with acrylic using a sponge, but further work will be more convenient if primed with an aerosol. We dry.

4. Paint the background with a sponge. We chose slightly golden acrylic. Waiting for drying again.

smear the surface with glue;
wet the card;
apply the card to the adhesive surface;
on top we apply another layer of PVA;
we expel all air bubbles from under the card with fingers or a brush;
dry with a hair dryer.

6. Glue rice paper on top. We work with it in the same way as with a regular decoupage napkin.

7. We apply at least 3 layers of varnish.

8. We make marking drawings and paste the numbers of a suitable size.

9. We cut the hole sealed in the process of work again; turning the scissors a couple of times, increase the hole for the clockwork to the desired size.

10. Insert the mechanism, put on the arrows.

11. If there is no loop included with the mechanism, then you can glue it on the Moment glue.

12. Also, if necessary, the arrows can be painted in a contrasting color.

13. Insert the battery.

So we learned how to make a wall clock with our own hands, the master class also revealed to us the features of working in the decoupage technique.

coffee clock

We continue to use decoupage to decorate watches, but another decoration option is also applicable. In this case, we will make a clock from coffee beans with our own hands, and the master class below is devoted to this particular topic.

Materials:

blank with a hole in the center;
clockwork;
napkin with a beautiful pattern on the theme of coffee;
coffee beans
priming;
decoupage water-based varnish;
colored acrylic;
contour on glass - silver, gold, bronze;
stained glass paint;
sponge, brush, regular and rubber roller, paper file, toothpick;
PVA glue.

1. We prime the surface of the workpiece.

2. We paint one side with white paint, the other with brown.

3. On a dry surface, we spread PVA glue diluted in a ratio of 1: 2. Wet the napkin and glue it on top. Cover again with glue. We apply a wet stationery file and roll it on top with a roller, getting rid of air bubbles. Leave until completely dry. Then varnished.

4. With a contour, draw the boundaries of filling with coffee beans.

5. After 10-20 minutes, we can start decorating with grains. To do this, we cover a small area with stained glass paint and carefully place coffee on it in random order, moving a toothpick towards each other.

6. After an hour, the paint will dry, and everything will hold.

7. The dial can be made from improvised means, the same coffee beans, you can draw numbers using a contour. With the same contour, you can draw additional details: at least butterflies, if you think they are appropriate.