Craftsmen who create beautiful and high-quality products with their own hands often manage to monetize their hobby and successfully sell their works. Today there is a great opportunity to buy any artistic material to make interesting postcards, paintings, soap, figurines, appliques, crafts.
Hobbies of this kind can become an excellent source of additional income, because such products can be made to order for a holiday, to decorate a house or celebration, for various matinees and exhibitions in schools and kindergartens.
Types of Hobbies That Can Be Monetized
Nowadays, monetizing a hobby has become much easier thanks to the development of the Internet.
If a person can do something well, then he can use the social network resource and independently tell about his products, as well as receive information about various master classes and fairs, where he can declare himself and clearly demonstrate the results of his work.
It is thanks to the Internet that everyone has the opportunity to purchase an individual personalized embroidery-metric or an unusual exclusive cake to order.
It is especially common for mothers on maternity leave to monetize their hobbies; they have some kind of hobby or activity and enthusiastically develop it during this time, combining such activities with raising a child.
Crafts for kindergarten to order, various decorations and wooden toys - you can earn good money on all of this if you choose the right niche and hone your craft.
There are many types of activities, pursuits and hobbies that can generate income:
- Scrapbooking – craftsmen specializing in this type of handicraft create exclusive family albums, photo frames and postcards, calendars. Finished products made using the scrapbooking technique are very different from similar store products, as they have a very interesting and unusual design.
Albums, photo frames and postcards can be decorated with lace, ribbons, buttons, artificial flowers, knitted elements and motifs, plaster and polymer figures, metal decorations, cuttings and die-cuts from thick designer paper.
- Quilling – another interesting direction, which is skillful paper rolling. This technique allows you to create unusual postcards and pictures from special paper twisted into a spiral.
To create such crafts, special paper cut into strips is used, which can have double tinting, mother-of-pearl sheen and other interesting coloring options. In order to twist the paper, special devices resembling a fork at the end are used.
- Embroidery with threads, ribbons, beads - those who know how and love to embroider can make baby metrics and various personalized pictures for children, as this direction is in great demand among mothers of small children. In addition, you can embroider landscapes with seasons, flowers, animals and other interesting subjects.
- Cooking – if a woman (most often it is the fair sex who does this) knows how to cook well, then she can try making baked goods to order.
In this area today, not only ready-made cakes are in demand, but also various cookies with bright icing, gingerbread, pies, cupcakes. Most often, home confectioners take holiday orders for birthdays, corporate events and make individual culinary products taking into account the wishes of the client.
- Making bouquets to order – another interesting topic is the production of bright and unusual gift bouquets. These can be bouquets of sweets, marshmallows, marmalade, healthy fruit and vegetable compositions, as well as original men's sets with alcoholic drinks and snacks.
Such bouquets-installations look very original and are in great demand, especially on the eve of various calendar holidays.
- Sewing - If a woman knows how and loves to sew, then she can easily turn this occupation into a profitable business. The main thing is to decide on the direction - it can be clothes, patchwork blankets, soft toys, three-dimensional letters made of fabric, dolls.
You can make various “semi-finished product kits” for sale, for example, partially sew blanks of soft toy parts so that children can finish the work themselves in kindergarten or school.
- Knitting - some women and girls prefer knitting, which, like sewing, allows you to earn money on finished products. The range of products that can be knitted for sale and to order is simply huge - hats, scarves, snoods, sweaters, blankets, swimsuits, bags.
In addition to knitting clothes, you can make knitted letters, numbers and toys, which can be sold either ready-made or adapted into creative kits consisting of various prefabricated parts.
- Soap making – is a relatively new hobby, as it appeared only 8-10 years ago, and it began to be monetized only 3-4 years ago. Homemade soap, made from natural ingredients, does not contain chemicals and at the same time perfectly cleanses the skin.
In addition, it does not cause allergies and has a very attractive appearance, which is why it is in demand.
- Creation of jewelry and interior items – such works can be made from polymer clay – a special material from which you can sculpt and create various figures, patterns, flowers and motifs.
To engage in this hobby, you need to have a certain tool that allows you to roll out clay and scrape out patterns from it. For children's crafts, it is most convenient to use self-hardening clay, which does not require thermal drying.
- Wood processing – this type of hobby most often fascinates men, although it may be interesting to some women as well. Various flat figures can be made for sale, which children can then paint at their own discretion, wooden puzzles, three-dimensional figurines.
All these products, made from natural materials, are in demand and can bring in a good income.
- Decoupage – is a special way of decorating various items (kitchen utensils, furniture, office supplies) using beautiful napkins. Items decorated using this technique acquire a special vintage chic and can decorate any interior.
Craft ideas for children for kindergarten and school to order
Crafts for kindergarten to order, for school can be sold both ready and unassembled (for purchase, a fully prepared blank is offered, from which the child makes a craft with his own hands). Such offers are in demand on the craftsmen's market.
It often happens that children are asked to bring some material to a lesson or class, but parents do not have time to look for it or something was simply not prepared or purchased in advance.
Also, in many schools and preschools it is customary to organize New Year and autumn fairs, spring holidays dedicated to Women's Day and other similar events, to which children bring their thematic works and crafts.
However, not all parents have creative abilities and many experience difficulties in this situation and cannot always help their child. In this case, ready-made creative kits that can be purchased from various craftsmen will come in very handy.
Wooden figures for coloring
Crafts for kindergarten to order and for sale are made from wooden plywood, cutting out various figures from it – Christmas trees, balls, bows, cars, dolls, silhouettes of various animals (squirrels, bears, hares).
On such crafts, contours and outlines of drawings are drawn with a burning machine or a dark special pencil for the child to color in. Toys can be hung on a Christmas tree, used to decorate a classroom, group or just a room.
More complex options are crafts made from several components, for example, bird feeders. These kits contain several parts (components) that need to be assembled. Crafts of this kind not only develop the child's creative abilities, but also teach him to do good deeds.
Income from selling small figurines ranges from 10 to 30 rubles, depending on the size of the item. Prices for birdhouses and other larger blanks (boxes, houses) are higher – from 150 to 500-700 rubles.
Volumetric puzzles made of paper, cardboard, wood
Another interesting idea for earning money is making 3D puzzles from paper, cardboard and wood. These ready-made kits contain a cardboard base and a frame that the child needs to assemble and add paper parts.
Very interesting for children are volumetric 3-D puzzles in the form of insects, birds, various animals. Puzzle blanks for subsequent assembly of various animal figures and objects are also made of wood. Wooden models in assembled form are full-fledged toys that can be painted in different colors if desired.
Activities with puzzles-blanks develop the child's thinking activity and help him learn to model and construct. In the market of homemade goods you can find both simpler models for preschool children and more complex ones for older children.
Depending on the complexity of the model, prices for one such prepared set can range from 60-70 rubles to 700-800 rubles and even more.
Pictures for coloring
You won't surprise anyone with ordinary coloring books today, and any parent can find and print out an image their child likes for coloring if they want. Pictures with drawings on a cardboard or wooden base in beautiful frames can be made for sale.
They can be of very different topics:
- seasons;
- holidays;
- animals;
- flowers.
The child's task is to beautifully color the image. The resulting picture, depending on the plot of the drawing, can, for example, be given as a birthday present or used as an element of New Year's decor in a class or group.
You can earn from 50-60 rubles to 500-700 rubles on one coloring set, depending on the size of the picture and the complexity of the drawn image.
Applique kits
Applique is the most popular type of children's creativity, which a child begins to show interest in earliest.
You can make money on applications by selling ready-made kits:
| From paper | This can be either plain paper or cardboard, corrugated sheets, or individual elements using the quilling technique – ready-made twisted strips of paper. |
| Made from natural materials | Very often in schools and kindergartens children are offered to work with natural materials, which are not always prepared in advance. The set may include:
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| Made from artificial materials | This could be, for example, a set for a stained glass painting, which will include:
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You can earn from 20-50 rubles to 550-700 rubles on applique kits, depending on what exactly is included in the kit.
Preparing Modeling Kits
Crafts for kindergarten and school can be made from homemade plasticine or dough. Many craftswomen make such materials for custom modeling and their products and ready-made sets for modeling are in demand, as they are environmentally friendly and safe goods.
In addition, home craftswomen often offer a more diverse range of colors than similar store-bought products. When preparing plasticine, citric acid is added to the composition, and salt is added to the modeling dough, which helps protect very young children from swallowing the modeling material.
The sale of one such modeling kit can bring in income from 80-90 rubles to 250-300 rubles.
Scrapbooking kits
These sets are suitable for girls, as they prefer to decorate various notebooks and make beautiful cards.
The set may include:
- small notebooks;
- decorative cardboard;
- stickers;
- lace trim;
- ready-made cuttings.
The main thing is that it is not too difficult for the child to glue and attach the parts to the base (postcard, notebook, album). Ready-made kits can be sold for 100-120 rubles and up.
Soft toy making kits
May be of interest to both boys and girls.
Depending on age, you can create different sets for sale:
- for younger children - with prepared parts that only need to be connected (sewn or glued with a glue gun);
- for older children - with blank patterns that you need to fill with foam rubber or synthetic padding yourself and then sew.
These can be a variety of blanks:
- New Year's theme (snowmen, stars, balls);
- flowers, vegetables and fruits (pumpkin, carrot, eggplant, apple, banana);
- funny animals.
The kit should contain everything you need:
- threads;
- prepared cut-out parts;
- synthetic padding;
- needles.
Small toys sell for an average of 80-150 rubles, larger crafts - for 200-350 rubles.
If you have imagination and know how to make something with your own hands, it is not so difficult to turn your favorite hobby into a profitable business. People willingly buy cards, toys and crafts made with their own hands.
You can sell your work yourself on various online platforms and at real creative exhibitions, or you can work exclusively to order, making things for family holidays, for matinees and exhibitions in schools and kindergartens, and for other similar events.
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