5 Minute Crafts Tools

[Karlotta Neifert]

These 50+ quick and easy kids crafts can be made in under 30 minutes using items that you probably already have around the house! No special tools or skills are required to make these cute crafts for kids! Great fun for the entire family!

Transform everyday items and basic supplies into creative masterpieces and colorful art projects! These fun kids crafts provide the perfect opportunity for little hands to make a big impression!

This collection of 50+ simple crafts for kids makes it easy for you to get crafty with your children! Follow the easy step-by-step tutorials and have fun creating lasting memories and spending creative time together!

5-Minute Crafts is a do it yourself (DIY)-style YouTube channel owned by TheSoul Publishing.[2][3][4] As of October 2023[update], it is the 16th most-subscribed channel on the platform.[5] The channel is also the 5th most-followed Facebook page. It is based in Cyprus.[6]

5-Minute Crafts' YouTube videos are compilations of videos previously posted on Instagram or Facebook.[7][8] The channel's content consists largely of videos relating to crafts and life hacks, styled in how-to formats, and occasionally, science experiments. The channel's videos employ a style where the camera is focused on a table with objects while only a person's hands appear in the frame, making content with aid of these objects, usually food and DIY ingredients and tools.[9]

TheSoul Publishing was founded by Russia-based entrepreneurs Pavel Radaev and Marat Mukhametov, a team with backgrounds in social media content creation, who launched AdMe.[3][10] In March 2017, the company founded the YouTube channel, Bright Side.[11][12] On November 15, 2016, 5-Minute Crafts was registered on YouTube by TheSoul Publishing.[13] The channel's first video, "5 essential DIY hacks that you need to know" was uploaded the following day.[14]

In 2017, the channel's subscriber and video view counts started to grow rapidly. In an article published by Mic in June 2017, 5-Minute Crafts was noted to have accumulated over 4 million subscribers.[15]

In April 2018, Tubefilter covered a trend regarding springtime cleaning videos on YouTube, noting 5-Minute Crafts' participation.[16] By November, Vox wrote that 5-Minute Crafts was a "wildly successful" channel, citing its then over 10 billion video views and its ranking as the fifth most-subscribed channel on YouTube, having nearly 40 million subscribers at the time.[3] During one week in December 2018, the channel received over 238 million video views.[2]

In November, 2021, the channel celebrated its 5th anniversary on YouTube, with more than 1.7 billion hours watched and 21 billion views.[19]That same month on November 18, 2021, Variety commented that the 5-Minute Crafts Family had the highest-performing YouTube Short to date with nearly 433 million views.[20] As of January, 2022, the channel has 75.4 million subscribers, ranking it as the eleventh most-subscribed channel not operated by YouTube.[5]

With a focus on DIY content, 5-Minute Crafts began to adapt its content for distribution on Pinterest. The activity began by establishing 5-Minute Crafts in English, Spanish and Portuguese. This collaboration with Pinterest was recognised by The Drum Awards for the Digital Industries 2021, winning the "Best use of Pinterest" award.[21]

The channel has drawn criticism for its unusual and potentially dangerous life hacks and its reliance on clickbait.[3][22][23][24] Vox characterized 5-Minute Crafts as "bizarre", describing its content as "do-it-yourself-how-to's that no person could or should ever replicate", and criticizing the channel's heavy use of clickbait thumbnails.[3] Mashable described the channel's videos as "nonsensical" and possibly a form of trolling, singling out a video which claimed to demonstrate how soaking an egg in vinegar and then maple syrup will make it "bigger than before".[22]

BBC's Click criticized 5-Minute Crafts for its "fake kitchen hacks": when following the instructions of a video in which a fresh corncob produced popcorn when microwaved, the presenter found the cob was only warmed up.[23] Ann Reardon of How to Cook That described clickbait recipe channels including 5-Minute Crafts as the "fake news of the baking world", and fact-checked several of their videos on her channel. In particular, she criticized a clip in which a strawberry was soaked in bleach to produce a "white strawberry", saying it would be dangerous if a child were to replicate it and eat the result.[23] The segment has since been removed from the video.[citation needed]

I actually own a fair bit of jewelry making tools, but I assume most of you guys don't have jewelry making stuff (as I guess not everyone wants to make jewelry all the time) and that's why I came up with an easy way of making these DIY rings with no professional jewelry making tools. I am using a wire cutter, but you can swap it for any old wire cutting tool or even heavy duty scissors!

If you have enjoyed this instructable on how to make DIY easy rings, then please give it thumbs up and you can even subscribe to my YouTube channel ;) You can also follow me on social media to see what else I am up to :) And share your creations! Your very own handmade ring if you decide to make it :) Oh and let me know if you would like to see more of these' 5 minute crafts ':))

Gold plated copper wire -18 gauge from Beadsmith, Swarovski crystal(45mm - SWAROVSKI CHATON CLEAR CUT CRYSTAL FOILED POINTED BACK ), hot glue gun(Stanley), Glue sticks(Stanley), piece of sticky tape, Exacto knife, wire cutters, something round to wrap your ring around

TIP: TRY NOT TO USE THE NAIL FILE ON THE EDGES OF THE RING, IN FACT YOU CAN SKIP THIS STEP AND YOU CAN ROUGHEN THE SURFACE WITH JUST THE EXACTO KNIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING. I used the file and once I cut the glue off, the filed damaged surface became visible. So learn from my mistake :))

Silver plated copper wire - 18 gauge from Beadsmith, silver plated copper wire - 26 gauge from Beadsmith (thin), frosted bead-silver, but you can use any bead, wire cutters, something round to wrap your ring around

Copper wire (20 gauge non tarnish from Palmers Metals), silver plated copper wire (20 gauge non tarnish from Palmers Metals), gold plated copper wire (20 gauge non tarnish from Palmers Metals), wire cutters, something round to wrap your ring around

Start braiding the wires as you would braid your (or someone's hair :)) after about an inch(or so) of braiding add your bead to the middle wire. wrap the other two around it and carry on braiding. Again after about an inch stop braiding and get your 'something round' :) and wrap your ring around it. Then take it off the 'something round' (hahaha! I think I'm coming up with a joke here!...just hope I'm not the only one laughing...) and cut the excess wire off.

Grab your wire cutters (you can even use small nail scissors) and bend the end of each wire into a small loop, then press it down with the wire cutters to make it flatter. I bent the two side wires up and the middle one down to secure the braid.

Roughen the surface of the ring with nail file and Exacto knife on the top(sort of in the middle) and also the reverse of the ring. I've done that to help the glue to stick and hold better. But here is a tip:

TIP: TRY NOT TO USE THE NAIL FILE ON THE EDGES OF THE RING, IN FACT YOU CAN SKIP THIS STEP AND YOU CAN ROUGHEN THE SURFACE WITH JUST THE EXACTO KNIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING. I used the file all over the place :) and once I cut the glue off, the filed damaged surface became visible. So learn from my mistake :))

Slide the ring onto your 'something round' (here we go again hahaha). Get a piece of sticky tape and wrap it around your finger. Then stick the top of the crystal onto it. Apply a drop of hot glue to the roughened surface of the ring and carefully place your crystal into the glue drop. Using one of your other fingers, press the crystal into the glue even more. Then apply glue to the reverse of the ring and you can even flatten the glue by going over it with the tip of the glue gun.

Once the glue cools down, start cutting it off with your Exacto knife. Cut around the crystal in an angle(angle of the pointed back of the crystal) and remove the excess glue using your fingers. Do the same at the back of the ring. The idea is to leave a small piece of glue in one of the loops underneath the crystal so that it's not too visible, but holding the crystal in place. :)

Using thin silver wire, attach your bead. In my case a frosted silver bead, but you can use any. Treat the thin wire as a needle and a thread and go here and there to secure the bead to the ring :) I know this is not the best explanation, but really, this is how it works, you will intuitively know what to do next :) And the photos'll help too :) When you are finished, make sure both ends of wire come out of the two holes on the bead and then cut them off.

Cut a piece of gold plated, silver plated and copper wire (Or if you are loaded you can go for real gold and silver and copper.... ehmm perhaps rose gold instead of copper... :)) And following the instructions in ring No.1 tutorial, braid and finish your ring! :)

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