Beautiful Homemade Wind Chime Projects.
There’s nothing like listening to the soft tinkle of wind chimes on a breezy day! You can buy all kinds of wind chimes, but it’s fun to make your own. Especially if you can upcycle or repurpose material you already have to make one. I found 12 DIY Wind Chimes that I think are very creative to share with you!
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Making wind chimes is easy, and a lot of fun! I hope this post inspires you to create some fun wind chimes for your yard!
12 Great DIY Wind Chime Ideas
Want to make your own DIY wind chimes? Here are some tips:
- Go Shopping! If you don’t have old kitchen gadgets or extra silverware, go shopping at thrift stores, secondhand shops, and garage sales. You will be able to find things cheap and they don’t have to be in perfect shape.
- Spray paint it. Don’t like the colors, maybe they don’t match, or want to keep rust at bay? Spray paint the items to bring new life to your wind chime.
- Hang it somewhere sturdy. When a storm comes through, make sure to have your wind chime hung somewhere sturdy or be ready to take it down.
1. Flowerpot Wind Chime
I love this colorful flowerpot wind chime. You could use any cute pot that you have! Check out the tutorial at My Home My Style
2. Drift Wood Wind Chime
These DIY seashore wind chimes from Home Sweet Homemade would be a great way to use shells you find on vacation.
3. DIY Key Chime
This wind chime is a cute and easy one even kids can make. I love all the different colors for the keys! Check out Inner Child Fun for the tutorial on how to make this upcycled key wind chime.
4. Lampshade Wind Chime
Reuse a lampshade and some old necklaces to make a colorful and magical wind chime. See how at Home Talk.
5. Recycled Junk Wind Chime
Make your own wind chime out of recycled junk that you have around the house. See how at Craft Bits.
6. Can and Egg Shell Wind Chime
Make a wind chime out of a can and decorate it with egg shells! This is the perfect project for a child during the summer months. See how at Craft Bits.
7. Mom Wind Chime
Make a family wind chime for Mom or Grandma! You put one pot for each member of the family. See how at Craft Bits.
8. Cutlery Wind Chime
Red Ted Art has a cute cutlery wind chime that is simple to make and can be made with kids.
9. Owl Kitchen Gadget Wind Chime
Make an adorable owl wind chime with old kitchen gadgets. Don’t have your own? Shop garage sales and thrift shops to get all the items you will need. See the tutorial from Home Talk.
10. Rolling Pin Wind Chime
I love this baking inspired rolling pin wind chime from Home Talk.
11. Strainer Pot Wind Chime
Make a strainer wind chime and you have the perfect place to plant a flower too! See how at Home Talk.
12. Pressed Penny Wind Chime
This pressed penny wind chime is gorgeous and won’t cost you much! See how to make is at Home Talk.
I hope these ideas get your creative juices flowing and inspire you to use what you may already have to make your own wind chime!
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Little know factoid: The sound of wind chimes is my favorite sound in the world. (The voices of my family don’t count.) It ranks just slightly above the sound of a fife and drum. Not that anyone cares or anything, but I love them, and now you have me wanting to actually make some of my own. I never have. I always buy them.
GREAT ideas! Thanks for sharing, I am gonna get the supplies together to make one with the kids! Wonder which one they would like to make? So many choices! Have a blessed day dear Manuela, HUGS!
What great ideas. I think I might make the one with the colander and silverware and hang it on our almost finished deck off from our dining room.
I love the paint stick one! I think I’m gonna stain them dark then paint gold polka dots on them. Thanks for the inspiration as always Manuela! 🙂
What great ideas! Thanks for sharing with us. Love the key one. So original.
Judy
Each one is so cute!
Thanks for the feature on my bottle cap wind chime! Got to admit the other ideas are pretty amazing, too… getting me inspired 😀 (the shells windchime would be a GREAT little summer project for those of us on the coast.)
They all look so cute and I would enjoy having them in my garden for looks alone. I do love a musical windchime so, if I made these, I’d make sure that it would be unlikely for them to clank. That would probably be a challenge.
Those are all great ideas, Manuela, I love the key one, very cute and colourful!
Hugs, Cindy
Lots of cute ideas – Thanks for sharing. I have never made one, but do enjoy one I have had for years, hanging outside my back entrance. Many times I have been on the phone with someone and had them say they can hear the chimes. Makes me smile. 🙂
Enjoy your evening.
Glenda
So cute! I will have to make the bottlecap one for my son who is in college! Guess what type of bottlecaps I will be using 😉 Thanks for these ideas! Vickie
Hi Manuela,
All the chimes are really pretty; I like all the different motifs and can’t decide which I like best!! I enjoyed these, thanks for sharing!
Poppy
Love them all – perfect for summer! The colors alone make me smile!
xo
Each one of these is so cute! I love wind chimes and you have certainly given me some inspiring ideas!
I love the jello mold, and the bottlecap chimes the most…how fun!
All VERY cute ideas! When I was little we went on vacation to Fiji and we collected shels. My mom made a beautiful windchime with our “treasure”