Recycled crafts: a step by step description guide for kindergarten, school, home decor

Home is a place where it is always warm and cozy. And it is not necessary to spend all the savings to create a comfortable environment. There are always things on hand that can not only decorate your interior, but also make it unique.

All it takes is a little imagination, and crafts from throw-away material will breathe newness into the atmosphere of the house!

What is a discarded item?

It can be any item that has already served its purpose, or things that are being thrown away:

• bottle caps;
• sleeves from toilet paper or paper towels;
• yogurt cups, sour cream cups, and other food items;
• plastic bottles and tubes;
• corks from wine, champagne
• egg cartons;
• torn shoelaces;
• scraps of fabric;
• parts from broken toys;
• broken clothespins;
• dispenser caps;
• dried-up felt-tip pens;
• jars of creams;
• disposable tableware;
• old CDs, records;
• light bulbs;
• tires;
• shoeboxes and other merchandise.

And who are the main dreamers? Kids, of course! Embodying their ideas from discarded materials, they learn self-expression, thriftiness, assiduity and accuracy, develop their motor skills.

Crafts for children

Various materials can be used for crafts with children: Styrofoam, cardboard sleeves, disposable dishes, foam sponges. They are safe to use and are always on hand.

Styrofoam crafts

Styrofoam is a convenient base for creating children's crafts. It is often found in boxes from equipment or remnants of ceiling tiles. It is easy to cut, glue, paint. But in working with it has its own subtleties:

1. Styrofoam is brittle. To cut it, you need a sharp office knife.
2. To glue the elements, you can use liquid nails, glue or a hot gun. But the glue should not contain acetone or benzene. Otherwise the material will be destroyed.
3. When heating the foam plastic, harmful substances are released. Therefore, it is necessary to use respirators.
4. For painting the crafts suit acrylic, water-based paints, watercolor or gouache.

Children can easily make flat figures of animals, faces of favorite characters, etc. from foam plastic.

To make such figures you will need:

• a piece of foam plastic;
• a box cutter;
• pencil and paper for a sketch of the drawing;
• scissors;
• paints.

Work Stages:

1. Draw or print the desired picture on paper. Cut it out with scissors.
2. Trace the outline of the picture on the foam plastic.
3. Cut the shape carefully with a knife.
4. Paint with acrylic or gouache in your favorite color.
5. The final touch can be varnish to make the figure look even more beautiful.

According to the same scheme, you can create Christmas tree decorations for the New Year (snowflakes, deer, a snowman, the Snow Maiden or Santa Claus himself).

Disposable housewares

Another easily accessible throwaway material for children's creativity is disposable tableware. Plates, cups, forks, spoons will be an excellent tool for developing your child's imagination and fun games.

From disposable plates preschooler himself can glue a turtle, a muzzle of a bear or any other animal, flowers or a butterfly.

For the crafts need:

• 1 plate;
• colored paper;
• glue;
• pencil;
• scissors.

Workflow:

1. Cut out of colored green paper paws, tail and head of the animal.
2. On the head draw eyes and mouth, or cut them out of paper.
3. Turn the plate with the bottom up and glue the cut out elements under the plate. You can use a paper stapler instead of glue.
4. The "back" of the turtle can be painted with paint or felt-tip pens. Or glue squares / circles of colored paper.

A similar technology is done muzzles of different animals. Enough to cut out ears, eyes, nose and glue them to the plate, which will be the head.

Handicraft "Butterfly"

For this work, you will need a plate, scissors, glue, colored paper and paint.

1. From colored paper cut out the body of the butterfly.
2. Cut the plate in half and cut out the wing from each half.
3. Paint the wings.
4. Glue the wings to the body.

A particularly popular New Year's Eve craft for children is the snowman. To create it you need two plates, scissors, glue and colored paper:

1. The larger plate will be the torso and the smaller one will be the head. If they are the same, then one of the plates is cut to the desired size.
2. Use glue to fasten the plates together.
3. Glued to the "head" cut out of colored paper eyes, mouth and nose-fish.
4. On top of "put on" a bucket of paper or a cylinder.
5. On the "body" glued buttons.
6. If desired, you can make handles snowman, using a juice tube. At the bottom of the plate holes are made for the tubes, over which the paper mittens are glued.

Cardboard crafts

The most common material in children's crafts - the tubes of toilet paper and paper towels. They are in every home, they are easy to cut, glue, and decorate. Thanks to their shape, the sleeves open up a wide range of creativity. Here are just a few examples of a second life of old things.

Pencil holder

This is one of the most popular sleeve crafts. It is very easy to make and can be used for a long time. It can be single or a combination of several sleeves glued together. The main thing is a strong bottom, which is usually cut out of cardboard.

The stand can be painted in one color or painted with funny drawings, or glued with colored paper, for example, grooved.

Parking for cars

Young car lovers will love this craft and will have fun at the game. To make it, you will need:

• sleeves from toilet paper;
• the sleeve from a paper towel;
• cardboard;
• glue, glue gun;
• colored paper;
• scissors.

Process of making:

1. Take 3 cardboard rectangles of desired size. This will be the lower, middle and upper floors of the parking lot. If you want you can paint them in your favorite color or cover with colored paper.
2. The toilet paper sleeves will act as poles. There should be 4 between the bottom and middle "floor" and the same amount between the middle and top. The sleeves are also covered with colored paper or painted and then glued to the rectangles with a glue gun.
3. Three not very wide strips are cut from cardboard. These will be the sides of the parking lot on the "roof". And glued to the 3 sides of the upper rectangle. They can also be pre-coated or painted.
4. Then cut out of cardboard 2 rectangles of such width, that they could pass small toy car. This runs on the roof of the parking lot and its second level. Their length should be such as to reach the base of the parking lot.
5. You can mark the lines with white paint or double-sided tape.
6. You can also mark the parking spaces on the roof of the parking lot with duct tape.
7. For a more fun game, a painted sleeve from paper towels is glued to the roof of the parking lot. This is the downpipe for the cars.

Dish sponge crafts

Dishwashing sponges are a material that even the smallest creator can master. For most crafts it is enough to have sponges of different sizes, toothpicks, cotton swabs, colored paper, felt, scissors, tape and glue.

With these materials and tools, you can make a tank, boat, hedgehog or dinosaur.

For example, for the tank to take two sponges of different sizes and glue them together so that the small was on top of a large.

In a smaller sponge is a hole is made where you insert the absorbent cotton stick (a cannon of the tank). Colored paper cut out wheels and glued to both sides of the bottom sponge. Handicraft ready.

Ship - the simplest craft, which kids make in kindergarten nursery school. The base is made of sponge, and a piece of felt - the sail. They are fastened together with a toothpick.

To make a hedgehog, you need to give the sponge an oval shape. Then stick toothpicks into it, imitating needles. Draw eyes, nose and mouth with a marker or felt-tip pen. On the "needles" you can put circles cut out of scraps of sponge. These will be the apples that the hedgehog collected.

Decorations for the house

Products from discarded material - a great alternative to expensive decorations in the house and at the cottage. What can be made from unnecessary things? The creative field is as vast as the ocean! Take a look at what's lying around and get creative! Here are some ideas to help.

Paper and cardboard clocks

To make them you'll need:

• Old newspapers and magazines;
• cardboard;
• glue;
• scissors;
• paints;
• a working clock mechanism with hands.

Work Stages:

1. Cut newspapers and magazines into strips and roll them into tubes.
2. For brightness and freshness, it is better to paint the tubes with acrylic paint of the color you want.
3. From cardboard, cut out a base for the clock of any shape.
4. Glue the twisted paper tubes and glue them tightly together to the base of the clock.
5. Attach the clock mechanism with hands to the base.
6. If you wish, you can make a clock face out of cardboard or wood and glue it to the base. This can make the clock look attractive and make your guests happy.

Lanterns from plastic bottles

When the New Year is approaching, the pre-holiday turmoil and the search for gifts, decorations for the house begins. So why run and waste nerves, time and money if you can make original decorations with your own hands?

Try to make lanterns from plastic bottles and surprise your family and guests.

For this craft you will need:

• A plastic bottle of 0.5 liters;
• A cap from a dishwashing detergent;
• wire;
• marker;
• A box cutter, scissors;
• glue gun;
• spray paint in desired color;
• the lid of the can;
• masking tape;
• cardboard.

Workflow:

1. Take the bottle, having previously removed the label from it. Cut the bottom with a knife or sharp scissors. To make the cut even, you can mark it with a marker pen.
2. Use a marker to draw 3 rectangular windows on the sides of the bottle, leaving gaps between them. Cut them out along the contour.
3. At the top of the bottle, use a marker pen to draw stars or rhombic shapes over the whole bottle edges. Heat a knife (you can use a lighter) and make cuts along the contours of the drawn shapes.
4. Take cardboard and trace a circle around the bottom of the bottle. Cut out the resulting circle, apply glue around the edge with a glue gun and glue the bottle onto the circle.
5. Prepare a jar lid with a diameter slightly larger than the bottom of the bottle. Apply glue to the cardboard bottom of the bottle and glue it to the lid.
6. Use a glue gun to apply glue to the edges of the cut-out elements (windows and stars/rumbles).
7. Cut narrow strips of cardboard and glue them in a circle to the bottom of the bottle. The more stripes you have, the more textured the lantern will look.
8. Repeat the operation with the strips for the top of the bottle (just above the windows).
9. Take a small piece of wire. Heat it and pierce the hole in the lid of the dishwashing liquid. Pull the wire through it and bend its ends to each other. This is a lantern handle.
10. Cover the gaps between the windows with masking tape.
11. Spray paint the bottle with the desired color.
12. Place an LED candle inside. This is a wonderful Christmas lantern!

Christmas Tree Toys Made of Bulbs

Continuing the theme of decorations for the New Year, it is worth thinking about an outfit for the forest beauty. Expensive glass Christmas tree balls with the ease of a magician can be replaced by used bulbs. And there are many options for decorating them.

The easiest and fastest way is to paint a light bulb in your favorite color and draw a funny face or the face of an animal, Santa Claus (with a beard of absorbent cotton) or the Snow Maiden (with a scythe of threads).

You can depict a cute snowman, adding to the design handles, twigs with glue and a hat made of a strip of fabric, which successfully "dressed" on the base of the bulb.

Dreaming of traveling in the New Year? Hint about it to the main New Year's wizard by making a balloon out of the bulb! Its base will serve as a basket for travelers, and the glass part can be easily painted with markers or paints, decorated with beads, crystals or sequins.

You can hang such a ball with a rope and a glue gun.

If you have knitting skills, you can weave a cute lace for a baby lamp. Or just tightly wrapped with twine or twine.

In general, the light bulb can be decorated in any way. Let your imagination float free and create!

Painting from pistachio shells

If you have pistachio lovers in the family, you should not throw away the shells from this delicacy. They can turn into exquisite flowers, which placed in a frame will delight the eye with their splendor.

Materials for such a picture

• A lot of pistachio shells;
• glue gun;
• acrylic or aerosol paints;
• photo frame;
• hay or dense fabric like a tapestry.

Work steps:

1. Take 3 shells and glue them base down. You will get a closed flower bud.
2. Next add more shells on each side. The more shells, the bulkier the flower. The end result should be a lotus-like flower.
3. Make the required number of flowers.
4. Now you can start staining. It can be done with acrylic or spray paint.
5. Then prepare the basis for the picture. Remove the glass from the picture frame (you won't need it, as the picture is three-dimensional). The back of the frame dab the glue and glue the fabric or hay on it in an even layer.
6. The final touch is the arrangement of the flowers in the picture. Follow your idea and glue the pistachio buds to the fabric. If hay was used, it needs to be pushed back a bit and glue the flower to the base of the frame.
7. Leave the picture to dry and then hang it on the wall.

A panel from the caps

Plastic bottles not only act as a basis for creativity, but also have an important element - the cover, which can also be used to make all kinds of handicrafts for the home from unnecessary things.

The most common use of the bottle cap is in wall paintings or panels. They are easy to make and do not limit the flight of fancy.

You can decorate the wall of the garage, bathhouse, cottage, thereby obtaining an exclusive color and pattern pattern pattern. Or create an image according to the scheme, which will become a decoration of your home. For this purpose, the schemes for embroidery cross or beadwork are suitable.

The process of creating a panel is quite simple.

1. First, the scheme of the pattern is thought out.
2. Then the basis (cardboard or plywood) is chosen.
3. The schematic image is applied to the basis.
4. Covers are selected and painted in the appropriate colors.
5. Covers are glued to the basis with a glue gun.

If the ornament is laid out on the wall of the house, the elements can be attached to nails, wire or fishing line.

Get the kids involved in such an unusual creation, and trips to the cottage will be their favorite pastime!

Figures for the garden

A garden is not just a place where fruits, vegetables and flowers grow. This is a place where people used to relax from the bustle of the city and daily worries. And so that rest pleased not only the body, but also delighted the eye, it is worth to settle in the garden of cute figures of animals or birds.

Cast iron is suitable for this purpose as well as possible. Here are some great home and gardening tips you can use from old things.

A swan-shaped flowerbed

To create a swan, a small piece of plywood or plastic, strips, slats will do:

• The neck and head of the bird should be cut from plywood with an electric jigsaw.
• For the feathers, the slats are cut into equal parts along the perimeter.
• Then the blanks are painted in white. A swan's beak and eyes are drawn.
• In the "torso" of the bird, an appropriately sized container is placed, in which flowers will grow. Or you can make this area with flower pots.

Chicken and cockerel from tires

For such needlework you will need:

• 3 tires of the same size;
• plywood;
• 4 plastic tubes;
• electric hacksaw or metal hacksaw;
• jigsaw;
• wire;
• bright colors.

Fabrication process:

1. The torso, wings, and head of the hen are made from 1 tire. The tail is cut out of half of the other tire. Elements are fastened together with wire.
2. From plywood sawed beard, beak and scallop.
3. Take two plastic tubes for the legs. To make the hen stronger on her feet, they can be weighted by inserting metal fittings into the tubes and stick them deep into the ground.
4. Ready construction is painted in bright colors.
5. Similarly masters the cockerel.

Making decorative objects out of unnecessary things becomes a real hobby that can fascinate both a child and an adult. Give the joy of creativity and self-expression, and, among other things, reduce the amount of waste that pollutes our planet.

So before you throw away something old and unnecessary, think about whether this thing is worthy of a second life?

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