Plastic bag crafts: master classes for children and beginners, photo ideas and tips

Few people have thought about how original crafts can be made from ordinary plastic bags. You don't need a special talent to make them - step-by-step instructions will help you make an unusual thing without any effort.

Arm yourself with bags you find at home and let's start creating beauty.

Flowers from trash bags

Rose

One of the easiest polyethylene bag crafts is a rose. Pink and red bags will work well, but it all depends on your imagination.

For the rose, we will need brightly colored bags, scissors and wire for the frame.

Step by step instructions:

1. Divide the wire into small sections and make from it a ring with a stem.
2. From bags cut out 10 equal squares.
3. Carefully wrap the formed rings polyethylene and fasten the remaining leg. Do it with all sections of wire.
4. Now assemble the rose. Start with the smaller petals, and then move on to the larger ones.
5. Make sure that all parts were firmly attached to each other, otherwise the rose will fall apart.
6. If you need a stem to put the bouquet in a vase, use wire and green ribbon.

Chrysanthemum

Let's make another beautiful flower - a chrysanthemum.

Prepare cardboard, bags and wire.

Step by step instructions:

1. First prepare the bags. Cut off their handles and bottom and cut the middle into long strips.
2. From cardboard we make a template of a flower - a circle.
3. We wrap the prepared strips around the circle and bind in the center. Next, carefully cut the template on one side and take out the resulting loops.
4. Spread the petals and proceed to the stem. It will be made of wire, which must be twisted at the bottom and wrapped with green threads.
5. It remains to add the core. You can glue beads or sequins there, or you can trim it with orange colored threads. Done!

Toys out of bags

The idea to make real toys from ordinary bags is sure to please your baby. This is a very original way to please your child and develop his perseverance and patience.

You can make any animal your kid wants: a chicken, a dog, or a bear. The creation algorithm is almost all the same, except for the shape.

You will need trash bags of different colors, scissors and cardboard.

Step by step instructions:

1. Cut the base out of cardboard - two hollow inside circles of different sizes. They will be used for the head, legs and body.
2. We cut the bags into long strips.
3. Wrap the polyethylene on the cut out rings. Here you can help your child, because it is a long, but very important activity. The tighter and more strips you wind, the more fluffy the pompon will be.
4. When everything is ready, cut the rings around the circumference and staple the middle, so that the bags do not fall apart. You should get a pompon, which should be fluffed.
5. According to the same scheme, we make a few more pompons. If necessary, experiment with the size.
6. In the end glue all the parts together and add a nose and eyes. They can be made from beads or buttons. Done!

Children's crafts from bags

Parachutist .

Your child can do this interesting idea even by himself. Prepare him garbage bags, plasticine and thread.

Step by step instructions:

1. From polyethylene, cut out a large circle. Make sure that your child is careful with scissors.
2. Next, you need to make the parachutist himself. Suggest that the baby make it himself out of plasticine. The little man should not be too small.
3. Once the molding is done, it is necessary to attach our "dome" from the bag to the parachutist. We do it with thread and in four places.

Skipping rope

From bags you can make an excellent sports equipment for a child. You will need bags of different colors and tape.

From the bags you need to cut long strips. They will become ribbons for braiding.

Especially girls who already know how to braid their dolls will like this activity. Make sure that the threads of polyethylene do not lose tension.

For convenience, you can attach the base of the plaits to the chair. When the desired length is woven, wrap tape around the beginning and end to form the handles.

Pipedastras

If your child likes to dance, you can please him by making a pipidaster.

Prepare plenty of bags in advance. The more polyethylene you use, the more puffy the toy will turn out.

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Take about 40 garbage bags and stack them. Don't forget to trim off any unnecessary stuff beforehand: handles, puffs and bottoms.
2. The bags should not separate and slip, so secure them with a pin or paper clip.
3. Carefully fold the pile in half and make incisions toward the fold, not cutting it to 6-7 centimeters.
4. After that, unroll and remove the staples. On both sides you have notches, untouched area inside.
5. We roll up our package into a tube and wrap the middle with scotch tape.
6. All that's left is to fluff up the ribbons and we're done!
7. The ribbons came out on both sides with a holder in the middle. You can make another version of the pipidastre: cut the stack on one side only, but then you have to make more cuts. That way you will have a fringe on one side.

How to knit from bags

Even experienced needlewomen will be surprised that you can knit not only from the usual yarn, but even from garbage bags.

For knitting, be sure to choose the softest polyethylene, otherwise you will not get a beautiful weaving.

First you need to prepare bags, creating a "yarn" from them. Cut them into rings and staple them together. One ring should be passed through the other, then bend and pass one end into the other. In this uncomplicated way we fasten the remaining rings and wrap them into balls.

You can knit with both knitting needles and crochet. Most needlewomen choose needles, saying that it is much faster and more convenient. But the choice is yours, of course!

Useful little things

Now that we have learned how to take from bags, you can make many different useful things for the house.

Rug

Such a thing is easy to crochet. You can make it monochrome, or you can even make it with a pattern. To do this, find a sketch on the Internet for regular crochet and follow the scheme.

Another way to make an unusual rug - from the already familiar polyethylene pompoms!

You will need:

• Mesh
• Pom-poms
• Thread

Step by step instructions:

1. How to make pompoms just above we have already figured out. According to the same instructions, make the right amount of blanks (depends on the desired size of the rug)
2. If you want to make a pattern on the mat, draw it on the grid in advance. Make pompoms of different colors and use your imagination.
3. Using threads, attach the pompoms to the mesh and trim off the excess.

Bag

Tie a unique bag of bags.

Prepare:

• Bags
• Crochet or needles
• String

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Prepare the yarn using the method described above.
2. Start knitting according to the pattern you found. It is important to determine the correct size of the chain - about 20 centimeters.
3. Use air loops.
4. Next, you need to tie the chain with no stitches.
5. When you knit a few rows according to the scheme, take a fishing line. It should be tied into the loops. Continue to knit with fishing line until the bottom part is finished.
6. Next, knit the first side of the bag with no stitches.
7. To widen the piece, do not forget that in the second row you need to add columns and add 2 columns without a stitch.
8. Finish all the elements according to the scheme and pull out the fishing line with a rachetta step. Stretch the edges of the product upwards to give it shape.
9. Finish the handles of the bag in a similar way to the scheme for the bottom part. Attach handles to the product and add desired decorations. You can add a pocket, zipper or buttons.

Handcrafts for the garden

From bags you can make beautiful decorations for your garden and vegetable garden. On the edges of the bed, flowers made of polyethylene will look unusual.

Painting on the fence

If your vegetable garden has a chain-link fence, then try the whole family to decorate it.

The more varied the palette of bags, the more interesting the picture will be. Cut long strips from the bags and get to work.

Fasten the beginning of the strip by tying it to the stack. And then thread the bag through the holes in the fence and "draw" from it whatever you want. For example, a yellow bag is a perfect sun, green is grass and blue is clouds.

New Year's Eve crafts from bags

Christmas tree .

You can put such a beautiful tree on the New Year's table. It does not take up much space and looks very beautiful.

We will need:

• Green plastic bags
• Wooden sticks
• Glue
• The wire
• Cardboard

Step by step instructions:

1. Connect the sticks at the base with glue. The resulting triangle without a bottom wrapped with wire to make branches.
2. From the bag cut small but wide strips. This is necessary to create a fringe: on one side we cut the bag into thin ribbons. Make a lot of such parts in advance.
3. Next, glue the blanks on the wire in a circle. Do not leave any empty spaces.
4. Reel up to the middle and start on the other side, so that the fringe looks in different directions. We finish the branches to the bottom.
5. Make a rectangular stand from cardboard and put the finished product on it.

Wreath

Such a Christmas decoration will look great on the door on the eve of the holidays.

You will need:

• Ready-made pompoms
• Wire
• Decor

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Make a lot of pom-poms in advance in any color.
2. Twist the wire into a circle.
3. Now place our pom-poms on the wire, pressing close together.
4. When the previous step is complete, bind the wire so that the wreath has a circle shape.
5. Let's proceed with the decorations. Attach Christmas tree toys, Christmas rain, or even candy.

Garbage bags can also be beautiful. The main thing is to get them in the right hands. Today we told you what you can make from bags. Imagine, create, experiment, and get the whole family involved.

Photo of crafts from plastic and garbage bags