Handmade crafts of foam plastic: interesting ideas and master classes for children, at home, on holidays

Styrofoam is a very convenient material, from which you can make a huge number of useful things. Buying a technique, do not throw it away, and apply everything wisely in business: and the thing will get the necessary and original, and the pleasure of your work, and to the trash cans unnecessarily go.

To please yourself and your loved ones with something useful and original you can buy it in construction or specialized stores. The crafts can decorate garden plots, the house, decorate a photo area, a child's birthday party, make useful things for the home.

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Techniques for working with the material and the necessary tools

Styrofoam comes in different shapes, thickness and density. In addition to the fact that you can use it from the boxes from the technique, you can buy in stores for creativity and stationery.

In such stores there are on sale ready-made forms: balls of different diameters, blanks of individual parts, different thickness and density of the material. In a construction store you can buy a separate sheet of large size, which can be used for many jobs.

Styrofoam is a very brittle material, so to work with it you will need a box cutter or a fine-toothed wood hacksaw. Craftsmen use an electric jigsaw or a bolt cutter in their work.

When cutting out large shapes and figures, they use nichrome thread, which is heated by connecting to a transformer. When working with nichrome thread it is necessary to use a protective mask, as the foam plastic emits toxic substances when heated.

It is best to use foam glue for crafts, designed for gluing ceiling tiles such as "Master". Such glue is sold at any hardware store.

For those who know how to use an assembly gun, then you can glue the items with assembly foam. There are on sale a special glue-foam, for gluing parts of the foam, but it is not particularly durable.

The main thing you should pay attention to when buying glue and paint that they do not contain acetone or benzene, which dissolve the foam.

Styrofoam lends itself very well to painting with acrylic paints, so any work can be creatively decorated to match the interior of the room.

Decorating the room or area of the garden you can make original bulk crafts from foam plastic. Such work will diversify your site and lift your spirits.

Animals

Look interesting figures of animals and birds, cut out of Styrofoam.

Draw the shape of an animal or bird on a sheet of Styrofoam. It can be a peacock, goose, duck, frog, hare, crocodile or something else.
Carefully cut out the figure. If the edges are uneven, they can be sanded down with sandpaper.
Paint with acrylic paint.
Attach the handicraft with wire or self-tapping screw to the desired area.
You can varnish the figure for durability.

Large foam plastic handicrafts are convenient because they can be moved from place to place, they are not deformed by rain, acrylic can always be updated or repaint the figure in another color.

Fruits from Styrofoam

Artificial fruits and vegetables will serve as an interesting decoration of the garden plot, the interior of the house and a toy for children. Make such products from dense molded foam.

To do this, buy blanks of shapes of vegetables and fruits in specialized stores for crafts or cut out of a piece of foam plastic yourself. Parts are painted with acrylic paints and varnished.

You can decorate vases of fruit and vegetables in the garden, in the room. You can hang fruit with wire on tree branches, creating an interesting composition in the garden.

Such foam plastic crafts for children are useful as good didactic material in the study of the world around them. A child would love to play with such toys, especially if you make these works together.

Letters

Letters from foam plastic can decorate a photo area, a child's birthday party or just a wall in a child's room.

For work you will need:

Styrofoam with a thickness of 1.5 cm,
acrylic paint,
glue,
Decorative decorations.

On a sheet of Styrofoam, draw letters or numbers of the required size. Use a box cutter to cut out the shape and sandpaper the edges. If you want to glue parts of the letter, glue the parts together and let them dry.

Paint the figure with acrylic paint. Depending on what you need the letters for, decorate them with decorations.

You can use artificial flowers, beads, balloons, small toys, photos, pictures as decorations.

Since the foam is very convenient to attach details, you can use the letters as an information board.

Flowers

Styrofoam flowers can be an interesting way to decorate a room or a garden plot. To decorate the room, bouquets of foam balls strung on a wire look good.

As an option, you can decorate the wall of the room with large flowers, decorating the flowers with decorative details or using them as an information stand. Bright acrylic paints will give the flower a unique look.

For the garden plot, cut out figures depending on how you want to decorate the area. It can be large sunflowers or small flowers for decorating the border.

Such handicrafts are well anchored in the soil with wire, easy to move, not deformed by precipitation, durable and quite inexpensive.

Snowflakes

The coming of the New Year is always eagerly awaited by adults and children. Unusually and easily decorate the room will help children's crafts from foam plastic in the form of snowflakes. Children love to create with their own hands, so create a creative atmosphere for them and they will be delighted with their creativity.

For the work you will need:

thin Styrofoam,
box cutter
decor
acrylic paint.

Draw snowflake shapes on a sheet of paper or download templates from the internet and transfer them to the foam plastic. Using a stationery knife, carefully cut out the snowflake shape. Scrape out the rough spots with sandpaper.

If desired, you can paint the snowflake blue or white, if you are not happy with the color of the foam. You can decorate with sequins, beads, beads or other decorations. Using wire, make loops for hanging snowflakes on the Christmas tree, windows, walls.

Useful crafts for the house of foam plastic

Nowadays, it is very fashionable to use foam plastic crafts at home. Such works look interesting and unusual, they are quite budgetary. If you have leftover Styrofoam from household appliances or other work, do not rush to throw it away and use it to decorate the room.

Decorating a fireplace

The room decorated with a false fireplace looks spectacular. Such a fireplace is easy to build by anyone. The fireplace can be made in different styles, from traditional classics to modern.

According to the type of fireplaces are:

built-in - to decorate a niche wall make a fireplace,
angular - a non-functional corner is decorated with a beautiful false fireplace,
Island put in the center of the room or a few meters from the wall, depending on the design solution. Decorate such a fireplace on all sides.

From the foam plastic cut out parts of the frame of the fireplace and glued with glue. After the glue dries completely, the fireplace is decorated with ready foam decor, which is sold in construction stores. It can be ceiling borders and corners simple or with a pattern.

You can paint the surface of the fireplace to look like brickwork or just paint it white. The interior of the fireplace is decorated with decorative candles or imitation logs.

Such a fireplace will fit perfectly in the room and create comfort in the room.

Luminaire

Styrofoam lamp decorated with Christmas garlands will be an interesting decoration for the holiday. Will create a cozy and festive mood.

Workflow:

Cut out 4 parts of the lamp in the form of a trapezoid.
Sand the sides with sandpaper
Glue the parts together and let dry well
Attach swag to the light fixture or make holes in it.
Decorate the light fixture.

You can simply cut out a circle of Styrofoam, and glue the garland to it, decorate the circle. Such a light fixture is easy to move into any room.

Imitation brick on the wall

Currently, it is fashionable to use in the design of the room imitation brickwork. For this purpose, ready-made plastic and foam panels, wallpaper are used. You can spend a little time and make such a wall yourself.

Stages of work:

Prepare blanks of foam bricks with a thickness of no more than 1.5 cm in size 24×6. If there is a desire to give the bricks an aged effect, it is necessary to apply roughness with a metal sponge.
Level and degrease the wall by coating it with a special composition.
Glue the bricks from the bottom left corner.
Do not make the distance between the bricks more than 1 cm.
Allow the work to dry for at least one day.
If desired, paint the bricks brown.

Frames

To decorate any room, photo frames are often used. Such frames can be made with their own hands for a photo or picture of any size.

For the work use ceiling foam plinths. For decoration, 4 parts are cut: 2 by the width of the frame and 2 by the length of the frame. Carefully glued with glue. Such frames can be given to friends, decorate it to match the color of the interior of the room.

Box

Lightweight and convenient foam box will turn out for storing small things. To work, cut out 4 equal squares for the sides of the box, the bottom and lid according to the size of the box.

After gluing all the parts, the casket is decorated with fabric, thread, sequins, beads, small parts. Original casket, handmade, decorate your room or serve as a good gift. You can take a ready-made package from under the phone, make a lid to it and decorate it.

Chair-bag

Comfortable chair-bag for the rest will please you with its convenience and comfort. To make a chair-bag you need to sew a bag of dense fabric and fill it with foam balls or crushed foam.