Daily routine worries leave very little time to spend in a close family circle, paying special attention to small children. They need it.
However, as soon as a few free hours appear, the question arises: what to do with the baby? After all, you need to come up with something interesting, truly exciting and preferably instructive. Simply watching television programs is not the method of raising children that parents strive for. The measure is often forced.
The simplest and most ingenious way out of any situation is always nearby. Making crafts from scrap materials is a great way to provide your child with useful leisure time. You can craft from anything. Everyone at home has several pieces of disposable plastic utensils: cups, forks, plates left over from a barbecue.
Craft material
Disposable tableware is designed for use when traveling outdoors, where there is no opportunity or desire to wash dishes after eating.
Such dishes are made from the following materials:
- from paper;
- made of plastic;
- from foil.
All this material does not cause allergic reactions and is environmentally friendly. If you are not lazy and wash disposable dishes after a picnic, you can get excellent material for crafts.
killer whale
If you want to create an animal from the sea world, then the best object is a whale or killer whale. To create an inhabitant of the deep sea you need:
- fasten the plates together, attach the black one with brackets on top of the white one, pushing the lower jaw forward;
- provide the character with eyes, tail, fins and other necessary parts.
The image of the character will depend on the design. You can make him angry and aggressive, or you can create a sweet and kind creature.
Operating technique
When making crafts from disposable tableware, craftsmen use different techniques. After looking at photos of crafts made from disposable tableware, it is not always clear how different types of tableware can be assembled into one composition.
The main types of technology are:
- connection with staples, a stapler acts as a tool;
- gluing parts with PVA glue;
- cutting out shapes and parts with a paper knife or scissors;
- placing craft elements on skewers.
Cockerel - golden comb
We will need 5 plates. Take 2 and cut out centers with a diameter of approximately 7.5-9 cm.
- From the rims of our working material we carefully cut out wings, a comb, and a beard.
- Using a stapler, we fasten all the parts of the cockerel’s head.
- We also cut out feathers for the tail, paws, and wings from the headbands.
- The plates that we did not cut are stapled with the right sides facing inward. At the same time, we put feathers and paws between the plates and secure them with a stapler. Glue the wing with PVA glue
- Attach the head to the body
- Paint the resulting cockerel with gouache or acrylic paints
Homemade crafts
How interesting it is to look at crafts made from disposable tableware with your own hands at exhibitions of children's creativity. Children participating in these exhibitions proudly conduct master classes for lovers of applied arts.
What can you see there!
How graceful is the white lily, collected in a composition of plastic spoons.
What a wonderful lampshade is a pineapple made from yellow spoons.
Funny faces of animals, beasts, birds can be obtained from ordinary disposable plates, you just have to use your imagination with them.
Masks
You can also make funny masks for children's parties from plastic plates by cutting holes for the eyes and gluing on the ears.
New Year's crafts
Disposable tableware makes excellent crafts for interior decoration for the New Year. And what cool Christmas tree decorations you can make from them!
New Year's crafts made from disposable tableware can be in the form of original panels with symbols of the year according to the zodiac sign. To do this, you need flat white plates; they, like an artist’s blank canvas, await painting.
Taking a green plate and carefully cutting out the middle, we get a Christmas wreath, which you can decorate with sparkles, balls or small cones and hang on the wall.
Garlands in the form of bright fans strung on a cord can decorate a wall. If the plates are cut into 4 parts. Glue beads and colored foil figures to them, and we’ll get bright fans.
Snowmen made from disposable white cups are always relevant for the New Year, refresh and decorate the interior.
How to make a lamp
Another unusual and original idea is to design a lamp using simple paper plates.
To implement the idea you will need:
- Base for lamp;
- 30 paper plates;
- Glue;
- Pencil;
- Ruler.
How to make an original lamp:
- Fold each plate in half. In order to roll it evenly, you can first make markings using a pencil and ruler;
- Alternately glue the plate to the curved edge to the base of the lamp;
- The result should be an original lamp.
Children's crafts
Toys that children will “live” for several days will definitely get boring for them. Children's inner world is structured in such a way that they constantly want new fun. If you buy toys for them every week, you can go broke.
Children's crafts made from disposable tableware will help solve this problem. With what pleasure they will make their own toys from scrap materials and then play with them. A nice, plump penguin will turn out from a round glass of black or brown color.
His body is ready, this is the glass itself. Glue two small eyes and a cardboard nose in the shape of a triangle. Two ovals cut from the same glass will serve as wings. They need to be inserted into the slots on both sides.
The penguin's paws will be feet cut out of light cardboard with three wide-open toes. By gluing them to the base of the body, you can get a cute little penguin.
Princess Frog
Fold the plate in half to create a frog's mouth. By decorating it in a certain way, you can create a fairy-tale frog princess.
You can make an arrow from a drinking straw; the features of the muzzle can be reproduced from egg cells, paper, cardboard, buttons and other improvised materials. A little imagination, and the fairy-tale character is ready!
Crafts master class
What beautiful paintings are made by folk craftsmen from disposable tableware. A master class on making crafts from disposable tableware helps beginners who love creativity to make gifts and interior wall decorations.
A vase with a bouquet of yellow tulips is a spring motif for a three-dimensional panel. You can use black glossy cardboard as a base. A vase cut out of colored foil and glued to the bottom of the cardboard looks gorgeous against a black background.
You need to lay out flower templates with leaves on stems on cardboard so that the picture is voluminous and fits well on the base.
Using green foil, we prepare long stems using the twisting method and glue them to the background of the picture so that they go into the vase. We glue the leaves from the same foil to the stems, leaving the other end not glued. This will give the picture volume.
The tulips will be yellow spoons glued to the stems with the convex side facing out. The number of colors is determined by the desire of the craftsman himself.
Such a picture, placed in a beautiful frame, will be a real decoration of the interior.
Flying saucer
The flying saucer craft is also very easy to do. It will require a minimum of materials:
- Several plates;
- Paints;
- Glue;
- Old newspapers;
- Plastic disposable cup.
Progress:
- You need to twist a rope from the newspaper, and then form a snail from it. It then needs to be glued to the front side of the plate;
- Another plate is glued on top of this snail. This makes the design more voluminous;
- You need to cut off the top of about 5 centimeters from a disposable transparent cup. The cabin will be made from this section;
- Now you need to make small cuts around the perimeter of the cup and bend them to make it easier to glue it to the plate;
- The glass is glued in the middle of the plate;
- The plate design is almost ready. All that remains is to glue the legs on the bottom. You can make them from cardboard or just take a toilet paper roll and cut off a few small pieces for the legs;
- All that remains is to paint the plate to your taste, decorating it with a pattern or even some voluminous decor.
Christmas decorations
Always during the Christmas and New Year holidays, the interiors of the rooms and the tree itself are decorated with cute angels. Christmas tree crafts made from disposable tableware can also be made in the form of angels, which should be hung on the tree.
To do this, it is best to take a small silver or golden plastic saucer. Using a simple pencil, mark the middle of the saucer. Fold the top towards the middle of its side. The silver angel dress is ready. Using the template, cut out the head with hairs. Draw eyes, nose and mouth on the face. Paint your hair a slightly yellowish color and glue beads onto it to create something like a crown.
Cut out the wings according to a template from a transparent plate. A stapler will help connect the wings and head to the main figure. To prevent the staples from being visible, it would be a good idea to glue decorations to these areas. A narrow satin ribbon, folded in half, in the form of a loop, will help you hang the angel on the Christmas tree. You can use this technique to make several figures of angels, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and other characters.
Snake
If you cut a plate into a spiral and leave an oval in the center, then straightening it out you will get a snake-shaped figure. Now you need to color it, glue on the eyes, their characteristic tongue, and decorate it using any methods (according to the child’s liking).
Interesting crafts
Disposable tableware allows creativity to fly. Interesting crafts made from disposable tableware give confidence that human hands are capable of much.
If you have an outdated clock in your home, you can always update it and breathe new life into it. Taking plastic spoons of a color that best suits the dial, cut off the long handles. Leaving a length of 5 cm.
Glue the spoons with the curved side in a circle on the back of the clock. Place spoons close to each other so that there is no free space. Then, after waiting until the first row sticks well to the clock, glue the second row.
It turns out beautifully when 3-4 rows are glued. Since the spoons are glued to the front side of the watch with the concave side, the frame of the watch visually resembles scales. The watch will look stylish and elegant, decorating the interior.
Sunflower
Take yellow corrugated paper and cut sunflower petals from it. Apply PVA glue in a circle to the rim of the plate and begin to place petals on it.
We generously grease the bottom with glue and begin to carefully glue the watermelon seeds, uniformly filling the bottom with them. Then dry the plate. Our sunflower is ready!
Kitchen crafts
Products made from disposable tableware can perfectly decorate and enliven the kitchen interior. The material, utensils, is closest in functional properties to the kitchen.
Panels of plates, frames for still lifes of spoons, forks and knives, decorative plates, all these crafts will perfectly characterize the owners of the house. Creative people will definitely notice the imagination, skill, and perseverance of their household members and appreciate them.
And how a Christmas tree made from green tablespoons will decorate the kitchen during the New Year holidays.
Disposable tableware is an inexhaustible source of creativity. All you have to do is apply your imagination, the desire to teach children to see beauty in any object at hand, and inspiration will appear to make crafts with your own hands.
We purchase a tool
Despite the fact that modeling clay plates is done mainly by hand, you cannot do without special tools. To implement the manipulations, you will need the following tools:
- container with water;
- putty knife;
- surface (flat) for molding the working mixture;
- wooden spatula;
- A4 sheet of paper.
A standard glass is sufficient for water. It is advisable to choose a wooden (plastic) surface with a protective coating.
