There is no doubt that plastic cups are all around us. A holiday at home or barbecue outdoors are incomplete without this utensil. Coffee, yoghurt, cheese and much more can be bought in plastic containers.
Creative enthusiasts certainly liked their variety of colors and shapes. They began to actively use this dishware as a basis for various crafts.
Such cups have many advantages - they are voluminous, lightweight, but at the same time keep their shape well. They are easily, without fear, given to their children by caring parents, offering to make homemade items.
In kindergartens, plastic cups are used to develop perseverance, fine motor skills, imagination, and innovative thinking.
They make three-dimensional figures - funny souvenirs, decorative items, toys.
Moreover, experts believe that such joint creativity with children is an excellent way to establish friendly relations in the family.
Here's what we need:
- of course glasses (plastic or paper);
- glue gun (or PVA glue);
- scissors and stationery knife,
- knitting needle (or awl);
- various little things for decoration (sequins, buttons, ribbons, beads, etc.)
- office stapler;
- wire and thread;
- scotch;
- tassels;
- gouache or watercolor paints.
New Year's garland
A great idea for a craft made from cups with your own hands. Ordinary disposable tableware turns into an original decoration.
You will need a minimum of materials:
- Several disposable paper cups,
- Tinsel,
- A piece of foil (you can also use candy wrappers to decorate),
- Rain,
- Paper (you can use newsprint).
- In addition, you cannot do without scissors, a stapler and a needle.
Manufacturing technique:
- Using a stapler, attach the tinsel to the cup along the bottom edge.
- Now go to the top edge - also decorate it with tinsel. Roll the paper into a ball and wrap it in foil.
- Pierce the bottom of the cup with a needle, into which you have previously inserted a rain ribbon.
- Pull this rain through the bottom into a glass and attach a ball to it to make a New Year's bell.
- Make several of these bells using misha of different shades - this will make the craft bright and unusual.
- Collect all the bells into a garland, attaching them to the tinsel. Your garland is ready!
Bells
The lightest products are bells. Manufacturing techniques can be completely different, depending on the available decorative materials. When making bells, it is possible to use several techniques at once.
Ornaments applied to the surface of transparent cups look beautiful. They need to be applied with stained glass paint from children's art kits. The design can also be done with a gel with shiny elements or regular manicure varnish.
White containers are covered with illustrations cut out from any materials. Napkins with beautiful designs are suitable. Next, the product is varnished, then decorated with the option you like.
You can attach tinsel to the edge of the finished bell at any time as a decoration. It is advisable to place a loop and a bow on top. The inside must be equipped with a tongue.
Cheerful snowman
We will complement the collection of New Year's crafts from cups with a snowman, which you can see in the photo of crafts from cups. This is a snowman craft that you can easily make together with your child.
The finished composition will be quite large; decorate your children’s nursery with it or install it near the Christmas tree.
- To make this snowman craft from plastic cups, take a lot of disposable cups, as well as a stapler, PVA glue, colored paper, and other elements for decoration.
Cute animals
Paper cups can even be used as a base for animal crafts. They make incredibly cute and cute pets. These can be sea creatures, insects, birds and many others.
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Don’t forget also about funny pugs, they can express sadness, joy, fun, and whatever you want. And such toys are much more fun to play with.
Since the materials for their creation are absolutely inexpensive, your little one can have a whole collection. Then each time his games can take on a new theme. And he will never get bored alone.
"Modeling" a snowman
- To begin, fold the cups in the form of a circle, with the bottom inward, gluing or fastening their walls with a stapler. This will be the basis of the work.
- Place the following rows so that you end up with a ball.
- To do this, as the rows increase, reduce the number of glasses.
- Make two more of these smaller balls. Assemble your masterpiece and decorate the finished snowman - put a hat on him, cut out eyes, a mouth and a carrot from colored paper.
- And if you place an LED lamp inside, the toy will turn out to be fascinating.
So, the New Year's decor item is ready - you can decorate the room!
Bright basket
Idea for children's crafts made from cups. You can put sweets, hairpins and other little things in this basket.
You will need:
- A plastic cup,
- Wool threads,
- Colored paper and PVA glue,
- As well as beads and rhinestones for decoration.
Progress:
- Cut out elements for the future flower from paper of different colors, and then put them together and glue them. Glue your flower to the cup.
- You can first cover the glass with bright paper.
- Now make a handle - you can use woolen threads for this - weave it into a rope or braid and string multi-colored beads on them.
- Attach the handle to the cup. You can additionally decorate your creation with beads and rhinestones.
- The basket is ready, use it for decoration or storing all sorts of small items.
Snakes and dragons
Fire-breathing dragons and snakes are very easy to make. To decorate them you need cups of different colors.
You can get by with pure white ones - just instruct your child to paint them in a variety of colors or cover them with multi-colored paper.
In addition to the cups you will need:
- soft sponge;
- small diameter wire;
- threads;
- scissors and glue;
- tape or tape;
- an elastic band and a pair of toothpicks.
Christmas tree
Making a Christmas tree craft from plastic cups is very similar to the technique of making a snowman.
- You will need a large number of cups. You can color them in advance; the tree can be either plain or multi-colored.
- Fasten together the walls of the glasses, located with their bottoms inside the structure.
- As you move to the next tiers, reduce the number of cups in the row to give the product a Christmas tree shape.
- When the product is ready, decorate it with beads, bows and rhinestones.
- Place the tree on a base (for example, foam).
Rabbit
- Use a plastic cup, pencils, scissors, paper of different colors (plain white, soft pink and shiny), as well as a glue gun, red and black felt-tip pens, a stationery knife, and you can’t do without cotton wool or white wool threads.
- Make a bunny ear template on white paper, cut it out, then trace it onto a piece of glitter paper.
- Cut out two ears from glitter paper, then make small ear blanks from pinkish paper. Glue the shiny and pinkish blanks.
- Use a utility knife to cut holes for the ears in the bottom of the glass. Insert the ears into the slots.
- Secure the bunny ears with a glue gun. Glue cotton wool between them - this will be the rabbit's bangs.
- Make a pompom from thread or cotton wool and attach it to the back of the cup. He will play the role of a tail. Draw a bunny's face with felt-tip pens. So, the toy is ready! Your child will definitely take a prize in a crafts competition if he makes such toys.
Snake
Ideal as an idea for creativity for young children with their parents. Prepare colored cups or paint them in advance if they are white.
Using a similar technique, you can make a baby dragon, decorate it with ribbons.
- You will need seven or more cups - this depends on how long the product you are going to make. Also prepare two or three sponges and a piece of wire with a diameter of up to one and a half millimeters.
- You can’t do without toothpicks, a thick woolen thread or an elastic band from clothes, scissors, a stationery knife, a black felt-tip pen, tape and an ice cream stick. Cut circles from sponges that match the size of the bottoms of the cups.
- Bend the wire, tie a knot at the end of the elastic, insert a couple of toothpicks into it, tie a new knot after tightening the knot. Trim the sharp ends of toothpicks for safety. Using scissors, make a hole in the bottom of the glass.
- Thread the wire, the loop should remain outside the glass. Place an elastic band in the loop and thread it through the bottom of the cup. Pierce the spongy circles with wire and then thread the elastic through. Place the sponge in the cup. Do the same with the remaining glasses.
- Shape a popsicle stick into the shape of a snake's tongue and paint it red. Cut a hole in the cup for the snake's tongue.
- If you used a thread for the work, attach it to the tongue with tape; if it is an elastic band, wrap a thick layer of electrical tape around the popsicle stick and tie the rubber band above. Draw a muzzle.
All these ideas will help you create original products that will decorate your child’s room, and making them will be a great pastime for the whole family.
Children's arts and crafts
Any creativity is beneficial for children. This develops thinking, imagination, perseverance, and motor skills of children's hands. Self-confidence is formed and strengthened in the child with each craft.
The better and more beautiful the craft, the more gladly the child will take on another craft, wanting praise from parents and guests.
An exhibition of a child’s “Personal Achievements,” organized on a shelf or some other horizontal surface, will clearly show how the child’s skills improve from craft to craft.
Not everyone is able to involve the whole family in artistic creativity. Happy are those families where adults and children spend their leisure time together, making interior decorations, toys, and souvenirs.
