Crafts from cups are a great way to spend your time. Their advantages are the simplicity and availability of the source material. This is also a good way to decorate a room for a special event. In addition, according to pediatricians, such homemade products, made by a child, develop fine motor skills of the hands and develop perseverance.

Benefits of making crafts from cups

Making easy crafts from cups for children has many advantages. Children, engaged in this type of creativity, become more:

• attentive;
• independent;
• diligent;
• neat;
• patient.

By collecting such trinkets, they acquire skills in working with glue and scissors, which will undoubtedly be useful to them for classes in kindergarten or school. The completed crafts will remain a pleasant reminder of childhood.

We should also not forget that children who engage in handicrafts develop their brains much better than their peers who are not engaged in such work.

As a result, if your little one has difficulty communicating with peers or has poorly developed logical thinking, then without a doubt you need to start creating with him original crafts from cups.

Here are other advantages of such homemade products:

• low cost;
• ease of manufacture;
• beautiful appearance;
• no need for special knowledge and complex tools.

Variations of using crafts from cups in practice

As you can see in the photographs of crafts made from cups, such things are usually created for different purposes. They can, for example, decorate a dining table if any celebration is planned. Moreover, this applies to both the dishes and the dishes served. The scope for imagination here is enormous.

By studying various ideas and instructions for making crafts, which are full on the Internet, you can make various types of flowers, garlands and balls. Cups are also the main material for making many funny figures. In addition, the uniqueness of the cups lies in the possibility of creating lighting elements from them, be it lanterns, miniature lamps or glowing garlands.

Such accessories can be used to decorate the same table to add romance to the setting. They will look especially impressive in the evening.

What else can you make from plastic cups? Together with your child you can make the most different figures, starting from animals and birds, and ending fairy-tale characters, and then give them to your loved ones. Such a gift will definitely be remembered for a long time.

Another direction for using homemade products from plastic glasses is the design of the premises. For your child, you can create a thematic composition, for example, an island where pirates live or a house for a fairy-tale man. You can place such beauty not only in the nursery, but also in other rooms where the little ones are.

Types of handmade plastic products

All crafts made from cups are divided depending on the method of execution into the following groups:

• Products cut with scissors. This group includes balls, coasters, flowers, garlands, etc.
• Figurines. Most often, a wire frame or glue is used here. You can make fairy tale characters, representatives of flora and fauna, and toy houses.
• Application. This method involves gluing different parts onto a cup. Even five-year-olds can do this.
• Combined trinkets. For example, glasses made of plastic can be combined with bottles made of the same material. The result will be a Christmas tree. Some of these crafts boast movable parts, which makes them even more attractive to children.

Materials and tools

After watching several master classes on crafts from cups, you can easily make sure that nothing particularly complicated is required for such creativity. All you need is:

• cups (plastic or paper - to your taste);
• stationery scissors;
• stapler;
• glue.

You may also need plasticine, textiles, colored paper, paints, felt-tip pens, varnish, decorative details (beads, feathers, beads, rhinestones, etc.). All listed materials and tools are available to everyone.

As a conclusion

Crafts made from glasses can be very different. From such an affordable material you can make decor for festive event, and spectacular souvenirs for friends. In general, experiment, bring your creative potential to life, involve your child in such activities and get great pleasure from it all.

Photos of crafts made from cups

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Undoubted advantages disposable plates- this is their volume, clarity of shape, presence of sections; the fact that these plates are easy to cut or paint. All this makes them an indispensable material for children's creativity. The simplest thing is to take a plate and paint it; add some elements from colored paper, cardboard, plasticine to the craft. Disposable plates are an ideal basis for panels and decoupage. Because the plate can be easily cut with scissors; bends in the right places, you can create crafts from several of these plastic or paper circles put together.

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Perhaps you won’t find a cheaper material for New Year's crafts than plastic utensils. You can use everything:

• dishes
• cups
• bottles
• spoons and forks

Disposable plates and cups made of paper are suitable for crafts.

In this article you will see photos of absolutely simple jewelry for home interiors and Christmas tree toys made from plastic and paper dishes.

So what can you do? made of plastic and paper plates so that it is simple, fast and at the same time unusual, bright and non-standard? Let's fantasize together!

First of all, prepare it yourself dishes, A also tools and materials , which will be needed for work. The plates must be intact and clean. The color can be any. The following tools and materials may be useful to you:

• scissors
• stapler
• glue gun and glue sticks for it
• felt-tip pens or markers
• gouache or acrylic paints
• glue type “Moment Crystal”
• PVA glue
• tassel

Let's start with something simple: let's do “decoupage” of a plastic (or paper) plate . Glue the top layer of a three- (or two-) layer napkin onto the plate using PVA glue and a brush. When the napkin is completely dry, coat it with acrylic varnish. New Year's plate ready!

If you don't have a dark green paper plate, a white one can easily be painted with gouache or acrylic paint. Let it dry well and cut it into three isosceles triangles. Glue the resulting parts in the shape of a Christmas tree. You can make a hole at the top and tie twine in the form of a loop. Such Christmas trees decorate curtains or wall. Don’t forget that it’s customary to decorate any Christmas tree. In our case, small beads, sequins or buttons are suitable.

We use the same technique - cut the plates into triangles. Now from the resulting triangles we will make checkboxes. If you take colored plates, the garland of flags will be more elegant.

It is not necessary to paint the back of the plate if you do not intend to hang the flags so that they will be visible from both sides.

It's not at all difficult to cut out of white paper or plastic plates. Christmas angels . See for yourself: a few cuts with scissors and the silhouette of an angel is already emerging.

If you want to make the figure three-dimensional, look at another method: using a felt-tip pen, draw lines along which we cut out the wings and robe of the angel. Then we bend the lower part of the plate so that we get a “skirt” and secure it with a stapler.

Of course, plates make wonderful snowmen. It doesn't take much effort either.

The plates are easy to fasten with a regular stapler or glue with hot glue. Several of these snowmen hung around the apartment will decorate your home and create

The plates are easily pierced with an awl or hole punch. Thread strong twine or rope into the resulting holes and make it together with your children. a garland of funny snowmen.

A New Year's clock ? What, if not plastic or paper plates, can they be made from? Don't know where to get numbers for the dial? You can take it from children's sets of letters and numbers. Usually these are alphabets with numbers. To make your “clock” also show minutes, take two plates of different sizes and glue them together. On the outer plate, beautifully write the minutes with a felt-tip pen, and on the inner plate, stick the numbers to indicate the hours.

If you can’t find the numbers anywhere, you’ll just have to draw them on the plate. Make the arrows and pendulum from cardboard.

And how many fun New Year’s “faces” can be made using plates. Firstly, this Father Frost.

And secondly and thirdly and... everyone you come up with yourself.

For the New Year, let them “settle” in your son’s children’s room pirates.

From small colored plastic (or paper) plates, make "lollipops". They look elegant and can be hung like a garland.

New Year's wreath made of paper or plastic plate Even a child can do it. You just need to cut out the middle, paint the resulting headband in the desired color and glue on the decorations.

Easy to make from plastic (or paper) plates "fairytale" animals: Sivka-Burka, for example.

And the symbol of 2017 is young cockerel, is made from half a plate, a mug cut from the other half, two “eyes”, several feathers and “palms” made of colored paper.

Don’t know how to pack in an unusual and special way? small gifts, also use plastic plates. It turns out original bunny handbag. You can make a bear bag in the same way.

That's probably enough about plates. Let's move on to other material for New Year's crafts - plastic cups. If you didn’t have time to buy a snow globe, which symbolizes the arrival of winter and new year holidays, do something similar with your own hands.

Take a plastic lid or cut a circle out of cardboard (it is important that the size matches the diameter of the glass). Look around the house for small figurines (usually found in chocolate eggs). Glue them to the lid using hot glue from glue gun or “Moment” type glue. Sprinkle grated polystyrene foam or small white beads, coconut flakes, broken eggshells, semolina, finally! That's Christmas story came to you! Place it on the windowsill or on a small table. Believe me, it lifts your spirits! Yes, you can also lightly moisten the side surfaces of the glass with water and sprinkle with a small amount of granulated sugar. Let it dry and you will get a “snow-covered” glass.

Watch this video, maybe it will inspire you or give you something new idea how to decorate your house for the new year.

Maybe you decide to do snowman made from plastic cups . It turns out BIG and absolutely wonderful.

How can you do it BIG SNOWMAN from plastic cups, watch in this video.

Do flock of penguins can be made from bottles of different heights. You don't even need to cut the plastic here. Just insert a rolled-up white sheet of paper or a white plastic bag inside the bottle. And cut out the “black plumage” from black colored paper.

If you don’t throw away plastic bottles for a long time, then by the New Year you can easily afford to make something like this from the bottoms. You can use strong wire. And you will have to make holes in the plastic with a hot awl or a drill with a thin drill bit. It will work out

Another option wreath of plastic bottles It turns out very elegant. You can’t even tell right away that this unusual wreath is made practically from garbage. In this case, each bottom of a plastic bottle is cut out in the shape of a flower with sharp petals. All blanks are painted with gold paint from a can or other suitable for plastic. Assemble the blanks into a wreath on a strong (thick wire) using an awl or drill.

Simple Christmas garland can be decorated with plastic flowers. To do this, you need to cut off the necks of plastic bottles, but do not throw away the corks. Drill holes in the plugs equal to the diameter of the mini-sockets of the Christmas tree garland.

What else can you make from plastic bottles for the New Year? Certainly, candlesticks. In this case, two bottle bottoms were used: one larger, the other smaller. Cuts were made in the plastic and the blanks were heated over an open flame. Then the cut and heated strips were bent in different directions. When the blanks had cooled, hot (or “Moment”) glue was applied to the edges and sprinkled with glitter. For the candle, we prepared a glass bowl with colored bath salts. Plastic candlesticks were stacked on top of each other, and a bowl with a candle was placed inside. All is ready!

You can see another way to make plastic candlesticks in this video.

And in this video you will see wonderful New Year's crafts made from plastic spoons and forks.

That's all! Get ready for the holidays, decorate your home! After all, family happiness always comes to the house where it is expected!

You can create beautiful and original products from almost any material. The main thing for this is the desire to create beauty with your own hands.

Ordinary plastic spoons are perfect for home crafts. You can make bright, interesting, creative compositions from standard and unremarkable items of disposable tableware.

This exciting activity It will appeal to both adults and children.

What can be made from spoons

We invite everyone who wants to please themselves and their loved ones with the results of their creativity to the “Crafts from Spoons” master class.

You will see step by step the entire process of forming crafts from plastic spoons.

Tulips

In order to make a charming bouquet of tulips, we will need:

• spoons (5 pieces for each flower);
• colored corrugated paper;
• glue with a brush;
• scissors;
• green electrical tape.

Cut red paper squares. We wrap spoons in each square and seal it.

Then we collect the tulip. To do this, we fasten 2 spoons, add 3 more to them and fix the resulting flower with electrical tape. We cut out the leaves from green paper, attach them to the stem and tie them with ribbon.

We make a bouquet and put it in a beautiful vase.

Water lily

To create a plastic water lily you need to prepare:

• spoons of different sizes,
• glue gun;
• regular glue;
• paints;
• scissors;
• green plastic bottle.

After cutting off the handles of the spoons, attach the future petals with a glue gun. You should now have an inner layer of petals.

Make the outer layer of the flower in the same way. Cut a strip measuring 12x3 cm from the bottle and make a fringe along one of its edges. Roll the strip and secure it with glue.

Dye the fringe in yellow and let it dry.

Make leaves from the bottle as shown in the photo.

Attach the dried strip to the inside of the petals - this will be the center of the flower. The magnificent snow-white water lily is ready!

Garland of flowers

A bright one will look very impressive flower garland, for the manufacture of which you will need:

• 18 multi-colored spoons;
• scissors;
• glue;
• thick thread;
• dye;
• pom-poms;
• thick cardboard.

Cut out 3 triangles of the same size from cardboard and color them.

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Cut off the handles of the spoons. Mark the middle in the triangles and stick petals around it (6 pieces per flower). Place a pompom in the center of each flower.

Make 2 holes in each triangle and thread a thread through them, thus connecting the flowers into a garland.

Flower vase

Making a cute flower vase will require you to have:

• spoon;
• tin cans;
• scissors;
• glue;
• paints.

Paint the jar your favorite color. Cut off the handles from the spoons. Paint the rounded parts of the spoons in the desired colors.

Glue the spoons to the jar, placing them in even rows.

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ladybugs

Make a cute one out of spoons ladybug you can use:

• spoon;
• glue;
• large voluminous button;
• paints;
• scissors

After cutting off the handles of the spoons, paint the oval part of each of them. Glue the wings together. Attach a button head on top.

Candlestick

To create a sterile original candlestick, you only need the spoons themselves and glue.

By gluing the spoons together as shown in the photo and attaching a candle to the top of the structure, you will get a stylish decorative element that will brighten up any holiday.

Decorative frame

You can also use disposable spoons to create original frames that decorate various interior items.

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For this you will need:

• spoons in large quantities;
• scissors;
• glue;
• polystyrene foam or thick cardboard;
• a watch, a small round mirror, a photograph or another item that is valuable to you.

After measuring the diameter of the desired object, cut out a circle of the appropriate size in cardboard or foam plastic.

Place a watch, photo or mirror in the resulting frame and secure it. Cut off the handles of the spoons. Glue the rounded parts of the spoons to the frame in rows in a circle, from the edge to the center.

Color the finished product of your creativity the way you want.

Christmas tree

Among crafts made from disposable spoons, picturesque Christmas trees are very popular, for the manufacture of which you will need:

• paper cone;
• glue;
• scissors;
• dye.

As usual, cut the spoons into 2 parts;

Glue the oval part of the spoons to the cone in a checkerboard pattern.

We paint the resulting Christmas tree any color or leave it white and admire our creation.

Maracas (musical instrument)

Creating this unusual instrument will take you very little time, but is guaranteed to delight your children.

Prepare the following materials for this:

• 2 spoons;
• plastic egg;
• scotch;

Place a small amount of rice into the egg and close.

Press the sides of the egg with spoons.

Cover the resulting model with tape.

Pumpkin

To make a large bright pumpkin from spoons, you need to prepare:

• spoons of yellow or orange color a lot;
• foam ball.

Cut the handles off the spoons.

Attach the rounded part of the spoons to the ball in a checkerboard pattern from bottom to top.

The top of the resulting pumpkin can be decorated with a small branch.

The process of creating all the described compositions is reflected in the photo of crafts made from spoons. We talked about the most popular and beautiful products from this material and shared secrets on how to make crafts from spoons with your own hands.

We hope that our master class was useful to you and gave you aesthetic pleasure.

Photos of crafts made from spoons

Children can make crafts from disposable plates different ages. What makes me happy is that the material for making it costs a penny, and sometimes it just sits at home idle. It's easy to create crafts from disposable plates. Little ones will definitely be interested in such things.

Paper plate products

What to make from such material? For example, paper plates can be decorated with markers, paints and pencils. If you have plasticine, you can sculpt the shapes of animals. Using colored paper, you can create various animals, for example, a dog or a turtle. Some do Carnival masks. For example, it could be a lion. To create a mask, you need to paint the plate itself yellow, and draw the face of the animal inside. To create more complex animals, it is recommended to use two plates.

Owl from plates

Looking at crafts made from disposable plates, one cannot help but remember the owl. An older child could do this thing. To create crafts from disposable plates, you will need to stock up on: glue, two plates, paints, scissors, colored paper and brushes.

Making an owl at home

1. First, color two plates in Brown color, then let it dry.

2. From colored paper, cut out two large yellow circles, as well as two circles white smaller in diameter and 2 small black circles.

3. Cut out the owl's beak from orange paper.

4. Using scissors, cut one plate in half. As a result, you will get wings.

5. Then glue the eyes and beak onto the plate.

6. Then glue the wings to the back side of the whole plate. That's it, you have an owl.

Similar toys can be used in puppet theater. You can also make a photo frame out of a plate. To do this, it should be painted. You will get beautiful jellyfish if you glue ribbons to the plate.

Frog from plates

What other crafts can be made from disposable plates? For example, a frog. To create you will need:

Scissors;

Colored paper (black, white and red);

Two egg cups;

Glass of water;

Brush.

Manufacturing

1. Paint a plate and egg cups with green paint.

2. Cut out the tongue from red paper, and small circles (these will be eyes) from black and white paper.

3. Glue the tongue on the unpainted side, then fold the plate in half.

4. Then glue on the “eyes”. That's all, the frog is ready.

Crafts from disposable multi-colored plates

Colored tableware is also sold. The plates, as you understand, do not need to be painted. You can create crafts from them right away. For example, if you can cut out fish from colored plates. You can place them in an aquarium drawn on paper.

Bouquet for mom

If, in addition to plates, you also have plastic cups, then you can give your child an interesting gift.

To make a bouquet you will need:

Scissors;

Green and white plastic plate;

Yellow plastic cup.

Making crafts from disposable plates

1. Cut out chamomile petals from white paper and stems from green paper. The cores of the flowers will be the bottoms of the cups. They also need to be cut out.

2. Then glue all the parts of the daisy together.

3. Place the resulting flower in a yellow cup. That's all, the bouquet is ready.

A little conclusion

Now you know how to make crafts from disposable plates; photos of interesting products are presented in our article. We hope that with our recommendations you will be able to create fun things at home. Such activities will allow you to develop your child’s imagination and creativity. Good luck!