There probably isn't a person who doesn't use packages. But few people know that they make various cool trinkets. It’s very easy to make crafts from plastic bags with your own hands, and plus you won’t incur additional costs.
You can create tricks from plastic bags with your own hands quite quickly. Moreover, you will not incur any special costs or efforts when making trinkets.
Step-by-step instructions for making a flower:
It is necessary to fold the polyethylene so that it becomes a square. Next, cut the coals so that you get petals. The next thing you need to do is to fasten all the pieces together with wire. Instead of the middle, use a bead or a beautiful button.
Diagram of a polyethylene flower
All you need is a piercing and bags. First, twist the wire into a circle and secure it well. Next, you need to tie the cut strips around the frame. It is advisable to attach more of these stripes, then the wreath will be thicker and brighter. You can add other trinkets: an artificial skull, rubber spiders, etc.
A few examples of photos on how you can diversify your Halloween wreath:
Thanks to this technology, you can quickly and easily make beautiful wreaths from bags for Christmas or Easter with your own hands. It all depends on how you want the wreath on your door to look. We present to your attention a video in which you can learn in detail what needs to be done and why.
To work you will need:
- Packages, preferably green.
- Scissors. Manicures are possible.
- Beads for the future foundation.
- Needle and thread.
- Compass.
The technology for making a Christmas tree from plastic bags is quite simple:
- First, make some preparations. It is necessary to cut circles from the bags. You will need to prepare circles of different diameters, since several of them will go to the top and middle of the tree, and the larger ones will go to the bottom.
- It is advisable to very carefully stretch the edges of your circles a little. Do this very slowly so as not to damage the workpiece.
- Take two identical circles and glue them together. By the way, you need to insert another circle between them, but with a smaller diameter. Having completed this process with all the blanks, you can begin assembling our Christmas tree.
- The rings need to be folded from top to bottom, from the largest to the smaller ones.
- We begin to assemble our tree in the following way: we put a circle on a needle, and then a bead, then everything again and so on until the very top. Instead of the top, you can use beads or some other decoration that you like best.
In the photo the Christmas tree looks like this:
Christmas tree made from bags
You must have:
- Multi-colored, bright bags. Preferably 3-5 shades.
- There are two types of wire: thick and thinner.
- Sheet of paper – 2 pcs. A pen or pencil to draw a sketch.
- Thermal gun.
The manufacturing process begins with a drawn frame of the cockerel’s body, along which the body of our figurine will need to be bent using thick wire. Next, you need to cut strips from the bags, preferably 3 cm long for the sheepskin coat and 2 cm long for the head. We take a wire that is thinner and put our blanks on it. Thus, we should have an accordion. We recommend tying the strips tightly, so the finished toy will look more beautiful.
We need to give the rooster volume. To do this, you can use cotton wool or rags, whatever. Having wrapped the fillings and the frame with tape, we proceed to decorating the toy with our colored accordions. It is advisable to attach them using a heat gun. We do everything gradually, there is no need to rush. The comb and mouth can be cut out of plastic or cardboard, at your discretion. When you completely cover the body with accordions, do not forget about the eyes for the animal. These can be simple beads. That's all, the cockerel is ready.
You can make a jump rope for your child from plastic bags with your own hands. You will need to carefully cut thin strips and tie them together. In place of the handles, you can wrap electrical tape or adhesive tape.
There is also a technology for knitting polyethylene, which can be used to make unique handbags or even carpets. It all depends on desire. You can make different pom-poms.
And finally, I would like to note that handmade crafts made from plastic bags will work well as a gift for your children or friends. Don't be afraid to learn something new.
We hope, thanks to our article and master classes, you will soon have at least one polyethylene toy that you made yourself.
DIY interior decoration for the New Year.
DIY Christmas tree. Master class with step-by-step photos
Author: Elena Yuryevna Koroleva, teacher of vocational training, OGKOU Nikolskaya boarding school of VII - VIII type, Kostroma region, district.Master class is designed for children school age, teachers and parents.
Our Christmas tree
Here it is, our Christmas tree
Here it is, our Christmas tree,
In the brilliance of radiant lights!
She seems more beautiful than everyone else
Everything is greener and lush.
A fairy tale hides in the greenery:
White swan floats
The bunny slides on a sled
The squirrel gnaws nuts.
Here it is, our Christmas tree,
In the brilliance of radiant lights!
We are all dancing for joy
On New Year's Day under it!
Purpose: Christmas tree- an integral attribute of the New Year and Christmas celebrations.
Goals: Making spruce for the New Year and Christmas from plastic bags.
Tasks:
- teach how to cut bags into a long ribbon and make pom-poms;
- development of creative abilities;
- fostering interest in making crafts with your own hands.
For work we need following materials and tools:
- 3-4 plastic bags of different colors;
5-6 bags of green and one white;
- Sheet of cardboard 30*30;
- Cardboard;
- Threads with a needle;
- Glue moment crystal
-Pencil, ruler, compass, scissors;
Work progress:
In this case, for work, I found green bags that are super durable. They have welded side seams. Previously, I used “T-shirt” type packaging bags for work.
Cut off the handles and bottom of the bag. It turns out to be a pipe.
We fold it almost in half (one fold does not reach the other 15-20 mm), bend it several more times depending on the width of the package.
Cut with fringe, strip width 5 mm
We straighten the twisted strips, but not completely (the long ones get tangled, become electrified and then fall under the blade of the scissors).
Straighten along the fold with the index finger of your left hand.
You can use a ruler.
Cut off the first strip under acute angle. Next we cut from undercut to undercut. We do it very carefully; in case of a mistake, it turns out not a ribbon, but rings.
We wind the ribbons onto balls.
We make double blanks from cardboard with a fold of 25 and 20 mm wide
Making green pom-poms: * 10 turns with green ribbon, 3 turns with white ribbon*...130 turns in total.
Using a 4-fold thread, we tightly tie the winding towards the fold of the cardboard.
We insert the blade of the scissors between the layers of cardboard and cut the winding.
Fluff the pompom and even it out a little with scissors.
For spruce 350 mm high, prepare:
on cardboard there are 25-17 green pompoms, 3 colored;
narrow the cardboard by 2-3 mm - 13 green pompoms, 3 colored ones;
on cardboard there are 20-10 green pompoms, 2 colored ones;
narrow the cardboard by 2-3 mm - 9 green pompoms, 1 colored one;
for the top of the head 1 two-color pompom.
Glue 1/4 of a circle with a radius of 300 mm into a cone. For reliability, you can stitch or staple.
We start gluing with large pompoms. The first row of pompoms is 10 green.
Glue the second row - between 7 green ones, 3 colored ones.
The third row of 8 green pompoms is slightly smaller in size.
Fourth row: 5 green, 3 colored.
Fifth row 6 green pompoms from cardboard 20mm wide.
Sixth row: 4 green, 2 colored.
Next, glue small pom-poms to the top of the head.
Glue the top of the head.
The Christmas tree is ready.
I wish you success in your creativity.
To create together with your child, you can use any material at hand. A mother can invite her child to make crafts from plastic bags, of which there are sufficient quantities in any apartment.
At first glance, it seems that making crafts from garbage bags is easy, but this is not so. A 3-year-old child may not be able to do everything, for example, knitted crafts from garbage bags. Therefore, it is most preferable to offer this type of creativity to a child over 7 years old. Younger children can create animal crafts using garbage bags.
To create a rabbit, you need to prepare the following materials:
- two cardboard rings with a slot inside;
- scissors;
- plastic bags;
- thick thread;
- three beads – eyes and nose.
- Let's prepare the pom-poms. First we make long strips from a plastic bag and tie them together. Cut out two circles from cardboard with a slot inside.
- We begin to wrap cardboard rings in a circle.
- If the strip is over, then cut off the ring at the root.
- Place the next strip.
- We wrap the strips in a circle until the cardboard ring is completely closed.
- We cut off the resulting workpiece with scissors.
- We stretch a strong thread between the two rings and tighten it.
- Remove the cardboard circles and straighten the resulting pompom.
- We make the second pompom in the same way.
- We connect the remaining ends of the threads from both pompoms. The result is a head and torso.
- We make rabbit ears from a strip no more than 3 cm wide as follows: twist the strip twice in the middle.
- Fold the strip in half and straighten it out.
- We tie it just below the middle.
- Glue on the ears, beady eyes and nose.
- We make paws and legs from small pompoms and glue them on. The rabbit is ready.
You can make other animals in a similar way, varying color scheme packages.
Method for creating balls from plastic bagsTo make it easier to make crafts from bags, you must first make skeins.
- We take a bag with handles and fold it like an accordion along its entire length.
- Cut off the bottom and handles.
- Cut the bag crosswise into pieces.
- We unwind the resulting pieces and connect them into a single thread.
- We wind it into balls.
There are a huge number of ways to cut plastic bags: spirally, diagonally, lengthwise, crosswise, etc.
Crafts from cellophane bags: master classOn the eve of the New Year, you can invite your child to create a Christmas tree as a craft from bags with their own hands, which can be given to someone close to you, for example, to a grandmother. It is necessary to prepare the following materials:
- ruler with circle stencils of various diameters;
- compass;
- simple pencil;
- green plastic bags;
- scissors;
- scotch;
- threads;
- needle;
- beads or glass beads;
- white paper;
- ballpen;
- flat button.
If you take several multi-colored garbage bags, you can make a Christmas tree like this:
By creating crafts from bags, you develop not only creative thinking, but also creative abilities. This kind of crafts can be done together with older children. This will teach them that a work of art can be created from any available and, at first glance, seemingly unnecessary material.
You should start simple so as not to get confused and give up at the beginning of the journey. To create a beautiful flower, in addition to the already known set, you will need wire for the frame. To make a rose you will need six long leaf blanks, exactly five oblong ones. To create them, we use wire - cut it into equal parts, twist each one like a ring with a leg.
Then it comes to packages bright colors, from which squares are cut out according to the number of leaves. Now we carefully cover the frame of each petal with polyethylene. The petals are collected into a flower, starting with the oblong ones.
The flower is used in a variety of places: put in a vase in the living room, decorate a book corner, arrange a bud on a shelf. If you need a stem, you can make it from wire, wrapping it with thick green thread.
Toys
Children love toys, but what if they learned how to make all kinds of cute animals? Not expensive and extremely interesting for the baby. Feel free to sit down and create with him! Everything will definitely work out.
In addition to bags and scissors, you will need cardboard and various additional small things for the animal’s face. The base is two cardboard rings with a medium-sized cut out circle. We begin to wind the bags already cut into strips onto the rings, using them in turn. It's quite boring, but the right activity. The more and better it is wound, the more magnificent and beautiful the pommel looks, which will later become part of the animal.
When the workpiece is finally ready, cut it exactly along the line of the junction of the two cardboard rings. To prevent the pompom from falling apart, we tie it tightly between the cardboards. If you do it correctly and carefully, you will get a cute pom-pom that will remain fluffed up. Glue on the eyes, nose, funny tongue - the toy is ready. It can be hung on the Christmas tree, why not decorate the New Year's beauty? But we’ll talk about decorations a little later.
Knitting
Yes, needlewomen, not only yarn is suitable for knitting; they often use garbage bags, although they need slightly different ones than for various toys. Polyethylene must be soft, otherwise small parts that require delicate work will not work out.
First of all, preparation. The bags prepared in advance are cut crosswise to form rings. They are fastened without using knots in a special way: they take two blanks, conditionally thread the first into the second, which they bend and thread one end into the other. Thus, the resulting rings are fastened and wound into balls. Now the material is completely ready, which means we choose what to knit with: knitting or crocheting.
Experienced housewives claim that both options are quite feasible if you have good skills, but they give preference to knitting needles - it is more convenient to pick up and knit, which saves a lot of time. To trust an opinion or not is, of course, a purely personal matter.
What can you connect?
- A rug, an ordinary rectangular one, an oval one, an original one, in the shape of some kind of animal.
- A regular handbag, a beach handbag or a backpack. Due to the dense material, things can withstand heavy loads during use.
- Various baskets and boxes for storing small items.
- Sun hat.
There are many options, you can choose something not just interesting, but also necessary, without much effort.
Balls, angels, fir branches
You can do several for the New Year homemade toys, they pleasantly diversify the house and attract the attention of guests. For example, you can make a great Christmas tree. Of course, it’s better to take green polyethylene for crafts, but then how do you decide - what if the New Year’s beauty is bright yellow? Or purple?
Several round stencils of different sizes are cut out of cardboard, and parts from the bags are cut out from them. It is worth understanding that the more different circles you prepare, the more magnificent and impressive the craft will be. The next step is to cut the wire to the required length, make a loop at one end, and start stringing the parts at the other, starting with the largest. The top should be secured, after which the toy can be safely used: hung on a chandelier or Christmas tree, placed on a table or windowsill, after placing the lower end in foam plastic.
In fact, plastic bags are a common, convenient material for creativity that doesn’t break the budget and can bring real benefits. You don’t need to have any special skills, dexterity, or additional tools, the important thing is to just want to create. The activity is perfect for children of primary school age, has no age or other restrictions, and has a positive effect on development fine motor skills kids. So don’t be afraid to take on such an unusual activity, you will definitely like it!
If you have a desire to create unusual craft for the home or a toy for a child with your own hands, then good choice will become crafts from bags. You can make jewelry, interior items, and accessories from garbage bags. All you need is polyethylene, scissors, imagination and best ideas crafts from bags.
How to make roses from bags
This master class on crafts from bags is one of the easiest, but no less exciting. Bright roses can be an excellent decoration for your home or garden. To make this craft you will need garbage bags, wire and scissors. You can use braid or green threads as decoration.
How to make a similar craft from bags with your own hands? Cut the wire into equal pieces. Each of them will be needed to twist into a ring with a leg. Each rose will require 6 large and 5 small petals. Next, cut out 11 squares from the trash bag. These pieces need to be wrapped around the rings, securing everything to the stem. At this stage, care will be required to avoid damage to the petal and to create structural strength.
We collect a rose from the prepared petals. First we twist the small petals, and attach the large ones on top. The main thing is that everything is firmly secured and straightened.
The further stages of creating the craft depend on where exactly the craft will be located. As a wall decoration, we leave the roses in their original form.
If you want to place them in a vase, you need to attach legs to them. To do this, we twist a tight flagellum from the wire and attach it to the roses. For greater naturalness, the base can be wrapped with green threads and braid. From such roses you can create a whole beautiful bouquet. This process is very simple and exciting, so you can involve children in it.
How to make a toy from a package
What other crafts can be made from bags? You can use them to create simple and cute children's toys with your own hands. It is best to create such a craft together with your baby so that he develops motor skills and increases his creative potential.
Important! It is best to create such crafts with children aged five years or more.
Prepare garbage bags of the color from which you would like to make a toy. You will also need: cardboard, scissors and additional accessories to create eyes, nose (for example, beads or buttons).
The type of toy itself does not depend on the principle of its creation. One way or another, you need to make such a craft by creating pompoms. First, prepare a base of two cardboard disks of the same size. Their diameter will be equal to the diameter of the pompom. Cut a hole in the center of the circles.
The garbage bag is then cut into long strips. We wrap them on two cardboard disks, which we first fold together. The winding direction can be any, but be sure to avoid gaps, otherwise the pompom will turn out uneven.
If the strip ends, then we continue working with the next one. The more garbage bags you can pull onto the workpiece, the more magnificent the pompom will turn out.
The previous stages are quite simple and even a child can do it, but then the help of an adult is required.
Using scissors, cut the pompom along the edge. Then we fold the strip from the garbage bag several times and wrap it between the cardboard circles so that the pompom is fixed. We take out the cardboard and get a beautiful fluffy ball. Next, using the same principle, we make another ball, but of a larger size. It will act as the body of the toy, and the small one will act as the head. You will also need 4 small balls to create the animal's legs.
To assemble the toy, you need to tie two large pieces and attach the small ones to the largest ball. Using glue and accessories, we decorate the toy and create eyes, a nose, etc.
Using a similar principle, you can create a toy not only in the form of an animal, but also in the form of a snowman or Santa Claus. The craft is quite simple, so the child will definitely be interested in creating it. It will become excellent options crafts from bags, for example, for kindergarten.
How to knit from garbage bags
Surprisingly, simple garbage bags can be an interesting and practical material for creating DIY crafts. You can even knit with them. This is how various bags, backpacks and baskets appeared, which, in turn, are very durable and can withstand considerable weight.
Plus, they look interesting and are very easy to make. Below we present step by step instructions how to make a craft. Start by cutting your trash bag into long, even strips. Next, you have to assemble a single chain from the prepared elements.
Important! For the aesthetic beauty of the product, try to knit without knots.
To prevent them from appearing, take one ring made from a strip and thread another through it. It must be bent in the middle and threaded through each other. Once tightened, you will have a strong, knot-free connection. You need to do this with all the blanks and twist them into one ball.
Note that the softest polyethylene is suitable for knitting. Otherwise, difficulties will arise with knitting thin parts. The easiest way is to crochet. On knitting needles this is not so convenient, but quite doable. Get inspired by the photo interesting crafts from the packages and you will definitely succeed!