New Year is coming, and the hot time begins for making crafts, Christmas-tree decorations both in kindergartens and in schools. A very convenient material is cylindrical bushings that remain after using toilet paper. They are available in every house, only you need to start collecting them a couple of months before the holiday.
Crafts made of cardboard sleeves are very convenient. From them you can make figures of various characters, as well as different toys. They are dense, hold their shape well, they can be cut off unnecessary sections with simple scissors, and holes can be made on the upper surface of the thread, on which the finished craft from the bushings can be hung on a Christmas tree.
In the article we will present several product options with detailed instructions. It’s easy to make them, even a child can handle it. So be sure to attract children to decorate the Christmas tree. Joint activity brings family members together, because the New Year is still a family holiday.
Minions
All kids love the cartoon about minions. The simplest crafts from the bushings will be the application "Minions". First you need to glue the sleeve with yellow colored paper, bending the edges inward. Then make the blue bottom of the character. Two thin strips are cut out, glued to them in the middle and at the very bottom of the minion.
Then two blue rectangles are attached in the center of the sleeve in front and behind. It remains to finish with small marker or gouache paints small details: glasses, eyes or eyes, pockets and buttons, mouth. If desired, you can take a black triangle and cut its base with "noodles." We fix it from the inside of the sleeve and get a hairstyle - a forelock for the minion. If a child wants to hang an article from the bushings on a Christmas tree, then you need to punch two opposite holes on the top with an awl and stretch the thread. Such bright toys will be an adornment of any holiday.
Snowman
What a winter holiday without a snowman? As a nice New Year’s crafts from the sleeve, you can create such a cute snow man, as in the photo below. Glue the bushings with white paper. They make legs from two cardboard circles. After you have drawn the circle patterns, make another rectangle on which the part will be attached to the sleeve from the inside. Hands-branches are attached by piercing the sleeve with an awl. Eyes can be bought at the hardware store.
To make black dots-embers in the snow voluminous, you can use fluffy balls of fur or pieces of yarn. You can use any material. The nose is made simply from orange cardboard by folding a cone. The remaining parts are drawn with a felt-tip pen. You can also make a bucket of paper on your head. Such a character can be placed next to Santa Claus below the tree.
Santa Claus
Such a figure will be one of the most popular crafts from bushings. To make it, you need to choose a red fabric, a piece of padding polyester or plain cotton wool, eyes, a piece of dermantine for the belt. For those involved in sewing, finding the right trim will be easy. First, you need to glue the sleeve with a red cloth, then make a cone hat. It can be individually stitched by measuring the diameter of the sleeve, from red fabric. Sheathe it around the perimeter of the circle with a synthetic winterizer, attach a pompom made of a twisted ball.
At the place where the face of our hero will be located, you can glue a circle of white paper. On it draw eyes and a red nose. You can stick purchased toy eyes. It remains only to cut a strip of leather, dermantine or ordinary cardboard of a dark color and create a belt around the abdomen of Santa Claus.
Fairy gnomes
Crafts from toilet paper bushes depicting gnomes look beautiful. Fabulous bearded men can be made in different sizes and colors. Caps are created not only white, as in the photo, but also multi-colored. You will need colored paper, white floss thread and fluffy nose balls.
In order for the gnomes to be of different height, strips of various widths are cut off on the bushings. Then all seven gnomes are glued with colored paper. As a nose, you can pick up even a half of a bead and sew it on the upper edge of the sleeve. White floss threads are cut into identical segments and connected in the center by a bundle. Then a dwarf beard is sewn or simply hung on a button or half of a bead. It remains to create a long pointed cap, and then put it on the character’s head.
Bunnies
For many nations, Christmas is associated with the Christmas rabbit. You can make children's crafts from bushings in the form of bunnies. The color of the cardboard cylinder is quite suitable as the color of the animal, so there is no need to glue the sleeve. You only need to cut the back out of the upper third, and the shape of the ears in front. Then the bottom is pasted over with green colored paper, after cutting "one noodle" one side of the strip. Only a flat part of the strip is glued. To make the grass look voluminous, you need to twist it with a pencil.
Then begins work on small details. Drawn eyes, mustache, nose, ears. In place of the nose, you can glue a plastic button or a pink button. Such an article from the sleeve can be hung on a Christmas tree branch.
Castle
A gift for a child under the Christmas tree can be made in the form of a fairytale castle with towers from bushes from toilet paper. The craft will be very original, the more you can open the box and see the gift inside. They make such a beautiful castle out of a cardboard shoe box. Arched windows are cut out in the bushings and the roofs are made in the shape of a cone.
The sides are cut out on the box lid, leaving sharp corners. In the middle of the roof, a lid is attached from a small box in which the battlements of the walls are made on each side. Then everything is pasted over with glazed paper. You can make a hinged bridge, add decorative elements (at the request of the author of the masterpiece).
Such a gift can be put under the Christmas tree. The child will be very happy, because he will receive not only a gift, but also the castle itself, with which you can play separately.