The second life of unnecessary things is the slogan of creative people, needlewomen, designers who never throw them away, but try to transform them. Some items are suitable for children's crafts, others decorate the interior, and others bear practical value.
Denim stereotypes
Most people throw away used, unnecessary things or apply them in the same way: clothes are altered, torn on rags, bottles are used as pencil boxes, tires are replaced with a flower bed.
And what can you create crafts from old jeans with your own hands? For example, bags, backpacks, wallet. To do this, cut off jeans trousers or skirts. This will be the base of the bag. Of other things of different shades, measure the stripes along the diameter of the future bag. Connect the details together. Sew on top of the zipper, pens. Use the pockets on the bag for small items, phone, keys.
You can make a rug, slippers, bedspreads, toys or pillows. So, stitching square or rectangular denim pieces together, you will get a durable blanket. There are variations of rugs where denim round blanks are filled with padding polyester and sewn to the jeans base. The result is a soft rug for stools. You can sew old slippers and get stylish slippers.
Unusual second life of unnecessary things from old jeans
But that's not all. You can make a lot of unusual crafts:
- Pencils, caskets, organizer, coasters. Tight denim material, paste cardboard sleeves from toilet paper or scotch tape, attach the bottom, accessories, get unusual boxes. You can sew pockets of different shades and sizes on the fabric, getting an organizer for small things.
- Photo frames, book covers. If, by the size of the diary, you make a pattern on jeans, sew pockets on the front part, an applique of butterflies and flowers, and then stick it all on the cover, you get a stylish youth office gift.
- Topiary, decor of bottles, sofas, panels. Denim roses are especially interesting. Just fold the strip with a flower, fasten with threads, decorate with beads. Such roses create unusual compositions.
- Jewelry: elastic bands, bracelets, rings, beads, headbands. Cut a jeans strip along your arm, decorate with beads, rhinestones, beads, cabochon, braid. Sew on the edges of the fabric buttons, Velcro, ties or other types of fastening, getting a stylish youth bracelet. If you need a tight decoration, then stick the jeans material onto the base (cut from a plastic bottle, used bracelet).
If you use different shades of matter, you can get unusual volumetric patterns, original plots. Having made such crafts from old jeans with your own hands, you can replace them with purchased gifts and souvenirs.
Crafts from disposable tableware
Plastic and paper dishes are a storehouse of ideas for crafts with children. If you wrap the three plastic spoons individually in red crepe paper, fold them together to form a bud, and wrap the handles in green tape, you will get a tulip. Such flowers can be collected in bouquets for the holidays on March 8 or February 23.
No worse are crafts from cups. Paste around the ball with white cups, get a dandelion. Or you can make a snowman like that. Such voluminous works adorn children's performances. If you cut the cups into strips, you get flowers, curly baskets.
Very impressive look panels with spoons, forks. To do this, pens are removed from disposable tableware, petals from spoons and forks are glued to cardboard, painted, varnished and framed.
By the way, tear off the pens on cardboard or a lid in chess rows, paint and get an aster as a garden decoration. By the New Year you can make a wreath or Christmas tree. To do this, glue the cardboard blank with broken forks or spoons, decorate with beads, buttons.
How to apply buttons
Crafts from buttons for children, in combination with other small objects, develop fine motor skills, imagination, and artistic taste. If a lot of buttons have accumulated at home, then you can create a stylish panel from them. Draw with a pencil a tree with twisting branches. Glue the lines, creating a volumetric crust.
Instead of glue, you can use mass for papier-mâché. Then paint its trunk with brown acrylic paint and place the buttons on the branches. Once the pattern is located, glue them individually to the panel.
Interior can be decorated with voluminous crafts from buttons. For children, they sell special creative sets where you need to decorate with buttons toys, glasses, panels. But you can update the flower pot, vase or photo frame even without templates. Just glue the surface with old, nondescript buttons, paint with spray paint, varnish.
Unusually looks "button" dress. To do this, you need to sew buttons on the fabric, placing them like scales on a fish. Designers and designers amaze such works, and adolescents can sew a bracelet, necklace or wallet on this principle.
Bottle application
The second life of unnecessary things allows you to protect nature. For example, bottles of unusual shapes replace decorative vases if they are glued with twine, buttons or beads.
With children you can make funny plastic penguins. To do this, follow the instructions:
- Cut the bottom of two different sizes for two bottles.
- Connect them with each other (for strength glue with glue).
- Paint the blank with white paint.
- Mark the penguin's face with a pencil.
- Cover the body in black.
- Paint the hat with any paint, and glue the pompom on top.
- Draw the eyes, a triangular beak.
- Tie a scarf to the penguin.
The bottom of the bottles is used in the manufacture of apples, ladybugs, turtles. These crafts are used as decoration of a garden site, didactic material, street toys.
Beads, bracelets, topiary are made of plastic strips. The strip is painted, rolled up with a tube, singe from two sides, getting beads. You can string the squares on a wire, process them with fire, and form branches by a tree.
What can be done from unnecessary things: wine corks, lids, coils
Entire plugs are used to create a three-dimensional panel. Draw a heart, cut a pattern, stick corks vertically on it. Paint with different shades of pink. By this principle, you can draw up any blank.
Trinkets, toys and other crafts are made from corks. From cups pasted with cut corks, for example, interesting pencils are obtained. Cork halves also paste over photo frames, wreaths, tables, stools, rugs. Instead of plugs, you can use spools of thread.
Bottle caps are used for massage mats or beads. They can glue the cardboard blank and get a three-dimensional image, as is the case with wine corks. And you can make a picture using covers in colors, like a mosaic.
Plastic lids are suitable for bags. To do this, the middle of them is removed, and the edges are tied. A pattern is embroidered in the center. Then the lids are hooked together, according to the pattern of the bag. Then sewn pens, zippers, inside pockets.
Use of thread residues
The remains of the thread are used when knitting multi-colored potholders, tops, napkins, amiguri, creating temari balls, pompons, Christmas decorations. Children can paste bottles, cups with multicolored threads, receiving decorative elements or blanks for animals.
Thread balls are especially popular . Inflate a balloon of the right size. Make holes in the PVA bottle, stretch the thread, wrap the ball. When the threads are dry, take a dense shape, blow off the ball. Such blanks are used for Christmas decorations, wreaths and crafts. You can place a spider or other decorative figures on a thread inside the ball.
From threads using the technique of isonity or ganuteli, you can realize any ideas for the home. From unnecessary things, threads, flowers, panels, decorations are created. To do this, draw a template on cardboard, mark it in equal segments, embroider in a certain sequence. Due to this, due to the geometric shapes, some kind of plot is created.
Ganutel, on the contrary, creates elements from a wire, which is wrapped with threads, filling the voids. Then the elements are assembled into a whole image, receiving voluminous crafts.
conclusions
The second life of unnecessary things allows not only to protect natural resources, but also to create new unusual interior items. For example, weaving with newspaper tubes or papier-mâché allows you to create paper masks, dishes, furniture, toys, panels, imitations.
Gather all the waste and decorative material on the table, sort it by color scheme, material, and then imagine a solid image. Your craft will decorate the house, summer cottage or children's playground.