The second life of unnecessary things. Crafts for the house with their own hands

The second life of unnecessary things is the slogan of creative people, needlewomen, designers who never throw them out, but try to transform them. Some items are suitable for children's handicrafts, others decorate the interior, others carry practical value.

"Denim" stereotypes

Most people throw out used, unnecessary things or apply them in the same way: they change clothes, tear on rags, use bottles as pencils, replace tires with a tire.

And what can you create crafts from old jeans with your own hands? For example, bags, backpacks, purse. To do this, cut jeans trousers or skirts up. This will be the base of the bag. From other things of different shades measure the stripes along the diameter of the future bag. Connect the details together. From above sew a zipper, handles. Pockets on the bag use for trivia, phone, keys.

You can make a rug, slippers, bedspreads, toys or pillows. So, sewing square or rectangular denim pieces with each other, you will get a firm veil. There are variations of rugs, where denim round blanks are filled with sintepon and sewn to a denim base. As a result, you get a soft mat for stools. You can sew old slippers and get stylish home shoes.

Unusual second life of unnecessary things from old jeans

But that's not all. You can make a lot of unusual crafts:

1. Pencils, caskets, organizer, stands. Dense jeans material glue cardboard sleeves from toilet paper or scotch tape, attach the bottom, accessories, get unusual boxes. It is possible to sew on a fabric pockets of different shades and the sizes, receiving the organizer for trifles.
2. Photo frames, book covers. If the size of the diary is to make a template on jeans, attach pockets to the front part, application of butterflies and flowers, and then paste it all on the cover, then you get a stylish youth clerical gift.
3. Topiary, decor of bottles, sofas, panels. Especially interesting denim roses. Just strip the strip off the flower, fix it with threads, decorate it with beads. Such roses create unusual compositions.
4. Ornaments: elastic bands, bracelets, rings, beads, bezels. On the hand cut out a denim strip, 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 the jeans material is glued to the base (cut from the plastic bottle, used bracelet).

If you use different shades of matter, you can get unusual volumetric patterns, original stories. 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 utensils are a storehouse of ideas for crafts with children. If three plastic spoons are wrapped separately with red crepe paper, fold them, forming a bud, and wrapping the pens with green insulating tape, you will get a tulip. Such flowers can be collected by bouquets for holidays on March 8 or February 23.

Do not get worse than handicrafts from glasses. Glue the ball with white glasses, get a dandelion. And you can make a snowman like that. Such voluminous works decorate children's plays. If the glasses are cut into strips, then you will get flowers, figured baskets.

Very impressive look panels with spoons, forks. To do this, disposable utensils are torn off, on the cardboard are glued petals from spoons and forks, painted, varnished and framed.

By the way, torn off the handles on the cardboard or cover with chess pieces, paint and get an astra as a garden ornament. By the New Year, you can make a wreath or a Christmas tree. To do this, glue the cardboard blank with forks or spoons broken off from the handles, decorate with beads, buttons.

How to apply buttons

Crafts made of buttons for children, combined with other small objects, develop fine motor skills, imagination, artistic taste. If the house accumulated a lot of buttons, then you can create a stylish panel of them. Mark a pencil tree with winding branches. Glue the lines, creating a three-dimensional crust.

Instead of glue, you can use mass for papier-mache. Then paint his trunk with brown acrylic paint and place the buttons on the branches. Once the pattern is located, glue them separately to the panel.

Interior can decorate voluminous crafts made of buttons. For children, selling special creative sets, where you need to decorate with buttons toys, cups, panels. But you can and without the templates to update the flower pot, vase or photo frame. Just cover the surface with old, ordinary-looking buttons, paint with paint from the can, cover with varnish.

Unusually looks "buttoned" dress. To do this, on the fabric you need to sew buttons, placing them as scales in fish. Such works are surprised by designers-fashion designers, and teenagers can sew a bracelet, a necklace or a purse by this principle.

Application of bottles

The second life of unnecessary things allows you to conserve nature. For example, bottles of unusual shape replace decorative vases if they are pasted with twine, buttons or beads.

With children you can make gay plastic penguins. To do this, follow the instructions:

1. Cut two bottles of the lower part of different sizes.
2. Connect them to each other (for strength, glue with glue).
3. Paint the paint with white paint.
4. Mark the penguin's face with a pencil.
5. Body cover in black.
6. Paint the hat with any paint, and glue the pompon on top.
7. Draw your eyes, triangular beak.
8. Tie the penguin to the scarf.

The bottoms of bottles are used in the manufacture of apples, ladybirds, turtles. These crafts are used as a garden plot decoration, didactic material, street toys.

Beads, bracelets, topiary make of plastic stripes. The strip is colored, folded with a tube, singed from two sides, getting beads. You can square the squares on the wire, work with fire, form branches at the tree.

What can be done from unnecessary things: wine cork, lids, coils

Entire plugs are used when creating a large panel. Draw the heart, cut out the pattern, glue the plugs vertically on it. Paint in different shades of pink. By this principle, you can draw out any workpiece.

Of the plugs, key rings, toys and other handicrafts are made. From glasses, pasted with cut plugs, for example, interesting pencils are obtained. Cork halves also pasted photo frames, wreaths, tables, stools, rugs. Instead of stoppers, you can use coils from threads.

Bottle caps are used for massage mats or beads. They can glue the cardboard blank and get a three-dimensional image, as in the case of wine stoppers. And you can make a picture using covers by colors, like a mosaic.

Plastic covers are suitable for bags. For this, the middle of them is removed, and the edges are tied. A pattern is embroidered in the center. Then the lids are joined together by crochet, by the pattern of the bag. Then, handles, zippers, inner pockets are sewn.

Application of thread residues

The remainders of the thread are used for knitting different colored sticks, tops, napkins, amiguri, creating tanori balls, pom-poms, and Christmas-tree toys. Children can glue varicolored threads of bottles, cups, receiving decorative elements or preparations for animals.

Especially popular are balls of thread. Inflate the air balloon of the correct size. In a bottle with PVA make holes, stretch the thread, wind the ball. When the threads dry, they will take a dense shape, blow the ball off. Such blanks are used for Christmas decorations, wreaths and hand-made articles. You can put a spider or other decorative figures on the string inside the ball.

From the threads in the technology of isonite or gauntlets it is possible to realize any ideas for the home. Of unnecessary things, threads create flowers, panels, ornaments. To do this, on the cardboard draw a template, mark it on equal segments, embroider in a certain sequence. Thanks to this, a plot is created at the expense of geometric figures.

Ganutel, on the contrary, creates elements from a wire that turns into threads, filling the voids. Then the elements are assembled in a whole image, receiving voluminous articles.

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-mache allows you to create from paper masks, dishes, furniture, toys, panels, dummies.

Collect all the junk and decorative material on the table, sort it according to the color scale, the material, and then imagine the whole image. Your craft is sure to decorate the house, cottage area or playground.