What kind of handicraft can you make from hand-made materials?

Today, in conditions of commodity abundance, people are less and less thinking about what kind of work can be done from improvised materials. In the meantime, this is a very useful activity, which allows you to reduce the amount of garbage and show creative inclinations. For example, there are many ways to use old car tires. In addition to the widely known application of these automotive components as a garden fence, the following use is possible:

• As a parking lot for bicycles. To do this, several tires are piled into the ground to half so that a bicycle wheel passes between them. Thus, the vehicle will be easily held in an upright position.
• Like a rocking chair for children. For this, the tire is cut in half. To one of the parts is attached a board, after which the whole structure is painted in cheerful colors.
• Like a mini hammock. In this case, the most part of the protector is cut out (the remainder will be a kind of seat). The sides are left intact. They are attached to ropes, which stretch in different directions and are attached to the supports.
• Suspended swing for children. For this, the protector is cut in width and cut from the sides, but not to the end (leave the "saddle"), and bends from both sides upward. Towards the ends of the tread are fastened cords, for which the swing is suspended from the beam. A sidewall in the form of circles remain hanging down, creating a kind of stirrups.
• What kind of work can be done from a large-diameter tire ? Folk craftsmen perform the bottom of polyethylene thick film and get a small pool to collect rainwater or even bathing.

The use of automobile tires by the above methods is not limited. What kind of work can be done from any tread? An interesting product came up in China. Here, these parts of the tires are allowed on the soles of the sandals. Their shape is cut to the size of the foot, and weave from the thin strips or fabric belts for the top of the shoe.

All parents should know about what it is possible to make a handiwork from the simplest things together with their kids, so that everyone would have fun. For example, you can take ordinary wooden clothespins. Attach the wings and the head of the bird to the outer side of one of the contracting ends, cut out, for example, from paper. Dye yellow, draw eyes and beak. It turns out a toy that you can cling to at least a curtain, even a children's glass.

Equally interesting is the material that every family throws out every day. This is a diverse plastic, which is poorly utilized. What can you do with your hands from plastic bottles? For example, the original summer bag. For her, 34 squares with a side of 6 cm are cut out of plastic bottles. Each square is pierced by a hole in the corners and in the middle of each side (8 holes). Then each element is crocheted according to scheme 1 column with a crochet, three columns with a crochet in the hole in the plastic, one column with a crochet. Then the elements are stitched together: 15 squares (3 rows of 5) go to each side of the bag, four elements to the bottom. Through the hole at the joints, the tapes are additionally stretched crosswise. Next, the bag is sewn on the side seams, to it is sewn a lining of the desired color, which will be seen through the transparent plastic. It is attached at the edges and bottom to the base. The lightning is sewn, the handles are attached. This technique allows you to create transparent canvases of any configuration for a variety of purposes.

Now you know what you can do with your own hands at home. We hope that our advice will be useful to you.