Do -it -yourself crafts crafts: ideas, step -by -step description, photo

In this article, we will consider various original and simple crafts from plastic cups.

Now it is very appreciated by your own hands. Especially if they were made with children or for children as a gift. Therefore, today we want to share ideas with you how to make a lot of interesting and beautiful figures or things with your own hands with minimal efforts, while spending at least financial resources. Namely, how to make various crafts from plastic cups.

Do -it -yourself crafts crafts: ideas with a step -by -step description and photo

Yes, indeed, plastic glasses surround us everywhere. Holidays in nature or any home holiday will not do without them. And it is not necessary to use white dishes. Yogurt, sour cream, pastes, cheese, fast -cook noodles and not only are also sold in plastic glasses. But their multi -colored variations can also be used as the basis for crafts from plastic cups.

Important: most often we used and threw them away. But most of us are accurately known about the state of the environmental situation around the world and how difficult it is to deal with plastic garbage, which is massively cluttering the planet. Since the material practically does not decompose in nature or, if it decomposes, it is slow enough. Therefore, in addition to crafts from plastic cups that can decorate your house, you will also help our planet. Just do not forget to dispose of them if necessary.

The main objects that we need in the process of work:

of course, plastic cups themselves;
scissors and a clerical knife, as well as an awl;
scotch;
glue gun;
chancellery Stapler;
various decorative elements (buttons, ribbons, sparkles, shade, beads, etc.);
gouache or watercolor paints;
brushes;
wire and thread.

Having the main materials and a little free time, we can already begin to create.

Our first proposal as a craft from plastic cups will be a bouquet of chrysanthemums

We will need three plastic glasses to create one flower, preferably colored. They can be painted additionally with paints, but so they will look more attractive. Also, arm yourself with scissors and a stapler.
The very first glass is the lower layer of the flower. By the way, there will be three layers. Therefore, prepare them in the corresponding length. That is, the first tier will be the longest, and the third will be the shortest. To do this, we simply cut off the top of the plastic cup in a circle by 1-2 cm, respectively.
The glass must be cut with scissors to the bottom into even strips, the width of which is approximately 4-5 mm. If desired, you can a little more.

The principle of creating chrysanthemums

Now you need to tighten the obtained strips. This is done very simply - on the principle of twisting the gift tape using scissors. That is, the scissors with a blade of scissors are carefully carried out from the bottom to the edge, but the movements should be sharp and fast. Come on several times to make curly ruffles.
Take such manipulations with each tier chrysanthemum. Then insert each cup one to one, starting with the largest dishes. Fasten the bottom with a stapler so that the tiers will stay among themselves.

Wall composition chrysanthemum from plastic cups

You make the number of colors at your discretion, as well as the color composition. After all, you can create multi -colored ensembles. Then you can compose flowers on a sheet of cardboard or make a vase bouquet.
By the way, for the stems you can use orange sticks for manicure, skewers or even old colored pencils. Piercing the hole in the center of the flower, be careful so as not to damage your fingers. And putting the flower on the stem, fix the joint with glue.

Plastic cups beasts

Here you have several ideas at once on how to take your child in the evening, when the weather is bad outside. We need any plastic glasses, scissors, PVA glue, colored paper, paints, beads, buttons and other inventory for jewelry.

You can decorate the glasses with gouache or seal with colored paper. After drying, glue the eyes, nose and mouth, as well as ears, tail and you can even paws.

And if you glue twisted paper in an amount of 8 pieces, then funny octopuses will come out.

These octopuses can be done with children

Incredible beauty lamp from plastic cups

For such a lamp you need about 30-50 glasses. The amount directly depends on the desired size. You will also need scissors and an adhesive gun.

To begin with, cut each glass in half in a vertical.
You start working with one half. To it, as shown in the photo, glue the second part with an edge. And so you continue in 5-8 halves. You make a similar picture in the opposite direction.

Now you also glue the half over the first glass, from which semicircles from cups will be dispersed again.
And so you continue to make scales, gradually reducing the number of glasses. The last layer should consist of 3 halves.
It remains to find the old sconce that needs restoration, and attach a new ceiling to it. Or just attach to the wall (you can do this, because the design is light) and insert a garland or LED tape.

Important: for fire safety purposes, keep in mind that plastic should not touch the light bulb itself. Yes, and choose a LED light source, because it does not heat up.

Plastic glasses

Take 1 or 2 cups, thread the thread into the central hole and tie a small bell. If the glasses are very thin. Then it is better to wear them alone.
Person it to your liking. By the way, as can be seen in the photo, it is more convenient to work with a fluffy wire. Tie a bow or rain.

New Year's craft of plastic cups in the form of a large snowman

For its manufacture, you need plastic glasses of white color (approximately 300-400 pieces), a stapler and such decor elements as a button, a Christmas hat, a red nose and a scarf.

For the first lower layer of the snowman, lay out 25 glasses in a circle in a lying position inside the bottom, and fasten them together with a stapler.
The second in line we lay out the layer in the same way as the first. You put each cup on the previous tier, not in a checkerboard pattern. In this case, you also need to move the second layer of glasses a couple of millimeters inward in order to form a hemisphere at the end. We also fasten the second layer of glasses together, and we also fasten each glass of the upper tier with each unit of the lower tier.
With such manipulations, we need to form 7 layers. At the same time, each subsequent layer of glasses must be advanced for several millimeters. And note that with each tier you will need fewer cups.

We pay attention, as a result, the not -formed hemisphere should be obtained. Do not lay out the last layer, because you will need to place the first hemisphere on it, which will serve your head.
We create it according to the same procedure, but with a slightly smaller area. We use only 18 glasses in the first circle. We continue to fasten glasses from each other from all sides until a new hemisphere comes out. This layer can also turn out to be incomplete from above. But there is nothing wrong, because there will be a hat that will hide all the shortcomings.
“Put on” your head on the body and fasten it with a stapler, glue or in any other way, as it will be convenient for you. Put the resulting figure and decorate. Put on a hat and scarf, create your mouths, eyes and create a nos-carrot from buttons.

Note: inside the snowman you can insert LEDs. It turns out quite interestingly, especially during the New Year holidays.

Such a snowman will become a real decoration of the holiday

A homemade Christmas tree from plastic cups continues the New Year's theme

The number of glasses depends completely on the size of the Christmas tree. You will also need a stapler or an adhesive pistol to fasten all this design to each other. Use rain and small balls as a decoration.
At first, the trunk of a Christmas tree of two cups. We spread 5 glued glasses on top and already spread the pyramid on them until 1 cup remains as the top.
Inside each glass you place, preferably, a green rain to create a Christmas tree effect and glue colored balls. If desired, you can even decorate with beads and other jewelry.

Original garland — And an original garland of glasses decorated with multi -colored fabric

Christmas wreath of plastic glasses

If you want to adorn the door to Christmas in an original way, then catch the following idea.

You simply glue cups of any color in a circle, the size of which can be adjusted at your discretion.
Decorate with ribbons, beads or, as shown in the photo, Santa's belt.
By the way, you can do even easier - just insert glasses into each other until a circle forms. It is enough to tie it by the tape and decorate it at your discretion.

Bright Marakas with your own hands from plastic cups

You only need 2 glasses, a stick from ice cream and beads. The scenery can already be done at your discretion.
Pour beads, pebbles or even seeds into glasses and fasten them well with tape. Do not forget to leave a small slot for a stick and fix everything with a glue gun.

Decorate with colored paper, shine or decorate with paints.

Bright fake of plastic cups or original tulips

It will need plastic glasses in the amount of 9 pieces (preferably colored and from under yogurt), wooden skewer, colored plastic bottle, balloons of different colors, awl, scissors and a stationery knife.

We take the glasses and cut off the top of the glass on which the label was attached in a circle.
We form flowers, cutting the rounded petals of tulips. Each glass can be formed by a different number of petals. Also note that the lower tier should be shorter than everyone else, and the upper glass, on the contrary, has the longest petals.
In the bottom of each flower, pierce the hole with an awl. We insert glasses into each other. We put everything on a skewer.
Now cuts of the neck at a plastic bottle. At one ball, cut the bottom and pull on the cut part.
The tail of the ball itself should be directed down. Now we cut off the tails from the balls and pull it onto the bottle, creating a colored vase. From the balls you can cut the petals and glue them to the flowers. And it remains only to put the tulips in a vase.

Incredible Easter basket for eggs made of plastic glasses

For this creation only glasses are needed.

Take the glass and cut it into vertical strips about 1 cm, not reaching the bottom by 1-1.5 cm.
Take one strip and get it on the front side for the next two segments. Thanks to the upper bend, it will be well fixed. So do it with each strip.
As a result, it remains only to glue the handle, which was cut out of another glass. By the way, you can use a regular cocktail tube.

We make a living dragon from plastic cups

We need 10 plastic glasses, preferably different colors, scissors, tape, glue, threads and cardboard. You will also need corrugated paper or ribbons and a stencil of the dragon head.

First you need to make stoppers. To do this, cut the bands of cardboard 15 cm by 7-8 cm. Twist them and fasten them with tape. The diameter of the hole should be approximately 1-1.5 cm.
In glasses, make a hole with an awl in the center. Please note that if the glasses are too transparent, then it is better to wear them one in one. Now stretch the thread through the hole of one glass, and insert a stupor into the glass. Put the second glass, hold out the thread and again a stupor. Do not forget to fix the thread in front and a good nodule behind.
Now we glue 2-3 strips of colored corrugated paper to each cup.
We draw or simply decorate the dragon’s stencil. We glue to the first glass.
It remains only to wait for the drying, you can speed up this with a stapler, and tie the thread to 1 and 4 from the edge of the glasses.

Funny dragon made of plate glasses — Funny dragon from plastic glasses

We brought you some simple ideas with which interesting products from simple plastic glasses are obtained. Moreover, such products can be given to your friends and friends. Try and you will succeed. At the same time, you will help our mother-prospect.