Crafts from glasses. Craft from disposable cups with your own hands. DIY snowman from plastic cups

For the manufacture of children's crafts dedicated to the celebration of the New Year, the most unexpected materials are sometimes used. In particular, boys and girls can make original New Year's accessories from plastic cups. In our article you will find some interesting ideas.

How to make a New Year's craft from cups?

One of the most common ones that you can make with your own hands from disposable plastic cups is a snowman. Making this character is not at all difficult, so even a child can handle this task. The following master class will help you create this original interior decoration:

How to make a garland from disposable cups?

Crafts for the New Year can be made not only from plastic disposable cups, but also paper ones. So, from this material you can make a beautiful garland to decorate the room for the holiday. The following step-by-step instructions will help you do this:

Prepare the necessary materials. You will need disposable paper cups, tinsel, scissors, a stapler, paper, and foil.

Using a stapler, attach the tinsel to the bottom edge of the glass.

Similarly - to the upper edge of the glass.

Roll a small ball out of a sheet of white paper.

Wrap it in foil.

Thread the thread from the rain into the needle and pierce the bottom of the glass with it in its very center.

Pull the needle through the glass.

Attach a balloon to the rain.

You have a bright New Year's bell.

Make some more bells using different colors of materials.

Collect all the resulting bells on tinsel and hang the garland in the desired place.

You will find other ideas for creating New Year's crafts from disposable cups in our photo gallery:

After trips to nature, festive events, especially for children, not only pleasant memories remain, but also a huge amount of plastic spoons, forks, plates, cups and straws for a cocktail. As a result, usually all this is thrown away, because the price of a new package is extremely low. Crafts from plastic utensils with your own hands are not only fast, but also probably the cheapest type of needlework.

Figurines from plastic cups

The following master class with step-by-step instructions will help you create original crafts.

plastic flower

For the manufacture of flowers from plastic cups you will need:

a plastic cup;
straw for drinks;
scissors.

Manufacturing instructions:

Tear the edge of the glass and tear the edge almost to the end, leaving a centimeter to the bottom.
In the same way, process the entire edge in a circle, each tear should be about half a centimeter from the previous one.
Make an incision in the bottom.
Now you need to fold the resulting lines into petals. Fold them back, in half, hide the edge of each petal under the previous one so that they go obliquely.
Insert a straw into the notch.

The flower is ready. Petals can be decorated with beads.

Christmas decorations

To create a very cute Christmas tree decoration, you will need the following items:

How to make a Christmas tree decoration from plastic cups:

Place the upside down glass on the felt and trace around it. Cut the circle a little larger so that the glass fits on it.
Make a hole in the bottom of the glass.
Fold the twine in half and thread through the hole. Make a knot and loop.
Cut the straw to fit inside the glass.
Cut out a small triangle from felt and write "North Pole" on it. Glue the felt to the straw.
Cut off a piece of green tulle and wrap it around a lollipop stick. Then cut the tulle so that you get the shape of a spruce.
Glue the tree and straw into the middle of the felt circle.
Spray the Christmas tree with glue and sprinkle with glitter.
Glue the glass to the felt.

The decoration is ready, you can hang it on the Christmas tree!

Halloween monsters

Your child will be happy to help you make these funny monsters. To create them you will need:

plastic cups;
permanent marker;
orange, green and black plastic paints;
plastic moving eyes.

Making monsters is not difficult:

Paint the glasses in different colors, let dry.
Turn the glasses upside down. Use a marker to draw a variety of mouths: toothy, open, etc.
Glue on the eyes.

The monsters are ready. "Heads" can be decorated with hats, sequins and beads.

Crafts from disposable spoons and forks

Crafts from spoons and forks are one of the varieties of jewelry made from disposable tableware. They came into fashion relatively recently in connection with the boom of handmade that broke out in the world.

Ladybug

Such ladybugs You can decorate the children's room or plants. For this you will need:

How to make cute insects:

Cut off the handles of the spoons.
Color the spoons with permanent markers or paints: two spoons red, one black, let dry completely.
Turn the spoons upside down. Apply glue to the sides of the black spoon and attach two red spoons to form the open ladybug wings. Important: the “head” of the cow is where the handle was cut off.
Glue elongated antenna beads onto the head.
Use black paint or a marker to draw dots on the cow's wings.

Ladybug is ready.

Christmas tree made of plastic spoons

For this Christmas craft, you will need a whole mountain of plastic disposable spoons (about 100 pieces)! In addition, you will need:

papier-mache cone (blank can be purchased at needlework stores);
scissors;
can of green paint;
hot glue gun.

Instructions for creating Christmas tree:

Cut off the handles of the spoons.
Start gluing the spoons to the cone starting at the base. Each new row should slightly overlap the bottom one.
Cover the resulting Christmas tree with several layers of paint, then turn over and paint over the undersides of the spoons.

Ready! You can decorate the "paws" of the Christmas tree with beads or pearls.

unusual flowers

This is the simplest method for creating unusual colors. For this you will need:

4 plastic spoons of bright color;
green ribbon.

Making such a flower is as easy as shelling pears: turn all four spoons with the curved sides to the center and tie with a ribbon. You can make several of these flowers and decorate flower pots or a garden with them.

Using other plastic utensils

Creative people with rich imagination and imagination can make wonderful things from almost any material. An example of this is crafts from plastic bottles and plates.

Can be crafted mermaid costume made of plastic bottles. A skirt with sparkling scales on your daughter at a matinee or other celebration will look interesting and original. For this you will need:

long green skirt;
2-3 two-liter green or colorless plastic bottles;
oval hole punch (5 cm);
utility knife;
fabric glue;
ribbon;
stapler;
rubber;
scissors;
tulle (1 meter).

Step by step instructions for creating mermaid tail from plastic bottles:

Cut off the top and bottom of each bottle. Lay them on the table and press down with your hands, smoothing out the plastic.
Use a hole punch to create scales.
Using a stapler, attach the scales to the skirt. Each bottom row should be covered by a few millimeters of scales from the top row.
Flip your skirt. Attach the tulle with a stapler a third below the top of the skirt, tie with a ribbon and secure with an elastic band. The tulle should hang from the skirt - this is the tail of a mermaid.

The costume skirt is ready. To complete the look, add a green top, fan, and jewelry.

In addition to clothes, you can make crafts for the New Year tree or just to decorate the room. For example, a Christmas ball with a snowman from a plastic or paper plate. During the manufacture of this craft, you need to be careful, then the result will please both you and your children. For creating Christmas ball you will need:

How to make beautiful plate decoration:

Cut out a paper snowman.
Use glue to attach the figurine to the bottom of the blue plate. Color the snowman with felt-tip pens, creating a face, hat and hands to your liking.
Sprinkle artificial snow in the middle of the plate.
Turn the clear plate or lid upside down and glue it to the main plate.

Ready. When the glue dries, you can shake the craft and watch the snowman come to life.

Attention, only TODAY!

Any options and methods of artistic mastery contribute to the comprehensive development of children, so the more various creative tasks you can offer your baby, the better and faster his imagination, the ability to analyze, and solve problems will develop. From this point of view, crafts made from plastic cups are very interesting. The material is cheap, bright, easy to process. It provides a wide field for creative activity. Choose your favorite ways of working and souvenir options. Spend time with your children in a fun and useful way.

All such products can be divided into two groups:

Made from one cup, maximum 2-3 pieces.
Made from a large number of blanks.

The first type includes the following options:

animals;
birds;
flowers;
baskets and buckets;
bells.

These are miniature souvenir figurines, which are obtained by adding parts made of paper, cardboard, plasticine, plastic, fabric and other materials to the main form.

The second group consists of large crafts made from plastic cups, they can even be called interior. They are made from several tens and even hundreds of plastic containers. In this way, the following products are made:

Christmas trees;
snowmen;
balls, including lamps.

The size of each such souvenir can be from 30-40 cm to a meter. Particularly impressive are the "sculptures" of human height.

It is also worth noting that they work with plastic cups in two ways:

Combining existing shapes into a new object.
Obtaining the product by deformation, namely cutting the original container.

As you can see, there are really many opportunities for creativity. You can combine different options and methods, finish painting, glue the decor. This allows you to get very unusual things.

Materials and tools

To make interesting crafts from plastic cups, you will need the following:

the cups themselves (white, transparent, multi-colored);
stapler (for connecting elements together);
scissors;
glue;
plasticine;
colored paper;
textile;
paints with a brush;
other decor (beads, rhinestones, stickers, tinsel, ribbons, bows, decorative tape, napkins with thematic patterns).

All materials are available, and if you are into needlework and art, most likely you already have the necessary supplies.

Fun plastic farm

Small children's crafts made of plastic cups, made in the form of figures of animals, birds or even fairy-tale characters, look very unusual and original. The easiest way to make stylized little animals. If the glass has a suitable color (not transparent, but, for example, yellow or white), you can only supplement it with small elements that characterize a particular animal (beak, cockerel comb; ears, muzzle, Dalmatian spots). If your container is only white or transparent, it is easy to paint it in the desired shade, for example, with acrylic paints. A clear varnish is ideal as a finishing coat, which fixes the paint layer and makes the appearance of the product more attractive.

Flowers and baskets

These items are made with scissors. The sequence of work is as follows:

Cut the cup around the perimeter into strips (1-2 cm wide) or directly into petals.
Twist them with scissors or a rod so that the blanks take on a curved shape.
Connect several elements together (a basket and a handle) or install the resulting "flowers" on the stems and add leaves.

Products from colored transparent cups look very impressive, although any others will do. Ready-made souvenirs can be decorated with sparkles, beads, make the middle of the beads.

Christmas crafts from plastic cups

For this holiday beloved by all children, you can create both simple souvenirs and large-sized figures of winter characters, as well as unusual themed decorations for the interior. For the New Year, such crafts are suitable:

snowmen;
Christmas trees;
bells;
animals are symbols of the coming year.

New Year's crafts from plastic cups are both small, which are easy to put on the festive table, hang on the Christmas tree or give as a souvenir, and large outdoor ones.

Beautiful bluebells

It is easiest to make bells, and different performance techniques can be used:

decoupage;
stained glass;
decorative coloring;
application.

It is also possible to combine several methods in the manufacture of one craft. If the cups are transparent, the pattern on the surface of the product looks spectacular, made from children's art kits, acrylic paints, glitter gels or even regular nail polish.

White cups are pasted over with pictures cut out of table napkins with thematic drawings, varnished, glittered or decorated in any way possible. This is a simplified version of decoupage.

Regardless of the technique for making crafts, the product can be decorated with tinsel along the bottom edge, place a bow with a loop at the top, for which the bell will be hung, and attach a “tongue” inside.

As you can see, crafts from plastic cups can be very different. It is easy to make even holiday decorations and gifts from this cheap material. Use the ideas presented, refine them. Create with your kids and have fun.

Disposable cups are a simple and affordable material for creativity with children. At the same time, it gives a huge scope for imagination, because the glass can turn into anything, which was demonstrated by the participants "Cities of Professions" when they made crafts from disposable cups. Original and unhackneyed ideas will inspire you to craft with children.

Easter composition from disposable cups

The composition consists of an Easter Bunny and a basket.

The hare was made as follows: first, Sonya painted a transparent cup white. While it was drying, she cut out the ears that I drew on cardboard, and then from pink paper - the inside of the ears and glued the cut out parts. Dad cut holes in the bottom of the cup and put in the ears. In conclusion, I drew a muzzle with felt-tip pens.

The basket was made by my husband and I. He cut the glass into strips, leaving the bottom intact. I folded the strips around. The handle was glued with a gun. Then I cut several thin strips of colored paper to make "hay-straw", which I put in a basket, and on top - toy eggs.

Jaromir, 4 years old and mother Anastasia Kalinkova, St. Petersburg

Animals from the fairy tale "Gingerbread Man"

I thought for a long time what we should do to make it simple, but interesting. And I decided to make simple animals, but not separately, but for a fairy tale. Namely for . Therefore, the craft is called "Animals from the fairy tale" Gingerbread Man ".

At home, we only had transparent plastic cups, and we used them. I prepared (drawn and cut out) the necessary details from colored paper (ears, eyes, noses and mustaches) in advance and put them all together in a bowl. When the eldest son came from the kindergarten, a bun (a ready-made ball from a kinder) rolled up to him and asked him to help him make animals from a fairy tale.

We remembered who was there: a hare, a wolf, a bear and a fox. First, the bun asked his son to sort the parts and determine what belongs to whom. Then we glued the details to the cups with glue-pencil and drew pupils and mouths with a felt-tip pen. The younger one watched all this time and tried to tear off what we had already glued)) And then my son and I played a fairy tale in roles. Son liked it very much. In the evening, he himself showed the fairy tale to dad again, while I put the youngest to bed.

Materials used: 4 plastic cups, colored paper, scissors, glue stick, black felt-tip pen.

Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?

Olga Niederhaus and two sons: Stepan 4.7 years old. and Artemy 1.4., Chelyabinsk.

Cheburilka - sister of Cheburashka

Today we have a new friend, Cheburashka's sister - Cheburilka girl. Since I didn’t have a disposable paper cup, and it would be more convenient with it, I stuffed the existing plastic disposable cup for density with crumpled paper, sealed the bottom with tape.

The body was made of brown cardboard, glued a circle of cardboard on top. I cut out large ears from cardboard of the same color, glued them with glue and tape. She cut out an oval from ordinary white paper and drew a face, which she glued onto the blank.

With the help of double-sided tape, I decorated our Cheburilka with a bow. Olesya liked the heroine, wore her all day with other heroes!

Olga Antonenko and daughter Olesya, 2 years 4 months, Yaroslavl.

I thought for a long time what to come up with from the cups, but absolutely nothing came to my mind. And when I went to the store for glasses, only transparent ones were available. For me it was a surprise. I imagined paper white or patterned. I decided to use this disadvantage and turn it into a virtue. Don't lose transparency. Moreover, the topic of occupations in the city of professions is just “Restaurant”. That's how it all came together and the idea of a children's bar was born.

On the menu: tea, coffee/chocolate, milk, strawberry, cherry, plum, apple, pear, banana, peach, orange, carrot juices.

They come with decorations: whipped cream, strawberries, lemon and orange slices, mint and tubules. You can order different combinations from a small bartender.

Production: prepared strips of multi-colored paper of three types: narrow, medium and widest. I fixed the strips in the cup with adhesive tape, but some of the flowers were made of self-adhesive paper. For the convenience of the bartender, stickers with fruits that were found at home were stuck on the cups with the child. Slices of orange and lemon made of white cardboard with orange and yellow applications.

In the middle there is a slot for dressing on a glass. Strawberry and mint are cut out of colored paper and folded in half. Whipped cream from a rolled white napkin. We got:

carrot-banana-orange fresh juice with an orange slice;
pear-plum juice;
Tea with lemon;
apple-peach-cherry fresh;
chocolate-strawberry milkshake with whipped cream, garnished with mint and strawberries.

Bon appetit!

Oksana Demidova and Fedya, 4 years old, St. Petersburg.

House - restaurant

We made a craft from a cup for the project "City of Professions". The craft is called "restaurant house".

Necessary materials:

paper cup;
according to the recipe from the site of the Club of Passionate Moms;
felt-tip pen;
rolling pin;
multi-colored buttons;
wire;
butterfly buttons.

A window and a door were cut out in a glass. Made fried plasticine. From plasticine, Vitya rolled pancakes with a toy rolling pin and baked them on a plastic lid. Turned over from both sides. Pancakes were put into a glass.

Then corrugated paper roses were stuck under the window. The window was decorated with buttons. They wrote "Restaurant" above the door. The roof was decorated with butterflies. A button-handle was screwed to the door with a wire. Inside is an LED flashlight. We will turn on the lights in the evening. The craft must be dried on the battery.