Mini master class "Tea house from newspaper tubes"

To make the kitchen more comfortable, lookmaster class "Tea House from newspaper tubes." With it, you will create a useful interior detail, which will occupy an important place in the life of tea drinkers. Another such handicraft will serve as an excellent gift.

Blanks

Before you create a tea house from newspaper tubes, a master class on the creation of which you will see further, you need to learn how to make blanks. Necessary materials:

• Newspapers.
• Scissors.
• PVA glue.
• Knitting needle or skewer.

How to make tubules:

1. One of the pages of the newspaper cut into equal strips of 9 centimeters wide.
2. Twist each strip diagonally by inserting a needle into it. It is necessary that the tube does not lose its shape.
3. Fix the tip with glue. It is not necessary to coat the entire strip. Otherwise, because of the rigidity of the weave will be difficult.
4. Make a few such blanks.
5. Now the tubes can be painted in the desired color, but the craft will not get worse if you postpone it until the completion of the whole weaving.
6. To lengthen the sticks, put glue into one end of the tube and insert the other.

Weave bottom

You need to be able to create a good bottom - a master class will teach this. The tea house of newspaper tubes should stand firmly on the table. So, how to make the bottom:

1. Put three tubes together. There are three more on top of them: a cross should turn out. Put glue in place of crossing.
2. Make another such cross and glue it to the first so that a six-pointed star is obtained.
3. Take a long tubule and bend it in half, wrapped around three tubes lying next to it.
4. Skip the top side under the three main tubes. And the bottom above them.
5. Weave so the first row.
6. Then you make 3 rows, passing through two main tubes.
7. Further, it is necessary to bind through one tube until you reach the desired diameter.

Another variant:

1. Take 16 tubes.
2. Put them crosswise four pieces, slightly glued together.
3. Take a long tube and fold it in half.
4. Cover it with one of the four pairs.
5. From the first to the third row weave like this: skip the top side under the four subsequent tubes, and the bottom over them. Then turn and do the same on the other side.
6. The third row: the working tube does the same thing as in the last step, only weaving two tubes, not four.
7. After a few such rows, start braiding one tube, not two.
8. Continue until the desired diameter is reached.

Base

The master class "Tea House from newspaper tubes" is coming to the most interesting - the creation of the walls of the house. Working process:

1. Take a round shape and put on the bottom. This can be a jar or a mug. The main thing is that it was slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottom.
2. Through one lift tubules up along the form, secure with a clothespin.
3. On the remaining tubules weave three rows. Just skip the phone up and down.
4. When done, hide the end from the bottom.
5. Tighten all sticking sticks, promagte glue. When everything is dry, carefully cut off the excess.
6. Make the walls, as in the third step, usingsimple weaving. Tea house, a master class for the creation of which you are considering, each turns out to be unique. After creating a few rows, cut out with a stationery knife a hole for bags that suits you. Can cut windows.
7. Weave a pigtail of three tubes and glue to the place of the cut.
8. Make the walls to the desired height, about 20 rows.
9. Begin to gradually narrow down, first weaving two tubes, after a few rows of three, and so on.
10. Fix the end of the working tube with glue, dry and cut off the excess.

Roof

Tea house is almost ready. Weaving from newspapers (our mini-MK is close to completion) leads to the creation of a roof. What to do:

1. Put a piece of paper on the shoebox, draw a corner that will be a guide for the roof. Mark on it a few points, the distance between which should be about a centimeter.
2. Insert in the point of the tube - this rack.
3. Take the straw, which will be working and begin to weave it around the racks.
4. Insert a suitable triangular shape to braid it.
5. When the roof is ready, remove the racks and bend the protruding tubes, glue, cut off the excess.
6. Put it on the house and fix it with glue.

Master class "tea house from newspaper tubes"finished. It remains to paint the craft, if you have not done this before, and decorate. Stick the label of your favorite tea over the hole. When it is better to master the technique of weaving, you can experiment with the forms of the roof and base.