It's hard to believe, but interesting things arehands can be made from the most ordinary items, sometimes completely intended to emit. For example, an interesting material for creativity is a cardboard base from toilet paper or paper towels. Admit, how often do you throw these items in the trash? From now on, we propose to stop such waste and learn how to make original crafts from a roll of toilet paper.
Children's creativity
Making handicraftsdevelops a child excellently and makes creative activities accessible. Every mother knows that ready-made kits for creativity are not cheap, and if you buy them every day, an impressive amount will be released in a month. Quite another thing - waste material. Crafts from the roll of toilet paper can be done daily, without prejudice to the family budget. Without changing the shape of the blank, you can make figures of various animals and fairy tale characters. Even the smallest child will cope with this task. Paint the existing cylinder or cover it with colored paper. Draw a face or face, you can also make an application. Add ears, paws and clothes. If desired, you can decorate the figures with textile elements, sewing accessories or some other trifles. In this technique, you can make a whole table theater.
New Year ideas
Invite a child to make interesting figures anddecorations for the interior on the eve of the holidays. Santa Claus from a roll of toilet paper can be made in the same way as the animal figures described above. To make the main New Year's wizard, paint the cylinder with white paint or apply paper. Draw grandfather's face and costume. The outfit can be made from pieces of fabric or colored paper. Do not forget about the cap - to create it, also use the same material as for the suit. All you need is to sew a cone or glue it and decorate it with a pompon. Santa Claus from a roll of toilet paper must have a beard, it can be formed from cotton wool and glued to the base. Your Christmas craft is almost ready, you can additionally decorate it - make buttons for a suit, depict hands with individual strips of cloth or paper. If you plan to hang a toy on the Christmas tree, do not forget to attach a loop. According to the principle of Santa Claus, you can make other New Year's crafts from rolls of toilet paper, for example, the figures of the Snow Maiden and the snowman.
Organizers for the office and trivia
From rolls of toilet paper can be madequite useful and functional things. Great idea - desktop organizer. If you glue the bottom of cardboard to the cylinder, you will have a cup in which pencils or felt-tip pens will fit perfectly. It will be much more interesting if you install several such “containers” on a common stand. How to make such useful crafts from the roll of toilet paper? It's very simple: paste over each cylinder with toilet paper or gift paper. You can also use a self-adhesive film with a suitable pattern, fabric or some other interesting material. You can make the organizer more convenient by cutting the rolls at different heights and adding some jars or cups of other sizes.
We decorate the interior
If the cardboard base from the roll of toilet papercut into thin rings, you can collect beautiful flowers and a variety of patterns. In this technique, you can even emit forging quality. The technology of making such crafts is simple: we cut the rolls into thin rings, collect patterns from them and glue them together. Finished decorative elements painted in the desired color. Consider the technique in more detail on the example of creating flowers or snowflakes. Take 5 or 6 rings of the same thickness. Give them the shape of ovals and hold together the corners. To make the glue dry well, attach one petal one by one and fix the gluing place with a clothespin for the time of glue drying. The finished flower can be painted to any color, and if you add some sparkles, you will get a simple and beautiful Christmas tree toy in the form of a snowflake! In this technique, you can make whole decorative panels, frames for mirrors and other interesting objects for interior decoration from rolls of toilet paper.
What else can be made of cardboard cylinders?
The simpler the source material, the moreinteresting crafts from it can be done. From the sleeves of toilet paper make interesting houses for home decor or children's games. Making them is very simple: cut through the doors and windows and paint or paste the blank with colored paper. Do not forget to make a roof of cardboard and a stand if necessary. An interesting idea for adult creativity - packaging for small gifts. Fold the edges of the cylinder in such a way so that you get an envelope with a closed edge. Decorate the blank to your liking, put the inside of your gift inside and close the second side as well. Try to make different crafts from the roll of toilet paper, and you will be surprised how simple and interesting the form of creativity is!
