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How to make a small circle from plastic cups. Simple crafts for the New Year from plastic and paper dishes

AUTHOR MARRIETT
You can easily make Christmas decorations from plastic cups with your own hands. The most important thing you need is miniature Christmas toys - a small Christmas tree, a snowman, Santa Claus and any other themed miniature. Such toys can always be purchased in stores in which sections with New Year's gifts, sparkling tinsel and children's attributes for the holiday have already opened. Much can be found at home, in boxes with old Christmas tree decorations. You can attract children to the creation of New Year's decorations, because handmade for the New Year is aimed primarily at children's joy, fun and happy faces of our kids)

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Christmas decorations from plastic cups
To create Christmas decorations that can be used as pendants for a Christmas tree, as a New Year's garland, or simply as decorative elements for festive Christmas compositions, we need:

Plastic cups;
white cardboard;
silver tinsel;
artificial snow;
miniature toys - snowman, Santa Claus, gnome and so on;
white acrylic paint;
brush;
hot glue gun;
bell;
velvet or silk ribbons.

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Having prepared all the materials, we get to work. We take a plastic cup and cut a circle out of cardboard by its size, this will be the bottom. We glue silver rain or other tinsel to the cardboard.

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Next, glue the Christmas tree and the rest of the existing miniature with hot glue.

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Now we tint the plastic cup with white acrylic paint, create a snow effect.

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Now we glue the glass to the bottom.

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The Christmas decorations are ready, all that remains is to glue the bells with ribbons.

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That's the whole master class), I hope you liked the idea and you will decorate your festive interior with New Year's decorations, creating them yourself. And don't forget to take photos of your creations and show them to your virtual friends and readers. By the way, all the necessary equipment for photography can be purchased in the online store falcon-eyes.ru. Products are available here not only for home, but also for work in a professional photo studio. The store's catalog contains studio and camera flashes, a light stand, light-shaping attachments and reflectors, commission photographic equipment and much more.

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NEW YEAR'S CRAFT:

Already on the doorstep, and I want to somehow decorate my home in an unusual and beautiful way. There is no longer any desire to buy standard snowflakes with Velcro or Christmas tree toys from the category of "like a neighbor", so needlewomen have to go to some tricks. Yes, and it has become fashionable today to decorate your home with do-it-yourself details and crafts.

Homemade snowman that won't melt

So, today we will tell you how to make a snowman from plastic cups with your own hands. The work, let's say right away, is painstaking and not too fast in time, but the result will be surprisingly unusual.

So, a snowman made of plastic cups. The instructions will be quite detailed, so we have no doubt that you will understand all the nuances. By the way, feel free to involve the whole family in this exciting process. Some housewives say that the "molding" of such a snowman captivated children and adults much more than the street one - from the snow. Gather the whole family. Common work, joint conversations, a common cheerful mood and preparation for the holiday will only unite and rally you. Let's get started.

How many cups do you need?

As you know, before making some kind of craft with your own hands, you need to decide on the amount of materials. It is clear that the work will require disposable plastic cups. But how long does it take to make a small snowman out of plastic cups, and how much does it take to make a larger model?

The average figure is three hundred glasses. You will need to purchase three packages, each of which will contain one hundred. It is from this number that you should build on, varying the size of your snowman. The volume of the dishes will also affect the size. If you take 200 ml cups, then the snowman will be quite large. For smaller decorations, use 100 ml cups.

Experienced housewives, who have done such a craft as a snowman made of plastic cups with their own hands more than once, are advised to buy identical cups in one place. Decide on the size of the craft in advance. It may turn out that the cups will not be enough, and the store will not have the size or quantity you need. As a result, the details will be "motley", and the snowman will not turn out as you intended. Why do we need extra frustration before the New Year !?

Additional tools

In addition to plastic dishes, you should take a few more tools:

  • A stapler with a large supply of cartridges (so that you do not have to run to the store at a crucial moment).
  • A piece of styrofoam (for the stand).
  • Decorations (tinsel, scarf, garlands, etc.).
  • Colored paper (for making eyes, nose and buttons).
  • Good mood, pleasant company and a desire to do something unusual.

How to make a snowman out of plastic cups if you don't have a stapler at hand? You can always change it for a good quality glue such as "Moment" or "superglue". We add it to the shopping list.

Scheme of the first ball

So, how to make a snowman from plastic cups, if all the necessary tools are already at hand and the desire to create overwhelms your whole family? To get started, unpack one package of dishes and count 25 pieces. It is this amount that will be required to make the first row of the snowman.

New Year's craft "snowman made of plastic cups" can consist of a different number of balls. There can be two or three of them. But the first and second rows in any craft will be the same. Having selected 25 items of dishes from the package, it is necessary to place them so that they touch each other at their edges. In this case, the bottom of the glasses should look inside the craft, and the wide part should protrude outward.

Using a stapler, we fasten all the parts and form the first circle. Experts advise not to press hard on the stapler when you connect the parts. Plastic cups are pretty fragile. If you are not sure that you can handle this device accurately, replace the stapler with glue.

So, the first row for the craft "snowman made of plastic cups" is ready. We will now explain step by step how to make the second layer. He will be laid out in a checkerboard pattern. We advise you to fix the cups not only on the sides, but also on top. In addition, try to move the parts forward a little when fastening. So the structure will be much more stable and durable.

By this principle, you will need to make seven rows. Do not cover all rows of the first ball. The head or a second ball will still be attached to the remaining hole.

Snowman head

A standard do-it-yourself snowman made of plastic cups consists of two segments-balls. The first is the torso, the second is the head. But you can, as we said, vary the number of segments as you like.

We make a standard version, so after the body is made, we make the head. In addition to cups and a stapler, plasticine and tennis balls (for the eyes) are also useful.

The number of vessels required to form the head is eighteen. They should be secured in the same way as the torso cups. In the upper part of the ball, the same hole will remain as in the body. It will be possible to close it in the future with a knitted hat, a bucket of colored paper or any other headdress (as you fantasize).

The main accents on the head are the eyes, nose and mouth. They can be made from colored paper. The eyes are very often made from tennis balls, which are pre-painted black. But if you don't have them at hand, it's okay, glue two large circles of colored cardboard or paper, draw cilia.

The nose can be made from bright orange plasticine. This spout will be easy to attach and will last longer than the paper version. Nose shape - carrot, button or any other option.

Body and head connection

Having collected the two parts of the snowman, it remains only to connect them together. This can be done with a stapler or, if you are having trouble handling the instrument neatly, with instant glue. Don't worry about a noticeable seam left. It can be easily hidden with decorations and accessories.

Accessories and decorations

We have told you how to make a snowman out of plastic cups. It remains to talk about its decoration and transformation. In order to hide the joint between the torso and the head, an ordinary lightweight scarf is most often used. You can wear a cap or wide-brimmed hat on your head to make the craft look stylish.

If you wish, you can make hands for him from ordinary rubber gloves from the pharmacy. Add some tinsel, bows or ribbons to make the snowman more festive and New Year's.

Very often, after gatherings in nature, children's parties or work events, a lot of used disposable tableware remains. Naturally, she finds her place in the trash can, but do not rush to part with this, as it might seem at first glance, garbage. Forks, plates, plastic bottles are an indispensable and affordable material for making different crafts with your own hands. Many beautiful things can be made from disposable cups, and now you will see for yourself.

Christmas snowman

Winter holidays are one of the most beloved in every family, and preparation for them is pleasant for both adults and children. To surprise your guests, we suggest you make this wonderful New Year's craft - a snowman from disposable cups. Costs for its production are minimal, and the process itself will bring a lot of joy and good mood. For the snowman we need:

  • White plastic cups.
  • Black and orange plasticine.
  • Glue gun or stapler.

Progress

To give stability to the snowman, it is necessary to make the first row a hemisphere, and not an even circle. So, we lay out our plastic dishes and fasten them together with a stapler or glue. On the first row of this craft made of disposable cups, their number was approximately 25 pieces. For the second row of the snowman, the same number of glasses is taken, they are similarly fixed along the top of the lower row. The next rows will consist of fewer cups due to their tapered shape. Do not be afraid that you will not succeed, the most important thing here is to start work, in the manufacturing process everything will become clear.

The upper ball of the snowman is made rounder and smaller in size than the already made body. For the head, you will need 18 plastic cups, which we also lay out around and repeat the process already familiar to us. Then we turn the ball upside down and make more rows, you do not need to do it to the end. The head should also remain unfinished.

There is no need to make three lumps, like a snowman made of snow. With them, he will not be stable. Now we place the small ball on the big one at the bottom, if everything is in order, we begin to decorate the New Year's surprise. The nose can be made from real carrots or sculpted out of orange plasticine. We put a bucket or hat on our head, make eyes. That's it, our snowman made of disposable cups is ready! By the way, it will make an original night light if you put a multi-colored garland in the body.

Unusual bouquet

After the holiday for kids, multicolored plastic cups in huge quantities become trash, and the hand of an economical housewife will not rise to throw them away. After all, you can give them a second life and make various crafts from disposable cups. For example, flowers that will delight with their colors at any time of the year. For this we need: plastic cups of different colors, scissors and chopsticks (you can take wooden chopsticks for Japanese food).

Work process

The first stage of making "Flower" - crafts from disposable cups - is the preparation of all the necessary materials. The cups for our bouquet must necessarily be colored, the stick will serve as a stem, if there are no sticks, then you can use a regular twig or wire instead.

The second stage - we take three disposable cups and in each of them we make a hole in the middle of the bottom, the size of the hole depends on the thickness of our stem. It must hold on tightly so that our flowers from disposable cups do not slide down on their base.

The final step - cut the glass in the middle of our flower with scissors so that it takes the form of short petals in the middle of the flower. The second plastic cup is smaller, to get larger petals, and the third one is not cut off at all. Now we bend the petals made and give the shape to our craft. A beautiful flower is ready, having made several such adorable creatures, you will get a beautiful bouquet from junk material.

How disposable cups came to be

As you can see from the article, plastic cups are not only convenient dishes that do not require washing after use, but also an excellent material for creativity. And what is their story? Who got the idea for disposable tableware? So, at the beginning of the last century, a student at the American University, Hugh Everett Moore, drew attention to the fact that a public mug was attached to the tanks with drinking water standing then at train stations, schools, etc. They did not wash it often and, accordingly, hygiene was out of the question. He wrote a note about it in the local newspaper and suggested an alternative - a safe mug made of thick paper. The proposal interested a businessman from Chicago, Lawrence Luellen, who at that time had vending machines for selling water, and whose business did not go because of public water tanks with free water. Over time, Lawrence and Hugh became the founders of Individual Drinking Cups. As you can see, in the modern world their business is flourishing: plastic, paper, transparent, colored, with and without a lid. And all this diversity thanks to one caring student.


After direct use or buying a new disposable tableware, you can give it a second life - make various crafts out of it with your own hands. Moreover, such an activity is suitable for both young children and adults, it all depends on the complexity of the idea.




Everyone remembers and loves beautiful red bugs with black dots from childhood. Any child, no doubt, will love making such crafts from disposable tableware.

To work, you will need the following tools and materials:

  • Three disposable spoons;
  • Flat button without through holes;
  • White, red and black acrylic paints;
  • Paint brush;
  • Scissors;
  • Wire;
  • Glue gun.

At the very beginning, you need to paint the prepared spoons, apply red on two spoons, and black on one. After the paint has completely dried on red spoons, dots should be drawn in black. The button also needs to be painted black, and the eyes should be painted on the sides with white paint.


Now you need to cut off the handles from the spoons using scissors, trimming the edges for beauty.

The next step is to glue the red wing spoons by stacking them one on top of the other. This is where you need a glue gun.

Then the finished wings are glued to the black spoon-body of the ladybug.

A button-head is glued to the base of the wing spoons. If you want, you can make a mustache out of wire and glue them to an impromptu head.

A thicker wire is glued to the black spoon so that the ladybug can be seated on a flower pot. Thus, our ladybug from spoons is ready, now we can send it to flowers.

You can watch the video about how to make snowdrops from plastic spoons.

Fan of disposable forks

You can create any kind of crafts from disposable tableware, even from forks. For example, you can make a beautiful and practical fan for girls.

For this we need:

  • 22 disposable forks;
  • Red and white lace;
  • Red satin ribbons;
  • Beads;
  • Glue;
  • Cardboard or disposable paper plate;
  • CD-ROM;
  • Simple pencil;
  • Scissors.

We draw a CD-disk over a cardboard or paper plate with a pencil, cut a circle along the contour and cut it exactly into two halves. On the outside of the semicircle, lay out the main attribute in such a way that the heads of the forks are tightly pressed against each other. In this position, the forks are glued to the cardboard semicircle with handles, about two centimeters from the edge. And a second semicircle made of cardboard is glued on top.



Now you can start decorating the fan. Flowers are cut out of white lace and glued to each fork. You can also thread red lace between the handles of the forks at the base of the fan, and glue lace flowers with beads on the cardboard and fasten a satin ribbon bow in the very center. This craft, despite its apparent fragility, can last a long time if you use high-quality materials when creating.



Kids crafts from disposable plates

The smallest craftsmen and craftswomen can easily make crafts from disposable plates. Having at hand white paper plates, paints, brushes, colored paper and glue, you can make interesting faces of animals or fairy-tale characters from ordinary plates, as well as assorted fruits.

For this, a plate is taken, painted in the desired color and decorated with pre-cut paper elements, although you can cope with the help of some paints. Thus, a set of ordinary disposable plates turns into a whole zoo or a fairy tale.