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If you decide to clean up your house, then you probably found a large number of CDs in your home. If you cannot find a worthy use for them, then do not rush to throw them away. It turns out from them you can make wonderful crafts that will easily decorate your garden. And in this article you can find out what kind of garden crafts from computer disks you can make with your own hands. Here we will offer the most interesting ideas that you will definitely like.

What crafts to make for the garden from old CDs

You can easily use old CDs to create useful and at the same time cute products.

Peacock for a summer cottage.

You probably already know that discs are suitable for creating absolutely any crafts. And if you have come across home crafts from disks before, today you can see several ideas for your own summer cottage. And if you adore decorating your personal plot, then take a closer look at this peacock. You can use wood or plywood as a base. You must paint the finished bird figurine.

But to create a luxurious ponytail, you need a mesh and a few unnecessary CDs. From the mesh, you must cut the base of the tail, and only then use glue to glue several old discs to it. See how it looks very nice.

Volumetric figures from old disks.

Today, you can see a lot of ideas for using CDs. Craftswomen and craftsmen create a wide variety of garden crafts from computer disks. And if your discs are gathering dust at home, then find a worthy use for them. For example, in order to create such cute figures, you just need to break the disc into several pieces. You must do the same with all other disks. Then you have to make cute animals out of them.

Surely, in the design of your personal plot, they will look very nice.

Craft that can be hung on garden trees.

Surely, there are trees on your garden plot that have a very unattractive appearance. You may not want to get rid of them. And you don't have to. After all, you can decorate such trees with figures from unnecessary computer disks. Show your imagination and create original animals that will definitely delight you.



Craft - a chair and from CDs.

Some people who have skills just don't waste their time. It turns out that such masters have learned from old discs to create practical furniture for their garden, on which it is convenient and pleasant to relax on summer days. But to make such a chair, you will need to collect many discs. And this moment must be taken into account.

Figures.

You can also make interesting figurines to decorate the garden. Subsequently, you must attach them to sticks and put them in different corners of your garden. Surely, such a craft will delight all guests of your home.

You can also make the heroes of the popular animated series - smeshariki. And also place a similar craft in the summer cottage.

Useful craft from CDs.

Crafts from computer disks for the garden can be useful. For example, if you create such a little thing, then your crop in the garden will not be touched by birds and other pests. The shine from the CD will scare away birds and other pests that love to feast on the fruits of summer in the summer.

Finally

In this post, we have listed the most interesting crafts for you. And if you like tinkering with unusual gizmos, then this article was created especially for you. In general, get more CDs, be patient and start creating the most extraordinary things for your garden.

Most people have a lot of unnecessary or unusable CDs at home.

You can just throw them away. But it is better to use them to create various crafts and interesting gizmos. In this article we will tell you what kind of fakes from discs you can make with your own hands.

Roof covering

If a lot of CDs have accumulated, then they can be used as an original sparkling roofing. To do this, at the beginning, the discs are attached to the plywood sheets, and they, in turn, are attached to the roof. Approximately one hundred discs are needed for 1 m² of coverage.

They need to be attached as follows: 1st row - end-to-end, subsequent ones - in a checkerboard pattern, overlapping the disc holes of the 1st row. Small nails or self-tapping screws can be used as fasteners.

Invent a drawing, observing which, you will begin to make the roof. If you have little material, then they can only lay out a visor.

Fakes from garden discs

British artist B. Monroe, known all over the world for his light installations, decorated his garden area with stylized water lilies from CDs.

It took him 65,000 CDs to create this piece of art. You can take Monroe's idea as a basis and make these miniature lilies to decorate your own garden.

The discs can be used for the tail of a homemade peacock. They are attached to the metal frame of the tail with a wire.

Also, cute fish can be made from disks. To make one piece, you only need a couple of discs and a multi-colored cardboard or sheet of plastic.

The latter are used to make fins, tail and fish mouth. The cut elements should be placed between the discs and carefully glued.

The disc caterpillar looks unusual and interesting. For it, you need several discs fastened together with screws. The legs can be made from rubber, plastic, plywood, and threads can be used for the mouth, eyes and hair. This craft is attached to the fence with wire.

Another option for using discs is the creation of street lighting fixtures.

Crafts from disks for children

Interesting ideas for children's crafts from disks will be useful for educators, elementary school teachers, moms and dads.

The disc can be used to create a beautiful fish postcard. Even three-year-old kids can do such a craft. They can easily cope with it under the supervision of their parents. In addition to the disc, you will need PVA glue, scissors, plasticine, markers and multi-colored cardboard.

The fins, tail, mouth cut out of cardboard must be carefully glued onto the CD, on which clay must then be applied using the indentation technique. The next step is to make the eyes.

For this we use cardboard. After the eyes are fixed on the fish, you can make eyelashes from plasticine. Tail and fins are used to write greetings.

From spoiled CDs with the help of glue, multi-colored cardboard and colored paper, you can make smeshariki, popular heroes of the cartoon of the same name.

For beauty, the contours of the figures, eyes, mouth can be outlined with a marker. These decorations can be easily attached to a wall or cabinet using glue or double-sided adhesive tape.

From discs, you can create original curtains that do not require washing. The following materials are required: discs, paper clips, drill.

Small holes are drilled at the edges of the discs with a drill; paper clips are used to connect them to each other. The number of discs, the size and shape of the curtain depend on your imagination.

Holders of curtains in the bathroom, made from unnecessary discs, will look great.

The discs can also be used to create unusual and interesting grabs for kanzashi curtains. And you can fix them with Chinese chopsticks.

To make a pick-up, it is necessary to cut a circle of a smaller diameter from the disc. Wrap the resulting ring with satin or silk ribbons. Flowers made from ribbons can be used as decoration; below are photos of crafts from disks.

The discs can be used to make candlesticks, caskets, coasters, needle beds and much more. Therefore, you should not rush to get rid of outdated CDs. With their help, you can sometimes create truly unique things.


To embody their various creative ideas and fantasies, needlewomen sometimes choose the most unexpected materials. One of these is the object of scientific and technological progress - the compact disc.

The once shiny round CD-ROMs have replaced cassettes, but now they are replaced by flash drives and other inventions, more convenient and modern, because time does not stand still. Today, most people prefer to watch movies online or download information directly to their computer, bypassing extraneous media, so CDs are increasingly gathering dust on the shelves in our home.






However, do not rush to throw them away, as even these old and unnecessary (and sometimes just spoiled) materials can make wonderful products. You only need a little creative imagination to make beautiful, original and practical things with your own hands - crafts from disks.

And decoration, and use or unlimited possibilities of old CDs

So, instead of throwing away information carriers that have served their time, it is worth trying to give them a second life, especially since CDs have a lot of advantages: they shine, shimmer, reflect light, plus they are very easy to process and durable material. additional advantages can be a round shape, and even a hole in the middle.

Well, there are a lot of ideas for all kinds of crafts from disks:

  • firstly, from this material you can create a lot of interesting things for children with your own hands - mobile, large magnets, key rings, original Christmas tree decorations, toys, coasters and pendants for nursery decor, mosaics, etc.;


  • in addition, it will be interesting for the children themselves to work with beautiful and shiny rounds, from which such funny crafts are obtained: you can make an applique or an unusual postcard from discs as a gift with your child, for example, flowers for the day of March 8 or a spaceship for the Day of Cosmonautics , and lovers of cartoons will be able to acquire a whole collection of cheerful smeshariki created from old CD-ROMs;



  • you can use them both for home decoration (mosaic panels, paintings, various decorative elements, decoration of vases, lamps, lampshades, candlesticks, mirrors, boxes, photo frames, etc.), and for use, creating from them quite practical, functional and household items (from CDs they make stands for small things, for storing jewelry or under hot dishes, screens and curtains, clocks, use them as wall and ceiling decoration, decorate furniture and any interior items with them);




  • crafts from discs can be global - for example, extravagant fashion designers are known who decorate clothes or accessories with CDs, embroider on them, make jewelry, and designer Sean Avery does create incredible installations and sculptures that have become objects of modern art from this wonderful material.


Secrets and features of working with CD-disks

In order for making crafts from disks to bring only benefit, positive emotions and a good result, you need to know some secrets and features of working with this material.

  1. If you need to "cut" a CD disc with your own hands, that is, to get a lot of shiny small fragments out of it, then the best option would be to saw it with an ordinary hacksaw for metal. So that the material does not delaminate or break during the sawing process, take your time and work smoothly. If you need to cut along a curved line, bend the workpiece slightly up or down.
  2. If you need to drill holes in the CD disk, then it is best to burn them with an awl heated on fire. Only do this in a well-ventilated area.
  3. To fix decorative elements, use glue (you can take "Moment" or PVA) or take a fishing line or wire, depending on what you want to decorate the future craft from the disks with.
  4. You can take anything for decoration: self-adhesive film, fabrics, fur, fringes, beads, beads, sequins, colored cardboard or paper, napkins, threads, pebbles, shells, etc.


Getting Started

If you have never made crafts from disks before, then start with the simplest.

  • You can get acquainted with the material from the manufacture of toys or interesting products for children. Try making coasters for cups and a kettle with your child. To do this, you do not have to carry out any serious manipulations with the disc - you can leave it in its original form, but if you sheathe or paste over it with cloth (some craftswomen put cotton pads inside), it will be much more beautiful and practical. You can decorate the coasters with pebbles or coffee grains, make decoupage, pasting with napkins with a pattern, paint with acrylic paint, varnish.
  • Another functional thing is a stand for various little things. It can be used for pencils or other stationery that is constantly lost in your home. Just take any cylindrical object and glue it to the disc as if it were a base. Then the product can be painted, braided or pasted over with beads or other decor.
  • Another useful craft from discs is a stand or napkin holder. To make it, you need three discs - one for the base, and the holder itself will be formed from two. Take these two discs and carefully cut them about a quarter in a straight line. Then glue your blanks to the base disc and decorate.
  • Make original Christmas tree decorations with your child with your own hands. You can either simply decorate the material with colored paper, sparkles, tinsel, paint in the form of various characters, or make mosaic balls - cut the disc into small elements and paste over a transparent blank ball with them.
  • To make such crafts from cd disks, such as hanging decorations for the home or all kinds of mobiles, tie the disks together at a certain distance using a strong thread or a beautiful twine and hang them on a bent mount. You can also attach discs to rings, but then you need to drill holes in them. In this way, large curtains or original partitions between rooms are made. You can decorate the material as you like.
  • If a child needs an interesting craft for school or kindergarten for any holiday - on the eighth of March, Cosmonautics Day or some other, use the old discs. Kids will surely like funny and funny smeshariki on a shiny basis - to make cartoon characters, you just need to cut out their main parts from paper (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, paws) and glue them on the body, the role of which will be played by a round disc. You can immediately take colored paper or paint it later. Any other figurines are made in the same way. And, for example, the sun can be depicted by gluing to the disc many multi-colored rays - rolled strips of colored paper (it is better to glue them to a paper base, which must first be attached to the back of the disc), then draw the sun's face and decorate it.
  • The material will be useful both as a photo frame and as an unusual photo album. If you want to make a frame, attach decorations on the bottom and top of the disk, and stick your chosen photo on it (it should fit the round frame and size). Instead of a photograph, there can be just a beautiful picture that can be hung as a decoration. Combine many of these blanks and you have a whole album.
  • Any kid will be happy with an interesting educational book that his mother will make with her own hands. Felt and decorate the discs as desired, then secure the parts with ribbons.
  • It is quite easy to decorate the material in the decoupage style. Thanks to this technique, you can make magnets, coasters, and simply beautiful home decorations. You will need special decoupage napkins with different images. Carefully separate the top layer from the selected napkin (you will have a drawing) and glue the napkin on the disc, previously greased with glue. Make sure that there are no wrinkles (you can smooth out with a cotton pad). Cover the craft with varnish (if you want it to be a stand, glue a circle cut from flexics to the back side so that it does not slide on the table).
  • A candlestick can be made by simply gluing various decorations to a disk and placing a candle inside, or you can heat it around the edges so that they bend in a fancy shape, and only then decorate.
  • It is a little more difficult to work with mosaics from discs, but once you get the hang of it, you can quickly cut the material into many pieces and paste over vases and flower pots, mirrors, photo frames, any other objects and even surfaces or walls of your house with them.
  • If you are familiar with electricity and appliances, try to make a clock or a lamp out of disks. In the first case, the design principle of the material is the same as in the manufacture of the stand using the decoupage technique, however, you do not need to glue the central hole - you will need to install the clock mechanism there, and then think about fastening the watch. A luminaire can be made by stacking many discs in a high stack and holding a light bulb there. Or, glue six blanks around the edges around a folded Christmas garland attached to the base, and then take out several bulbs through the holes of the discs.
  • Skillful craftswomen demonstrate how to embroider or paint on discs, making real objects of art out of them.


There are many more interesting options and ideas. Let your creative imagination, inspired by them, help you create your own unique and original masterpieces or simply beautiful and useful things.

Progress in our era is advancing by leaps and bounds. So CD-disks were not used for a long time as the main information carrier. Now we use them for their intended purpose very rarely, or do not use them at all. But as a basis for creating a variety of crafts, CDs are very good.

On these pages you can easily verify this. Many step-by-step master classes illustrated with photographs of various, including gift, crafts; ideas for the arrangement of a table theater from disks are collected for you in this section.

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CDs and suburban area

Compact discs are ideal material for outdoor crafts. Works made with CD, DVD are durable: they are not afraid of cold, rain, snow and sun. You just need to choose the right material for fixing.

Summer residents use discs in different ways. They create planar figures for the garden. For example: windmill, animals, flowers, birds, insects. Having fastened the elements with wire, plastic cords or branches, they construct volumetric figures.


Laser discs are often used for gardening purposes. They serve as additional illumination of shady areas. For this purpose, they are placed in a sunny place in the form of a decorative planar image, a stand-shield, on the wall of a house, a fence. The refracted sunbeam is directed to the shaded flower garden, creating a comfortable environment for the plants.

The discs help save the crop. It is enough to tie nylon threads to them and hang them on the branches of fruit trees, they will scare away birds and your cherries, plums, apricots, currants will not suffer from the invasion of feathered gourmands. Also, bird nests will not appear on the site and sparrows will not settle.


Hanging balls, turntables made of discs will not only bring originality to the design, but also make your territory inaccessible to small rodents, crows, jackdaws. Walking chickens will be an obstacle to leaving their home territory. The reflectivity of CD, DVD is used to eliminate overheating of the roof, pasting them partially or completely over the surface of the roof of the terrace, gazebo, veranda, utility block.

The use of discs for interior decoration


Compact discs are interesting material, working with them you can create masterpieces for your home without any problems. There are no limits to imagination and ingenuity. The home interior will be magnificently decorated with lamps made of discs, photo frames, vases, candlesticks, boxes. Flowerpots and flowerpots pasted over with discs look interesting.

Many decorate pieces of furniture with colored pieces, paste over the coffee table top, make wall mosaic panels. Whole discs are used to create decorative curtains, containers for trifles, and coasters for glasses.

How to cut CDs, DVDs

Flickering and refraction of light on the disk occurs due to the surface holographic film. When working with this material, you need to take into account its fragility and try to keep it intact.

Scissors are used for cutting. The density of the material assumes the use of quality, hard and sharp instruments. It is advisable to choose large-sized scissors: garden or kitchen scissors for cutting poultry. More convenient discs for cutting will not be for double-sided recording, but with plastic with an image on one side, and a holographic film on the other.

Fixation of "laser" elements


Having mastered the technique of cutting discs, you can not limit yourself in shapes and sizes, create different pieces, which will then serve as material for exclusive crafts. Before work, you will only need to sort large and small pieces into separate containers.

Any glue is used, for the street it is necessarily waterproof. It can be tested by trying to glue two plates together. If, after drying, they hold tightly, then the glue is suitable.

When creating monolithic large surfaces, cement mortar is used. In this case, the process of creation is faster. Cut pieces are placed on the solution, barely pressed / pressed. Half an hour after laying out, the excess cement that has come out must be removed and the surface of the discs wiped with a vinegar solution. For this, 9% vinegar and water are taken 1: 1. The finished project can be protected from scratches with epoxy. The product will have a shiny, transparent, hard surface that does not affect the holographic effect.

Mosaic discs for wall decoration

Any country building, decorated with a shining mosaic of discs, will successfully highlight any area. In addition, the reflective effect will fill the space with light, give an interesting look and visually enlarge the boundaries. In shady places, it will serve as additional lighting. A similar mosaic can be done inside the house, for example, in the kitchen, in the hallway, in any small room.

To create a mosaic, select an area on the wall, mark the boundaries with a marker. You can use glue or cement mortar. Begin to glue from the corners, gradually moving towards the middle, filling the entire plane. Large chunks with gaps are applied first. When the entire area is covered, start filling in the gaps with mini scraps.

In any case, on the finished surface, you will have gaps between the disc pieces. These places are filled with cement mortar, followed by cleaning the surface of the discs with vinegar. After drying, a protective epoxy adhesive is applied.