We knit toys from packages. DIY Christmas tree from garbage bags

Crafts from the bags look impressive and original, while they do not require large expenses. Having shown imagination, you can make cute products with your own hands, plus use polyethylene that has served its life. Things made of cellophane bring a touch of elegance to the room and are successfully used for their intended purpose.

How to crochet a rug from packages

Crocheting rugs is a fun activity. In this way, you can quickly make a beautiful, practical thing that can decorate the home interior, make the room more comfortable. This type of handicraft does not require significant costs if you have unnecessary plastic packaging that you are used to throwing in the trash bin. A beautiful bathroom rug can be made for your home or as a gift. Such a surprise will not leave anyone indifferent.

To make rugs with your own hands from plastic bags, you need a hook number 3, 4 or 5, scissors, a ruler, a knife. Cellophane of different colors is used as a material. The bags must be cut into strips. The thicker the polyethylene, the smaller the width of the tape should be. It is important that when twisted, the "thread" is approximately the same in thickness.

The process of making polyethylene yarn boils down to the following:

1. Put several bags on the table, cut off strips about 4 cm wide with a clerical knife, pressing the stack with the supplied ruler.
2. Take one tape, unfold. Slide another blank into the resulting ring.
3. Join the edges of the two ribbons.
4. Tie all the rings cut from the package one by one.
5. Roll the resulting thread into a ball, twisting the strips slightly.

How to crochet a rug from square blanks

To make a rug with your own hands from plastic bags, you need knitted squares. The blanks are connected, a product of the desired size with a certain pattern is obtained. The square is knitted according to the following pattern:

1. Make 4 chain loops, close the chain.
2. Work 8 single crochets from the center of the ring, alternating with chain stitches.
3. Use a pin to mark the loops along which the 4 centerlines of the square will run.
4. Complete row 2 and follow. Do 2 single crochets at the corners, tying an air loop between them. Straight sides are made without air loops.

Crochet round rug

When knitting a round rug with your own hands from plastic bags, it is important to add loops on time so that the product takes the correct shape. The procedure for creating a multi-colored craft:

1. Tie 5 stitches with red thread. Close the chain in a circle.
2. Make 1 more loop. Unroll knitting in the opposite direction.
3. Work 5 stitches. Pass the extra strips through the 2nd and 4th loops. Reverse the work.
4. Run a yellow row 5 cm wide, adding loops at regular intervals.
5. Tie the required number of colored stripes.

Polyethylene floor mat in pompom technique

Pompons, connected to a rug, transform the room, look interesting due to the volume of knitting. The attractiveness of an item depends on the color of the source material. Walking on such a surface is like walking on the grass. To make this warm and practical little thing you will need:

• polyethylene packaging of the desired color;
• cardboard for a template 3 cm wide;
• durable cord for fastening pom-poms;
• scissors;
• base (mosquito net will do).

Procedure:

1. Cut the polyethylene into strips 1 cm wide.
2. Wind the tape over a 3 cm wide template, tie with strong thread.
3. Cut the winding at the other end. As a result, you get a pompom with a diameter of 6 cm.
4. Prepare the required number of plastic balls.
5. Make markup based on.
6. Sew the blanks onto the mesh.
7. Cut off excess cords. Carefully line up the mesh so that no edges are visible.

Photo: knitted rugs from bags

Hand-made items from cellophane have an original look and fit perfectly into the home interior. Such things do not absorb moisture, wash well and clean with a damp cloth. To dry a plastic mat, hang it on the balcony. Such a thing is warm, soft to the touch. The product can be placed at the entrance to the bathroom and walk on it without being afraid of slipping. Such a thing will have to be in place in the toilet, in the bathroom, near the front door. When the craft is worn out, it can be easily thrown away by replacing it with a new one.

Video: do-it-yourself floor mat

The first video lesson presents step by step how you can make round rugs with your own hands from plastic bags. The material is cellophane bags, a hoop is used as a base. The product is made by weaving polyethylene strips. The second video shows the technology for making a bathroom rug from black trash bags. The product has a square shape, crocheted from the middle. In the third master class, the procedure for making a multi-colored rug from unnecessary plastic bags is clearly presented.

Weaving from packages

Rubbish bag rug - master class

Knitting from packages

You have a lot of plastic bags accumulated at home, do not rush to throw them away, because you can make incredible crafts out of them. Since this is the year of the rooster, why not decorate a garden, vegetable garden or even an apartment with a rooster from plastic bags. And if you wish, you can make several chickens with a cockerel and make a small composition, such a craft is useful even for a kindergarten.

In this master class, we will show how to make a chicken from bags, but following this instruction, you can also make a cockerel, simply by adding a few details, and which ones we will tell in the process.

How to make a chicken or cockerel from old bags

The craft itself is very easy to make, most of all time is spent on preparation and templates. Before starting work, you need to prepare the following materials:

• several dozen packages (size and color are not important);
• a piece of thick wire (up to 1 m.);
• a coil of thin wire;
• simple pencil;
• adhesive tape, scotch tape;
• several sheets of A4 paper;
• gun with glue.

Step-by-step making chicken from cellophane bags:

First of all, you need to make the frame of the future bird. On a sheet of paper, sketch out the outlines of a chicken or a cockerel, so that you can then bend the wire along them, as shown in the photo. You do not need to do everything perfectly evenly, in the process of work you will correct everything.

Bend the wire so that its ends finish the contour in the area of \u200b\u200bthe legs. A little later, we'll show you how to make realistic chicken legs.

Advice : Try to use soft bags, then the craft will rustle less.

Regardless of the size of the package that you have prepared, you need to make two types of strips, on the body up to 3 cm thick, and on the head, up to 2 cm. The longer the strip, the better, you can always cut off the excess. Having prepared the strips, start stringing them on a thin wire. As a result, you should get a crumpled little thing.

The top layer of the chicken from plastic bags is ready, it's time to prepare the inside, which will give the craft volume. On the previously prepared metal frame, you need to put on a tight bag, after which put a few more bags into it, but not very much so that the blank does not become solid. With the help of scotch tape we glue the top bag so that we get the image of a chicken or rooster. If there is no tape, use small strips of fabric, as shown in the photo.

Advice : If the chicken will stand in the house, you can fill it with paper, for the street you need to use plastic bags.

The carcass of the artificial chicken should be approximately the same size as the real one, when you have achieved similarity, proceed to appearance... Everything is simple here, starting with the tail, wind a wire with cut and crumpled strips on the body. The denser the ruffles, the less errors you will see.

When you reach your neck, you should stop. You need to make the chicken's head more realistic, and for this you need to add a few details, namely: the beak and the scallop. You can cut everything out of paper and paint it with red paint, but if this chicken is for the street, then in the first rain the paper will get wet, so it's better to take plastic. More precisely a plastic bowl and cut out the necessary parts from it. Using a heat gun, glue the parts to the head and continue to wind the crumpled strips from the bags. It is still worth sticking decorative eyes on the ryuschiki.

The product is almost ready, only the legs remain. Make legs from soft wire, as shown in the photo below, and then glue them to the main frame. Fasten the legs so that a little thick wire remains, in the future it can be stuck into the ground, and the whole craft will hold on by itself.

If desired, the legs can also be painted yellow or wrapped with yellow insulating tape.

By the same principle, a rooster is made from old packages, it is enough to change the frame, so that the neck is longer and the comb is larger.

Video review: DIY crafts from packages

Some things can be safely used more than once. Very often these things are just sent to the landfill. That is why today we will talk about the very subjects that could be used more and more.

1. Birdhouses

Creative birdhouses made from old leather boots will become not only a temporary home for birds, but also a stylish decoration of the garden area.

2. Garden lights

Wonderful candlelight garden lights that can be made from the remains of old metal pipes, cans, and glass vases or jars. To do this, all of the above parts must be fastened together with glue, and candles must be put inside the glass containers.

3. Lampshade

A charming lampshade that you can make with your own hands from unnecessary black and white plastic bags.

4. Desktop organizer

A cropped, dyed and sectioned plastic canister of juice, milk, or whatever is perfect for creating an original desk stationery organizer.

5. Piggy bank

A funny piggy bank that even a child can make using a plastic bottle, colored paper, cardboard and glue.

6. Poof

From strips of plastic bags of different colors and any soft filler, you can knit very unusual poufs and coffee tables, which will become practical and unique components of a modern interior.

Video bonus:

7. Magazine basket

An old tire can be turned into an original basket for magazines or any other little things, which, despite its simple and slightly rude look, will perfectly fit into a modern interior, decorated in an industrial, rustic, Scandinavian or minimalist style.

8. Flowers

Wonderful volumetric flowers that can be easily cut out of a cardboard egg tray and used to decorate walls, mirror frames, or whatever.

9. Containers for all sorts of things

Unnecessary shoe boxes can be decorated with colored fabric and textile handles can be attached to them, turning them into convenient and cute baskets for storing children's toys, notebooks or any other items.

10. Outdoor pots

Original outdoor flower pots, cut from old tires, painted in various colors.

11. Trash can

A cute waste paper bin that can be made from strips of glossy magazines.

12. Magazine stand

A bright stand for correspondence, which can be easily made from an unnecessary tire painted with spray paint and thick wire.

Video bonus:

13. Organizer for bracelets

Unwanted glossy magazines, rolled up and secured with duct tape, can be used as handy bracelets and necklace stands.

14. Pencil case

A stunning vintage pencil case that can be made from the hardcover of an old book, fabric and hard pens from any unnecessary bag.

15. Bag dispenser

A practical and original plastic bag dispenser that can be made from a cut and painted plastic bottle.
Video bonus:

16. Mini vases

An original composition for home decor, which can be made from a small piece of plastic or wood, several bottles of nail polish and miniature bouquets of artificial flowers.

17. Caskets

An empty face cream jar is perfect for creating a stunning jewelry box. To do this, the jar must be painted in any color you like, and a small Kinder figurine or any other suitable fittings must be attached to its lid and painted too.

Continuing the topic, the secret is about.

There probably isn't a person who doesn't use packages. But few people know that they make various cool trinkets. Crafts from plastic bags with your own hands are very easy to build and, in addition, you will not incur additional costs.

Tricks from plastic bags with your own hands can be quickly designed. Moreover, you will not incur any special costs or efforts to make trinkets.

Step-by-step instructions for making a flower:

It is necessary to fold the polyethylene so that the square comes out. Then cut off the coals so that you get petals. The next thing to do is to fasten all the blanks with a wire. Use a bead or a pretty button instead of the middle.

Polyethylene flower scheme

All you need is a piercing and bags. First, twist the wire in a circle and fix it well. Next, it is necessary to tie the cutting of the strip around the frame. It is advisable to attach more such strips, then the wreath will be thicker and brighter. You can add other different trinkets: an artificial skull, rubber spiders, etc.

A few examples of photos of how you can diversify your Halloween wreath:

Thanks to this technology, you can quickly and easily make beautiful wreaths from bags for Christmas or Easter with your own hands. It all depends on how you want the wreath on the door to look. We present to your attention a video in which you can learn in detail what and why you need to do.

For work you will need:

• Packages, preferably green.
• Scissors. Can be manicure.
• Beads for the future base.
• Needle and thread.
• Compass.

The technology on how to make a Christmas tree from plastic bags is quite simple:

1. First, make the blanks. It is necessary to cut circles from the bags. You will need to prepare circles of different diameters, since several of them will go to the top and middle of the tree, and those that are larger will go to the bottom.
2. It is advisable to very neatly stretch the edges of your circles. Do this very slowly so as not to damage the workpieces.
3. We take two identical circles and glue them. By the way, between them you need to insert another circle, but with a smaller diameter. Having done this process with all the blanks, you can start assembling our Christmas tree.
4. The rings need to be folded from top to bottom, from the largest to the smallest.
5. We begin to collect our tree as follows: we put a circle on a needle, and then a bead, then all over again and so on to the very top. Instead of the top, you can use beads or some other decoration that you like best.

In the photo, the tree looks like this:

Christmas tree made of packages

You must have:

1. Multi-colored, bright packages. 3-5 shades are desirable.
2. There are two types of wire: thicker and thinner.
3. Sheet of paper - 2 pcs. Pen or pencil for sketching.
4. Thermal gun.

The manufacturing process begins with a drawn frame of the body of the cockerel, along which the body of our figurine will need to be bent with the help of a thick wire. Next, you need to cut strips from the bags, preferably 3 cm long for a sheepskin coat and for a head - 2 cm each. We take a wire that is thinner and put our blanks on it. Thus, we should have an accordion. We recommend that you tie the strips tightly, so the finished toy will look more beautiful.

We need to give the cock some volume. For this, you can use cotton wool or rags, whatever. Having wrapped the fillings, the frame with tape, we proceed to decorate the toy with our colored accordions. It is desirable to fix them using a thermal gun. We do everything gradually, there is no need to rush. The scallop and mouth can be cut out of plastic or cardboard, of your choice. When you completely glue the body with accordions, then do not forget about the eyes for the animal. These can be simple beads. That's all, the cock is ready.

You can make a rope for your child from plastic bags with your own hands. You will need to carefully cut out thin strips and tie them together. In place of the handles, you can wind electrical tape or tape.

There is also a technology of knitting from polyethylene, with which you can make unique handbags or even carpets. It all depends on the desire. You can also make different pompons.

And finally, I would like to note that handicrafts made from plastic bags, made by hand, will go well as a gift for your children or acquaintances. Don't be afraid to learn new things.

We hope, thanks to our article and master classes, you will soon have at least one polyethylene toy that you made yourself.