Recently, more and more popular things and handmade crafts, the so-called hand-made, which can be done from anywhere. Plastic corks did not stand aside and got their second use in original design ideas.
Plastic bottles are available to everyone without exception and, of course, are in every kitchen.
Many try to throw them away right away, but there are also such creative personalities who, using various life hacks, use them for decoration or useful devices for the home or garden, as in the photo of crafts from traffic jams.
Today we will talk about crafts made of plastic corks.
Review Content:
The use of plastic caps in children's creativity
Children are big dreamers at their core. Give them any item, and they can easily transform it into another image. Indeed, from a very young age, both at home and in the children's team, children are inculcated with interest in DIY crafts.
Plastic bottle caps are a great material for children's creativity. Corks can be easily glued, due to which various panels, figures and decorative things are created.
Kids love to mess around with traffic jams and fantasize on different topics: applications, toys and figures.
Varieties of applications
The favorite piece of plastic cork in children is the caterpillar. Please your child by making her of colorful corks and lengths to your taste, and he will mess with her all day.
The muzzle of the caterpillar can be made funny, which inspires the subject. The caterpillar is made very simple, a hole is made in the center of the traffic jams, a fishing line is threaded into it, on which the corks are strung, the muzzle can be made from a kinder surprise cone.
By the same principle, you can make a man, a cat, a dog, etc.
To make a birdie craft from bottle caps, you need: two caps, cardboard, a light fabric or natural feathers, such as pigeons. Heads and torsos are made from corks, and the wings are made of cardboard, fabric or feathers.
The application “rabbit” is performed similarly to the “bird”, the body and head are made of covers, one of them must be of a larger diameter, the ears are made of cardboard and the tail is made of a piece of fur. Children are delighted with such toys. The main thing is that you can do this with your child.
The voluminous craft “tortoise” made of corks with your own hands will interest the child more than the application. It’s not difficult to do it.
As the necessary material for creativity, you will need: a large diameter lid, cotton buds and an ice cream stick. On a stick of ice cream and stacked on top of a criss-cross cotton buds, painted in green color, the lid is glued.
Dots are drawn on the lid, eyes are made. Your masterpiece is ready. In the same way, you can create spiders, ladybugs, bees, etc., using various improvised materials.
Cork Mosaic
From a large number of multi-colored corks, you can build a mosaic panel. For this, in addition to traffic jams, you will need a good glue or glue gun so that the composition does not fall apart in the future.
Note!
First of all, choose a surface for creativity, decide on the image and get to work. The details of the panel are attached by alternately gluing them to the prepared surface. If you want to fasten them from the back, then you will need screws for their fastening.
An interesting solution to the panel will be a variant of folded lids of different sizes, one to one according to the principle of a nesting doll. For example, the yellow sun from such folded covers looks great.
Crafting a cockerel is also entertaining, but requires some skills and time. To do this, make a plywood base, primer it, apply a contour and use glue to fix the plugs according to the image scheme. Get an original creation.
Magnets
An ideal option for beginners will be the manufacture of magnets for refrigerators. Nowadays, almost all refrigerators are decorated with all kinds of magnets and not only to hide any defects.
Their production will require very little time and the following materials: corks of different colors, magnets themselves, glue, alcohol solution, paints, colored paper, felt-tip pens.
Note!
First, degrease the cork with alcohol. Glue the magnet inside the cork. We close them with circles of colored paper cut in advance.
You can decorate colorful circles with names, drawings, letters or bows ahead of time, too. Using circles with letters, get an entertaining alphabet. You can also make a picture using the help of certain Internet resources.
Massage foot mat
One of the most popular options for crafts is a foot massage mat. Making a rug is not a difficult and simple process using multi-colored corks. And subsequently, the mat looks bright, unusual, and its use is good for health.
Walk on it for about 15 minutes a day to get relaxation and overall strengthening of the body, due to the effect of walking on traffic jams on the nerve endings of the feet.
Prepare multi-colored corks, awl, thick fishing line. For a rug in the form of a hexagon on one side, 10-15 pieces of traffic jams will be needed. Total traffic jams per product can be calculated as follows: multiply the number of traffic jams on one side by the number of sides of the mat and subtract the number of repeated traffic jams.
Note!
Then in all traffic jams make an awl of 6 holes. Further, by braiding, starting from the extreme traffic jams, it is necessary to braid all the details to make a hexagon. The rug made of colorful corks in the shape of flowers will have a beautiful appearance.
Floor mat
Do-it-yourself rug for the hallway will be practical. Using a glue gun, bottle caps are glued together in any shape and any kind, and colored caps are used to brighten. It is easily and simply cleaned of dirt.
But it also has its drawbacks: it can scratch the surface of linoleum, so it is better to use it for tiles.
For example, in the bathroom. If the mat will slide on the surface, you should provide it with rubber circles on the back of the mat.
Country curtains for doorways
In the country, you can find many options for the use of both bottles and the corks themselves. Here fantasy has no limits.But the most popular idea is the design of doorways with curtains made of plastic plugs, it is economically financially and easy to manufacture.
And as a result - beautiful unusual curtains. This requires a large number of multi-colored covers, fishing line, awl, hammer, nail and needle.
Phased scheme for the manufacture of curtains looks like this:
- Holes are made in the covers on both sides.
- If the curtains are made according to the drawing, it is necessary to lay out the covers in accordance with it.
- Corks are strung on a fishing line of a certain length, you should start from the bottom of 1 row up, and then immediately go to 2 rows.
- Secure with knots, singeing the edges of the fishing line.
- String 3-4 row, 5-6 row, etc., as in paragraph 2.
- Be sure to mark the transition of one row to another, to facilitate the work.
- On the doors, markings are made for attaching curtains with equal gaps between it.
- On the wooden door, the curtains are fixed with stoppers for fixing, according to the marking.
- The first thread (1-2 row) and fix it on the door with a hammer and nails.
Cork crafts for the garden
You can decorate your summer cottage with tracks from plastic corks. But do not forget that such tracks have a decorative function of the tracks, and not fundamental. In winter, they are very slippery.
Mostly it is recommended to use such paths as paths between beds and inaccessible places in the winter.
For this you will need: corks in large numbers and different colors, sand, building glue, boards, cement.
The procedure for creating garden paths is as follows:
- First of all, you need to make markings for laying traffic jams in certain sizes and in a designated place.
- The top layer of the earth is removed and a trench is dug into a depth of 10 cm. The formwork is installed from wooden boards into a trench in which sand is poured about 5 cm.
- A cement mortar is made of sand and cement (1: 4) with the addition of glue.
- The solution is poured into the trench, and corks are pressed into it according to your sketch image. This is done neatly and evenly, at the same level, leaving only the top of the plugs without cement.
- After cementing the cement mortar with a stiff brush, its residues from the track surface are cleaned.
- At the end of the work, the formwork is removed.
- Curbs are installed.
According to the same principles with the involvement of multifaceted imagination, you can make other crafts using corks from wine, but that's another story.
Photo crafts from traffic jams
