What can you do from corks from plastic bottles with your own hands: ideas and schemes of crafts

Usually plastic bottle caps are thrown away like garbage, but creative people manage to use this material for various crafts. They make educational games for children, decorate furniture, walls of the house, create entire design projects.

The use of plastic caps in children's creativity

Games with caps, in the form of a mosaic, a constructor, develop fine motor skills in a child. Sorting details in different sizes improves coordination, has a beneficial effect on the further development of speech, memory.

From traffic jams, you can create educational games, various crafts, they are colorful, bright, and not very small.

Beads

From this material beautiful beads are obtained that the child will string on his own.

To do this, you will need:

• 15-20 pcs. multi-colored covers, in them you need to make holes with a diameter of 3 mm with an awl;
• lace with a solid tip, with it the baby will gain traffic jams.

It is desirable to fix the end of the lace so that the covers do not slip. The result is multi-colored beads. You can learn colors during the game by creating different patterns.

Caterpillar

This toy is very popular with children. Need to string corks on a cord or fishing line. Make a head out of a plastic box of kinder surprise. If you draw eyes and a smiling mouth, the craft will become lively and will delight the baby. With such a snake, the child will be happy to play, fingering colored parts.

Typewriter

On a cardboard sheet or box, you need to draw or paste the machine in the form of an application, and attach the wheels from the plugs that must be wound.

To do this, in places where the wheels will be located, you need to make a hole and insert the neck of a plastic bottle. It will be possible to wind covers on it. The child will change colors, and the machine in each game will turn out with different wheels. By such actions, the baby, making efforts, will train his fingers. This has a positive effect on the development of coordination.

There are many variations of this game:

• glade of flowers;
• tree with fruit;
• caterpillar.

Imagine and create new games.

Magnets

Corks of any size are used to decorate the refrigerator, fix notes or make an educational game. It should fit a small magnet. You can attach it with double-sided tape or glue of the moment.

Alphabet

Children love this game very much, the baby will be next to mom, and she will have the opportunity to simultaneously do housework and deal with the baby.

You will need:

• plastic plugs of any size;
• glue or double-sided tape;
• scissors;
• felt-tip pens, paints;
• colored paper stickers.

For the alphabet, it is better to use parts with a diameter of 5 cm.

Working process:

1. Before starting work, the covers must be thoroughly washed, dried and degreased with alcohol.
2. On the prepared cork inside or outside, it is necessary to fix the magnet. For long-term use, it is better to use the glue moment.
3. On the reverse side, glue colored paper with the letter corresponding to the shape and size of the cover.

According to this principle, it is possible to organize various logical and educational games with which the child will play in the kitchen, attaching them to the refrigerator or magnetic board.

Figurines

If you stick to the magnet, ears, paws in the middle of the muzzle, you get a wonderful animal.

Emoticons with different facial expressions will decorate the refrigerator, and the baby with the help of such a face will be able to show his mood.

With multi-colored magnets, you can create whole pictures that will show off in the kitchen, and the technique will look different every time. Now in the shops colorful stickers of various subjects are sold. Turn on fantasy and create exclusive magnets.

Varieties of applications

From plastic covers create volumetric pictures for decor and small children's miniatures.

You can make a little animal on color cardboard. From the cover you get a body or a head, for example, a cat's face. On the cork you will need to stick eyes, nose and mustache, on the cardboard attach the ears. According to this principle, they make figures of birds, fish, ladybugs. If you add several elements in the form of the sun, clouds, tree, flower, you get a whole volumetric composition.

Larger paintings are created for decor, glued colored covers on cardboard or plywood. This is more painstaking work, an accurate calculation is needed here. They can be used to give, decorating fences, walls of outbuildings.

Cork Mosaic

For this kind of art, they usually took glass beads, small ceramic tiles, and stone. Now there is a new way to decorate the walls of country houses, fences, paths. Spread whole pictures, beautiful patterns, ornaments from plastic corks.

To do this, you need to collect a large amount of such material.

If a large area will be decorated, it is necessary:

• calculate how many covers are needed; there are special computer programs for this;
• Separate them by color for easy styling.

Plain panel will look boring.

The process is divided into such stages.

1. For a sample on a cardboard sheet, you need to draw a diagram of the proposed figure corresponding to the size. The principle of the preparation of cross-stitch. The picture should be divided into fragments, try to put one of them on the ground, and see how it will look in the original. If the picture is small, then you can apply the picture immediately to the surface that is supposed to be decorated.
2. Next, you need to divide the cork by color.
3. The next step is to lay out the pattern, the lids must be connected together with glue. You can make a blank on plywood or immediately apply it to the wall. For fastening to a wooden surface, nails are used, brick - cement mortar, adhesive mixture designed for finishing ceramic tiles.

There is another kind of weaving - this is when the plastic material is connected by a wire.

Mat from the covers

The product in the form of a flower with petals can be used as a stand for hot dishes, small canvases for cups and a little more for plates, tureen. Cork flooring can be laid next to the sofa on the veranda in the kitchen. The main thing to consider is that such a thing cannot be laid on the floor, tiled, will slip.

Massage foot mat

To create such a craft, you will need traffic jams, a piece of rubber, linoleum. It will need to stick cork. They can be placed close to each other and at a short distance, glued bottom up and down. The main thing is that while walking on an uneven surface, the feet will be massaged.

Floor mat

Such a product can be made on the same principle as a foot massager.

There is another way: the lids will be attached with a fishing line.

You will need:

• colored traffic jams;
• fishing line;
• awl.

It is necessary to think over a picture or an ornament in advance.

Workshop on making a rug:

1. In the covers you need to make four holes with an awl in the form of a cross.
2. Put the figures in the right order so that you can see how the future canvas will look.
3. Next, you need to dial the first row in the form of a long snake after, 2,3, until all the covers are strung.
4. Lay out the rows horizontally, forming a carpet.
5. It is necessary to push the line through each row horizontally, connecting them together. So, the whole canvas is fixed.
6. Next, tighten the thread so that the shape does not break. Tie the knots. The remaining ends need to be cut and burned.

In this way, you can weave a rug in the shower.

Country curtains for doorways

Such curtains are made quickly and easily. If, you do not need to follow the drawing.

You will need:

• wooden or metal-plastic strip. Threads with colored plastic will be fixed on it;
• traffic jams;
• strong fishing line;
• scissors;
• Self-tapping screws, with the help of which the bar will be attached to the doorway.

Putty or paint may be needed to match the color of the fish.

Working process:

1. It is necessary to measure the height of the opening, multiply the result by 2, the resulting number - this will be the length of the fishing line, on which we will string the covers.
2. Next, you need to break the plugs on both sides so that the thread divides the plastic into exactly 2 halves.
3. It is necessary to make a long snake from the covers, tie knots at the ends.
4. It is necessary to measure the bar, it should be equal to the width of the opening, cut off the excess.
5. In the resulting thread, you need to find the middle and attach it to the bar. You can just snap it. If the plank is wooden, use a stapler for furniture.
6. Thus, it is possible to type so many strips with covers so that in the future the entire opening will be filled.
7. The resulting curtain must be fixed on the door door with screws.

You can attach each thread to the opening separately with a stud. Such curtains are used for home and garden.

Cork Crafts

From such material, you can build a small children's toy, a robot, a flower and a more complex design, an object useful for home life.

Cork lamp

You can make a nightlight out of colored or plain corks from plastic bottles with your own hands. It will be much nicer than that purchased in the store.

It is necessary to make a box out of the covers, fasten it with a fishing line, wire. In the center of the cube, install a cartridge with a light bulb and a wire with a plug. At the connected lamp to the network, the light will be beautifully scattered along the walls through caps and small gaps.

There is an option to bring life back to the old lamp, lampshade.

Pencil holder

A necessary thing for children and adults, is done on the same principle as a lamp.

In traffic jams you need to make holes with a cross, string them on a fishing line, you should get 4 threads of 12 pieces. in every snake. Then, through the rows, starting with 3 covers, vertically skip the fishing line, and from the 2 sides dial another 3 pieces. The ends of the fishing line must be pulled together and connected. It should be a box. In the grooves you can insert pencils, pens, brushes or make a stand without a top cover, in the form of a glass.

Crafts for the garden

At the summer cottage, if you put a waste bin covered with plastic covers, such a box will not look easy as a waste collection item, but as a decoration.

Flower pots will become more colorful if they are glued in the shape of an ornament with corks.

If rubber boots are torn, do not rush to throw them away, they must be glued with plastic covers, pour earth into them and plant flowers. It will turn out a beautiful mini-flower bed.

Crafts from multi-colored corks from plastic bottles can decorate a garden, a country yard, a kitchen garden. The interior will become more colorful and creative.

DIY traffic jam

The country yard can be decorated with paths made of plastic covers. Bright ornaments will add color to the interior of the garden.

Pros:

• not expensive material;
• simple repair, such material is easy to replace;
• an opportunity to be creative;
• original design.

Minuses:

• plastic unstable to frost;
• slippery coating, especially in winter;
• fragile material.

Very painstaking work, requires accurate calculation and accurate styling.

You will need:

• corks of different colors;
• cement;
• sand;
• construction glue;
• formwork boards,
• whetstones.

There is an option to simply level the slightly damp earth and stick it into the selected cover pattern. Such tracks will quickly lose their original appearance. After the rain, when the soil gets wet, the pattern will creep, the plugs will fall out. Over time, the grass will begin to sprout.

In order not to regret later the time and energy spent, you need to do everything qualitatively. And the track will last more than one year.

Step-by-step progress:

1. It is necessary to prepare the site for work. To clear the soil, remove all garbage.
2. To clean the top layer of the earth.
3. Deepen the spot by 10 cm.
4. Make the formwork.
5. Install spacers with a distance of 1 mm, with them the design will turn out to be more reliable.
6. Cover with gravel, gravel.
7. Next, you need to proceed to the preparation of cement mortar (4: 1). Add some glue.
8. Pour the mixture into the prepared place.
9. Lay the covers according to the invented pattern. Cement should fill the empty space between the plugs.

After the solution has hardened, it will be necessary to remove the excess.

Photo crafts from traffic jams

We provide examples of crafts from traffic jams, perhaps they will inspire new ideas.

Conclusion

Do not be afraid to be creative, imagination, creativity makes it possible to realize your talents and please the result not only of yourself, but also of people around you. Create, and the world around you will sparkle with new colors.