Making crafts from household waste is extremely fun and requires dexterity and creativity. Children of different ages can be involved in this process so that they do not spend too much time at computers and tablets.
Household waste is a more budgetary source of manufacturing new products than natural waste. It is not for nothing that they say, "that not the one who earns a lot, but the one who spends little".
Why is it useful to recycle garbage?
- It damages the environment. Plastic and batteries, for example, take centuries to decompose.
- Recycling reduces the consumption of exhaustible resources on Earth
- Crafts from waste for children are very useful things, their invention contributes to the development of imagination in children and simply brings joy. Moreover, there is no need for financial spending, when all the necessary materials are usually available.
- All civilized countries strive to preserve the environment and therefore introduce different ways of recycling waste.
How to make a craft from waste
First of all, you need to decide what material the craft will be made from. It should not be too complicated so that the child can completely make a craft from household waste with his own hands, which will allow him to develop his imagination as much as possible and enjoy the process.
Usually, in the manufacture of such products, they use:
- Waste paper
- Cardboard sleeves
- Plastic
- Disposable cups
- Tile
- Glass
- Polyethylene
Crafts from waste paper
You should not rush to throw away the accumulated waste paper, you can make many interesting things from it, for example, furniture for dolls.
- From matchboxes, using glue, fabric and colored paper, you can make a chest of drawers, a table and even a sofa.
- These waste crafts are suitable for school.
- They are also suitable for storing beads or small accessories.
Products from cardboard sleeves
Funny animal figurines are made from cardboard sleeves. On the network you can find many photos of similar crafts from waste - octopuses, elephants, and other animals.
They also make organizers that are suitable for storing office supplies.
Plastic products
By fastening together two bottoms from the bottles, you can make beautiful decorative apples, you can add leaves to them, and twigs are obtained from straws for drinking.
From straws, you can also make a beautiful decoration in the form of a crown, you just need to make a cardboard base and glue the straws on it.
Products from plastic cups
If disposable glasses are still available, which they do not plan to use anymore, then various entertaining things can also be done from them, this may interest elementary and secondary school students.
Fluffy paws are made of wire and tubes. The glasses are painted with gouache, and the eyes are cut out of paper. The legs can be secured with plasticine.
Crafts made from waste and junk material can be used not only in school - they can be a good decoration for a nursery.
Broken tile organizer
If, after repairs, broken tiles are lying around in the house, you can make an organizer out of it.
- First you need to cut it into small squares with a tile cutter.
- It is not necessary that they be exactly the same size, if they differ slightly - it will be even more beautiful.
- Then, you need to find a tin can and decorate it with these squares, using hot glue, and then grout.
- As a result, you get a solid, weighty organizer that will serve as a stand for screwdrivers.
Broken glass mosaic
To create this craft, you need to take precautions, namely, put on goggles and a mask, and since the edges of the glasses are sharp, you need to take them not with your bare hands, but with tweezers.
- The mosaic is made of colored glass. You will need a bottle, you need to remove the label from it, then wrap the bottle in a towel and, using a hammer, break it into small pieces, the smaller the better. Further, on sheet A4, you need to make a sketch with a pencil, then erase the pencil so that barely noticeable contours remain.
- Then you need to cut off the excess paper and glue the sketch onto cardboard of the same size.
- It doesn't matter what kind of cardboard it will be, the main thing is that it is as even as possible.
- Further, with the help of hot glue, you can begin to glue the mosaic elements, guided by the contour. When everything is ready, you can cut corrugated cardboard strips and stick them around the perimeter of the picture, as a frame.
- On top of the resulting structure, you need to glue a sheet of dense, transparent plastic of a suitable size, or you can use glass from an unnecessary frame.
- Then, from the same cardboard, with a cork backing glued on top, cut out a square frame 5 cm wide, decorate the cardboard cuts inside the frame with narrow strips of felt of the most suitable shade, first glue only the inner walls of the frame, then glue the frame and the mosaic picture together.
- For reliability, hot glue all the joints of the cardboard on the back of the product and after that glue the cardboard sides to the frame from all sides, also prepare the back wall of the frame of a suitable size from cardboard, glue it together with the frame and, at the last stage of work, decorate the cardboard sides strips of felt.
Now that the picture is ready, it remains only to attach the hinges from the back for attaching to the wall.
Flowers from plastic trash bags
Decorating the world is easier than it sounds.
- To do this, you will need several colored trash bags.
- You need to fold them so that the bottom is on one side, then cut off the fold line.
- Then, to make the flowers more lush, you need to fold them in half, cut them in the middle and fold them like an accordion, wrapping them in the middle with thread.
- Next, you need to cut the edges with corners, using scissors, fold in half and wrap with thread at the base, then straighten all the petals, detaching all the layers of the packages from one another.
- As a result, you get a bud that needs to be attached to the stem.
- For the stem, you need a tube from balloons with fasteners, to which you need to attach the bud by inserting the petals into the holes of the fasteners and tying them. Finally, you can wrap the stem with a green bag.
- All of these products are just a small overview of what can be made from garbage.
There are many videos and photos of waste crafts, with detailed instructions on how to make DIY crafts from waste. This applies not only to children.
Many artists make various works from rubbish and, at times, display them in art galleries.
Nothing is impossible for a person, even from garbage you can come up with an original interior decoration. The main thing is not to allow yourself to be lazy and to develop your creative abilities as much as possible, then the result will bring joy and there will be no difficulties in the course of work.
Photo of crafts from household waste
