The foam sponge opens up a lot of creativity for hand-made lovers. If you want to make crafts from a sponge with your own hands, you should first think about the purpose of your work:
- For beauty;
- For the benefit of the business;
- Creativity for the sake of creativity.
Gradually, as interest expands, such an activity can turn into a real hobby and even become a source of income. The more beautiful and original the idea, the better materials you can choose for manufacturing.
Prerequisites for creating sponge crafts
To turn a sponge into a creative work material, you need to wash and dry it. The exception is new sponges, only purchased and removed from the packaging.
In your work, you can use:
- Multi-colored sponges for washing dishes - they are the most affordable and varied in colors;
- Car sponges, well absorbent and wider and thicker;
- Insulation for windows made of foam rubber - white, in the form of thin strips with an adhesive side;
- Foam filler for pillows will be the most expensive, but the scale of creativity will be different.
As tools, you will need scissors, a ruler, a pencil, a stationery knife for cutting paper, as well as PVA glue. If you wish, you can stock up on beads, paper, felt-tip pens, a needle and thread, gouache paints.
What interesting things can you do with a sponge?
Crafts made from dishwashing sponges are due to the original properties of the material, namely:
- Elasticity;
- Air volume;
- Easy absorption of moisture;
- Swelling from water.
All these properties can be successfully used to awaken interest in creating the new from the old. The spongy structure is suitable for coloring, with any available materials - iodine, brilliant green, potassium permanganate, diluted paints.
If you drop them on the surface, they will leave a bright mark and form a stain that goes deeper.
By acquiring the skills to work with a variety of materials, the child learns to learn about the world. Studying the process of absorbing water with a sponge and squeezing it out, he learns the basics of physics, painting in different colors - the basics of chemistry.
What can be done from a foam sponge, your own imagination will tell you. The simplest options are a flat tea cup holder or a pin cushion. A flat plate, cut strictly to the size of the pattern, is convenient to use as filler for a potholder or a chair cushion.
What is beautiful in the sponge?
How to make a sponge craft? Very simple! First you need to come up with an idea and choose a material of a suitable color. The assortment of colored sponges opens up new horizons for creativity
Different colors work for typical images:
- Yellow - for the sun and flowers;
- Green - for grass, trees;
- Blue - for clouds and sea waves;
- Red is for flowers;
- White ones are for ice floes, etc.
They will make suitable inserts for a volumetric collage picture. Coming up with a plot of the picture and drawing a sketch is the most difficult thing. Then you will have to arm yourself with a pencil, ruler and scissors, measure, cut and glue pieces of the required thickness to the appropriate places in the picture.
If you don't want to paint a picture, you can limit yourself to a greeting card. Its plot can be borrowed or invented by yourself, and the outer side can be made voluminous by gluing particles of foam rubber.
Children's crafts from a sponge are very original and non-standard. The most affordable options are a cake, a tank, a typewriter or SpongeBob (made of yellow), a piece of watermelon, a boat or a smiley.Doll furniture is a great opportunity to show your designer talent: sponges make unmatched sofas, armchairs, beds, bright and light in weight.
Such toys are very convenient for the bathroom while bathing. They can be soaked without fear of ruining. BUT: do not count on weightlessness: gradually absorbing water, they will "gain weight" and sink.
Especially worth mentioning about New Year's toys. Cut out of foam rubber, in one piece or assembled from separate plates, they will be almost weightless and - most importantly - they will not break if dropped.
With due diligence and diligence, you can make a Christmas tree or a gif.webpt with a bow, a Santa Claus bag or a symbol of the coming year - the face of the animal to which it is dedicated.
A necklace or necklace made from spongy balls or cubes strung on a string will look just as good as any other carnival costume.
What useful things can you make from a sponge?
The photo of sponge crafts shows that this uncomplicated material can be used not only for play, but also for real benefit. Makeup sponges made with your own hands will delight any fashionista.
A shoe sponge, cut out of a large piece with your own hands and decorated in an original way, can be a pleasant surprise for the holiday. For a small kitten, you can build a scratching post from foam rubber: attracting it with its softness, it will help keep the furniture in the house safe and sound.
The spongy piece is suitable for safely storing buttons in a pencil case. It is enough to stick them all over the surface - and you can carry them without fear of losing or pricking.
It is convenient to make overlays for chess pieces and checkers from sponges. So that they do not knock on the surface of the board when playing, it is enough to stick thin foam rubber plates to the bottom.
What will the sponge bring?
With the help of a piece of foam rubber, you can learn to fill patterns on fabric or paper using it like a brush. Taking an old film case and inserting a piece of sponge into it makes a great tool for an aspiring artist.
From the foam rubber sheet you get a good roller for smoothing the wallpaper. It can be made of exactly the length and radius that is most convenient.
To do this, you need to find a retainer - a straight stick or wire, wrap a sponge around, glue and attach a handle.
It is convenient to glue the inner surface of the box or suitcase with a sponge so that the objects inside do not knock on the walls when carrying. A sufficiently thick layer of foam rubber will allow you to store earrings-studs in it.
Foam rubber allows you to fill not only traditional pillows, but also potholders, soft seats, toys, everything that only has enough imagination.
Photo of sponge crafts
