Newspaper crafts with their own hands - a selection of step by step master classes for beginners.

Each of us in the house is full of stale newspapers and magazines, which can be used for children's handicrafts. Such paper material is not difficult to make a very bright and interesting work. Below is just some of what can be made from old papers.

Decorative wall clock

From ordinary newspaper sheets it is not difficult to make a bright decorative craft reminiscent of the sun - a clock and decorate your home with them. The clock mechanism is not used, the clock serves to decorate the walls. You will need about 30 sheets of newspaper or magazine, a pencil or pen, a needle, scissors, thread, two plastic discs. Then do the work as follows.

  • Each individual piece of newspaper or magazine should be rolled into a tube. To do this, wind the sheet on a pencil, and then removed. You will get about 30 blanks.
  • Next, each tube is bent in the form of a tick: one end of which is lower than the other, so the rays of the sun will look more effective, since they will be of different lengths.
  • The next step is to prick each "tick" of paper on a long needle with thread, alternating between the long and small side. Then you need to tighten everything with a thread and fasten the resulting sun from the newspapers.
  • After you need to glue on one and the other side of the plastic disc. Disks need to be glued.
  • The final step is to attach the old clockwork on the back side, and the hands will be on the front. All the bright decor to decorate your home is ready.

Newspaper bracelet

Child himself can make a funny bracelet out of magazines or old newspapers. For this, you should prepare newspapers and scissors. Next, you need to do according to the step-by-step instructions.

  1. You need to cut strips of 10 * 4 cm.
  2. Each strip is bent in half on the long side and unbent.
  3. Then both sides of the ends are bent to the line of inflection, and again bent in half strip.
  4. Then the resulting band is bent on the wide side and unbent.
  5. Then again the ends are bent to the middle, resulting in a tick out of the newspaper. It is necessary to prepare a large number of such blanks to start assembling the bracelet.
  6. To form a bracelet, it is necessary to combine all the blanks. It is necessary to tick the ears of the first piece into the tick ears of the second piece and so on up the chain. So you should get a chain of 27 links. It is necessary to assemble 3 chains.
  7. In the final step should connect all the chains with a few details-trees.

Bouquet of roses from newspapers

Various homemade bouquets from improvised materials are well used for decorating the house, also children like to make such crafts for the exhibition in kindergarten or school. Paper bouquets look very original, from them you can make different in color and shape compositions. To work it is necessary to prepare the following materials: newspapers, scissors, glue gun with hot glue, floral wire, decorative tape. A step by step description is discussed below.

  1. From the newspapers are cut out circles, with a diameter of about 10 cm.
  2. Next, it is necessary to cut a spiral from the circle, the width of the line is 2 - 3 cm.
  3. After the rosebud is formed: it is necessary to grasp the outer end of the spiral with the hand and start folding the paper to the inner end. The assembled flower should be corrected: a little unravel the spiral, give the bud an unfolded look.
  4. Next, the flower is fixed with hot glue using a glue gun.
  5. The next thing to do is to prepare a floral wire, bend one end at an angle of 90 degrees and glue the bud with hot glue. The end of the wire, which was glued to the flower can be hidden under a layer of paper.
  6. Need to make as many flowers to be able to assemble a lush bouquet of roses.
  7. Assembled bouquet to fix the wire. If the ends of the bouquet were very long they can be trimmed.
  8. Next, the stems are wrapped with a beautiful decorative tape, which is secured with hot glue.

Such flowers from newspapers can be made by children on their own as gifts for family and friends.

Weaving a basket out of newspaper

Newspaper baskets to make with their own hands is not difficult, you only need to follow a certain sequence of actions, which will be described below. To make a basket, you should prepare: newspapers or magazines, jute, stapler, scissors.

  1. Prepared newspapers are cut into 20 strips with a width of 8 cm. The length of the strips can be adjusted later.
  2. Each strip is folded in half on the long side 3 times.
  3. Next, you can start weaving a basket. First made the bottom, which takes 10 strips of newspaper, each located horizontally and vertically, and all intertwined with each other. Each vertical strip goes through each horizontal strip either at the top or at the bottom. This is how the bottom of the basket is formed.
  4. To strengthen the base of the basket, stretched between the strips of jute bottom.
  5. Next, the strips are bent perpendicular to the bottom of the basket. After that, you need to continue weaving the basket up, starting from one side.
  6. At the final stage of the work all sides are connected, you can use a stapler. Sticking out up the ends are bent inward and hidden in the weaving.
  7. The assembled basket can be smeared with glue to make it stiffer and not fall apart when used. It can also be decorated with decorative elements also made of paper: it can be various flowers and other homemade ornaments.

Children will be interested to try their hand at knitting baskets, although this process is quite time consuming and requires special perseverance.

Some people mistakenly think that children's crafts require a choice of special materials. This is not true: there are home crafting techniques, which are inherited, such as weaving from old newspapers.

Paper can be used to make a variety of children's crafts and just decorative things for the home. Parents and children should take a closer look at such simple materials and show a little imagination to create their individual masterpieces from ordinary newspapers and old magazines.

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