Dish sponge crafts with their own hands - interesting master classes, tips and photo ideas
Many parents do not even realize that dishwashing sponges can make fun crafts. One side of the sponge is a porous foam surface, the reverse side is fiber, a material made of high-strength fibers, both of which can be used in your creative work.
The soft side perfectly takes any shape and can be used to create all kinds of figures, and the fiber, separately, can be used for the basis-staying a homemade toy or to create decorative elements that do not change their shape, such as a hat. The child will be able to show his imagination when working with such an interesting improvised material.
Children love to spend time doing interesting activities with their parents and friends. Therefore, it is necessary to find an activity to your liking, such as making homemade crafts from simple materials. Dishwashing sponge is the best option for homemade crafts.
Sailboat out of sponge
The easiest toy for young children is a sailboat from dishwashing sponges. This craft will help young children to show their imagination and creative ideas. After that, children can play fun games with their homemade sailboats.
To make the toy you will need a sponge, any interesting color for a child, a straw from a drink, scissors and a sheet of colored paper.
To make a sailboat, a child needs to take a sponge, separate the hard fiber. This will be the base of the boat.
Next, you need to stick the juice tube into the sponge, it will serve as the mast of the sailboat.
The next thing: you need to cut out a triangle from colored paper in the form of a sail and spike it on the mast tube. Also, the sail can be made of fiber, but it is necessary to cut holes in it in order to attach it to the juice tube.
Antistress toy - piglet
Currently, a great spread among children are anti-stress toys - squishies. When you click on these toys, they crumple, change their shape, they can be kneaded in the hands of all kinds of ways that are very amusing for children and many adults, after which the toys restored their original shape again.
Just sponge is the most suitable material for squish - piggy. To make it, you need to prepare a sponge of any color for washing dishes, construction acrylic primer, hot glue, felt, scissors, sandpaper and acrylic paints. The step-by-step instructions for making the pig are shown below.
- A sponge is taken, a coarse fiber is separated from it. Then an oval is drawn on the sponge and cut out according to the template. You can not draw an oval, but simply cut the corners of the sponge, trimming to give it the shape of an oval.
- After processing the edges of the sponge with scissors, you will get a rough oval, so you need to go over the workpiece with sandpaper to finish polishing the shape and remove all the irregularities.
- The next step is to apply acrylic primer to the surface of the oval sponge, and then wrinkle it so that the sponge is saturated with primer. And dry the workpiece.
- After drying, you can begin painting the sponge. Mix 2 acrylic paints: red and white, to get a rich pink color and paint the sponge in two layers.
- Next, on the sponge we draw the pig's face: eyes, snout. The paint will need to dry again.
- Next, the pig's ears are cut out of white felt and glued to the pig's face with a hot glue gun.
The anti-stress toy is ready.
It can be used as a keychain, for this you need to attach special accessories: a ring on a chain.
Sponge kitty
It is very easy to make a favorite animal out of bending sponge. We will need for the craft: a sponge, a sharp knife and silicone rubber bands for hair, preferably light-colored, so they are not visible when mounted on a sponge. The following is a step-by-step instruction for making it yourself.
- Take a dishwashing sponge and cut off the hard part - the fiber - with a knife. Squishies are made of soft foam rubber parts.
- The ears of the cat are formed: the sponge is placed vertically and the top two corners are attached in turn with silicone rubber bands.
- Next, attach a silicone rubber band in the middle of the sponge, so the body is formed kitty toy.
- The bottom of sponges fixed silicone rubber bands to form the legs.
- Kitty is ready. It remains only to draw a cat's face or cut out the necessary details: the nose, mouth, eyes and mustache of colored paper and glue on the sponge.
Colorful balls
Dishwashing sponges can be used to make interesting colored balls to play with. For the craft, colorful sponges and silicone rubber bands for hair are selected. The process of making is very simple.
- It is necessary to separate the fiber from the sponges and cut them into equal strips.
- Then the colored strips are placed five by five in two rows and the middle is marked.
- Then all the strips of sponges are tied with a silicone rubber band and twisted so as to obtain a funny multi-colored ball.
Such balls can be used for various games at home, as well as take with them to the river or lake, they will not sink.
It is also possible to attach a stick to such a ball with a sheet cut out of colored paper, and you get a beautiful flower. And you can also combine several balls into one interesting toy.
Children with them for sure will not be bored.
Here are such simple fun toys can be made at home for children with their parents. Sponge handy material for crafts is very easy to handle, you do not need any special devices. All toys are made very easy and fast. And colored sponges give the opportunity to create their own colorful crafts.
Children are very fond of colorful crafts and are happy to plunge into the creativity, using colorful materials. The task of the parent is only to help and guide the child when creating crafts for the house or for the exhibition, this is how children will learn to make their own decisions and bring them to life.
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