Disposable plastic cup crafts - a collection of interesting master classes and photo examples

Disposable dishes accompany modern man almost everywhere. Some even use it at home, being lazy to wash ceramic cups and plates. In catering outlets, offices, nature trains are widespread plastic cups. They have a lot of advantages - roomy, hygienic, transparent, durable. No wonder that creative people like them and actively use them as a material for handicrafts.

Plastic cups are not afraid to give a child and offer to make a simple craft. All you will need for the work is glue, colored paper and a rich imagination.

The benefits of plastic cups

Cups are good because they allow you to create three-dimensional shapes. This advantage is beneficial to the development of the child, making it:

smart;
attentive;
assiduous;
Able to see the beauty in ordinary objects.

Making simple things, children acquire skills of working with glue, scissors, learn to model, learn the properties of different materials. The experience will make learning in the garden and school easier.

Bunny

Having made several animals in a single likeness, you can play theater and play out interesting scenes. For the work will be useful:

A plastic cup of white color, if you have at hand only transparent, then paint it with white gouache;
A small piece of felt, white and pink;
Black marker;
Doll flat eyes, sold in the departments with products for creativity;
Cocktail straw.

A master class for creating a bunny includes the following steps:

Cut two identical elongated pieces from white felt;
From the pink felt, cut elements a little smaller and glue them to the white parts;
The result is a pair of hare ears;
Place the cup with the bottom up and the open part down;
Ears glue PVA glue vertically, leaning them just below the bottom;
Make a muzzle, glue the eyes;
Cocktail straw cut in half, halves cross and glue on the muzzle, depicting the antennae;
Marker to draw a smile, eyebrows "house".

Similarly, create a bear, wolf, frog and other animals. Plastic cups can be easily painted with acrylic paint in any color.

Doggie out of yogurt cups

Looking through the photos on Internet resources devoted to child development, you can see that you can create original crafts and even decorative objects out of hand-made materials. A striking example is the dog made from three yogurt cups. Manufacturing takes literally half an hour, but the child gets an unusual toy, to the creation of which he also had a hand.

Master class:

At one cup to cut off the top and insert into the other, you get closed on both sides of the detail (head);
Yogurt cups have a characteristic lapel, from it you need to cut off the excess, leaving only round elements, resembling ears;
To the resulting head, you need to glue purchased eyes or draw them with a marker;
Draw a round nose and attach a felt tongue;
In the third cup on the side where the drinking part, you need to cut off the extra material, depicting the four paws;
Glue the head to the body with PVA glue.

You can use the hinged method to assemble the parts. This will allow the doggie to move its head. Joints are sold in the department of creative goods, are inexpensive.

Christmas toy "bell"

Bell jar is considered a simple craft. It can puzzle children at the age of 3-4 years. Help an adult is only to make a hole in the bottom and stick it through a ribbon folded in half and make a knot on the inside. Cup with a loop resembles a bell and it is easier for a child to decorate it.

The most accessible way to decorate is with a brush and paint. Painting a cup, the child gains skills to work with a non-standard surface. After all, to depict a simple leaf, you need to get creative. Basically, children draw repeating dots and strokes with colored paints.

The resulting bells are good as independent souvenirs, which the child is proud to give to grandparents. Waiting for the New Year, you can glue paper snowflakes, tinsel and decorate the Christmas tree with them.

The Snowman

A real sensation at any event produces a snowman made of plastic cups. His growth is comparable to a human, and inside there is a hidden light source, which turns the snowman into a real masterpiece of creative craftsmanship.

The basic materials that are needed for the work:

Several dozen transparent cups;
hot glue and a gun.

The instructions for making it look like this:

The first layer (base) forms 20 containers, glued together by the sides;

In the next row, the number of cups increases in one;
In the next - in two;
And so on until the volume of the ball, which was conceived according to the idea, is reached;
Then the number of containers in each row must be systematically reduced.

In a similar way make two more balls of smaller diameter. Arrange the parts on top of each other, the smallest one on top. You can form a snowman out of two balls.

When the figure is ready, you need to make a nose-pink from improvised materials. It should not be heavy, so as not to overpower the light snowman. You can use a plastic bottle in which you should cut the bottom part and color it orange. The scarf, knitted by needles in coarse knitting, will add to the snowman the image of a kind and long-awaited guest who came in from the street on a holiday.

The snowman is hollow inside, and you can fit a small lamp inside it. When working, it is necessary to observe safety rules.

Christmas tree from cups

New Year's tree can be made of any material, but it looks especially attractive out of cups. Both cavities are involved at the same time - the Christmas tree stretches upwards, and at the same time takes the eye in a horizontal direction.

To create the herringbone you will need:

Opaque plastic or paper cups;
green tinsel;
small Christmas tree balls, the size should fit inside the cup;
hot glue.

When working with hot glue, be careful not to burn yourself.

A step-by-step plan for making it:

Place the five containers next to each other and glue the sides together;
In the next row place four cups, and in each successive row reduce their number until only one remains at the top;
Place some tinsel on the bottom of each container;
Attach a Christmas tree ball to the rims of the cups.

The Christmas tree is simple, but it looks incredibly beautiful. It can decorate the interiors of offices, departments in shopping malls, apartments, put in school classrooms and groups in kindergartens. The festive mood of all who visit these places is guaranteed.

Plastic cups as an ornamental material show themselves well in creative work. They are actively used in preschools to develop motor skills, assiduity, and the ability to bring things to an end. For every holiday, you can prepare a fun souvenir out of simple cups.

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