Handmade crafts from disposable plastic and paper plates - master classes, beautiful photo ideas, practical tips
What could be better than spending time together with your child? And spending time for creativity is especially pleasant and useful. Have you already run out of ideas, what crafts you can create with your child? Then this article is definitely for you.
If you have leftover plastic or paper dishes from a children's party or picnic. Do not rush to throw it away. After all, the easiest way to make boring dishes unique is to let your child paint them with paints, crayons, add elements of plasticine and glitter. Plates can turn into funny animals, birds, an animated character, or even appetizing fruit.
Paper plate crafts
Paper dishes are great for coloring with paints or felt-tip pens. However, if you give free rein to your imagination, you can turn dishes into a real object of children's art.
Carnival masks and crowns
Every child wants to be special, and most of all at children's parties and New Year's Day matinees. Let him choose his own character, and then it's just a matter of imagination.
A lion mask
Paint the mask orange, cut holes for the eyes and complete the muzzle. You can use red crochet thread or unnecessary decorative fur for the mane.
For girl princesses, a crown made from a paper plate is ideal.
For creativity we will need:
- scissors;
- paints, pencils, felt-tip pens;
- sequins, beads and other elements as desired.
Fold the plate in half and make three even cuts in the fold. You get a plate with cuts in the middle.
Model of the crown is ready, and further decoration is already a matter of imagination of little princesses.
Funny animals out of paper plates
Rabbits, frogs, birds and even jellyfish. It's amazing what you can come up with from an ordinary paper plate. Does your child love the animal world? Why not keep him busy with an interesting homemade craft.
Owl
For the creativity prepare:
- brown paint;
- a set of colored paper;
- glue;
- scissors.
First, paint two plates brown and let them dry well. At this time, cut out two circles of yellow paper, two smaller white ones and two small black ones. These will be the eyes of our future owl.
The beak can be cut out of orange paper, just take a small triangle.
Glue the beak and eyes on the dried plate, and cut the second one in half. On the back, glue the wings (two pieces of a cut plate).
Our owl is ready and can safely decorate your child's bedroom wall!
Frog .
We will need:
- scissors;
- glue;
- a set of colored paper;
- paints;
- Two egg carton molds.
Plate and two molds for the chicken eggs painted in green. While the elements are drying, cut out the tongue of red paper, two white and two black circles for the eyes.To the unpainted side glue the tongue and fold the plate in two. It remains to glue the eyes and funny frog ready!
Cute bunny
Prepare:
- two plates;
- colored pencils, felt-tip pens;
- a set of colored paper;
- glue;
- scissors.
One white paper plate we need a whole - it will be a muzzle, and the second cut in half - there are ears.
Middle ears can be painted in pink pencils or markers and glue to the back of a whole plate. When the ears are ready move on to the muzzle. Eyes and nose can also be drawn or cut out of colored paper and glued.
Then six thin strips of black paper are cut out and glued like a mustache. If you have small pompoms, they can be used instead of a mustache or nose. So the bunny will be fluffy, too!
Do not worry, if your imagination ran out and you do not know what to surprise your child. Creative kids think up what kind of animal they want to make!
Easy crafts
Spiralize the plate, leave an oval in the middle as the head, glue a double tongue, eyes and let the child pretend to be a cobra!
And if you glue ribbons or crochet threads onto the multicolored plate, you'll have a beautiful jellyfish.
Yummy Fruit
You will need:
- colored paper;
- felt-tip pens;
- glue;
- scissors.
If you have colorful plates of green, red, yellow or orange at home, your fruit assortment is already half-ready. But that's okay if you don't have any. They can always be decorated with colored paper or felt-tip pens.
Cut the green plate in half and glue a half of the smaller pink colored paper to each half. Doodle black felt-tip marker seeds and your watermelon slices are ready!
Yellow makes a real lemon. To do this, cut out of colored paper four strips of yellow or orange color. Glue them crosswise to the plate and you get a slice of lemon.
An orange can be made in a similar way.
Thanks to imagination, mom's kitchen can be decorated with a delicious assortment of fruits!
Handcrafts from plastic plates
Do not get upset if you only found plastic disposable dishes in the house. This material is also great for children's crafts.
Make a handicraft "Flowers for mom.
Here the task will be a little more complicated. But the result justifies it.
For the creativity prepare:
- two plastic plates of white and green color;
- A yellow disposable cup;
- scissors;
- glue.
From a white plate cut flowers, and from the green stem and leaves. Yellow cup will need to shorten slightly. To do this, cut off the top 3 to 5 cm, at your discretion. From the cut off part of the cup cut out the hearts of flowers.
Glue all the parts and a beautiful bouquet of daisies for mom is ready! Put it in a yellow glass and then the daisies will stand in a vase.
It is desirable to cut out several flowers, so that the bouquet will turn out lush.
Fish
A very simple way to create a whole family of fish, and cope with this craft can even kids.
We need a few colored plastic plates. On the side of the plate cut out a triangle-shaped mouth. The same triangle with the sharp end of glue to the other side, so we have a fish tail.
Next, finish drawing the eyes, if desired, you can glue colored paper scales and add an interesting fish color. Here we have our brightly colored aquarium.
A frame for a photo
Very interesting self-made, which can easily decorate the interior of the children's room.
For the work prepare:
- plastic plate of yellow and green or other shades of your choice;
- scissors;
- glue.
Take a yellow plate and cut out beautiful petals along its edges. From the green plate, cut out three leaves. Glue the yellow part to the green leaves and get an unusual flower. Inside the flower, you can glue a round photo, decorate the circle with beads, beads or other decorative elements. Thus, a beautiful flower turns into an original photo frame!
That's how ordinary disposable tableware can turn into a real masterpiece of children's art. Such homemade crafts perfectly develop imagination and creativity of the child. You can find paper and plastic plates in any home. And they can be used in a completely original way.Children enjoy turning ordinary disposable dishes into unusual images. At the same time cope with them under the power of even the smallest.