With a good and caring hostess, not a single thing is wasted. Even if these are unnecessary old things that have outlived their time, you can still extract the benefit from them. So, today we will look at plastic bags. Firstly, if you think about it, then from such material it is really possible to make home decorations with your own hands on the eve of such holidays as New Year, Birthday, Easter, March 8 and so on. Secondly, gifts to relatives and friends will turn out to be quite unexpected. Thirdly, pleasant and bright flowers for mothers and grandmothers, as well as much more that your rich imagination will “give birth to”. Such fascinating needlework will inspire you, relieve the accumulated emotional stress, bring new colors and some moments of liveliness into the atmosphere of everyday life, and also make your loved ones proud of your achievements in the field of hand made. If you liked our idea, then plunge into the vastness of the prepared article, where 6 easy and interesting crafts from do-it-yourself packages for prepared beginners will be presented to your attention. Visual photos and accessible videos with step-by-step master classes will help you in your home creativity.

Flowers from packages

Many amazing crafts can be made from regular bags. One of them is flowers. They are perfect for decorating the interior and creating a cozy atmosphere in the house. Such flowers will be a great gift for mom or grandmother on March 8th. Let's see how to make interesting DIY flowers for beginners.

You will need:

• Plastic bags 2 colors,
• thin wire,
• Thread,
• Scissors.

Progress:

1. Cut the plastic bag into strips, about 1 cm wide.
2. From three strips (two colors) weave a long pigtail.
3. From the wire, make a blank for the petal with your own hands. Form a loop out of it and fix at the base with a twisting motion. A tail of 2 cm should remain. We need to make 6 petals of these.
4. We wrap each blank for the petal of the craft in a bag so that the wire is completely closed, and fix it with a rope in the place where the tip of the wire is located.
5. Now let's start shaping the flower. Take the first petal and slightly bend its sides inward, then make a loop from the previously prepared pigtail and fasten the structure with a thread.
6. Next, attach the second petal and loop in the same way.
7. At the rest of the petals, we bend the edges and attach them to the flower, alternating the petals with the loops from the pigtail. We give a voluminous and beautiful shape.
8. When all parts are assembled and secured, spread the tips of the petals outward. So you get a voluminous and open flower. We cut off all the excess and get a ready-made interesting craft. It can be used in this form, or you can attach a stem, making it out of wire, and make a bouquet of several flowers.

Video: do-it-yourself flowers from bags

wreath on the door

To decorate the door for the New Year 2018, I propose to make a simple and beautiful wreath. You can run it from both new packages and old ones. In order to understand the principle of this interesting craft, watch a step-by-step master class with a visual photo and video instruction for beginners.

You will need:

• white plastic bags,
• Scissors,
• Clothes hangers metal or thick wire,
• Glue gun.

Progress:

1. From hangers or wire we make a circle. This will be our basis for the craft. If you used coat hangers, use the hook to hang the wreath later.
2. We cut strips from the packages.
3. Now, with your own hands, begin to tie the strips into a circle, leaving loose ponytails sticking out. Each strip of the bag should be pressed tightly against each other.
4. Thus we tie the whole circle.
5. When the wreath is ready, decorate it with small Christmas decorations, attaching it with glue.
6. Wait for the glue to dry completely, and your New Year's interesting craft is ready!

Video: do-it-yourself ideas for Christmas decorations from bags

Easter basket for kindergarten

If you were asked to bring crafts for Easter in the kindergarten, and you made beautiful eggs with your own hands and don’t know what to put them in, then you should like such a small and elegant basket. It is made from materials as cheap as plastic bags, which almost everyone in the house has. For beginners, this work will not require much effort and will not take a lot of time.

You will need:

• yellow bags,
• A bucket of mayonnaise
• glue gun,
• decorative rope,
• Scissors,
• Double-sided tape,
• Needle with thread.

Progress:

1. Polyethylene is cut into a strip so that the width allows you to completely seal the bucket. On the bucket itself we glue the adhesive tape in vertical stripes, and then glue it with a bag. We do this so that after that there are no gaps between the shuttlecocks.
2. Now we make shuttlecocks with our own hands. We cut off the upper and lower sides of the polyethylene and cut it lengthwise into two parts. We need 6 of these.
3. Baste with a needle and thread the long part of the polyethylene blank. For one row we need 2 blanks. It is necessary to gather the upper part by pulling the thread. Tie the workpiece. Don't forget to try our shuttlecock on a bucket to find out how much you need to tighten the thread. The shuttlecock must completely "hug" the bucket in a circle once.
4. We need 3 of these shuttlecocks. See that the skirts are not too long. If you don't like the length, just cut off the excess.
5. Now, using glue, attach the shuttlecocks to the bucket, starting from the bottom.
6. The top one must be glued neatly and evenly along the edge.
7. From the packages, make a flat pigtail with your own hands and glue it to the edge of the upper flounce, covering the ugly edge.
8. Now let's make a handle. If you have a handle on a bucket, you can simply decorate it with colorful polyethylene by wrapping our pigtail around it. If there is no handle, make it from a rope, which you can decorate in the same way.
9. You can also decorate the basket with flowers or beads.
10. The basket is ready, you can half fill it with cotton wool or other filler, and now you can put Easter eggs on it. Such an interesting craft will bring a lot of pleasure and positive to the whole environment.

Video: a master class on making baskets from bags with your own hands

Balloons for room decoration

If you urgently need to decorate a room with balloons, and there is no time to run to the store, you can make interesting crafts from plastic bags with your own hands for beginners in the form of balloons. Such uncomplicated products will perfectly decorate a home party and surprise guests. You can make them with children of the youngest age - from 3 years old.

You will need:

• Small bags of different colors
• Thread.

Progress:

1. For such balls, it is better to take transparent bags.
2. Take bright polyethylene and inflate it.
3. Tie it with a string so it doesn't deflate.
4. We need a lot of inflated bags of different colors.
5. Using a thread, tie a few homemade balls together, and you will get a beautiful and voluminous interesting craft, created by yourself from the available material at hand.

Christmas tree

Shops are full of a huge variety of Christmas trees, but the price sometimes "bites". Therefore, I want to offer a variant of a budget Christmas tree, which you can make with your own hands from a plastic bag. You can connect a child to the execution process, since the craft is designed for children from 4 years old. Let's see how to make a Christmas tree with step by step instructions for beginners. You will need:

• Chopsticks for sushi - 3 pcs.,
• Tight plastic bags (green),
• glue gun,
• Wire,
• Scissors,
• Cardboard from the box (dense).

Progress:

1. To create an interesting craft at home, glue sticks for sushi together.
2. We attach the wire to sticks and make tree branches with our own hands. To prevent the wire from slipping off the barrel, secure it with tape.
3. We cut out strips from the package, 3-4 cm wide, and make a fringe by cutting a strip. Leave 1 cm wide uncut. Make several of these.
4. Now glue the branches of the Christmas tree in a circular motion with a fringe. Start gluing from the edge of the branch. Thus, you need to glue the whole tree. At the trunk, the fringe should be facing down.
5. If you want to add volume to your craft, you can make additional branches with your own hands. Roll the paper into a tight tube and glue it with a fringe. You must first wind it halfway from one end, and then do the same on the other side so that the needles are located in different directions.
6. Bend the resulting branch in half and glue to the bottom of the wire branch.
7. Thus, you can add the required number of additional branches.
8. Cut out a cross from cardboard. The sides of the cross should be long enough.
9. In the center you need to glue the Christmas tree.
10. Now decorate it and the craft is ready.

Video: do-it-yourself Christmas tree master class

Doggy made of plastic bags

In order to surprise your children with an interesting do-it-yourself package for beginners prepared, pay attention to the step-by-step master class provided by us. He will give you, dear friends, a wonderful idea on how to create a cool toy from available scrap materials quickly and easily at home. It will bring you prosperity and many pleasant moments in the upcoming New Year 2018 of the Yellow Dog. Let's get down to the craft.

For work you will need:

• milky plastic bags;
• scissors;
• washcloths for the base or filler of any type;
• the cloth;
• needle and thread;
• piece of leatherette for the spout;
• homemade eyes.

Manufacturing process:

1. From washcloths we make the basis of our crafts in the form of a dog. We sew all the details with a needle and thread.
2. Now we need to cover the washcloth base with a cloth. To do this, we take any material that is unnecessary for household use and gradually hide all the details of the product under it. For this process, you will also need a needle and thread.
3. After that, we create the coat of the dog. To this end, we cut the existing packages into rectangular strips and fold them in half. The edges of all blanks are finely incised in the form of a fringe. Such polyethylene parts must be created as much as necessary for the decor of the animal as a whole.
4. Upon completion of this part of the work, we need to sew all the blanks to the body, starting from the tail and ending with the muzzle. The fringe should stick out like wool, and the opposite side is sewn to the base.
5. When you have completely completed this creative stage, you need to revive the dog with do-it-yourself eyes made of leatherette and fabric, a spout and attach bows or hair clips to the ears, as you wish. Here is such an interesting craft we got from ordinary plastic bags. For beginners, this process will not be particularly time-consuming and will certainly appeal to you.

Video: do-it-yourself bag craft ideas

For joint creativity with a child, you can use any material at hand. Mom can offer her child to make crafts from plastic bags, of which there are enough in any apartment.

At first glance, it seems that crafts from garbage bags are easy to do, but this is not so. A 3-year-old child may not be able to do everything, for example, knitted crafts from garbage bags. Therefore, it is most preferable to offer this type of creativity to a child from 7 years old. Toddlers can create animal-shaped garbage bag crafts.

To create a rabbit, you need to prepare materials:

• two cardboard rings with a slot inside;
• scissors;
• plastic bags;
• dense thread;
• three beads - eyes and nose.

1. Pompoms are ready. First, we make long strips from a plastic bag, tie them together. From cardboard cut out two circles with a slot inside.
2. We begin to wrap the cardboard rings in a circle.
3. If the strip is over, then cut off the ring at the root.

4. Putting on the next strip.
5. We wrap the strips in a circle until the moment when the cardboard ring is completely closed.
6. We cut off the resulting workpiece with scissors.
7. We stretch a strong thread between the two rings, tighten it.

8. We remove the cardboard circles, straighten the resulting pompom.
9. We make the second pom-pom in the same way.

10. We connect the remaining ends of the threads from both pompoms to each other. Got a head and a body.

11. We make rabbit ears from a strip no more than 3 cm wide as follows: twist the strip twice in the middle.
12. Fold the strip in half and flatten.

13. We connect a little below the middle.

14. Glue the ears, bead-eyes and nose.

15. We make paws and legs from small pompoms, glue them. The rabbit is ready.

Similarly, you can make other animals by varying the colors of the packages.

For the convenience of making crafts from bags, you must first make skeins.

1. We take a bag with handles, fold it with an accordion along the entire length.
2. Cut off the bottom and handles.
3. Cut the bag into pieces.
4. We unwind the resulting pieces and connect them into a single thread.
5. We roll into balls.

There are a huge number of ways to cut plastic bags: in a spiral, diagonally, along, across, etc.

On the eve of the new year, you can invite your child to create a Christmas tree as a craft from bags with their own hands, which can be presented to someone close, for example, to a grandmother. You need to prepare the following materials:

• a ruler with stencils-circles of various diameters;
• compass;
• simple pencil;
• green plastic bags;
• scissors;
• scotch;
• threads;
• needle;
• beads or glass beads;
• White paper;
• ball pen;
• flat button.

If you take several multi-colored garbage bags, then you can make such a Christmas tree:

Creating crafts from packages, not only creative thinking develops, but also creative abilities. This kind of crafts can be done with older children. This will teach them that from any improvised and, it would seem, at first glance, unnecessary material, you can create a work of art.

Valentina Adler

Manufacturing funny toys« rustlers» We have been teaching our students for over 12 years.

The idea of ​​turning polyethylene packagesinto funny crafts was the beginning of a long-term environmental project: "I can in toys trash turn» .

Keeping our children interested in this topic, we have issued advisory materials for their parents: « funny« rustlers» or what to do with the child on the day off. Now the mothers and fathers of our regular pupils have been full participants in this project for several years now.

Making such a work for a child nka it: development of fine motor skills, attention, thinking; education of perseverance, accuracy, the ability to bring the work begun to its logical conclusion; it is always positive emotions, a flight of fancy, aesthetic pleasure and pride in the consciousness that these packages could pollute our city, and we, like real wizards, turn them into beauty.

Stages of magical transformation:

1. Cut out several pairs of rings of different sizes from cardboard. We put the rings of each pair one on top of the other.

2. Made of polyethylene packages cut strips of different widths. We will wrap the rings folded in pairs with these strips until the ribbons fill the hole in the ring. Therefore, for small rings, it is better to cut narrow strips, and for large ones, wide ones.

3. Then we cut the resulting polyethylene winding along the edge of the ring with scissors and pull the product along the formed groove with a strong thread. Let's take some cardboard. (Exactly the same principle is used to make pompoms from woolen threads).

4. Before us is a ready-made pompom - « rustler» . It can serve on its own. toy, but you can not stop there and give free rein to your imagination

From multi-colored « rustlers» , different size, you can collect a variety of funny toys. « Shurshunchiki» fastened together with a thread or wire. They are supplemented with small details and elements made of paper, fabric, natural material, etc. And now a fluffy rabbit with rustling fur, funny snowman, birds, a bright flower or a cute snake.

Such funny toys, made with their own hands, children are happy to give friends for their birthday, mother on March 8, decorate the New Year tree, group or room at home and use in games.

If you have a desire to create an unusual craft for the home or a toy for a child with your own hands, then crafts from packages will be a good choice. Garbage bags can be used to make jewelry, interior items, accessories. All you need is polyethylene, scissors, imagination and the best bag craft ideas.

How to make roses from bags

This bag craft workshop is one of the easiest, but no less fun. Bright roses can be a great decoration for your home or garden. To make this craft, you will need trash bags, wire and scissors. As a decor, you can use braid or green threads.

How to make a similar craft from bags with your own hands? Cut the wire into equal pieces. Each of them will be required for twisting into a ring with a leg. Each rosette will require 6 large and 5 small petals. Next, cut out 11 squares from the trash bag. These pieces need to wrap the rings, securing everything on the leg. At this stage, care will be required to avoid damage to the petal and to create structural strength.

We collect a rose from the prepared petals. First, we twist the small petals, and fasten the large ones on top. The main thing is that everything is firmly fixed and straightened.

The next steps in creating the craft depend on where exactly the craft will be located. As a wall decoration, roses are left in their original form.

If you want to put them in a vase, then you need to attach legs to them. To do this, we twist a dense flagellum from the wire and attach it to roses. For greater naturalness, the base can be wrapped with green threads and braid. From such roses you can create a whole beautiful bouquet. This process is very simple and exciting, so children can be involved in it.

How to make a toy out of a bag

What other crafts can be made from packages? From them you can create simple and cute children's toys with your own hands. It is best to create such crafts with the baby so that he develops motor skills and increases his creative potential.

Important! It is best to create such crafts with children aged five years or more.

Prepare garbage bags of the color you would like to make a toy from. You will also need: cardboard, scissors and additional accessories to create eyes, nose (for example, beads or buttons).

The type of toy itself does not depend on the principle of its creation. One way or another, it is necessary to do such a craft by creating pompoms. First, we prepare the base of two cardboard disks of the same size. Their diameter will be equal to the diameter of the pompom. Cut a hole in the center of the circles.

Then the garbage bag is cut into long strips. We wind them on two disks of cardboard, which we first put together. The winding direction can be any, but be sure to avoid spaces, otherwise the pom-pom will turn out uneven.

If the strip ends, then we continue the work of the next one. The more garbage bags you can pull on the blank, the more magnificent the pompom will turn out.

The previous steps are quite simple and even a child can do it, but then the help of an adult is required.

Cut along the edge of the pom-pom with scissors. Then we fold the strip from the garbage bag several times and wrap it between circles of cardboard so that the pompom is fixed. We take out the cardboard and get a beautiful fluffy ball. Further, according to the same principle, we make another ball, but of a larger size. It will act as the body of the toy, and the small one will act as the head. You will also need 4 small balls to create the animal's paws.

To assemble a toy, you need to tie two large blanks, and attach small ones to the largest ball. With the help of glue and accessories, we decorate the toy and create eyes, a nose, etc. for it.

By a similar principle, you can create a toy not only in the form of an animal, but also in the form of a snowman or Santa Claus. The craft is quite simple, so the child will definitely be interested in creating it. This will be a great option for crafts from bags, for example, for kindergarten.

How to knit from garbage bags

Surprisingly, simple trash bags can be an interesting and practical material for creating DIY crafts. You can even knit with them. This is how a variety of bags, backpacks and baskets appeared, which, in turn, are very durable and able to withstand a lot of weight.

In addition, they look interesting, and making them is very easy. Below we present step-by-step instructions on how to make a craft. Start by cutting your garbage bag into long, even strips. Next, you have to assemble a single chain from the prepared elements.

Important! For the aesthetic beauty of the product, try to knit without knots.

To prevent them from appearing, take one ring made from a strip and thread another into it. It must be bent in the middle and threaded into each other. After tightening, you will get a strong connection without knots. So you need to do with all the blanks and twist them into one ball.

Note that the softest polyethylene is suitable for knitting. Otherwise, there will be difficulties with knitting thin parts. The easiest way to crochet. On the knitting needles, this is not so convenient, but it is quite feasible. Get inspired by photos of interesting crafts from packages and you will definitely succeed!

Photo crafts from packages

Creating interesting things with your own hands is an exciting process that cannot leave a person with a creative streak indifferent. For homemade things it is not necessary to spend a lot of money, you just need to show imagination.

Crafts from packages and garbage bags

Plastic bags are a completely common material that is thrown into the trash after use. Everyone is accustomed to using polyethylene for packaging, food storage, things. But craftsmen make crafts from garbage bags with their own hands.

Rug from crochet packages

A bag rug is a home decoration, a practical thing to use. He is not afraid of moisture, it is easy to clean and not difficult to make - together these are the undoubted advantages of the thing.

To make a rug, you will need plastic bags, preferably soft ones. They are cut into strips, from which yarn is made.

For multi-colored, patterned rugs, packages of different colors are selected. Beginning needlewomen can draw a sketch in advance, a pattern that will be easier to work with.

After forming the yarn and winding it into balls, they begin to knit the rug. To do this, select a crochet hook that matches the thickness of the yarn. The product can be round, rectangular or other shape. It all depends on which pattern the craftswoman chooses.

Design fantasy does not stand still, it is looking for ways to implement ideas, new materials.

Polyethylene is a completely unexpected material that helps creative people, designers in self-expression.

Garbage bag dress looks original and interesting.

For beginner craftswomen, working with polyethylene can be difficult. Therefore, do not rush, it is better to start with simple ideas. Details can be sewn on a sewing machine (for this they take a big step). The seams are additionally fixed with tape. Choose a dense material for parts with increased load.

To create a dress, you can use yarn, which is made from polyethylene. Next, crochet a corset and make a fluffy skirt from garbage bags.

For the product, you need to make yarn in advance, which can be of different colors, thicknesses. Experienced craftsmen advise beginner knitters to take garbage bags up to 50 liters. They make a soft yarn that holds its shape well.

At the beginning of work, it is better to experiment and knit small samples. Bags from packages are original and practical.

Simplicity, accessibility of the material encourages the creation of new things. Polyethylene flowers are an original way to decorate a house or cottage.

For manufacturing, you will need multi-colored bags, new or used. First you need to cut the polyethylene into wide strips.

Next, make rolls out of them, which are cut off on one side in the shape of petals. After that, wind several tapes on the wire, carefully remove, holding at the base. Sew the bottom of the flower for reliability.

The middle of the flower can be made from improvised materials or also from polyethylene. If you plan to make a bouquet of flowers, then it is better to immediately attach the buds to the wire and decorate it with polyethylene of a suitable color.

Polyethylene toys

Polyethylene is a material that is suitable for making toys. Garbage bags make such cute little animals that you can’t even guess what they are made of right away.

For the manufacture of toys, you will need polyethylene pompoms, which are glued or fastened in another way.

Instructions for pom-poms:

• Cut polyethylene into strips.
• Make a blank: two identical rectangles of cardboard.
• Fold the cardboard and insert a strip of material between it.
• Wrap strips of polyethylene on folded cardboard (the more material, the more magnificent the pompom will be).
• Gently lower the strip, sandwiched between the cardboard, down at both ends, connect the edges, tie a knot.
• Pass scissors between the cardboard and cut the other side of the material.

The nose, eyes are made from buttons, beads, and other improvised means.

Polyethylene is perfect for making Christmas toys. They make a Christmas tree out of it, which has a wire frame. Even a child can make a fluffy Christmas tree or simple sultans.

Also, toys are knitted from polyethylene yarn, which will decorate the forest beauty. A pre-prepared sketch will help you create beautiful things with your own hands.

How to make garden crafts

Homemade items are a great and inexpensive way to decorate your home or garden. It is a pleasure for craftsmen to create original, unique things that you will not find at every step.

With a good imagination, skillful hands in the garden, you can make corners that are suitable for children to play and adults to relax.

It is not necessary to spend a lot of money on this, you can get by with materials that are usually recycled. With a lack of ideas, you can find craft workshops.

For crafts, plastic bottles are often used. They make cute flower bed pigs. As original flower pots, you can use old shoes or old tires.

Material for crafts can serve as building materials left after various works. Various figures are made from the cement mixture. Beginners can try their hand at making simple mushroom balls. With experience, you can move on to more complex figures.