What can be made from cigarette packs. Amazing crafts from plastic packaging Make from a pack
Every housewife strives for perfect cleanliness and order in the house, so all women try to get rid of excess rubbish as quickly as possible. But there is no need to be so categorical, for example, plastic food packaging is worth saving.
Today we will share with you the secret of creating a charming little thing from plastic containers. Children will be delighted with this idea, by the way, they can be involved in joint production.
YOU WILL NEED
plastic box
scissors
hole puncher
colored permanent markers
WORKING PROCESS
Cut out the bottom of the package. All you need is the flat part of the plastic container. 
Print any outline picture. You can use coloring for this purpose. 
Redraw the picture on plastic using permanent markers. Keep in mind that the size of the figure will eventually decrease by about 70%. Therefore, initially the drawing should be large. 
Using a hole punch, make a small hole above the pattern and cut out a plastic figure along the contour. 
After preheating the oven to 165 degrees, place the plastic figures on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake the figurines for exactly 3 minutes. 
After baking, each of the figures will become smooth and more dense. Now they can be attached as a decoration to the bracelet. 
These figurines can also be used as New Year's toys to the tree! If you liked this idea for needlework, share the article with your friends.
My name is Irina, I live in Germany - in a country where absolutely everything is sold in plastic packaging, which migrates in tons from stores to trash cans. I've been doing it for a long time different types needlework and constantly face the issue of optimal storage of a bunch of little things that accumulate all the time and require new boxes, caskets, etc. In this master class, I want to show several ways to create convenient storage containers from various plastic packaging. The advantage of this kind of containers is that they are easily made at home, they can be made in any size and in any quantity, the transparency of the plastic allows you to quickly find the right thing, material for containers can be found in every home, such containers for small items can also be used in the country house, in the garage, etc…
So, for starters, let's make the simplest mini-container from a plastic bottle:
We heat the tip of the knife to make it easier to start cutting the bottle. 
We cut the bottle into two parts with a knife. If the bottle has no edges, in order to avoid large errors when cutting, glue the adhesive tape at the desired height and cut the bottle exactly along the edge of the adhesive tape.
Let's melt the edges of the bottle a little to avoid cuts to the hands when it is further processing. The bottle should be kept at a distance of 0.5-1 cm from the flame, turning evenly. Rough edges after heat treatment will hide crocheting.
We heat up the steel knitting needle and make holes along the edge of the bottle, which will have to fit the size of the hook with which we will tie the edges of the bottle. 
When piercing plastic with a hot needle, sharp and dark marks of plastic often remain on the surface. ... They can be removed different ways, I use a regular grater for cleaning the feet (the emery is too sharp - it damages the surface of the plastic, it is not very convenient to use a knife) 
Now we start tying the edge with a crochet with a single crochet. 
We thread the end of the thread and glue it inside the container. 
Then we thread a thick thread into a gypsy needle and sew the entire row with colored thread, without missing a single hole. 
We tuck the end of the thread and glue it again. 
If desired, our small container can be decorated. The easiest way to decorate is double-sided tape, ribbon and rhinestones. You can also use winding threads on double-sided tape.
We cut the tape of the required length and glue it on double-sided tape. Cut off excess tape. 
We make a bow at the junction, you can stick a strass and the mini-container is ready! 
We make different containers of the required height and glue them with a gun into a larger and denser plastic package (in the photo, the package in which we sell food products) 
We apply hot glue to the bottom and quickly glue the container to the package (hold it for a while to grab it properly) 
We stick double-sided tape on our box, any tape or make a winding with threads, decorate with little things and our first little box for little things is ready! I made this box for a dacha to store various little things that you are always looking for in different drawers: pencils, small tools, keys, etc. 
If we make a high strapping on our plastic bottle containers and thread a string, then we will get pencil cases that can be both placed and hung. They take up little space and are easy to see. 
Another option for making boxes for storing small items: in it I used dense plastic cups from Danone yogurt. 
The principle of making the box is the same, if the height of the box allows, you can make two tiers of cups, using cardboard (or thick plastic) for the bottom of the second tier, on which I glued the plastic bottom from the package with hot glue. 
If desired, boxes for small items can be made with lids. For these purposes, I took old plastic folders, cut them to the size of the box and, having made holes with a hole punch or a hot knitting needle, sewed them together with the edge of the plastic box. Since I have a two-tiered plastic box in the photo, for convenience, I made a handle from the scraps of the folder, which I also glued with hot glue to the bottom of the second tier. 
Finishing elements are glued with hot glue. 
From large plastic bottles you can make excellent containers for storing small toys, parts from the designer, etc. for the children's room and kitchen. Decorating such containers can become a joint creativity for a parent and a child. The principle of creating such a large container is exactly the same as shown above. 
From the remaining upper parts of plastic bottles, we can make a lot of exotic flowers and decorate our balcony or summer cottage with them. But that's a topic for another tutorial! 
To come up with a child new toys Or you don’t need to do a lot of simple crafts. Usually enough free time and our imagination. And what to do? - available at hand. My son and I already have a whole fleet of yogurt jars, and the best ships we have come from viola jars and soft butter. We will devote this review to toys and crafts that you can make with your child from all sorts of "garbage" - boxes and boxes, cardboard, plastic bottles and much more.
1. Carton boxes and boxes
Let's start, perhaps, with crafts from boxes and smaller boxes. Boxes of different sizes regularly appear with each of us (especially during the holidays), but we usually try to get rid of this "happiness" as soon as possible, since it is quite inconvenient to store them. But you can immediately put them into action
Big boxes.
Oversized boxes make absolutely amazing toys for children.
Or an airplane
House-mill. detailed wizard class by reference
Pirate treasure chest. Description
Parking for cars.
how to do
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Or a more complex version
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And another version of the castle
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From smaller boxes
Or those dinosaur feet
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Storage monster boxes
Great storage idea out of the box and cardboard rolls
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small stove
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catapult game
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Train with wagons
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aliens
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More ideas from cardboard sheets
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Or such
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And here is the castle of the knight and princess
If you paste over with decorative paper and decorate, then why not gift wrap for all sorts of sweets
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Lamp
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And you can also make such an aquarium with your children
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Boxes and cardboard are real scope for creativity, if you wish, you can do whatever you want, I think we will return to this topic in the near future, we have something interesting in store
2. Cardboard rolls from toilet paper and paper towels
Easy crafts you can do with your kids
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monsters
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octopus
jerks
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A lot of different animals with patterns can be viewed at the link
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Binoculars for children or a spyglass from a roll of towels
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Or at children's holiday make princess crowns
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And here is an amazing idea on how to make crackers for the holiday. Description
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racing cars
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3. Disposable tableware - paper and plastic plates and glasses
For disposable tableware, you can also find an original application.
Paper plates are very convenient to paint
And from deep plates you can make such jellyfish
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Or even make a garland decoration for the holiday
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From a plate and a glass you get such a pretty house
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Spider glasses
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cup dragon
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It is very easy and fun to turn ordinary cups into freaks. Great idea for kids parties
And here's an advent calendar idea
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And even Christmas garland can be made from cups
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4. Plastic bottles and containers
feeder
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For children on a holiday
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From bottles and spoons
If it's raining outside or guests with children come to you and you need something to keep them busy - home bowling
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And in small bottles it's fun to germinate grass. Just in time for Easter
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And the bottles turn into ...... a rocket, more precisely, into the main attribute
Planes and ships from shampoo containers
5. Wooden sticks for ice cream and medical spatulas
These are very simple and cute crafts you can make from ordinary wooden ice cream sticks.
puppet theater people
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Raft ship
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It's also easy to make an original puzzle game.
Can you make a whole house?
Chests of medical spatulas. Description
6. Straws for cocktails
With the help of such tubes, it is very interesting to draw with cartoon bubbles.
And the tubes are great as a mast for boats.
You can come up with many different games with such tubes. For example, you can arrange "air" football. Roll up a small ball out of paper and use the tube to drive the "ball". By the same principle, you can play who will fly the ball farther or who will get to the finish line faster. This kind of games are very useful, it is a kind of breathing exercises.
7. Sponges
Even the most ordinary sponge can turn into ....
a garden bed (it's fun to germinate seeds in a large-pored sponge)
Or make stamps for drawing or just paint with a sponge (rainbows come out especially well)
And to make it more convenient to draw with such stamps, you can glue them, for example, on a wine cork, as here
You can also make sponges, for example, heads for robots
8. Wine corks
On the Internet you can find a huge variety of photographs on the topic of crafts from traffic jams, but we will limit ourselves to stamps only.
9. Tin cans
for flowers
By the way, if you have buckets of paint left in your country house, do not rush to throw it away.
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candlesticks
monster
old town game
airplane
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Jar with wishes or Smile box
this is such a jar or box filled with small pieces of paper with various wishes, pleasant phrases, anecdotes, encouraging mottos or declarations of love.
Get her at home like a jar. This is a real generator of daily good mood.
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A snow storm or, as it is correct, a snow globe, but in this case, rather a glitter jar. Description
And in summer, for street holidays, jars can be used for drinks. Look very unusual and stylish
And finally, very original crafts from an old light bulb
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When compiling this collection, materials from the Kokokokids blog were also used.
Send us your interesting finds of crafts from what is at hand, and also share with us what you did! This topic is inexhaustible and I think we will return to it more than once
Somehow my wife in Odnoklassniki stumbled upon the photos "How to make a cat's house from cigarette packs", invited me to look. I really liked this idea that I wanted to make such a house for the cat myself. In a word, I could not pass by such interesting material and decided to post it on my website. Unfortunately, the coordinates of the authors have not been preserved and I do not know their names.
First you need to collect a bunch of empty cigarette packs. This is pretty easy to do - just ask your smoking friends not to throw away empty cigarette packs and in one or two weeks you will have enough building material to make a cat house.
The design of the cat house will be panel. First, lay out the cigarette packs according to the size of the required panels and fasten them with tape.
Paste the prepared panels in several layers with newspapers and dry thoroughly. For work we use PVA glue. We glue the sides of the panels that will be turned inside the house with the remnants (after repair) of wallpaper and glue the house, we use masking tape to fix the panels.
To fix it, we glue the house outside with newspapers.
Then, using the same technology, we make a roof with columns.
We put the finished roof on the house and again paste over everything with newspapers.
From a suitable material (preferably in harmony with home furniture), we sew a cover for a cat house. Any housewife will cope with the manufacture of patterns and sewing.
We coat the whole house with PVA glue and put a ready-made cover on it. Gently iron it with your hands so that wrinkles do not form. We carefully examine and glue those edges of the fabric that are not glued.
We lay another panel on top of the posts, followed by pasting with newspapers. It turned out to be a kind of shelf.
2 cigarette packs;
- PVA glue;
- colored paper.
Remove cellophane and foil. Seal the lids to make 2 bricks. It is better to immediately paste over them with colored paper - for example, velvet or wood-like. You need to glue on all sides. After the blanks are dry, lay one box flat, place the second at a right angle to the back wall of the first and glue. The sofa is ready.
If desired, you can also make backs by gluing 2 more boxes on the sides. Various types of sofas are available. It all depends on the size of the doll and how many boxes you have on hand. Even for a small doll, the back can be made higher by gluing another box on top. The sofa will still be stable.
You can paste over the sofa with two types of paper - make the sides look like a tree, and the seat and back - velvet.
How many boxes can you make a table out of?
The easiest option is a doll table of three cigarette packs. One of them plays the role of a tabletop, the second - legs, the third - stands. Place the stand horizontally, put the second pack on the priest, glue the third pack horizontally on top.But another design of the table is also possible - with a table top and two legs. In this case, lay the future countertop flat, spread glue on the narrow sides of the other two boxes and glue them to the first. Turning the design over, you get a table.
Of course, you need to spread the narrowest and shortest edges of the brick. Glue them to the same size sides of the tabletop.
robot made from cigarette packs
For the simplest robot, you need 4 packs. One pack is the body. Place the workpiece on the narrow short side. Glue the head to the body - the second box. It must be laid on its side, that is, glued to the first blank with a narrow, but longer side. Try to keep the protrusions symmetrical.Two more packs - legs. Place them on the narrow short sides parallel to each other, with the narrow long sides facing you. Glue the torso to them with the head. The wide part should be facing you. You can, of course, make hands out of cigarette packs, but they will turn out to be too thick, so it’s better for them to twist cardboard tubes.
If desired, you can make the robot bigger. If there is a whole block of cigarettes, the material consumption can be as follows:
4 packs per leg;
- 2 packs per hand;
- 1 pack per head;
- 1 pack per body.
Boxes intended for legs are glued together in pairs with narrow short sides. The robot turns out to be quite tall.