Nowadays handicrafts from magazines and newspapers are becoming more popular . Such homemade original things like nothing else will decorate the interior of your house. At the same time, in order to make them do not need to purchase special materials, it's enough just to take home glossy magazines, advertising brochures and newspapers. You will also need glue, patience and, of course, your imagination.
By the way, the very concept of "newspaper" has an interesting origin, our modern periodical is obliged by its name to the Italian coin "gazzetta", it had to be paid to view the sheet with secular and trade news. But today there are no problems with newspapers and magazines, so you can start mastering the technology and start creating beautiful and original crafts from newspapers with your own hands.
It should be noted that there are many options and ideas for making crafts from old newspapers or magazines, each of you can come up with something of your own, show imagination, find unconventional solutions and share your invention with like-minded people. In order to make artifacts from newspaper tubes to begin with, you need to figure out what exactly it will be to represent your product. If you are confident in yourself, you can immediately begin to make complex things, for example, wicker baskets or wreaths. But it's better to start with simple crafts, training and then move on to more complex technologies.
Simple crafts made of newspaper tubes
It is very simple and without the use of special tools and materials you can weave the original baskets. They will not only be a useful thing, but also an ornament of the interior of your country house or villa. Such crafts made from newspaper tubes can be done with children, thereby instilling in them a love of creativity and developing the skills of needlework.
You will need:
- old newspapers or magazines;
- a stapler;
- scissors.
To produce a medium-sized basket, you need about twenty newspaper pages. The sheets are cut in half and folded so that narrow strips are obtained. As a result, you should get forty strips. All the strips need to be folded several times, so that the finished ribbons are strong and thick enough.
Weaving the basket should start from the center to the sides. You can fix with glue or stapler, when the basket is finished, the staples are removed. When the bottom is ready, start weaving the walls, this is done at an angle of 90 degrees, the stripes of the bottom are weaved with long ribbons from those that were prepared in the beginning. To the basket had an attractive appearance, the last row of strips should be folded and make a side, fixing it with glue. The whole basket is ready!
If you want to make other simple handmade weaving articles from newspapers or glossy magazines, an excellent idea will be the original podstavochki for hot. Even a child can cope with this task. And to make such crafts from old newspapers or magazines, you need to cut the strips of the necessary length and roll them into ribbons. The length of the bands depends on the expected size of the future stand. The principle of making stands is to twist newspaper tubes on the principle of a snail and at the same time glue together (the final result you can see in the photo). And to make crafts from a newspaper or magazine were attractive, you should carefully cut and fold the stripes, they should be done
If you learned how to make artifacts from newspapers, conduct a master class for your children and relatives, they will certainly be interested in learning how to weave the original things yourself.
Ideas how to make hand- made articles from newspapers with their own hands is very much. The most beautiful and unusual artifacts from newspaper tubes are obtained in the manufacture of the technology of weaving, but it is quite difficult and requires certain skills. To make crafts from the newspaper bright, they can be decorated and complemented with various elements (buttons, ribbons, all possible figures, etc.).