Countless fast food chains annually give out more than 50 million plastic tubes with drinks, and this is only in America!

A huge number of tubes from juices and cocktails are in landfills. But there is good news - you can make a variety of crafts from the tubes for a cocktail with your own hands! This, of course, will not solve the global problem of environmental pollution by plastic, but you can make your small contribution to saving nature!

1. Lamps from cocktail tubes

Plastic tubes provide ample opportunity to create a variety of shapes of shades and lampshades for lamps.

On such an original ceiling took more than two hundred tubes! To make such a lamp, you can use an old woven lampshade. Bend the cocktail tubes in half and thread through the holes made on the fabric.

This cube-shaped nightlight was simply pasted over with small pieces of colored tubes.

In the same way, you can decorate a candlestick or any stand.

You can decorate the lampshade of a table lamp with tubes like this:

Plastic disposable plates and cups will complement the decor of the lamp.

Experiment with tube placement options on the lampshade.

The tubes can be split at the ends and do such unusual things:

2. Stands and vases from plastic tubes.

Any jar, box or other container can be pasted over with colored tubes for cocktails. Thus, we get an interesting stand for pens and pencils or a flower vase.

3. A decorative wreath on the door made of plastic tubes.

Festive wreaths on the door in our area are not common. Nevertheless, as an option for another craft from the cocktail tubes. Indeed, in the same way, you can make Christmas decorations in the form of snowflakes or a decorative sun for a kindergarten.

4. Wall decor with cocktail tubes

You can put anything out of the tubes on the wall. But such a pattern of subway lines looks very stylish. For example, you can take the metro scheme of Tokyo.

5. Crafts from cocktail tubes - jewelry for children.

Together with your children, make cute jewelry made of plastic tubes - beads and bracelets. Cut the tubes into pieces, then thread them together with beads for a necklace, and to make a bracelet, connect the tubes with a rubber band.

6. Large-scale crafts from the tubes for cocktails.

If you do not own a factory for the production of plastic tubes, then collecting thousands of tubes for such large-scale crafts will be difficult. An impressive installation of thousands of pipes in one of the shopping centers.

So all parents will puzzle over what to do with the children, because there is slush on the street, and adults have New Year's turmoil. - The easiest and most effective way to captivate a child. And if enough has been done lately, offer the child a new material for creativity - plastic tubes.

Not only will it be very interesting for the child to make such crafts from cocktail tubes and create from them, but you will also realize that your family has made a small, but contribution to saving nature from plastic. For cocktail tubes, you can take new or washed used tubes. Be inspired by our ideas and come up with your options for crafts from plastic tubes!

Crafts from cocktail tubes for children: 13 ideas for the New Year 2019

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Christmas trees made from cocktail tubes

Fir-trees made of paper on plastic tubes are perfect as an accessory for or as an original magic wand for.

New Year's garlands of plastic tubes

From plastic tubes, the child can make the original. To do this, simply cut the cocktail tubes into small pieces and let the child string them together, weave them and create their own patterns. These can be used for more than one year, thereby changing the New Year’s decor from year to year.

Christmas decorations from cocktail tubes

And children can do it on the same principle as. Bright, beautiful, exciting and very simple!

New Year's pictures from plastic tubes

Pictures of cocktail tubes will be beautiful and will long remind you of the holidays after its completion. You can also give such handmade DIY crafts to grandparents and closest relatives who will appreciate the efforts of the child and will keep the gift for a long time.

Decoration of gifts from plastic tubes

Adolescents and adults will especially like this way and the cocktail tubes. Do-it-yourself DIY craft from the tubes will be liked by both those who create the gift and those who receive it.

Watch online video how to make a Christmas tree from cocktail tubes do it yourself

We hope our ideas of crafts for children that can be made from cocktail tubes for the New Year will help diversify the child’s leisure and push him to create new masterpieces

Workshop with step by step photos. Craft from cocktail tubes "Elegant Christmas tree for the New Year"

  Berdnik Galina Stanislavovna, an elementary school teacher at the Komi Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Ugra, "Laryak boarding school for students with disabilities."
Description:   in the master class will be a description of the manufacture of the Christmas tree. The work is intended for children from 7 years old, primary teachers, classes, teachers of additional education and just creative people.
Appointment:   interior decoration, do-it-yourself gift.
Goal:   making crafts from cocktail tubes.
Tasks:
   To learn how to use junk material (cocktail tubes) for making interesting crafts.
   Develop fine motor skills of the hands and eye.
   Educate artistic taste, accuracy.
   Raise interest in arts and crafts.

Materials required for work:
  1. Green cocktail tubes.
  2. Brown corrugated paper, cardboard, velvet paper.
  3. Satin ribbons, beads for decorating the Christmas tree.
  4. Ruler, scissors.
  5. Glue.

Cocktail Tubes
  The history of the creation of cocktail tubes goes into the distant past. Their similarity was found by archaeologists during the excavation of the settlement, which existed in the fourth century BC. Primitive tubes were made from plant stems. In the 8-14 centuries of our era, they were cast from gold and silver.
   Around the beginning of the 18th century, straws were made from straw and used in the first cocktails. Such tubes were cheap, so they were widely used around the world. However, they had a number of significant drawbacks: with prolonged contact with the drink, they swelled and cracked, which rendered them unusable. They also gave the cocktail an unpleasant straw flavor. It was necessary to replace the unpleasant and uncomfortable straw tubes with something more suitable, and this happened in 1888, when the American inventor Marvin Stone invented and patented a paper tube for cocktails.
   At the beginning of the 20th century, the tubes began to be made of plastic, which made them even cheaper and more practical. During the further development of cocktail tubes, they began to be produced in various curly shapes, as well as various colors and diameters.

Stages of doing crafts:

1. For the manufacture of "branches" of the tree, three green tubes are sufficient.

   2. Seven "branches" of a certain length: 2cm, 4cm, 6cm, 8cm, 10cm, 12cm, 14cm.

  3. For the "trunk" of the tree, pick up a brown tube.
   Or wrap a thin strip of brown paper, better corrugated.

  4. Here's a pipe. The length of the "trunk" is about 16cm.

   5. Place the "Branches" on the "trunk" in the following order: from smaller to larger. Connect with glue. You can use a hot glue gun.

  6. We will decorate the Christmas tree with elegant bows. We will knit them from satin thin ribbons of different colors.

  7. Decorate the Christmas tree with bows.

  8. So that the Christmas tree could stand, we will prepare a stand for it. To do this, we cut circles with a diameter of 4 cm from thick packaging cardboard and velvet paper of blue color.

  9. Glue the circles.

  10. Put the Christmas tree on a stand and fix it with a glue gun.
  Attach a red star to the top of the head.

Our Christmas tree is ready.
  Closer to the New Year, we plan to fulfill Christmas trees with this technology with the guys.
  Thanks for attention!

Very often, parents think about what is interesting and new to captivate the child, so that the classes are useful for the kids. A great option would be crafts from the tubes of juice.

Flower vase

Such a product can be presented as a souvenir to mom, grandmother or aunt. They will be pleased to receive gifts in the form of crafts from juice tubes, which the baby made with his own hands. The child will like this task, especially since it is not difficult to make a vase, and the result will be bright and beautiful.

To make such crafts from juice cans, in addition to the usual set of materials and tools, you will need clay, stationery erasers, a disposable plate and a postcard. Various bows, ribbons, etc. are useful for decor.

For stability, all the tubes are cut in half and fastened with clerical gum. The design is glued to a disposable plate or postcard. Next, the vase must be decorated with satin ribbons and a bow.

Now we should proceed to the manufacture of a flower. To do this, all the tubules from the juice must be cut into pieces of 2-3 cm. The entire flower will consist of individual inflorescences. They are made from small pieces of tubules, one of the sides of which is cut into small fringe. Ready inflorescences are inserted into each other and mounted on a plasticine ball. The more inflorescences turn out, the more magnificent the flower will be. When it is completely ready, you need to combine the entire structure, and the craft is ready.

Crafts for the New Year: Christmas tree toys

Children are always looking forward to the New Year holidays, and to make preparations even more interesting and more fun, you can make a Christmas tree toy yourself.

For work, you need cocktail tubes, scissors, thread and a needle. First of all, the tubes are cut into 8 parts of 5 cm and 4 parts of 4 cm. It is necessary to connect four parts of 4 cm together using a needle and thread. The part is fixed with a knot, but the thread is not cut.

Two vertices of the triangle are connected from above, the other two - from below. On one of the resulting vertices, a loop is hung for hanging, and on the other a bead or bell.

And although New Year’s crafts made of tubes look much simpler than purchased jewelry, a toy made by the child’s hands will take pride of place on the Christmas tree.

Photo frame

Craft in the form of a frame for photographs, made of tubes of juice, looks bright, while it is very practical. The frame will fit perfectly into the design of the children's room, and for its manufacture you will not need special materials, everything you need can be found at hand.

Crafts from juice tubes in the form of a photo frame are made quickly and easily. First of all, you need to prepare a cardboard base, which will correspond to the size of the photo. Next, measure the length of the corners of the frame and cut out the corresponding segments from the tubes. They are glued on the sides. After that, you need to cut out many of the same segments from multi-colored tubes and stick them to the cardboard base with glue or double-sided tape.

A photo is attached to the back and the frame is ready. If desired, you can additionally attach a piece of cardboard, so that the frame stands confidently on a horizontal surface.

Crafts from tubs from children's juice: geometric figures for educational games

Thanks to such constructions, a fun geometry can be studied with a child in a playful way. Simple and original crafts will help to have fun and easily explain to the kid what geometric shapes are.

First, try to make a pyramid. To do this, it is necessary to fold along the short part of the tube, it is inserted into the long part. Thus, a triangle is obtained. Identical figures are fastened together with adhesive tape and combined into a pyramid. In a similar way, you can add a wide variety of shapes: pentagons, squares, etc.

Crafts from juice cans for children will be an excellent occasion for entertaining games and will help the child remember new geometric shapes.

Jewelry

Girls of any age love jewelry. Younger children can be offered to make crafts from juice tubes in the form of jewelry. They are perfect for summer holidays, especially if you are going to go to the sea. The little fashionista will look like a mermaid.

Making such jewelry is very simple. Tubules from juice are cut into segments of different sizes. They need to be strung on a thick thread, but it is better to use fishing line. Parts alternate in color, they can be diluted with various beads. Similarly, create bracelets, necklaces that will please a young fashionista.

Original crafts

Plastic cocktail tubes provide ample opportunity for the manufacture of various shapes of lampshades and lamp shades. To create a stylish and original lamp can take several hundred tubes. They are simply bent in half and threaded into holes on the fabric.

Small nightlights can be simply pasted over with small multi-colored pieces of cocktail tubes. All sorts of coasters, candle holders and other items are similarly decorated. The lampshade can be decorated much easier: just glue it with tubes.

In order to end up with a truly original little thing, you need to experiment with the size and placement options of the tubes. They can be cut at one of the ends to eventually get unusual volumetric decor items.

To create a craft from juice tubes in the form of a stand, you just need to take a tin jar and also paste over it with tubes, alternating details of various colors and sizes. This will make a great organizer for pens, pencils or a cute vase.

This is not worth stopping, there are various crafts for the New Year. You can make an original New Year’s wreath on the door from juice cans. You just need to make a round cardboard base, glue it with tubes of different sizes and decorate the bow with crafts. In this way, smaller snowflakes can also be made.

Finally

Each year, multiple fast food chains along with drinks give out over 50 million cocktail tubes. And these are just statistics from the USA. There are a large number of plastic tubes in landfills. However, they do not have to be thrown away. After all, crafts made from juice cans will help diversify your leisure time and will captivate the child. Such bright little things will be able to decorate not only a nursery, but also a Christmas tree. The child will be delighted with such activities aimed at its development.

  Anastasia Samitina

In the city competition "New Year Christmas trees 2017»   we decided to introduce two work: one collective and the other made from non-traditional material: cocktail tubes.

For we need Christmas trees:

Cocktail tubes of different colorsbut green to the advantage.

Cocktail   sticks for forming a tree trunk.

Skewers for a tree trunk.

Jar to give the appearance of a cache-pot.

A cotton pad and a woolen thread, as well as a heat gun with glue.

Manufacture:

1. chop cocktail   sticks at an angle of 120 degrees at a distance of 4-5 cm in different colors, but the advantage is green.

2. We prepare a cone from white or green cardboard, securing it with tape.

3. We attach chopped hot melt adhesive tubulesdenser to each other.

4. Insert the skewers into whole cocktail straws   and from above we connect them with woolen thread, which we thread into the top of the cone.

5. Fill the top of the connected skewers with glue.

6. Put any weighting agent in a jar (in our case, these were rings from a small wooden pyramid).

7. We glue the jar cocktail sticks.

8. Insert the tree into the rings of the pyramid located in the jar so that they fit tightly.

9. The work is ready.

As a result of the competition, we received diplomas of participants.

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