Every year, countless fast food chains give out more than 50 million drinks along with plastic straws, and this is only in America!
A huge number of straws from juices and cocktails end up in landfills. But there is good news - you can make a variety of crafts from cocktail straws with your own hands! This, of course, will not solve the global problem of plastic pollution, but you can make your small contribution to saving nature!
1. Lamps made from cocktail straws
Plastic tubes provide ample opportunities for creating various shapes of lampshades and lampshades.
It took more than two hundred tubes to create such an original lampshade! To make such a lamp, you can use an old fabric lampshade. Bend the cocktail tubes in half and thread them through the holes made in the fabric.
This cube-shaped night light was simply covered with small pieces of colored tubes.
You can decorate a candlestick or any stand in the same way.
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 options for placing tubes on the lampshade.
The tubes can be split at the ends and do such unusual things:
2. Stands and vases made of plastic tubes.
Any jar, box or other container can be covered with colored straws for cocktails. This will make an interesting stand for pens and pencils or a flower vase.
3. Decorative wreath for the door made of plastic tubes.
Festive wreaths on doors are not common in our area. However, as an option for another craft made from cocktail straws. After all, in the same way you can do new Year decoration in the form of snowflakes or a decorative sun for kindergarten.
4. Wall decor with cocktail straws
You can put anything out of tubes on the wall. But this scheme of metro lines looks very stylish. For example, you can take the Tokyo subway map.
5. Crafts from cocktail straws - decorations for children.
Together with your children, make cute jewelry from plastic tubes - beads and bracelets. Cut the tubes into pieces, then string them on a thread mixed with beads for a necklace, and to make a bracelet, connect the tubes with an elastic thread.
6. Large-scale crafts from cocktail tubes.
Unless you own a plastic straw manufacturing plant, collecting thousands of straws for such large-scale crafts will not be easy. An impressive installation of thousands of straws in one of the shopping centers.
This means that all parents will be racking their brains about what to do with their children, because it’s slushy outside, and the adults are in the pre-New Year bustle. - the simplest and effective way to captivate the child. And if enough has been done recently, offer your child new material for creativity - plastic tubes.
Not only will it be very interesting for your child to make such crafts from cocktail straws and create them, but you will also realize that your family has made, albeit a small, contribution to saving nature from plastic. For cocktail straws, you can use new or washed used straws. Get inspired by our ideas and come up with your own crafts made from plastic straws!
Crafts from cocktail tubes for children: 13 ideas for the New Year 2019
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Christmas trees made from cocktail tubes
Christmas trees made of paper on plastic tubes are perfect as an accessory for or as an original magic wand for.
New Year's garlands made of plastic tubes
A child can make original ones from plastic straws. To do this, simply cut cocktail straws into small pieces and let the child string them on a thread, intertwine them and create his own patterns. These can be used for more than one year, thereby changing New Year's decor from year to year.
Christmas tree decorations made from cocktail tubes
Children can also do it on the same principle as. Bright, beautiful, exciting and very simple!
New Year's paintings made from plastic tubes
Pictures made from cocktail tubes will be beautiful and will remind you of the holidays for a long time after its completion. You can also give such DIY children’s crafts to grandparents and closest relatives, who will appreciate the child’s efforts and will keep the gift for a long time.
Gift decorations made from plastic tubes
Teens and adults will especially love this method and straws for cocktails. This DIY craft made from straws will appeal to both those who create the gift and those who receive it.
Watch online video on how to make a Christmas tree from cocktail tubes with your own hands
We hope that our ideas for crafts for children, what can be made from cocktail straws, New Year, will help diversify a child’s leisure time and encourage him to create new masterpieces
Master class with step by step photos. Craft from cocktail tubes "Elegant Christmas tree for the New Year"
Berdnik Galina Stanislavovna, teacher primary classes KOU KHMAO-Yugra "Laryak boarding school for students with disabilities."
Description: The master class will describe how to make a Christmas tree. The work is intended for children from 7 years old, primary school teachers, educators additional education and just creative people.
Purpose: interior decoration, handmade gift.
Target: making crafts from cocktail tubes.
Tasks:
Learn to use waste material(cocktail straws) for making interesting crafts.
Develop fine motor skills hand and eye.
Cultivate artistic taste and accuracy.
Cultivate interest in arts and crafts.
Materials required for work:
1. Green cocktail straws.
2. Corrugated paper Brown, cardboard, velvet paper.
3.Satin ribbons, beads for decorating the Christmas tree.
4.Ruler, scissors.
5. Glue.
Straws for cocktails
The history of creating cocktail straws goes back a long way. Their likeness was found by archaeologists during excavations of a settlement that existed in the fourth century BC. Primitive tubes were made from plant stems. In the 8th-14th centuries AD they were cast in gold and silver.
Around the beginning of the 18th century, straws began to be made from straw and were used in the first cocktails. Such tubes were cheap, so they became widespread throughout 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 taste. It was necessary to replace the unpleasant and inconvenient straw straws with something more suitable, and this happened in 1888, when the American inventor Marvin Stone invented and patented paper straw for cocktails.
At the beginning of the 20th century, straws began to be made from plastic, which made them even cheaper and more practical. During the further development of cocktail straws, they began to be produced in various curly shapes, as well as various colors and diameters.
Stages of completing the craft:
1. To make the “branches” of the Christmas tree, three green tubes are enough.
2. Seven “branches” of a certain length: 2cm, 4cm, 6cm, 8cm, 10cm, 12cm, 14cm.
3. For the “trunk” of the tree, choose a brown tube.
Or wrap it with a thin strip of brown paper, preferably corrugated.
4. This is the tube you will get. The length of the "trunk" is approximately 16cm.
5. Place the “branches” on the “trunk” in the following order: from smallest to largest. Connect with glue. You can use a hot glue gun.
6. We will decorate the Christmas tree with elegant bows. Let's knit them from thin satin ribbons different color.
7. Decorate the Christmas tree with bows.
8. So that the Christmas tree can stand, we will prepare a stand for it. To do this, from thick packaging cardboard and velvet paper of blue color Cut out circles with a diameter of 4cm.
9. Glue the circles together.
10. Place the tree on the stand and secure it with a glue gun.
Attach a red star to the top of the head.
Our Christmas tree is ready.
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Very often, parents think about what is interesting and new to engage their child in, so that the activities are useful for the kids. An excellent option would be crafts made from juice straws.
Vase with flower
This product can be presented as a souvenir to your mother, grandmother or aunt. They will be pleased to receive gifts in the form of crafts made from juice straws, which the child himself made with his own hands. The child will love this task, especially since making a vase is not difficult, and the result will be bright and beautiful.
To make such crafts from juice straws, in addition to the usual set of materials and tools, you will need plasticine, rubber bands, a disposable plate and a postcard. Various bows, ribbons, etc. will be useful for decoration.
For stability, all tubes are cut in half and secured with rubber bands. The structure is glued to disposable plate or a postcard. Next, you need to decorate the vase using satin ribbons and a bow.
Now you should move on to making the flower. To do this, all the juice tubes need to be cut into pieces of 2-3 cm. The entire flower will consist of individual inflorescences. They are made from small pieces of tubes, one of the sides of which is cut into small fringes. The finished inflorescences are inserted into each other and attached to a plasticine ball. The more inflorescences you get, 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 made from tubes
Children always look forward to New Year's holidays, and to make the preparations even more interesting and fun, you can make your own Christmas tree decoration.
To work you will need cocktail tubes, scissors, thread and a needle. First of all, the tubes are cut into 8 parts of 5 cm each and 4 parts of 4 cm each. You need to connect four parts of 4 cm each with a needle and thread. The part is secured with a knot, but the thread is not cut.
Two vertices of the triangle are connected at the top, the other two at the bottom. A loop for hanging is attached to one of the resulting peaks, and a bead or bell is attached to the other.
And although New Year's crafts made from tubes look much simpler than store-bought decorations, a toy made by a child will take pride of place on the Christmas tree.
Photo frame
This craft in the form of a photo frame, made from juice straws, looks bright, and at the same time it is very practical. The frame will fit perfectly into the design of a child’s room, and you won’t need any special materials to make it; everything you need will be at hand.
Crafts from juice straws in the form of a photo frame are made quickly and easily. The first step is to prepare a cardboard base that will match the size of the photo. Next, you should 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 this, you need to cut out many of the same segments from multi-colored tubes and glue them to a cardboard base using glue or double-sided tape.
TO back side attach a photo, 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 baby juice straws: geometric figures for educational games
Thanks to such designs with the child in game form you can study interesting geometry. Uncomplicated and original crafts They will help you have an interesting time and easily explain to your child what geometric shapes there are.
First, try making a pyramid. To do this, you need to fold the short part of the tube lengthwise and insert it into the long part. This creates a triangle. Identical figures are fastened together with tape and combined into a pyramid. In a similar way, you can fold a wide variety of figures: pentagons, squares, etc.
Crafts made from juice straws for children will become a great occasion For entertaining games and will help the child remember new geometric shapes.
Decorations
Girls of any age love jewelry. For kids younger age You can suggest making crafts from juice straws in the form of decorations. 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 decorations is very simple. Juice tubes are cut into segments of different sizes. They need to be strung on a thick thread, but it is better to use fishing line. The parts alternate in color and can be diluted with various beads. Bracelets and necklaces are created in a similar way that will delight a young fashionista.
Original crafts
Plastic cocktail straws provide ample opportunities for making various shapes of lampshades and lamp shades. It can take several hundred tubes to create a stylish and original lamp. They are simply folded in half and threaded through the holes in the fabric.
Small night lights can simply be covered with small multi-colored pieces of cocktail tubes. All kinds of coasters, candlesticks and other items are decorated in the same way. You can decorate a lampshade much easier: just cover it with tubes.
To end up with a truly original piece, you need to experiment with the sizes and placement options for the tubes. They can be cut at one of the ends to end up with unusual voluminous decorative items.
To create a craft from juice straws in the form of a stand, you just need to take a tin jar and also cover it with straws, alternating parts of different colors and sizes. This will make a great organizer for pens, pencils or a cute vase.
You shouldn’t stop there; there are various crafts for the New Year. You can use juice straws to make an original New Year's wreath for your door. You just need to make a round cardboard base and cover it with tubes different sizes and decorate the craft with a bow. This way you can make smaller snowflakes.
Finally
Every year, multiple fast food chains, along with drinks, give out more than 50 million cocktail straws. And these are just statistics from the USA. Ends up in landfills a large number of plastic tubes. However, you don't have to throw them away. After all, crafts made from juice straws will help diversify your leisure time and captivate your child. Such bright little things can decorate not only a child’s room, but also a Christmas tree. The child will be delighted with such activities aimed at his development.
Anastasia Samitina
In the city competition "New Year's Christmas trees 2017» we decided to present two work: one is collective, and the other, made of non-traditional material: cocktail straws.
For we will need Christmas trees:
Cocktail straws of different colors, but the green ones have an advantage.
Cocktail sticks for forming a tree trunk.
Skewers for a tree trunk.
A jar to give the appearance of a flowerpot.
A cotton pad and wool thread, as well as a hot-melt gun with glue.
Manufacturing:
1. Slice cocktail sticks at an angle of 120 degrees at a distance of 4-5 cm of different colors, but we give preference to green.
2. Prepare a cone from white or green cardboard, securing it with tape.
3. Attach the cut pieces to hot glue straws, closer to each other.
4. Insert skewers into whole cocktail straws and from above we connect them with a 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 the jar (in our case these were rings from a small wooden pyramid).
7. Glue the jar cocktail sticks.
8. We insert the tree into the pyramid rings located in the jar so that they fit tightly.
9. The work is ready.
Based on the results of the competition, we received diplomas from the participants.
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