Crafts from pencils

The use of materials at hand in the creative process is always very interesting and convenient during classes with a child. In order not to buy a variety of expensive raw materials for crafts, it is worth finding at home something from which you can make something new, interesting and creative. One of the most popular items every child has are pencils. Taking these stationery as a basis, you can make a lot of original things.

It is very important to come up with new and varied methods of working with children. It is important to experiment with non-standard materials at hand to keep your classes interesting. The use of products that are usually disposed of, for some new purpose, allows you to teach children to properly relate to everything that surrounds them, and to reuse what they previously did not pay attention to.

Often the creative activity of children is accompanied by drawing with pencils.... Thanks to the modern variety of these stationery products, you can purchase your child with simple pencils, colored, wax, crayons for drawing, each of which has its own characteristics. Sharpening wooden pencils, you can get a lot of beautiful shavings with a border of different colors; after planing wax products, a certain amount of colored chips is obtained. All of this waste can be reused to create postcards and crafts.

From chiseled pencils, it is quite easy to build a postcard for any occasion, for which you need to have:

• a sheet of paper or cardboard for the base of the product;

• a certain number of colored pencils;

• sharpener;

• PVA glue;

• a simple pencil, pen or felt-tip pens to sign the postcard.

For children, working with pencil shavings will be very unusual, but very interesting. It is important to show correctly what to do by explaining the procedure for creating a postcard:

1. prepare the base;

2. decide what exactly will be shown on the front side of the postcard;

3. mark the location of objects on the basis;

4. draw a contour of the future product with a simple pencil;

5. select shavings of the desired size and color for placement in specific areas of the pattern;

6. apply PVA glue to a small area of ​​the postcard and gently spread the shavings on it;

7. as some areas dry, supplement the postcard with new elements.

As soon as the card is ready, you need to put something heavy on it, let the glue dry well. When the application is ready, you can open the postcard and write wishes for a specific event.

Using this technique, you can make postcards with:

• tree;

• flowers;

• animals;

• insects;

• ladies in beautiful outfits;

• original creative ideas.

In addition to ordinary pencils, you can work with wax products, creating no less spectacular postcards, but using a different technology.

To make such a product, you must:

• prepare the basis for the postcard;

• come up with an object, draw its outline;

• sharpen pencils, grind the resulting shavings into powder, distributing them by color;

• apply PVA glue to a small area, put in a bunch of shavings of a wax pencil lead.

The postcard will look interesting and bright if the drawing is laid out using different colors, placing them next to each other.

Each child has a large number of pencils, some of which are practically new, while others are almost completely covered with writing. In order not to throw away the old leftovers of these stationery, you can come up with interesting crafts using them. The process of making pencil jewelry requires the help of an adult, but working together on such a craft will bring only pleasant emotions to everyone.

Thanks to the leftovers from wooden pencils, you can make an original bracelet for an arm or a leg, as well as a pendant and earrings. Such accessories will definitely differ from everything that can be found in the store. By creating crafts with your own hands, you can spend your time interesting, fun and usefully.

To make a pencil bracelet, you need:

1. prepare the remains of colored pencils, thick thread or thin rubber band;

2. find a jigsaw or jigsaw, and cut the stationery into pieces of equal width;

3. using a drill or other materials at hand, remove the lead, making a hole where the thread or elastic will be threaded;

4. when all the details are ready, you need to put on one wooden bead, fix it, then give the child the opportunity to string all the multi-colored elements;

5. when the size of the bracelet becomes suitable, you need to unscrew the fastening of the first bead, and connect the beginning and end of the product.

So that the bracelet is not the only decoration of the child, you can add other accessories to it. To create a pendant you need:

• prepare a few small pencils, a thread or rubber band, accessories for attaching the suspension parts;

• sharpen pencils so that they are the same length, or cut off excess length with a jigsaw and sand the edges;

• using a drill and a thin drill, drill through the product;

• when all the elements are ready, they are strung on a thread or elastic band, fittings with fasteners are put on the edges - and the suspension is ready.

It is advisable to use multi-colored pencils, and select the shade to match those that were used in the process of creating the bracelet, so that the finished accessories look like a set.

To create a complete look, earrings can also be made for a young fashionista. Their manufacturing technology will be the same as that of a bracelet or pendant. Pencils are either sawn into small pieces, from which the center is removed, or drilled through to thread the fastening materials.

Crafts from pencils can be very diverse, so they can be timed to coincide with Teacher's Day, New Year, birthday, using different templates and ideas. Postcards and applications from colored pencils develop imagination, fine motor skills, spatial thinking. They have a beneficial effect on the psyche, allowing the child to do something unique, beautiful and pleasant for himself and others with his own hands.

From shavings of simple and wax pencils you can make:

• full paintings;

• beautiful jewelry;

• flower vases;

• a stand for stationery;

• decor for a photo frame;

• decorative structure and much more.

From old pencils, you can create something useful that will delight the eye and serve for more than one year. By choosing the right applique or craft, you can teach your kid to create something new and beautiful from what he used to consider rubbish.

DIY pencil photo frame gift idea in the video below.