Crafts from lids

If you have a large number of bottle caps at home, do not rush to throw them away. You can make many different crafts from this material with your own hands, which are suitable not only for an exhibition in a kindergarten on an autumn, winter or any other topic, but also for decorating a garden or interior in a house. How to prepare the covers for further work with them, and what can be made of them, will be discussed in the article.

To start creating with your own hands these or those crafts from plastic lids, you must first prepare them.

The preparation of this material includes thorough cleaning, including washing and drying.

And also from the surface of the covers it is necessary to erase all extraneous inscriptions; this can be done with the help of a solvent. After that, the covers need to be sorted, which will make the workflow easier. First, group all the covers by color, then make smaller subgroups, expanding them by size. This will make it easier for yourself.

There are many different ideas for creating crafts from ordinary plastic lids that will decorate the interior of your home.

For example, this material can be used to make a beautiful painting. The main thing is, before that, you need to find the number of covers and select them by color, after which you can start working.

First of all, you need to make a sketch of the picture, or print the drawing you need in order to roughly estimate which covers of what colors and what size you will need.

After that, it is necessary to mark the pattern on the base where the covers will be attached. Please note that the basis for your future painting should be solid. All that remains is to position the covers correctly and fix them with a glue gun. Upon completion of the work, the picture must be supplemented with a frame and hung in the place of your choice.

Besides, plastic lids can also be used to make magnets for a refrigerator or a children's board. For this craft, you will need plastic lids of different colors, magnets that can be purchased at craft stores, a glue gun, colored paper, felt-tip pens and scissors.

First of all, using a glue gun, we attach the magnets to the back of the cover. Next, from a sheet of colored paper, cut out a circle equal to the diameter of the lid, and attach it to the main side of the lid. Almost ready! It remains only to draw a funny face of some animal or something else. Additional parts can be cut out of the paper for your magnet if required. And if you turn on your imagination, you can make a magnet in the form of some kind of monster, decorating it with all kinds of ribbons, threads or other improvised materials. At the same time, to create crafts, you can use not one, but two or three caps.

You can make a lot of various crafts from plastic corks with your children. For example, you can make a funny dog.

To create this animal, you only need two lids, colored paper, a black marker and plastic eyes.

We fasten the lids with glue. One of them will be the head of the animal, the second will serve as the body. Cut out the rest of the details from the paper of the color you need: four paws, ears and a tail. If you wish, you can also cut out spots. We attach these parts to the covers. Now we also fix the eyes with the help of glue, and draw a black nose and face with a marker. Ready!

In the same way, you can make other animals from the same materials. For example, a cat or a frog. Further, it will be possible to make a holiday postcard from such crafts. To do this, the resulting figure will need to be fixed with glue on a cardboard sheet.

Of all the insects, it will be easiest for a child to make a ladybug. All you need is red plastic lids, plastic eyes, glue and a black marker.

The eyes must be fixed to the lid with glue. Then it remains only to apply a spotted pattern with a marker, which is characteristic of this insect. The ladybug is ready! If you wish, you can make a whole composition with this craft by creating a flower for the ladybug from the same plastic lids and toothpicks.

Besides, by analogy with a ladybug, you can make an ordinary spider, bee, wasp or bumblebee from the same materials. In the future, such crafts can be used, for example, as fridge magnets. However, in order for the resulting figures to hold, a small magnet will need to be fixed on the inside of the lid.

It will be much more difficult to make an insect like a butterfly out of plastic corks. To do this, you will need glue, covers of different colors, as well as wire, thick cardboard or any other material that is convenient for you.

It is necessary to make a blank in the form of a butterfly from cardboard, which will be the basis for your craft. On the same template, you need to make an approximate markup so that in the end you get a butterfly with a beautiful and identical pattern on both wings. After that, you can start working.We lay out the corks, forming the wings and body of the insect, and fix them with a glue gun.

Having finished with the corks, we proceed to fixing the antennae. To do this, cut off a small piece of wire, fold it in half and attach it to the part where your butterfly's head is. The craft is ready!

A craft made of plastic lids in the shape of a bird is done in the same way as a butterfly. First of all, a template is cut out in the form of a figure of any bird. It can be a swan, rooster, owl, or any other creature from the feathered family. Next, it remains to apply the markings, and properly glue the covers.

If you wish, you can do without cutting out the template, limiting yourself to an ordinary cardboard sheet. We draw on it a sketch in the form of the desired bird, make markings, roughly estimating the location of the lids, and glue the lids to the sheet. Ready! Thus, you can make a whole picture or a postcard.

Making a flower from plastic corks will not be difficult. To do this, you need a wooden skewer, corks of the correct colors and a glue gun.

We put the corks, which will serve as flower petals, aside, and get down to the rest. In those corks that will serve as the base, leaves and center of the plant, we make holes through which we pass a skewer. We fix it for reliability with a glue gun.

The flower is almost ready. It remains only to attach the petals to its center with glue. If desired, the craft can be supplemented with insects, also made from the lid.

You can also make New Year's decorations for the interior from the covers. For example, it will not be difficult to fold a Christmas tree from this material. To do this, you need green plastic covers, which will be the base of the Christmas tree, and multi-colored covers, which will serve as Christmas balls. The number of covers can be different, it only depends on what size the Christmas tree you want to make.

The workflow is pretty straightforward. It is necessary to correctly unfold the covers, forming a Christmas tree out of them, and fasten them with a glue gun. Ready! Such a craft can be used as a Christmas tree decoration if it is smaller. In this case, in the upper part of it, it will be necessary to make a hole with a hole punch so that it is possible to stretch the thread.

In a similar way, you can make a simpler toy in the form of a snowman. This requires only three white plugs, which are held together with a glue gun. Next, using a marker, you need to draw a snowman's face. Ready! It remains only to decorate the craft to your taste. This can be done using different ribbons, beads, threads and buttons.

Using ordinary plastic covers, you can decorate a country fence or wall, as well as make a garden path. As a result, you will get a unique design, which, as a rule, looks quite interesting and unusual. However, it should be borne in mind that creating such a summer cottage decoration will require a large number of multi-colored covers, glue and patience.

There are many craft options that can be made from ordinary plastic lids. These are useful things in everyday life like coasters for hot dishes or a massage rug, and decorative figures designed to decorate the house.

In general, lids are a versatile material. All you have to do is turn on your imagination, and plunge headlong into the creative process.

Below you can watch a master class on making crafts from plastic lids.