We bring to your attention a selection of New Year's crafts made from bushings. A sleeve is a cylinder (roll) made of cardboard or thick paper. The size can be any.
You can easily make such a roll yourself, but many people use rolls from toilet paper, tape, paper towels, or even linoleum.
Who would have thought that from this waste material, which many throw away without thinking, you can do such original and useful things. Do you still throw them in the trash? Then our selection may interest you! After watching, you will definitely start collecting all the bushings.
Father Frost or Santa
If you're one of those people who doesn't throw away toilet paper rolls, then you probably have one. It often happens that we start doing one thing and end up doing something else... it’s even funny. This is what happened with this Santa Claus. By the way, you can hang it on the Christmas tree. See how easy and simple it is to do.
Santa Claus from a sleeve
The roll must be covered with colored paper. Next, the ends need to be pressed inwards, follow the drawing as a guide. Please note that the bends must be rotated 90 degrees relative to each other.
Bend the bottom ends so that they look like legs. Glue the folds together on top and secure a loop for hanging a New Year's craft from the sleeve.
Now cut out a triangle from plain paper and glue it onto the craft. Use a black marker to draw a face, add boots, arms and a belt. All is ready!
Reindeer Sleigh
Everyone knows that Santa Claus uses reindeer. We have already made him, now we need to make him a vehicle. The roll must be folded in half and cuts made as shown in the figure. Unbend it and shape your back. To prevent the parts from opening, they can be glued together. Decorate the deer's face and antlers, draw eyes, and glue on a nose from a small pom-pom.
New Year's deer from paper tubesSnowflakes
To make such wonderful New Year's snowflakes from bushings, 32 low cylinders are needed. They can be glued from whatman paper or cut into ready-made rolls.
Pin the pieces together and then paint with white tempera or water-based paint. Let dry and decorate the ends with glitter.
Beautiful snowflakes from bushingsSnowmen
Snowmen made from bushingsWreaths and other New Year's crafts made from bushings for the wall
Recently, the use of recyclable material has become very popular among craftsmen. Including a lot of new ideas for using bushings to decorate walls. The results are very effective elements of New Year's decor.
Making New Year's crafts from bushings is quite simple. In addition, many options are easy for schoolchildren and preschool age. If you are interested in doing New Year crafts, then we advise you to take a closer look at these ideas.
It would seem that there is nothing more useless than a cardboard sleeve from an empty roll of toilet paper. Threw it away and forgot. But the ubiquitous designers have found a practical use for this thing. It turns out that a cardboard cylinder is not just garbage, but quite necessary thing. And these 17 extraordinary ways to use toilet paper rolls are further confirmation of this.
1. Gift boxes
Don't rush to throw away cardboard toilet paper rolls. Save them so that, if necessary, you can quickly make small, bright packaging for gifts. Such boxes can be decorated with paints, colored paper, ribbons, feathers, glitters or natural materials.
2. Toys
Turn cardboard tubes into unusual bright cars and airplanes. The process of creating such toys will not require any special skills and will be a fun activity for parents and children.
3. Pencil case
A piece of bright fabric, a zipper and a little diligence will help turn a useless cardboard sleeve into an original pencil case for stationery.
4. Desk organizer
A creative, convenient and practical organizer, which can be made from several cardboard tubes decorated with colored paper, is perfect for storing office supplies and will help tidy up your desk.
5. Bird feeder
A cardboard tube can be a suitable base for creating an unusual bird feeder. To do this, coat a cardboard tube with peanut butter, generously sprinkle with grains, cereals and crumbs, and secure it to a tree branch using a rope.
6. Containers for seedlings
Use cardboard tubes as individual containers for planting and germinating seeds. This idea will certainly appeal to summer residents and gardeners, who every spring have to look for suitable containers for seedlings.
7. Column
A charming speaker made from a cardboard tube wrapped in fabric or paper will greatly enhance the sound of your mobile phone.
8. Packaging of cutlery
Bright individual packaging for cutlery, which is made from cardboard tubes decorated with colored paper and various accessories, will become cute details of the festive table.
9. Garage
A multi-level garage organizer made from cardboard toilet paper rolls will help organize children's cars and become one of the attributes for games.
10. Packaging for cords
Cardboard cores can be used as individual packaging for cords and various cables. This trick will allow you to restore order in the wires, preventing them from getting tangled or bent.
11. Organizer
Cardboard box with cells made from grommets is another brilliant way to store wires.
12. Labyrinth
A fascinating interactive wall with a labyrinth made from pieces of cardboard tubes will become original decoration children's room and a favorite place for educational games.
13. Wreath
Cardboard tubes are an excellent material for various crafts. For example, you can cut the sleeves into thin circles and use them to create a wonderful wreath for your door.
14. Mini bowling
Paint cardboard rolls in different colors and use them as bowling pins.
15. Original compositions
Bright garland.
A delightful bright garland with fish made from cardboard tubes, painted with bright colors and complemented with corrugated paper.
Video bonus:
Toilet paper cartons in capable hands turn into shelves, stationery stands and stylish lampshades. But designers aren't content to just invent little things.
Finally, real summer has arrived! But on a sunny summer day it can be so hot that you have to hide in the shade. IN southern countries these midday hours are called siesta. What to do with children at this time? We suggest making simple crafts that do not require expensive materials from cardboard capsules (sleeves) from paper towels and toilet paper. Additionally you will need acrylic paints, glue, scissors, colored paper, threads.
For children's games, binoculars are a must! It requires 2 pre-colored capsules. After the paint has dried, secure them with a rope or rubber band. You can use glue or double-sided tape to join, but in this case we leave the joint of the parts without painting. On one side of the binoculars, we make holes in each viewing tube with an awl and tie a ribbon to wear the binoculars around the neck. Suitable for binoculars and small ones plastic bottles, fasten them with tape or colored insulating tape.
In order not to get bored, we will make many different heroes: circus performers, minions, Batman, Superman, girlfriend dolls. We will draw the eyes or glue ready-made ones, and make the hair from threads. We'll draw clothes, glue on decor and decorations.
If you read at night scary tales and don't be afraid of the dark, make a company of monsters! Bright colors, funny spring hair, pom-pom mustaches will turn monsters into kind and cheerful ones.
If you find it colorful feathers and fluffy (chenille) wire, you will get wonderful birds - an owl and parrots. At the bottom of the paper capsule we will make two holes through which we will thread the wire. Now the bird can sit on your hand, since the wire fastening reliably fixes its position.
Paper tubes are an excellent base for butterflies of various shapes and colors. Bright, striped, polka dot and flowered insects will not leave anyone indifferent!
Surprisingly, the capsules can be used to produce any wild or domestic animal. We cut out paws, ears, horns and tails from colored paper suitable color, glue it in place. Draw or glue eyes. There can be many animals, a whole zoo!
And here are the sea creatures: fish with colorful tails, mermaids, octopuses. You can make them in a garden gazebo or even in the shade under a canopy on the sea coast.
The technology will also be very diverse: paper capsules will turn into racing cars, trains and trailers of any color, with different inscriptions and decor. We organize car races, transport cargo and passengers. Are there not enough carriages? We'll do as many more as we want!
If you like to build something, make a mill, a castle or a hill in the form of towers. Children will be able to push balls down the slide and have a competition to see whose ball can roll the farthest. Such unusual and unique toys will keep kids occupied for a long time.
Empty sleeves can be used to make not only toys, but also useful things. For example, pencil organizers, wire holders. And if there is an extra bushing left, make a rocket.
It would seem that there is nothing more useless than a cardboard sleeve from an empty roll of toilet paper. Threw it away and forgot. But the ubiquitous designers have found a practical use for this thing.
It turns out that a cardboard cylinder is not just trash, but a rather necessary thing. And these 17 extraordinary ways to use toilet paper rolls are further confirmation of this.
1. Gift boxes
Don't rush to throw away cardboard toilet paper rolls. Save them so that, if necessary, you can quickly make small, bright packaging for gifts. Such boxes can be decorated with paints, colored paper, ribbons, feathers, glitters or natural materials.
2. Toys
Turn cardboard tubes into unusual bright cars and airplanes. The process of creating such toys will not require any special skills and will be a fun activity for parents and children.
3. Pencil case
A piece of bright fabric, a zipper and a little diligence will help turn a useless cardboard sleeve into an original pencil case for stationery.
4. Desk organizer
A creative, convenient and practical organizer, which can be made from several cardboard tubes decorated with colored paper, is perfect for storing office supplies and will help tidy up your desk.
5. Bird feeder
A cardboard tube can be a suitable base for creating an unusual bird feeder. To do this, coat a cardboard tube with peanut butter, generously sprinkle with grains, cereals and crumbs, and secure it to a tree branch using a rope.
6. Containers for seedlings
Use cardboard tubes as individual containers for planting and germinating seeds. This idea will certainly appeal to summer residents and gardeners, who every spring have to look for suitable containers for seedlings.
7. Column
A charming speaker made from a cardboard tube wrapped in fabric or paper will greatly enhance the sound of your mobile phone.
8. Packaging of cutlery
Bright individual packaging for cutlery, which is made from cardboard tubes decorated with colored paper and various accessories, will become cute details of the holiday table.
9. Garage
A multi-level garage organizer made from cardboard toilet paper rolls will help organize children's cars and become one of the attributes for games.
10. Packaging for cords
Cardboard cores can be used as individual packaging for cords and various cables. This trick will allow you to restore order in the wires, preventing them from getting tangled or bent.
11. Organizer
A cardboard box with compartments made from sleeves is another brilliant way to store wires.
12. Labyrinth
A fascinating interactive wall with a labyrinth made from pieces of cardboard tubes will become an original decoration for a child’s room and a favorite place for educational games.
13. Wreath
Cardboard tubes are an excellent material for various crafts. For example, you can cut the sleeves into thin circles and use them to create a wonderful wreath for your door.
14. Mini bowling
Paint cardboard rolls in different colors and use them as bowling pins.
15. Original compositions
Original compositions made from cardboard tubes with figured cuts and dry branches will become an exquisite decoration for any wall.
Video bonus:
16. Packaging for rolls
Cardboard cores can be used as individual packaging for printed wallpaper rolls and wrapping paper which will prevent them from unwinding.
17. Garland
A delightful bright garland with fish made from cardboard tubes, painted with bright colors and complemented with corrugated paper.
Video bonus:
Have you ever wondered how many useful and necessary things you throw in the trash? But they can be used for other purposes, which means that you are recycling. Accordingly, you will throw away less garbage, pollute our planet less, which means you care about the environment. One such material that often ends up at the bottom of the trash can is a toilet paper roll. But you can’t even imagine how many useful things you can make from it. I collected here the best ones with a toilet paper roll.
Are you wondering why toilet paper rolls have become the target of today's lifehacks? Because this is one of the few things that billions of people use regularly.
The first thing we'll start with is the use of bushings for gadgets and their accessories.
Smartphone stand
The sleeve will also make an excellent base for a stand. In this case, you only need scissors. But if you plan to make a long-lasting stand for yourself rather than a temporary option, it would be better to decorate it with something, such as wrapping paper.
Smartphone tripod
Portable speaker
In the summer, McDonald's held a promotion, along with a cardboard drink stand, customers . A portable speaker for a smartphone based on a toilet paper roll, somewhat similar to it.
In order to make your own column, you will need one bushing, two disposable cups and glue. The cardboard roller will act as a stand, and the cups will act as amplifiers.
Container for cables, wires, cords and headphones
For those who have a lot of different gadgets at home, there are also a lot of different cables and cords from them, which are constantly getting tangled, lying around the house and eventually getting lost. Cardboard cores make great containers to help sort them. Appearance of these containers depends only on you, the bushings can remain as they are or turn into bright accessory in which it is not possible to recognize the former toilet paper roll.
Organizer for cords and cables
This will require using a lot of toilet paper and a lot of glue.
Practical lifehacks using toilet paper rolls
It's amazing how multifunctional a regular cardboard toilet paper base can be.
An uneven floor often causes furniture to shake and wobble. This problem can be simply solved by placing a sleeve folded several times under the leg of a table or bedside table. In addition, bushings can be used to prevent furniture legs from scratching the floor surface.
The bushings can also become a support for a homemade shelf.
And this life hack will be useful for those who often sew. Sometimes while sewing there are long pieces of thread that are a pity to throw away and have nowhere to put them. But here again the sleeve comes to the rescue, onto which you can wind the remaining threads. Or use it as a yarn spool.
When going outdoors, don’t forget to take a bag of toilet paper rolls with you. After all, they can be used as material for lighting a fire, or as oven mitts to remove the pan from the fire.
You will also definitely need a knife and other sharp kitchen utensils. But how to transport them without harming the female? Yes, and this is where bushings come in handy, which can be used to wrap around sharp edges.
Pot for seedlings made from toilet paper rolls
If you are engaged in farming, this lifehack is for you. Sleeves make ideal pots for any seedling.
The sleeve can be used to hold rolls of paper, such as wrapping paper, or sketches that can be stored rolled up.
DIY with toilet paper roll
Home decorations made from toilet paper rolls
It turns out that cardboard rolls that are left over from toilet paper can become very creative and beautiful decoration for home.
For example:
And since there is less and less time until the New Year 2018 every day, here are a few options New Year's decorations from toilet paper rolls.
Organizer made from toilet paper rolls
Using grommets you can make an organizer for anything, not just cords and cables. This could be a sock organizer:
and other clothes:
for office supplies or cosmetics. Moreover, they can be very different, it all depends on your skill:
Or even a garage for toy cars, which your child will definitely like.
Pencil case made from toilet paper roll
In order to make such a pencil case, you will have to show patience, perseverance and the ability to use thread and needle.
Cat toy
Cats know how to choose strange things for themselves - plastic bags, boxes, a sunbeam. Therefore, you can be sure that the toilet paper roll will not be left unattended either.
Gift box
Such a gift, or rather its wrapping, will undoubtedly be appreciated by the same lover environment how are you.
DIY with toilet paper roll for girls
Curlers
With the help of bushings, inventive girls can style themselves.
Jewelry holder
To do this you will need several bushings, glue and colored paper.
Eco-style jewelry
A cardboard roller can be a good base, not only for a stand for jewelry, but also for the jewelry itself.
Clutch made from toilet paper roll
This is a difficult task for a beginner in the field of life hacks and DIY, but for those who have been making all sorts of things for many years, it’s as easy as shelling pears.
DIY with toilet paper roll for kids
Crafts from toilet paper rolls for children
Toys made from toilet paper rolls
Educational games for preschoolers made from cardboard tubes
Bird feeder made from toilet paper roll
And finally, today is the first day of winter, and winter is a good opportunity to start instilling in children the desire to take care of our little friends. That is, make a bird feeder. You can use the same cardboard roller as the basis for the feeder. Lubricate it with something sticky (and edible!), such as vegetable oil or butter, peanut butter will also work if you have it. After this, sprinkle the workpiece with grain and hang it outside where the birds can find the feeder.
By the way, for all these ideas it is not necessary to use toilet paper rolls. The same cardboard rolls are found in many other products, such as paper towels or wide tape.
If you find an error, please highlight a piece of text and click Ctrl+Enter.