Handmade crafts from plastic bags - a second life for unnecessary material

Plastic is widely used in different spheres of human activity, from industry to the organization of the home. Due to the widespread use of plastic materials, we are surrounded by a huge number of bags and sacks, packages and bags with different textures, colors and structure.

For the purpose of reuse, a variety of crafts can be made from plastic bags, using them for practical and decorative purposes. All kinds of techniques and unusual solutions can be used to process the material, which is strong and reliable and pliable.

Thanks to the different ways of processing it is possible to make and beautiful jewelry, decorative bijouterie and attractive toys for children. And also, from bags with dense structure it is possible to weave mats for decorating the entrance area, reusable shop-baskets or storage of vegetables, non-friable products.

Recycling plastic bags with their own hands will not help to avoid the ecological disaster, the basis of which is the active production of plastic. But this way of using strong and durable material will ensure compliance with the principle of environmental friendliness.

Creating together with the children can help explain the need for restrained consumption to the younger generation when using bags for crafts. A variety of crafts can be made out of packaging bags and garbage bags, large and small, colored and solid colors, or even transparent bags.

To process the flexible and pliable material, you can use the most available tools that can be found in every home. These are scissors and a sharp knife, and the bags can be sewed and glued, fixed with tape or string, forming the necessary volume in the handicrafts.

Bright and delicate flowers

On a frame made of wire imitating the shape of a petal, fasten the element of the package, for this wire base is enough to heat. Such crafts from cellophane bags are neatly formed from many prepared parts, and to make them realistic, you can use bags of different colors.

It is good if the raw material will be dense enough, and the wire itself can not be overheated, otherwise the plastic will not be baked, and start to melt.

Pom-pom toys

Using thin strips, cut from packages, pompoms of small size are formed, and different elements are glued to them. These can be beaks of birds, tails and paws, funny eyes and other components that help to create birds and fish, kittens and puppies, cartoon characters.

Elegant wreaths

For holiday decoration of the garden or the outer doors of the house, you can make exquisite and themed crafts of flowers from bags in the form of wreaths. To decorate them, either already prepared flowers from bags or pompoms from them are used, and you can also form volumetric flowers without individual petals.

Knitted rugs

Useful crafts from trash bags with their own hands can be woven in the technique of crochet or knitting. Strips from the cut bags are twisted together and formed into a ball, then they can be used as a convenient and practical, hard-wearing substitute for thread.

Shopping Bag

Reusable shopping bags have long been in fashion again, and such crafts from milk bags can be created with their own hands. Still they can be used to organize the storage of products, ensuring a sufficient flow of air through the holes, so when knitting, you need to carefully choose the technique and the scheme.

Garland of pom-poms

Another option for festive and unusual decoration of the yard or yard area will be a garland. Several pompoms are formed from packages, when assembling the garland, you can alternate colors and shades, sizes of elements, creating really beautiful decorations, and also each element can be illuminated by an LED.

How to make an unusual jellyfish

Jellyfish lamp for the children's room is used to enhance the lighting system and as a decorative decoration of the room.

For the work will not have to spend a lot of time, and in the manufacture of crafts from cellophane bags with their own hands will help a simple and clear master class:

preparation of materials, you will need a tall container with a lid, LED tape;
from one package is formed a small and not dense ball, it will be the head of the jellyfish;
the second package is used to form long tentacles, it should be cut
in the center of the workpiece with the tentacles we put the ball-head, the base is tied with string;
to decorate the tentacles, they can be stitched with thin colored threads;
to keep the jellyfish afloat, the inner ball of the head is formed from a bubble wrap;
The jellyfish is placed in an empty container and gradually filled with water or a colored solution;
to color the water, it is better to use paints that do not affect its transparency;
after pouring the lid is completely and tightly screwed on, it must remain at the top;
on the outer part of the bottom of the transparent container is placed a LED with a connection to the mains;
you can check the container for tightness and use it as a lamp or decorator.

If desired, the tentacles of the jellyfish can be painted with a spot of fluorescent paint, which will create an extraordinary effect. On the improvised sea bottom you can use a glue gun to fix artificial greenery and algae, and if the container is large, decorate the bottom with pebbles.

The water in the makeshift lamp does not have to be heavily stained, otherwise the lamp will not be able to perform its functions. But with intensive staining, the craft will acquire a more decorative appearance, and such an unusual aquarium will become an exquisite and original decoration of a child's or teenager's room.

Any handicrafts made of plastic help to reuse substances that negatively affect the environment. All unused parts of polyethylene as well as the useless handicrafts should be collected for recycling, and the finished handicrafts can be decorated your home or used for useful purposes.

When creating jewelry, bags and decorations, it is important to explain to children how important it is to preserve the planet and treat natural resources carefully.