Simple paper napkins can be used not only as a standard attribute of the dining table, but also as an affordable raw material for making original crafts. The universal material is suitable for creating independent decor or parts of one big idea. Crafts made from napkins require minimal financial investment. After studying the detailed instructions, anyone or even a young child can create voluminous decorations or a sophisticated panel for any holiday. Most interesting ideas will only take a few minutes to implement.
Applications for the little ones
Even the smallest children can handle creating paintings using the appliqué technique. If you devote a little free time to these crafts from napkins, kindergarten with its endless competitions and exhibitions will no longer take the family by surprise.
The main principle is to tear off pieces of napkin, roll them into balls and glue them according to a pre-prepared template or freely.
Master class Plate
- Grease the back of the soup plate with baby cream.
- Next, gradually cover the entire surface of the plate with pieces of napkin. It is necessary to dry every three layers, if you are too lazy to wait a long time, you can put it on the radiator.
- After drying the 10th layer, use scissors to even out the edges of the plate.
- Apply the desired design with acrylic paints and spray with varnish on all sides.
Sequencing
- On a sheet of cardboard, use a simple pencil to draw the outlines of future branches.
- Cut the napkins into squares with a side length of 3 cm (you can carefully tear them).
- Crush each square into a tight ball.
- Cut out lilac stems and leaves from green paper and stick to the base.
- Coat the base with lilac flowers, stick paper lumps. Make sure there are a lot of them and they are located tightly.
- Do the same with white flowers.
- The application is ready.
You can do a similar job, but place the lilac branches in a vase. Then at the preparation stage you will need to draw its outlines and stick on a vase cut out of colored paper.
Carnation
A similar technique is used to make cloves. The work is done with white napkins, but the edges of the “accordion” must be colored red, blue or pink using a felt-tip pen. This small touch will give the carnation craft a special charm.
It makes sense to fix the finished flowers on a stem, so they will make an excellent composition.
Group work
A good option for keeping a small group busy or organizing work in groups would be group crafts made from napkins for children.
How to organize group work
You need to prepare templates with simple drawings and clear outlines. It would be better if these were coloring books for kids without small image fragments. Think in advance about what colors each part of the design will be laid out and prepare napkins of these colors.
All that remains is to distribute the colors (and tasks) between the children and joint creativity can begin. Each child is given napkins of the same color, and an area of common work is specified.
Master class for children from one year old
- Prepare white and blue cardboard and white napkins.
- Cut three circles of different sizes from white cardstock and glue onto blue cardstock to create a snowman.
- Together with your baby, tear the white napkins into small pieces.
- Spread the entire surface of the snowman generously with PVA glue.
- Throw white napkins randomly over your work.
- After drying, brush off excess pieces of napkin and use a marker to draw eyes, a nose and a bucket for the snowman.
- The work is ready.
Water lily assembly diagram
These crafts are created from paper napkins like this:
- Unfold the napkin in one layer, bend and straighten it diagonally.
- Fold all corners of the figure towards the center.
- Fold the resulting corners towards the center again.
- Repeat this action again (for the third time).
- Turn the workpiece over and bend all corners to the center.
- Turn the workpiece over. For convenience of further work, place it on an inverted cup.
- Bend all corners sequentially from the center to the edges.
- Remove the flower from the glass and, if necessary, straighten the petals further.
- The water lily is ready.
Gift decoration
You can make not only original gift wrapping with your own hands, but also decorate it with bright napkins. In the next master class we will use the simplest materials: empty packaging, napkins of two colors (for example, red and pink). You will also need glue, a figured and a simple hole punch.
We prepare the box - remove the glossy layer with the manufacturer's information. We cover it on all sides with a napkin of a brighter color. When the gift box is dry, cut off the paper protruding beyond the edges and begin decorating. We take a pink napkin, crumple it and glue it, without straightening it, onto the product. We divide the red blank into 4 squares and twist flagella from each. Then we lubricate the tubes with glue and wind them tightly onto the handle in a spiral.
When all the parts are dry, glue the strands onto the pink background, imitating an uneven twig. Using a hole punch, we make flowers from a white album sheet and slightly curl the leaves with it. We combine the petals offset to the center and glue them to the red branches. The centers can be decorated with a napkin rolled into a ball.
Options for using fluffy flowers
The photo of crafts made from napkins shows some options where such flowers can be used:
- voluminous souvenir baskets;
- postcards;
- panels and applications;
- wreaths on the head for themed holidays and matinees.
Often such flowers are associated with carnations, so they are used in creative projects for the May holidays. But not only.
Ballerina
The first master class is a ballerina. Looking at such a craft, it seems that it is the work of a real master.
You will need:
- Thin wire - about one and a half meters.
- Napkins (preferably plain, but you can choose any).
- A thread.
- Scissors.
- PVA.
I suggest watching a video on this topic.
Manufacturing:
- We weave a skeleton from wire. To do this, we need to divide our wire into several parts: long (about 90 cm) and short (40 cm). From the long one we form the legs, back and head, and from the short one – the arms.
- Now that there is a skeleton, we make it a little more human-like. We tear the napkin into small long pieces and paste them over our base.
- In order not to wait for the torso with the “muscles” to dry, we make a dress. It can be molded into a lush one - this will look more impressive. To do this, make a couple of flounces, which you then attach to the “waist” of your ballerina. All that remains is to decorate it the way you want.
Holiday decorations - numbers
Large volumetric numbers symbolizing the age of the birthday person are very popular. Photos with them are always spectacular.
To make any number you will need:
- cardboard (boxes from household appliances work very well);
- regular or masking tape;
- pencil and ruler;
- scissors and stationery knife;
- stapler;
- napkins;
- PVA glue or “Moment”.
Instructions for creating numbers
- Make a three-dimensional frame. Draw out the number template in duplicate, the side panel is a strip of cardboard of equal width. Glue the structure with tape.
- Prepare a sufficient number of fluffy flowers from napkins as described above.
- Glue the flowers to the frame.
The number is ready. Additionally decorated with ribbons, bows, crowns and memorable symbols for the birthday person.
About the material
The raw materials are wood and cellulose fibers. Under the action of the press, a soft product is formed from the woven web, ideally permeable to moisture.
By using exclusively natural ingredients, the resulting product is environmentally friendly. Products are classified by:
- Shape - square, rectangular, with many corners, round.
- Structure - 1, 2, 3-layer.
- Decoration - white, colored, one tone, patterned.
- Surfaces are smooth and textured.
- Size – the following are considered standard: 10x10, 24x24, 33x33, 41x41 cm.
Volumetric roses on stems
Another option for making crafts from napkins with your own hands is a bouquet of roses. To make it you will need:
- napkins of different colors;
- knitting needle or thin pencil;
- wire;
- green corrugated paper.
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Topiary
Have you already tried to make topiaries like this?
You will need a beautiful flower pot (plant pot), a stick for the trunk and a round foam base on which you will need to stick flowers from napkins.
How to make a rose
Depending on the size of the finished flower, the napkins need to be cut into squares of different sizes (or not cut at all if the rose is large). Wind each square halfway onto a knitting needle, then squeeze it from the edges and remove the knitting needle. Make 6-10 such blanks.
Wind all the petals one by one onto the wire, opening them more and more as the flower grows. Secure the workpiece with a strip of green paper. Wrap it around the entire length of the wire, imitating a stem. If desired, weave several sheets. The rose is ready.
Where to put roses
You can't make a reliable rose stand out of napkins. You can continue your paper creativity and make a vase using the following technique:
- simple origami;
- modular origami;
- decoupage
Either glue it together from cardboard or use a real vase.
Star
Progress:
- Lay out a paper napkin of any color, and then fold it so that the two edges meet in the center.
- Turn the workpiece 900 and bend the remaining 2 free sides again so that they meet along the middle line.
- Bend the resulting rectangle along the central border, a dense long strip should come out.
- Unfold the paper completely.
- Fold the pulp along the visible crease lines like an accordion.
- Straighten the craft again and fold it like an accordion only in the opposite direction.
- Fix the created workpiece with wire in the middle.
- Bend all corners of the product (4 from each edge) at an angle of 450 inwards.
- Connect the ends of the accordion on both sides to form a lush origami star.
