What useful things can be done with pencils. DIY pencils. From plastic bottles

It is difficult to find more useless items than pencil stubs, but there is no need to rush to throw them away. Those who like to think outside the box and give new life to familiar things know what can be done from old pencils. 7 ideas that will appeal to children and adults will help you have fun and create an unusual thing for your home with your own hands.

If there are children at home, there will be materials for implementing ideas. First, the raw materials for work are sorted by length, color and shape - then it will be easier to create beautiful things. To implement creative ideas, you will also need:

scissors;
hot glue;
thick fabric (fleece or jeans);
cotton yarn;
Photo frame;
sharpener;
plasticine;
Accessories for jewelry.

Ideas for creativity

Before starting work, it is advisable to draw a sketch to represent the final result. You need to decide which colors to use in the work, and then prepare the necessary materials. Original ideas:

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Pictures of shavings. A simple way is applications or voluminous figures. You will need glue, plasticine and fantasy. Crafts are easy to make with kids. Working with thin chips develops fine motor skills and imagination, and slate chips make beautiful backgrounds for work.
vase. Plastic bottles without a neck, cups or jars are suitable for making bright planters or boxes for small items. Pencils are glued to the container around the perimeter, choosing one color or making beautiful transitions. The completion of the craft will give a ribbon tied around the perimeter.
Frame. Short (up to 3 centimeters) and well-sharpened pencils are glued to a wide baguette for a photo. Frames will become a bright accent in the interior of a bedroom or children's room.
panel. You can make a fleece application in the form of a tree on which colorful pencils hang. An unusual picture will decorate a child's room or office. To make a decorative panel, you will need scissors, glue, fleece and a frame.
A curtain. A bright decoration on a window or in a doorway will turn out if you tie colored threads with pencils of different lengths suspended from them to the bar.
Hot stand. A row of pencils is attached to a piece of fabric with threads or glue. The stand is made rectangular or round. A multi-colored accessory will decorate a tea party and a family dinner.
Decorations. Making jewelry will require skill.

Using accessories, you can make earrings or a necklace. The brooch is easy to make by gluing a pencil to a pin clasp.

Used in children's and adult art. With their help, even a non-professional artist can create vivid drawings. Have you ever tried to make crafts from pencils? Creative ideas and useful tips especially for you in our article.

Vases and coasters made of pencils

Vases made of colored pencils look very original. Even a small child can make such a craft.

Choose a cylindrical container of the right size. A simple way to make a vase is to line the inner jar or glass with pencils and secure with an elastic band. You can disguise the fixing element by tying a bright ribbon or decorative braid on top. Do-it-yourself pencil crafts using the described technique can be made more durable. Use transparent glue to fix on the base. Additionally, you can cover the vase with colorless varnish.

Photo frames and colorful boxes

In the process of drawing, waste is often formed - heavily worn pencil stubs. Do not rush to throw them away, try to collect this waste material at first glance in a separate box.

What crafts can be made from pencil cores? Try to decorate them with any flat surface using the mosaic technique. The most interesting thing is to decorate photo frames and boxes of simple shapes. Take pencil cores no longer than 5 cm, sharpen them carefully and sharply enough. Glue the resulting blanks to the base in random order. A bright element for decorating the interior of a creative person is ready!

Jewelry for creative people

Amazing colored pencil crafts are bright jewelry. Small pencil cores can be used as pendants. Drill holes for hanging with a drill with a thin drill. Using the simplest fittings, wire rings and earrings, you can make a pendant and earrings.

Beads can be made from ordinary pencils. Using a thin hacksaw or jigsaw, cut your art supplies into 5-8mm pieces. Sand the edges of each blank with sandpaper. Now it remains only to make holes with an awl. Finished beads can be strung on a thread or cord to form a necklace or bracelet. If desired, it is easy to make a pendant, for this, glue together an arbitrary number of sawn blanks from pencils.

What else can be done with pencils?

Simple pencil crafts that everyone can make with their own hands are decorative table coasters. The simplest method of manufacture involves the use of sufficiently long drawing utensils.

Glue pencils of different colors together and let them dry. The craft will look interesting if you place the drawing accessories in a checkerboard pattern, alternating the sharpened tip and the blunt part. The resulting stand can only be used as decoration. It is not suitable for hot dishes, because when heated, the paintwork of the pencils can be damaged.

If desired, in a similar technique, you can create a creative wall panel of any size. Fairly simple crafts made from pencils are children's toys. We attach a small figure to one end of the pencil, it can be an animal or a fairy-tale character. Use the opposite end as a pen. It is especially convenient to use such figurines "on sticks" for playing theater.

If the child is still small enough and just learning colors, try to make each figurine a certain shade. The result is an interactive tutorial for learning and playing.

Every child loves to draw. And this means that in every house where there is a child, there is also a bunch of colored pencils. Sometimes our kids draw so much and often that the pencils are quickly used up, but their small “stubs” still remain. Do not rush to throw these leftovers in the trash. We will show you how they can be very well exploited, and even keep the child interesting at the same time. Let's watch.

So, from the remnants of pencils, you can easily make: interesting bracelets, colored earrings, photo frames, and just various geometric figures (they, by the way, can be used as coasters for cups).

Doing

To make bracelets from the remains of pencils, we will need to file them, and then make holes (so that each such piece can then be easily strung on a thread). Your husband can help you with this, or you can do it yourself, it's not difficult. The main thing is to have the necessary tools at hand.

You can also make bracelets or beads from the front of the pencils. Like this.

From the same front parts, you will get excellent earrings if you buy special hooks for earrings (earrings) in needlework stores. They cost literally pennies.

Well, if you just cut the remnants of pencils into even particles, you can make coasters for cups or a teapot. These are the bright charms you can get.

A huge amount of shavings that have accumulated after sharpening pencils does not have to be immediately sent to the urn - it can still be useful in creating excellent children's crafts. From such a seemingly simple material, you can create real masterpieces! Surprised? And it's not a prank at all! Here is the evidence:

And this is only a small part of what can be made from seemingly completely unnecessary material. It turns out that with the help of pencil shavings, together with children, you can make original crafts, which, in turn, develops the child’s imagination, trains the imagination, and awakens creativity. And it is also important that it is possible to work with natural materials - wood.

It is worth paying attention to the availability, both in the price category and in the ease of obtaining the necessary blanks. Without a doubt, in every family where children grow up, there are colored pencils. Kids are happy to paint with them, sharpen them on their own with a sharpener and do not even realize that pencils can be used not only for drawing.

Applications from colored pencil shavings

Now, using a step-by-step description of making crafts and a few tips, you can safely get to work.

Necessary materials:

colored pencils that can be sharpened;
a simple pencil (for drawing contours);
sharpener;
PVA glue (you can choose another one - the main thing is that it does not leave stains);
glue brush (some people prefer to use a cotton swab or a small piece of sponge to apply glue);
cardboard or thick colored (white) paper (for the base);
and, of course, a good mood and creative inspiration!

Advice! To prepare the material for use in the application, it is necessary to sharpen colored pencils with an open sharpener so that the chips do not break, turn out to be long spirals or rings.

Progress:

First of all, it is worth deciding on the topic of the work. Most often it is proposed to perform flowers, animals, marine life. This is due to the fact that the wavy edges of the chips resemble the structure of flower petals, fish scales, animal hair, etc.
On the basis we make sketches for the future composition, draw additional elements. You can also use ready-made drawings from coloring pages for the little ones. There, the plot drawing consists of large elements that can be filled with pencil wood.

The harvested chips are best decomposed into small piles by color. This will further simplify and speed up the work as much as possible.
In places where shavings are provided, we apply glue.
Lay out spirals. Press lightly and wipe off excess glue.
In order for the parts to stick better and not fall off in the future, the finished work should only be placed in a file and pressed down with a heavy press (you can use a stack of books) until it dries completely.

The first crafts, of course, should be chosen simple in execution. When you fully master this technique, you can easily perform work of any level of complexity. Separate details and elements of the image can be made using different techniques: draw, cut out from colored paper and additionally glue, stick pieces of plasticine, etc.

simple crafts

In preparation for the holidays, invite the children to make themed cards. For example, for the New Year, you can stick a Christmas tree. Tell the children that you can decorate the forest beauty with rhinestones, beads and nail polish. Let the kid choose the decoration option for the Christmas tree.

Bouquet

After you understand the basic principles of working with this fragile material, you can try more complex DIY crafts.

Very beautiful flowers are obtained from the shavings. The middle of the flowers can be decorated with colored crayons, glue small circles cut out of colored paper or filled with pieces of plasticine.

lady costume

School-age girls can put on paper with the help of shavings the most daring and unusual sketches of carnival costumes. It can be fluffy multi-tiered skirts, full of a variety of colors.

fish

Fish made using this technique look spectacular and natural. The uniqueness of the structure of the scales of the inhabitants of reservoirs is the best way to convey pencil shavings. When laying out fish scales, it is worth paying the child's attention to the fact that you should start gluing blanks from the tail, gradually overlapping the next layer. The painted border should also be turned towards the tail of the fish. All this will accurately reproduce the structure of the scales.

Animals and insects

With the right arrangement of shavings on the base, you can imitate the structure of the airy wings of butterflies, the needles of a hedgehog, or the furry skin of a bear.

Bulk work

With the help of multi-colored leftovers from turning pencils, you can make not only applications and paintings, but also voluminous crafts and souvenirs.

We cover the dried figure of a chicken, made separately using the papier-mâché technique, with glue and glue it with multi-colored shavings. Let's start adding details from the bottom. We place them on the body and tail. We glue the head from top to bottom. Separately, we make eyes and a scallop. We do not paste over the beak - we only draw a cut.

Such a bright symbolic handmade souvenir will please you on Easter days and will serve as a decoration for the festive table. In addition to Chicken Ryaba, invite the kids to make testicles. You can take plastic multi-colored egg-packings from kinders and decorate them with cut-out circles from adhesive colored paper.

The proposed works are for illustrative purposes only. In any case, the joint work of you and your child will be distinguished by warmth and individual approach. Create with your kids! This makes you a single whole, helps to better know the inner world of the baby, to reveal his talents. Good luck in co-creation!

Pencil holders are a necessary and useful item for a written interior. Manufacturers offer us a huge good range of pencil holders and that's good. However, manual work has its advantages. You can create an even better pencil box to your taste in an exclusive version with your own hands. In this article we will look at: how to make original pencil boxes with your own hands.

You will need: toilet paper sleeves, colored corrugated paper, scissors, glue, a simple pencil ruler.

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Salt dough pencil

You will need: water, flour, extra salt, a cardboard jar for the frame, PVA glue, scissors, a piece of decorative cord or corrugated paper, gouache, a brush, a button, stacks, acrylic varnish for crafts, a toothbrush.

Master Class

Knead the salty dough in this way: pour a glass of flour, a glass of salt, add water, then knead to the desired consistency of modeling. Separate part of the dough, add beige gouache, then knead.
Roll out the cake with a thickness of 10-15 mm.
Apply PVA glue to the outer rim of the jar and wrap with dough. Cut off the excess with a stack, and smooth the joints with a damp brush.
Create a small dotted texture with a toothbrush on the surface of the dough.
Knead the brown dough, roll it into a cake 10-15mm thick.
Cut a 2" wide strip of brown dough and glue it to the bottom of the jar.
Make 2 large bases for owl eyes from white dough, then glue them.
Make a beak from brown dough and glue it.
Blind eyes from turquoise dough and glue them.
Roll up 8 strips of pink dough, twist 4 flagella from them and make a bow, then leave it to dry for 2 hours.
Form owl wings with brown dough drops, then glue them on.
Weave bundles of beige dough and glue on the neck of the jar.
Roll up a sausage from white dough, draw a lace texture with a stack and glue it as a collar under the beak.
Put the craft in a warm place for a day.
Paint the lower part and wings with brown gouache and decorate with white dots.
Draw pupils and eyelashes with black gouache, wait until the paint dries, then draw white highlights on the eyes.
Glue a pink bow over the wing.
glue a button with a bow from a corrugated strip onto the lace.
Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries completely.

Salt dough pencil is ready!

original pencil case

You will need: tin can, white and green fleece fabric, green felt, scissors, synthetic winterizer, glue gun, thread, needle, centimeter, pencil, plastic eyes for toys.

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Measure the height, bottom diameter and circumference of the can.
Cut out 2 pieces from white and green fleece according to the dimensions (can height + 0.5 cm allowance and circumference + allowance).
Sew the pieces together with a back seam with a needle, or use a sewing machine. You should get 2 blanks, as shown in the picture - one green, the second white.
Turn the white piece inside out and set the cylinders aside.
Make 18 paired parts (muzzles with ears) and sew them together, leaving a hole for stuffing. You should get 9 muzzles.
Mark the place for attaching the eyes.
Stuff the muzzles with padding polyester and sew up the hole.
Glue plastic eyes to the marked places.
Wrap the jar with synthetic winterizer and sew the edges, then sew the bottom of the synthetic winterizer.
Put a green fleece piece on the jar.
Glue the synthetic winterizer to the bottom of the jar.
Apply glue to the bottom of the jar and glue the white fleece part, and sew the edges of the white and green fleece together with a blind seam.
Glue the faces of the animals.
Cut out leaves from felt and glue them on.

Apple pencil

You will need: oval-shaped plastic bottle, red liquid acrylic paint, golden cord, artificial leaf, glue gun, plate, nail file.

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Pour the paint into the bottle and shake well so that the entire inside of the bottle is painted.
Drain off any remaining paint.
Put the bottle on a plate and wait until it dries completely.
File the edges of the neck, if necessary, removing excess paint.
Wrap the neck with a golden cord and glue the leaf.

The apple pencil is ready!

creative pencil holder

You will need: glass jar, yellow liquid acrylic paint, black permanent marker, nail file.

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Pour the paint into the jar, close the lid and shake well to evenly color the inside of the jar.
Drain off any remaining paint.
Wait for complete drying.
File the edges of the neck of the jar, removing excess paint if necessary.
Draw a funny face with a permanent marker.

minion pencil holder

You will need: superglue, hole punch, scissors, EVA polymer material (bathroom rugs are made from it) in blue, white, black, gray, brown, wooden skewer, black and blue felt-tip pen, simple pencil, template printout.

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Plastic bottle pencils

You will need: 3 plastic bottles (for example, from shampoo), photo frame, glue gun, scissors, acrylic paints.

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Cut off the neck and cut out the front top as shown in the photo for each bottle.
Color the bottles to your liking.
Glue the bottles to the frame.

Plastic bottle pencils are ready!

Cheerful pencil box

You will need: plastic shampoo bottle, scissors, stationery knife, glue, colored paper, pencil, double-sided tape.

Master Class

Cut off the top of the bottle.
Draw the desired shape with a pencil, such as a crown or horns, then cut it out.
Cut the paws out of plastic and glue them on.
Cut out eyes, teeth, tummy from paper and glue on a pencil holder.
Attach the pencil holder to the wall using double sided tape.

book pencil

You will need: thick paperback book, pencil, cardboard, scissors, white acrylic paint, glue, clips.

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Divide the pages of the book into 5 equal parts and secure with clips.
Glue the pencil to the side of the book.
Wrap the pencil around the book so that it is in the center.
Form the petals and secure with glue.
Paint the top of the petals with white acrylic paint, thus priming the pages so that they do not separate.
Trace the bottom of the pencil case onto heavy card stock, then cut out.
Glue the cardboard bottom and wait for it to dry.