Crafts from napkins: easy and complex options

Paper napkins are not only for household needs and table setting. If you dream up, you can make a lot of simple and creative crafts out of them, both for a kindergarten / school, and for decorating an interior or decorating a celebration.

What can be made from napkins?

Yes, a lot of things! Starting from light options and ending with original products that require some effort, patience and perseverance.

Applications for the little ones

For kids, you can come up with simple crafts. There is undoubtedly a benefit in such an occupation. First, motor skills develop. Secondly, the child will definitely like the lesson, and therefore he will gladly get down to business and be carried away by the process.

You can use anything as an idea: animals, insects, birds, plants, a house, flowers, and much more. To begin with, it is better to think over an easy scheme so that the baby understands how to act. With experience, the complexity can be increased and more complex options can be offered to him for implementation, requiring accuracy and the use of several shades of napkins.

What you need for applications:

• thick cardboard - for the base;
• actually, napkins - several colors for brightness;
• PVA glue.

For example, let's say you want to create a butterfly with your baby. To do this, you need to draw it on cardboard, highlighting all the details. Then a napkin of a certain color is taken, a small piece is torn off from it, rolled into a ball and glued to the base on the area that needs to be filled with a specific color. And so every detail of the butterfly is worked out.

At the end, you can cut the craft along the contour or leave it on the base, filling the background with a napkin of a neutral shade.

Flowers

In this case, there are a lot of options: carnations, peonies, roses, lilacs.

The easiest crafts are when the flower is assembled on the basis (cardboard) and it all looks like a painting. It is much more difficult to create a separate composition. Consider the most difficult craft.

Carnations

You will need:

• only white napkins;
• stem wire;
• sheets of colored cardboard or other material;
• hairpin-invisible;
• thread for fastening;
• markers.

The creation process looks like this:

1. Fold the napkin into an accordion.
2. In the center, secure everything with a hair clip.
3. Trim the edges neatly and paint over them with markers.
4. Remove the invisibility, but tie it with a thread in the same place.
5. Decorate the flower beautifully, folding each layer of the napkin from the center to the edges.
6. Wrap the wire with green thread or paper.
7. First, fix the previously prepared leaves to the stem, and then the buds.

Carnations can be made in different shades to brighten the final result. To understand the entire manufacturing process, it is easier to follow the diagram:

In addition, other color options are obtained from paper napkins. The creation process is pretty simple for everyone.

Numbers

For some reason, many people think that numbers from paper napkins - an idea exclusively for toddlers. But we hasten to assure you that this kind of decor will appeal to both teenagers and adults.

The process is quite painstaking and time-consuming, and also implies a difficult stage in the form of creating a frame of a figure from thick cardboard, which is then covered with napkins. However, the end result, of course, will delight both you and the hero of the occasion.

Christmas tree

You will need:

• paper napkins of different colors;
• cardboard;
• stapler;
• waste paper - magazines, old notebooks;
• Double-sided tape;
• glue Moment or PVA;
• beads for decoration.

The process is step by step:

1. You need to form a cone from cardboard and fix the figure with double-sided tape.
2. The bottom must be cut evenly and the empty space must be filled with old waste paper - for the stability of the craft.
3. On a small piece of cardboard, draw a semblance of a flower and cut along the outline.
4. The paper napkin needs to be folded in half twice, stapled the center, attach a flower template, circle and cut along the base.
5. Form a bud by lifting the edges of each layer. You need to make about 45 pieces of this kind in different colors. The more shades, the brighter the final result.
6. Glue each resulting bud to the cone in a circle, alternating shades. You need to start from the bottom of the craft to the top.
7. At the end, all that remains is to attach beads or sequins for decoration. trees.

Bow for gift wrapping

If you like to create presents with your own hands, then this packaging option is definitely for you. The process is quite simple, does not require any special costs - neither physical nor financial. And the benefits of such a decor are much greater, because it is known that everyone will like it when gifts are made from the heart.

Ballerinas

Very original decor for the room and a great option for crafts to school.

The options for creating are different, but for the craft you will definitely need:

• wire for the base;
• napkins of all kinds of colors and textures;
• PVA glue;
• thick white thread.

To begin with, we make a "skeleton" of the future prima. To do this, take a wire and create a shape. Do not worry if the perfectly correct design does not work out: all this can then be corrected with napkins and thread.

Next, the base is decorated. To do this, you can use a thick white thread or the same napkins, which must first be cut into small pieces. Regardless of which option you choose, you need to dip it in glue and carefully wrap the "skeleton". Try to keep the layer even, otherwise the whole shape will turn out to be too disproportionate. We again cover the top with glue - for reliability.

Now it's the turn of the clothes. To do this, fold the napkin as if making a snowflake. Cut off a part so that the bundle does not turn out to be too long. It is better to round the cut line a little - it will look prettier this way. Twist the napkin clockwise and counterclockwise several times to create folds. Two-layer packs look more spectacular and lush, so we repeat the same thing with another napkin.

It remains only to make a hole in the center for the head and arms and push the ballerina through. The skirt needs to be pulled tight with a thread or ribbon so that it does not fall off.

Thanks to the flexible wire, ballerinas can be of different shapes and sizes. Then they can be hung on a thread and create a beautiful composition for the decor of the room.

These simple crafts can be created from ordinary paper napkins. They are perfect for presentation in kindergarten or school, they will become a wonderful interior decoration. Of course, there are many more ideas that use napkins, and they are all pretty easy to implement.