What can be done from napkins? Ideas for creativity

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Nothing is impossible for a creative person. He is able to make crafts with his own hands from everything. There are enough ideas for such needlework. The main thing is to choose the material that will be to your liking. Models from napkins are very original. What can be done, how to work with napkins, where to apply such crafts - this will be discussed in the article.

Craft supplies

Craft materials can be roughly divided into two groups.

The first will include specially prepared material that can be bought in the form of various kits designed for DIY crafts. It can be a set of polymer clay, a set of floss threads, a set for embroidery with beads, a set of rubber bands for weaving, and many others. Also, this group includes items that we buy in a store for domestic purposes, but they can also be used for making crafts. These are matches, napkins, cotton swabs and discs, coffee beans, flour, cereals, etc.

Secondgroup we will refer to the so-called waste material. This is what is at hand, for which you don’t have to go to the store specifically, moreover, it goes to waste: empty bottles, shells, milk bags, egg combs, juice boxes, various plastics, etc..d.

In this article, we will look at crafts from napkins: what can be done and how to apply such a craft.

Rules for working with napkins

As an ornamental material, paper napkins are valued for their softness, suppleness, beauty and variety. They are easy to bend, they do not stain the skin. They are available and inexpensive.

It is necessary to name some rules when working on crafts from napkins: what can be done, how to fold, what fastening materials to use.

1. When folding and bending the napkin, you need to apply a minimum of effort, as this is a very fragile material and can be torn from strong pressure.
2. When working with napkins, make sure that your hands and the surface of the table are dry, as the napkin can get wet from water.
3. When working with napkins, hands must be clean, otherwise the material will quickly get dirty.
4. Napkins are most often used to make origami, so no fastening materials are required.

Following these rules, let's try to make a lotus out of napkins.

Paper Flower

A lotus flower made from paper napkins will become a real decoration of the table. Made using this technology, it can perform several functions on the festive table. This beautiful decoration combines a vase for sweets and a set of originaldecorated napkins that are used for their intended purpose.

For its manufacture, we will take the following materials and tools:

• napkins in three colors;
• scissors;
• threads;
• plug;
• awl.

Let's start making a flower. It will consist of napkins folded as follows. We take a napkin, fold it in half diagonally, then at a right angle along the folded side. Next, open and fold the sides to the midline. Turn over and bend the small triangles up. Turn over, fold in half. Thus, we will prepare five triangles of the same color for the base and twenty for the petals.

We take an awl and make two punctures along the short side. With a thread, using a needle, we fasten the base first along the lower puncture, then along the upper one and carefully straighten the petal to make a boat.

Napkins of a different color, which will act as petals, are inserted into the place where the two lower ones are fastened at the base with a long side. We help them to stand in place with a fork. The second row of petals is superimposed in a checkerboard pattern. There will be four rows in total.

The finished lotus from napkins can be used as a vase for sweets.

Numbers from napkins

This craft will require napkins in two colors, cardboard, scissors, glue.

First, let's prepare a number template by cutting it out of cardboard with scissors.

Next, let's start making an element from a napkin. For this paperUnfold the napkin and fold it diagonally. Now, very carefully, to get an even thin tube, roll it diagonally, leave 4 cm. From one end, we begin to twist into a tight ring. We turn the tip up and hide it behind the wall. The triangles remaining on top are very carefully turned out so that the bud is inside them. It turned out a very beautiful unblown rose.

On the cardboard in the middle we paste the base of the number from such roses, for example, one. On the sides we decorate it with roses of a different color.

Using this technology, you can make any numbers from napkins.

Unusual tree

This craft can be used as a decorative element in the hallway or living room. The tree is bright, original, does not require watering and lighting.

First, let's make a tree element. To do this, the napkin must be cut into four squares and folded one on top of the other. It is better to take a three-layer napkin, so the element will turn out more magnificent. Then we fasten it with a stapler in the middle, cut out a circle, make small cuts around the perimeter and begin to bend it inward in layers. We leave the last layer not bent and carefully open the flower from the middle. It turns out a very magnificent elegant element.

Next, we make the basis for the crown of the tree. To do this, we will make a tight ball from old newspapers, tie it with threads and glue it with a napkin to match the flowers.

We take a decorated stick, attach a ball to it and fix the whole structure with plaster in a flower pot. It remains to decorate the ball with preparedelements, and the napkin tree is ready.

Also, a tree of napkins can be laid out on a festive table. Then they can be used for their intended purpose.

Crafts from napkins

Unusual and festive crafts are obtained from napkins. What can be done, we have considered in great detail.

And you can also decorate the table with a fluffy Christmas tree. Roses and carnations in a vase will also look very elegant. Very easy to make and romantic applique heart. Bright birds and butterflies can be hung on the branches of the Christmas tree. A white swan will look very elegant on the festive table.

It's very easy to make paper napkins. They are inexpensive and always available. Using the basic elements, you can make something author's, original. Such crafts look very good on the festive table and you can surprise guests with them.