Weaving from newspaper tubes is an amazing technique. This type of art originates from wicker weaving. This very exciting activity falls into the category of calming, because... fine motor skills are activated.
DIY crafts made from newspaper tubes will make an original gift. Wicker boxes and caskets will help with organizing space on a shelf or in a closet and will additionally decorate the interior. The hobby involves the use of old newspapers, magazines, drafts - it requires minimal material costs.
Making paper vine
Before starting work, you should stock up on the starting material - newspaper tubes. The beauty of future products will largely depend on the ability to twist them. To work you will need:
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- ruler;
- a simple pencil;
- knitting needle with a diameter of 1-1.5 mm or wooden skewer;
- paper.
Before cutting the paper into strips, determine the direction of the fibers. To do this, tear off a strip along and across the sheet. In one direction the tape will come off well and evenly; in another - worse, the place of failure will be fringed, uneven. The first option suits us.
Everyone chooses the width of the paper strips used “for themselves.” Tubes made from ribbons that are too narrow will be thin, they will wrinkle and break easily. Wide strips of vine will bend poorly and will be difficult to work with. The golden mean is considered to be a strip width of 5 to 10 cm. For beginners, it is better not to cut strips longer than 42 cm.
For weaving, you can use any paper that can be easily rolled into a tube. Both blank sheets and printed ones will do. There has been no lead in printing ink for a long time, so you don’t have to worry about your health. It will be easier for novice craftsmen to work with newsprint, since office paper is a bit dense for curling.
You can twist the tubes using a knitting needle or a wooden skewer. Each master chooses the method of twisting himself: hanging or rolling it on the table. The angle between the knitting needle and the tape should be no more than 45 degrees. A corner of the paper is curled into a spiral, layer by layer rolled into a rope. When folding paper tape, you should twist the knitting needle with one hand and adjust the tension force and angle of inclination with the other. 1 cm before the fold, secure the edge with a drop of glue.
During the work, the rods will need to be extended. For convenience, the ends of the tubes should be of different diameters in order to fit one on top of the other. Add glue to the thicker section and insert the thinner edge of the next tube. Before work, the paper vine is moistened. To do this, 30-60 minutes before the start of weaving, it is sprayed with water from a spray bottle. This will give the twigs elasticity and flexibility.
Volumetric Christmas tree step by step
The New Year's tree turns out to be voluminous if you make a lot of branches:
How to make a three-dimensional Christmas tree step by step? Look at the photo:
DIY Santa Claus - read here.
Coloring
There are two main methods of coloring: coloring the finished product and separately each paper twig. The choice is made by the master himself, depending on the color of the paper, its structure, as well as his own preferences. Suitable for coloring:
- wood stain;
- tint varnish;
- color diluted with primer or water;
- any paint on paper (acrylic, gouache);
- food colorings.
After painting, the finished product is opened with varnish. This will give it strength and resistance to wet cleaning.
Paper Christmas tree: diagram
You can make simple Christmas trees from colored paper in 5 minutes. They can be used as creative decoration for the New Year holiday. Look at the diagram on how to make a three-dimensional Christmas tree from colored paper step by step:
And with such a Christmas tree you can decorate a wall or stick it on a greeting card.
Algorithm for creating a beautiful Christmas tree:
- Cut out a rectangle from green paper.
- Cut it along the edges, as in the photo.
- Glue the ends of the strips to the middle, as shown in the diagram.
The miniature unusual Christmas tree is ready!
Journalist (newspaper)
To weave a newspaper box you will need 300 or more tubes, depending on the number of cells in it. The vine is prepared in advance, this will also take time. The work consists of several stages:
- Making the bottom. It should be rectangular and make it better from cardboard. To do this, cut out two tight rectangles the width of the documents that will need to be stored.
- The base tubes are glued between two cardboard bottoms. It is better to place them 2-2.5 cm apart. The rays of the resulting “rectangular sun” are entwined with a pair of tubes. They are gradually increased by planting new ones on the edges of the old ones. The edge is pre-lubricated with glue.
- Having passed one such row horizontally, the rays rise upward. Further work is carried out in the vertical direction.
- First, a kind of rectangular box is obtained, then the back wall grows, and the remaining sides are cut off or fixed by bending.
- The edges of the walls are decorated with a cord or a separately woven braid.
- The newspaper box can be diversified with fittings, openwork weaving, and voluminous folding of the edges.
New Year tree made of wrapping paper
Using rolls of wrapping paper folded asymmetrically, you can decorate a wall in the shape of a Christmas tree. Looks very stylish and unusual:
You can also make a three-dimensional Christmas tree from wrapping paper:
Dish holder
Those who are interested in crafts from newspaper tubes for beginners can safely take on weaving a coaster for dishes. Even a child can cope with such work.
An additional advantage of the craft is the use of a small number of rods (up to 50 pcs.). The product will serve as an original souvenir and a very valuable tool in the kitchen. The weaving is as follows:
- To begin with, take 12 tubes. You need to arrange them 6*6 (crosswise), these will be racks.
- From the base of the intersection, these 12 rods begin to be braided in a circle. The rows will go in a spiral, gradually increasing the radius.
- As the circle of the stand increases, the stands will separate. At the end of the row, the tubes of the row will be braided around one tube of the base.
- Once the desired diameter has been reached, the rack is cut off, and the edge of the tubes of the rows is hidden, having previously coated the cut with glue.
- The finished stand can be painted. If you are planning a stand for hot dishes, then it is better not to open it with varnish.
A simple DIY version of a Christmas tree made of colored paper
A simple and incredibly beautiful Christmas tree will decorate your home for the New Year holidays. It’s easy to make from colored paper:
- First, cut the paper into strips.
- Fold them like an accordion.
- Stick to the base.
Other options for volumetric Christmas trees made of colored paper:
Making a Christmas tree out of paper:
Herringbone
A Christmas tree is a themed decoration for any room. It can also be made from paper wicker. You should first prepare 100-150 tubes and a mold. To do this, a sheet of thick paper is rolled up and secured into a cone. The weaving pattern is as follows:
- Three rods are folded like a snowflake. Place a cardboard cone over the intersection. Under the base there was a “sun” of 6 rays.
- Taking an additional tube, place it on top of two adjacent rays. The right one covers an additional tube, pressing it to the base cone.
- Then the work proceeds in a spiral. Alternately, the lower rod is laid on top of the newly laid beam and pressed against the base.
- When the first row ends, the tail from the first additional tube will remain intact. It will stick or be cut off at the very end.
- Each new row shifts towards the center from the previous one, the work becomes narrower. The mold should be removed 1-2 cm before the end of the cone, because... the weaving sits on it very tightly. To do this, the interlacing of the rays from the bottom of the tree needs to be cut and glued inside.
The finished Christmas tree is painted in a variety of colors. Classic green is no longer so relevant for a modern Christmas tree: it can be completely brown or purple.
Miniature toys and small candies are easily attached to the spiral coils with thread or glue. Such a tree can stand on legs in boots or be “planted” in a pot. A red cap with a bubo or bell is often worn on the top of the head.
New Year tree from a newspaper: master class, video
Do you have a lot of unnecessary newspapers? Do not rush to give them away for waste paper or throw them away. Look what a miracle you can create from them for the holiday:
At first glance, it seems difficult to make such a Christmas tree. However, there are no difficulties here. It just takes a lot of time to roll the newspaper into thin tubes, which then need to be intertwined.
Watch the video for a master class on making a Christmas tree from a newspaper:
Box-house
Craftswomen who have already mastered the basics of weaving can try to make unusual crafts from newspaper tubes. This can be considered a “house” job. It can be made whole, as a decorative part of the interior, or the roof can be woven separately to make a box.
For such a hut the size of a half-liter jar, you will need at least 250 newspaper rods. The sequence of work is as follows:
- The bottom of the “house” is formed from a flat circle. For it we make a “sun” - a cross made of 12 paper rods. Then we braid the rays in a circle with working tubes. Lengthening/extension is carried out by the usual placement of the next tube on the previous one.
- Having passed 6 rows in a spiral, we separate the ray rods and braid each one separately. Due to this, the diameter of the circle increases. When the required size is reached, the rods are cut off, the edges are hidden and glued.
- The walls of the house will not “grow” from the very edge of the base, but will be slightly shifted towards the center. To do this, we vertically thread new wall posts through the base in a certain row of weaving. The distance between them should be about 2 cm.
- Going around the racks, we weave the walls of the house with working tubes. You need to decide: the walls will be straight or at an angle. You can place a bowl/jar of the required diameter in the center so that the work moves outward slightly and becomes more rounded. Having reached the required height, the base can be removed, then the diameter of the house will decrease and it will become thinner.
- When the desired height is reached, we bend or cut the base rods. The result was the lower hollow part of the box.
- For the lid/roof you need to take 6 newspaper twigs - this is the base. They are twisted together into a tight bundle and a loop is made, secured with an elastic band. This loop will be on the roof of the hut. The twigs from the bundle are spread into the sun and woven in a circle between these rays with a working tube. This weaving produces a cone whose diameter gradually increases.
- The work is completed at the stage when the lid fits well on the walls of the original house. The working rods must be carefully bent and glued.
Mastering the skills of weaving paper tubes will take time and dedication. It’s better to start with simple products; Having mastered the basics, move on to more complex ones. The pleasure gained from the creative process will more than repay the time spent.
New Year's origami: how to make an original Christmas tree
Paper plastic is a great way to make a three-dimensional Christmas tree. Make each branch detail from different diagonal squares. Glue the large ones at the bottom and the small ones at the top to create a Christmas tree:
Make a small Christmas tree using the origami technique following the diagram:
Adhesive accessories
PVA glue is useful both for making the tubes themselves and for priming the entire product and gluing its various parts. This material is consumed quite quickly, so it is better to immediately purchase a large container. Also, its consistency should not be too liquid.
Polyurethane adhesives such as “Moment”, “Titanium” or a glue gun are also useful in the process of creating wicker items. They are mainly used to strengthen and add density to the bottom, gluing decorative elements.
Modular Christmas tree: decorating the room for the New Year
The chic and fluffy craft turns out almost like the real thing. But making this masterpiece is quite difficult.
Make modules for the Christmas tree using the origami diagram:
