Crafts from napkins

Paper napkins are not only for household needs and table setting. If you use your imagination, you can make many simple and creative crafts from them, both for kindergarten/school, and for interior decoration or decoration of some celebration.

What can you make from napkins?

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

Applications for the little ones

You can come up with some simple crafts for kids. There are undoubtedly benefits to such an activity. Firstly, motor skills develop. Secondly, the child will definitely like the activity, and therefore he will happily get down to business and will 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 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, you want to create a butterfly with your baby. To do this, you need to draw it on cardboard, highlighting all the details.Then take a napkin of a certain color, tear off a small piece from it, roll it into a ball and glue it to the base in the area that needs to be filled with a specific color. And this is how every detail of the butterfly is worked out.

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

Flowers

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

The easiest crafts are when the flower is assembled on a base (cardboard) and the whole thing looks like a picture. It is much more difficult to create a separate composition. Let's look at the most difficult craft.

Carnations

You will need:

• only white napkins;
• wire for the stem;
• leaves made of colored cardboard or other material;
• bobby pin;
• thread for fastening;
• markers.

The creation process looks like this:

1. Fold the napkin like an accordion.
2. Secure everything in the center with a hairpin.
3. Carefully trim the edges and color them with markers.
4. Remove the bobby pin, but tie it with thread in the same place.
5. Decorate the flower beautifully by folding each layer of napkin from the center to the edges.
6. Wrap the wire with green thread or paper.
7. First attach the 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, paper napkins make other color options. The creation process is quite simple for everyone.

Numbers

For some reason many people think that numbers made from paper napkins - an idea exclusively for kids. But we hasten to assure you that both teenagers and adults will like this decor.

The process is quite painstaking and lengthy, and also involves a complex step in the form of creating a frame for the number from thick cardboard, which is then covered with napkins. However, the end result, of course, will please 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.

Process step by step:

1. You need to form a cone out of cardboard and secure the figure with double-sided tape.
2. The bottom should be trimmed evenly and the empty space should 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 it along the contour.
4. A paper napkin needs to be folded in half twice, stapled in the center, attach a flower template, trace and cut along the base.
5. Form a bud by lifting the edges of each layer. You need to make about 45 of these parts 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. Christmas trees.

Bow for gift wrapping

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

Ballerinas

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

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

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

First, we make the “skeleton” of the future prima. To do this, take the wire and create a shape. Don’t worry if you don’t get a perfectly correct design: all this can then be corrected with napkins and thread.

Next, the base is decorated. To do this, you can use 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 figure will turn out too disproportionate. We cover the top with glue again - for reliability.

Now it's time for clothes. To do this, fold the napkin as if making a snowflake. We cut off a part so that the pack does not turn out to be too long. It’s better to round the cut line a little - it will look nicer. We twist the napkin clockwise and counterclockwise several times to create folds. Double-layer packs look more impressive and lush, so we repeat the same thing with another napkin.

All that remains is to make a hole in the center for the head and arms and push the ballerina through. The skirt needs to be pulled tightly with thread or ribbon so that it does not fly off.

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

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