
6 Ideas: Crafts from Cocktail Tubes
Annually countless fast food chains issue togetherWith drinks more than 50 million plastic tubes, and this is only in America! A huge number of tubules from juices and cocktails are on landfills. But there is good news - you can make a variety of crafts from cocktail tubes with your own hands! This, of course, does not solve the global problem of environmental pollution with plastic, but you can make your small contribution to the salvation of nature!
1. Lamps from the tubes from the cocktail
Plastic tubes provide ample opportunities for creating a variety of shapes of lampshades and lamp shades. This original plafond took more than twoHundreds of tubes! To make such a lamp, you can use an old woven lampshade. Tubes from cocktails bend in half and thread into the holes on the fabric.
This cube-shaped night lamp was simply pasted with small pieces of colored tubes.
In the same way, you can decorate the candlestick or any stand.
Decorate with a tube lampshade of a table lamp can be as follows:
Plastic disposable plates and cups will be an addition to the decor of the lamp.
Experiment with the options for placing tubes on the plafond lamp.
Tubules can be split at the ends and do such unusual things:
2. Stands and vases from plastic tubes.
Any jar, box or other container can be pasted with colored tubes for cocktails. This way you will get an interesting stand for pens and pencils or a vase for flowers.
3. Decorative wreath on the door of plastic tubes.
Festive wreaths on the door in our land are notAre common. Nevertheless, as a variant of another crafts made of strawberry from the cocktail. After all, in the same way you can make Christmas decorations in the form of snowflakes or decorative sun for a kindergarten.
4. Decor wall with rolls for cocktails
You can put anything out of the tubes on the wall. But very stylish looks like this scheme of subway lines. For example, you can take the metro map of Tokyo.
5. Crafts from tubules from cocktails - decorations for children.
Make with your children cute decorations fromPlastic tubes - beads and bracelets. Cut the tubules into pieces, then thread on the thread mixed with beads for the necklace, and to make a bracelet - connect the tubules with a string of elastic band.
6. Scale crafts made of tubers for cocktails.
If you do not own a production plantPlastic tubing, it is not easy to collect thousands of tubes for such large-scale crafts. Impressive installation of thousands of tubes in one of the shopping centers.