6 Ideas: Crafts from Cocktail Tubes
Every year, countless fast food chains issue togetherwith drinks more than 50 million plastic straws, and this is only in America! A huge number of straws from juices and cocktails end up in landfills. But there is good news - you can make a variety of crafts from cocktail straws with your own hands! Of course, this will not solve the global problem of environmental pollution with plastic, but you can make your small contribution to saving nature!
1. Lamps from the tubes from the cocktail
Plastic tubes provide a wide range of possibilities for creating various shapes of lampshades and shades for lamps.
It took more than two years to make such an original lampshadehundreds of tubes! To make such a lamp, you can use an old fabric lampshade. Bend the cocktail straws in half and thread them through the holes made in the fabric.
This cube-shaped night light was simply covered with small pieces of colored tubes.
You can decorate a candlestick or any stand in the same way.
You can decorate a table lamp shade with straws like this:
Plastic disposable plates and cups will complement the lamp's decor.
Experiment with different options for placing the tubes on the lampshade.
The tubes can be split at the ends and used to make such unusual things:
2. Stands and vases from plastic tubes.
Any jar, box or other container can be covered with colored cocktail straws. This will create an interesting pen and pencil holder or flower vase.
3. Decorative wreath on the door of plastic tubes.
Festive wreaths on the door are not common in our areaare common. However, as an option for another craft from cocktail straws. After all, in the same way you can make New Year's decorations in the form of snowflakes or a decorative sun for a kindergarten.
4. Decor wall with rolls for cocktails
You can lay out anything from tubes on the wall. But this subway line diagram looks very stylish. For example, you can take the Tokyo subway diagram.
5. Crafts from tubules from cocktails - decorations for children.
Make cute jewelry with your kidsplastic tubes - beads and bracelets. Cut the tubes into pieces, then string them on a thread mixed with beads for a necklace, and to make a bracelet - connect the tubes with a rubber thread.
6. Scale crafts made of tubers for cocktails.
If you do not own a manufacturing plantplastic straws, then collecting thousands of straws for such large-scale crafts will not be easy. An impressive installation of thousands of straws in one of the shopping centers.
