Best Out of Waste: A Beautiful Wall Piece Using a Paper Plate
Turn Recyclables Into Art
Some of the things that would otherwise end up in the dustbin make great materials for craft projects. Families can have lots of fun setting aside clean materials to create works of art.
Here are a few examples:
- Paper, including envelopes, scraps, and colored pieces. It's good for the environment and saves money to use good paper rather than toss it out.
- Old magazines contain photos and other graphics that can easily be cut up and used in art projects.
- Old newspapers are useful for papier mache and collage.
- Clean ice cream and popsicle sticks.
- Fabric, ribbon, lace, and buttons.
Creating new things out of waste is very satisfying, and this certainly is one of the best pieces I have created. Since I started making art out of recycled materials, I have developed a habit of saving things. I can make small flowers out of bits of colored paper, pencil shavings, ice cream sticks, and beads. The possibilities are almost endless!
I've broken this project into step-by-step instructions so you can make a beautiful wall piece out of waste material that can be easily found at home.
Collect These Things Together
Eight Items:
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1. One styrofoam plate.
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2. Acrylic paints and a brush.
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3, A few sheets of colored, textured, and shiny paper.
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4. A glue stick.
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5. A pair of scissors.
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6. Some paper with shapes or figures that you like.
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7. Six ice cream sticks.
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8. Ribbon or double-sided tape.
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What You Will Need:
Step One
Using acrylic paint and a brush, paint the plate. Choose some textured paper and cut out a circle the same size as the plate's interior. Paste it into place on the plate.
Step Two
Place three ice cream sticks next to each other vertically, one inch apart. Then glue three other sticks horizontally over the first three. Place a heavy object on top until the sticks are firmly attached.
Step Three
Using another sheet of colored paper, cut out eight small flowers. Using some glittery paper, cut eight small circles and paste them to the center of the flowers. Create some diamond shapes on another sheet of shiny paper and cut them out.
Step Four
Create one big flower and paste a smaller flower on its center.
Step Five
Cut three more flowers of varying colors.
Step Six
Using your thumb and fingers, bend the petals a bit to create a 3-D look. Cut out a few leaves and shapes from the design you chose (I chose butterflies). Glue the leaves to the back of the big flower. Glue the big flower, small flowers, and other shapes to the ice cream stick base.
Step Seven
Now paste the base onto the plate. Be careful!
Hang Your Craft and Enjoy!
Your new wall piece is ready!
Use doubled-sided tape to attach a ribbon on the back, so you can hang the piece, or use it as a center-piece on a table.
Comments
Can we use something else in place of ice cream stick ??
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ossum idea!
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its wonderful
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Very nice amazing artist it helped me so much veryyy osmmm
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Thanks to share your photos with us. It's very helpful to make my children school project.
It is very interesting and easy to makeAdd Your Comment...
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its very nice to learn waste make best
:-) very nice
It is very nice
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Thanks to all for appreciating my work...i had no idea while making this that it will be liked so much....i will soon upload a video of the same.
nice
It is Extremely color full
They are very nice.It helped me in making my projects
good crafts.
thankyou it is very use full to my b.ed cource
Beautiful craft
This is so cute! I love the Popsicle lattice work, adorable!
Very cool ideas.can b easily carried out at home
beautiful ,interesting to do
beautiful very creative
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Thanks all for appreciating.
Very good creativity........
amazing
good
i really love this....
Its all so precious and request to all the makers not to finish this art. It's a god gift 4 u.......
Thankyou
it helped me a lot in my project.
its awesome
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Thanks you all for the feedback.
Beautiful creativity
so unique items.
U r such a amazing artist♥
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Thanks Shruti, Sengottuvel and Nikita for your comments.
thank you for helping me
it is just beautiful sir u r extremely creative and artistic and r showing a fantastic ,artistic way to save our enviroment
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Thanks Roshni....lovely comment.
Verynice
nice and easy
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Thanks neha.
It is so collourful
It is beautiful
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this is amazing, brilliant!
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Thanks Jaya.
This is just beautiful!!!!
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Thanks Rajan sir.
Absolutely amazing creation. It makes sense to save the environment for the betterment of the future generations.
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