Crafts from toothpicks

Toothpicks - a common thing and necessary. A box with sharp wooden sticks can be found in almost every house, however, few people think about the fact that such a simple thing can be used in a non-standard way - for making various crafts.

Crafts from toothpicks require a minimum of costs, but maximum attention, concentration, perseverance and, finally, just patience. Immediately it should be noted that this type of needlework is not suitable for everyone, people with too moving type of nervous system, choleric persons, simply can not fix one piece of wood for another hour, carefully from the joint, glue, and then wait until the glue dries. If this is about you, but a desire to try to eat, we recommend to start to make toothpick crafts easy, for beginners. Do not immediately take on complex multicomponent compositions, which even experienced masters take weeks or even months, - it is likely that the attempt will end in failure, and the desire to do something like this will disappear completely.

Also, you can make crafts from toothpicks by your own hands for children and with children - they too will be more appropriate to learn assiduity and accuracy.

Crafts from toothpicks: high chair - master class

As a material for this chair you can use matches, but it is better to take toothpicks, previously cutting them to a similar size and removing the sharp ends. Toothpicks are much stronger and safer.

Progress:

1. Toothpick cut in half with a sharp knife, and two ladles paste and between parallel lying the whole two other toothpicks positioning them the same as in the photo. Thus, we will get the back of a chair.
2. Cut a piece of toothpick length equal to the width of the stool. We glue it across the middle of the back. This will be the back support for seating our high chair.
3. We make from a toothpick a copy of the rear seat base for a chair, only without a backrest. This will be the front seat of the highchair.
4. Cut off a piece of toothpick, the length is equal to the distance between the two "legs" of the front base of the chair. We cut off two more identical in size parts and paste to the crossbar of the rear base as shown in the photo - this will be the side bases for sitting.
5. We proceed to assemble the parts of the highchair. To secure the fastening, you can sand the joints of the toothpicks. Gluing the parts, you need to make sure that the legs of the chair and its bases are strictly parallel to each other.
6. We prepare two pieces of toothpicks, equal in length to the internal distance between the legs of the chair. We glue them parallel to the lateral bases as additional crossbeams.
7. We prepare the segments of toothpicks, the width equal to the seat of the chair. It is important that they all be the same.
8. We glue them together by means of rails, we dry under the yoke, the seat is ready.
9. The chair is ready. It can be part of a set of furniture for dolls made by own hands .

What else can you make from toothpicks: candy

We need:

• cardboard heart;
• toothpicks;
• glue;
• Acrylic threads;
• beads, rhinestones.

Progress:

1. On the cardboard heart, vertically glue the toothpicks, previously cutting off the ends, at the same distance from each other and slightly receding from the edge.
2. Simple movements weave a wooden-cardboard construction with threads.
3. We weave beads or rhinestones into the thread to your liking.
4. A beautiful candy-maker in the form of a heart is ready.