Crafts of foam plastic with their own hands

One of the very malleable and easy-to-use materials is polystyrene. From it you can make a lot of protozoa or, on the contrary, very intricate handicrafts. In addition, the manufacture of artifacts from foam plastic - a great way to develop imagination and motor skills of the child's hands. Let's consider some variants of a master-class on manufacturing an article made of foam plastic.

Crafts made of foam plastic with their own hands: an ornament for a nursery

What can be done from polystyrene foam if a child has just been born in your house or you expect it to appear in the near future. Very useful is the decoration for the room. Here is an uncomplicated but very interesting technique for making a picture for a children's room.

1. To work, you need a sheet of foam, scissors and several pieces of fabric. Also glue and a clerical knife.
2. Use a pen or a pencil to draw a picture. It is better to choose a simple image with large details.
3. Further we make on a contour cuts by means of a writing knife. We cover them with glue.
4. Now we put in pieces pieces of fabric. Superfluous cut off and carefully hide the leftovers.
5. Similarly we make the rest of the picture and the frame.
6. This is an interesting piece of jewelry.

Foam plastic articles for school-age children

For school-age children, making jewelry for a school matinee can be very interesting. Crafts from balls of foam plastic in the form of Christmas toys look very interesting. We offer a simple way of such decorations.

1. To work, you need penopolymovye balls, corsage ribbons and pins with hats.
2. We cut ribbons of two colors into the same pieces.
3. The first piece will be the basis to which we will now begin to strengthen the rest.
4. Each piece is folded, as shown in the photo.
5. Next, we attach with three pins: at the edges of the triangle and in the center.
6. The technique shown in the photo is called "artichoke". First we fasten four blanks of the same color in four directions.
7. Further between them we fasten four other blanks of a different color.
8. Continue the next layer. You should have four rows of two colors.
9. At the end we attach the braid so that you can hang our children's crafts toys on the Christmas tree with a foam plastic.

Children's crafts from foam plastic with kids

For a young child, you can try to offer a variant of a Christmas tree toy easier. Let's look at the step-by-step instructions on how to make an artifact made of polystyrene with a child of the Garden Age.

1. From the cardboard we cut out four strips of the same length.
2. From these segments we form the rays for the snowflake. Fold the cross crosswise into the cross of the strip and connect them, shifting to a right angle.
3. Strips are glued together.
4. We put on the workpiece a layer of glue and fix the foam of various shapes. Let's dry and repeat the procedure on the other side.
5. Here's a snowflake should be.

Crafts made of polystyrene: we make a toy

If just a funny decoration takes a girl, then the boys need to get a result that can be touched and turned to the hands. What can be done from a foam with a small fidget - to make a toy. Let's take a step-by-step instruction on how to make a typewriter.

1. For work you will need a sharp knife, glue with acrylic paints and eyes (they can be purchased in the store for needlework).
2. From the foam sheet we cut out the parts of the machine and glue them together. The simpler the details, the better. Let the child decide for himself what his machine will look like.
3. Then proceed to painting. It is also better to give the child a brush and give vent to fantasy.
4. Glue the eyes and various decorative elements.
5. In the end, we got a very interesting machine.