If you have old videotapes and audio tapes, you can make very useful items out of them for yourself and for your home. These are: furniture, lamps, wallet, garden figurines and much more. Progress is moving inexorably forward. And now almost no one uses old video and audio cassettes. Someone threw them away, others still have these things in the storerooms, in the garage or in the attic. Having familiarized yourself with what can be made from cassettes, you will probably change your mind to part with them and throw them away, and make interesting design things.
What can you do from videotapes with your own hands?
Interesting tables are made from this material. You can make a coffee shop or coffee shop for your home or summer cottage.
Check out the process of making such designer items. For such work you will need:
- video cassettes - 120 pieces;
- spray paint;
- boxes for video cassettes;
- quick-drying universal glue "Moment";
- newspaper or film to cover the work surface.
Taking a look at the following photo, you will understand how to arrange the videotapes so that they soon turn into a sturdy table. Glue them together, and you can additionally fix the joints with tape. Let this workpiece dry out.
For now, you need to make a tabletop out of cassettes. Photography will also help to make it.
Now glue this countertop to the base. When the glue dries, you need to decorate the top of the table with circles that you need to cut out of the cassette boxes. To do this, it is enough to draw the first circle using a mirror or a coin. Now apply this template to the cardboard and make other circles.
If you have a simple plain handbag, decorate it. To do this, roll out a small part of the tape from the cassettes and form a flower from this segment. Sew or glue it onto your bag to make it a flower.
Here's what else you can do with your own videotapes. If you have a diary, you want to make it unusual, then you need to glue the tape from the cassettes, chop it into pieces of two types. You will attach the longer ones vertically, and those that are shorter, weave between the first, placing them in a checkerboard pattern relative to each other and horizontally. Frame this piece of velvet colored cardboard. This is what a wonderful daily planner will turn out.
If you're having a party, decorate your cocktail rolls with these videotape pom-poms. Carnival costumes can be decorated in the same way.
If you need to make a birdhouse, but there is no suitable material, you can also use film cassettes:
- Glue four together so that they are vertical and two turn into small sidewalls, and two into large ones.
- At the bottom, glue another video tape, which will turn into the bottom of the birdhouse. Make it a roof out of a sheet of rubber or rubberized rug, positioning it so that precipitation drips off the slippery surface.
- Insert a wooden or plastic perch into the hole in the cassette. Then the birds will be able to sit comfortably here. Remember to make the entry holes by pulling out one of the circles of plastic that the tape is wrapped around during playback.
Videotapes make wonderful racks. See how to make one of them. Join four cassettes together, gluing them together to create small frames.
Now you will need to glue them together and arrange these fragments the way you want. You will end up with a multi-section shelving unit in which you can put various small items.
And if you have few videotapes, then make such a shelf out of them. You also need to connect 4 cassettes by gluing them together. Then you will need to attach them to the wall using strong double-sided tape. Here you can store small items, including CD disks.
Videotapes can also help you make a beautiful flower planter. This is a very original idea. Lay the two cassettes horizontally on a flat surface and glue them together. Put four more on top of this pedestal, forming boxes out of them. The details of this blank must be glued together. And when the glue is dry, it's time to pour drainage, and on top of the soil to plant decorative or edible plants.
Even one videotape will help you in your everyday life. Remove the inner parts of the coil and you can store your stationery here. Put your pencils inside and you can clean up your desk.
Also, one videotape will help you in another case. If your beloved cat went for a walk on the street, and you do not want to wait for him to open the door, fix it with a video cassette, putting it as a stop.
It would also be nice to make an original watch out of a videotape. One such device may contain not one copy, but two at once. Then you will need 2 watch movements and hands for them. Attach them to a videotape and you can mount the designer clock on the wall.
And if you still have several of these cassettes, then you can make a frame for an artificial fireplace out of them. As they say, cheap and cheerful.
You can make the legs for the table, make them flat or voluminous. The choice depends on how much material you have and on how much load you will give to this piece of furniture.
For the next coffee table, the legs may be quite small, so you are using a small number of videotapes.
If you have a crochet hook and minimal knitting skills, you will be able to create a designer bracelet. Decorate it with buttons so that they contrast with the base material.
In general, knitting from a film is interesting and exciting. Someone does this using the remains of a greenhouse or garbage bags, we suggest doing it from video tape.
How to tie a hedgehog, a swan, a bag - crafts from old cassettes
First, you will need to disassemble the plastic case and remove the spool, which is wound with film. If it is wound on two spools at once, then first return the film to one of the spools. To do this, you can use a VCR or felt-tip pen. In the latter case, you will need to insert a felt-tip pen into the hole of the reel and twirl it on your hand.
Now you have a wonderful dense material from which you can knit a bag. It will turn out to be waterproof and durable.
You can create it in the same way as in this case, starting to knit in a circle. To do this, type three loops on the knitting needles and start tying them, adding loops evenly. When a circle of sufficient size is created, tie It with more openwork loops and create exactly the same 2. These two blanks need to be sewn or creaked with the same film. The bag handle is also crafted from this waste material.
DIY hedgehog from old videotapes
Such a craft for a summer residence will allow you to decorate the local area with a figurine, which will cost you completely free. For such needlework, you need to take:
- video tape;
- white garbage bag;
- crochet hook;
- eyes for toys or pieces of plastic;
- plastic bottle.
You put the product on the bottle, thereby giving it a shape. If you don't have old videotapes, then you can tie a hedgehog using dark trash bags. See how to cook them. Without expanding the package, it is necessary to gradually unwind it and cut it into such strips.
Now you need to connect these tapes. To do this, untwist each and tie as follows. The resulting knots must be tightened.
Roll these ribbons into a ball. And if you knit with a film, then it is already wound on a reel. Start knitting a hedgehog from its nose with half-columns. Cast on a few stitches first to keep it small, and then gradually cast on more.
You can make the hedgehog sit horizontally or vertically. There will be bottles inside that will help these toys take shape.
You can make hedgehog thorns by tying the back, the top of the head with elongated loops. You can make them in another way. Then wind the individual ribbons around your fingers. Remove them and secure them like a fringe in the right places.
This is how it needs to be crocheted. Then it remains to tie each strip.
Now you will need to trim the hedgehog and make these soft needles straight with scissors.
Set these hedgehogs in your garden or decorate your home.
You can also make a black swan from the film from the discs. To do this, you will need to create the base of his neck from wire. Now cast on the loops and crochet like a stocking. Finish knitting with a red beak that you make from cellophane of this color, or then paint the film to give it that shade.
Stuff this stocking with plastic bags and give it the desired shape. After all, wire is a malleable material. Now you need to separately knit such an openwork cape for a swan from a film. To do this, knit in a circle, intensively adding loops to make the cape wavy. Create three of these and sew them together. Attach the swan's neck here. It will look great near a pond.
If you have old audio discs, you can also use them. The next master class will give you a lot of ideas for such needlework.
What to make from old audio cassettes - crafts
They make wonderful lamps. Glue the cassettes together so that the rectangle comes out. Put a simple lamp in this box, but now it will shine in a new way.
You can cover not only the sides, but also the upper part of the luminaire, and put LED lamps inside. Here's what happens.
If the old lamp cover has become unusable, then you can make it from old audio cassettes.
As you can see, you need to glue three rows of these items. Small sidewalls consist of three cassettes, and each large one consists of 6.
You can do without glue. In this case, you need to connect the brass knuckles with plastic clamps, leather strips or laces. Then such a lamp is put on in place. The rays of the light bulb beautifully penetrate through the holes.
For such lampshades, it is better to take transparent audio cassettes, then the lamp will look even better.
If you have a lot of these items left, you can light up a large space with them or make them a source of income. After all, not everyone has old audio tapes, so connoisseurs of originality will certainly want to get such a thing for their home.
The next home idea will allow you to upgrade your old chair. You also need to connect the cassettes with laces, creating a cape for him.
If you unscrew the bolts from the cassettes, then a metal rod can be threaded into these holes, a screw can be tightened. If you want to make a larger hole, then use a thin drill bit. Place the cassettes at the same distance. Now you can put CD disks between them, and they will be nicely and conveniently located.
If you fix the loop on the cassettes, then you get such a convenient box for storing small things. You need to glue the cassettes, and glue the cardboard inside, wrapped with a cloth on the outside.
To make the box easy to open, attach a convenient handle to it.
4 cassettes can be used to make a container for stationery. Glue the cassettes into a rectangle, if you want, you can glue the bottom of the plastic to them.
Old cassettes can be turned into original hooks if desired. You can hang towels, scarves, scarves on them.
To upgrade an old wallet, glue to the outside of the cassette.
In the same way, you can decorate a cosmetic bag by picking up videotapes to match it.
If you want to make an album, you can also create a binding for it from these discs.
And if you have a lot of this material, use it to create such a bar counter. You can glue the discs not only on the door, but also decorate all the sidewalls of such furniture.
Now you probably don't want to throw away old cassettes, and to strengthen your desire, watch useful videos.
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