Turn used items for the bathroom into toys and decorations, use them to clean the apartment. You will learn what can be made from toothbrushes, soap dishes. When bathroom items have already lost their original appearance, it is not always worth saying goodbye to them. They will still serve you. After all, such accessories can be turned into beautiful and useful things.
How to make a box from a soap dish?
To create such a charming thing, you need to take:
- satin ribbons;
- threads;
- a needle;
- acrylic contour for painting on ceramics and glass;
- transparent super glue;
- hot gun;
- acrylic spray paint;
- newspapers;
- gloves.
In this case, the craftswoman took a beautifully cut soap dish from the "Clinic" soap.
This accessory needs to be disassembled and covered with gold spray paint. Of course, it is necessary to cover the work surface with newspapers or cellophane, and put gloves on your hands.
This item, which served you faithfully in the bathroom, will soon turn into a completely different accessory. It will be decorated with roses from satin ribbons. To make them, you need to twist these flowers from shiny ribbons 12 mm wide.
You will need to make 10 pieces of each color, you get 22 roses in total. Attach them to the painted and dried backing with clear super glue or a hot gun. Now paint the surface with an acrylic outline. You can use bronze. It will blend well with the gold background of the soap dish.
This is the beauty that will turn out after you paint the box completely.
Now you need to make a nice rug to lay on the bottom of the box. Use a soft cloth if desired. Make the rug more voluminous with foam rubber or padding polyester and embroider beautiful patterns on a typewriter.
Here is such a wonderful box.
Toothbrushes deteriorate over time. But you can not throw them away, but use them for their intended purpose. See how this item, which was in the bathroom, became the main tool for the following ideas.
What can you turn your toothbrushes into?
Special brushes for washing under the rim of the toilet are on sale. But you will not buy them and spend money if you make such an item with your own hands. To do this, you need to heat the place on the toothbrush for a few seconds, which is indicated by the arrow in the photo, and bend it here at an angle of 90 degrees. Wait for the plastic to cool down, after which you can start cleaning the toilet.
The seams between the tiles will be clean if you cut off the handle of your toothbrush and attach the head of this item to a drill. It remains to remove plaque with such a device.
If you are brushing your head, then apply the styling gel to your toothbrush and style your hair.
If the hooks have soft, bulky handles, these tools will make it easier for you to knit. To do this, you need to cut off the heads of the toothbrushes, heat the back of the metal hook. Holding it with pliers, insert it into the plastic part of the toothbrush.
In young potatoes, the skin comes off quite easily. You can make this task even easier for yourself if you brush the roots with a toothbrush. But it is better to use one that has fairly hard bristles, then the skins will be easy to clean.
And if you need to brush delicate parts with a toothbrush, for example, a phone speaker or a hair dryer filter, then, on the contrary, you need to hold the bristles in boiling water for 2 minutes so that it softens.
With this accessory, you can easily comb your eyelashes and eyebrows, as well as dye your hair.
Clean up your nails using a toothbrush as well.
To make kids love brushing their teeth, play a puppet show with them. And make the main characters of the action from unusual objects.
What to make of bathroom items - toothbrush dolls
This is how they will turn out. To make these funny characters, take:
- a pair of toothbrushes;
- the cloth;
- lace;
- guipure;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- lighter;
- thread with a needle;
- a candle.
A doll made from a toothbrush will look beautiful. Give her a corset dress. The corset will be double, its height is 3 cm. Determine the width of this part according to the size of the toothbrush, sew in place.
Make a skirt 8 cm long. To prevent the bottom edge of such fabric from wrinkling, hold the cut over a candle flame.
Attach a strip of lace to the bottom of the rectangle of the canvas, sew it on.
Attach the skirt blank to the corset and sew it here.
Cut two strips out of the same fabric as the corset and skirt. The length of each is 7, and the width is 2 cm. These blanks must be folded in half, sewn on the wrong side, and then turned onto the face. To add volume, stuff the handles with padding polyester or cotton wool.
Sew short puffy sleeves from two circles of lace. To do this, cut them out of this material, and then gather around the edge on a thread with a needle.
It remains to sew the sleeves to the arms, and then sweep these details to the top of the corset.
Decorate the bride with satin ribbons sewn to the top of the corset and to the bottom of the sleeves. Make a bouquet of satin ribbons, attach it to the bottom of the handles.
Hang beads around the girl's neck, and put a guipure veil on her head. Now you need to make a young man out of a toothbrush and once again marvel at how such items for the bathroom can turn into interesting things.
To create an outfit for a young man, you need to make a jacket for him. The length of this garment is 5 cm and 1 cm must be left for the seams. The length of the trousers will be 8 cm, and the width is 6 cm, and 1 cm must be left extra for the seams.
Fold the trousers rectangle in half and sew on the side. Attach this piece to the piece of the toothbrush and secure it to the belt with a seam.
To sew a jacket, you need to sew a blank for it, measure one and a half cm from above and make cuts of the same size in this place.
The boy's shirt-front will be visible in the upper part of the robe. Cut it out of guipure. The length of this blank is 3 cm. Attach it to the top of the toothbrush, put on a jacket on top, the sleeves for which must be fixed in the cut sections.
The headpiece is created in the following way. For the cylinder, you need to cut out two circles. The first one will be 3 cm in diameter - and this is the bottom, 2.5 cm is the base of the headdress.
To make the side of the hat, cut out a 2 x 6 cm strip. Fold the small sides and sew them together to form a ring. Sew one side of this figure to the small, and the other to the large circle.
A bow tie is very simple to create. To do this, you need to cut off a strip, the length of which is 4 cm, from the satin ribbon. Sew its ends together, hiding them on the back side. In the center, you need to sew with a thread and a needle, creating just such a butterfly.
This makes an amazing pair made from toothbrushes. These items can be used to make original bracelets. And hardly anyone will guess what they are made of.
How to make a toothbrush bracelet?
First you need to remove the bristles. Use a pair of pliers to do this.
Now you need to put the brush in hot water and keep it on fire for a while, until the plastic becomes pliable.
Then you need to act rather quickly, but carefully so as not to burn yourself. To do this, using available tools, you need to bend the first and second sides of the still hot workpiece. Since if it cools down, it will no longer be possible to do this and you will have to reheat the brush.
Now let it cool down, after which you can put on trendy bracelets. If you want, make a few of these, and you can present them to your girlfriends.
Other bathroom items that have already served their purpose can also be turned into interesting things.
What to make from shampoo bubbles - crafts
Plastic containers empty over time. You can please yourself and your children by creating such crafts with your own hands. Please your son by making such planes for him.
To decorate the shampoo bottle, you can cover it with colored tape or tape of different shades. Cut a star out of the same material or draw it with a marker. Use super glue to attach the two caps to the bottom of the shampoo to convert them into jet engines. You will cut the wings of the airplane from other plastic hygiene containers and glue them on the sides of the bottle.
If you do not have enough vases in the house, take also plastic containers from hygiene products, decorate them with adhesive tape and use as directed.
To keep the house in perfect order, lay out pencils, pens, felt-tip pens separately. Cut the front and side walls of the containers so that they are flush. Then you need to make curly cutouts, then you get loops, and you can hang such organizers on the wall.
For boys, you will make an airplane, please the girls with such plastic bags. To make these accessories, take:
- shampoo bubbles;
- scissors;
- wire;
- beads;
- buttons;
- Super glue.
Cutouts must be made in each bubble so that the front side parts are level, and the back becomes larger. When you bend it forward, it will close the bag well.
To make this accessory firmly locked, make a cutout at the bottom of the tongue of the back part so that the button goes here, which you will glue or sew on the front wall. On the right and left, make an awl through the hole to insert the handles here. But first they need to be done. To do this, string the beads onto the wire, and then thread the flexible ends of each handle into the corresponding holes. Twist the wire, cut off the excess.
To prevent the child from getting hurt, you need to bend the wire well or glue it with a piece of plastic. It is better to sand the sections of the bag so that they are not sharp and also do not lead to injury. Shampoo bottles can be used to make toys for the little ones. To do this, you need to twist the wire into a ring, tie it to the ceiling with fabric ribbons. Cut out circles from the shampoos, in the upper part of each, make an awl along the hole, thread a strong thread here and fix the elements in the position as in the photo.
Also, plastic bottles can be used to make food from fabric and from this material. Cut out pieces of plastic of the desired shape, glue a piece of felt to the top of each, which will symbolize the cream. And by gluing eyes, paws, a crown made of paper, you can please your child with a new toy, which will become the frog princess in another photo.
If you do handicraft, there are usually many small items. Divide them into the containers you cut out of the shampoo bottles. This is how bathroom items will serve you even when the shampoo is out.
If you don't know where to put your toothbrushes and toothpaste, then put these DIY accessories here.
If you urgently need to please the child, cover the lower parts of the shampoo bottles with a cloth, tie a braid or ribbon here. Glue on and eyes for toys, hair made of soft wire or yarn, and handles made of thick fabric. My daughter will surely be delighted with such new dolls.
And you can finish with another idea of converting bathroom items into the right things. So that the sections do not hurt the child, it is better to glue them with colored tape. Then you have a stylish and safe bag for a young hostess.
How you can clean up stains on plaster or cement with a toothbrush, tidy up your shoes and much more is described in the following video.
