How to make newspaper tubes? Technics of weaving from newspaper tubes

How to make newspaper tubes? We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the master class, as well as consider several options for crafts from this material.

The first way how to make newspaper tubes

Operating procedure:

1. Take a newspaper, PVA glue, a brush, a thin stick (you can replace it with a pencil, chopsticks for Chinese food are also suitable), and a plaque for working with plasticine or an oilcloth.
2. Cut out the same rectangles from the newspaper.
3. Place the paper in front of you vertically.
4. Put a stick on the sheet. It should be just below the middle of the page.
5. Apply a thin layer of glue along the top edge of the paper.
6. Wrap the bottom of the paper so that the wooden stick is inside.
7. Tightly twist the paper into the tube.
8. Lightly press it against the work surface so that the edge is well adhered.

The tube is ready! To make artifacts out of it, wait until it dries.

The second variant of making newspaper tubes

How to make newspaper tubes in another way? Another version of their manufacture is described below.

1. Fold the newspaper several times in half and cut it with a stationery knife.
2. Take a wooden stick, a pencil or a thick knitting needle.
3. Put the wand on the edge of the newspaper sheet a little diagonally, as in the picture below. Here the principle operates: the sharper the angle, the longer the tube will be.
4. Twist the tube.
5. Glue the tip of the newspaper with PVA glue.
6. Pull out the wand.

All is ready!

What can be done from newspaper tubes?

In fact, you can do a lot of things from these elements. Here, for example, ideas of weaving from newspaper tubes:

• Round and square baskets;
• Candy bars;
• Dolls and toys;
• Flowers and bouquets;
• Vases;
• Lampshades;
• Stand under hot and much more.

Trumpet basket

Here we will describe the technique of weaving from newspaper tubes for beginners using the example of a basket:

1. Prepare two identical thick sheets of cardboard, double-sided adhesive tape, PVA glue, newspaper tubes and scissors (picture 1).
2. Take one sheet of cardboard and paste two-sided adhesive tape along its edge (picture 2).
3. Spread newspaper tubes around the perimeter of the cardboard a couple of centimeters apart (Figure 3).
4. Lubricate another sheet of cardboard with glue (picture 4).
5. Glue a second sheet of cardboard on top of the tubes (picture 5).
6. Make one very long newspaper tube.
7. Bend the new tube in half and put it on the extreme left or right (picture 6).
8. Weave one line of braids from the horizontal tube. That is, its halves are twisted vertically crosswise. If the tube is over, then insert a new one, first gluing the tip of the adhesive.
9. Now put on the bottom a box that is suitable in size and lift the tubes vertically.
10. Using the clothespins, attach the tubes to the walls of the box.
11. Now make a series of braids. You can grab a tube with not one, but two vertical membranes.
12. Weave several rows in this way. Their number depends on how high the basket you want.
13. Complete the basket in two ways:

• Stabbing vertical tubes cut off at the last to the last horizontal row and drip into place the cut PVA glue. We catch a clothespin and wait for complete drying.
• The protruding tubes are cut to ten centimeters. Then each bend the adjacent one and bend it into the loop inward. Also we drip glue and we catch a clothespin.

To keep the product as long as possible, it must be processed. For this, mix in proportions one to one PVA glue and acrylic paint. Take a wide paint brush (with it will be more convenient to work) and paint the basket in this order:

• Internal walls;
• Internal bottom;
• External edges;
• Outer bottom.

If desired, the basket can be varnished.

In the same way, round bowls are made. Just for the basis is taken oval-shaped cardboard.

Newspaper flowers

Now we will present a master class, how to make a flower from newspaper tubes, for beginners:

1. Fold one newspaper tube in half and give it a petal shape (pictures 1 and 2).
2. Glue the ends of the two tubes to the middle of the petal - one vertically, the other horizontally (picture 3).
3. The horizontal tube wrap in front of the arc, behind the vertical, in front of the arc, as in picture 4.
4. Turn the weave and continue in the same way (picture 5).
5. If necessary, insert new tubes.
6. Stop the weaving by wrapping the leading tube around the vertical one and fixing all the ends with glue (picture 6).
7. Make only four or five of these petals (picture 7).
8. Then tear the newspaper into small pieces and soak it for a couple of hours in the water.
9. When the newspaper turns into gruel, pour out excess water and add PVA glue.
10. Mix everything (picture 8).
11. Blind the resulting mixture cake. This will be the center of the flower.
12. While the center dries, prepare the petals.
13. Give them a more natural form and paint with a mixture of acrylic and PVA glue.
14. When all the details have dried, you need to collect them.
15. Take the glue gun and glue the petals to the back of the middle (picture 9).
16. Glue the previously colored stalk.

The flower from the newspaper tubes is ready!

Vase for flowers from straws

We offer you a technique of weaving from newspaper tubes, a product - a vase for flowers:

1. Take the four tubes.
2. Put two vertically.
3. Weave through the vertical two horizontal tubes (picture 1).
4. Raise the right half of the lower horizontal tube and cover it with all the others (pictures 2-5).
5. Perform the same procedure for all the bottoms (Figures 6-11).
6. Then start lifting the tubes that you are braiding (picture 12).
7. Bend each of them for the next. If necessary, insert new ones.
8. Insert a bottle of carbonated water into the craft and weave it. If the eggplant is too tall, then simply cut off excess height. This item can be skipped if you do not intend to use the craft as a real vase, and pour water there.
9. Add the wall from the newspaper tubes to the desired height.
10. Finish the weaving by one of the methods described in the master class for creating a rectangular basket.

The vase is ready! If desired, it can be dyed and varnished.

You can confidently say that when you understand how to make newspaper tubes, you will want to create a lot of baskets, vases and other things from them.