In order not to be bored at home, we are learning to make crafts from paper clips! What to do in the office What can be done from stationery.

And ideas for rest and relaxation of office workers.
Some Western companies came to the conclusion that office worker needs to be done from time to timeshort breaks

and be distracted from their immediate duties for rest and unloading.
Advice - do some simple game, better - collectively. At these moments it is removed operating voltage, jokes sound and thus, unintentionally created warm atmosphere helps team building. And this, in turn, will lead to more productive work in the future.

Your attention several ideas are proposed can be used for short respite office workers.

Warm up

mini bowling Table bowling can be made by hand from improvised means

Crossbows from office supplies

improvised darts A couple of minutes to relax.This is much better than smoking cigarettes or traditionally drinking coffee during a break. Fighter from office supplies Crafts from paper clips Paper Clip Crafts

office basketball For some, the game may seem too childish.But for those who love humor and want to relax their brains, this opinion is not a hindrance.

Tasks for office nerds Dodecahedron of 120 paper clips without a drop of glue and other fasteners Möbius strip of 110 colored paper clips Only six clamps ... It would seem that the simplest design. And you try! The secret is that when creating such a thing, your fingers should not strain more than with normal use of clamps. Сosidodecahedron of 30 clamps.

Shadow theater on the office table. The work day was not in vain ...

For this creation, a thorough preliminary preparation in the form of the accumulation of coins is needed. But the result is amazing!

If it’s raining outside and it’s completely impossible to get out for a walk, then you should look for entertainment at home. But what if the apartment is in perfect order, dinner is ready, and the TV is tired? Perhaps you should get creative and make some crafts. By the way, you can involve the whole family in this interesting business and have fun.

You can craft from anything, for example, try to make crafts from paper clips, and if you don’t know how, then read the article, it will contain some interesting ideas.

Flower from paper clips

The simplest thing that can be made from paper clips is a bouquet that will not only please the eye, but also perform a practical function, be responsible for the safety of stationery.

To make beautiful flowers you will need the following items:

• Colored paper clips (2-3 boxes), choose shades to your taste;
• 2 sheets of A4 paper;
• Glue, scissors, compasses.

If everything is ready, then you can start making crafts from colored paper clips:

• On one sheet of A4 format, draw 4 circles with a compass: 2 large ones of the same radius and 2 smaller diameters (with a difference of about 3 cm). If you are going to be creative with a small child, then instead of a compass for drawing circles, use cups of different diameters;
• Armed with scissors, cut out the drawn circles. By the way, if there is colored paper or cardboard at home, then blanks can be made from these materials;
• Now coat two large round blanks with glue and connect them together;
• From the remaining sheet of paper, fold the stem for the flower. It should turn out flat, and to keep it better, coat it with glue;
• Now, on the glued circles, place the stem, but not on the edge, but so that it lies along the entire diameter. This will make the flower more stable;
• You have a blank that looks like a tennis racket, but that's not all. On the big circle you need to stick a smaller circle. In this case, apply glue only to the center of the leaflet, and the edges should be in free flight. The smallest circle is attached in the same way;
• The paper flower is ready, now you need to use paper clips to make colored petals and a beautiful stem. To do this, multi-colored stationery is placed along the free edges of three circles of paper, and green paper clips are attached to an impromptu stem.

After all the manipulations, the flower is ready, it will look very good in the organizer on the desktop, and so that the craft from paper clips does not fall, it is recommended to press it a little with a ruler.

In principle, if you make a flower not with 3, but with 2 circles of paper clips, then it will be more stable.

We make a garland

With the help of paper clips with your own hands, you can make a very attractive garland, which will certainly decorate the room for any holiday. To make such beauty, you will not need so many improvised materials: scissors, bright sheets of paper, magazines and any thick printed matter, glue and paper clips will do.

Now you can make a garland:

By the way, if desired, the decoration can be made in several rows. And using paper clips of different sizes, create a very interesting garland in general.

It is worth noting that assiduous women make curtains according to this principle, and children make funny bracelets for themselves and their friends.

We make Christmas decorations

With the help of paper clips, you can make cute Christmas toys in the form of ice skates for figure skating.

To implement the creative idea, you will need the following materials:

• Felt of different shades;
• Beads or sequins;
• Sheet of paper and pencil;
• Large staples;
• Thin tapes;
• Glue;
• Threads and needle.

On a piece of paper draw a skate, but without a blade, one shoe. Cut out the stencil, then transfer the image to the felt.

Before cutting out the image from the fabric, fold it in half so that you can then make a real skate. You don't need to cut in the middle. After cutting out, you should get two skates in a mirror image.

I woke up one morning with a new project idea in my head. I got into bed thinking about the presentation I was going to give to middle and high school teachers in a couple of weeks. I wanted to come up with simple and inexpensive projects that they could use to teach students some aspects of technology. I really hoped that my ideas would inspire them to their own creativity. All night I dreamed about how I made various devices from paper clips, and this project was born. Regarding the cost - a piece of wood and paper clips cost me about 15 rubles.

I was already working on a few projects at the time, so it took a couple of months of thinking until I actually sat down at the table with a bunch of paper clips and started my attempts to build something out of them. While I was busy with other projects, I thought about the design and manufacturing process of my car parts, as well as the way they were assembled. For this I needed very few tools and materials. I thought the process would be pretty simple. Paperclip mechanisms are very interesting to create, and it is also interesting to “play” with them later. It seems to me that the sculptural forms of these creatures are also a kind of art.

For educators, this project is a great way to teach children the physics of mechanical machines, including concepts such as leverage, knee, pivot point, circular and linear motion. Products from this project can be used as a miniature working model or as a prototype in the production of various designs. Also, similar mechanisms can be used for students studying energy. A similar project helped me a lot, in which groups of participants, as well as individual inventors, created separate mechanisms, and then connected them together to create a chain reaction. It seemed to me that something similar could be done with staple mechanisms. This will enable each student to create their own part of the overall mechanism, and then connect everything into a large chain, and also simulate a chain reaction.

This video shows how I built my paperclip mechanism:

Step 1: Such a Versatile Paperclip

As a lifelong Creator, I have always loved taking apart even the simplest appliances. At meetings, I constantly take apart and reassemble my pen. In cafes, I constantly play with my straw and the wrapper in which it was brought. One of my favorite things to do is play with paperclips. I have always been fascinated by their original but simple form, as well as their working principle. I know it's just a piece of wire bent in a certain way and nothing more. My cursory internet search reveals that I'm not the only paperclip aficionado. My fellow community members have already published a ton of paper clip projects. These are toy helicopters, and, and even chandeliers, of various geometric shapes. I've seen picks, catapults, and trebuchets. So my post will be just another item on the list of what can be created from paper clips.

Step 2: What you need.

From this we will create today:
- A box of large paper clips (mine were made from wire with a diameter of 1 mm).
- Two small pieces of wood. I bought two samples of flooring from a local hardware store. Each cost me no more than 10 rubles.
- A pair of wire cutters and a pair of long-nosed pliers. I recommend the ones pictured above. If you have pliers with long, round tongs and a cutting edge, those will work too.
- A couple of drills for 0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 mm.
- Bulgarian with a cutting wheel to cut off one of the drills.
- Drill to drill holes in wood. Hand or electric drill - it doesn't matter.
- A small ruler and pencil for measuring and marking holes.

NOTE: You can use staples of other sizes. Smaller paper clips are easier to bend, but the design will be smaller due to the shorter wire length of each element. You will also need different drill bits for staples of a different size.

Step 3: Make a staple bender.

From the unsharpened end of a 1.2 mm drill, we cut off two pieces with a grinder. One piece should be approximately 10 mm, and the second - 20 mm. Grind the edges to make them smoother with a grinder.

Drill a 1.0mm hole in one of the pieces of wood. The depth of the hole should be 8mm so that the 10mm piece of drill protrudes 2.0mm over the wood. The metal should fit tightly into the wood.

Make a second 1.0mm hole of the same depth approximately 1mm from the first. The paper clip should fit snugly between the two metal posts. Stick a 20mm piece firmly into the wood.

Step 4: Practice twisting the coils.

Almost all the parts that we have to do will have one or more turns, so it's better to practice and learn how to do them well.
- Using pliers, completely align the paperclip.
- Place a paperclip between the two bits of your bender's drill we made in the previous step.
- Gently wrap the paperclip around the longer post while the short one will just hold the wire in place.
- Keep turning the paperclip around the long piece of the drill until you have 4 turns of the wire around it.
- Carefully remove the twisted paper clip from the bending “machine” and check the coils. They should fit snugly against each other. If the turns do not turn out even and tight, practice more.

Here's how to do it:

Step 5: Making different details.

Here is a complete set of staples I made for this design. There is a connecting rod, bipedal and quadrupedal supports, connectors and levers of various shapes and sizes. There can be an infinite number of other details and modifications. Only your imagination limits the choice.
The second photo below shows each part with its name.

Step 6: Make a base for the machine.

I used one piece of wood for the bender and another for the assembly of my invention. I first tested the assembly on the back side, and when I got everything set up and measured, I started drilling holes on the front side. The beautiful texture of the finish looks very advantageous for the base of the car.

I used a 0.8mm drill bit to make 10mm deep holes in the wood for each of the supports. A little effort with pliers, and the legs of the supports are in place. I think you can make a lot of holes in a grid pattern, like on electronic circuit boards. So it will be easy to change the positions of the supports in the assembly, testing and debugging the design. I decided to drill holes only where necessary, so it looked better to me.

Step 7: Putting it together on the go

The human brain is sometimes capable of generating amazing ideas, some of them are eccentric, others are useful, others are just funny. Most inventions are born in moments of extreme boredom, this assumption is especially true in relation to various household items, or rather, non-traditional ways of using them, which people often invent. Well, how could the manufacturers of conventional ones assume that it is possible to make a bookmark or a funny toy, decoration, or open a door lock and even handcuffs out of paper clips?

Everything ingenious is simple

The birth of the classic paper clip, which looks like two ovals twisted from a piece of steel wire 8 cm long, had a rather thorny path. The year of her birth can be considered 1899, when the Norwegian engineer Johan Voler was shown several versions of this stationery item. Then he did not believe that it was possible to make a salable and popular product out of paper clips, and refused to engage in this project, but the British successfully developed it. The Gem Manufacturing Company Ltd mass-produced this invention, making the right decision.

In addition to its direct purpose - fastening paper sheets, a miniature metal stapler received a second life in the form of a wide variety of variations. Crafts from paper clips are bookmarks, master keys, jewelry, postcards, interior decor and toys.

You will not believe!

For the inhabitants of harsh Norway, the paper clip has become a symbol of resistance to the occupying fascist troops. The inhabitants of this country wore it on their clothes as a sign of protest and unity. This historical fact has become the reason that ordinary and uncomplicated stationery has several monuments, one of which is located in Russia, and even architects could not ignore the paper clip, creating several variants of buildings in the form of a twisted piece of wire.

The use of a paper clip is not limited to this, however. Here are the TOP 5 proofs that you can make quite rational and useful things out of paper clips:

• use as a "dog" for lightning on clothes, shoes or a backpack;
• with the bent end of the paper clip, it is easy to clean a clogged hole of small diameter (in a garlic press, salt shaker, glue tube);
• a paper clip is an excellent limiter for the constantly lost edge of adhesive tape;
• men who wear a tie, but often forget to put on special clips that hold this accessory in place, can use a little helper from the world of stationery;
• the classics of the genre are bookmarks made of paper clips, and we will devote the next section to them.

We read everything

Agree that losing the right page in a book, diary or even a simple magazine is always an unpleasant and annoying moment. Such a loss is especially angry when the necessary information needs to be found in record time. Bookmarks familiar to many from the school desk help to avoid this. It is very easy to make such an accessory from paper clips, the photo shows several options for how the wire can be twisted, giving it an original shape.

A high-quality paper clip is made of a rather dense metal, otherwise it simply cannot hold the sheets together, and therefore it will be problematic to make such masterpieces by hand, needlewomen use flat- or round-nose pliers for this.

You can avoid twisting and bending of the wire if you decorate the paper clip with something. There are absolutely no restrictions here anymore: flags made of ribbons or paper, buttons, flowers, beads and rhinestones glued to the edge of the paper clip will make it a stylish and exclusive bookmark.

On the eve of the holiday

Many needleworkers hardly guessed that it was possible to make a wonderful girly hanger toy out of paper clips, which can easily be transformed into a magnificent Christmas decoration. This is a great solution for organizing the wardrobe of your child's favorite doll. Also, subsequently, it is enough to glue paper sweaters and various Christmas paraphernalia on cute miniature hangers from the Barbie locker and make excellent Christmas decorations from paper clips in a simple way.

Another option to use office supplies in an original way is to make a postcard from paper clips. To do this, it is best to choose not classic steel, but multi-colored paper clips. Colored sheaths on the wire can be of various shades, it is very easy to lay out figures of different shapes from such bright ovals - snowflakes, Christmas trees or flowers.

office love

Another holiday that can be decorated with a paper clip is Valentine's Day. A real find for this will be a paperclip heart. To make it easier than ever, you just need to bend a longer oval up, making the point of the heart in the center. They will look most impressive in a braid, it is best to take the traditional colors for this romantic holiday - pink, red or lilac - as a basis.

After transformation, such a paper clip can also be used for its intended purpose - to connect a stack of sheets, also a paper clip heart will decorate a very tiny valentine or a large postcard, you can attach a note to a gift or a bouquet of flowers with it.

A little bit of hooliganism

Most likely, if the readers of this publication turned out to be men, they are a little offended that the overwhelming majority of tips and ways to transform a paper clip are ideas for girls. Indeed, it is much easier to make a necklace out of a paper clip or some other cute trinket, but especially for young (and maybe quite mature) hooligans, we have found a way to create fun entertainment from stationery.

This mini slingshot will no doubt brighten up a boring lesson at school or a dull day at the office. To make it, you will need one paper clip (it is better to take a large one), a thin cutter for money and shells. Small strips of paper folded in half in the middle can be used as shooting material.

Stationery and other materials that you may have on hand in the office are great for making interesting ones. You can even arrange an impromptu competition for the best homemade product between your colleagues. The main thing is that the boss does not take part in it.

Make stationery space shuttle- this task is within the power of any office worker. The body of the future spacecraft can be an ordinary marker or a large highlighter. Two crocodile clips are attached to the tail of the shuttle, which will act as wings. Now you need an engine that will carry your ship up the career ladder. For this, two turbines made from ballpoint pen caps, fixed between the clamps and the body, are perfect. At the ends of the wings with the help of pieces of adhesive tape, you can install additional devices. You can upgrade your starship indefinitely, adding more and more new devices. In this case, there is no limit to perfection.

If you want to take care of your colleague, who has a normal sense of humor, you can make her a do-it-yourself office decoration. After all, a candy or a cup of tea as attention is so banal.

from keyboard buttons and paper clips will make a great piece. First you will need to find two buttons from the old keyboard (or remove them from the current one). Two holes must be made in the corner of each key. This can be done with an awl heated with matches or a lighter. Through the holes you need to pass the paper clips, which are curved in the form of fasteners for earrings. The compliment is ready. Trust me, your efforts will be appreciated.

Surely, at work you sometimes celebrate various events: birthdays, vacations or promotions. Champagne is one of the invariable attributes of such events. The remaining metal fasteners from corks can serve as good material for developing your own creative abilities.

Beautiful chair made from a champagne cork holder can be made by hand without much effort. The most important thing in this business is to present the end result that you want to see. The wire that is part of the fastener is very flexible, so any elegant elements can be made from it. The chair must have at least three legs and a curved back. If necessary, you can break a solid section of wire in order to make fasteners or a pattern from the remnants. Thus, you can make a whole furniture set for your office.

If clouds gather in your office from time to time and there is a high probability of a working conflict, then it will not be superfluous to acquire real office weapons for self-defense.

To make office crossbow You will need: two rubber bands, one clip, a pen and a CD box. Elastic bands are tied on the box, forming a semblance of a slingshot. Then the mechanism for holding the projectile (clamp) is simply attached to them. The projectile handle is installed in the clamp - the weapon is ready. True, you should not use it for its intended purpose - you can get a real injury from getting a pen in your face. Therefore, do not direct the craft at people, but train in accuracy on the walls or a specially made target.

Now you know what you can do in your free time, which sometimes appears at work. Making crafts from office supplies will develop your creativity right at the workplace.