Crafts from traffic jams with your own hands. Original crafts from wine corks - photos and ideas for needleworkers Photo frame from wine corks

We collected 25 interesting ideas, which are easy to implement at home, even without being a professional decorator. Today we are talking about wine corks, of which a lot remains after the celebrations.
Hot pads
One of the most practical options- Make hot coasters out of wine corks. They are always needed, there is never such a good thing. In addition, the cork is perfect for this, since it does not deteriorate from hot and can protect your table from unwanted temperature effects. You can make such coasters with your own hands by simply gluing them together. For a change, you can cut the wine cork into equal parts and connect them together with a special glue.
There is another option, for it you will need a base, on which it will then be necessary to fix the plugs. To do this, you can take photo frames that are the same in style or color, with beautiful design. Then cut the corks lengthwise into two pieces. After that, using glue, firmly attach the halves of the corks to the substrate. These coasters look very creative and interesting. They are good to use both under cups of hot tea and under wine glasses.






Rugs, panels, kitchen aprons
It turns out that wine corks can do a good job, and also bring a touch of creativity to the interior. A striking example to that - wall panels from traffic jams. Some craftsmen lay out whole kitchen aprons from them and line the walls with them. Of course, for these purposes, you need a lot of corks, but if you don’t throw them away, but determine some kind of box for them (for example, from under shoes) and put them there, then sooner or later you will collect a certain amount of traffic jams. So you can independently make of them, if not a whole wall, then at least beautiful panel. To enhance the effect, you can cover it with a transparent mother-of-pearl varnish, which is usually used for wallpaper.
Our opinion:
- If your walls don't need additional decor then make a small rug. Then you can place it in the hallway or in the bathroom - beautiful and practical. In addition, the cork is pleasant to the touch, environmentally friendly and aesthetically attractive.






Organizers and note boards
Wine corks - universal option for a wide variety of crafts, useful and convenient. For example, they make excellent organizers for storing jewelry and jewelry. To make such an item, you will need a baguette frame with a backing, small hooks and glue. Make an organizer in the same way as coasters for cups and wine glasses. As for design, here you can show your creative nature to the fullest.
In addition to organizers, it is easy to make a note board out of a wine cork and hang it in the hallway or living room. Attach to it family photos, using stationery pins, for a change, choose color options. On the same board, you can leave messages to your relatives by pinning notes on it.
Nadezhda Mitskova, decorator:
- The use of wine corks as interior decor can be quite diverse. From this at first glance simple material you can create a lot of things, not only decorative, but also useful in your home. It can be just coasters for cups and hot dishes, various panels, three-dimensional letters and numbers.
An interesting and quite simple idea to use corks is a note board. Glue halves or whole corks to the substrate required size. You can also use a photo frame as a base. With buttons or pins, you can easily attach various notes, photos and reminders to such a board.
Continuing the topic of notes: it is very easy to make fridge magnets out of corks. In this case, you will need magnetic tape or flat souvenir magnets. Corks can be cut lengthwise or across and glued to them with a magnet. In my opinion, this option is visually more aesthetic than the already tired souvenir products.







Country decor
If your interior is designed in a certain style that wine corks do not match in any way, then why not try to make interesting decor items for a summer residence. For example, arrange flower pots or make an interior curtain.
Some go beyond decorative items and create entire chairs out of cork. Looks very unusual.
Our opinion:
- And for giving, you can make very attractive birdhouses from cork. Just do not forget to varnish them so that the house will please the birds in your garden longer.






For the soul
There are people who like to constantly make something. In their hands, even an ordinary cork turns into stylish item decor. It allows you to create interesting compositions in the form of hearts, letters and numbers, funny little animals.
In order to make crafts from corks with your own hands, you do not need to be a professional, take courses in decorating art or be a master needleworker. It is enough just to have the source material (cork, glue, clerical knife) and good mood. The decor, in which there will be a piece of your soul, will become a true decoration of the interior.
Olga Savchenko, interior designer:
- The corks left after the New Year can be easily used as decoration. The easiest way: collect in a wide transparent vase and use as a candlestick.

In combination with any glass object, the cork will look quite advantageous in quality. simple decoration- between glass tops table, in glasses. Decor can be diluted artificial snow or any other contrast filler.

AT recent times things and crafts are becoming more and more popular handmade, the so-called hand-made, which can be made from anything. Plastic corks did not stand aside and got their second use in original design ideas.

Plastic bottles are available to everyone without exception and, of course, are in every kitchen.

Many try to immediately throw them away, but there are also such creative personalities who, using various life hacks, use them for decoration or useful gadgets for home or garden, as in the photo of cork crafts.

Today we will talk about crafts from plastic corks.

The use of plastic corks in children's creativity

Children are big dreamers by their very nature. Give them any object, and they can easily transform it into another image. After all, from the very younger age both at home and in the children's team, kids are instilled with an interest in hand-made crafts.

Plastic bottle caps excellent material for children's creativity. Corks can be easily glued, thanks to which various panels, figurines and decorative things are created.

The kids love to mess around with traffic jams and fantasize about different topics: applications, toys and figures.

Varieties of applications

The most favorite plastic cork craft for kids is a caterpillar. Delight your child by making it from colorful corks and lengths to your taste, and he will fiddle with it all day long.

The caterpillar's face can be made funny, which will inspire the subject. The caterpillar is made very simply, a hole is made in the center of the corks, a fishing line is threaded into it, on which the corks are strung, the muzzle can be made from a kinder surprise cone.

By the same principle, you can make a little man, a cat, a dog, etc.

To make a “bird” craft from bottle caps, you need: two lids, cardboard, lightweight fabric or natural feathers, such as pigeon. The head and torso are made from corks, and the wings are made of cardboard, fabric or feathers.

The “rabbit” application is performed similarly to the “bird”, the body and head are made of covers, one of them should be of a larger diameter, ears made of cardboard and a tail made of a piece of fur. Children love these toys. The main thing is that you can do this with your child.

A do-it-yourself voluminous “turtle” craft made of traffic jams will interest the child more than an application. It's not difficult to do it.

As required material for creativity you will need: a large diameter lid, cotton swabs and an ice cream stick. A lid is glued onto an ice cream stick and cotton buds dyed in green color laid crosswise on top.

Spots are drawn on the lid, eyes are made. Your masterpiece is ready. In the same way, you can create spiders, ladybugs, bees, etc., using various improvised materials.

Cork mosaic

From a large number of multi-colored traffic jams, you can build a mosaic panel. For this, in addition to traffic jams, you will need good glue or a glue gun so that the composition does not fall apart in the future.

Note!

First of all, choose a surface for creativity, decide on the image and get to work. Details of the panel are attached by alternately gluing them to the prepared surface. If you want to mount them with reverse side, then you will need screws to fasten them.

An interesting solution for the panel will be the option of folded covers of different sizes one to one according to the principle of nesting dolls. For example, the yellow sun from such folded covers looks great.

The cockerel craft is also entertaining, but it requires some skills and time. To do this, you need to make a plywood base, prime it, apply a contour and fix the corks with glue according to the image diagram. Get an original creation.

magnets

An ideal option for beginners would be the manufacture of magnets for refrigerators. Nowadays, almost all refrigerators are decorated with all kinds of magnets and not only to hide any defects.

It takes very little time to make and the following materials: traffic jams different colors, magnets themselves, glue, alcohol solution, paints, multi-colored paper, felt-tip pens.

Note!

First, degrease the cork with alcohol. Glue a magnet inside the cork. We close them with circles of colored paper cut out in advance.

You can decorate multi-colored circles with names, drawings, letters or bows ahead of time too. Using circles with letters, get an entertaining alphabet. You can also make a picture using certain Internet resources as assistants.

Foot massage mat

One of the most popular crafts is the foot massage mat. Making a rug is not a difficult and simple process using multi-colored corks. And then the rug looks bright, unusual, and its use is good for health.

Walk on it for about 15 minutes a day to get relaxation and general strengthening of the body, due to the effect of walking through traffic jams on the nerve endings of the feet.

Prepare multi-colored corks, an awl, a thick fishing line. For a rug in the form of a hexagon on one side, you will need 10-15 pieces of corks. The total caps per piece can be calculated as follows: multiply the number of caps on one side by the number of sides of the mat and subtract the number of repeat caps.

Note!

Then make 6 holes in all plugs with an awl. Next, using the weaving method, starting with the extreme plugs, you should braid all the details to make a hexagon. A rug made of multi-colored corks in the form of flowers will have a beautiful appearance.

Rug for hallway

practical in domestic use there will be a do-it-yourself hallway rug. With the help of a glue gun, bottle caps are glued together in any shape and any kind, colored caps are used to add brightness. It is easily and simply cleaned of dirt.

But it also has its drawbacks: it can scratch the surface of linoleum, so it is better to use it for tiles.

For example, in the bathroom. If the mat will slide on the surface, it should be provided with rubber circles on the back of the mat.

Country curtains for doorways

In the country, you can find many options for the use of both bottles and the corks themselves. Here fantasy has no limits. But the most popular idea is the design doorways curtains made of plastic corks, it is financially economical and easy to manufacture.

And as a result - excellent unusual curtains. For this it is necessary a large number of multi-colored caps, fishing line, awl, hammer, nail and needle.

The step-by-step scheme for making curtains looks like this:

• The lids are perforated on both sides.
• If the curtains are made according to the drawing, it is necessary to lay out the covers in accordance with it.
• Corks are strung on a fishing line of a certain length, you should start from the bottom of the 1st row up, and then immediately go to the 2nd row.
• Fasten with knots, singeing the edges of the fishing line.
• String 3-4 rows, 5-6 rows, etc., as in paragraph 2.
• Be sure to mark the transition from one row to another, to facilitate work.
• Markings are made on the doors for attaching curtains with equal intervals between them.
• On the wooden door the curtains will be reinforced with corks for fixing, according to the markings.
• The first thread (1-2 row) and fix it on the door with a hammer and nails.

Crafts from corks for the garden

Decorate your country cottage area can be tracks from plastic corks. But do not forget that such paths have a decorative function of the paths, and not a fundamental one. AT winter time they are very slippery.

To do this, you will need: corks in large quantities and different colors, sand, building glue, boards, cement.

Procedure for creating garden paths next:

• The first step is to make markings for laying corks in certain sizes and in the allotted place.
• Retracted upper layer earth and dig a trench 10 cm deep. Formwork is installed from wooden planks in a trench in which sand is poured about 5 cm.
• A cement mortar is made from sand and cement (1: 4) with the addition of glue.
• The solution is poured into the trench, and plugs are pressed into it according to your sketch of the image. This is done neatly and evenly, on the same level, leaving only the top of the plugs without cement.
• After hitch cement mortar with a stiff brush, its remains are cleaned from the surface of the track.
• At the end of the work, the formwork is removed.
• Curbs are being installed.

By the same principles, with the involvement of multifaceted imagination, you can make other crafts using wine corks, but that's another story.

Photo of crafts from traffic jams

Nobody knows exactly when wine was invented. It couldn't be that one fine day - rrraz, and it appeared!

Around 8000 years ago, in the region of present-day Georgia and Turkey, people began to grow cultivated (not wild) grapes. He was so cultured that he was never late, wore a bow tie and was called Vitis vinifera. Since then, little has changed fundamentally. Unless there are more than 9,000 grape varieties, and winemaking and drinking wine has not lost its relevance for centuries.

And now about traffic jams. Once upon a time, wine was stored in clay amphorae and corked with a piece of wood wrapped in a rag. Or just a sliver of soft rocks tree. Such “protocorks” swelled from moisture and could easily break the neck of a wine jug from the inside. Then there were wooden cone-shaped plugs with a long handle that protruded from the neck. To open it was possible by hand. Then, by experience, it turned out that the cork oak bark has ideal qualities for making wine corks. Maybe that's why they called him that? It is this material that helps the wine to retain its original properties for as long as possible. Corks from such a bark are light, pass right amount oxygen, allowing the wine to breathe, and are less prone to rotting.

In the 21st century, you can find 3 types of traffic jams that look like natural ones. From all of them you can do something interesting. And here are the types:

• whole cork
• agglomerated, i.e. glued from natural cork waste. Cork crumb pressed and cut out of it cylinders. This is the most common option today.
• plastic or synthetic stoppers

Crafts from wine corks

Hot stand

You can make a lot of interesting things out of wine corks. For example, these are hot pads. We collect corks in a friendly "crowd" and tie them with a collar, wire or rope. For strength, you can fasten them with glue. Or lay the corks horizontally and glue them together. The main thing here is that the glue is heat-resistant ("Super Moment» , for example), and the plugs are approximately the same size and length.

Tray

An original tray made of wine corks will unequivocally hint to guests that you approach the choice of gastronomic pleasure with all responsibility. And you certainly know a lot about wine. And visiting.

Table

A cork table definitely requires arms from the shoulders and a suitable glass to protect the surface. But the result can exceed all expectations - such an accessory will definitely not be left without attention. You can use the old coffee table and glue it on top with corks. Or put together a "base» himself from the boards from the hardware store.

kitchen apron

Cork kitchen apron is very easy to make. You will only need: Smooth surface, on which corks will stick well, 100500 of these same corks and a protective glass on top so that it is convenient to take care of the apron. Glass by individual sizes to order can be easily purchased in any city.

Rug in the bathroom

A bath mat is also easy to make with your own hands. You will need a thin, ready-made mat for bedding, waterproof glue, and corks. They can be cut lengthwise with a clerical knife for greater adhesion or glued whole. As we remember, the cork is moisture resistant and does not rot, and this is a definite plus for an accessory in the bathroom.

Chandelier

A cute and “cozy” wine cork chandelier can be made on a frame from old chandelier(left) or on the base of the grille from the fan (right). For the second option, you will need small anchor hooks that you can buy at a hardware store and a lot of rope. Simple and original.

(anchor hook / circular screw and linen rope aka jute twine)

Candlesticks

Perhaps the easiest way to use wine corks in the interior is to decorate candlesticks. Pour corks into a transparent vessel, put a candle inside, and a beautiful accessory is ready.

Boards and panels

AT working area or as a decoration, wine cork boards will look good. You can hang stickers and postcards on them, or just admire the texture and different seals. Before gluing the corks, arrange them inside the frame as they will be fixed in the end. Because all traffic jams different sizes and something in the end may not look very nice. In general, we remember Tetris.

You can also paint wine corks and lay out interesting shapes and patterns from them.

Figurines and other decor

Just take a look at our selection of different cool stuff from wine corks. Sometimes they even create real art objects for exhibitions! And some crafts can take their rightful place at a family celebration.

obvious but long way have a large number of wine corks - drink wine and store trophies for future crafts. This is if you are a true and patient gourmet. And if you don’t feel like waiting at all, and your hands are already itching to create something like that, you can buy corks on Avito or in an online store.

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Every family has parties where they open bottles of wine. Corks are thrown away by many, some keep the ones with the name of the wine written on them or famous brand as a souvenir. And only the most practical know how to use them to make exclusive household items or souvenirs.

Corks are made from bark cork tree. The plant itself does not suffer at all after the bark is removed from it, as it is restored. Each new layer has more valuable properties to apply.

From the bark of the cork tree, floor and wall coverings, furniture, shoes and even hats are made. And we offer a master class on crafts from corks.

Practical use of traffic jams

Most wine corks are cylindrical in shape. But there are also those that have the shape of a mushroom. They make great pens for drawers table. To do this, you need a self-tapping screw, the length of which exceeds the length of the cork. It is screwed into the "hat" until it stops, and then screwed to the table drawer.

From cylindrical plugs, you can build a rug for the hallway of any shape. As a base, you can use a rubber mat, leaving its original shape or cut out the one that you like best. Glue the corks around the perimeter of the rug with a glue gun, and then fill the space inside with it.

You can cut the corks into circles of equal thickness and also create a rug out of them. If the cylinders are different thickness, the mat will be a great foot massager.

By the same principle as the rug, you can make a stand for hot dishes. As a base, a candy box or a shallow wooden box is suitable. One of the options for the stand: cut the corks into circles of the same thickness, place them on the table in any shape and fasten them with fragments of a spring for a notebook or a common notebook.

In spring, hardware stores sell peat tablets for growing seedlings. They can be successfully replaced by plugs. It is enough to cut them in half, cut out the middle and fill the ground. Seedlings that have grown stronger can be easily transplanted into larger containers.

Paste over any box or box with corks and line inner part cloth. You get a basket for storing small things, a candy box, a box.

Pins and buttons are easily stuck into the cork. Why not make an organizer out of them? Glue corks into the photo frame, for example, with a herringbone, like parquet. Now you can attach family notes, memos, cooking recipes, children's drawings and other papers.

In a cork in the shape of a mushroom, the hat can be painted under a fly agaric and used as a needle holder.

Wine cork decor

Very interesting crafts from wine corks can be made as interior decor. The main thing is to accumulate more of them, trying to have traffic jams in the collection different shades, shapes, sizes.

Detailed instructions for making crafts will help to make them even for those who have not previously had experience in this kind of creativity.

When making banquet hall corks are useful for making letters, numbers, holiday inscriptions, panels in the form of a heart for wedding celebration. Each cork is cut in half lengthwise into two half-cylinders and glued with the flat side to the base made of thick cardboard, plywood, plastic and other materials.

By the same principle as letters or panels can be made kitchen apron. The plugs can be placed in any order. A 2x2 chess pattern looks especially interesting: two corks vertically, two horizontally, etc.

To make a bottle of wine on the table look elegant, you can make decorative pendants for them. Cut the corks into circles and glue them in the shape of a grape brush. Decorate it with artificial leaves, tie a beautiful ribbon and hang it on the bottle.

Cork can be taken as a basis for Christmas decorations. For example, to make a deer, it is enough to attach ears, eyes and a nose made of felt, horns made of decorative wire and a ring with a bead at the bottom to the cylinder. Attach to cork wood beads, drawing eyes and a smile on them, make wings out of bows, and you will get butterflies or bees if you paint the base in black and yellow stripes.

By the way, the cork lends itself well to staining with acrylic paints or spray paint. If you put multi-colored knitted or felt caps on corks and draw faces, you will get funny gnomes. Glue a snowflake from identical circles and decorate it with sequins, rhinestones or a ribbon.

Kids toys

What can be done from wine corks with children? For example, an ancient Russian fortress. Since corks resemble the texture of a log, they can be used to glue huts, fences, towers, bridges, passages, gates and other elements. ancient city. Get a real constructor for development creativity child.

From cork circles, you can come up with various volumetric applications. For example, imitate the end of logs for a hut on chicken legs.

String mugs on a long thread, and from one cork make a head with eyes and a protruding tongue. Get a snake toy.

If you connect several plugs with wooden toothpicks and equip them with a sail, you get a raft. The child can play with it, swimming in the bath or flopping in the summer in the children's inflatable pool. You can even arrange a competition, whose raft will sail faster if you blow on it.

How to make crafts from wine corks with your own hands depends on the number of blanks. You can accumulate as many of them as is enough for flooring or Wall panels. Photos of crafts from wine corks can give a lot of new ideas for their use in everyday life.

Photo of crafts from wine corks

With the help of wine corks, sharp penknife and a marker, you can make "branded" prints. To do this, you must first draw the desired figure and then cut it on the cork. Such prints can be used on postcards, in letters, or simply for playing with children.

Volumetric letters and pictures

Do you want to confess your love in an original way or just surprise your loved ones? Then stock up wine corks. After all, you can make a beautiful three-dimensional picture from them (for example, in the form of a heart), as well as letters for composing various phrases (for example, I love you). And they, in turn, can be used to decorate the interior and photo shoots. Detailed tutorials on how to make them can be found at the links below.

If the handle at the closet or chest of drawers is broken, do not rush to upholster the thresholds furniture stores looking for a replacement. You can go the other way and make unusual handles from wine corks. To do this, they need to be sharpened a little, and then attached with screws to the door or drawer. For some, this will become a temporary measure, and for someone - an original detail in the interior.

An old fan grill, a bunch of wine corks, twine... At first glance, this is unnecessary trash, which should be in a landfill. But in skillful hands this garbage turns into a designer chandelier. You need to attach a cartridge to the grill from the fan, and tie plugs to the string on different levels. Detailed instructions at the link below.

These original frames for pictures and photographs are obtained from wine corks. At the same time, you can safely experiment: glue the corks along, across or in a herringbone pattern, use them as a whole or cut them into pieces. It all depends on the interior where these unusual frames will hang. By the way, you should not be limited only to photographs and paintings - corks can border a mirror, a chalkboard, and much more.

cat toy

If you tie a case on a wine cork, you will get an unusual toy for your pet. You can drive it around the apartment, sharpen your claws about it, and gnaw it. In a word, wine corks can save your shoes and furniture, so take yarn, felt and make a toy for your cat as soon as possible.

Wine corks can make elegant holders. There are two options here: you can screw a wire into the cork and insert photos, notes and other little things, or you can glue or tie several corks together and cut a strip for attaching cards. Such holders can serve as seating cards at a wedding or simply stand on your desk.

A warm and romantic atmosphere can be created with wine corks, two glass jars and a scented candle. Place the vessels one inside the other (the first should be 2-3 times smaller in diameter), fill the space between them with stoppers, insert a candle into the smaller vessel. Voila! The original candlestick is ready.

A plank and a few wine corks - this is the "recipe" for a convenient hanger. Anyone who knows how to handle a screwdriver can do it. Such a hanger will perfectly complement the interior of a summer house or a country house.

Looking at this graceful giraffe, which serves as an interior decoration, it seems as if several experienced engineers worked on it. In fact, it is done in an elementary way: the wire frame is pasted over with paper, and then wine corks are “planted” on it. The main thing is not to feel sorry for the glue, so that the design turns out not only beautiful, but also durable.

With the help of wine corks, you can make a convenient and beautiful panel - something like an "interactive whiteboard". You can attach shopping lists, phone numbers, notes for loved ones or photos to it. In this case, it is better to use small needles or pins, and not glue and adhesive tape - then the panel will serve you for many years.

What goes around comes around. But sometimes it is very difficult to remember what and where you have sown. In order not to get confused in the future harvest, use labels from wine corks. To do this, you need to drill a hole in the cork, insert a stick into it and write "Tomatoes", "Parsley", "Peppers", etc. Stick these tags in seedling containers, and you will always know where and what you are growing.

Wreath

These beautiful wreaths can be made using wine corks. The technology is quite simple: we make a frame and glue it with corks. At the same time, the type and “mood” of the wreath will depend on how you arrange them. These wreaths can decorate the house on New Year and other holidays. You will find one of the master classes on making wreaths from wine corks

Canape skewers

Canape is a great holiday appetizer. Especially when you consider that you can not buy skewers for them, but make them from improvised materials. This will require wine corks (they need to be cut into circles), toothpicks and some kind of decor (ribbons, stickers, beads, etc. will do). Drill into the resulting wooden mugs holes for toothpicks, decorate them, and the original canapé skewers are ready.

By sawing the cork in half and gluing a magnetic strip to it, you will get an original fridge magnet. With it, you can attach photos, notes, shopping lists and other important little things.

To save furniture, we use special coasters for hot pots and plates. Of course, such a thing can be bought, but it is more interesting to make it yourself. Take a few dozen wine corks (the number depends on the diameter of the stand), a glue gun, a knife and a satin ribbon for decoration. Cut the corks in half (if this is not done, the stand will just turn out a little higher), sand the edges and glue the corks together in the form of a circle or octahedron. Run a ribbon along the edge or decorate with others decorative elements. The stand is ready.

bird house

These are such chic “apartments” that can be made for birds using wine corks. First you need to make a frame from thick cardboard, and then glue it with corks. It turns out a real cobbled teremok. This is great idea for children's creativity, because the child will learn not only to "build", but also to take care of nature.

Earrings, pendants, necklaces, brooches and rings can all be made from ordinary wine corks. You just need to be a little creative and get the right accessories. Corks can be used whole (for example, for pendants), cut into circles or sawn in half (for earrings and necklaces). They can be decorated and decorated with beads. In a word, the flight of fancy is not limited.

Jewelry storage organizer

From wine corks, you can make not only jewelry, but also an organizer for storing them. Any girl knows how difficult it is to place jewelry so that it is not lost, visible and at hand. Dear ladies, take a picture frame right size and stick wine corks inside. Make several hooks to make it convenient to hang beads and bracelets. And earrings can be stuck between corks or directly into them (if the wood is soft enough).

There was a pompous blue-red table, but it became a stylish black-brown one. But its main highlight is the countertop. It is made of wine corks: the corks are “planted” on liquid nails and varnished on top. It may not be very practical, but it's definitely impressive. It is unlikely that any of your friends have such an original bar counter.

To keep your keys from getting lost, make a keychain out of wine corks. It's very simple. You need to buy accessories (sold in stores for goods for creativity) and dream up a little. You can leave the cork as it is, or you can decorate it: paint it, write your name or the “purpose” of the key (for example, “office”, “home”, “ mailbox”), hang beads, etc. As a result, you will get an exclusive keychain that is unlikely to get lost.

miniature flower pots

If you think a wine cork is too small to grow plants in, you are wrong. From it you can make very cute flower pot on a magnet. To do this, you need to take a wooden (necessarily not plastic) cork, hollow out a small hole inside, fill it with earth and plant small sprouts there. After that, you can stick a magnet to the cork, and there will be a nice little “flower bed” on your refrigerator.

Christmas tree, toys on it, Santa's reindeer, gift wrapping and much more can be done for the New Year with wine corks. For example, to make main character new year holidays- herringbone, - you will need a base in the form of a cone, paper, glue and, of course, corks. Drape the cone with colored paper and stick corks on it - they will play the role of needles. Such a Christmas tree looks very nice, and may well replace a traditional (live or artificial) tree. Who doesn't love sailing boats? As children, we made them from newspapers, but the voyage of the paper ship was, alas, short-lived. Another thing is a vessel made of wine corks. Glue a couple of corks, attach a sail and you can go on a "sea" trip. Such a boat will delight your child and remind you of your own childhood.

Now it is fashionable to decorate houses with various decorative balls. They are made from paper, thread and other materials. Wine corks also work well for this task. To make a decorative ball out of them, you will need: the actual corks (a lot), a foam ball, a glue gun, brown acrylic paint and a brush. We paint the foam base and the “bottoms” of the corks, and then glue the ball over them. Such a decorative ball of wine corks looks great on a bookshelf, as it harmonizes with books. And if you want to hang it somewhere, do not forget to attach a ribbon.

Wine corks are most often made from wood. Therefore, the wine stopper is durable and reliable material from which you can make practical rugs for the bathroom and hallway. To do this, the corks need to be cut lengthwise and stick them on a rubberized base. You can also use whole corks and glue them together vertically (it is better to use metal carcass). The last option is more suitable for the front door.

If you drill a hole in several wine corks and insert ink paste into it, then you will get an unusual pen. So that it does not hang out and does not bend, the corks should be glued together. You will not only save on the purchase stationery but also surprise your friends.

Many people remember such an attribute of Soviet life as “pendants” made of postcards and paper clips instead of doors. After the collapse of the USSR filament curtains seemed to be a thing of the past. But fashion, as you know, develops in a spiral - a new round of popularity of filament curtains is coming. True, now they are more used for zoning rooms. One thing is invariable - you can make such a curtain with your own hands. For example, from wine corks. Looks very creative.

This lampshade, made of wine corks, will bring warmth and comfort to your home, and the light streaming through the cracks will create a special, somewhat mysterious atmosphere. But the main thing is that it will not be difficult to make it. You need to take a regular plastic cover and glue it with wine corks. Do not do it too tightly - the more gaps, the more light.