If you have several sheets of colored paper, an old disk and scissors in your house, then you will definitely provide your child with interesting leisure time, without the need to buy an expensive creativity kit, which does not always justify its cost. Damaged computer blanks are an excellent basis for children's crafts, and paper and all sorts of available materials will help supplement them. Even plain white paper is fine for creating some options.

In this master class we want to introduce you to a simple craft - a bunny made from a disk and paper. According to this scenario, you can create a cute face of any animal familiar to a child by replacing the shape, size and color of the ears, nose, eye shape and other distinctive features. So, let's start imagining with the youngest children. Just cut out the parts for them and help them glue them, believe me, the kids’ joy will know no bounds.

1. Take an old disk, paper, scissors and glue to work. If you don’t have ready-made paper, you shouldn’t abandon the idea, because only small parts will be used in our craft, and they can be cut out from any packaging and boxes.

2. Cut out two white circles and two smaller black ovals.

3. Create eyes from the prepared parts and attach just above the hole of the disk.

4. From white or gray paper, cut out a shape whose shape resembles the number 8. These will be the cheeks of our bunny, attach two funny teeth to them.

5. Stick the resulting part onto the disk, placing it just below the hole. Do not glue the teeth themselves.

6. Hide the hole of the disc behind the red nose, add eyelashes to the eyes.

7. Cut out blanks for long bunny ears from white and gray leaves.

8. Glue the parts on top of each other and attach to the top of the head.

9. And the final touch is unusual antennae; in order not to cut them out of paper, use a regular nylon mesh.

10. Attach whiskers to the cheeks to complete the bunny look.

The final look of the craft.

This is such a cute craft we made. We hope you will take our advice into account and make something else with your children.

Most people have a large amount of unwanted or unusable CDs accumulated in their home.

You can simply throw them away. But it’s better to use them to create various crafts and interesting things. In this article we will tell you what fakes you can make from disks with your own hands.

Roof covering

If you have a lot of CDs, they can be used as an original sparkling roofing covering. To do this, first the disks are attached to plywood sheets, and they, in turn, are attached to the roof. Approximately a hundred discs are needed for 1 m² of coverage.

They need to be attached as follows: 1st row - end-to-end, subsequent ones - in a checkerboard pattern, overlapping the disk holes of the 1st row. Small nails or screws can be used as fasteners.

Come up with a drawing, following which you will begin to make the roof. If you don’t have enough material, then you can only lay out the visor with it.

Fake discs for the garden

British artist B. Monroe, known all over the world for his light installations, decorated his garden area with stylized water lilies from CDs.

It took him 65 thousand CDs to create this work of art. You can take Monroe's idea as a basis and make these miniature lilies to decorate your own garden.

The discs can be used for the tail of a homemade peacock. They are attached to the metal frame of the tail using wire.

The disks can also make cute fish. To make one piece, you only need a couple of disks and multi-colored cardboard or a sheet of plastic.

The latter are used to make fins, tail and fish mouth. The cut out elements should be placed between the discs and carefully glued.

The disc caterpillar looks unusual and interesting. It will require several disks fastened together with screws. The legs can be made of rubber, plastic, plywood, and threads can be used for the mouth, eyes and hair. This craft is attached to the fence with wire.

Another option for using disks is the creation of street lighting fixtures.

Crafts from disks for children

Interesting ideas for children's crafts made from CDs will be useful for educators, primary school teachers, mothers and fathers.

The disk can be used to create a beautiful postcard in the shape of a fish. This craft can be done even by three-year-olds. They can easily cope with it under the supervision of their parents. In addition to the disk, you will need PVA glue, scissors, plasticine, markers and multi-colored cardboard.

Fins, a tail, and a mouth cut out of cardboard must be carefully glued onto a CD, onto which plasticine must then be applied using the indentation technique. The next step is to make the eyes.

For this we use cardboard. After you have attached the eyes to the fish, you can make eyelashes from plasticine. The tail and fins are used to write congratulations.

From damaged CDs, using glue, multi-colored cardboard and colored paper, you can make Smeshariki, the popular heroes of the cartoon of the same name.

For beauty, the contours of figures, eyes, and mouth can be outlined with a marker. Such decorations are easily attached to a wall or cabinet using glue or double-sided adhesive tape.

From discs you can create original curtains that do not require washing. The following materials are needed: disks, paper clips, drill.

Small holes are drilled into the edges of the disks with a drill, and paper clips are used to connect them to each other. The number of discs, size and shape of the curtain depend on your imagination.

Curtain holders in the bathroom made from unnecessary disks will look great.

The discs can also be used to create unusual and interesting kanzashi-shaped curtain ties. And you can secure them with Chinese chopsticks.

To make a pick-up, you need to cut a circle of smaller diameter from the disk. Wrap the resulting ring with satin or silk ribbons. You can use flowers made from ribbons as decoration; below are photos of crafts made from discs.

Disks can be used to make candlesticks, boxes, stands, needle cases and much more. Therefore, you should not rush to get rid of outdated CDs. With their help, you can sometimes create truly unique things.

The time of CDs has almost passed, many people still have a large number of them - music, films, cartoons, outdated computer programs - with images on them of characters from fairy tales and films, flowers, graphic pictures.

They sparkle and shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow on the one hand, and on the other they have beautiful designs. You don’t feel like throwing them away - and there’s no need to, you can use them to make a lot of original, beautiful and useful things for your home.

In addition, it is very easy to work with them - they already have the correct circle shape, which in some crafts will only need to be slightly changed in order to give the future product or decoration the desired look. At the same time, they are easily cut with ordinary office scissors and glued to a surface made of almost any material.

It happens that some home interior items have lost their appearance, it is not possible to replace them with new ones, or it is simply a pity to throw away an old favorite thing that has served faithfully for many years. Discs will help give things a new life.

For example, you can decorate an old mirror with them, making an original frame from pieces of different shapes and sizes that sparkles and shimmers in the rays of sunlight from a window or in the light of an electric lamp with all the colors of the rainbow.

You can make a beautiful frame for a photo, decorate the edges of the cabinet drawers with a mosaic of pieces of disks.

Frame for mirror or photo

You will need a lot of disks, scissors, paints, glue, thick cardboard, colorless transparent varnish.

First you need to cut out a frame from cardboard in the shape and size of a mirror or photo. Then cut the disks into pieces of different shapes - squares, irregular quadrangles, rhombuses, triangles.

Take glue and stick the figures onto the frame so that there is a distance of one or two millimeters between them. As a result, the frame will have a mosaic of iridescent geometric shapes.

When the glue has dried and the figures cut out from the disk have stuck well, use black ink or paint to carefully and carefully go over the joints of the figures. After this, the frame is coated with transparent varnish, allowed to dry and mounted on a wall with a mirror or photograph.

Mirror frames made from discs look mysterious and original.

If the apartment has interior doors with glass, the glass can also be covered with a mosaic of disks. In this case, there is no need to paint the joints between the pieces, but simply cover everything with transparent varnish, then there will be a feeling of light and space.

Clock made from disks

An option is to purchase a clock mechanism with hands or remove it from an old clock, lay clocks of any configuration on the wall with disks, gluing them to the wall, and strengthen the clock mechanism in the middle.

Decorating walls with disks

On the wall in the room or in the kitchen, you can lay out an interesting composition from disks with beautiful pictures selected by theme. Or you can use them to create your own painting.

To do this, you need to take the disks and paint their shiny side with black ink; when the ink is dry, mark the lines of the future image along it, and then go over them with something sharp - a thick needle, a special scraper or a sharp knife with a thin blade and a sharp tip.

Iridescent lines on a black background will look very beautiful - you can draw anything you like: unusual birds, flowers, an abstract design. And hang the discs on the wall in any order.

Decorating the kitchen with disks

In the kitchen, discs can make an unusual “apron” in the work desk area. It will look extremely original, and in terms of performance properties the discs will not be inferior to tiles - they are just as easy to clean from splashes of grease and juice from vegetables and fruits.

The principle of working with them is the same as with frames for mirrors and photographs - just stick them on the wall.

Whether for a room or a kitchen, you can make a mosaic panel from disks by gluing pieces of the desired shape and color onto cardboard, and then covering the composition with transparent varnish.

Household items made from discs

The discs will make an excellent hot plate. In this case, the disk will play the role of the base; you need to put a nice cover made of fabric on it, and the stand is ready.

It would be original to update the tabletop of a coffee table with cut pieces of disks. To do this, cut them, fix them on the tabletop using a plasticizer in any order or by making a pattern out of the pieces, and then fill the tabletop with a thin layer of transparent varnish, making it even.

The coating will be durable. The tabletop will sparkle and shimmer beautifully.

You can make a holder for women's earrings from two disks and a thick tree branch.

The core of the stand is made from a smoothly processed branch, ground to the diameter of the hole in the center of the disks, one disk will be the base, the second shelf, make holes in it and insert the earrings into them.

How to decorate a suburban area with discs

There is room for creativity and imagination. For example, you can make a flower bed out of old car tires and wheels by decorating the outer surface of the tires with a mosaic of shiny pieces.

Or you can cut a peacock out of a rubber tire, and make a tail from whole round disks - to do this, you need to glue them in pairs with their shiny sides facing out, and then make them into a large triangle-tail, gluing the pairs of glued blanks overlapping.

On a country fence made of disks you can depict a huge iridescent caterpillar. You can paint the disks to look like a ladybug - red paint, make spots with black and draw a head, and plant them on fruit bushes and trees.

New Year's decorations from disks

Due to the fact that the discs shimmer in the rays of light with all the colors of the rainbow, they will make beautiful snowflakes for the New Year holiday - they are easily cut with scissors, you can cut out the most intricate pattern. You can hang snowflakes on the Christmas tree and on the walls.

You can cut the disks into small pieces, thickly cover an ordinary ball with them and hang it from the ceiling on a thread - it will rotate and sparkle, reflecting the lights of New Year's garlands.

The application can be very different. You can use discs to make an interior curtain similar to a bamboo curtain - assemble the discs on long threads. They can make an ultra-modern necklace, a refrigerator magnet, a vase, a candlestick, a stand for ballpoint pens and pencils, a box, or even decorate a summer bag.

Unneeded CDs are an excellent material for creativity, a way to spend leisure time - making certain things from them, and an opportunity to decorate a house or cottage in an original and unusual way without spending a lot of money.

Photos of ideas for fake CDs

If you have already tried all the previous options, then it’s time to make an unusual craft from old CDs. You probably have a dozen unnecessary disks lying around that you would hate to throw away and no longer need to use. Their finest hour has come! Use your imagination, take note of our master classes and go ahead to create new masterpieces!

Let's start with, perhaps, the simplest thing - decorating an old disk with ordinary stained glass paint. In terms of production, this craft is quite simple, but you can’t tell from the outside. You will need stained glass paints and imagination. You can draw both abstract ornaments or mandalas, and real plot paintings. By the way, if you don’t have stained glass paints, a regular marker will do just fine. You can download templates for drawing mandalas from the link below.

A little more complicated will be a New Year's craft made from disks, decorated with appliqués. The simplest option is an applique made of colored paper.

If your children love the animated film “Smeshariki,” then it’s time to use their old CDs to make their favorite characters. All you need is to find out from your child which character he likes best, cut out Smesharik templates from paper and glue them onto the disk. Smeshariki's New Year's craft is ready! You can draw templates for the application yourself, or you can download them from us for all the cartoon characters.

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From an ordinary disk you can make a rather unusual Christmas tree toy that looks like a ball, only this ball is flat. To make such a craft you will need: an old disk, dark acrylic paint (if not, gouache will do), a pencil and a fountain pen or a flat-head screwdriver.

If there are a lot of disks, then you may well think about creating a New Year's garland. With the right lighting, the garland will shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow, reminiscent of snow glistening in the sun. By the way, such a garland makes the house warm and sunny!

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