Egg trays are one of the suitable materials for various DIY crafts. There are 3 types of egg cartons: cardboard, plastic and foam. Due to ease of use, standard cardboard trays are most often used for papier-mâché crafts: to create a variety of flowers, animals, and even for decorating rooms.

They create from foam and plastic trays original crafts for the home, for example, lamps.

Papier-mâché from egg cartons

Depending on where and how the products will be used, different instructions for preparing homemade products are used.

Homemade products for being outdoors or in a damp environment

Instruction No. 1

For the first homemade product you will need the following materials:

• Egg trays.
• Large saucepan with hot water.
• Mixer.
• Facade putty.
• PVA glue.

Stages of work:

1. Break egg trays into pieces and place them in a saucepan.
2. Fill the prepared trays with hot water and place over medium heat. Boil for 20-30 minutes.
3. After the time has passed, remove the mass from the heat, cool and beat with a mixer (use a kitchen or construction mixer). A mushy mass should form.
4. Put the mixture back on the fire and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
5. Beat with a mixer a second time. After the second beating, the mass will become more homogeneous.
6. Leave it to cool.
7. When the mass becomes warm, approximately the same as body temperature, squeeze it through gauze, mosquito net or cloth.
8. Dilute PVA with water in a ratio of 2:1, then add putty in small portions until you obtain the consistency of liquid sour cream.
9. Add the squeezed mixture from the egg trays to the putty.
10. Mix the mixture well until it is homogeneous.
11. After kneading, the papier-mâché mass is ready for use. Use it for one hour, after this time it will become unusable.

Instruction No. 2

The recipe for this papier-mâché mass is used to create crafts with a smooth surface. This mass does not shrink, products made from it are not afraid of moisture and it can be used to create utensils and decorative items.

You will need:

• 3 egg trays for 3 dozen eggs.
• Flour 2 tbsp. spoons.
• Corn starch 2 tbsp. spoons.
• PVA glue 2 tbsp. spoons.
• Mineral oil 2 tbsp. spoons.
• White acrylic paint.
• Glue "Bustilat" 2 tbsp. spoons.

Preparation of the mass:

1. Place them in a saucepan, add hot water and put on fire. Bring to a boil and keep on fire for another 5 minutes.
2. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.
3. Squeeze the mass, but not too much, it must be wet, otherwise the blender will not be able to grind.
4. Place in a blender and grind it.
5. Squeeze out the mass well.
6. Place the mixture in a saucepan and add dry ingredients.
7. Mix the liquid ingredients separately and pour them into the mixture.
8. Mix the mixture well, first with a mixer, then with your hands. It should be smooth and pliable.
9. If the mass turns out to be hard, add PVA glue; if it is too liquid, add starch or flour.

Instruction No. 3

This recipe is easier to prepare and suitable for making various crafts with children.

You will need:

• Egg trays.
• PVA glue.
• Ready putty.

Making mass:

1. Tear the trays into small pieces.
2. Place them in a container and pour boiling water over them.
3. Wait until the water cools and drain it.
4. Blend the resulting mass with a blender.
5. Add PVA glue.
6. Knead the mass well, it should turn out soft and elastic.
7. Add 1 tbsp. spoon of prepared putty. Knead well.
8. When it is smooth and elastic, you can start making crafts.

Egg Tray Craft Ideas for Home

DIY crafts from egg trays can be varied: from a simple fish to a garden gnome or a chandelier.

Egg Tray Frame

You can make an original photo frame using flowers made from egg trays and cardboard as the base of the product.

To create a frame you will need:

• Thick cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Egg trays – 20 cells.
• Glue (Titanium or glue gun).
• Dye.
• Photo.

Stages of work:

1. Cut out a frame from cardboard, the width of which will be 5 cm.
2. Take egg trays and cut them into cells.
3. Trim the edges of the cell so that you get a smooth edge. Prepare 15 cells.
4. Cut the prepared cells into 5 parts, leaving the middle intact.
5. Round off the resulting edges of the workpieces.
6. Take 5 blanks and assemble a flower. Make the first piece like this: connect the edges of two opposite petals with glue, attach the next petal on top, and glue the remaining two. Do the second layer like this: connect the centers of the blanks, glue the petals to the center of the flower core. All subsequent layers are glued slightly lower than the previous ones, creating the volume of the flower.
7. Collect 3 flowers, cut rose leaves from the remaining cells.
8. Paint the rose flowers, its leaves and frame.
9. When the flowers are dry, glue them to the corner of the frame. Add decorative details: beads, sequins or others, if required.

Christmas wreath of flowers made from egg containers

To create a Christmas wreath you will need:

• Plastic containers for eggs.
• Foam blank for a wreath.
• Red berry beads.
• Green sisal.
• White beads for decoration.
• Glue gun.
• Red ribbon.
• Scissors.

Stages of work:

1. Make a lot of flowers from plastic containers for eggs. Do this:

• Cut the trays into cells.
• Trim the corners, the cell should make a small glass.
• Cut the sides of the prepared cell into 4 parts - these will be the petals of the flower.
• Round off the petals. For one flower you need 4 such blanks.
• For the core of the flower, take the prepared cell, cut its walls and cut out the bottom. You will get a plastic ribbon.
• Flower Formation: twist a plastic ribbon and glue its ends; glue the blanks with 4 petals together; Glue the core of the flower into the center of the blank of 4 petals. When the flower is ready, glue a bead inside the core.

1. When all the flower blanks are ready, glue them onto a foam base, close the gaps between the flowers with sisal and decorate with red berries.

Attach a red ribbon to the base. And the wreath is ready.

Papier-mâché vase

Using papier-mâché from egg trays, you can create an unusually beautiful craft with your own hands - a decorative vase.

For this you will need the following materials:

• Papier-mâché from egg trays.
• A bottle made of glass or plastic with smooth sides and a wide neck.
• Foam plastic 50 mm
• Scissors and stationery knife.
• PVA glue.
• Toilet paper.
• Dye.
• Felt pen.
• Scotch.

Video of a master class on making a vase from cardboard (base) and papier-mâché:

Manufacturing:

1. Take a bottle and trace its contours on the foam. Come up with an interesting shape for the vase and draw the missing contours on the foam.
2. Cut out additional parts from the foam and attach them with tape to the bottle.
3. Cover the resulting structure with papier-mâché in one layer and let it dry.
4. When the first layer has dried, cover the bottom of the vase with papier-mâché and form a neck. Correct any imperfections that appeared after the first layer.
5. Decorate the vase with papier-mâché molding and paper threads from toilet paper.
6. To create paper threads: unwind a piece of toilet paper, fold it in several layers and cut the piece into three parts so that you get three long strips of paper; Next, twist the paper into a thin rope.
7. The decor made of paper threads is attached to PVA glue.

Allow the vase to dry thoroughly and only then can you coat it with paint and varnish.

Crafts for the garden

DIY egg tray crafts can decorate any garden. You can use them to create decorative figures, garlands, and a decorative lamp for a gazebo.

Decorative figure for the garden “Cat”

To create a decorative garden figure, prepare:

• A lot of papier-mâché from egg trays for street figures.
• Plastic bottle 2 l.
• Newspapers, paper.
• Wire.
• Scotch.
• Cardboard.
• Putty.
• White acrylic paint.
• Caps from plastic bottles.
• Paints of different colors.

Stages of work:

1. We take a plastic bottle - this will be the body, attach a wire to it, from which we form the legs and tail.
2. We wrap the entire structure with newspapers or paper, adding volume, and secure everything with tape.
3. We form a cat’s head on the narrow side of the bottle and secure it with tape.
4. On the head we attach ears cut out of cardboard, eyes and a nose from bottle caps.
5. When the cat’s body has been formed, cover it with a layer of papier-mâché, focusing Special attention muzzle: on it you need to shape the eyes, nose and form the “cheeks” of the cat.
6. Let the first layer dry, then apply the second and leave to dry.
7. After complete drying, cover the cat with two layers of paint. white. Let it dry and you can paint the cat in the intended color.

Coat the finished figurine with wood varnish. When the varnish has dried, place it in your garden and enjoy the work done.

Garland of plastic egg trays

Do a beautiful garland from plastic egg trays and decorate your garden or gazebo with it.

To create a garland you will need:

• LED garland powered by a solar battery or batteries.
• Plastic tray for eggs.
• Scissors.
• Glue gun or any universal glue.
• Awl.

To create a garland you need to make flowers from plastic egg trays. You will need as many flowers as there are LEDs on the garland.

Flowers are made like this:

• Cells are cut out from an egg tray.
• Each cell needs to be “refined”, all sharp corners must be removed, leaving a neat “cup”. One flower will require 5 cells.
• On each of the 4 cells we make 4 cuts to the center of the bowl - these are blanks for the petals. Round each of the petals - cut off sharp corners. From cell 5 we make a plastic tape - cut out the bottom, this will be the core of the flower.
• Flower assembly: We twist the plastic tape into a spiral and secure it with glue; We glue the remaining 4 blanks together in the middle and glue the core inside.

Crafts made from egg trays can become a real home decoration and add zest to the overall interior

When the flowers are finished and the glue is dry, you need to make holes with an awl through which the LED can pass. Insert the LEDs from the garland into the middle of the flower and secure them with a glue gun. When all the flowers are attached, the garland is ready.

It can be used to decorate a veranda, trees or gazebo.

Wind chimes from egg trays

You can create original and unusual wind chimes from cardboard egg trays.

To create it you will need:

• The basis. This could be an ordinary twig, an old hanger or the bottom of plastic bottle.
• Egg trays.
• Threads. You can use twine, yarn of bright saturated colors.
• Paints of different colors.
• Shiloh (as needed).
• Needle.
• Bells-balls for the collar.
• Scissors.

How to do:

1. Cut out cells from egg containers. Trim all the corners and cut the walls of the cells to the middle - you will get petals.
2. Trim the petals of the blanks so that they are pointed and the blank resembles tulips.
3. Paint the flowers in different colors, when the paint is dry, cover the flowers with varnish.
4. If the wind chime base needs painting, paint it.
5. When the flower blanks are dry, use an awl to make holes in the middle of the flower.
6. Cut the threads so that they are different lengths.
7. Attach a bell to the end of the thread and use a needle to pull the thread through the flower.
8. Secure all the threads based on wind chimes.

Pull several threads attached to the base upward so that you can attach it to a tree branch or hang it in a gazebo.

Crafts with children for kindergarten, school

Even small children can create crafts from egg trays with their own hands; they are often asked to make such crafts for an exhibition in kindergarten.

Panel with tulips from egg trays

It will be interesting to create such a panel for both mother and child.

Materials:

• Cardboard for the base.
• Paints, brushes and sponges.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Egg trays.
• Buttons of different colors.
• Decorative green cord (can be replaced with a chain of air loops).
• Satin ribbon.

How to do:

1. Prepare the base of the panel: take cardboard for the base and paint it with a sponge, so the paint will lay on the base with a beautiful texture.
2. Cut out the cells from the egg trays, trim all the corners.
3. Divide the walls of the cell into 4 parts, make each part sharp - you get tulip petals.
4. Paint the flower blanks in different colors.
5. Cut the cord into 5 equal parts, fasten them with tape and glue them to the base.
6. When the flowers are dry, glue them on top of the “stems” from the cord, creating a voluminous bouquet of tulips.

Glue a button of a contrasting color into the middle of each tulip and your panel is ready.

Crocodile from egg trays

To create a crocodile you will need:

• 2 egg trays with 10 cells each.
• Colored paper.
• Green paint.
• Glue.
• Cardboard tubes.
• Scissors.

How to do:

1. Separate the top covers from the egg trays.
2. One of the trays will be the body, the second needs to be cut into 4 and 6 cells - this will be the jaw of the crocodile.
3. Glue 4 legs made from cardboard pipes to the crocodile's body. Leg height 5-7 cm.
4. Glue the jaws to the body: from 4 cells - the upper one, from 6 - the lower one.
5. Color the crocodile in green color, let it dry and glue on the eyes, eyebrows and tongue.

Egg tray crafts can be completely original and impressive. When making such items, a piece of the author’s soul is put into each of them, so they turn out interesting and are able to please others with their individuality.

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Useful video about crafts from egg trays

Video about wall decor using papier-mâché made from egg trays:

Let's create in our yard a wonderful fairy tale and we will place funny fairy-tale characters on our plot or in the garden, these are boletus mushrooms. I think that many still remember the good old Russian fairy tales, where mushrooms also have a part in them. These cheerful, funny fairy-tale characters can also be placed on the playground; children will be very happy to see them in their fairy-tale world) Crafts for the garden can be made from various materials and they all turn out beautiful and original in their own way. But today we will look at a master class on making a cute papier-mâché mushroom, the author of this master class is Natalya Chusovitina. Also, if you are interested, you can look at the site and other interesting crafts for the garden, which are made from affordable and simple materials. And today we will look at two interesting master class on making mushrooms from plastic bottles and papier-mâché.

* Plastic bottles
* Knife.
* Scissors.
* Newspaper.
* Scotch.
* Basin.
* Cloth.
* Self-tapping screws.
* Dye.
* Varnish.

Method for making a mushroom from papier-mâché:
First, you and I will form the stem of the mushroom, take three plastic bottles and put them together, secure them with tape. We cut off the neck of the fourth bottle and put it on the three bottles that we just secured with tape. Look as shown in the photo, this is how it should work out for you.

Now we take newspapers and begin to increase the volume to the shape of the leg, using newspapers and tape.

Well, it’s starting to look like the stem of a fungus. We cover it with newspapers, then cover it with a mass of papier-mâché and sculpt everything we have in mind on the form (nose, eyes, cheeks, eyebrows, etc.).

Now we will make a hat for our mushroom, also using the papier-mâché technique. Natalya took two basins and used them to create a hat for our mushroom. The photo shows how to place the basins to make the hat more convex and beautiful.

Let's try on our hat, I think it turned out handsome!!!

Turning it over mushroom and at the base of the stem we screw screws, we do this so that the mushroom stem then sits firmly.

Now we will cover everything up. Fill it with a mixture of alabaster + cement mixture + sawdust and mix everything with water. We give the desired shape and then dry our fungus.

We also fill the base of the mushroom cap with this mixture.

Next, our finished fungus needs to be dried well; we remove it until it dries completely for about a couple of days. It all depends on the size of the fungus you have, if it’s small it will dry quickly, but if it’s large it will take longer. Then, when the mushroom dries well, paint it and varnish it.

Ours is ready papier-mâché fungus. All that remains is to find the right use for it in the garden.

We looked at one master class on making a mushroom, I think it would be nice to watch another master class. After all, creating crafts with your own hands for your garden plot is interesting and exciting.
There are so many things you can create with your own hands from scrap materials. These can be various crafts for the garden, and you don’t need to spend a lot of money on them. And most importantly, they will be original and unique in their own way. Well, let’s get started and look at another interesting tutorial on making a mushroom from a plastic bottle and papier-mâché. The author of this master class is Olga Koronnova.

To make a mushroom we will need:
* Plastic bottle.
* Plastic lid (can be used for mayonnaise).
* Scissors.
* Scotch.
* Newspapers.
* Basin.
* Egg trays.
* PVA glue.
* Gypsum putty.
* Non-woven glue.
* Acrylic paints.
* Food processor.
* Facade paint is white-matte.
* Yacht varnish.

Method for making mushroom:
In the plastic cap we make a hole in the middle for a plastic bottle. Now let's start making our mushroom. Take a plastic bottle and put a cap on it.

Now we take the newspaper and use it to create volume for our mushroom and secure everything with tape.

Next, cut the newspaper into strips. Pour water into a small container and add a little PVA glue or non-woven glue to it. Mix well and drop the strips into it. We glue the finished strips onto our fungus in several layers

To make papier-mâché we will need:

* Basin.
* Egg trays.
* PVA glue.
* Gypsum putty.
* Non-woven glue.
* Food processor.

Now let's make papier-mâché to give our hero more naturalness. We take the egg trays and soak them in water for several hours, it is better to soak them overnight.

Then squeeze it out a little, if there is excess water it needs to be removed. Next, we need a food processor, grind this mass from the egg trays in it. Add gypsum putty, non-woven adhesive, PVA glue to the finished mass, mix everything well.

We should have an elastic mass (papier-mâché) for making a mushroom.

We coat our workpiece with the resulting mass.

We sculpt our character’s eyes, nose, hands, etc.

We give time for everything to dry well and apply white façade paint. Then we paint acrylic paints or any other of our heroes. Let the paint dry and apply several layers of varnish.

Look how funny the boletus fungus turned out from a plastic bottle and papier-mâché. I think that it will take its rightful place in your garden or playground.

In conclusion, I want to show you an interesting video master class on making a mushroom. Watch, write comments and subscribe to new articles.

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Paper trays for eggs may seem inconspicuous and useless only at first glance.

Don’t rush to throw them away - use our tips for creating interesting crafts.

You can make crafts with your children - you don’t mind throwing away the tray, even if it doesn’t work out. And if you buy chicken eggs regularly, then you can experiment with trays and get creative every week!

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What can be made from egg trays

Let's look at some original ideas for crafts made from egg trays. Even a child can cope with them.

Garland with charming roses

To create this craft you will need:

• One or more egg trays.
• Glue gun.
• New Year's garland.

Subsequence.

1. We tear the tray with our hands into separate segments according to the cells in which the eggs were. It takes two cells to create one flower.
2. We divide the resulting cups into four petals (you can make more). To do this, we tear the cup, but not completely. It should look like a flower. We also tear off the petals a little at an angle to imitate real ones.
3. The box can be pre-painted in any color you like.
4. To give the petals a natural shape, slightly moisten the edges. To do this, dip a soft-bristle brush in water and walk along the edge of the petals. It is important not to overdo it with liquid, otherwise the paper will become limp and lose its shape.
5. Use your fingers to press the relief of the petal from the inside. This creates a groove on the outside.
6. We will fix the flowers with a glue gun. On a flower between two petals we tear the paper to the very base of the flower. We thread the garland through the slot and press the paper back. Similarly, we tear the next flower and plant it on the previous one. The garland will already pass through two flowers.
7. The light bulb of the garland is already securely fixed, but we will additionally use glue. We apply it to the paper in the place where the garland passes and press it with our fingers for a few seconds. To make the garland more airy, it is better to leave two or three light bulbs between the flowers.
8. When all the flowers have taken their place on the garland, decorate it with ribbons. You can use any beautiful fabric. We tie it in a knot or a bow - as you like.

VIDEO INSTRUCTION Some useful tips

• These roses can be used to decorate a photo frame. It is better to paint the roses to match the color of the photo frame or, conversely, give them a contrasting shade and secure them with glue.
• Roses are suitable as decoration for napkin rings or seating cards for guests at the holiday table.

Funny cardboard fish

Sturdy cardboard from an egg tray will be useful for creating an unusual fish that looks very much like a real fish.

To work you will need:

• egg trays,
• glue gun or glue crystal,
• scissors,
• pen,
• two black peppercorns.

Subsequence.

1. Using scissors, cut off one cell from the tray. Then we need to round the corners. To do this, draw a line with a pen along which we cut off the excess with scissors.
2. We prepare 11-13 cells in this way.
3. We glue the cells, inserting one into the other. You should get a body with scales.
4. We crush one cell in half to get a tail. Using scissors, we make cuts on the tail.
5. From one cell we make the tail part. To do this, draw a line again with a pen and cut off the sharp ends of the cell along it, as in step 1.
6. Glue the tail part into the body. The last row We glue the scales to the tail part.
7. Let's use one more cell. Draw a dorsal fin on it and cut it out. We will also need side fins. If it’s difficult for you to draw, use a picture of a fish and draw the fins from it.
8. Glue on the fins and tail. Glue on the eyes - peppercorns, and draw a mouth with a pen.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION

Original photo frames

To create a craft you need:

• egg trays,
• cardboard,
• photograph or picture,
• pen,
• scissors,
• glue gun.

Subsequence.

1. We prepare the base - for this we take rectangular cardboard. Glue a photo or image onto it. There should be space left at the edges - at least a couple of centimeters on each side.
2. We cut the tray in the center of one of the rows with cells. Then we need to cut off the convex section of paper that separates the eggs from each other. To do this, draw a line along the outside of it with a pen, depicting a flower with petals. We cut this fragment along the line. We get a small paper flower.
3. We cut off a fragment of a tray with two cells, cutting off the sharp corners. We cut the cells together. Inside one of them we draw a flower with four petals. The center of the flower should be at the very bottom. Let's cut it out. We get a slightly larger flower than in step 2.
4. Glue the smaller flower into the larger one.
5. Inside another cell we draw a circle, and in it there are lines from the edge of the circle to the center. We cut it in a circle and make cuts along the lines, but without reaching the base. Glue the fragment inside the small flower.
6. Draw petals on paper and cut them out. We cut a little around the edges so that it looks like a real leaf.
7. Glue the resulting flower onto cardboard with a photo. We attach leaves nearby. You can glue them along the top and bottom borders of the frame, and place the flowers only in the corners.

You can also make several flowers of different sizes and place them close to each other in one corner of the frame. Another option is more flowers, but fewer leaves.

VIDEO

Useful ideas for home and garden

An egg container will definitely come in handy both at home and in the country.

It can be used as:

• Bird feeders - simply pour grain into the cells and hang the improvised feeder on a string.
• Stands for small things - coins, hairpins, jewelry.
• A bouquet of artificial flowers - create flowers according to the first master class from our article, attach a stem to them, paint them and place them in a vase.
• Container for growing seedlings - pour soil into the cells and plant the seeds.
• Craft boxes - paint the tray, lay out threads, buttons, glue a soft pad to the inside of the lid for storing needles and pins.
• Containers for storing crayons - your child will be happy to put them into compartments.

We hope that now you have no doubt that the egg tray can and should be used in household!

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Making papier-mâché from egg trays: step-by-step instructions

Egg trays are an ideal material for a papier-mâché mixture. The papier-mâché technique is in great demand not only as a way to create beautiful crafts, interior items, but also as one of the types of processing of outdated newspaper publications and egg cartons. This skill is now very common and is used in educational institutions, including kindergartens. The created products are durable, smooth and resistant to weather conditions, so they can be placed in rooms, left outside, as an element of decor in the courtyard of a private house or garden.

The technique involves the use of two techniques - pasting a certain base with pieces of newspaper or sculpting from a special mass. In this case, egg trays are often used. By collecting them, you can make a large enough sculpture for a winter or summer garden. And all you need are egg trays, water, glue.

Such easily accessible components will help you create stylish decorative elements.

PVA is the most common option. Its advantages include ease of use and the ability to form a waterproof film on the surface of the craft. This allows you not to use varnish to cover the surface in the future and expose the products outside without fear that they may become deformed.

Craftsmen often use wallpaper glue.

But for papier-mâché it should be diluted a little with water. Crafts made using such an adhesive composition will not be “afraid” of mold and mildew.

If it is not possible to purchase glue in a store, you can weld a well-known and affordable paste at home.

Using cheap components, especially egg trays, which are almost always thrown away, you can make any little things and decorate your living room, nursery, or kitchen with them. Often, with the help of this technique, craftsmen create beautiful sets for decorating the kitchen, table lamps in the form of fairy-tale characters, or Egyptian cats for decorating the living room.

Papier-mâché technique will help improve your interior

A feature of the technique and the main key to success is the accuracy of the sculpting. One of the important factors is to let each piece of the craft dry thoroughly. In this case, it will not fall apart or change over time.

Papier-mâché master class: flowers

You can make beautiful flowers using glue and egg trays.

For this you will need:

• 5 egg trays;
• Water;
• Scissors;
• PVA glue;
• White acrylic or gouache;
• Thermal gun;
• Thick wire (will serve as a stem for the flower);
• Paints, brushes.
• Colorless nail coating.

Painstaking work will delight you with flowers in your vase

Depending on how many flowers you plan to make, you will need a certain number of pieces of wire. There can be 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 - as many as you like. By the way, for flowers you can use the papier-mâché technique beautiful vase.

The adhesive composition is first prepared: the egg trays are soaked in warm water, after swelling, the water is drained and PVA or paste is added. The composition should have the consistency of not liquid, but not thick sour cream.

First of all, you need to stick the composition onto the wire. Moreover, if you plan to make a rose, you must immediately mold a stem with thorns. Leave until completely dry.

Flowers and leaves are made using the sculpting technique. They can be of different sizes, curved shapes or have smooth contours. To understand how to make them, it’s enough to remember how crafts are made from plasticine. The technique is identical.

Careful execution and adherence to instructions lead to amazing results.

All parts of the flowers are covered with white. It is better to give preference to gouache or acrylic coatings. Any paint can then be easily applied to them. After drying, the parts are painted in the appropriate colors: green for the stem, red, orange, yellow for the flowers, depending on what type of flowers is chosen.

The buds are attached to the stems with hot glue. Finally, the surfaces are torn with a colorless nail base. You can place butterflies on flowers, ladybugs.

Papier-mâché decorative elements using egg trays (video)

Papier-mâché for the garden

Hedgehog. A hedgehog will look beautiful and original in a garden with flowers, and you don’t need expensive components to make it. A papier-mâché hedgehog for the garden is a wonderful decorative element. You can mold a whole family of them. The main thing is to show maximum imagination. The hedgehog is based on an ordinary light bulb, because its structure resembles a hedgehog. But, it is possible to make an animal by sculpting it from a mass of papier-mâché (egg trays, water, glue).

If the method of using the base is chosen, the light bulb is pre-lubricated with oil so that it is not difficult to remove later. Things will go faster if you have two light bulbs at hand. The composition is applied to half the base, and you immediately need to form the animal’s face and spines. After drying, the halves of the future craft are removed and glued together with “Moment”. The legs are made from adhesive.

Papier-mâché will help decorate and transform your garden

The craft is covered with acrylic and painted in the appropriate color. Eyes and nose are drawn with a marker.

Gnome. Thanks to the papier-mâché technique, craftsmen create the most interesting compositions. And if there is artistic talent, then there is the opportunity to create large sculptures for the garden, for example a gnome. Of course, it will take a lot more time to make, because street gnomes are quite voluminous sculptures. And here it is important that each part dries well for the strength and durability of the structure.

You will need:

1. 5-liter empty plastic container (torso);
2. Balloon or ball (head);
3. 30-40 egg trays;
4. Water;
5. PVA glue or paste (about 1.5 l);
6. Paints and brushes;
7. White enamel;
8. Colorless coating varnish.

Egg trays and your imagination will be a good tool for improving your decor.

The plastic container and the ball are covered with a mass of papier-mâché. After drying, the bases are removed, and the cut halves of the body and head are glued together. A mass of papier-mâché is connected to each other. The face and hands are formed from the adhesive composition. After a while - the remaining parts - headdress, fingers, legs. After drying - cheeks, nose, eyes, beard. There is nothing complicated about this, the most important thing is that the material must dry well, so there will be a lot of it and if this rule is violated, the sculpture will “float”. You can make a gnome for the garden in different poses - he can sit, stand or look out, as your imagination dictates.

After creating a rough sculpture and drying it, cover it with white enamel, decorate it with paints, and apply varnish on top.

Paste for papier-mâché from egg trays

The recipe for making the mass is quite simple. To obtain high-quality material with your own hands, it is advisable to maintain a ratio of 13-14 egg cells and 14 liters of water. It is better to crush the egg cells before placing them in warm water. The papier-mâché mass should remain in this state for at least 10 hours. Ideally – 17-18. After time, the composition is rubbed by hand until completely crushed. The water is drained through a fine sieve or cheesecloth. The paper is again placed in the container and glue is added in such an amount that a homogeneous mass is obtained, but not liquid. Experts advise mixing the mixture with a mixer.

Ingenious papier-mâché sculptures from egg trays (video)

You can make almost anything using the papier-mâché technique - from Christmas decorations to a lighting fixture that will not be at all different from sophisticated and expensive.

Papier-mâché from egg trays (photo)

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Egg Tray Crafts! Lots of ideas!

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Are you still throwing away egg trays? But in vain! This is not only an indispensable material for making papier-mâché, trays can be used to create very beautiful roses for creating floral arrangements in the interior or for decorating gift wrapping self made, and a bunch of other original things! See for yourself how beautiful it is!

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You just need to go to the grocery store and buy chicken eggs for lunch or baking, and be sure to buy these eggs in a cardboard egg tray, as this is what you can use to create floral beauty for decorating your interior! (although, further you will see a chic bouquet of plastic containers)

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The papier-mâché technique is in great demand not only as a way to create beautiful crafts and interior items, but also as a type of recycling of outdated newspapers and egg cartons. This skill is now very common and is used in educational institutions, including kindergartens. The created products are durable, smooth and resistant to weather conditions, so they can be placed in rooms, left outside, as an element of decor in the courtyard of a private house or garden.

How to make papier-mâché from egg cartons

The technique involves the use of two techniques - pasting a certain base with pieces of newspaper or sculpting from a special mass. In this case, egg trays are often used. By collecting them, you can make a large enough sculpture for a winter or summer garden. And all you need are egg trays, water, glue.

A feature of the technique and the main key to success is the accuracy of the sculpting. One of the important factors is to let each piece of the craft dry thoroughly. In this case, it will not fall apart or change over time.

Papier-mâché master class: flowers

You can make beautiful flowers using glue and egg trays.

For this you will need:

• 5 egg trays;
• Water;
• Scissors;
• PVA glue;
• White acrylic or gouache;
• Thermal gun;
• Thick wire (will serve as a stem for the flower);
• Paints, brushes.
• Colorless nail coating.

The craft is covered with acrylic and painted in the appropriate color. Eyes and nose are drawn with a marker.

Gnome. Thanks to the papier-mâché technique, craftsmen create the most interesting compositions. And if there is artistic talent, then there is the opportunity to create large sculptures for the garden, for example a gnome. Of course, it will take a lot more time to make, because street gnomes are quite voluminous sculptures. And here it is important that each part dries well for the strength and durability of the structure.

Will be needed:

1. 5-liter empty plastic container (torso);
2. Balloon or ball (head);
3. 30-40 egg trays;
4. Water;
5. PVA glue or paste (about 1.5 l);
6. Paints and brushes;
7. White enamel;
8. Colorless coating varnish.

Recipe No. 1 for preparing papier-mâché mass

To prepare the mixture according to this method We can use not only different types of paper, but also cardboard scraps and so on. We also need finely sifted ash, preferably from a strong tree, and flour paste. From these components the mass for papier-mâché is prepared as follows:

1. The paper scraps are torn into small pieces, and then thrown into a pan filled with water, and the paper is allowed to soak. If you stir this mixture frequently, the process will go faster.

2. The paper mass, which has softened, is removed and then lightly squeezed excess water, put it in a plate or mortar and grind it properly. Next, put the mixture into a thick linen bag and squeeze out all the remaining water.

3. The resulting lump is dried in an oven or in the sun, and after it has dried, it is ground on a grater so that the paper flakes feel like cotton.

4. The mass, grated in this way, is mixed on a board with ordinary flour paste using a wooden spatula until it becomes a thick dough.

5.Then the lump, which we filled with flour paste, is rolled out on a board with a rolling pin and laid out so that it resembles a wreath.

6. Pour finely sifted ash into the hole in the middle, and then pour cool water over it a little at a time and stir until all the ash is completely saturated with this water. Then the “paper wreath” and ash are mixed and stirred thoroughly.

7. We put the resulting mass in a mortar or pan and mix thoroughly, after which we get the desired mixture for papier-mâché, which can be used immediately.

Recipe No. 2: preparing mass for papier-mâché

1. To begin, take four kilograms of fabric scraps and soak them in water for several days, and then boil them for three hours in the same water.

2. Transfer the mass into several different containers and turn it into a liquid, smooth pulp using a whorl.

3. Pour the slurry from small containers into a large one, and then add three kilograms of burnt, finely crushed magnesia, as well as three kilograms of flour (rye), one kilogram of quicklime, finely crushed lime and at least fourteen liters of hot starch paste. All this is properly mixed and left for a couple of days.

4.After the mixture has stood, drain the remaining water and again let the mixture stand for the same amount of time - this will make it even thicker.

5.When the mass stands right time, it can be pressed into molds, and the finished objects, after drying, are processed on a lathe, with sandpaper or glass paper, a file or just a knife.

6.To give the product greater strength, you can immerse it in boiling oil, and after it dries, polish it with pumice powder and varnish it.

RecipeNo. 3 pulp for papier-mâchéwith the addition of starch and wood glue

To prepare pulp for papier-mâché at home, use paper, which, after getting wet, can be easily ground into a homogeneous mass - these are newspapers, toilet paper, paper towels.

Prepare: mixer, newspapers, bowl, PVA glue, glue consisting of starch and wood glue (it makes the product durable), a sieve or gauze in several folds (canvas bag).

1. Tear the newspaper into small pieces about 1-2 centimeters.

2. Place the paper in a mixer, cover with water and mix, constantly adding pieces of newspaper. If you don’t have a mixer, then pieces of paper can be poured with hot water (the water should only cover the paper), after a few hours the paper will soften and it can be ground to obtain a homogeneous mass.

3. Transfer the resulting paper mass into a sieve or cheesecloth to drain, then transfer to a bowl. At this stage you need to add a tablespoon of starch glue and a tablespoon of wood glue. Stir everything well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

4. If the mixture is not sticky, you can add a little more glue, but do not overdo it so that the mass does not crack too much. For greater strength of the product, you can add sawdust.

Recipe No. 4 with the addition of wallpaper glue and PVA glue

The recipe for paper pulp for papier-mâché is the same as in the recipe above, only instead of starch paste and wood glue, add a tablespoon of wallpaper glue and a tablespoon of PVA glue. You need to look at the mass, if there is little stickiness, then you can add more glue than a tablespoon.

Recipe No. 5 with the addition of chalk, starch paste and wood glue

Pour boiling water over the pieces of paper and leave for 24 hours, boil until the fibers dissolve, squeeze and loosen the resulting paper pulp. Then add chalk and mix everything thoroughly. Add starch paste and wood glue to the pulp, stir to obtain the consistency of liquid dough. This mass is poured into molds or applied in layers.

Recipe No. 6 from egg trays

Chop the egg trays, pour boiling water over them and leave for a day. Transfer the resulting pulp into a mixer and beat. Squeeze well and add two parts wallpaper glue and one part PVA glue.

You can also add gypsum, clay, and sawdust to the paper pulp.

Video tutorial on preparing pulp for papier-mâché