Disc scarecrow. Wildlife mosaic. Christmas decoration "Owl"

As you know, the most perfect shape created by nature is a circle. That is why throughout history man has chosen it for his important inventions, from the wheel to CDs. If you are not yet ready to create something equally significant, then it is quite possible to try to breathe new life into objects that are not suitable for use for their main purpose. For example, many people don’t even imagine what can be done from old disks! But from them not only original decorative elements are obtained, but also devices useful in everyday life.

What can be made from old CDs: watches

The first thing that comes to mind if you want to find a use for an old CD is to use it as a watch dial. For this you will need nothing at all: a CD, a glue gun, paints, beads, small objects and the like. And of course, you will need to get a working mechanism from a battery-powered watch.

How to design the dial depends only on your taste. The only thing that needs to be done is to apply 12 marks along the upper edge of the disc at equal distances from each other and draw or stick the numbers from 1 to 12. Next, you can paint the surface of the CD, make an applique or collage from photographs of an idol or family members. Finally, you need to carefully remove the hands from the clock mechanism, insert its rod into the hole in the disk, secure it with tape or the same glue and put on the hands.

Napkin holder

Three CDs can be used to make a beautiful table decoration. For this you will also need stained glass paints, shells and a glue gun. Making a napkin holder should be done in the following order:

Picture frame

Do you know what can be made from old disks? The photos presented to your attention will not let you lie: seemingly unnecessary trash turns into cute, original little things. Yes, at least take a photo frame. Yes Yes! The discs make very beautiful photo frames that will decorate any interior. For this craft you will need two sheets of thick cardboard, a glue gun and paint in a tube with a fine tip. You should also take 2-3 CDs.

To make a frame, in the first cardboard sheet you need to cut out a rectangle, oval or heart of such a size that the most interesting part of the photograph is visible through the resulting hole. Then they take the disk and cut it into pieces of different shapes and sizes. To prevent the glitter from falling off, it is recommended to immerse it in hot water for 2-3 minutes before starting work. Next, you need to glue the resulting pieces onto the first piece of cardboard with a hole (as tightly as possible), so as to cover its entire surface. To complete the work, the gaps between the pieces of the “mosaic” are covered with paint from a tube and allowed to dry. Glue a loop to the second sheet of cardboard so that the frame can be hung on the wall, and coat the edges with glue. Place the photo and the outer mosaic part of the frame. Wait until the product dries.

New Year's toys

Now we’ll tell you what you can do from old disks on the eve of the New Year. These products are an excellent basis for making holiday toys, such as funny snowmen, which can be hung on a door or window. To do this, take 2 CDs and cut out a circle from one of them with a diameter equal to 2/3 of the original one to make the head of a snowman. Then they stick white paper on it and draw a funny face, and then attach a “carrot nose” in the form of a cone made of orange paper.

When the head is ready, move on to the body. It’s very simple to make: you need to stick white paper on the workpiece, and multi-colored buttons on top. There is also a more original option: lightly inflate a white ball, tie it and glue it to the disk so that the “tail” is on the surface and a “tummy” is formed. Then buttons and a hat are made from paper and the head and body are connected using a white rope, which is threaded through holes made in the corresponding parts. Glue on the hat and decorate the snowman's tummy. If desired, make a panicle (for example, from several twigs that are wrapped with colored adhesive tape). Finally, glue 4 white table tennis balls as the arms and legs of the snowman.

Restoration of New Year's toys

Few people know that you can make Christmas balls from old CDs. More precisely, with their help you can turn peeling toys into real fashionable and creative New Year's decor items. To do this, you should resort to the same mosaic technique. It involves cutting the CD into small pieces, gluing them onto the surface of the ball and painting the gaps with paint.

Lamp

And you know what? You can also make an original lamp from old disks! Making it is extremely simple. You only need 7 old CDs. 5 of them need to be glued together in such a way as to form a cube without one face. Then they take a very simple garland for advertising lighting. It is wound into a ball and placed in the center of the cube, bringing out the power plug and 1-2 light bulbs into the holes of the disks. After this, glue the 6th disk and attach the cube to the last CD base.

Crafts from a used hard drive

Human ingenuity is limitless. You can verify this once again by finding out what can be made from old hard drive. It turns out that such a “veteran” can be used as a basis for a sharpener that will solve the problem of dull household knives. And you don’t even have to do anything special: you just need to dismantle it and connect it to the network. By the way, you can also make a device for making cotton candy from a hard drive. To do this you will need: a basin with a hole in the middle, bicycle spokes, a tin can and the same lid for it, as well as tools that can be found in any home.

The procedure is as follows:

What can be made from old car wheels?

Do you like kebabs? Then old disks may come in handy. True, in this case we are not talking about CD products. It is not known for certain who first came up with the idea of ​​what could be made from old rims barbecue, but the idea is very interesting! To implement it you will need a corner, two disks and fittings. Next, the following actions are performed:

• clean the surface of the disk in three places and weld pieces of the corner;
• turn over the disk with legs;
• brew central hole using any pieces of metal;
• put another disk on top and weld it to the first one;
• using a grinder, cut out a door in the grill;
• process all cut points with a file;
• weld a hinge to the door;
• repeat the same action with the grill;
• install the door;
• Handles made of reinforcement are welded on the sides of the structure to make it convenient to carry.

That's it, you have an excellent device for frying kebabs, which will come in handy during picnics and in the countryside!

Now you know what can be done from old disks. Surely, as you work, you will have other ideas, and maybe you will be able to invent something no less important than the wheel!

There is a simple psychological test for creativity: a person is given a piece of paper with circles printed on it. In the limited time, he must use as many circles as possible, making them the basis for small drawings.

Everything is evaluated: the originality of the drawing, the ability to connect several circles with each other, integrate individual elements into a single plot, etc. Making crafts from disks with your own hands is very similar to this exercise.

What can you turn a set of similar useless objects into? Let's go through the archives of folk wisdom.

Coasters for cups and magnets made from disks

Cup coasters are one of the most obvious ideas for crafts made from CDs. You can glue felt circles to the disks and decorate their surface with scraps of fabric. You can do it differently: paint the discs in different colors and use a stencil to decorate them with a contrasting pattern.

To make a ladybug craft from computer disks, you need to cut out two circles the size of the disks: red (cut in half) and black and a dozen small black circles. Connect the parts, glue the eyes and magnet on the back, and the ladybug will be ready to live on your refrigerator.

To prevent the craft from flying off to the floor, take a larger magnet: the disk weighs quite a bit.

DIY CD crafts for children

Animals from disks

Children are fascinated by the iridescent shine and shape of the discs. Together with your kids, you can arm yourself with scissors, colored paper and cardboard and turn a stack of old CDs into a home zoo.

Fish with mirrored sides turn out especially great. They can be hung on ropes from the ceiling or some beam - they will sway in the wind and scatter the glare of the sun.

For such hanging crafts, you need 2 disks. Glue them together and both sides of the craft will shine.

Circular loom

You can use discs to make simple looms for children. Start by collecting thread scraps or unraveling a few old sweaters.

Start by pulling the warp threads through. Wrap the disk with a long thread, distributing it evenly over the disk, as shown in the photo. The working side will be the side with the pattern.

Cut out a shuttle from plastic packaging (for example, shampoo). Tie one end of the thread to the shuttle and the other to one of the warp threads at the center. Start weaving. To do this, alternately pass the shuttle with the thread above and below the warp threads.

From time to time, cut the thread and tie another one to it - you will get a woven mini-rug with concentric rings. From several dozen of these rugs you can make a bright wall panel.

Mirror mosaic: DIY crafts from broken disks

Break your rims! This will allow you to step away from the circle shape and expand your options.

Using scissors or pliers, break the discs into small pieces. You will get miniature mirrors that can be used to decorate any surface: frames, flower pots, Christmas balls. Whatever you do will shine.

To realize their various creative ideas and fantasies, needlewomen sometimes choose the most unexpected materials. One of these is the object of scientific and technological progress - the compact disc.

Once upon a time, shiny round CDs replaced cassettes, but now they are replaced by flash drives and other inventions, more convenient and modern, because time does not stand still. Today, most people prefer to watch movies online or download information directly to their computer, bypassing third-party media, so CDs are increasingly gathering dust on the shelves in our homes.

However, do not rush to throw them away, since even these old and unnecessary (and sometimes simply spoiled) materials can make wonderful products. You will only need a little creative imagination to make beautiful, original and practical things with your own hands - crafts from disks.

And decoration, and benefits or unlimited possibilities of old CDs

So, instead of throwing away old storage media, it’s worth trying to give them a second life, especially since CDs have a lot of advantages: they shine, shimmer, reflect light, plus they are very easy to process and durable material, additional benefits It can become round in shape, or even have a hole in the middle.

Well, there are a huge number of ideas for all kinds of crafts from disks:

• firstly, from this material you can create a lot of interesting things for children with your own hands - mobile phones, large magnets, key rings, original Christmas tree decorations, toys, coasters and pendants for nursery decor, mosaics, etc.;

• In addition, children themselves will be interested in working with beautiful and shiny round pieces, from which such funny crafts are made: together with your child, you can make an applique or an unusual card from disks as a gift, for example, flowers for March 8th or a spaceship for Cosmonautics Day , and cartoon lovers will be able to acquire a whole collection of cheerful Smeshariki created from old CDs;

• you can use them both for home decoration (mosaic panels, paintings, various decorative elements, design of vases, lamps, lampshades, candlesticks, mirrors, boxes, photo frames, etc.), and for use, creating quite practical, functional ones and products needed in the household (CDs are used to make stands for small items, for storing jewelry or for hot items, screens and curtains, clocks, they are used as decoration for walls and ceilings, they are used to decorate furniture and any interior items);

• crafts made from CDs can also be global - for example, extravagant fashion designers are known to decorate clothes or accessories with CDs, embroider on them, make jewelry, and designer Sean Avery even creates incredible installations and sculptures that have become objects of modern art from this wonderful material.

Secrets and features of working with CDs

In order for making crafts from discs to bring only benefits, positive emotions and good results, you need to know some secrets and features of working with this material.

1. If you need to “cut” a CD disk with your own hands, that is, get a lot of shiny small fragments out of it, then the best option would be to cut it with a regular hacksaw. To prevent the material from delaminating or breaking during sawing, take your time and work smoothly. If you need to cut along a curved line, bend the workpiece slightly up or down.
2. If you need to drill holes in the CD, it is best to burn them with an awl heated over a fire. Just do this in a well-ventilated area.
3. To attach decorative elements, use glue (you can use “Moment” or PVA) or take fishing line or wire, depending on how you want to decorate the future craft made from disks.
4. For decoration, you can take anything: self-adhesive film, fabric, fur, fringe, beads, beads, sequins, colored cardboard or paper, napkins, threads, pebbles, shells, etc.

Let's get started

If you have never made crafts from disks before, then start with the simplest.

• You can get acquainted with the material by making toys or interesting products for children. Try making coasters for cups and a teapot together with your child. To do this, you don’t have to carry out any serious manipulations with the disk - you can leave it in its original form, but if you cover it or cover it with fabric (some craftswomen put cotton pads inside), it will be much more beautiful and practical. You can decorate the coasters with pebbles or coffee beans, do decoupage, pasting them with napkins with a pattern, paint them with acrylic paint, and varnish them.

• Another functional thing is a stand for various small items. It can be used for pencils or other stationery that constantly gets lost in your home. Just take any cylindrical object and glue it onto the disk as a base. Then the product can be painted, braided or covered with beads or other decor.
• Another useful craft made from discs is a stand or napkin holder. To make it, you need three disks - one for the base, and from two the holder itself will be formed. Take these two discs and carefully cut them about a quarter in a straight line. Then glue your blanks to the base disk and decorate.

• Make original Christmas tree decorations with your own hands together with your child. The material can either be simply decorated with colored paper, glitter, tinsel, painted in the form of various characters, or you can make mosaic balls - cut the disk into small elements and paste them over a transparent ball-blank.

• To make crafts from CDs, such as hanging decorations for the home or all kinds of mobile phones, tie the disks together at a certain distance using a strong thread or beautiful twine and hang them on a mount bent in an arc. You can also attach the discs to rings, but then you will need to drill holes in them. This is how large curtains or original partitions between rooms are made. You can decorate the material however you like.

• If your child needs an interesting craft for school or kindergarten for any holiday - March 8th, Cosmonautics Day or any other, use old disks. Kids will surely love the funny and cheerful Smeshariki on a shiny basis - to make cartoon characters, you just need to cut out their main details from paper (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, paws) and glue them onto the body, the role of which will be played by a round disk. You can immediately take colored paper or color it later. Any other figures are made in the same way. And, for example, the sun can be depicted by gluing to a disk many multi-colored rays - rolled strips of colored paper (it is better to glue them to a paper base, which must first be attached to back side disk), then draw the sun’s face and decorate it.

• The material will be useful both as a photo frame and as an unusual photo album. If you want to make a frame, attach decorations to the bottom and top of the disk, and stick the selected photo on it (it should fit the round frame and size). Instead of a photograph, there can be just a beautiful picture that can be hung as a decoration. Combine many of these blanks and you will get a whole album.
• Any child will be happy with an interesting educational book that his mother will make with her own hands. Cover the discs with felt and decorate them as you wish, then secure the pieces with ribbon.

• It is quite easy to design the material in decoupage style. Thanks to this technique, you can make magnets, coasters, and simply beautiful decorations for your home. You will need special napkins for decoupage with various images. Carefully separate the top layer from the selected napkin (you will be left with a design) and glue the napkin onto a disk previously coated with glue. Make sure there are no wrinkles (you can smooth it out with a cotton pad). Cover the craft with varnish (if you want it to be a stand, glue a circle cut from flexi to the back side so that it does not slide on the table).
• A candlestick can be made by simply gluing various decorations onto a disk and placing a candle inside, or you can heat it around the edges so that they bend into a fancy shape, and only then decorate.

• It is a little more difficult to work with a mosaic made from disks, but once you get the hang of it, you can quickly cut the material into many pieces and paste them over vases and flower pots, mirrors, photo frames, any other objects and even the surfaces or walls of your home.
• If you are familiar with electricity and technology, try making a clock or lamp from disks. In the first case, the principle of material design is the same as when making a stand using the decoupage technique, however, there is no need to seal the central hole - you will need to install a clock mechanism there, and then think about attaching the clock. A lamp can be made by stacking many disks in a high stack and placing a light bulb there. Or glue six blanks around the edges around the folded New Year's garland, attached to the base, and then remove several light bulbs through the holes of the disks.

• Skilled craftswomen demonstrate how to embroider or paint on discs, turning them into real objects of art.

There are many more interesting options and ideas. Let your creative imagination, inspired by them, help you create your own unique and original masterpieces or simply beautiful and useful things.

Perhaps this is one of the first ideas that comes to mind when we talk about CDs in the context of the “Do it yourself” section. That's right, the ability of the disc surface to reflect light and shimmer in different colors will come in handy at music and dance events. And the words “disc” and “disco” themselves are inextricably linked.

Prepare a base of papier-mâché (you can use an inflatable balloon) or foam and cover it with pieces of CD.

2. Decorate the collar on the shirt

Everything ingenious, as usual, is simple:

1. Cut the disk into triangles (or any other shapes) from which the mosaic will be made.

2. Glue it to the collar.

3. Decorate a mirror or photo frame

You can also decorate a mirror or make a shiny photo frame with CD pieces and glue. The technology here is the same, except that you can buy a photo frame, or you can make it yourself from cardboard.

4. Making a spinning top

Who said CD crafts have to be strictly practical or aesthetic? Here, for example, is an idea for those who just want to suffer a little nonsense. Let's make a spinning top and remember our childhood! And then we’ll compete with friends whose top will spin the longest.

The easiest way to make a spinning top from scrap materials is with a non-writing ballpoint pen and plasticine. Place the handle in the hole in the center of the disk and secure it with plasticine on both sides so that 1.5-2 cm of the handle with the rod is under the plane of the disk, and the rest is above it. We even have . Enjoy!

5. Christmas tree decoration

It seems New Year just passed, but before you know it, the next one is just around the corner. A ball decorated with pieces of CDs will look very stylish on the Christmas tree. And thanks to the reflective surface, it will seem as if the garland contains three times as many light bulbs as there are.

6. Owl - bird scarer

Dedicated to lovers of country apples

To prevent birds from pecking future jam or charlotte, you can hang a funny owl on a tree, which will be not only a cute, but also a practical decoration.

To create an owl you will need:

1. Unneeded CD
2. Caps from cans and beer bottles
3. Wire
4. Rustling elements for wings
5. Shilo
6. Eye screws

7. Decorative composition for the wall

If hanging photos in frames or on clothespins is too banal for you, you can decorate the wall with an original composition based on old CDs.

1. Cover the shiny surface of the disc with paint and wait until it dries completely.
2. Draw the future pattern with a pencil.
3. Remove a layer of paint along the pencil line with a sharp object.

You can imitate autographs of idols on the disc or write the names of your favorite groups.

8. Coasters for cups

This accessory will protect the furniture in the room from round traces of coffee, tea or anything stronger. Just paint the disc with acrylic paints as you please (you can use a pre-prepared stencil).

If you want to make life a little more complicated, instead of painting, you can make a round disc-shaped case.

Every home has a lot of old disks that have not been used for their intended purpose for a long time. Don't rush to throw away these shiny circles. They can be given a second life. For example, Elise Morin, a French artist, created an amazing installation “Sea of ​​Steel” using old disks. Of course, we are not talking about such masterpieces. However, you can create original interior details from shiny surfaces. Let's look at how you can use old disks.

Before you decide how to use old discs at home, you should study the technology for working with such material.

1. Sometimes it is necessary to make a hole in an CD. If you carry out such an activity with a nail, the surface may crack. To avoid this, it is recommended to heat the nail, for example over a gas burner. The hot metal will pass freely through the plastic. You will get a neat and even hole.
2. It is best to cut the discs with pruning shears. For extremely recalcitrant material, use the machine. Please note that there will be an extremely unpleasant odor. If you use scissors, then after work they will no longer be suitable.
3. Different discs have different levels of resistance. Blue discs cut best. In yellow and green ones, the iridescent film may peel off. It's worst to work with white discs. Many of them completely crumble.
4. If you want to give the disk an original shape, then use pliers to hold the shiny circle over a heat source (gas burner). To prevent it from burning, move it constantly. As soon as the plastic begins to melt, the material can be twisted, bent, and stretched.
5. And remember the most important rule. If you heat the disk, you must work in an open, well-ventilated place!

Scale details

If you have accumulated a lot of disks, then you can decorate the wall with them in an original way. In addition, in this case you will save on wallpaper.

The following tips will help you decide how to use old disks in your interior:

1. Shiny circles can be glued to the wall. If you layer them on top of each other, you can create the illusion of fish scales. To attach the discs to the surface, you can use either superglue. Advice: it’s better to hang such a masterpiece on wallpaper. After all, someday you will want to remove this beauty. Wallpaper will protect your walls from damage.
2. You can create an original curtain from disks. This decor will perfectly delimit the room. It's completely easy to create. It is necessary to make small holes in the disks and connect them together with small metal rings.
3. From this material you can create a wonderful wall decoration. After all, it has the ideal shape and size. Get creative and figure out how to use old CDs. For example, ordinary woolen fabric can be glued to a round surface. Attach bright original feathers to it. You can create an entire photo gallery from several circles. To do this, stick photographs of your household on disks and think about how to arrange the decor on the wall.

Decorative vase

When analyzing how you can use old disks, be sure to pay attention to items that are no longer in use. If you have an unwanted vase or ordinary vessel, you can make a unique thing out of it. It will not only decorate your home, but will also become your pride.

Decorating a vase will not cause any difficulties even for a novice master:

1. The discs must be cut into pieces. Their shape and size depend on your desire. The combination of large pieces with small ones looks original.
2. Using glue, attach the prepared parts of the disks to the vessel. If you have a complex design pattern in mind, then initially mark the vase.

Hot coasters

This is perhaps the simplest of the options for using disks. Their shape is simply created to be used as a hot tray. Of course, such a thing will not withstand a hot frying pan, but it will look great under a cup of hot tea.

You can make stands in several ways:

1. Cover the disc with a beautiful fabric, the colors of which will harmoniously fit into the atmosphere of the kitchen.
2. The surface can be painted with acrylic paints. If you want to reproduce the original drawing, use a stencil.
3. Don't know how or don't want to draw? Decorate the surface beautiful
4. If you need a stand for very hot dishes, then use the disk as a base. Glue small flat stones onto its surface.

Original watch

We continue to imagine how we can use old disks. A watch made from this material can become quite original and unique decor.

The manufacturing process is extremely simple:

1. You will need it. It can be purchased at a special craft store.
2. The clock mechanism is inserted into the hole of the disk and secured with a cardboard strip.
3. You can think about additional cutting. To do this, select a beautiful picture, print it and stick it on the disk.

Embroidered flowers

How to use old CDs at the dacha? Remember your crocheting, knitting or embroidery skills. Experiment using the disc as a base. Such decorative elements look simply great. On a shiny surface they resemble bright flowers.

They can be used in different ways:

1. By making several “flowers”, you can create an entire composition to decorate a wall in your home.
2. The elements are easily connected to each other using a linked chain. You will get an original curtain.
3. These “flowers” ​​will be a wonderful decoration for your garden. After all, they perfectly reflect the sun's rays and provide soft light.

As you can see, the possibilities for using old disks are truly endless. With original thinking and free time, you can create unique and completely extraordinary things.