Basket for toys with their own hands. Useful crafts

In every family where there is a child, you need a basket for toys. With his own hands to make it from improvised materials is not difficult. By the way, "crafts from trash" today are extremely popular. This kind of needlework is called "recycling".

The fastest way to make a basket for toys

If there is an arena in the house, which it is a pity to throw out (and what if it is useful again?), It can easily be "made" to work even if the baby has already grown up. In fact, there are no unnecessary things if the owner has a well-developed imagination, since making a basket for toys from the arena is a trifling matter!

You just need to take a large piece of cloth, in the middle to install the arena. The edges of the material beautifully drape the frame, wrapping the fabric around and fastening the creases with threads or a stapler. Inside the arena sew lining, which should match its size. On the edge of the arena-box you can let out a ruche or beautiful past, lace, ribbon.

A cardboard box is a wonderful material for crafts!

Do not throw away large boxes after buying something, because making a basket for toys from it is quite simple. It is possible for the strength to make several turns of scotch on the frame, and then just paste bright pictures on top.

But some masters are not satisfied with simple methods. They build cardboard from the most real houses, palaces in which do not stack a heap everything, and where toys "live". Of course, for the manufacture of such "doll towns" the needlewoman will need a lot of patience, diligence and skill.

Calculation of dimensions for a cylindrical box of linoleum, covered with a cloth

The original basket for toys, made by own hands, can turn out literally from the most unnecessary things. It is enough to cut out details according to the proposed drawing. Rectangle (sidewall) has an arbitrary width - this will be the height of the box. But the length will need to be calculated by the formula, measuring the radius of the circle-bottom. It is equal to 2X3,14Cradius of the bottom.

You can measure the circumference by using a thread. Carefully spread it on the edge of the bottom, the thread is cut at the junction. This is the length of the rectangle, which will become the lateral part of the box.

You can go back the way by cutting out the sidewall first. Turning the rectangle into a pipe, it is set with the butt on the newspaper and traced from the bottom with a pencil. This will be the pattern of the bottom of the cylinder.

If all calculations are done correctly and the cut is made correctly, sewing a basket for toys will not be very difficult.

Master class of sewing a cylindrical box for toys

1. From the linoleum 2 pieces are cut out.
2. The edges of the rectangle are joined with a stapler or sewed with a strong thread, for example, fishing line.
3. From the fabric, a lining is cut out - also 2 parts, a circle and a rectangle.
4. Stitched from the rectangle "pipe", folding the material face inward.
5. Sew the bottom-circle on one side of the "pipe" so that the front part is inside, and the seams are out. This part is not necessary to turn out.
6. From the pieces of jeans, sitchik, old coat or other worn out things of cloth collect the upper side of the casing. Squares, rectangles or triangles are stitched together so that a canvas is obtained that is the same size as the pattern. It is necessary to make a casing a little (1 cm approximately) more than a linoleum cylinder, because it will be pulled on the body. Also sometimes used in the manufacture of a sealant, which increases the size of the casing.
7. To make a beautiful basket for toys, sewing their own hand from unnecessary trash, it is decorated on top with appliqué. You can sew pockets, bows, buttons. If desired, the application can be glued.
8. Sew the "tube" of the casing, by folding the canvas face-down inside. It is necessary to select pieces of fabric in such a way that the joint of the joints of the parts coincides with the main seam of the fabric.
9. The bottom of the casing is sewn as well as the lining.
10. This part needs to be turned out so that the seams are inside the cylinder.
11. You can use the sealant for the manufacture. For him fit sintepon, old thin blanket, plaid, coat fabric. Especially important is the use of the sealant, if the casing is made of a fairly thin material: chintz, silk, spatula, raincoat and so on. From it, the details are cut out according to the same pattern, but they are made in duplicate.
12. You can glue the sealant on the frame on both sides. You can fix it with a stapler, wrapping a "pipe" of linoleum.
13. First lay a circle of linoleum with a sealant on the bottom of the casing.
14. Inside the cylinder of the casing, a lining cylinder is inserted.
15. On the edge of the bottom, all layers of the article are fastened with a thread.
16. Now you need to attach the sidewall frame between the casing and the lining.
17. The edge of the product is stitched, processed with beautiful beika.

Box for toys with a frame from a cardboard box

Often at home there is a suitable size of a cardboard box left after the purchase of any equipment. In this case, it is quite simple to make a basket for toys with your own hands. The frame is already ready, it remains only to cut the lining, casing and sealant.

Using the previously described algorithm for manufacturing a cylindrical box for toys, the master can slightly modify the process. If you use a rectangle instead of a circle for a casing, a lining and a sealant, you will get no less wonderful baskets for storing toys. To the top sometimes they sew handles. Then they turn into big bags, which are convenient to take with them to the cottage or picnic.

And if you put a little imagination and make a window in the boxes with a net or a transparent fabric stretched in them, sew the door on the zipper, then such toys can be used as playhouses. However, then you have to take everything out of the box and turn it upside down.

And you can do without a skeleton at all, taking a fairly tight seal, for example, from a coat of cloth. Then the basket will be soft and even empty formless. But when all the toys are folded into it, it will "grow" in front of your eyes!

Tips for needlewomen who know how to knit

It can turn out a lovely soft basket for toys, if the casing is not made of fabric, but knit or crocheted. And you can use not only yarn, but also old sheets and duvet covers cut into ribbons and even dimensionless pantyhose.

Fabric tapes need to be cut 2 cm wide, stitching them into one strip. To work the master you should take the largest hook.

But tights are cut in a spiral, stretching a little strip. As a result, it is twisted into a tube - from this "yarn" and knit a casing.

Basket for children's toys from the rope

Creatively look original baskets for children's toys, for the manufacture of which will suit the usual twine like that in the mail bind packages.

It is quite easy to make such a basket. You just need to choose the frame of the required shape and size or make it separately. It will be beautiful if you carefully camouflage even the usual cardboard box. But you can independently make frames from wood, plinth, baguette or rigid wire. The obtained walls are joined by sewing together with strong threads.

Wicker baskets for toys

Today things made in the technique of weaving became very fashionable. Wicker baskets for toys are made from a variety of materials: willow rods, newspaper tubes, stripes of denim, wires in isolation, harnesses from old cloth and so on.

It should be noted immediately that the items made from real twigs - willow vines, rattan - look extremely impressive. However, the cut ends of the branches will necessarily be present inside the basket. And no matter how the master tries to hide them, they can injure the baby at any time. Therefore, do not choose your choice of these materials.

Many are fond of weaving from newspaper tubes. It can also look quite presentable - colored and coated tubules are difficult to distinguish from natural material. But such baskets are not strong. Yes, and wash them quite difficult.

But soft wire in color insulation will be an excellent material for weaving. Begin work should be from the center of the bottom. It is best to take a fairly strong ring, to which to attach the rays of the wire segments, equal to the height of the basket plus the radius of the bottom. Further fixed "ducks" - wire, which will be intertwined with the base across. She's in a circle in a checkerboard pattern and weave a row behind her.

If desired, you can even link a drawing using material of several different colors.

It is very important to remember that any item that the child will use should be as safe as possible!