Paper cups are a tool for drinking water, but we can also make some cute and fun handmade toys out of them. Of course, small children are also happy to do these projects with their parents, not only to develop the children's brain thinking ability, but also to enhance the children's hands-on ability, parents must do more crafts with their children.
What crafts can you usually use paper cups for?
1. Paper Cup Critters
Paper Cup Octopus: Make a cute octopus shape by coloring, punching and threading paper cups.
Paper Cup Bunny: Use paper cups as the body of the bunny, with colored paper, twisted sticks and other materials to make ears and tails, to create a living and breathing paper cup bunny.
Paper cup animal dolls: paper cups can also be used to make a variety of animal dolls, such as kittens, puppies, etc., through cutting, pasting and painting skills, so that the paper cups to give new life.
2. Paper cup decorations
Paper Cup Crown: Cut and decorate paper cups into the shape of a crown, with hair bands or headbands, to become a creative headdress for children.
Paper cups wind chimes: use the bottom and edge of the paper cups to make holes, thread and hang small bells or decorations to make a unique paper cups wind chimes.
Paper Cup Lampshade: Punch holes in the bottom of paper cups or cut them into specific shapes and use them as lampshades to add warmth and creativity to the home environment.
It's really fun to make a self-running rabbit out of paper cups. Kids can play with it for hours without their parents. Of course, parents should never disturb their children when they are concentrating on playing.
1.Running Paper Cup Bunny Tutorial In 9 Steps
Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆☆
Age: 5+ years old
Time-consuming: within 40 minutes
Supplies:
Paper Cups
marker (loanword)
Plastic Bottle Caps
Hot melt adhesive
Clay
Rubber bands
Transparent tape
Scissors
Step 1: The paper cups are instantly adorable with the eyes, nose, and mouth of the rabbit drawn on them with markers.
Step 2: Fill the bunny pattern with nice colors and draw its whiskers on the left and right sides as well.
Step 3: The paper cup bunnies look even more adorable when you paste two big cute ears on the bottom of the cup.
Step 4: The next step is to prepare a wheel that can be rolled, we used two plastic water bottle caps that were filled with clay.
Step 5: Two clay-filled bottle caps are glued together with hot melt glue to make a rolling “tire”.
Step 6: Using a rubber band, like in the picture above, and sticking it together with clear tape, we have a tire that can be rolled automatically by the tightness or looseness of the leather band.
Step 7: After gluing with clear tape, it looks like the picture above.
Step 8: Using scissors, cut two slits in the paper cups where the mouths of the cups are located, as in the picture above.
Step 9: Tighten this with a rubber band bottle cap tire, and then put this paper cup bunny on the ground, this paper cup bunny flew out, is not very cute.
This adorable paper cup bunny is so easy to make, just follow the 9 steps above and you're good to go. Parents and kids can make this fun craft together to exercise their hands-on skills and also increase parent-child bonding. Children love this kind of project, and it's so meaningful that they can play as toys with the handmade work when they are done.
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2.Paper Cup Airplane Tutorial In 10 Steps
Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆☆
Age: 5+ years old
Time-consuming: within 40 minutes
Supplies:
Paper cup
Chopsticks
Knife
Scissors
Plastic bottle caps
Straws
Rubber bands
Double-sided adhesive
Step 1: Punch a hole of different sizes in the bottom of the paper cup and in the body of the bottle and have a wooden chopstick ready.
Step 2: Make a cone of paper and pass it through this hole in the bottle as shown above.
Step 3: An airplane tail is pasted on top of this cone as if it were a bow.
Step 4: Glue on a blue semicircle to decorate the airplane.
Step 5: Attach a yellow pentagram to decorate the airplane.
Step 6: Make a motion in the center of the plastic bottle cap and pass it through a short straw.
Step 7: The inside of the straw in the center of the cap also passes through a rubber band, as shown above.
Step 8: Attach a short chopstick to each end of the rubber band, at the bottom of the cup and at the mouth of the cup.
Step 9: Then above the chopsticks at the bottom of the cup, attach a cross-shaped tab with double-sided tape.
Step 10: Rotate the chopsticks above so that the rubber band is in a tightened position, then let go and it will rotate automatically.
As soon as we let go, the propeller of the airplane will start to turn. What little kid wouldn't love such a fun paper cup craft project?
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3.Paper Cup Flying Gyro Tutorial In 6 Steps
Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆
Age: 3+ years old
Time-consuming: within 30 minutes
Supplies:
paper cup
marker (loanword)
Scissors
Step 1: Mark the mouths of the paper cups with a marker, ready to cut vertically into 8 equal pieces.
Step 2: Use scissors to divide the paper cups into 8 equal parts, as shown above, don't make a mistake!
Step 3: As in the picture above at the bottom part of the paper cup cup, mark with a marker, the marking part should be folded up.
Step 4: Fold as shown above, marking every other need before folding upwards.
Step 5: Folded up as shown above, the paper cup flying gyro is ready.
Step 6: Find a place where you can stand tall and throw this Paper Cup Flying Gyro down to see it spinning in the air over and over again, it's a lot of fun.
Kids love these little crafts that they can play with afterward, not just because they are fun to make, but they also have a lot of fun while playing.
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4.Paper Cup Bicycle Craft Tutorial In 6 Steps
To make a bike out of paper cups, you only need two paper cups and straws and toothpicks, in fact, the process of making it is not as difficult as you think, after reading the following tutorial, you can also do it quickly.
Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆☆
Age: 6+ years old
Time-consuming: within 60 minutes
Supplies:
paper cups
marker (loanword)
Scissors
Eyedropper
Toothpicks
Step 1: Prepare two paper cups, just cut the bottom of the cups with scissors and use them as “wheels” for the bike.
Step 2: Then draw the hub of a tire on the bottom of the paper cup with a marker and punch a hole through a short straw in the center.
Step 3: A long straw is folded in half and then a toothpick is threaded through the center straw at the bottom of the cup, thus completing a supportable tire.
Step 4: Attach the two supportable tires like in the picture above.
Step 5: Then attach a bike saddle and handlebars to it and you're all done.
Step 6: Push the handle and the paper cup bike rolls forward, kids are happy to play with it and it's very fun.
We can make a handmade bicycle out of paper cups, or we can make it out of discarded cardboard. There is a lot of waste in life that can be utilized, so use your imagination with your children to create some fun craft projects.
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5.Paper Cups Big Fish Eat Little Fish Craft Tutorial In 6 Steps
Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆
Age: 4+ years old
Time-consuming: within 30 minutes
Supplies:
paper cups
Pencils
Colored Pencils
Scissors
This one draw on a cup craft requires only two cups with different sized fish to create such a fun paper cup craft project.
Step 1: Prepare two white paper cups of the same size, or you can choose other colors, just draw on them to be able to see.
Step 2: Use a pencil to draw the shape of a large fish on the body of the paper cup mug.
Step 3: Then use color pens to fill this fish with a good color, as the picture above, this colorful fish looks good?
Step 4: Where the mouth of the walleye is located, cut a large hole with scissors as in the picture above.
Step 5: Paint small fish on the inside of the paper cup cups, and you can paint your favorite size and color of fish to your liking.
Step 6: By rotating the body of the cup inside, you can see the little fish swimming as if being eaten by a big fish, and it's very fun for little kids to play with.
Paper cups are widely used in children's crafts, whether as decorations, toys or household items, they can be uniquely creative and practical. Through simple steps of cutting, pasting and painting, you can turn ordinary paper cups into fun and creative children's crafts.
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