Doing simple craft will let you practice your creativity. Using old and used materials is a big help to our environment to reduce wastes. Recycling waste materials gives so much benefits to us and to our mother earth. this is why I am always encouraging everyone to please recycle. Recycling is also a big help to our kids' school project so we can help them to them every time they have to make one. If you're a stage mom like me, I'm sure you're always searching and learning things to teach our kids so I hope this one will benefit moms like me.
A tissue holder is one of the things we needed for maintaining our personal hygiene; a news paper is our daily morning companion to keep us updated everyday. These two can work together to give us a useful handicraft product which concerns our personal care.This project is about making a tissue paper holder from old news paper, it's an easy DIY craft which you and your kids will enjoy doing together. We can do various crafts with old news papers, in my previous blogs, I wrote tutorials about making different handicrafts using recycled news paper such as: how to make a handbag newspaper and how to recycle newspaper to wedding souvenir. You can also make a tissue paper made from old magazine or a paper grocery bag. You can also make different products to complete your recycled craft collection, all you have to do is find the best molder to your project and you can make the best recycled product from old news paper.
Why do we have to twist news paper before weaving? answer: weaving news paper will give strength to the product as we do the weaving unlike fold only, it has a tendency to break or tear easily.
For basic twisting of news paper, please refer to above links for step by step folding and twisting of newspaper. The weaving procedure in making a news paper tissue holder is very easy, so fun and exciting. Do this project together with your whole family during your bonding moment.
Tissue Holder made of recycled news paper |
Folding and Weaving Procedure:
- Forming the bottom using twisted news paper. Stick with glue. Folding four times will add strenght to the base of our tissue paper holder.
- Use a molder to form the shape of a tissue holder. You can't make a good shape without a pattern molder, so using a round shaped container is a must.
- Make a cover the same procedure as the body but leave a hole at the center. Cover is a bit larger than the body of the tissue paper holder.
- Coat with varnish for finishing.