Features of making gifts from diapers

In search of creative ideas for a gift for a newborn, we increasingly began to turn to manual labor. At the same time, it is important to make a present in a short time, because in the modern rhythm of life it is always lacking. In this case, a gift from diapers can help out, which everyone can make, regardless of their creative abilities.

Features:

A product for a newborn made of diapers can be called a special gift. It is always different, because it is given a certain shape, specific accessories and materials at hand are used. At the same time, in most cases, it does not take much time to work, and the finished result looks professional and quite impressive. Such gifts are memorable, the parents of the baby often take pictures of them together with their child as a keepsake.

You can put into business various little things that will definitely come in handy for the baby or caring for him. Basically, these are items of small size and weight. In addition to the diapers themselves, you can select hygiene products and even clothes to create a creative gift. That is why the gift should be called useful: in most cases there are few elements in it that will remain idle after unpacking.

Depending on the gender of the child, you can create a product for a boy or girl by decorating the gift with ribbons of the desired color. In addition, you can select the gift items in the desired color scheme.

It is also important to note that diaper gifts are not limited in the choice of shades. Therefore, you can experiment, completing the creative task set for yourself.

A diaper gift must obey a number of specific requirements. Here, like nowhere else, cleanliness and cleanliness of the workplace are important. Despite the fact that the gift is made by hand, the finished product must meet safety standards. Whatever its shape and size, the product must be packed in film, taking into account hygiene standards. Everything that you can buy in sealed containers.

Execution rules

Despite the fact that an unusual present is prepared at home, the implementation process must obey certain rules.

It is important to create the cleanest possible conditions not only for the workplace: it should be clean throughout the room, it is unacceptable for dust or tobacco smoke to walk through it and settle on the elements of the future gift. In addition, gloves can be used during work. If it is performed without them, it is imperative to wash your hands, and several times in the process.
Cover the work area with plastic wrap to ensure maximum cleanliness. Pampers are put on it, they are twisted exclusively from the front side, in no case are they turned inside out and, in general, they try to touch less often and only on business. The diapers will not undergo further heat treatment, it is important to understand this. However, all other items (eg ribbons, diapers) that will become part of the gift need to be processed (if they provide for it).

With regard to the size of the diapers, you can stop at the "two". Too large options are not needed, as well as small ones, which may not initially suit the baby. In order not to doubt the choice, you can ask your mother which diapers she trusts more. Considering that a gift from diapers is given not earlier than an extract, the giver always has time to buy the desired type.
The decor used for the gift must be new and clean. It is strictly forbidden to use sharp and fragile objects for making, as well as decor that can crumble and fall into the inside of the diapers. In addition, you cannot create a craft using parts that can paint assembly elements when touched.

Harsh paint can be harmful to baby's sensitive skin.

Regardless of your financial capabilities, you need to make a sustainable product. Therefore, it is better to impress not with size, but with shape. For example, multi-tiered structures are not needed, since they do not hold well, and sometimes they completely fall apart, without falling into the hands of happy parents. In addition, you need to understand: by no means every mommy uses diapers for a child every day, and some of them may remain unclaimed, because children grow very quickly in the first months of life.
Small diapers can chafe the delicate skin of the feet. In addition, it is worth considering the model of diapers, because the same panties seem to many more comfortable, while it is the Velcro that often injures the skin when the baby dangles his legs.

As for the pattern on the diapers, it is just not fundamental. It is much more important that the diaper does not rub the skin or squeeze the child's genitals. Of course, you can pay attention to the colors, but this is only if the pattern can be seen after folding or folding.
As for the decor that craftsmen usually use when making candy bouquets or analogs with toys, it will not work here. It is undesirable to use either beads or artificial flowers here. And it's not about the aesthetic point of view: a trifle can get inside and go unnoticed by the mother, but taken by the child. Flowers can break, and therefore some twigs or center decor can also get inside the diaper.

If there is no other way, you need to check the decorative elements for strength. With regards to beads, it is worth taking into account: this is a taboo without exception. As for sticks or skewers, they can be used, but each must be carefully examined so that there are no chipping on it, which can later cause splinters.

If you wish, you can replace them with clothespins, fixing some little things directly on them. By picking up elements of different shades, you can decorate the product. At the same time, there is no doubt that clothespins will remain unused in everyday life.

What is required?

As a rule, the diapers themselves are the basis of the bases. They are different: from the brand of the manufacturer and the model to the size. To make the product really useful, as mentioned above, you can buy a "two" or even a "three".

In any case, the mother uses them when putting on the baby for a walk or visiting the pediatrician.

In addition to diapers, it is important to use items that will be in demand in childcare. For example, these include:

teethers;
towels of different shades;
textile diapers (terry, flannel);
bibs, bottles, breast pump;
rattles, first combs;
paper towels in rolls;
caps, booties, socks, scratches;
creams, powders, massage oils;
disinfectants;
wet wipes;
small spoons, plates;
knitted hats;
sliders and blouses.

In addition, you need to prepare and fastening items. For example, in work you may need wooden clothespins, sushi sticks, stationery elastic bands of large and standard sizes. Rarely does a product do without a base, which is used as thick cardboard. Hangers are made of it, which are later decorated with socks or booties.

You may also need sticks from rolls of food foil or film. They are used as a base so that the tiers of the craft can hold onto something. Depending on the type of product, scissors, plates of different sizes, less often a thermal gun and paper templates can be useful in work. They are usually used to give an identical shape to hangers.

What can't be used?

No matter how much you want to stand out and present a super unusual gift, you cannot decorate a present with rhinestones, glue sparkling stones to ribbons, or pin hairpins. In addition, you cannot make a bottle of champagne as the basis of a gift.

Firstly, it is initially dirty, and secondly, it can break. Thirdly, you need to understand that this is a children's gift. If you want to give champagne without fail, you can do it separately. It has nothing to do with children's presentation.

As for toys, it is undesirable to decorate a diaper gift with toys with a large pile. We must not forget that the baby, like his parents, may be susceptible to allergies, which can be provoked by a harmless children's toy.

If you really want to give something useful and beautiful, let it be rubber toys for the bathroom. They will certainly come in handy for the baby. He can crush them in his hands and gnaw them, without fear that the pile will get into his mouth. If you think you need a soft toy, try to choose a product with a short nap or fleece.

Before getting started, do not try to use a stapler, as is customary for some masters. It is important to remember that these harmless braces can fall off, which is unacceptable.

Child safety should come first. As for the paper for manufacturing, it should be dense, because any torn off and unnoticed piece can end up in the mouth of the crumbs. Even a temporary substrate for a product must be prepared correctly, it is better to fix the necessary elements with hot glue than with a stapler.

How to fold?

Today there are a lot of master classes through which you can easily make a beautiful and effective gift for a newborn. At the same time, diapers can be rolled up in three ways:

roll, starting from the groin area to the belt;
laying out in a row on the table with one overlapping;
using a round dish, inserting diapers into it with an edge, then gathering them together with an elastic band.

Elastic bands are needed mainly for fixing diapers. In this case, a larger size is used to support a large circle collected from diapers. The smaller ones fix each of them separately when it needs to be rolled up. Sometimes round blanks do not have a core, in other cases a roll of paper towels or a tall feeding bottle becomes the basis of the craft.

You can combine different folding methods if this does not affect the stability of the product. The method of folding on the table with the application of diapers is convenient and quick, because in this case they are simply rolled up in a roll. By the way, in this case, you can also use some kind of core. The base in the center will allow you to roll the desired element of the craft faster and more accurately.

How to do it yourself?

Consider the 7 most interesting diaper gifts solutions, step by step describing the implementation of each of them. All of them are quite simple and feasible for everyone.

Cake

Making a diaper cake for newborns will not be difficult. It can be small, single-tiered, or three-tiered. The option will depend on the possibilities of the budget, because diapers are not cheap, as is the total amount spent on other components of the gift. You can assemble a small and simple version of the cake. Let's dwell on this original product.

To make it, you need to prepare 90 diapers and the same number of small rubber bands. In addition, you cannot do without three large rubber bands, a roll of paper towels, 10 small face towels, decorative tape, double-sided tape, cardboard or ready-made dish stand, small toys and useful decor (at your discretion).

By the way, for the backing, you can try using a large book for toddlers.

The build process will consist of a series of sequential steps:

the workplace is covered with film or treated with an antiseptic;
each diaper is rolled up and secured with an elastic band;
prepare a stand, mark the center and connect it with a roll of paper towels with a small drop of hot glue;
three rows of roll diapers are placed around the roll of paper towels;
having achieved a more or less round shape, they are connected with a large clerical elastic band;
the second tier of the cake is formed according to a similar scheme, only instead of three rows of diapers, the roll towels are surrounded by two rows;
roll up small multi-colored towels and form a third tier out of them, setting them around a roll towel;
the upper tier is fastened with a clerical elastic band;
elastic bands are masked with satin ribbons, connecting them either with bows or with glue;
they seat a toy upstairs and decorate the base with available useful little things that can be useful to a child in the first year of life;
the gift is wrapped in transparent film and tied with a beautiful ribbon.

In order not to suffer with the packaging of the finished product, the transparent gift film can be immediately laid on the work area. Even if it moves a little during work, it is still easier to pack the craft than to lift it and set it up. All elements necessary for work can be placed on the second part of the table.

Bouquet

It is not difficult to create an original gift in the form of a bouquet. To do this, you need to prepare the diapers themselves, elastic bands for attaching them, wooden skewers for barbecue (sushi sticks), a vase, wrapping paper. In addition, a variety of socks, bibs, shampoos for baby care, or even a powder can come in handy. This option can be enriched with ribbons, nipples, rattles. The technique for making such a product is even simpler than making a cake:

a skewer is placed in each diaper and wrapped in a roll, slightly opening the edge;
it is fixed with a standard clerical elastic not in the center, but closer to the bottom edge, so that the elastic is not visible in the finished product;
take paper and mask the inside of the vase, because diapers sticking out on sticks will not look beautiful;
prepared "flowers" can be decorated with thin paper, creating the effect of foliage;
then they are placed in a vase and wrapped in plastic.

It is undesirable to insert sticks after rolling the diaper rolls, because they can simply pierce diapers, which is unacceptable.

As for variations, the stability vase can be filled or crafted from shampoo, cream, powder, and other bottles. Considering that even an ordinary plastic container can be useful on the farm, you can pick up something similar.

Basket

This gift is convenient because it allows you to accommodate a lot of functional items that will be useful for your baby. The size in this case will depend on the number of diapers, although a large basket will not be practical, given that its handle will be decorative rather than functional. For such a product, you need to prepare thick cardboard (for the bottom), the diapers themselves, white threads, a satin ribbon 5 cm wide. To fill, you need useful little things of light weight (nipples, bottles, scratches, socks, booties, bibs)

Depending on the complexity of the work and the availability of certain details of the craft, the step-by-step diagram will look something like this:

cut out the bottom of the future basket from thick cardboard;
it can be masked with an openwork napkin, fixing it with glue;
taking several diapers, they are connected with an elastic band, slightly moving the diapers in both directions;
the walls of the basket are formed from the diapers, installing them with a dense wall and nesting one into the other for greater strength;
you can attach the sides in two or three places to the cardboard base;
two diapers are placed on the bottom without fastening, covering the very bottom with them;
diapers are held together with a large rubber band;
a handle is cut out of cardboard, wrapped with two diapers, secured with thread;
the handle is inserted between the diapers into the sides;
along the edge, a basket with an elastic band is masked with paper or a ribbon with a large bow;
the product is filled with useful little things and wrapped in a transparent film.

For greater reliability, you can tie the sides not with a tape, but with a diaper folded diagonally. So the product will not only be beautiful, but also durable. By the way, it is with diapers that you can replace the napkin in the process of forming the bottom. Roughly the same principle can be used to create a craft bath. At the same time, the only difference from the basket will not be a solid handle, but only a part of it, imitating a water tap.

Owl

You can create this wonderful gift with just forty diapers. In addition to them, you will need socks for newborns, a diaper, a handkerchief, elastic bands, a small bib. In addition, craftsmen prefer to use ready-made flowers for this product.

Since such decor is not always durable and reliable, it can be replaced with the same socks rolled into roses.

The owl is performed according to the following scheme:

take 20 diapers and roll the body of a bird out of them in the shape of a circle;
the circle is fixed with a large clerical rubber band;
eyes are made from the remaining diapers, rolling 10 pieces in circles by imposing one element on another;
eyes are fixed with rubber bands;
a bib is placed on top of the body, eyes are substituted and three circles are tied with a satin ribbon;
the diaper is folded into a strip of width equal to the width of the diapers;
the resulting strip from the diaper is applied strictly in the center between the eyes, thus forming the outline of the head and wings;
the diaper is fixed with a thin tape in the neck of the future owl;
a nose is made from a handkerchief and inserted between two eyes;
using double-sided tape, flowers are attached, imitating eyes;
with tape, you can also attach the ears, which you can use as socks.

There is another option for creating ears. To do this, you can use cardboard, cut out some kind of hangers, put socks on them, insert between the upper edge of the eye and the diaper and bend the ear. In order not to use tape, you can create ears using chintz diapers.

In the next video, watch a workshop on making an owl from diapers.

Snail

The basis of such a gift will be a circle made of diapers. Its size can be different, although the reliability of the product must be taken into account. The larger it is, the easier and faster it can fall apart, falling into the hands of the baby's mother.

On the other hand, the snail is convenient in that it may not take many diapers to make it. Each option will turn out differently, and therefore we will focus on an approximate basic way of making an unusual gift. In addition to the main material, you will need a sock and synthetic winterizer in the work.

The step-by-step instructions in this case will consist of a number of stages:

according to the standard scheme, rolls of diapers are created and each of them is fixed with their own elastic band;
take 6-7 blanks and surround them with another one, which is the center of the snail house;
after fixing one row, the desired size of the mollusk is increased;
the elastic bands that secured each roll are removed as the volume increases;
the finished "house" is tied with a satin ribbon;
create two small circles of diapers, tie them with a wide satin ribbon;
a synthetic winterizer is inserted into the sock (diapers are optional), forming a wider part for the head;
create a snail's face (if there is time, you can embroider or glue the thermal application in advance);
a large circle is placed on a cardboard substrate with an edge, a support-leg in the form of a small circle is placed next to it;
the second leg is located in front, you can connect it with a ribbon to the snail's body;
the finished craft is packed in a transparent film and tied tightly with a bow.

Since this craft involves the use of small parts, you can do it in a different way. For example, you can use not a sock in your work, but a toy of a worm or a snake. In this case, there will be no need to use small elements to create a muzzle. Antennae can be created from textiles by stuffing it with padding polyester.

Ship

Accessories are of great importance for this craft. It is through them that you can create the desired mood even in the absence of additional useful little things. For work, it is worth preparing diapers, ribbons, elastic bands, socks.

It is advisable to select ribbons and items with a characteristic marine color. In addition, in the work you can use a cardboard tube and a plastic container, which in the future can also be useful for the baby's mother.

An approximate technique for creating a ship from diapers will be as follows:

useful household items for the baby are put in the container (nipples, socks, bibs, a spoon, a teether, toys on a stroller) and the lid is tightly closed;
start forming the ship according to the principle of a two- or three-tiered cake;
a large elastic band is pulled over the container;
the diapers are rolled up and inserted between the elastic and the container;
to form the nose of the ship, more diapers are inserted on its front;
using baby towels, close the side of the diapers;
the towels are fixed with a wide satin ribbon;
form the second tier, fastening it in a couple of places with double-sided tape so that the ship does not fall apart;
tie the second tier with a beautiful ribbon;
a cardboard tube is wrapped with sliders or small towels;
the product is decorated with felt anchors and a steering wheel;
for the top edge, you can use sushi sticks, creating the illusion of a fence with them, as well as with twine;
the product is packed.

In order not to suffer with scotch tape, you can follow the proven path and use a roll of paper towels or a tall bottle (shampoo, powder) to attach all the tiers of the ship. There can be many options, so you need to choose exactly the one that suits your particular case. The stick will allow you to connect all the tiers, it will strengthen the finished product, which cannot be said about the scotch tape.

In addition, it is easier to remove the stick than to remember that there is scotch tape in the craft, which must be removed as the diapers are used.

Car

You cannot ignore the boy's favorite gift - a car. Of course, the baby is unlikely to remember such a gift, but the parents will certainly note that the master even took into account the gender of the baby. For manufacturing, you should take care of the presence of diapers, cardboard, wrapping paper, satin ribbons, socks for newborns, a pair of bottles, diapers or cloth diapers, stationery elastic bands and tape.

First, wheels are made by twisting 8 diapers each into tight rollers and securing them with rubber bands of normal size. You can work with another technology: first, twist each diaper, then connect several pieces in a circle and fasten with a large elastic band. The first method is convenient in that it does not require unnecessary work and allows you to create a clearer shape of the wheels of the car.

Two rectangular blanks are made of cardboard and each of them is wrapped with wrapping paper. Apply a smaller rectangle to a larger one. Through holes are made in places where the wheels are approximately located. Satin ribbons are threaded through these holes to fasten the wheels.

Then, between the two cardboard layers, circular rollers are placed. Next, on a substrate of a smaller area, which will be located on top, first a diaper is put, and then diapers without any folding. However, they need to be laid, at least approximately forming the outlines of the machine.

A diaper as a bottom is needed in order to make it easier to close the diapers in the future. On the sides, you can stick headlights, performing them from socks. On top of the first diaper, a second one is placed, folded in the form of a rectangle and imitating a hood. The cabin is made from the remaining diapers, for which they are either simply placed one on top of the other, or rolled into rolls, and then connected together with a large elastic band.

The cabin is wrapped with another diaper, the rows of the product are fixed with tape or thin tapes, connecting everything together with the substrate. After that, it remains to pack the product and tie it with a beautiful bow. To make the craft look more aesthetically pleasing, you can take a closer look at the choice of diapers.

If funds allow, you can use not only flannel options, but also thin terry towels.

What else to consider?

No matter how you would like to make the product out of diapers as beautifully as possible, you cannot use paints, especially those that contain harmful impurities. Such substances can provoke an allergic reaction. In addition, if a master prefers to use water-based paints, he must take into account the degree of risk, because it is possible that splashes of water may get on the finished product.
It is not necessary to tighten the diapers with elastic bands too tight when folding each one. There should be a sense of proportion in everything. We must not forget that in some cases these elastic bands should be removed after the rows are fastened in a circle. Of course, if you are sure that the diapers will be used immediately, you do not need to remove the elastic bands that fix each diaper.

In some cases, craftsmen prefer to use thin ribbons rather than elastic bands. Sometimes, instead of elastic rubber bands, they even use ordinary wooden clothespins, using them as temporary auxiliary tools. Of course, such devices cannot be called convenient, but if there are no elastic bands, you cannot choose.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that you cannot use useful little things that you plan to give your baby to fix. For example, do not fix the craft with a garland of toys on a stroller. Regardless of the duration of the attachment of your gift, it will stretch, and therefore it will not look beautiful after unpacking the gift. The same can be said about hair ties for girls, which are sometimes used by masters as diaper retainers. After this beauty is removed, the elastic bands will be stretched, which will automatically deprive them of their aesthetic appeal.

As for the packaging, it is mandatory and should be the final stage of the work. This step cannot be postponed until later. Hygiene standards require the packaging to be tight during operation, so that neither dust nor any auxiliary item that was used in the manufacture of the gift gets inside the gift.
According to the given master classes, you can make crafts with different shapes. It can be a variety of shapes, products based on circles, ovals, squares. Clarity may depend on the availability of auxiliary equipment or containers.

In addition, you can use underlays to prevent your product from deforming its contours. For example, it can be a dish, bowl, vase. In skillful hands, a wash basin can also serve as the basis for making an effective diaper presentation.