We design from paper clips. Unusual crafts from paper clips Homemade paper clips

Do you like to do needlework and do various crafts? Let's find out what you can do with paper clips with your own hands.

For work, you will need paper clips, which are usually used to fasten documents.

List of paper clip crafts

1. Hearts from paper clips. This craft can be done for your girlfriend, on a love note or a valentine.

2. Beautiful paper clips. Cut out a heart, circle or square from cardboard (with a patterned background). On the cut out element, make a fabric flower and glue it all to the top of the paper clip with glue.

3. Decoration from paper clips. Connect the paper clips together and wrap them in colored paper. Thus, you can make a bracelet on your hand, a necklace around your neck and much more.

4. Bookmarks for books from paper clips. To make your bookmarks look better, use a set of colorful paper clips. Glue a fabric with a bright background to the paper clips with glue. You can use old clothes as fabric.

The desire to fill your life with bright colors is found in almost every person. However, not many succeed. People of creative professions are able to cope much more successfully with this.

Let's also wake up our non-standard creative thinking and make an unusual paper clip craft, namely, an original do-it-yourself frame for photographs or drawings. Such a product will not only decorate your interior, but also add new, bright colors to it.

For a frame made of paper clips, we need:

1. Paper clips;
2. Fast drying glue;
3. Threads (optional).

After we have collected all the necessary materials, we begin to needlework.

1. For work, we need 64 paper clips. We open the box and count the paper clips of the correct, even shape (without marriage) and different colors. Try to select paper clips in such a way that a certain color does not prevail.

3. In order to speed up the process of work, we glue the paper clips together in pairs of different colors.

4. After the glue dries a little and fixes the paper clips, we connect the pairs (there will be 4 pieces in total).

6. We should get 4 rows of 16 pieces.

7. Take the glue MOMENT and glue the rows together. We look that the upper and lower sides are on the same level (either only from above, or from below).

8. The frame is ready. If desired, you can also cover it with varnish, then it will not bend so much.

9. Now you can insert a photo or drawing into it. To do this, on the back side, we will use the bent fasteners of the paper clips.

10. You can also hang a frame on a carnation. Take the thread and fold it in half. Then we pass one edge on the left side of the frame, the second on the right side through the paper clip.

11. Tighten the threads.

12. Then we stretch the loop through the opposite side.

13. We return to the middle.

14. Again we thread the edges of the thread through the paper clips, make a knot and cut off the excess.

Here we have such a bright and creative frame.

I woke up one morning with a new project idea in my head. I got into bed thinking about the presentation I was going to give to middle and high school teachers in a couple of weeks. I wanted to come up with simple and inexpensive projects that they could use to teach students some aspects of technology. I really hoped that my ideas would inspire them to their own creativity. All night I dreamed about how I made various devices from paper clips, and this project was born. Regarding the cost - a piece of wood and paper clips cost me about 15 rubles.

I was already working on a few projects at the time, so it took a couple of months of thinking until I actually sat down at the table with a bunch of paper clips and started my attempts to build something out of them. While I was busy with other projects, I thought about the design and manufacturing process of my car parts, as well as the way they were assembled. For this I needed very few tools and materials. I thought the process would be pretty simple. Paperclip mechanisms are very interesting to create, and it is also interesting to “play” with them later. It seems to me that the sculptural forms of these creatures are also a kind of art.

For educators, this project is a great way to teach children the physics of mechanical machines, including concepts such as levers, knee, pivot point, circular and linear motion. Products from this project can be used as a miniature working model or as a prototype in the production of various designs. Also, similar mechanisms can be used for students studying energy. A similar project helped me a lot, in which groups of participants, as well as individual inventors, created separate mechanisms, and then connected them together to create a chain reaction. It seemed to me that something similar could be done with staple mechanisms. This will enable each student to create their own part of the overall mechanism, and then connect everything into a large chain, and also simulate a chain reaction.

This video shows how I built my paperclip mechanism:

Step 1: Such a Versatile Paperclip

As a lifelong Creator, I have always loved taking apart even the simplest appliances. At meetings, I constantly take apart and reassemble my pen. In cafes, I constantly play with my straw and the wrapper in which it was brought. One of my favorite things to do is play with paperclips. I have always been fascinated by their original but simple form, as well as their working principle. I know it's just a piece of wire bent in a certain way and nothing more. My cursory internet search reveals that I'm not the only paperclip aficionado. My fellow community members have already published a ton of paper clip projects. These are toy helicopters, and, and even chandeliers, of various geometric shapes. I've seen picks, catapults, and trebuchets. So my post will be just another item on the list of what can be created from paper clips.

Step 2: What you need.

From this we will create today:
- A box of large paper clips (mine were made from wire with a diameter of 1 mm).
- Two small pieces of wood. I bought two samples of flooring from a local hardware store. Each cost me no more than 10 rubles.
- A pair of wire cutters and a pair of long-nosed pliers. I recommend the ones pictured above. If you have pliers with long, round tongs and a cutting edge, those will work too.
- A couple of drills for 0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 mm.
- Bulgarian with a cutting wheel to cut off one of the drills.
- Drill to drill holes in wood. Hand or electric drill - it doesn't matter.
- A small ruler and pencil for measuring and marking holes.

NOTE: You can use staples of other sizes. Smaller paper clips are easier to bend, but the design will be smaller due to the shorter wire length of each element. You will also need different drill bits for staples of a different size.

Step 3: Make a staple bender.

From the unsharpened end of a 1.2 mm drill, we cut off two pieces with a grinder. One piece should be approximately 10 mm, and the second - 20 mm. Grind the edges to make them smoother with a grinder.

Drill a 1.0mm hole in one of the pieces of wood. The depth of the hole should be 8mm so that the 10mm piece of drill protrudes 2.0mm over the wood. The metal should fit tightly into the wood.

Make a second 1.0mm hole of the same depth approximately 1mm from the first. The paper clip should fit snugly between the two metal posts. Stick a 20mm piece firmly into the wood.

Step 4: Practice twisting the coils.

Almost all the parts that we will have to do will have one or more turns, so it's better to practice and learn how to do them well.
- Using pliers, completely align the paperclip.
- Place a paperclip between the two bits of your bender's drill we made in the previous step.
- Gently wrap the paperclip around the longer post while the short one will just hold the wire in place.
- Keep turning the paperclip around the long piece of the drill until you have 4 turns of the wire around it.
- Carefully remove the twisted paper clip from the bending “machine” and check the coils. They should fit snugly against each other. If the turns do not turn out even and dense, practice more.

Here's how to do it:

Step 5: Making different details.

Here is a complete set of staples I made for this design. There is a connecting rod, bipedal and quadrupedal supports, connectors and levers of various shapes and sizes. There can be an infinite number of other details and modifications. Only your imagination limits the choice.
The second photo below shows each part with its name.

Step 6: Make a base for the machine.

I used one piece of wood for the bender and another for the assembly of my invention. I first tested the assembly on the back side, and when I got everything set up and measured, I started drilling holes on the front side. The beautiful texture of the finish looks very advantageous for the base of the car.

I used a 0.8mm drill bit to make 10mm deep holes in the wood for each of the supports. A little effort with pliers, and the legs of the supports are in place. I think you can make a lot of holes in a grid pattern, like on electronic circuit boards. So it will be easy to change the positions of the supports in the assembly, testing and debugging the design. I decided to drill holes only where necessary, so it looked better to me.

Step 7: Putting it together on the go

"! Today we want to invite you to expand your horizons and pay attention to such craft material as a paper clip. It turns out that you can make quite a lot of interesting and unusual crafts from paper clips.

To start, a little history. The inventor of the paper clip is considered to be the Norwegian mathematician Johann Valer (about outstanding inventors here), who in 1899 proposed using a special paper clip invented (read) by him in office work. Since that time, the shape and design of the paper clip has changed a lot, but the paper clip is still indispensable when working with a large number of documents.

In fact, the scope of use of paper clips is much wider. It can be used as an auxiliary tool in the design of various crafts (read about a wide variety of crafts under the heading ""), and also make crafts from it. Here, for example, see what crafts can be made from paper clips.

little man

Paper clips, wine corks, beer caps, imagination to put it together and, it turned out - a little man.

And here is the second option for using a wine cork.

Trojan horse

And it would seem that a box of matches and a Trojan horse have in common.

Paper clips, an old brush and pencil, a little imagination and insects are ready.

Scissors will also fit not as a tool for crafts, but as an element of crafts.

This article is dedicated to all paper clip lovers. That is, those who, even while on vacation, miss their home office.

The shape of the paperclip is very simple and this attracts the attention of many designers who are tirelessly trying to find useful uses for it outside the workplace or to draw attention to it in the office. We will try to give some examples of this.

Megaclip
The holder of papers, business cards, notes, tear-off sheets and other paper trifles. Beautiful and original!

Flashlight clips
Sungho Lee, a designer from Korea, recently completed a project called LED clips. Instead of a pair of legs that a regular LED has, the designer built in a paper clip. This allows you to do without soldering and simply attach the LED lamp to the battery. It turns out a small flashlight. Everything ingenious is simple!

Clips in jewelry
Girls, this is for you! You have no idea how many decorations can be made from paper clips. And earrings, and necklaces, and rings and much more. These jewelry will definitely be appreciated by silver and nickel lovers. See for yourself.

Staple magnets
Nobody likes the chaos of stationery on the desktop, although many will call it a work environment. And yet everything has its place. After all, for this, there are coasters for pencils, cups for pens, holders for tear-off sheets and, finally, magnets for paper clips. Very convenient and the order on the table is provided to you.