We have three ways to recycle with small black and white cardboard tubes. We can have and find them perfectly at home and many times it can be very fun to use them again in a very original way. They are supports for the mobile, which in one way or another can be very useful and we know that it can be a very fun craft, because we can accompany this moment with the children.
You can see the step by step of this tutorial in the following video:
These are the materials that I have used:
- 4 small cylindrical cartons
- decorative adhesive tape
- 6 white ball pins
- black acrylic paint
- two pieces of decorative paper with different drawings, which are in black and white
- silicone glue
- hot glue gun and silicone
- black pipe cleaner
- white pipe cleaner
- decorative eyes
- White glue
- a pencil
- scissors
For the first stand
First step:
We are going to place the adhesive strips around the cardboard tube. If the decorative strips are adhesive we will stick them to the cardboard, if not they are, we will queue around the cardboard tube to be able to glue the strips.
Second step:
We paint inside the tube of black acrylic paint. We place the four round pushpins in the lower part of the tube, this area is the one that will give tube support and to the mobile so that it does not move anywhere.
Third step:
We make a rectangular cutout at the top of the tube. This opening will be the ideal size so that we can insert the mobile.
For the second bracket
First step:
We line a cardboard with decorative paper, we glue it to the tube with glue. If by chance the paper is very rigid, we can glue it with silicone type glue. We catch another tube and we flatten it with our hands. This other tube is the one that will make us of support to place the mobile. We cover it with decorative paper and we glue it on with glue or if the paper is very rigid we will glue it with silicone type glue.
Second step:
We place this support in cardboard tube decorated, like it is quite rigid to stick it we will use the hot silicone.
Third step:
We will place two ball-shaped thumbtacks strategically in the lower part of the tube. These pins will support us so that the cardboard does not turn over when we place the mobile. In the part of the base we will place the black pipe cleaner and we stick it with silicone glue. The pipe cleaner will act as a stopper so that the mobile does not slide.
Third support
First step:
We paint in black a cardboard tube. With a pencil we paint freehand the lines that we will cut to shape. When we trim it, we will paint the entire tube so that it is much more beautiful. We let it dry.
Second step:
We only have to decorate it. We take the white pipe cleaner and cut small pieces for the mustache. We stick with him glue silicone type the eyes and the mustache bits.
