Paper Cup Craft Ideas: Make a beautiful wind chime at home in an easy way with paper cups. Learn the necessary materials and step-by-step DIY method to give your home a colorful and creative decor look at low cost.
Paper cups are used to serve cold drinks at home, weddings and birthday parties. Many times these paper cups come in more quantity than required. Do not consider them useless but use them for home decor. You will also need some other materials to make the hanging decoration. Know simple tips to prepare beautiful hangings with the help of paper cups or plastic cups.
Materials for making a hanging wind chime from paper cups
- paper cup
- colored thread or wool
- multicolored beads and pearls
- small bells
- scissors and glue gun
- Different color paint for cups
- Mirror, stickers and glitter
- needle or pin to make holes in the cup
- Ring or stick ready to hang
- tassels and extra embellishments
Give favorite color to paper cup
First of all, clean the paper cup and then paint it with the color of your choice. Now wait for it to dry. You can add mirror, stickers, glitter as per your choice. If you want, make colorful flowers of different designs, which look quite attractive. Now make holes in the bottom and sides of the cup with a needle or pin. Put colored thread or wool in this place and tie it well.
Decorate the cup with colored wool
If you do not want to color the paper cup, you can wrap it with the help of colored wool. It looks quite beautiful. Color 4 to 5 cups with different colors. Hang pom pom tassels in them. In this way you can prepare beautiful hangings with less effort.
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Prepare Hanging Pendant
After decorating the cup as per your choice, now it is time to hang it. First of all, add beads in between in the thread or add favorite pearls so that the hanging looks beautiful. You can also install bells in these parts so that these wind chimes make a melodious sound when the wind blows. Now tie the threads in different lengths and adjust the length to be equal or as per the design so that the wind chime is balanced. It can be hung on the balcony, wall or living room.
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