Crafting with foam rubber offers fun craft ideas and various techniques that develop the little ones' dexterity and imagination. Foam rubber has long been considered a popular craft material. Because the foam rubber sheets are very soft and therefore easy to cut out, it is a lot of fun for the children. It is also very suitable for craft ideas with which you can create homemade jewelry, individual stamps, spring decorations or, for example, Easter baskets. There is a large selection of simple instructions with templates on how to make beautiful and colorful foam rubber toys with children. You can find practical tips on this among the interesting craft ideas in our collection.
Crafting with foam rubber is particularly good forsmaller childrenSuitable because of the quick sense of achievement when you create flowers, animals or other figures from them. While crafting with the foam rubber leaves in cheerful colors or with glitter, there are practically no limits to your imagination. Various shapes can be easily and precisely cut out of this craft material with scissors. For figures with straight lines such as letters or picture frames, we recommend using a cutter. The cutters, which are popular with all decoration fans, also come in handy when crafting with foam rubber.
Crafting with foam rubber – creating beautiful spring and Easter decorations with children
The picture above shows the materials needed for a DIY flower wreath as a spring decoration. For this craft idea you need bows, pipe cleaners in light green and foam rubber sheets in cheerful colors. Flowers are cut out of it and two holes are made in the middle of each figure. Line up the flowers on the green pipe cleaner as you pierce the wire into the holes. Place the foam rubber flowers of different colors together and decorate with bows in matching tones in between so that the spring feeling of the craft idea is really brought out.
Practical things and gifts
DieStamp made of foam rubberare themselves a work of design and decoration for various purposesCraft ideassuch as greeting cards, calendars, etc. Whether for Christmas, birthdays or Mother's Day, you can always count on a suitable, individual design. The handle of a stamp can be made from a variety of materials - small, cuboid pieces of wood or wine corks, as in the example shown. But the images of the stamps are easiest to create from foam rubber, because materials such as potato halves, erasers or lino plates require a little more effort and diligence.
Make Easter baskets
The typical joy of color from thefrom Eastercan be created with skill. Cut the grass for an Easter basket from foam rubber in light and dark green using a template and the handle and fence - from foam rubber in bright yellow. Create the Easter bunnies or other Easter motifs from pieces in white, baby pink, purple and other colors and decorate the Easter basket with glitter or rhinestones depending on your taste.
Do-it-yourself children's bag
Crafts are very popular with children because they can create colorful 3D objects themselves. A fun children's bag made of two contrasting colors of foam rubber can be easily created following the steps in the instructions given. The two sides of the bag and the connecting element are punched at the edge and sewn together using craft cord. Glue the bag handles and additional decoration to the side of the children's bag, for example. B. can be cut out of foam rubber with glitter.
If you can use the end products or other materials in practice later, then the crafting fun will certainly be much greater. We present you the idea of how you can make a pencil bag yourself and decorate it individually with figures made of self-adhesive foam rubber in different colors.
Use A4 foam rubber sheets and cut the shape shown in the picture above from the rectangle. You don't need any tools other than scissors and a ruler.
A Minion pencil container made from a tin can
Enlarge the attached template for the details of the craft figure according to the size of a tin can. Then cut out the typical Minion dungarees in white, gray, black and blue.
Cut two rectangles out of canary yellow foam rubber and use them to cover the inside and outside surfaces of the can. Conjure up the shape of the with the details that have already been cut outMinions. Alternatively, you can use a punch - e.g. B. for the eye circles and glasses.
Alphabet made of foam rubber
Turn learning the alphabet into a game. If you are doing the project with small children, use self-adhesive foam rubber instead of using all-purpose glue to glue.
Make your own photo frame – a nice gift for Mother’s Day
The photo frame is a successful party bag or gift to make yourself on many occasions, such as children's birthdays or Mother's Day. It can also be implemented as a fun craft idea for Christmas or spring decorations.
The back of the photo frame is made of a solid cardboard in a rectangular shape. Glue a layer of transparent film on top and secure it from three sides. Decorate the photo frame with foam rubber figures of different shapes according to your idea. You create the support from a piece of hard cardboard, which you fold in a zigzag manner and attach to the back side.
glittering accessories for little ladies
Create a small hair clip crown made of foam rubber with glitter in the favorite colors of your little princess. The diameter of each crown must correspond to the size of the hair clip used.
Decorate the surface of the selected hair clip with a bow of the appropriate width and glue the foam rubber crowns to it with hot glue.
Craft ideas for autumn
Let the children feel the beauty of autumn with this simple and sustainable craft idea. First, a tree is drawn on a cardboard plate and then foam rubber leaves are glued to the branches.
Help the little craft fans with this project by first cutting out circles from yellow foam rubber with a cutter. Then create two tree leaves from them and let the children cut out the leaves themselves from the orange foam rubber using scissors according to this pattern.
You can find the complete instructions for the flower wreath made of foam rubberhere.
You can find the complete instructions for the foam rubber pencil baghere.
You can find the complete instructions for the alphabet with foam rubberhere.
You can find the complete instructions for the hair clip crownshere.
You can find the complete instructions for the autumn tree on a cardboard platehere.
