After we brought you, you simply cannot have any doubts that you also need one at home. And not even one. Good news - you don't have to run to a flower shop: a real cactus can be replaced with cardboard. We have collected 15 cool ideas on how to make a cactus with your own hands.

We already told you, it's time to talk about separations. Try making these cute 3D paper and cardboard cacti with your kids. Such paper cacti will decorate any interior. Also it is excellent or grandmother's favorite.

15 DIY Paper and Cardboard Cactus Ideas

If you don’t know how to make cacti out of paper or cardboard with your own hands, you can download and print a template for cactus details from the link. You just have to cut them out, fold and glue them. Even a child can handle it!

How to make a paper cactus with your own hands (Video)

You can get even more pleasure from working on this paper craft if, in addition to cacti, you also try to make interesting pots for them. Flowerpots can be made from ordinary tin cans by simply painting them or pasting them with multi-colored tape. In addition to the fact that you will have new pots for paper cacti, you will also teach children, which means that they will also take care of nature.

For a long time I did not demonstrate crafts for children and finally remembered this section. I will tell you how to make a cactus with your own hands from corrugated paper and plasticine. In the manufacture of this homemade product, we use children's materials, this is plasticine and corrugated paper. You will also need a string, scissors and a thin wooden stick. This craft does not take much time, about 20-30 minutes. Children have a little more.

We will prepare all the material together with the tools in advance.

Now you need to mold a cactus from plasticine, on which a flower has grown. pot of blue color, the cactus itself is yellow-green mixed color and the flower is red.

We take a blue ribbon of corrugated paper and wind it around a plasticine pot, which is the same color.

So do the lines, starting from the bottom.

Here is the intermediate result, the cactus will turn out lush and colorful. The red flower is surrounded by green thorns.

When the completely green body of the cactus is done, we proceed to the flower. In the beginning, you need to create yellow petals around. We cut here such blanks, similar to petals.

Gently insert them around the red plasticine.

Similarly to the green squares, cut out the red ones. But we no longer make triangles out of them, here we don’t need spikes, but on the contrary, the density of red corrugated paper blanks.

We are doing the final step. He is the most difficult. Carefully insert the paper into the plasticine flower so that it does not fall off.

This is what the finished piece looks like.

On blue paper we tie a rope for beauty.

Now you know how to make a cactus with your own hands from corrugated paper and plasticine. Successful exclusive crafts.

Knowing the world is fun. Doing something with your own hands is interesting. Working with paper is easy. With its help, you can do almost anything, even what seems impossible, for example, paper cactus. How? Let's find out further.

For work you will need:

• small glass / lid;
• container from the Kinder toy;
• plasticine;
• green corrugated paper;
• acrylic paint / gouache;
• sponge / brush;
• cocktail tube;
• scissors.

Step 1. Making a cactus pot

As a base, any small glass or lid of syrup is suitable. The main thing is that the base for the cactus (plastic egg) does not fall into the container completely. You can decorate the pot in different ways: with a cloth, a tourniquet, etc., or just paint it with bright acrylic paint, as in our master class.

Step 2. Making the base for the paper cactus

We completely glue the plastic container from the Kinder egg with plasticine 1-2 mm thick.

Next, we place the egg pasted over with plasticine in a pot, and press it a little so that a trace remains from the edges of the cup - these will be the boundaries for placing the soft spines of the cactus.

Step 3. "Grow" a cactus

When the base for the cactus is ready, we proceed to prepare its non-thorny spines. To do this, we cut corrugated paper into strips 1 cm thick, and then into segments of 1-2 cm.

Now directly to the creation of "thorns": we apply a cocktail tube to the center of the pieces of corrugated paper. We twist the paper around the tube.

We press the twisted paper to the base with plasticine so that the "thorns" are fixed on it.

Thus, we fill the entire surface of the cactus. You can do this by holding the base in your hands or placing it in a pot.