Stationery and other materials that you may have on hand in the office are perfect for making interesting ones. You can even arrange an impromptu competition for the best homemade product between your colleagues. The main thing is that the boss does not take part in it.

make space shuttle made from office supplies– this task is within the capabilities of any office worker. The body of the future spacecraft can be an ordinary marker or a large highlighter. Two alligator clips are attached to the tail of the shuttle, which will act as wings. Now you need an engine that will propel your ship up the career ladder. Two turbines made from ballpoint pen caps, secured between the clamps and the body, are perfect for this. You can install additional devices on the ends of the wings using pieces of tape. You can modernize your starship ad infinitum, adding more and more new devices. In this case, there is no limit to perfection.

If you want to woo your colleague who has a normal sense of humor, you can make her an office decoration with your own hands. After all, a candy or a cup of tea as attention is so banal.

from keyboard buttons and paper clips will make a great craft. First, you will need to find two buttons from the old keyboard (or remove them from the current one). You need to make two holes in the corner of each key. This can be done with an awl heated with matches or a lighter. Through the holes you need to pass paper clips that are curved in the form of an earring mount. Your DIY compliment is ready. Believe me, your efforts will definitely be appreciated.

Surely, at work you sometimes celebrate various events: birthdays, vacations or promotions. Champagne is one of the constant attributes of such events. The remaining metal fasteners from the corks can serve as good material for developing your own creative abilities.

Beautiful chair made from a champagne cork mount You can make it yourself without much effort. The most important thing in this matter is to imagine the end result that you want to see. The wire included in the fasteners is very flexible, so any elegant elements can be made from it. The chair must have at least three legs and a shaped back. If necessary, you can break a whole section of wire to make a fastener or pattern from the remains. This way you can make an entire furniture set for your office.

If clouds periodically gather in your office and there is a high probability of a work conflict, then it would not be a bad idea to acquire a real office weapon for self-defense.

In order to do office crossbow You will need: two rubber bands, one clip, a pen and a CD box. The elastic bands are tied on the box, forming something like a slingshot. Then the mechanism for holding the projectile (clamp) is simply attached to them. The projectile handle is installed in the clamp - the weapon is ready. True, you shouldn’t use it for its intended purpose - you can get a real injury from getting the handle in your face. Therefore, do not aim the craft at people, but practice your accuracy at walls or a specially made target.

Now you know what you can do in your free time, which sometimes appears at work. Making crafts from office supplies will develop your creativity right in the workplace.

Trinkets and pleasant bright little things make our lives more fun. Today we will talk about how to make a heart bookmark from a paper clip. For those who love to read or just want to decorate their work notebook with a nice and economical detail, this method will be useful. By the way, such a bookmark is a stylish and cute romantic gift on the eve of Valentine's Day.

What you need

So, how to make a bookmark from a “heart” paper clip, and what is needed for this? You will be surprised, but for this you don’t even have to run to the nearest store and spend money. Everything you need for work is already at hand.

Surely, in every home there is a package of ordinary paper clips. These are exactly what you will need for the job. You can choose regular paper clips, or you can purchase the same office accessories in bright colors or with a pattern. Here only your imagination will limit your actions.

Progress

Let's get started and figure out how to make a heart-shaped paperclip. The method is very fast and simple. The main thing is to bend the paper clip in the right place. To begin with, we determine where the longest part of the product is located. Try to bend the paperclip in such a way that the other parts do not bend or become deformed. As a result, you should get an obtuse angle.

All that remains is to give the final shape of the heart with your fingers, and the bright, unusual bookmark for books is ready. That's all. Now you know a quick and easy way to make a heart out of a paper clip.

Tip: don't be lazy and make a few hearts. The more you practice, the smoother and neater they will turn out. Later, “by eye” you will determine where to bend the paperclip. If the paper clip bends too hard, do not injure your fingers, but simply use pliers.

Options and ideas

We have already said that such homemade elements are perfect for decorating a book or notebook, work notebook or diary. Plus, you can easily attach these hearts to a greeting card, photo, or gift bag. They will look like an unusual detail on a bag or school backpack.

You now know how to make a heart out of a paper clip, so try experimenting. By making several of these parts in different colors, you can form them into absolutely any decorative elements. For example, a garland of hearts on the wall in the bedroom of a romantic young girl will look very advantageous.

Advice: if ordinary metal clips are suitable for making bookmarks, then for the production of interior decorations it is better to take colored ones with a soft plastic shell. They are more convenient to use, especially if a lot of parts are required.

Curtain made from paper clips

Separately, I would like to dwell on this option as a curtain. Surely, many houses have similar doorway decorations. It’s very easy to make a similar interior detail yourself if you know how to make a heart out of a paper clip.

You will need quite a lot of paper clips to get the job done. Take measurements of the doorway. Prepare wire that matches the color. We will attach hearts to it later. Next, we stock up on a huge amount of patience, involve the children and immediate family and begin the painstaking work.

When a sufficient number of heart clips have been made, you can begin to fasten them together. This is done very easily. We thread one part of the paper clip into the other. We get a garland. You will need from forty to one hundred such garlands. Everything will depend on the size of the doorway and the desired thickness of the curtain. You can make all the rows the same, or you can build the central part from shortened threads.

To complete the work, we fasten all the garlands of paper clips to the wire, drive a couple of nails into the sides of the door and attach the curtain.

Clip…. A small piece of wire, intricately bent into loops. It seems like a trifle, but in so many situations this tiny little thing can help.

When I was still in school, the craze was making hanging curtains from postcards and paper clips. These melodic curtains hung in almost every house back then. I also wove such curtains. Several years passed, the hype around paper clips died down a bit, and homemade curtains went to live out their lives in attics and closets. In the best case scenario, they moved to their grandmother’s dacha or village.

My curtains served as wall decoration for a long time. On the eve of the New Year holidays, I decorated them with garlands and tiny Christmas tree decorations. After redecorating the house, the curtains moved to one of the boxes in the attic. There they were attacked by mice and dampness. It's a pity.

Nowadays, paper clips are again popular not only among office workers, but also among needlewomen. Even in schools, during labor lessons, children are taught to make various crafts from paper clips. Have you seen how intricate paper clips are now? They are decorated with funny figures, twisted in the form of a treble clef, notes, letters or numbers. And the sizes of current paper clips are not the same as they were before.

There are large, simply huge, in my opinion, specimens. And there are very tiny ones - more suitable for a souvenir.

How do you use paper clips?

The human brain can sometimes generate amazing ideas, some of them weird, some useful, some just funny. Most inventions are born in moments of extreme boredom, this assumption is especially true in relation to various household items, or rather, unconventional ways of using them, which people often invent. Well, could manufacturers of ordinary ones have imagined that it was possible to use paper clips to make a bookmark or a funny toy, decoration, or to open a door lock or even handcuffs with it?

Everything ingenious is simple

The birth of the classic paperclip, which looks like two ovals twisted from a piece of steel wire 8 cm long, had a rather thorny path. The year of her birth can be considered 1899, when the Norwegian engineer Johan Voler was shown several versions of this stationery item. Then he did not believe that it was possible to make a salable and popular product from paper clips, and refused to engage in this project, but the British successfully developed it. The Gem Manufacturing Company Ltd launched this invention into mass production, making the right decision.

In addition to its direct purpose - fastening paper sheets, the miniature metal stapler received a second life in the form of a wide variety of variations. Crafts made from paper clips include bookmarks, master keys, jewelry, postcards, interior decor and toys.

You will not believe!

For residents of harsh Norway, the paperclip became a symbol of resistance to the occupying fascist forces. Residents of this country wore it on their clothes as a sign of protest and unity. This historical fact became the reason that the usual and simple stationery has several monuments, one of which is located in Russia, and even architects could not ignore the paper clip, creating several versions of buildings in the form of a twisted piece of wire.

The benefits of a paper clip, however, are not limited to this. Here are the TOP 5 proofs that you can make completely rational and useful things from paper clips:

• use as a “dog” for a zipper on clothes, shoes or a backpack;
• Using the bent end of a paperclip, you can easily clean a clogged hole of small diameter (in a garlic press, salt shaker, glue tube);
• a paperclip is an excellent stop for the constantly lost edge of the tape;
• men who wear a tie, but often forget to put on the special clips that hold this accessory in place, can use a little assistant from the world of office;
• A classic of the genre is bookmarks made from paper clips, and we will devote the next section to them.

Read everything

Agree that losing the right page in a book, diary or even a simple magazine is always an unpleasant and annoying moment. Such a loss is especially infuriating when the necessary information must be found in record time. Bookmarks familiar to many from school desks help to avoid this. It is very easy to make such an accessory from paper clips; the photo shows several options for how the wire can be twisted, giving it an original shape.

A high-quality paperclip is made of fairly dense metal, otherwise it simply will not be able to hold the sheets together, and therefore making such masterpieces by hand will be problematic; handicraftsmen use pliers or round nose pliers for this.

You can avoid twisting and bending of the wire if you decorate the paper clip with something. There are absolutely no restrictions here: flags made of ribbons or paper, buttons, flowers, beads and rhinestones glued to the edge of a paper clip will make it a stylish and exclusive bookmark.

On the eve of the holiday

Many crafters hardly realized that they could use paper clips to make a wonderful girly hanger toy, which can easily be transformed into a magnificent New Year's decoration. This is an excellent solution for organizing the wardrobe of a child's favorite doll. Also, later on the cute miniature hangers from the Barbie cabinet, just glue paper sweaters and various Christmas paraphernalia and in a simple way make excellent Christmas tree decorations from paper clips.

Another option to use office supplies in an original way is to make a postcard from paper clips. To do this, it is best to choose multi-colored paper clips rather than classic steel ones. Colored shells on wire can be of various shades; from such bright ovals it is very easy to lay out figures of different shapes - snowflakes, Christmas trees or flowers.

Office love

Another holiday that can be decorated with a paper clip is Valentine's Day. A real find for this would be a heart made from a paper clip. Making it couldn’t be easier, you just need to bend the longer oval up, making the point of the heart in the center. They will look most impressive when braided; it is best to take as a basis the colors traditional for this romantic holiday - pink, red or lilac.

After transformation, such a paperclip can also be used for its intended purpose - to connect a stack of sheets; also, a heart made from a paperclip will decorate a very tiny Valentine’s card or a large postcard; it can be used to attach a note to a gift or a bouquet of flowers.

A little bit of hooliganism

Most likely, if the readers of this publication are men, they are a little offended that the vast majority of tips and ways to transform a paper clip are ideas for girls. It's true that it's much easier to make a necklace out of a paper clip or some other cute trinket, but especially for young (and maybe quite mature) hooligans, we found a way to create fun entertainment from stationery.

This mini slingshot will undoubtedly brighten up a boring lesson at school or a dull day at the office. To make it you will need one paperclip (it’s better to take a large one), a thin money cutter and shells. As shooting material, you can use small strips of paper folded in half in the middle.

Inside every man there forever remains a little boy who loves to play with cars and, of course, will never refuse to shoot and play war games.

We offer you a selection of weapons that can be assembled from what you can get your hands on in almost any office. You can’t even imagine what the imagination of a simple office employee is capable of;)

So, number 1! For this catapult you will need a plastic spoon, a wooden coffee stir stick or pencil, rubber bands, clothespins and binders (black paper clip). According to the creator, the affected area is 3-6 meters.

Number 2. Meet the double pistol. In order to build this miracle of technology, you will need pencils, erasers, binders, tape, clothespins and a tape holder. The affected area is 2.5-6 meters.

Number 3. For this crossbow you will need pencils, erasers, tape and a pen. As well as detailed instructions, which you will see by following the link.

Number 4. The simplest crossbow I've ever seen. To do this you will need a roll of tape, a rubber band and, of course, live ammunition.

Number 5. Here you can make yourself elegant darts of any color. To do this, you will need colored paper, simple paper clips, and cork pins.

Number 6. When I was a child, all the boys used this shooting game. Because it was even easier to make than an ordinary slingshot. To do this, you need the neck of a plastic bottle, tape and either an inflatable balloon or a fingertip. It is very painful to shoot rowan and other berries. The affected area is up to 10-15 meters, I tell you this from my own bitter experience.

Number 7. The parade of crossbows continues. Another simple option for which you will need a large paper clip and an eraser. And for the arrow - tape, a stick and paper.

Number 8. Rubber TEC, or to put it simply, it’s just a rubber band with a handle. You thread a rubber band through the cap of the pen so that if you pull the rubber band and release the pen, it will fly straight to the target. The main thing is to aim well.

Number 9. Double Maul or just one small binder nested inside a larger binder. The affected area is about 7 meters.

Number 10. Super Maul is a miracle technology with a laser sight! For this giant you will need a laser pointer, an elastic band and binders of different sizes. It is better to be careful with this weapon, as a well-sharpened pencil released will pierce a drink can. The affected area is 16.2 meters.

Happy upcoming holiday, dear defenders of the fatherland;)