A wide variety of materials and techniques are used to create crafts and interior decorations. Sometimes completely unexpected materials are used for this purpose, such as hot glue. Photos of crafts made from hot glue arouse genuine interest and a desire to try to create something similar with your own hands.
What is hot glue?
Hot glue has another name - thermoplastic glue. The material itself consists of polymers that, when heated, acquire adhesive properties. Typically, hot glue is used to seal joints and glue products together.
Hot melt adhesive is available at most hardware stores. It is produced in the form of solid glue sticks, which differ in color, size and composition.
There is also glue different colors. To effectively and accurately melt and dispense glue, there are special glue guns into which rods are inserted.
Operating technique
The instructions on how to make a craft from glue are very simple - buy glue gun, rods suitable for it and turn on your imagination.
The main thing when working with the material is to be extremely careful and attentive, because the molten glue heats up to a temperature of 200˚ C.
What kind of crafts can be made from hot glue at home? Hot-melt adhesive can be used to decorate vases, photo frames and other interior elements or to create independent decorations.
Candlesticks
The best place to start working with hot glue is: simple tasks, for example, from decorating a candlestick. You can create an imitation of wax drips on its surface or create a unique pattern. For this purpose, it is better to use colored glue or sprinkle it with colored glitter or glue beads on it.
For decoration, you need to choose wide, thick-walled candlesticks. This choice is due to the fact that the effect of the burning temperature of a candle can have a bad effect on the glue - the design may simply blur.
Before applying hot glue, it is necessary to thoroughly degrease the surface of the candlestick for better adhesion.
You can get beautiful ideas for crafts made from hot glue from the Internet or create your own original pattern.
Vase
You can use hot glue to create a handmade vase for sweets. Step-by-step production with a description for beginners will help you easily create such a craft.
In order to make a vase for sweets yourself, stock up on hot glue, a glass bowl that will serve as a stencil and rich cream. If you want your vase to be colorful, use a glue stick with required color or buy paint the desired shade in a can.
Apply to outer surface bowls cream - it will prevent the glue from attaching to the glass when applied. Warm up your glue gun and begin applying glue to the bottom of the bowl. Try to distribute the glue evenly - this will help form a smooth, stable bottom of your vase.
After applying the glue, you must wait until it is completely polymerized. You can begin to separate the glue from the bowl only after it has completely hardened, otherwise the craft may be irreparably damaged. After removing the hot glue basket, you can spray paint it.
rolling pin
For those who love working with polymer or ceramic clay, the idea of making rolling pins with patterns will be very useful. To do this, you need to take a new, clean rolling pin. the right size, degrease well and draw the required pattern on it with a pencil or marker.
Then use a glue gun to apply glue to the pattern lines and wait until it dries completely. You can also treat the rolling pin with cream or oil before applying glue - this will allow you to remove the glue after using the required pattern and apply a new one to it.
New Year decoration
For your child, you can conduct a master class on crafts using hot glue. Make a large drawing of a snowflake; you can ask the child to make a stencil. Then, using carbon paper, transfer the drawing onto parchment paper for baking.
Apply hot glue along the contour of the drawn snowflake to make a three-dimensional copy of it. Carefully monitor your child's actions at this stage - he may get burns from the hot polymer.
Wait until the polymer has completely hardened and separate it from the paper. After the snowflakes have dried, they can be decorated with ordinary nail polish or spray painted.
Photos of crafts made from hot glue
Every needlewoman has such a tool as hot glue. This item is required if you need to glue something together. Moreover, it can be used not only for its intended purpose, but also to create wonderful crafts. For example, you can look at photos of crafts made from glue to understand what we are talking about now.
Cat scratcher
There is no need to buy a special comb for pets, because you can make one yourself. Take regular ones latex gloves color of your choice and apply small drops of glue over the entire area. Give time for the glue to dry properly, and you can start stroking the cat. This process will not only be pleasant, but also useful, since such a tool will remove excess hair from the animal and it will not fly all over the apartment.
Buttons
If you are going to decorate any item in your wardrobe with your own hands, then undoubtedly great solution will become a button made of sparkles.
The only tools you will need are hot glue and the glitter itself. It is necessary to pour glitter and organize a circle out of them, then the whole thing is covered with glue and a small amount of glitter is added on top. When the glue dries, you need to use a toothpick to make several holes through which the button will be sewn to the clothing.
Moreover, such crafts made from hot glue with your own hands can be sold and you can organize a good profitable business.
Eraser at the end of a pencil
Have you ever seen pencils with an eraser on the back? So, glue can become the same eraser, and it will cope with the task no worse. Just apply a little glue to the end of the pencil in a ball shape and let it dry.
Unique vase
Do you have a transparent glass vase at home? Try making it more original with hot glue. Just apply the glue evenly in the form of a texture or pattern over the entire area of the vase, let it dry thoroughly, and you will get a non-slippery vase with an unusual design.
Shoes
Just as in the case of a vase, you can achieve an anti-slip effect for other objects. Best idea– a craft made from glue for making shoes that won’t slip on ice. To do this, apply in small areas or apply strips of hot glue to the soles of your shoes and wait for it to dry.
Now you don't have to be afraid that you will immediately fall as soon as you step on the ice. You can also use glue to make an inscription on the sole, which will look very unusual.
In the same way, you can get hangers (hangers) for clothes, from which clothes will not slide off. Apply a little glue evenly to the clothes hanger and wait until it dries completely. Try the improved item!
Interior decoration
Apply glue to wax paper so that you get some kind of figure, for example, it could be a snowflake. Wait for the glue to dry, and for an even more stunning effect, you can paint the snowflake with nail polish. different colors. Decorate a Christmas tree, a wall or a window with such figures and they will delight the eye.
Please note that if you work with this glue with children, be extremely careful, since the glue gun itself gets very hot, and the glue will be very hot - one awkward movement and you can get burned!
It is not necessary to look at the techniques that are used to make crafts, try to take paper and make crafts from paper and glue using your imagination, we are sure that you will find a use for all this.
Wax crayons
Crafts created with wax crayons can seriously damage your glue gun, so for this hobby it is better to take an old or unnecessary tool.
Instead of glue, you need to insert colored chalk into the hole, and when the gun heats up, carefully push it inside. Under the influence of temperature, the chalk will melt, and the molten colored mass will begin to drip from the gun. Very convenient to use for creating colored blots in a composition.
Candlestick
For this work you need a glass vase or glass, glue with a gun, acrylic or aerosol paint and spray oil or regular vegetable oil.
Choose a wide container that you will use as a candlestick, since the temperature of the burning candle can melt the glue, which will undoubtedly ruin the product.
Clean the vase from traces and cover thin layer oils Create a beautiful pattern or design on the outer surface of the glass, you can even come up with a special structure.
It is best to apply lines of glue that will touch each other in case it is easy to remove the adhesive layer from the glass.
The next step is to carefully separate the adhesive layer from the glass. You can use a knife or screwdriver to make it easier to remove the layer.
When the job is finished, the glass must be rinsed from traces of glue; this is best done by detergent. And the candlestick itself needs to be painted with your favorite color. If you are using spray paint, please read the instructions carefully before using it.
An interesting look are crafts made from threads and glue, which cover, for example, a vase with a layer of multi-colored threads, and the glue is used as a binder.
You don't have to look at someone else's work and copy it exactly. Use your imagination and you can come up with adhesive accompaniments for any item in your interior. There are a lot of options, you just have to raise your head and run your eyes over the objects that surround you.
You can also find on the Internet various master glue craft classes that will help you if you really can’t come up with anything on your own. Some tips can be very useful.
Try to surprise your guests and loved ones with such gizmos that are made strictly only from glue, without the use of other decorative items. Take our instructions on how to make a craft from glue as a basis, supplement them with something of your own and you will truly amaze your future fans.
Photos of crafts made from glue
Useful tips
Regular glue gun with hot glue can be used not only for gluing various parts, but also for creating various patterns and crafts.
When working with hot glue, be careful and give Special attention child safety, because the glue gun heats up and the glue comes out very hot.
Here are some very interesting and extraordinary ideas on how else you can use a glue gun and hot glue:
Crafts made from glue. We use wax crayons.
You will need:
Glue gun
Wax crayons
* It is possible that after using wax crayons, your glue gun will deteriorate, so it is advisable to use an old or inexpensive gun.
*If children are working on the project, be careful when working with a hot glue gun and hot melted crayons.
1. Remove the labels (papers) from the crayons.
2. Cover your work area with an old towel.
3. Heat up the glue gun.
4. Carefully insert the chalk into the glue gun and gradually press it down. The glue gun trigger won't be able to push them through, so you'll have to do it by hand.
5. The wax will begin to melt and you will be able to use colored wax drops to create colorful blots.
Wax stamping is another way to use wax crayons and a glue gun to create vibrant images.
DIY glue crafts. Decorate a vase or candlestick with hot glue.
You will need:
Inexpensive, round vase or candlestick
Heat the glue and begin to carefully apply it to the vase, layer by layer, so that you end up with transparent lines on the walls of the vase.
If you want to do more straight lines, ask someone to help you - let them spin the vase for you, and you apply the glue.
Unusual crafts. Hot glue corals.
You will need:
Thin wire
Hot glue gun
Acrylic paint
Brush
Piece of plywood
Nails and hammer.
Making red coral
1. Cut the wire into several pieces different lengths. IN in this example their length varies from 10 to 40 cm. Bend each piece in half.
2. Heat the glue and carefully cover all the pieces of wire with it.
3. Select the color you want to paint the coral in in this case red. Use acrylic paint to paint the glue on the wires.
4. When the paint is dry, you can assemble all the parts into one coral. Take 2-3 pieces of wire with glue and connect them together using another thin, clean wire (not covered with glue).
Add 2 more parts to the structure and connect them again with clean wire.
In order for the coral to stand on a flat surface, all ends of the clean wires must be twisted and bent into the shape of a stand (see image).
Making white coral
1. Cut 3 pieces of wire, each between 30 and 35 cm long, and twist their ends together.
2. Bend all the wires the way you like and place them on a flat surface to which hot glue will not stick - glass, for example.
3. Cover all the wires with glue. After this, you can add additional branches of glue to your design.
4. Once you have the coral in the shape you want, let the glue dry and paint it white acrylic paint.
5. To make the base for the craft, prepare a piece of plywood and attach the ends of the wires to it with nails.
6. Cover the ends with glue and paint with acrylic paint.
Unusual DIY crafts. Snowflakes made from hot glue.
You will need:
Hot glue gun
Nail polish or acrylic paint
Parchment paper (NOT waxed (wax) paper)
A drawn snowflake shape (if desired).
1. Print or draw a snowflake on a regular sheet of paper and place the design under parchment paper.
2. Using a glue gun and hot glue, trace the snowflake design. Wait a minute for the glue to dry.
If necessary, after the glue has dried, you can straighten the shape a little using a hairdryer.
3. Carefully remove the snowflake from the paper. The paper can be further used to create several more snowflakes.
4. Both sides of the glue snowflake can be painted with nail polish or acrylic paint.
Original DIY crafts . Rolling pin with a pattern.
You will need:
Any rolling pin
Felt pen
1. Draw any pattern on the rolling pin. It is advisable not to draw too many lines.
2. Heat the glue and start applying it to the lines drawn on the rolling pin. It is advisable to carry out the entire process on a flat surface covered with newspaper or cardboard.
3. Once the glue is dry, you can use a rolling pin to create a design on the clay by rolling it out.
The glue can be removed and a different pattern applied.
Original crafts. Glass holder for candle.
You will need:
Small glass vase or glass
Hot glue gun
Aerosol or acrylic paint
Spray oil or simple vegetable oil.
It is advisable to choose a wide vase so that the heat from the candle inside does not heat the glue, which may leak.
1. Wash and dry the vase, then wipe it with vegetable oil and a paper napkin.
2. Start applying hot glue to reverse side the bottom of the vase, drawing patterns with it. The main thing is that all the lines intertwine well so that it is easier to remove the glue from the vase.
Continue drawing patterns with glue on the sides of the vase.
It is advisable to wear glasses to protect your eyes, as the glue will heat the glass.
3. Once the glue has dried, carefully begin to separate the design from the vase. You may need to use a screwdriver, knife, or other tool to make it easier to separate the design from the glass vase.
4. Clean the vase from any remaining glue. Use dishwashing detergent.
5. Paint the glue design. If you are using spray paint, read the instructions carefully and act according to them.
Now you can insert a glass or vase into the candle holder and you will get an excellent interior decoration.
Interesting crafts for children. Multi-colored dots for various crafts.
You will need:
Hot glue gun
Acrylic paint or nail polish
Brush.
You'll have to practice a little to get these smooth details, but in the end you will succeed, and all these parts can be used to make various crafts and cards.
Each dot can be painted with acrylic paint or nail polish.
Crafts for children: do-it-yourself printing (video)
* First, cover the table surface with a special silicone board or silicone oilcloth.
Crafts for the home: making a vase from glue (video)
Interesting DIY crafts. Makeup brush cleaning board
Having recently appeared on the shelves of construction stores, hot-melt adhesive quickly gained popularity among needlewomen and home craftsmen. Thanks to the speed of gluing and the breadth of application, the glue and heat gun are unrivaled in convenience and accessibility. Of course, the strength of connections in this way is not the highest and the scope of application is limited by temperature limits. But with everyday tasks manufacturing various crafts With your own hands, hot melt glue copes with ease and speed, satisfying most requests.
Safety precautions
To begin with, it is worth mentioning the safety precautions when working with hot-melt adhesive. Many housewives have experienced with their own hands the danger of high temperatures in the kitchen and at home, so you need to remember about safety.
Glue, sticking to the skin, releases a significant amount of heat not only when cooling, but also when hardening. Therefore, it can cause much deeper burns than a hot frying pan or tile, from which you can pull your hand away in time, receiving minimal damage. Additionally, you should carefully read the instructions for the device and follow the recommendations specified by the manufacturer.
Wax instead of glue
It's time to try the device in action. Of course, you can glue it with it, but it’s much more interesting to find it original application. The principle of the gun is to heat the material and melt it into a liquid state. This means that any material with a suitable melting point can be used in the gun. So, when heated in this way, they become not just a gel-like mass, like glue tubes, but with a liquid, like drinking yogurt.
Using different colors and imagination, you can get motley drops on cardboard or thick paper, and if you drip from a height of half a meter, you will get blots. The gun, of course, can get dirty, and to clean it after art classes you should skip a certain amount of factory glue, which will wash away the wax from the inside. Let us remind you that wax is a rather greasy material, and not all surfaces will be able to hold it. for a long time. The porous structure of wood or cardboard can provide sufficient adhesion.
Vintage wax seals
In the same way, you can heat wax to make seals and impressions, for example, to seal a letter of congratulations or a personal message. Using coins or other embossed metal objects, you can even achieve similarities with those that have gone out of use
A letter with such a stamp will not only delight the addressee with its originality, but will also introduce some intimacy and mystery into the correspondence. Oh yes, wax is quite fragile, unlike sealing wax, so do not trust these letters to the mail, present them in person.
Decoration with glue
Transparent or colored hot melt adhesive with your own hands can be turned not only into a fastening composition, but also into a decoration element. Simple and inconspicuous glass vases, treated on the outside with a hot-melt adhesive pattern, will sparkle with new colors and will impress your guests as an original work of your own.
In the same way, you can draw three-dimensional figures and entire pictures on any household containers, boxes, or simply on cardboard for a frame on the wall. Not any paint is suitable for coloring colorless glue - watercolor or gouache will quickly be erased from the surface. It is best to use paints on acrylic base or, as a last resort, nail polish.
DIY hot glue crafts are a great way to spend time with children, teaching them accuracy, responsibility and artistic flair. The main thing is not to leave children alone with the device turned on or just warmed up.
Glue color classification
Let's take a look at these colored sticks. It can't be that manufacturers are just adding colorings at random. Indeed, there is a recommended international marking and here are the main types of cores for a heat gun:
Simple translucent cylindrical sticks are the most popular look glue. Universal, suitable for most various surfaces and materials, suitable for almost any hidden and open fastenings.
Colored opaque rods differ from universal ones only in color. It makes sense to buy them for those who do crafts, children and florists. They allow you to disguise the gluing area to match the overall color of the product without the use of additional coloring.
Black and gray stickers are intended for waterproofing areas, and are also used as electrical insulation. The non-shrinking and adhesive properties of the material are used in sealing window frames and in the insulation of current-carrying parts of electrical appliances.
White opaque rods are used specifically for gluing metal and glass, except, of course, universal adhesives, painted in White color, pay attention to the packaging.
Yellow or candle-colored, wood-colored translucent sticks have better adhesion to the porous structure of wood or cardboard.
In any case, not all manufacturers have yet come to common standards and needs to be checked technical properties glue, checking the packaging. There you can also find out the melting point of the material and the approximate temperature range of its use.
Electrical appliances often require materials that can withstand prolonged heating; in other cases, a non-rigid plastic fixation, such as silicone, may be required, for example, in manufacturing hand tools. You also need to take into account the capabilities of your device for working with glue, so that the heat gun has enough power to melt the material during operation.
DIY pistol
The market is now flooded with instruments that are not the most best quality, and heat guns are no exception. They usually break at the most inopportune moment, and you may need a reliable device to use the remaining hot melt adhesive.
You can quickly build a heater for work from an old iron or use a soldering iron, but here you may encounter the problem of overheating the material. For permanent job Craftsmen are more likely to be inspired by the idea of making a hot-melt glue gun with their own hands.
Current power regulator will help control the temperature
First of all, we will need to make a current power regulator, no matter what kind of heating device we use. Overheating of the adhesive material will inevitably lead to its severe liquefaction (as a result, spontaneous leakage from the gun) or even burnout.
The regulator is made by sequentially connecting a dimmer to an open circuit, like a switch, where it will perform the above functions and regulate the power of the supplied current. It will be convenient to make a separate socket with a regulator on a piece wooden board, it is likely that current power control will be needed for other devices.
based on boiler
Now we can be sure that the boiler will not burn without water, but will only heat up to desired temperature. The next step You will need to make a comfortable handle so that you don’t get burned on the heated device. Most available material for the handle - wood, but it is also afraid of high temperatures and to protect it you can use Teflon tape, used in cooking.
As a working container, you need to make it from tin can tube and funnel, connecting them together so that the edges of the funnel cover the tube. The diameter of the working crucible should be such that the funnel is tightly clamped by the coils of the boiler. We further strengthen the structure copper wire and test the device on a suitable piece of glue stick. This design compensates for the absence of a feed lever with incredible “omnivorousness”, that is, the tool is suitable for any type of hot-melt adhesive, regardless of its melting point.
If you run out of glue
Let's consider the situation the other way around: there is a useless hot-melt gun without suitable stickers, and you need to stick something “here and now.” We put aside the orphaned tool until we buy suitable ones for it. Supplies and turn our attention to another, no less versatile heating device - a hair dryer.
Of course, hair models would be inappropriate here, meaning a professional one that produces high air temperatures. Here you can heat the glue right at the joint. By the way, the glue itself is literally lying under your feet.
We offer the 2 most common options for making hot-melt adhesive with your own hands:
Foamed polypropylene or polyethylene can occasionally be found as packaging material, but most often it is found in construction and finishing works as heat and sound insulation. The connection is not so strong as it is flexible, and is not afraid of shocks and vibrations.
Everyone knows plastic bottles, which have filled landfills all over the Earth, are also suitable as an adhesive material. It takes quite a long time to heat the entire bottle with a hairdryer, so it is better to cut a plate of the required size at the gluing site.
Both options are unstable when high temperatures, but are suitable for most jobs where the use of conventional hot-melt adhesive is sufficient. This way, you recycle waste and have a virtually inexhaustible supply of glue.
Name Confusion: Circuit Adhesive
For people involved in circuit engineering, the words have the same meaning as “hot-melt adhesive for radiators.” It is very difficult to make such material with your own hands, since it uses chemical reactions, not change state of aggregation substances under the influence of temperature.
It is impossible to compare hot-melt adhesive for a gun and hot-melt adhesive for LEDs, which are different in composition and purpose. You can make the so-called glycerin cement with your own hands from lead litharge and glycerin as a heat-conducting layer and an adhesive at the same time.
There are also proven industrial options heat-resistant materials for gluing, which, of course, are better to have in stock than to prepare hot-melt glue yourself. "Alsil-5" and "Radial" are the most famous brands among specialists. In addition, several types of heat-conducting rubber are produced. You should read the instructions about how exactly heat-resistant glue is used.
The unpredictable behavior of the heating element in a Chinese glue gun has become the talk of the town. The service life, according to information from Internet users, varies from a few seconds after switching on to five years of proper operation. About the power of the heating element, we came across statements ranging from “virtually does not heat at all” to “heats quite satisfactorily.” This was the reason for the curiosity that arose, which prompted me to buy, first, an inexpensive Chinese glue gun for the purpose of “opening it and looking.” That is, thoroughly familiarize yourself with the design of the device, and that’s all. I didn’t take any glue sticks; I probably won’t need them.
Glue gun diagram
And now the melting chamber with a heating element installed on it appeared to the eye. Looks like a small jet turbine.
The clamp and thrust pad have been removed. Here is the heating element itself. I note that at the installation site it lay flat, in the center and was in direct contact with the body of the melting chamber with only one of its planes.
I unwrap the rather careless packaging - an insulator. Just tiny inside ceramic heater nal element and two contacts for supplying 220 volts to it.
I took a closer look at the heater and rang the two sides with a multimeter. They call, but not everywhere. The darkening visible in the photo at the bottom is present on all sides and completely covers the adjacent end side. It doesn't ring. This is a ceramic coating on top of the heating element. Designed for direct contact with the body of the heating chamber and transfer of heat generated by the heater, without placing a dielectric spacer between them. This spraying is the dielectric gasket. It became clear that the heater was installed incorrectly by the manufacturer. He was lying on his side, and was also wrapped three times in insulating material. By existing sizes There will be room for 4 heaters on the installation site.
Guided by common sense (as far as God has given), I began to correct the manufacturer’s “jambs”. The dimensions of the contacts were brought into line with the dimensions of the ceramic heater. Exactly in length, and 1 mm less in height.
I made a millimeter-long bend at a right angle to prevent the contact from sliding down onto the body of the heating chamber.
This is how the contacts assembled with the heater began to look (top view).
The assembly resistance (located inside the clothespin) turned out to be 6 kilo-ohms. It immediately became clear that the 20W declared by the manufacturer would not be even close to being confirmed.
Exactly according to the dimensions of the ceramic heater, I cut out two copper plates 2 mm thick. It is necessary to somehow fill the void at the installation site and take heat from the sides of the heater.
The cut was made to allow the sides to be compressed. This will add reliability in holding the heater in place and is intended to improve heat transfer.
Sectional installation diagram. In the figure there are gaps between the individual components, but in a real assembly there should not be any.
Assembly completed. The heater without a gasket stands on a designated plane (end) covered with dielectric coating, with current-carrying contacts on the sides, then four layers of mica on three sides (taken from an old burnt soldering iron), and copper plates on the sides. The seal is the insulator on the right made of asbestos. I had a piece on hand and it seemed that it would be more reliable.
Here you can see that the sides are already pressed against the copper plates and hold the entire assembly, the ceramic heater is directly in contact with the wall of the heating chamber, and the electric. contacts are far from her.
The last thing to put in place is the clamp. The junction of the wires with the contacts must be insulated with ceramic insulators or something that fully replaces them.
After assembly, the first thing I did was measure the current consumption. When turned on, within a few seconds, there is a gradual current jump of 80 - 120 - 210 mA, then a sharp jump down - 20 mA. Mains voltage 225 - 230 volts x 0.02 A = maximum 4.6 W. And on the front panel of the gun, in plain sight, there is a nameplate indicating a power of 20 W. The glue gun will actually have the advertised power if you set it to 4 heating elements. However, let’s not dream, but rather look at the video of the heating dynamics of a correctly assembled and installed (in my opinion) heating element.
Video
The gluing temperature indicated by the manufacturer is 120 degrees, it was achieved in 2 minutes. Yes, you also need to heat up the glue stick, but I think the remaining 3 minutes (the control heating time before starting work is 5 minutes) is enough for this. Especially for "" - Babay iz Barnaula.