How to cut a snail from a tire. Do-it-yourself figures and crafts from tires for the garden and vegetable garden - a master class and photos of works from old tires. Funny, fun figurines for everyone

How many beautiful and interesting crafts can be created from seemingly completely useless and useless things, practically from trash. A person with imagination and skillful hands uses literally everything: from beer cans to used matchboxes, not to mention long-suffering plastic bottles.

And old used tires are no exception. It turns out that if you get creative, you can make a very cute and cute parrot out of them.

For work we need:
. old car tire with thread! cord and radial tread pattern;
. M8 bolt with nut and two washers;
. metal strip for making a clamp;
. a well-sharpened knife with a strong blade;
. drill or screwdriver, drill Ø10 mm;
. set of wrenches.

And so, let's get started

You should start with the markup, that is, divide the circumference of the tire into three identical parts (the angles should be 120 °), using the points obtained, mark up: two arcs along the outer and inner edge of the tire, bounded by a radius and a cut at an acute angle to the radius. Marking is applied on both sides of the tire.

We turn the resulting blank inside out, and we see that our tire begins to acquire subtle features of the future parrot.
The scraps obtained earlier will be great for making a beak. Marking and cutting it is not at all difficult.

Now, exactly in the middle of the tire from the side of the radial cut, we make a longitudinal cut a little longer than the height of the beak.

The beak is placed between the halves of the cut and compressed with a vice or clamp (squeeze tight!). Armed with a drill with a Ø10 mm drill, we drill a hole in the place where the eye of our bird should be, and connect all three parts with an M8 bolt with a nut and washers. The vice (clamp) can be removed by tightening the nut.

To make the head complete, mark the line connecting the back of the head and neck, and make a cut.

Now the tail. On the other end of the tire, we ended up with a long strip, on which we will make a sketch resembling a parrot's tail. And, of course, cut.

To make our product finally look like an Aru parrot, let's do coloring.

Blue, yellow and white paints are perfect, it is better to use black paint for coloring the rings, and cover with a transparent varnish for gloss.

It is not difficult to come up with a suspension for the rings.
A parrot made with your own hands will be an excellent and original decoration for your summer cottage.

Recently, tire crafts have become a favorite garden decoration that people make with their own hands. Very interesting garden figures often turn out.

The Golden Snail is the simplest craft for the garden. You don't even have to cut anything. And this cannot but please (especially women), since the hard rubber of car tires is not cut so easily.

Consider a photo of tire crafts, located a little lower. What does this pretty Golden Snail take?

First, color. The snail is bright, moreover, the colors in its design are chosen so that against the background of greenery, the craft is not only clearly visible, but attracts the eye.

Secondly, I want to look at this Golden Snail, as she is sweet, pretty and kind.

Stages of creating crafts from tires - Snails

First, let's prepare the "house" of this wonderful creature - the sink.

Wash and dry the tire.
Let's paint the tire: orange and gold paint (check with the picture).
Car rubber for crafts is well painted with oil, bituminous, rubber, acrylic, enamel. If you do not find a light orange paint, you can mix white with pigment (it is sold in small jars - in liquid form, as well as in sachets - in powder).
Now what will make the craft for the garden "full". The hole in the car tire must be closed, preferably with a convex object, so that it looks like a real snail shell. For example, a bowl of a suitable size. In extreme cases, if there is no bowl, the hole will have to be closed with a flat circle cut from some material. For example, plywood, plastic. Paint this part too - to match the rest of the "shell".
There is no special need to attach the body of the Snail to the sink - it can simply be installed nearby. The easiest way for the body is to use a piece of pipe or a plastic container of a suitable diameter.
An old ball is ideal for the head. If there is no ball. Buy a balloon, wrap it with threads (you can not do it very tightly, in one layer), and coat it with cement mortar or putty on top (of course, for outdoor work). After drying, apply another layer on top. Dry again and then sand. The balloon will remain inside, well, yes, a cheap loss.
Horns of the Golden Snail are made of thick wire and tennis balls.
We draw a kind, laughing "face" - such that it would be nice to see him.
It remains to fix the shell and body of the Snail in the ground. You can just partially dig in, but in this case, the craft will not be very stable. It is better to pass some metal pin through the tire (reinforcing, for example) and stick it into the ground. In the same way, fix the body of the Snail, which, by the way, has been living here for quite a long time.

It is always nice to make something beautiful and useful out of junk things. A good example of such creativity is beautiful flowerbeds made of tires. They are easy to make and the benefits are enormous. But the fantasy of country masters is not limited to this. From old wheels, which often just lie on the road and pollute the environment, they make street furniture, sculptures for the garden, and even rebuild small children's towns.

Such a simple and unsightly material at first glance, like old car tires, in fact, seems to be specially created so that every summer resident can feel like a real artist and decorate his site with real designer flower beds and original author's sculptures. Without exaggeration, anything can be cut out of tires. Such crafts, along with those made from plastic bottles, will delight the eyes of the owners and guests of the cottage all year round, and most importantly, they will not require special financial investments.

It's also nice that the benefits of the idea of making DIY crafts from tires are twofold: on the one hand, we recycle the wheel that polluted the environment, and on the other, we get an original garden decoration or flower bed.

Crafts from used rubber tires amaze with their variety and how rich the imagination of their authors is. Here are the most common ones:

In the photo - flower beds from tires

Small flower bed. The easiest way to make flowerbeds from tires is to leave the tire as it is, just brightly decorate it and fill it with earth. Nothing complicated. Even a weak woman or child can handle this, and such a flower garden will look great.

In this photo - cups made from old wheels

Flower beds from old tires in the form of various objects. Make them harder. The tire is cut into two unequal parts and the larger one is turned inside out. It is worth noting that the edges of the tires can be made in various shapes, it's all about imagination and sleight of hand. In this technique, flower beds are made in the form of a mug, flower, vase. A huge rubber cup made of tires looks very funny. And some craftsmen, in this way, build a whole tea set on their site.

Turtle from old wheels

Flowerbeds and sculptures in the form of animals and fairy-tale characters. A funny tire frog, a kind gnome, a mysterious unicorn, beautiful swans, a three-headed dragon, a turtle, a luxurious carriage, a huge telephone - it is easier to list what is not made from this affordable material. The only condition is to think over the composition from the very beginning so that there are no unpleasant surprises later.

In the photo - multi-tiered flower beds or berries

Multi-tiered flower beds of several tires. The simplest in execution is three-tier, but the number of parts can be more. Several tires of the same or different sizes are placed on top of each other or in a checkerboard pattern. A well made of tires looks spectacular, stylized as a real one and equipped with all its inherent attributes: a chain, a shaft with a visor, a bucket. Such a flower garden can also be used as a vertical bed for growing berries and vegetables.

Flowerbeds from tires for strawberries

A flowerbed for strawberries from tires will take up a minimum of space and give a rich harvest. It is perfect for growing seedlings, herbs, peppers. From such a flower bed, you can make a fence for a raspberry or currant bush, or make several of them and delimit the garden into cultural zones. It is worth mentioning that a tire well is often made not only decorative, but also masks a drainage pit or septic tank.

Experienced craftsmen and craftswomen know many secrets that help them create garden sculptures and flower beds from tires with their own hands. They understand better than anyone how to make unique and inimitable author's crafts out of old rubbish that no one needs. Here are just a few of those secrets:

Imported tires are best suited for work, as the rubber on them is softer and easy to cut. But in their absence, domestic products will fit. In principle, they are quite easy to process and allow you to give crafts from them a different shape.
Tires designed for use in winter conditions are more pliable, easier to cut and easier to handle than those used in summer.
The longer the tire has been used and the more worn it is, the thinner, softer and easier it will be to work with: cut and turn.
Before you start creating crafts, the material must be prepared: thoroughly cleaned of dirt, and degreased before painting.
To cut car tires, use a sharp knife with a thin butt. You can check how well it is sharpened by running the blade over a notebook sheet, holding it on weight. If the knife does not cut or tear the paper, it is not sharp enough.
It is more convenient to cut a car tire for garden crafts if you periodically lubricate the knife with machine oil. So it will be easier to enter the rubber. The oil is suitable and used.
When you need to cut out some curly elements, markings are applied to the tire. It will help to achieve a more accurate and accurate result. It is most convenient to apply it with ordinary white chalk, in extreme cases, with a marker.
The durability of the craft depends on what paint to paint the rubber with. For old wheel tires, both car paints and any outdoor paints are suitable.
Before painting a tire, it is recommended that its surface be primed. A primer with the addition of a small amount of PVA will increase the strength of the coating and reduce paint consumption.
Paints in aerosol cans speed up the staining process up to 20-30 minutes, and the painted layer itself is made more uniform.
Decorative trim can be made from improvised materials. For example, glue the surface with pebbles, bottle fragments, or lay out pictures from colored plastic bottle caps.

It is better to paint a flower bed from a tire not only from the outside, but also from the inside. So they will look more aesthetically pleasing, and black rubber will not be visible from the inside.

Of course, each master has his own secrets, and it is unrealistic to list them all. And when you get into this exciting business - tire sculpture, they will certainly appear in yours.

Several workshops on making crafts from old tires

As mentioned above, tire crafts are diverse. Their appearance and purpose are limited only by the imagination of the master. We suggest you familiarize yourself with the basic models. After reviewing them, you will learn how to make a flower bed out of tires with your own hands and you will be able to create original, different and useful garden accessories yourself.

Simple flower bed

A small flower bed, made like a daisy from a single tire, is the simplest basic model. You can make several such flower beds, arrange them hardly and decorate the approach to the house. Sometimes they are placed on paved or paved areas.

We will need:

One old tire.
Sharp knife.
Marker or chalk.

Mark the place of the cut with a marker. We will cut the tire along them, from thickening to thickening.

Before cutting tires, make sure that they do not have metal cords that can ruin the knife. Usually they are inserted into tires for trucks.

We cut the tire around the entire circumference with even zigzag petals of any shape of your choice (triangular, oval, semicircular).

We turn the tire over and work with its reverse side. Leading the knife along the thickening, cut out a circle from the back of the tire.

Then, around the entire circumference inside the tire, approximately every 20-25 cm, we make transverse cuts from the cut edge to the bend (the end of the tread).

After that, the tire must be turned out. The flower bed is ready. It remains only to paint it, giving it a more attractive look, fill it with earth and plant plants.

For more clarity, watch the following video:

Garden flowerpot from an old wheel

From an old wheel, you can make a beautiful garden vase in a short time.
Such flowerpots look better in a pair in front of the house, on opposite sides of the door or porch. Consider a step-by-step master class on their manufacture.

We will need:

Tire with disk.
Sharp knife.
Chalk or marker.

With a chalk or a marker along the entire frontal circumference of the tire, we mark a zigzag line, along which we will begin to cut. Thanks to her, the flowerpot will look like a large flower with many petals.

Cut the tire along the marked line with a sharp knife. To facilitate the process, the knife is periodically dipped in engine oil (used oil is also suitable).

After the wheel is cut, we check if there are any sections that are not completely cut out, and proceed to turn it inside out. It is better to do this together with an assistant, slowly, in parts.

After we managed to unscrew the tire for the future flower bed, it turned out that there is a chamber in the wheel. It needs to be cut out and thrown away.

The vase is ready. His bowl came from the main part of the wheel. It is not necessary to remove the disc from the tire. It serves as an elevation and stand for the vase, and the remains of the tire at its base provide additional support.

We just have to clean, degrease and decide how beautifully to paint our new garden vase. When you fill the bowl with earth, do not forget to put a gasket on its bottom so that the earth does not spill out and make several holes in it to drain the water.

Video instruction for making a flowerpot:

Swan from an old tire

The most popular garden tire sculptures are swans. Usually they are placed near an artificial pond, which gives the site a stunning look. You can plant grass in the bird itself, then it will give the impression that it is peeking out from behind the vegetation. A detailed step-by-step instruction with a photo will help to make it.

We will need:

Sharp knife.
Electric drill for making holes for entering the rubber of the knife.
Sander or file.
Electric jigsaw.
Chalk or marker (marker is better).
Wire 5-6 mm in diameter (hard, to shape the neck of a "swan").
Plastic clamps (for shaping the head).
Roulette.
Gloves.

According to the scheme, we mark the contours of the future swan on the surface of the tire according to the following video, in which the author uses sizes in inches, calling them in the international measurement system - inch. Inch (1 inch) = 2.54 cm.

How beautiful and accurate our sculpture will turn out depends on the accuracy of the markup.

Let's start cutting. At the initial section, we drill 3-4 holes with a drill at a distance of 3-5 cm and cut the tire between them with a knife. We insert a jigsaw into the resulting cut and begin to cut out the swan.

After all the contours are cut out, we turn the tire out. We try to do it carefully, because careless movements in the thinnest places can tear it.

To make the bird's figure look more neat, we smooth all the cuts along the contour with a grinder.

To shape the neck of a swan, we insert a wire into it. To do this, we drill holes in the center of the neck and to the end of the body every 20 cm. We impose the wire and fix it in the holes with soft staples.

We form the head. We make longitudinal cuts and holes, as shown in the photo, and using the same wire or plastic clamps, we give the shape of the swan's head.

Our tire swan is ready. It remains to paint it and make a stand.

The swan can be painted white or not painted at all, leaving it black. We make the beak red. Swans look very nice in a pair: black and white.

Without a stand, soft rubber swans will not stand. As it, you can simply take any tire and paint it, for example, in blue. Thus, it will symbolize the pond. And you can not be too lazy and make it curly.

We make a figured stand in the same way. We mark the contour on the tire along which we will cut, cut the tire along it, turn it inside out and paint.

In a similar technique, any figures can be made from tires: animals, birds, fairy-tale creatures.

But, if you don't want to mess around with complicated markings and cutting, you can do it easier. For example, to assemble a cute frog from whole tires.

In the photo - a flower bed in the form of a frog

A frog made of tires is very simple. A larger body and head are assembled from one or more tires, eyes are made from small wheels, for example, from a baby carriage, and paws are made from rubber scraps.

flowerbed chamomile

A decoration that is easier to make than this flower bed is hard to come up with. Despite the fact that you will need several car tires for it, you can assemble it in just 15-20 minutes, it looks pretty, neat and will never be superfluous.

We will need:

Three old tires of the same size.
Sharp knife or grinder.

All tires, having previously marked the places of cuts, are cut in half. Before cutting, find out if there are metal cords in the rubber. The knife will not take them, so use the grinder.

To give the future flower bed aesthetics, you can paint the tires. It is better to do this in advance, immediately after cutting.

From 5 halves we form a fence in the shape of a flower and fill it with earth.

Video about the process of creating a flower bed-chamomile:

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Recently, tire crafts have become a favorite decoration for the garden, which people make with their own hands. Very interesting garden figures often turn out.

The Golden Snail is the simplest craft for the garden. You don't even have to cut anything. And this cannot but please (especially women), since the hard rubber of car tires is not cut so easily.

Consider a photo of tire crafts, located a little lower. What does this pretty Golden Snail take?

First, color. The snail is bright, moreover, the colors in its design are chosen so that against the background of greenery, the craft is not only clearly visible, but attracts the eye.

Secondly, I want to look at this Golden Snail, as she is sweet, pretty and kind.

Stages of creating crafts from tires - Snails

First, let's prepare the "house" of this wonderful creature - the sink.

Wash and dry the tire.
Let's paint the tire: orange and gold paint (check with the picture).
Car rubber for crafts is well painted with oil, bituminous, rubber, acrylic, enamel. If you do not find a light orange paint, you can mix white with pigment (it is sold in small jars - in liquid form, as well as in bags - in powder).
Now what will make the craft for the garden "full". The hole in the car tire must be closed, preferably with a convex object, so that it looks like a real snail shell. For example, a bowl of a suitable size. In extreme cases, if there is no bowl, the hole will have to be closed with a flat circle cut from some material. For example, plywood, plastic. Paint this part too - to match the rest of the "shell".
There is no special need to attach the body of the Snail to the sink - you can simply install it nearby. The easiest way for the body is to use a piece of pipe or a plastic container of a suitable diameter.
An old ball is ideal for the head. If there is no ball. Buy a balloon, wrap it with threads (you can not do it very tightly, in one layer), and coat it with cement mortar or putty on top (of course, for outdoor work). After drying, apply another layer on top. Dry again and then sand. The balloon will remain inside, well, yes, a cheap loss.
Horns of the Golden Snail are made of thick wire and tennis balls.
We draw a kind, laughing "face" - such that it would be nice to see him.
It remains to fix the shell and body of the Snail in the ground. You can just partially dig in, but in this case, the craft will not be very stable. It is better to pass some metal pin through the tire (reinforcing, for example) and stick it into the ground. In the same way, fix the body of the Snail, which, by the way, has been living here for quite a long time.

GARDEN CRAFTS

You can decorate a summer cottage or just a courtyard near the house with ordinary old wheels, and many craftsmen make real masterpieces with their own hands! Indeed, in our country, the recycling of used tires is not at the highest level, and we can see a lot of tires thrown right into the street. But you can also combine business with pleasure and create crafts - decorations for a summer cottage, garden, orchard with your own hands. Let's see a selection of photo crafts from a tire:

Using tires in the garden

With the help of paint and imagination, you can create your own and real work of art. There can be a lot of options for the performance of flower girls, we will consider the master classes themselves in the following articles, and now let's look at the southern exotic - a palm tree:

Do-it-yourself palm tree from tires

Crafts on the theme of southern holidays are very popular with us, we have already published an article that described in detail its manufacture. In addition to exotic plants, you can also create African predators:

Tire crocodiles

Decorate your garden with tire crocodiles

Such animals can not only arouse admiration, but also scare away unwanted guests ... They are really made very beautifully and believably.

Elephant from an old tire and a camera in the garden

A colorful blue elephant, all from the same southern African countries, will look very good on the playground. Here are a couple more examples of these wonderful inhabitants of Africa:

Having made the correct coloring of the tire, you can create your own zoo from a variety of animals from around the world. And for this you need only: desire, a few tires and a little imagination. Here, at someone's house, a tire was turned into snails and a black and white zebra:

Snails and Zebra: tire crafts for the garden

To decorate the garden, you can come up with bizarre birds, for example, a parrot can be a good home for flowers:

Parrot and swans: homemade from an old tire

For bird lovers, you can make these funny crafts:

Birds - crafts from tires for a country garden

The pet birds turned out very wonderful, they don’t even look so impressive!

Tire Turtles

"Auto" turtle from used car tires

Tire turtles

How about a good cup of tea?? You can also make a “tea set” to decorate a flower garden, it will be difficult to pick up such a cup, but it looks great!

Patio Tire Crafts

For a full-fledged tea set for these cups, you need good garden furniture, here are just the right samples from the tire:

Old tire as furniture

The furniture turned out to be really original, though it cannot bear the weight of a person by itself, so the frame must be made of a metal structure.

Playground decorations using a tire

Fabulous animals can decorate both their playground and the territory near the house. Few people can walk past them without a smile, and children will be most interested in such figures.

funny horses

Horses from car tires

These helpers in the garden will help to transport something, or simply carry a flower bed with their carts.

Garden Crafts

basket - flower garden for the garden

Well, at the end of our photo collection, let's watch a video in which I also use tires for needlework and which will be a good addition:

DIY tire crafts

That's all, we hope you liked the photo selection of crafts from tires and tires do it yourself, see you on our pages!

The owners of summer cottages always want their offspring to look beautiful and well-groomed. To do this, they not only master the basics of agriculture and agronomy, but also often take a great interest in arranging the garden landscape so that the earth not only bears fruit, but also pleases the eyes of vacationers. As part of the culture of landscape design, the fashion for garden sculptures came to us. In Europe, according to tradition, these were figurines of gnomes, who were considered mischievous and garden spirits. In our country, the habit of decorating the garden with sculptures has acquired its own features - gnomes are rare in the areas of our compatriots. But they are fully inhabited by other inhabitants made from improvised materials: plastic bottles, old dishes and even

Automobile rubber generally turned out to be a universal material for garden sculptures in Russian. a snail from a tire or a sun from a car stingray - this list goes on and on. In this case, the main thing is to use old, worn tires so that the tread pattern does not make the sculpture too rough. How to make a snail from a tire, for example?

The rubber from which these automotive products are made can be cut well with a very sharp knife. If possible, it’s better to use it to cut it at all. Still, in order to get a snail from a tire, you need to stock up on screws, a screwdriver, a pair of metal bars, gasoline and it’s better to choose tires without a cord for crafts - a metal mesh inside rubber, since the process of cutting them can turn out to be very time-consuming, it will require a lot of interchangeable blades for a jigsaw, and with a knife it’s generally unrealistic to do this.

Begin. And the first thing to do is cut the tire to make one continuous strip of rubber. It must be cleaned of dust and carefully trimmed on both sides. Now our "do-it-yourself tire snail" should get a head. To do this, cut out the horns from one of the edges of the strip. After that, the entire workpiece should be degreased with gasoline and painted. It is better to do this immediately on the workpiece, and not on the finished craft. So we draw a muzzle under the horns, set the main color of the snail and decorate the future curls of the shell with a pattern.

The next thing a snail will get from a tire is a shell house. From the side opposite to the head, we begin to twist the rubber into a spiral, but not to the end - leave a piece under the neck. You need to fix the sink with short screws. Now our tire snail should proudly raise its head - after all, it is almost ready. To keep the head of the snail, you need to insert metal twigs into the neck. You can replace them with thick wire, but a more rigid design will be more durable.

Well, the new garden sculpture is ready, it remains to find a worthy place for her to live. A tire snail will look good on a pebble in the middle of an alpine hill, or coquettishly peeking out from under the leaves in a vineyard - its traditional habitat.

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