Crafts from plastic bottles and cans. What can be done from plastic bottles. Flowers from plastic bottles
Hi, dear gardeners! The topic of today's material is interesting to everyone and always relevant. It is probably familiar to many, but still I hope to surprise you.
Today, everything is sold in plastic bottles: water, lemonade, milk ... Of all the garbage that we accumulate, the most voluminous are the bottles: you put one in the trash can - and that's it: consider half a bucket occupied. And what is it like in the country! In many holiday villages garbage containers simply not. There is only one way out: either take all this “good” to the city, to the nearest container, or somehow use what cannot be processed in country conditions.
Logical question: how plastic bottles can be used on the farm to be both useful, and convenient, and beautiful? That's what we'll talk about.
By the way, information sheet: plastic decomposes in water 100 to 500 years(according to different sources and depending on the type of plastic).
We have few factories that process garbage, so people themselves find interesting application simple and seemingly completely unnecessary things.
Plastic bottles in garden decor
If you wish, you can create such beauty - the neighbors will envy! Do you want to decorate the garden without special costs? See if there are empty plastic bottles in your country house.Beautiful neat flower beds
Plastic bottles can be used to protect flower beds. The benefits here are obvious: flower beds and beds are not washed away by showers, they always look neat and pleasing to the eye. I think it looks great ... How to make such a flower bed?
Of course, you will need a lot of bottles (preferably the same size). We pour sand into them, close them and begin to build a "palisade". Bottles will have to be dug a little into the ground to give them stability. After the flower bed is fenced, paint the resulting border in any color. In principle, you can do this in advance - as you wish. But it seems to me that it is more convenient to paint an already finished fence than each bottle individually. And dark plastic containers can be left as they are, it also looks pretty. An example of the performance and opinions of summer residents on this method of using bottles, see the materials:
Flowers, palm trees, butterflies and other "tropics"
The beauty is indescribable. Turn on your imagination, wake up your fantasy and create all kinds of flowers in your garden that will never fade or rot)).
To make it clearer how to make something out of bottles (for example, flowers), let's look at an example.
What may be needed:
- plastic bottles of different colors;
- scissors, awl, thick threads;
- PVA glue and "Master";
- acrylic paints;
- candle;
- wire;
- beads, beads - for decoration.
The stem is best made from thick wire. Stamens - from fine wire on which you can string beads. It remains only to assemble the whole thing, fastening it with glue, using an awl and wire if necessary. Just look how beautiful the result is!
Cute animals for the garden
No one is made from bottles. The simplest, perhaps, is this. All you need is to cut and bend the ears, attach the tail and color it beautifully. However, there are crafts and very complicated ones. For example, animals from fairy tales. I will not describe their production step by step, otherwise the article will turn out to be of galactic proportions. I'd rather just show the video from the slides. From the photo, in principle, you can see what and how to do, it's not difficult to figure it out.How do you like these animals? I think they look great! And if you involve children in the process, they will be delighted!
The tools used are the same as listed above. Paints - not necessarily acrylic. But they dry faster, which is a plus. And they hardly smell. True, they are also different.
Air curtains for the garden
These crafts captivated me precisely with their lightness and unusualness. I’ll specially collect bottles and make such a curtain in my yard! I think you can use bottles of different sizes.
The bottoms will come in handy, but you can also cut the leaves! From a distance it is not very clear what these transparent flowers hang on, but more interesting idea. We look ...
As you can see, you can fasten the flowers with threads, you can glue them to the base (for example, polyethylene film). I think this option is perfect for a gazebo. And it will be light, and the rain will not penetrate. There are a lot of options for curtains from bottles. But I still liked the first one better, and you?
Lamps and chandeliers for the garden
Actually, why not? Buying a lamp for the garden is unprofitable, just hanging a light bulb is ugly. Light from plastic bottles - great option lighting garden plot.Such chandeliers are not ashamed to hang in the house.
Main rule: do not allow plastic parts to come into contact with the light bulb, otherwise they may melt. True, you can use energy saving lamp, it heats up less - up to +50...+60°C.
Girls! If you don’t know how to attach the light bulb itself, leave this matter to husbands, brothers or fathers ... From you - creativity, from them - a lighting element \u003d)))
bottle garden path
I recently wrote about garden paths in the article. But there was nothing about bottles, only about their caps. It turns out that a good path is obtained from the bottoms, along which it is pleasant to walk barefoot. note: the bottoms are laid on loose sand, the master must make an effort to fill them with sand. This will prevent their deformation in the future when you walk around them.Household supplies from plastic bottles
That's where the expanse is ... If you think that garden decor from bottles - not for you, maybe you will be interested in useful things that can be made from them.Wash basins and boxes
The easiest option is to hang upside down the bottle, and when you need to wash your hands, just turn off the cap a little. It is better to cut off the bottom of the bottle and make it removable so that it is more convenient to pour water. There is nothing complicated here, even a child can handle it. Such a washbasin can be hung on a tree or somewhere else. By the way, use this idea when you go on a picnic - it's very convenient, and your hands are always clean.
It is advisable to make a homemade washbasin closeable so that leaves, insects and other debris do not get into the water. There are also more complex designs. You can, for example, embed a hose with a tap into a large bottle. But this is to be quite convenient.
Or you can make a box for bags, napkins or something similar out of a bottle.
Scoops and shovels
Making a scoop with your own hands is easy. Take the bottle and mark the shape of the future scoop with a marker. Next is the case of scissors. Well, or a knife.
Slippers
These are shoes that wear out pretty quickly. Therefore, durable and beautiful slippers on the farm will always come in handy. No, no, don't think that bottle slippers are just scoops with heels =))). I would like to see it ... Although simple options is also there. For example, this one:And more difficult option looks like that:
Of course, it is not necessary to make such bouquets. But in general, slippers are excellent. In order not to slip, and the leg feels comfortable, you can experiment with “layers”. How to make holes? Yes, even a hole punch! And if there are men in the house, let them solve this problem.
And also from plastic bottles you can make very useful large containers for household needs:
Devices for repelling rodents and insects
There are many different ones. I will only talk about the mole repeller and the mosquito trap.Let's start with the trap
Make it very easy. Cut off the bottle upper part and insert into the bottom neck down. The design must be darkened with paper or cloth - mosquitoes will be more likely to fly there.
Pour into the bottom of the bottle as bait sugar yeast syrup. It is easy to make: pour hot water, add sugar and yeast, stir and cool. Such a trap will attract not only mosquitoes, but also bees, wasps, flies.
You can put the structure on the window or hang it - this is optional. It needs to be cleaned once a week.
By the way, I don’t know why the syrup is brown in the photo - maybe from cane sugar?))) Or maybe it’s kvass. By the way, yes - insects also fly to kvass. Somehow they left a jar of kvass on the porch, so many midges flocked there!
Wind vane repelling moles and more
These devices were described in detail in the article. There is also a video - you can see how to make such a design, how it works. Ask what scares him? At the bottom of the bottle, it is advised to pour beads, balls from bearings and other “rattling” elements. They say that the sound that this windmill makes is not tolerated by moles. Who has moles? Try it, then unsubscribe here, agreed?
Yes, the axis on which the craft is attached must be stuck into the ground - I think you understand.
About the fact that some use bottles, I think you already know. The bottom and throat of the bottle are cut off - a cylinder is obtained, which is dug into the ground. This cover protects the root system young plant from the attempts of a bear.
Tool boxes
For these purposes, rectangular bottles are more suitable. For example, from under machine oils. However, there are also water bottles of this shape. Containers are made simply: mark with a marker, cut. Everything =))
These boxes can be very useful in the household.
Device for deep watering plants and their night heating
Some plants do not like surface watering. Therefore, my mother waters some beds with plastic bottles.You need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, but not completely, to get something like a cap. We tear the earth on the side of the plant, make a small trench and put pebbles there. Drainage is needed so that water does not erode the soil. Then we put the bottles with their necks down and lay them on the ground. Now, to water the plant, all you need is to open the lid and pour right amount water. Here, look how our summer residents use plastic containers.
Some people dig in containers upside down, but then you need to make holes in the bottle so that the water leaves.
As for heating plants, you can simply pour water into bottles and put them over the plant. In the sun, the water will heat up and will give off heat to the earth for some time. I know that glass bottles they also dig into the ground, but today we are talking about plastic.
Garden knee pads
It is generally contraindicated for many people to work bending over, this is especially true for hypertensive patients. But how then to weed the garden? Yes, I'll tell you about the knee pads. If you work on your knees, your head will no longer be down, therefore, your well-being will not suffer.All you have to do is find the right bottles, fit them to your knees and cut the knee pads to the desired shape. Then attach the ties. Everything is simple.
Flower pots
And what only pots from plastic bottles do not exist! Some simply pour earth into bottles, others make real masterpieces. The possibilities are endless. What's good: the bottles can always be painted in any color and hung anywhere. For example, what do you think of these ideas?
Very cute, and you will not immediately guess what the pots are made of.
Candlestick
I made my first candlestick from a plastic bottle back in primary school, at the lesson of labor. It's simple. Cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle (about half the bottle). Then cut the part with the bottom into strips and bend them. And inside you insert the part with the neck. She will hold the candle. In general, it's easy.
But this is only one of the options, you can connect two necks.
Broom
Instead of a thousand words, I will show one video.Why buy a broom when you can make one in half an hour?
Funnels
On the farm, from time to time there is a need to pour something from one container to another. Not necessarily something edible - it happens, and diluted fertilizer, and poison for Colorado beetles... Do not use a funnel from the kitchen for such purposes! And you can make a funnel from a bottle at any time.
Bird feeders
We fed the birds in these all winter. Bottles used large, 5-liter. I cut out windows in them, made small “thresholds” and “porches”. So that it was comfortable for the birds to sit, and the snow did not sweep inside. Another plus is that it is convenient to hang such feeders on trees, they already have handles.
Buildings made from plastic bottles
These are not funnels with pots, but something more serious. Entrepreneurial people can build something out of anything. Plastic bottles, for example, make excellent greenhouses and gazebos.Greenhouses from plastic bottles
A finished medium-sized greenhouse costs more than 15 thousand rubles. I know for sure, because I was interested in this issue. Add to that the cost of assembly. Not everyone can figure out what's what. But there is an alternative that is not inferior in terms of performance and it will cost you ... only 500-700 empty plastic bottles! =))The plastic from which the bottles are made is 20 times stronger than dense polyethylene. It keeps the temperature perfectly, does not melt in the sun and can last for decades. Greenhouse made of plastic bottles there are a number of advantages:
- she is cheap;
- durable;
- easily repaired;
- light in weight, it can be rearranged if necessary;
- looks pretty cute.
I took a look at different sites and realized that there are 2 main ways to use plastic bottles in construction:
- The bottom of each bottle is cut off. A thin rail is taken and all the bottles are strung on it. Get ready-made building strips.
- The bottom and neck of the bottles are cut off. Then what happened - the middle part - is cut along. It turns out a rectangular piece of plastic. We iron it with an iron (necessarily through hard paper) to level it. From such sheets we sew more sheets. Overlap preferably. You can use an awl; for fastening parts - cord thread or wire. It is not recommended to sew with thread or fishing line - the seams will quickly rot and disperse.
When the sheets (slats) are ready, you can make a frame. It is made from ordinary wooden bars with a hammer and nails. Form - any. You can - a house, you can - a triangle. And then we attach what we made from bottles to the frame. In the first case, the planks should be placed as close to each other as possible so that the wind does not walk. Well, you can always stick it with tape. In general, you'll figure it out!)) And in the second case, ready-made plates from plastic bottles are simply nailed to wooden frame.
Important point- roof. In general, a good frame can withstand quite a heavy weight, but knowledgeable people it is advised to cover the roof not with bottles, but with polycarbonate sheets. Or something to strengthen for the winter - suddenly it will pile up a lot of snow. Here is another interesting post
Plastic bottles are a material available in every home. If you have not yet figured out how to “put them into action”, the Motherhood portal offers craft ideas for joint activities with a child!
Plastic bottles can be used to make a lot of things, from animals and toys to sports equipment, from delicate flowers to lampshades and curtains.
Plastic bottle toys
Using plastic bottles with a volume of 1.5 liters, you can design animal figures. Look what a wonderful dog turned out of green bottles!Try to simulate an airplane. You can glue the frame with colored paper and make portholes with passengers. Or just put your favorite toy in a special slot.
From a plastic bottle, straws for a cocktail and a ping-pong ball, you can use a stapler to construct a helicopter.
A real "waterfowl" catamaran for dolls can be made from two plastic bottles.
A more complex craft using heating and melting structural parts looks simply gorgeous. Look, it turned out to be a real Frog Princess!
By heating and melting plastic, you can make a naturalistic crayfish, and then "settle" it in an aquarium.
A series of colorful nesting dolls can be made from plastic bottles pasted over with colored self-adhesive paper. The second option is paints for glass surfaces.
From several bottles, movably fastened together with screws, you can get a bright and memorable snake or shark, as you like.
As part of the New Year theme, try making adorable colorful penguins from the bottoms of plastic bottles. We cut them, put a “hat” on the penguin, color it, add bright details: a pompom and a scarf.
If you need a craft with a Christmas theme, try making from plastic bottles Orthodox church. The dome tops are easiest to mold from plasticine, crosses are made from wire, and then wrapped in golden metallized paper. White edging gives a special elegance to the craft. window openings on colored plastic. They can be done with a "stroke" corrector, or a thin strip of white plasticine.
In a similar way, you can build a whole castle. Plastic bottles will form the frame for the four corner towers. Slots are made in them for windows or loopholes, on top they are coated with plasticine, on which the texture of brick and "white stone" decorations are applied. The walls of the castle are made of cardboard and also coated with plasticine. This impressive craft is sure to bring a lot of joy to your child.
Insects
Children are interested in insects. Together with them, draw and cut out a beetle, butterfly, cockroach or caterpillar from a plastic bottle. They must love it!
If you approach the issue more carefully, then you can build an insect from bottles in all details.
Starry sky in a bottle
Inside an ordinary bottle, you can create a magical and fabulous galaxy. We will need: wat, glycerin, colored sparkles and a little dye. We put a piece of cotton wool inside a transparent jar or bottle, add sparkles. Pour in a jar of glycerin to obtain the effect of viscosity. Then add food coloring. You can make several shades inside one container. But at the same time, each time we add cotton wool and sparkles. Carefully fill everything with water. We glue the bottle cap along the edge so that it is airtight.
homemade flowers
From an ordinary green bottle, you can make a bouquet of lilies of the valley in a vase. To do this, cut the bottle according to the scheme. We put large foam balls on thin twigs-stalks.
By cutting and melting the necks of plastic bottles, you can get magnificent flowers.
With a certain skill, you can depict cacti and other indoor plants.
Do you want to add color to a dull winter landscape and plant fabulous plants right on the snow? Plastic bottles come in handy!
From colored plastic cups you can make asters. To do this, cut off the rounded edge, make cuts, wrap the edges of the cups and connect them according to the scheme.
Vases and coasters
Using the lower parts of plastic bottles, we model flower vases. Such homemade vases not inferior to real crystal!
Household crafts
We offer practical craftswomen to engage in the manufacture of crafts that occur in everyday life.fabricate beautiful stand to store needles. A wonderful gift for mom or grandmother, easy to make and affordable even for a small child.
Schoolchildren and teenagers can please their mother or girlfriend with a unique mobile phone holder while charging. Such a useful hand-made, painted with stained glass paints according to your own sketch, will undoubtedly bring joy to your loved ones!
The hostess will always need a transparent container in which it is easy to find the right thing. Such a storage box can be made by a boy as a gift to his mother. To do this, you need to cut a plastic bottle, walk along the future joints of the box parts with a heated awl, forming holes. It remains to connect the parts of the product with lacing or a zipper.
If you are a schoolboy and are thinking about what to give your dad or brother, pay attention to these homemade dumbbells for sports. You will need several bottles, two wooden sticks for the handle, glue, duct tape and ordinary sand. A fun and useful gift is guaranteed!
It is easy to make a convenient scoop for garbage from a plastic bottle with a handle.
Even slippers can be made from a plastic bottle. This product looks unusual. But the question of convenience remains open.
A stand for jewelry and jewelry can also be made from the bottoms of plastic bottles.
Interior details
Surprise and amuse your guests theme party you can by making wall compositions-heads from canisters and plastic bottles.
From plastic bottles, you can cut out such delicate and elegant panels that the audience can hardly guess what it is made of.
Using plastic bottles, you can create a lamp, a night light or a chandelier.
And you can make a lampshade from plastic cups.
Using the bottoms of transparent bottles, you can create original and stylish curtains.
Crafts for the New Year from plastic bottles and disposable cups
Herringbone from disposable cup and tinsel can decorate your lobby or classroom.
Stylish New Year's bells are obtained from the top of the bottles.
Having painted the bottoms of the bottles of bluish plastic, we create a round dance of snowflakes.
A plastic bottle can serve as a frame for a funny Santa Claus. We make the face of the New Year's grandfather from a napkin or colored paper, hair and beard from cotton wool.
And such a snowman can be made by the whole group in kindergarten. Success on the show New Year's crafts secured!
Get ideas and start creating! After all, there is so much more to do before the New Year!
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That only skillful hands do not make from unnecessary (junk) items. Crafts from bottles with their own hands are made for arrangement summer cottages, playgrounds. And they look very attractive and original. Plastic is the cheapest and most affordable and very flexible material. From it you can create figures of animals, flowers, dolls, children's transport, borders. Some craftsmen use them in the construction of arbors, fences, greenhouses, garden furniture and even boats.
Features of plastic as a material
Many people throw away plastic containers, considering them garbage, but this is a unique material for crafts that will certainly find application in the household. Its features as a material for creativity are that:
- For the manufacture of crafts and work, you will not need any complex tools or devices, except for those that every good owner has in the house: scissors, sharp knives, candles, glue, stapler, drills, glue gun and so on.
- Not only the bottle itself will fit in the work. From the covers you can create colorful panels, paths, decorate old furniture with them.
- Thanks to the flexibility of the fluorescent bottle, even flexible structures can be created both indoors and outdoors.
- crafts may have different forms and dimensions, so both very small bottles and large bottles will come in handy.
- Plastic is considered safe material, so you can create crafts from it for playing at home or in kindergarten.
What bottles can be made for kindergarten or kindergarten
Creating characters and all sorts of figurines for children is a special area of amateur creativity. It is advisable to do them together with them. So it is easier to accustom them to perseverance, to teach attentiveness, concentration, to develop imagination. Consider, using the example of master classes, how to create simple figurines and fairy tale characters for children.
Chamomile
There are several options for making this delicate flower.
Option 1
White bottles are required for work. They usually sell their milk and should be picked up a little. In extreme cases, you can use transparent, but then repaint it in white. For each chamomile we need 3 bottles. All of them must have the same neck diameter, otherwise we will not be able to put together the magnificent parts.
We cut off the upper part (neck with a lid), just below the place of expansion. We do this with only two bottles, we leave one. It is desirable that the lid has yellow.
Cut out about 8 petals on each neck. Only so that they hold on, and do not fall apart. Bend them one by one in the opposite direction.
Let's start collecting the flower: we put on one of the blanks on top of the one that remained uncut.
Then the second in the same way.
We unfold and bend the petals so that the chamomile looks natural and lush.
We fix all three layers with a lid, we try to make it tighter.
Such flowers can be left as is, or you can paint them after assembly. different shades. They can be planted on a wire stem or attached to a fence.
Option 2
This daisy is more complex design, but also looks more natural and beautiful.
From the cylinder of the bottle we cut circles (about 8 cm in diameter, more if you want to create a large chamomile). Each will require three mugs
Each circle is subsequently cut into 16 strips and we form flower petals from them.
In the center with an awl, hot on fire, we make a hole.
A little later, when we collect the workpiece, you need to hold it a little over the fire. So the petals wrap themselves up, creating correct form chamomile.
We cut out the core of the flower from the yellow cover, pierce it and fasten it with wire with the inflorescence.
We make a sepal from a green bottle, also melt it a little over the flame.
We first attach the sepals to the stem, then three blanks of petals, the core and bend it with pliers so that the chamomile does not fall apart. After bending, we draw the wire through the sepal again and twist it with the stem.
The stem will be a wire, on which thin strips (about 5 mm) of green plastic are wound. In order for the layers to stick together well, they also need to be scorched.
If you want to create a whole composition, make leaves by cutting them out of green plastic, singe them a little, wind them around the stem.
You can bouquet and diversify the bouquet by combining them with cornflowers. Here you need blue plastic, the petals are cut out in the shape of cornflowers. A flower is going to be similar to a chamomile.
With this technique, you can make any kind of wildflowers, and even roses, if you can roll them correctly.
Option 3
Now let's try to make a giant daisy.
As you can see, in order to create such wonderful decorative flowers, it will take only a few hours of time, a bottle, an awl, a candle, glue and scissors.
Penguin
Plastic Coke bottles are useful for creating a penguin, due to their narrowed shape in the middle and expansion at the bottom, a believable penguin body is obtained from it.
Tools and materials:
- 2 bottles of the same size;
- scissors;
- cool gun with silicone pencils;
- brushes;
- black marker;
- a piece of dense fabric;
- white, black and red colors.
Step by step penguin assembly:
- We cut the container in this way: the first, acting as the bottom, is cut in the middle or a little closer to the bottom, the second is the top of the penguin, so we only need the bottom. Rice. one
- Now we connect both parts with slices to each other. Fig.2
- When connected, fix with glue (you can silicone gun). Fig.3
- Next, according to the plan, we will paint the body of the penguin. Select the type of paint so that it is not afraid of moisture. We paint the future toy in several layers. Rice. four
- When the paint coating dries, outline the chest and muzzle with a black marker. Fig.5
- Paint over the outer part (behind the contours) completely with black paint. Leave only the top - this will be the place of the cap. Rice 5. and 6.
- In principle, the penguin is almost ready. It remains only to paint the place left under the cap with red paint. You can, as shown in Figure 8, decorate it with black dots.
- Draw eyes and a beak on the muzzle. This can be done with a thin brush and paints, or you can use colored markers. Rice. 9.
- Cut a scarf from a small piece of fabric, tie it on a penguin.
Crocodile
Let's try together to make another toy for kindergarten - a crocodile.
Prepare for work:
- two plastic bottles, 0.5 l;
- twist plugs from the same container - 4 pcs;
- sharp knife;
- stationery scissors;
- thin cardboard;
- glue;
- brushes;
- waxed paper;
- paints for drawing;
- eye buttons.
Manufacturing and assembly instructions:
Cut the bottles first in half, then so that a distance of about 7 cm remains to the neck.
It is necessary to form the edges so that the body of the crocodile is slightly bent during assembly. As shown in the photo.
Glue the covers in place of the legs.
Form dense balls from cardboard - eyes, attach to the body.
Cover the entire body of the alligator with green colored paper.
Cut out eyes, teeth, paws from paraffin paper.
Paint the teeth (white), nostrils (black), eyes (also black) with a brush, or use dark buttons as eyes.
bees
These funny insects are very easy to make.
Option 1
Prepare ahead of time:
- plastic container with a capacity of 0.33 l;
- sharp scissors;
- acrylic paints;
- cup 0.5 l;
- brushes;
- glue;
- black tape;
- wire;
- stationery knife.
Instructions for execution:
From plastic cup cut out the wings of the bee, as shown in the photo.
The bottle does not need to be cut completely. We make only small cuts on the sides, with a clerical knife. These will be the placement of the wings.
Insert the wings into place, glue them.
Next, proceed to painting the bee. There are two ways to paint: paint the body black, then make yellow stripes, or vice versa, make it completely yellow, then draw black stripes. Let's use the first one - paint it dark.
Draw the eyes in white on the lid, and the mouth in red.
Option 2
You can make it in one copy, you can create a whole hive
To create a hive, prepare:
- plastic bottles according to the number of expected number of bees;
- yellow enamel or paint;
- black electrical tape;
- wash brushes - 4 pcs;
- for the eyes - beads or buttons;
- glue gun;
- synthetic thread;
- leg-split.
We paint plastic bottles yellow. You can do it a little differently - pour yellow paint inside, twist the bottle so that the paint evenly lies on the entire inner surface.
This method is a little more difficult and longer, but the coloring will turn out to be more effective and with gloss. In addition, it will not wear out, break or deteriorate.
This should be done in several stages to evenly paint the entire surface. Fill the bottle with paint, shake and lay on its side. As soon as the first layer of paint begins to set, twist it to paint the next area and so on until the end.
When the bodies of the bees take on a yellow color, we make transverse strips with black electrical tape.
On the lid we glue eyes, a nose from pre-prepared beads and buttons.
From another plastic container, we cut out shapes that look like wings. To them, at the same stage of work, we attach threads. For them, we will then hang the bee to the tree.
To the body of the bee, with the same glue gun, glue the thread with wings.
Color it yellow too. You can, again, use the complex method of painting. Or, in order not to lose a lot of time, just paint on top with a brush.
We will make the roof of the hive from wash brushes. We take them in a pile, tie them with twine.
On the lid of the bottle - this is our roof area, we apply thick layer glue. We spread the wash brushes on it so that they are evenly distributed on all sides. If somewhere they are a little unstuck, glue it.
Leave the craft for a while at rest to dry.
Everything is ready and the bees and the hive. It remains only to take it to the kindergarten and hang it on a tree.
In a similar way, you can make many bees, but without a hive and hang each one from a tree. Thus creating a real child Center beekeeping.
Creating bee crafts is an interesting activity, the work is not difficult. If the child himself makes it, under your strict guidance, it can be a good souvenir for grandparents. Such a craft will look very impressive against the background of the abundant foliage of a tree.
butterflies
Easy to perform and very interesting model crafts.
Option 1
Let's prepare the materials:
- plastic containers (a few pieces will be enough);
- paper, not smaller than A4;
- stationery scissors;
- silver and brown nail polish;
- sequins;
- gel red pen;
- rhinestones;
- butterfly in a stencil.
Let's start making the insect:
First, let's prepare the bottles for work: wash, preferably with soap, release it from the label, dry it.
On the clean slate scan the paper or transfer the figure of a butterfly through carbon paper. For this we need a stencil. You will find it at the end of this subsection.
gel pen you need to circle the contours of the insect on the surface of the plastic and cut it out.
We got a figure with wings curved down.
Turn it over, we need them to look up.
We take the gel pen again and draw all the lines, as shown on the stencil.
Paint over the middle (trunk) and antennae with silver nail polish. Let's draw the contours of the wings in the same tone.
Now with varnish you need to draw all the rulers, including the smallest ones, which were previously drawn with a gel pen.
Before the edges we put small dots (blotches).
Against the background of the silver drawing of the wings, we also put dots, only in brown.
We decorate the body of the butterfly with rhinestones. To do this, with any nail polish, put droplets and plant a pebble on top.
The butterfly is ready, for everything about everything, it took us a little time and material, which, for sure, will be found at home on the farm and with mom.
Similarly to the previous butterfly, we make another one, only this time it is plain and without pebbles.
We got two plastic butterflies painted in one tone.
If you stick a magnet to them, they will serve good decoration on the refrigerator or any other metal surface.
Option 2
Let's look at another implementation. We will paint it not with nail polish, but with stained glass paints. In the first version, we drew a butterfly on plastic, cut it out, and only then proceeded to coloring. Here the technology is different. We will draw an insect on the bottle, and we will paint it on it.
Let's prepare everything that is useful in the work:
- stencil drawing paper:
- plastic containers;
- stained glass paints;
- wire or thick fishing line;
- scissors;
- beads (several pieces of small size);
- awl.
Step-by-step instructions for execution:
We transfer the butterfly from the stencil to the paper.
Redraw the insect on plastic. You can do it like this. We cut the bottle, adjust the drawing from the inside so that we can clearly see it from above. With a gel pen we transfer the contours to the plastic.
When we finish drawing, we can start coloring. Recall that we paint without cutting out the insect, the paint falls on the bottle, along the contours. After painting, leave the workpiece to dry. After it dries well, cut it out. Give the desired shape with your fingers.
We form the body. To do this, take the wire or fishing line that we have prepared, string a few beads on it. You can take the same color, or you can make it multi-colored, it's as your heart desires.
A butterfly, or not one, if you have made several of them, are ready. They can decorate indoor flowerpots, hook on the curtains, attaching a pin from below, it is better to stick.
If the insect is made by a child's hand, then it will be a pleasant surprise and a gift for March 8 for mom, teacher or grandmother.
Stencils for making butterflies
hedgehogs
Waste material has a lot of opportunities and ways to extend its life. Moreover, in every family there is at least something. Here you don’t need to buy or invent anything special, much less spend money on them. Let's try to make a hedgehog from the same waste material as used plastic containers.
For work we will need:
- plastic bottle;
- pine cones, about a dozen, as long as they are the same size;
- two white caps, from the same bottles;
- glue (you can use "Moment" or, if there is mounting foam);
- colored plasticine.
Hedgehog creation technique:
First, we bring the container into the proper form: wash it, clean it from the label, wipe it and dry it.
On the prepared container, glue the cone directly on top with glue or foam (you can also use a glue gun if there is such an item on the farm). We start from the center, this will be the back of the hedgehog. We glue each cone as a separate element, after making sure that the previous one is firmly held.
If at least one of them falls, and the neighboring ones hold on tightly, then it will be difficult to “put” it in place. Take this into account and don't rush.
When all the cones - the needles of our hedgehog, are planted in their places, we will begin to form the muzzle. To do this, glue the bottle cap with black plasticine.
For the eyes, you will need white covers prepared by us. On them, in the center, we glue circles from the same black plasticine - these will be the pupils of the hedgehog.
Glue the eyes to the muzzle of the animal.
Now let's embellish our craft a little. What is a real hedgehog without stocks. We will make mushrooms, leaves, fruits with berries from plasticine. Then carefully lay it on his back.
You can create a baby for the company of an adult hedgehog by molding him with their plasticine. And since its dimensions will not allow experimenting with pine cones, then the needles on the body can be made from sunflower seeds.
Helicopter
An interesting craft that you can do with your son for kindergarten. This way you will teach him how to use different waste material as a material for creating toys and other necessary things.
Prepare for work:
- a small plastic bottle, you can use baby yogurt;
- one tailor's pin;
- 3 tubes for juice;
- scissors;
- one ping pong ball
- stapler.
Step by step work:
First, make a hole in the lid so that the tube can freely enter there.
Cut the bottle so that the upper (with a thickening) part remains intact.
Take the remaining 2 tubes, cut them to the length of the intended propeller blades.
Cross them and pin them in the middle with a pin. Insert the tail of the helicopter into the cork of the bottle. Make skids from the two remaining parts of the tubes, connect with a strip cut from the unnecessary part of the bottle with a stapler.
Attach the main part of the helicopter with skids with a stapler too. Insert a ping pong ball into the hole.
The helicopter is ready. A minimum of time was spent on it, and the child will have a lot of pleasure from a toy created by his own hands.
Matryoshka
Matryoshka is probably the only toy that more than one generation has grown up with. In addition, it is considered a symbol of Russia. Many foreign tourists, coming to our state, buy them as souvenirs. Is it possible to complex figure create with your own hands, and even from junk plastic? Yes, you can, even though it will not be as functional as modern ones in toy stores, but it will be personal and, for sure, the most beloved.
In creating such crafts, not only plastic food containers are suitable, we will consider this a little later. The toys that you see in the photo below are made only from the tops of the flasks. So they will be more stable. So that the edges are not too sharp, they can be processed with electrical tape.
In this photo, the top part is inserted into the bottom, the middle one is generally removed. This nesting doll has a more respectable appearance, looks more natural and believable. colorized acrylic paints. Children will not succeed in doing the same, but there are many stickers and patterns of a similar image on the Internet. As a last resort, they have a lot of options to learn and draw nesting dolls on such a layout.
The following photo and the model itself can be attributed to multifunctional. Here is a nesting doll in its own design and a pencil case for storing pencils and pens. As you can see, it is not made from a food bottle, and their containers are from shampoo or cream.
Approximate drawings and schemes for creating nesting dolls from plastic containers in kindergartens and at home.
Bottle cut diagram
many owners household plots create all kinds of products from plastic bottles to decorate the place of their stay. You can create real works of art by spending a minimum of money.
Not only decor items are made of plastic, but even furniture. All you need is a knife, an awl and a little imagination.
In this article, we will analyze in detail how to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands.
We decorate the site
What kind of homemade products you will not see on household plots. There are flowers, animals, and trees. You can create beautiful sculptural compositions that will not only decorate the garden, but will also give a great mood.
Let's take a look at a couple of instructions for beginners that make it easy to create crafts from plastic bottles. It will be a palm tree and a pig.
bottle palm tree
To make a palm tree, you need to create a frame. Its length should be equal to the height of the tree.
Bottles of the same size are taken, the bottom is cut off from them and placed on top of each other. Then the leaves are cut out. They are attached to the top of the created structure. When everything is ready, the palm tree is painted green.
Funny pig from bottles
The piglet will look great anywhere in the garden. For its manufacture you will need:
- 5 l bottle;
- four bottle necks for making legs;
- one top of the bottle, which is cut in two to make the ears;
- tail wire;
- two beads for the eyes;
- glue;
- pink paint.
The parts are connected and fixed with glue. Ready product need to be painted. You can take oil or spray paint. To prevent the pig from being blown away by the wind, you need to pour sand into it.
In addition to the decorative function, the design can serve as a flower bed. To do this, the top is cut off, filled with earth and flowers are planted.
Crafts from plastic bottles for the garden can serve as flower beds, borders or paths. To make a path, bottles are inserted into the ground with a neck.
Both whole and cut plastic are used. It is important to fill the bottles with earth so that they do not deform when they are walked on.
The use of bottles in the household
Bottles are used for more than just decoration. From them you can make a scoop, a washbasin or a trap for a pest.
Undoubtedly, everyone will need a container for storing any items. To make it, just cut off the neck.
The washbasin is also very easy to do with your own hands. The bottom of the bottle is cut off, and holes are made through which the rope is threaded. The structure is hung in the right place and water is poured. To wash, just unscrew the cork a little.
To make a trap, you need to cut the container in half. To catch insects, some kind of bait is placed at the bottom. For example, sugar syrup with yeast is suitable for this.
It will take hot water in which sugar and yeast dissolve. The cooled liquid must be poured into the trap. Not only flies and wasps, but also mosquitoes will flock to this delicacy.
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Even a child can make a scoop. First you need to outline its shape, and then cut it out.
Can be made from plastic flower pots, greenhouses or containers for seedlings. A description of such crafts from plastic bottles can be found on the Internet at in large numbers, but to create something unique, you need to show your imagination.
It is fashionable to build an automatic watering tool from plastic containers. To do this, cut the bottle, make holes on the sides and put the hose into the neck. With the help of such a device, the plants will be perfectly moistened.
For plants that don't like surface watering, make the next device. The bottom of the plastic container is not completely cut off. A trench is torn to the side of the plant, where stones are laid. The bottle is instilled upside down.
Then pour the right amount of water to carry out watering. You can place bottles upside down, but in this case you will need to make holes in the container.
Plastic containers are also used to heat plants. To do this, the bottles are filled warm water and put them around the plant.
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For inspiration, see various photos crafts from plastic bottles. It doesn't take much effort to make original decoration or a useful little thing for your garden that will last for many years.
Photo of crafts from plastic bottles
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Empty plastic bottles create a lot of inconvenience. You can’t throw them into the trash can, since just two thrown bottles instantly fill it. Many people wonder what can be made from plastic bottles and how they can be usefully used in the household. If you think and show a little imagination, it turns out that almost everything can be made from a plastic bottle, from a feeder to an original garden arbor.
Products for the home
Consider what useful household items can be made from a simple plastic bottle. One of these useful products is a cosmetic bag. To complete the bag, you will need two containers with a volume of 5 liters each.
And from the bottoms ordinary bottles for 1.5 and 2 liters, you can easily make coasters, photo.
original boxes
Various little things, for example, spools of thread, pencils, small toys will be perfectly stored in neat boxes made in special style. A certain design will be given to them by the upper fabric part, which is sewn to the cut off bottle and tied in the form of a bag. Such a container is decorated to your liking: with children's stripes, bows, ribbons, beads, buttons, etc., photo. Stickers or cut-out figures are glued onto the plastic part. Children will love these boxes, they will love to collect their treasures in them, which will have a beneficial effect on cleanliness in the house.
mobile phone holder
From a plastic bottle with a volume of 0.5 liters, you can build a very useful holder for mobile phone. You will need it if there is no place near the outlet from which you can charge the phone this device. To build such a holder, a plastic container is cut so that a mobile phone can be placed in it in vertical position, and also cut out round hole for the junction of the plug and socket.
Plastic bag dispenser
If you are tired of plastic bags lying around the kitchen, a plastic bottle bag dispenser will help you to place them in one place. A 3 liter container is suitable for this. Her bottom and neck are cut off in a narrow place and attached upside down to the door. Bags can be folded into the upper wide opening, and it is convenient to get one bag from the lower narrow one.
Children's bracelets
Kids will love the fun bracelets made from plastic bottles, especially if you let them get involved in the making process too. A one and a half liter plastic container is wrapped in several places double sided tape and cut out even rings in the form of bracelets. Then they are removed protective film and multi-colored, suitable-sized patches of felt or other dense fabric are glued to the sticky surface. Beads, bows, buttons and other small accessories are sewn to this surface.
Original curtain
If you want to surprise your guests, you can assemble and hang a stylish curtain from the bottoms of plastic bottles in the room. Especially it will fit into the interior in high-tech or modern style. Of course, the longer and larger you want the curtain, the more bottles you will need to make it. For plastic containers with a volume of 1-1.5 liters, the bottom is cut out so that it resembles a flower. Closer to the edges, holes are made with a hot needle and a fishing line is pulled into them. Then they collect all the flowers on a fishing line in the form of a curtain. This decoration is usually hung in doorway or at the window. You can change the color of the curtain by choosing colored bottles, or use spray paint to decorate the product to your liking.
To produce a stunning effect, a hole is punched in the middle of each flower and a diode is inserted. Then the curtain can shine like a beautiful garland.
Flower pots
Can be made from a bottle original pots for flowers. Some cut a hole in the side of the container, some cut it in half. In this case, the fantasy is limitless. And if you cut and decorate the bottles in a certain way, you get such masterpieces.
Products from plastic bottles for summer cottages
Of course, the most uses for empty plastic bottles are found in suburban area. They are used to construct irrigation devices, fences, decorations, interior details for country house and other useful things.
Sprinkler
One of the simplest designs from a plastic bottle is a sprinkler. It is very easy to make: many holes are pierced in a plastic bottle with an awl or cuts are made with scissors. Then the finished sprinkler is added dropwise near the plants so that only the neck looks out of the ground. After that, water is poured into it, which, gradually seeping through, will irrigate the earth.
Also, for convenient watering, they actively use the watering bowl known from childhood, which is done by piercing the lid in several places.
Plastic lamps for giving
If in your country house there is not enough lamp or chandelier, you can easily make an original and interesting option from plastic bottles. For this, empty containers with a volume of 0.5 liters in the amount of 35-50 pieces are suitable. The upper parts of the bottles are cut so that petals are obtained, which are then straightened and given the desired shape, photo.
Then the transparent flowers are painted in any color to taste with the help of spray paint. You can also decorate them in two or three colors. All products are attached to a wire ring with a wire and suspended from the ceiling with a rope.
There are options for other fixtures that frame and mask a simple light bulb. Most importantly, don't let plastic elements touched the light bulb, otherwise they will melt and give a very bad smell. You can also use an energy-saving lamp that does not get as hot.
Garden fence
Many summer residents are wondering what can be made from bottles for a flower bed that would perform a certain function and at the same time look beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. This option includes a fence of empty bottles. It is very easy to make, just stick plastic products into the ground along the entire border of the garden. Only first they should be filled with sand and closed with a lid. The advantages of such a fence are obvious: the earth is not washed out by showers, and they always look neat.
For the construction of this fence, you will need a lot of empty bottles, so it will take a long time to collect them. They must be the same size.
Decorative decorations for a summer cottage
You can make decorative flowers and butterflies from bottle plastic, they decorate a metal fence in the country, flower pots, hang on a tree, etc. Petals or butterfly wings are cut out of plastic with scissors, and then the edges are melted so that they take the desired shape. When heated, the plastic takes the required form quite well. A thick wire is used to form the stem. Stamens are made of beads, the product is decorated different colors. It turns out very beautiful and original, photo.
If you want to decorate your site with large spectacular products Make a palm tree using green and brown plastic bottles. But first, they need to cut off the bottom. The barrel is made of a wooden or metal rod, on which brown bottles are strung upside down. Branches are obtained by stringing green bottles on curved rods. Do not forget to arrange the edges of green bottles in the form of leaves.
Various funny little animals at their summer cottage look very cute. Recently, they often decorate not only cottages, but also adjoining territories before high-rise buildings. With their cute appearance, they cheer up not only children, but also adults. What can be made from empty plastic bottles? The simplest is pigs. You just need to cut and bend the ears, attach the tail and color. But there are many crafts and more complex ones. Very often they make swans, hedgehogs, kittens and other characters. Here are some more examples of what can be made from plastic bottles, video.
bottle path
From the bottoms of plastic bottles, a very beautiful and useful path is obtained. Please note that they should be laid on loose sand so that the parts can be well stuffed with them. This will eliminate the possibility of their deformation in the process of walking. This path has useful advantage She does a great foot massage.
Household products for summer cottages from plastic containers
If you want to make something useful out of an empty plastic bottle, we have several options.
Wash basin
From just one empty bottle you can make a convenient outdoor washbasin. plastic container with the lid closed and the bottom cut off, turn it upside down and hang it on the base. Then fill the bottle with water. When the lid is slightly loosened, water will pour out. By the way, such a washbasin will be very relevant for a picnic. It takes up little space and can be hung from any tree.
Still, it’s better not to cut off the bottom of the washbasin to the end, but leave it as a lid that can be easily closed and opened. It is needed to protect the water from the ingress of leaves, insects and other debris.
Mosquito trap
To sit quietly in the evening in nature, you can not do without a mosquito trap. It is very easy to make it. You need to cut off the top of the bottle and stick it into the other part with the neck down. To make insects more likely to fly into the trap, darken it with cloth or paper.
The bait is made from sugar-yeast syrup. A trap with such contents will attract not only mosquitoes, but also flies, wasps and bees. Don't forget to clean it periodically.
Tool boxes
To make drawers fit more bottle rectangular shape. One side of the bottles is marked with a marker and cut with scissors. Here are all the boxes ready. It is convenient to store various little things in them: nails, bolts, screws, dowels, nozzles and more.
Greenhouses, gazebos and other structures made of plastic bottles
Entrepreneurial people try to save money and come up with expensive greenhouses together great alternative from plastic bottles.
