A beautiful garden lighthouse made of flower pots with your own hands. Original ideas for the garden with your own hands Decorative lighthouse made of wood with your own hands
Lighthouses are a popular decorative motif for landscape design. And not only because they have real-life counterparts that adorn many amazing landscape shots, but because they symbolize reliability, safe harbor and protection, setting the right mood in the garden. As usual, our decorative beacon is surprisingly easy to assemble. And it even glows in the dark! This beacon is portable, so you can use it everywhere from the garden at the summer cottage to the veranda, on the beach or on a country trip.
Starting materials and tools:
- 4 proportional clay pots without coating - varnish / enamel, etc. (1 large, 1 medium, 1 small and 1 very small);
- 2 identical saucers for pots - small;
- acrylic paint for outdoor use - colors of your choice;
- permanent glue;
- glass candle holder, commensurate with a small pot, or immediately an LED candle of a similar size (a lot of options can be purchased on the Internet inexpensively);
- a small safe candle (artificial, without fire) on batteries;
- small brushes of different sizes for paint.
1. Choose pots for the project depending on the final desired size of the beacon. The only thing might be hard to find miniature pot, so it's better to buy the smallest available, and then, starting from it, buy the remaining 3 pieces. If you are using used pots, start by cleaning them completely of any dirt, dust, earth, etc.
2. Using outdoor (outdoor) acrylic paint - i.e. waterproof and impact resistant various substances- paint the rims of three clay pots in one color (white, red), and the rest of the pots in another (blue, blue, red). Apply the paint in 3 layers, allowing the layers to dry completely before the next coating. Now we are working only with large, medium and small pots. Engage in painting outdoors or with windows wide open so as not to inhale the caustic substance.
3. Only after all 3 layers of paint on the rims have dried, paint the main part of the pots. Same with 3 layers.
4. With black paint and a small brush, draw rectangles on the dry pots. These will be the windows. If it’s difficult for you to do this by hand, first make outlines with a pencil or use tape / masking tape to seal the borders for the lines on both sides, creating a kind of template. Finally, it is much more convenient to work here with a dry brush than with a wet one, because in this case the paint will not flow.
5. Take the saucers and paint both sides of them in a color that contrasts with the rest of the lighthouse. 3 layers. Paint the smallest clay pot with the same color. From these three elements we will assemble the luminous part of the lighthouse, its top. Let all parts dry completely.
6. Turn the largest pot upside down, place it on a flat surface. Squeeze a little permanent glue on the edges of the bottom of this pot around the entire perimeter. Put some more glue on inside the top rim of a medium-sized pot. Make sure all adhesive is and will only be on the inside.
7. Turn the medium pot upside down and put it on top of the large pot. Press a little, making sure that the pot sits evenly, tightly, and the glue does not leak out. Repeat almost all the same with a small pot. Allow the structure to dry completely following the instructions on the glue package.
8. Squeeze some glue onto the base of the small pot and press one of the saucers against it. The saucer is NOT (!) upside down. Make sure the glue doesn't run.
9. Turn the second saucer upside down. Put a little glue on the top rim of the miniature pot, turn the pot upside down and glue the pot with the rim to the saucer. This is a "cover" for the luminous compartment of the beacon.
10. Place a candlestick with an artificial candle inside or the artificial LED candle itself on the top of the lighthouse - in the center of the saucer. Do not stick, as the candle will need to be replaced in the future. Turn on the candle. Cover the structure on top with our homemade "lid". Your lighthouse is ready!
A warning: never use a real candle with a real flame in the lighthouse!
1. You will need four country pots, each slightly smaller than the previous one. Old and dirty pots are first cleaned and washed.
2. We paint the rims of three pots, except for the smallest one, with acrylic paint. I chose white. We paint in three stages, allowing the paint to dry properly.
3. We also paint the "body" of the pots in three layers. I chose bright red.
4. Using black paint and a small brush, draw windows on the pots (to make it more accurate, you can use a stencil).
5. The remaining small pot and two saucers on both sides are painted in a bright ink color. This is the top of the lighthouse.
6. Applying glue on the bottoms and rims of the pots, glue them to each other.
7. Gently glue the saucer on the upper bottom, install a decorative candle without a flame (on batteries) on it. We cover with a second saucer and glue a small pot on the very top.
Making a garden figurine: photo
On a note:
The cycle of pots in nature
Flowers grow, I transplant them into large containers, and wash my old pots with soap and bathe them in very hot water, almost boiling water. For cleaning I use old toothbrushes and sponges for washing dishes. After that, no infection will stick to them.
Then I store the clean pots in a bag on the rack. My friend has a dishwasher, so once a year she fills it with flower pots, turns on the temperature to 70 degrees and dies. Pots are like new after that.
The neighbor has a different way. She makes it like a nesting doll, puts it in a bucket and fills it with water with the addition of vinegar. The bucket closes and keeps like that for a day. Then it rinses and dries. Acid removes well limescale on pots and mold. And the smell of vinegar quickly disappears.
DIY garden figurine for a flower bed
We are talking about figurines of animals, birds, butterflies, etc., which are stuck into the ground near perennial bushes, flowers or just on the lawn and look very nice, enlivening the landscape.
For this you need:
Draw an outline on paper future figure, fitting it into an approximate size of 300 × 200 mm.
Transfer the pattern to waterproof material - OSB board 6-8 mm thick (trimmings can be found at a construction site where the premises are being renovated). Alternatively, you can use more affordable material - fiberboard, also in the form of scraps.
Cut out the image of the future product with an electric jigsaw along the contour.
Thoroughly impregnate the product with used oil or hot drying oil, especially the end parts.
At the very bottom of the product, drill a hole of 3 mm and a depth of 5-7 cm and insert a 3 mm wire (you can use welding electrode 3 without coating).
Prime the product with white paint PF and after drying, paint at the discretion of the author with colored paints for outdoor use.
Instead of oil paints you can use gouache, but always after coloring decorative item fix them with waterproof varnish in two layers with drying. Under gouache paints, the product must be primed with white water-based paint for outdoor use. I wish you creative success!
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A country house with a plot for most people is not only a place where you can have a good rest, relax and relieve accumulated fatigue, but also room for creative inspiration. Each owner wants to transform and decorate his personal plot in any way possible for this. Some plant beautiful ones, others try to come up with an original one, others begin to make crafts or, fourth ones make crafts for the garden with their own hands. We will focus on the latter in detail in this article. We learn the latest news, novelties and the main trends of the summer season.
DIY garden crafts (photo)
To create original art object for your garden, it is not necessary to run to the store to buy material. You can make your new creations without them. Take a look around. After all, for sure in your household there is something that you have not used for a long time for one reason or another.
It can be a broken bike, an old, leaky bucket, worn out tires and tires accumulated, leftovers, basins, barrels of unnecessary shoes and much more. Give new life all these used things are very simple, the main thing is not to be afraid of experiments.
A visual diagram of how to make a decorative well for a summer residence with your own hands
First you need to decide for yourself in what style you want to see the design of your garden. In Provence style, or Art Nouveau, or whatever you prefer. With considering characteristic features each direction, as well as your own preferences, and you should proceed to its design and decoration.
DIY crafts for the garden can be not only an aesthetic addition to your garden, but also carry a functional component that can be useful in the household.
Natural materials will also help decorate your garden. Field boulders, river stones, tree trunks and their stumps, clay, glass, etc. All this will bring beauty and improve the habitat on your site.
The most important thing is the pursuit of perfection, it will help create a unique and beautiful decor for your site.
Stones for garden decor
flat stones- a real find, especially if they are large. You can draw anything on them. And most importantly, making crafts for the garden with your own hands from stones is exciting and fun, especially with children.
Large stones may just decorate the garden, and medium-sized stones will serve as excellent helpers in the garden. It is necessary to take pebbles in the shape of a certain fruit or vegetable, draw it on it and put it in the garden in accordance with the drawn one. The garden and garden will immediately be filled with bright colors.
Stone Ladybugs - Design Crafts by Amanda
Do-it-yourself figurines for the garden (photo)
If you decide to decorate your garden yourself, remember that here you need to feel the line between stylistic direction garden and a sense of proportion. Since when decorating a garden, going too far with the number of figurines or choosing the wrong image of decorative figurines can easily spoil the aesthetic appearance of your site.
After all, you must admit that the figures of a red riding hood, a baba-yaga, a bun or other fairy-tale character in Japanese garden. Even more strange will look green lawn decorated large quantity artificial palm trees, under each of which there will be a figure of a gnome.
Based on the requirements of landscape design, try to choose images of figurines in unison with the main direction of the style of your site.
Crafts for the garden from tires and tires (photo)
Using old car tires as a material for making garden decor has long been a common practice for many people. For this, absolutely all tires of any diameter are suitable.
Having a number of fresh and practical ideas in my head, as well as certain skills in stabbing and cutting tools and fixtures, you can turn a boring piece of rubber into a beautiful art object, thereby decorating your garden in an unusual way.
There is nothing complicated in this work, and as practice shows, to make crafts for the garden with your own hands from car tires, even for a novice master, less than one hour comes out.
A little imagination and old tire found a new life in the form of a children's swing "overweight"
Tire products are just the case when you don’t need to spend too much time on DIY garden crafts and invest a lot of money to purchase expensive materials.
Scope of old car tires, where they can be used as a material for making crafts, a huge amount. Starting from the design of ordinary flower beds and flower beds, ending with full-fledged playgrounds for your children. Garden Tire Crafts- these are simple, cheap, well-proven products, the constructive forms of which know no boundaries.
Crafts for the garden from improvised materials (photo)
In order for the garden crafts you created with your own hands to retain their original appearance for as long as possible, try to choose the right source material for them. Also important is the thorough application of paints and varnishes.
Modern synthetic fabrics are ideal for outdoor use. acrylic paints, which are distinguished by reliable resistance to constant changes in air temperature and ultraviolet radiation.
In such a responsible matter as decorating a garden with your own hands, absolutely any little thing that has been gathering dust on your site for more than one year can come in handy. As experienced gardeners say, in the country there is nothing unnecessary and nothing superfluous!
To give a special touch to your creations, experienced designers as a decor, it is recommended to use various sequins, beads, beads, colored glass, etc. With their help, you can create an original image of fairy-tale characters, gnomes, small figurines of animals or insects. Well, if you add a little magic to the surface of the products, in the form fluorescent paint, you can enjoy the beauty of your garden not only during the day, but also at night.
New ideas for the garden that will inspire you (photo)
Everyone wants their yard to look nice and cozy. It's so nice to admire this beauty during warm summer evenings. To do this, you need to spend a lot of time and money, because often purchased decor items are quite expensive and, unfortunately, not everyone can afford it. And yet, even from this situation, there is an excellent budget way out - to make crafts for the garden with your own hands.
First of all, of course, it is worth taking care of the improvement of the site:
- Pay due attention to paths, paths, trees, flower beds and flower beds;
- Also, do not forget about the recreation areas (, ), where you often like to relax on warm summer evenings. They must look perfect.
Speaking of more interesting projects, then you can aim to create decorative mini-garden or other decoration. Best of all, the miniature will look surrounded by small figurines and various figurines.
A pond decorated with artificial lilies or swans will look no less beautiful. If doing waterproof DIY garden crafts difficult for you, then you can easily buy them in specialized stores. There you will surely be able to find suitable products that will harmoniously fit into landscape design your garden.
It is important to remember that some products (especially those made of cheap plastic) are afraid of strong temperature changes. Therefore, if necessary, in the winter, everything can be moved from the street to a more secluded place where it will not be threatened by the cold.
DIY master class - everything for the garden (photo)
Many decorate their garden using classic techniques for this - beautiful figurines little gnomes, unusual birds, as well as funny and funny little animals. This style of design for the site is very popular, especially for those who have small children. It has been proven that the fabulous atmosphere created in this way in the garden has a beneficial effect on the development of the child.
If you supplement the garden with a drinker or bird feeder, then in addition to improving the aesthetic beauty of the site, you will make a significant contribution to saving starving birds in winter. Thus, you will teach your kids to love all life on earth from a very early age.
Garden decor - photos of the best DIY crafts
If recently there was a construction or repair on the site, then some building materials, such as cement, probably remained. You can create great DIY garden decor.
- To do this, you need to find the largest leaf, a leaf of burdock or water lily is perfect;
- Then a layer of cement should be applied to this sheet, not very thick, but not thin either. In order for the sheet to stand later, it must be even and smooth on top, otherwise the sheet will have to be dug into the ground;
- After that, you need to wait about 5-6 hours, until the solution is completely dry, turn over, remove the sheet from the cement and now the decor is ready.
To manufactured DIY concrete crafts hands did not look too gloomy, you can glue colored pebbles in the middle or just paint the sheet in any color.
Wall decor with flower pots (photo)
Flowers are beautiful decor idea. If there is an empty boring wall on the site that needs to be decorated with something, then hanging flowers and photo frames will be a great option.
- To do this, you need to find empty tin cans or unnecessary flower pots, preferably the same size;
- Holes are made on the sides through which you need to pass a rope or chain. It will be a latch to hold crafts on a vertical wall;
- If the wall is wooden, then you can simply drive a nail into it, if we are dealing with a brick or block wall, then we cannot do without a puncher and anchor dowels;
- Around the pots, which can be painted as desired, you can hang frames with photos or children's drawings.
Also, clay products will look very beautiful and impressive on the wall, which will give an image reminiscent of a building from old Russian fairy tales.
Beautiful garden- this is not a dream, because today you can make any dreams come true. By decorating your site with original and beautiful crafts, you will not only transform it appearance, but also make it different from the rest.
In creating decor items, the main thing is fantasy and some skills that come with time. A little perseverance, and everything will definitely work out. Faithful helpers in this exciting process will be your own hand-made crafts for the garden with your own hands.
If you always strive for something more than just perfect order on your site, then this topic will definitely interest you. Today we will talk about special form garden decoration - figurines and sculptures among flower beds, lawns and trees. What do these or those figures mean, where it is better to place sculptures and how you can make garden figures with your own hands, you will find out right now.
Secrets of garden figurines
Nymphs, gnomes, foresters, fabulous birds and animals, or just decorative crafts - what determines the mood and spiritual world of your garden. Since ancient times, garden sculptures have been given special importance.
It was believed that the stone and wooden inhabitants of the garden are capable of influencing not only the life of plants, but also the fate of the owners themselves.
Surprisingly cute looks like a small birdbath, surrounded by small bright ground cover flowers. Such a sculpture can be made from a cement-sand mixture with the addition of glass chips.
A bright and elegant sculpture-flower bed for a garden can be obtained from four plywood or drywall sheets. You can make a black-and-white "Burenka" on legs from a stool, attach a funny muzzle from plywood and decorate with satin ribbons
The whimsical barefoot inhabitants of a wooden garden can become favorite figures guarding your flower bed. Such friends are very popular with both large and small owners of the garden. They can decorate and enliven any country cottage area and private courtyard
So, small gnomes brought good luck and rich harvests, animals in the garden - health and longevity, marble sculptures of people saved from loneliness, and garden figures fairytale heroes promised an interesting and eventful life.
Wonderful swans made of clay - a good composition for a green garden. They can be used as flowerpots, or simply placed near a blooming flower bed for decoration.
This cute family of gypsum boletus will make you feel like you are on vacation among the untouched gifts of nature. Such a sculpture will be a particularly valuable gift for lovers of collecting autumn mushrooms.
However, the most important purpose of garden figures was and remains to give a special unique style to the garden plot. The masters of the past knew, they know and modern designers that each garden figure should be defined on right place. Let's talk about the features of choice decorative figures for your garden.
Video selection of garden figurines
How to choose figures for the garden
Any sculpture, figure or composition should be harmoniously combined with garden landscape and style. Here are some basic recommendations that will help determine the right place and type of garden decorative composition:
- We draw a plan. Sometimes we see dear beautiful thing in a shop window, we save up money for it for a long time, but when it comes time to try it on before buying, it turns out that this thing does not suit us at all. So it is with the figures for the garden. Therefore, before you make or buy decorative crafts to give, you need to draw a garden plan along with the location of future decorative ornaments.
- We select the background. Another important element- the correct background and its combination with the figure. It is best for small sculptures to find conspicuous open spaces in the garden. Garden figurines look good against the background decorative fences, flower beds, near paths, benches and front gardens. White or bronze large sculptures are perfect for greenery tall trees, stone fountains and clipped bushes.
- We choose sculptures in accordance with the style of the garden. It is important to keep the style of the garden consistent with the figures in it. In a romantic garden with roses and gazebos, monochrome sculptures depicting people, flowers or graceful compositions with thin lines look harmonious.
garden in rustic style can be decorated with wooden figures, sculptures of domestic animals and various national items. Modern style can withstand any unexpected compositions of metal, marble, clay and even concrete.
- The figures must be adequate to the place. A mediocre combination of figures with a garden area can ruin the look of even the most neat and thoughtful landscape. So, ceramic fly agarics will look ridiculous near a marble textured fountain, a Chinese black dragon is unlikely to decorate a wicker tyn, and the figure of a naked Apollo will not fit into the front garden of a kindergarten.
When the location, style, and background for a garden sculpture are chosen correctly, you should feel a sense of impeccable design and comfort.
A small deer made of brushwood hid near a small wooden fence. He seemed to be frightened, being among civilization. Such a sculpture awakens the imagination and decorates a simple green garden in an original way.
A space snail made of corrugated board tape looks fun on the lawn. It is very simple and uniquely original. Looking at her playful eyes, there is a feeling that her owner is hiding somewhere nearby - a funny good-natured robot from the planet "Shelezyaka"
Simple and stylish figurines for the garden with your own hands
If you want to put the maximum of soul and emotions into figurines for the garden, make them yourself! Although you are unlikely to get antique sculptures, small plaster or wooden figures will turn out easily.
Consider the three most simple master class on homemade production garden decor.
Cheerful compositions are always popular for country decor. A cute Cheshire cat looks stylish, hiding between flower vases. He can endlessly watch the bright mice walking along the emerald lawn.
A delicate mixborder with irises is adorned with a white marble angel kneeling in humble prayer. Such sculptures emphasize the old or romantic style garden or country house
Option # 1 - a decorative beacon for the garden
For this original idea need to cook 3 ceramic pot for flowers different size with pallets (small, larger and large); liquid Nails; white paint for the base, blue for the edging and red for the windows; brushes; masking tape, pencil and centimeter tape. To give the lighthouse a natural look, glue a small garden lantern on top.
Video master class on creating a "decorative beacon"
A pallet is attached inside each flowerpot. Via liquid nails ceramic flower pots are stacked on top of each other so that the small one is on top and the largest is on the bottom
AT a plastic cup pour in some blue color to dilute the white paint and get a sky blue color for the borders of our decorative lighthouse
The process itself will not take an hour. The pots are connected to each other with liquid nails and painted with paints. A small flashlight is attached to the top, which imitates an observation cabin. This beacon looks great on a juicy green lawn.
This is how cute and original a miniature lighthouse craft looks on the bright green lawns of a spring garden. When you look at this figure, it begins to seem that the little lighthouse keeper is about to look out of the window of the upper platform.
Option # 2 - a birdbath in the form of a bright rhubarb leaf
Stylish and unusual look multi-colored stone rhubarb leaves along garden paths and around trees and bushes. If you grow rhubarb or burdock with big leaves, it remains only to prepare sand, cement and paint. The leaf is placed on the sand front side and topped with liquid cement. When the mixture dries, it is freed from the sheet and sand. It turns out real garden sculpture- birdbath.
To make a decorative birdbath, lay out on small table newspapers, prepare sand, cement and a large leaf of burdock or rhubarb
Place a mound of sand on the newspapers and place the rhubarb leaf face down on top of the mound. Spread the sheet well and fix its position by pressing it with your hands
You can decorate this craft with stones, drawings, or you can just leave it in its natural form. Such baths in pink or bronze shades look very decorative.
Dilute dry cement with water to a thick solution with the consistency of sour cream. Pour the cement over the rhubarb leaf so that it is completely covered with the mortar. Leave the sculpture to harden
The finished cement rhubarb sheet can be coated with paint, lime, or left in in kind. Worth covering upper layer baths with soil and a water-repellent mixture so that the cement does not wash out with water
Option #3 - blooming stone hand
An original and popular version of home-made garden sculpture - cement mini-flower beds in the form of hands.
They are done simply. Needed for work medical gloves, cement and a couple of flower pots to give the sculptures stability. Rubber gloves are stuffed cement mortar and stacked in flower pots to dry and give the desired shape.
Rubber gloves are filled with a thick cement mortar and placed in flower pots to harden. The fingers should be positioned so that you can put a little earth inside for a flower. After the gloves are cut off and a decorative sculpture-pot in the shape of a hand is obtained.
You can paint your hand different colors, but its natural version looks more original. In such a flowerpot you need to place the earth and plant miniature flowering crops
Finished hands can be painted in the selected shades, placed in them with earth and planted with miniature garden flowers. On the flower bed, such a sculpture looks harmonious and natural.
Hands made of cement look very decorative in the garden with tenacious or young growing in them. They can be placed on the ground, along paths, on window sills or wooden shelves.
Do-it-yourself figurines for the garden made of gypsum, wood or simple cement acquire liveliness and brightness. No need to dot your dacha with a variety of different figures and crafts. A few unique figures made by your hands are enough, and your dacha or garden will surely shine with new colors. We wish you successful garden creativity and inspirational ideas.
Read how to make a lighthouse, giraffe, spider. You will make these items from unnecessary flower pots. From the same material, make crafts for New Year.
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Making a cottage with your own hands - an exciting activity. You can make wonderful items for the garden from already unnecessary things. In the spring, summer residents bring flowers, seedlings in pots to their plots. Then the plants are planted in the ground, and the containers are thrown away, or they lie unnecessarily, littering the site. See what you can turn into flower pots, seedlings.
How to make a lighthouse from a flower pot?
Suitable for its manufacture plastic pots, and old clay ones, which eventually lose their external attractiveness. If you don’t have a dacha, having learned how to make a lighthouse, make it and decorate a balcony or window sill with such an accessory. If you install lamps on top of solar panels, then in the evening the lighthouse will add romanticism to the room.
To make it, take:
- 3-4 pots of different diameters;
- adhesive for ceramics and plastics;
- acrylic paints;
- brush;
- alcohol or solvent;
- newspaper.
When the containers are dry, put the largest one on the newspaper, cover its bottom with glue. Place the second largest pot on top. Glue a small one to it, on which place the smallest one.
When the glue is dry, paint the beacon white and the protruding border black. After a while, draw windows, put a decorative lantern upstairs.
You can paint the lighthouse with yellow and white stripes obliquely, and make the windows black semicircular, as in the photo. There are many other ideas on how to make a lighthouse.
For example, for the following you will need:
- flower pots;
- white and scarlet acrylic paint;
- pot trays;
- glue;
- refractory glass;
- candle.
To draw the windows perfectly even, cut out a rectangle inside the sticky note paper. Attach it to the pot, paint the hole black.
Cover two flower pot trays with blue paint. When all this is dry, you can collect our lighthouse. Glue the three pots together with the largest one on the bottom and the smallest one on top. Glue the pallet on the last one, put a transparent glass on it, in which you place a candle.
It needs oxygen to burn. To do this, drill a hole in the second pallet in the center or make it with a heated nail. Flip the pre-painted blue color miniature pot. Glue it on the prepared pallet with a hole. Place this design on a candle. The lighthouse will be safe, decorate the house, cottage.
At sunset, you will light a candle, you will admire your creation at dusk. Such a beacon will solve the problem of lighting, especially if you make not one, but several.
To do this, check out the following ideas. This one can be decorated with pebbles by gluing them to the bottom flower pot. Install the lighthouse on a round pedestal that needs to be cut out of plywood. Lubricate this part of the workpiece with glue, wrap it with a rope.
Do you want the lighthouse to become a bird feeder at the same time?
Then put it in a wide bowl or in a basin. Here you will pour dry food for birds, thereby helping them survive harsh winter and draw them into your gardens. Birds will help to cope with small pests and will be beneficial.
If you are thinking about how to make a lighthouse so that it illuminates the path in the country at night and in the evenings, then stick an ordinary solar-powered lamp into the hole in the upper pot, and the problem will be solved.
You can decorate your creation with a net by tying it. Glue a few shells, and the marine attribute is ready.
If you wish, make another item from pots - a ship's bell.
To do this, flower containers need to be painted, then sorted by size from small to large. After that, a rope is passed through the hole. At its end, you need to hang a plastic ball, and you can hang it from the other end of the rope.
When a gardener decides to transplant a plant in a pot with a closed root system, the container remains. If a lot of them accumulate, then you can make not only a lighthouse, but also other figures for giving.
How to make a spider, butterflies, caterpillar from flower pots?
A lot is done from the pots left after transplanting flowers. Such funny insects can decorate not only a personal plot, but also become crafts in Kindergarten, to school. Among the flowers, on the windowsill, a colorful butterfly, striped bee will also look great.
For crafts you will need:
- flower pots;
- acrylic paints;
- pieces of plastic;
- scissors;
- wire;
- Super glue.
The body of butterflies is also dark, and the head can be yellow or red. Wrap the wire with black thread. The spider craft is created like this:
- Cut 8 identical pieces of wire, fold their edges into loops.
- Place an inverted flower tray on the table, place on it pairs of bent legs of an insect made of wire.
- Lubricate upper part pot inside with glue. Attach it, turned upside down, to the pallet.
- For the eyes, take plastic spoons, you will need their rounded parts. Glue those to small pot, which will become the head of the spider.
- Pupils can be drawn or cut from a bicycle tube or from an old rubber thing (mouse pad, old toy etc).
- Glue the pupils to the squirrels, and the insect's head to its body. Here's how to make a flower pot spider.
The body of the butterfly needs to be installed on flower pot, glued The wings are cut out of colored plastic. Here's how to make a spider, butterflies, caterpillar. Other representatives of the animal world are also easily created from this material. You will be convinced of this now.
How to make a giraffe and other animals with your own hands?
Prepare materials, namely:
- 4 identical small flower pots and 1 larger;
- 4 wooden skewers;
- plasticine;
- acrylic paints;
- brush;
- ready-made eyes for dolls;
- wire;
- Styrofoam;
- liquid Nails.
- Let's start with coloring the pots. First you need to cover them with brown or yellow paint. When it dries, do dark spots. On a brown background, they should be light.
- Color the wooden skewers too. When they dry, stick circles of dark plasticine on one edge, which will become hooves.
- Using a knife, cut the foam into an oval shape. From pieces of plastic, cut out two ears, stick them into the head of the giraffe. Color this piece brown tone when it dries, draw a mouth and nose, stick ready-made eyes.
- Attach the giraffe's legs to its body with liquid nails. Thread the wire first through the bottom inverted pot, secure it here by twisting. Then lift the other end of the wire up, string 4 small inverted pots.
- Then a giraffe's head is put on this section of the wire. To make his horns, attach plasticine to the wire, stick the workpiece in place. Instead of plasticine, you can use the same foam. Here's how to make a giraffe out of waste flower pots.
And here's how to make a flowerpot for a summer residence using all the same materials.
The photo shows a way to create such things. Large pots, which will become the head and body of a man, are fixed with a metal rod. The lower end of it must be stuck into the ground to secure the structure.
Small pots are put on the wire. This is how the arms and legs of the character are created. To decorate it, glue colored plastic where the dress will be and as an eye and a nose. Draw the mouth with acrylic paint.
It turned out to be a very beautiful flowerpot. By the same principle, you can make other little men. Such a couple looks great in any corner of the garden. You can place them next to a lighthouse, marketplace, to create a marine picture.
Find a place for picturesque mushrooms. To make them, turn over a white plastic pot, put a pre-painted flower tray on it with traced circles.
If you want to make a strict school lady out of pots, then put glasses on her and attach a brooch to her neck. Decorate the head of this character with artificial flowers or dried flowers.
If a teacher with a pointer is not your option for decorating a summer house, then make such a Papuan. The top pot is both his head and a container for the fern, which will become the character's hair. On his feet you can put on old shoes that no one wears anymore.
Do-it-yourself flower pots can also be turned into the right item in the kitchen. Draw funny faces on them by choosing any of the presented ones, and you can put knives, spoons, forks inside.
Crafts for the New Year from flower pots
You can also make them from flower pots. To make a snowman you will need:
- 4 flower pots of the same size;
- three dark buttons;
- two pallets for pots;
- acrylic paints;
- tinsel;
- tapes;
- tassel;
- glue.
After the paint has dried, turn the pallet over onto the work surface, glue the pot to it. Using glue, we connect the other two together, the last, fourth we attach as a head.
It is better to apply the features of the snowman's face first, and then glue the head to the neck. To make the eyes, mouth and nose even, use a stencil.
Glue the inverted black pallet to the top of the head, fix artificial or natural spruce branches tied with ribbons here. Glue buttons, tie tinsel around the neck.
Here's how to make a snowman. It can be crafted even if you only have one pot. Color it like this, and this essential attribute of the New Year will remind you of the upcoming holiday.
If you have a small glass vase, it will come in handy for the next craft for the New Year. To make it easier, here's what it takes to make another snowman:
- 1 flower pot with tray white color and one pallet;
- glass round vase;
- black and scarlet acrylic paint;
- white filler;
- tennis ball;
- a piece of red cloth;
- scissors;
- glue.
Glue the vase to the tray, fix the black tray on it, on which you want to glue the tennis ball. It will become a pom-pom.
As a craft for the New Year, do not forget to make a Christmas tree. To do this, you must first paint the pots, let them dry, then glue them, placing them evenly from large to small.
The star can be cut out of plastic or cardboard. It should be on a leg of the same materials. Insert it into the hole of the upper pot and fix it with glue.
For such a Christmas tree for the New Year, you will need only 3 flower pots that need to be painted in green color. Then decorate your creation with gold braid, multi-colored buttons.
For the next craft for the new year you will need:
- three flower pots;
- pallet;
- green paint;
- tassel;
- sweets in the form of cones, balls;
- cotton wool;
- glue;
- cardboard;
- gold wrapping paper;
- scissors.
If you have cotton pads, ruffle each one with your hands. Glue this supposedly snow to the Christmas tree. Also add some candy. Cut out a star from cardboard. You will need two identical blanks. Put a wooden stick between them, glue. Paint the star or cover it with gold paper.
You can even make a New Year's deer from pots.
Glue two white pallets together. Set them on a wide neck glass jar. Glue 2 pots, draw eyes, mouth, nose on them. Bend the wire into deer antler shapes, and slide the bottom edges of the wire into the hole in the top of the pot. Glue the head in place. Here is another craft for the New Year from flower pots ready.
Now you know how you can transform unnecessary plant containers in order to decorate a summer house or a house with them.
Do you want to see how wonderful the figures from the pots look on household plots? Then check out a selection of such ideas in the next video.
From the second, you will learn how to make a lighthouse. All stages of work are shown here.
