Crafts from tires with your own hands: simple and creative ideas for decorating a summer cottage and a garden (120 photos + description)

Landscape design of a summer cottage or the territory of a private house often involves the use of such decorative elements as garden figures.

But factory-made or original products, as a rule, have a rather high price, therefore it is worth thinking about an alternative: from unnecessary things prepared for disposal, you can independently make original things that can decorate any garden composition.

One of the most popular materials for the embodiment of design ideas with your own hands is considered to be car tires, crafts from which surprise with a variety of design and breadth of application.

Variety of ideas

It is not difficult to create something from old tires - there are many creative ideas for using the material, for the implementation of which it is enough to prepare the necessary tools and parts:

Old tires;
Paint in different colors and brushes;
Cutting tools;
Ropes or chains;
Shovel.

Crafts for the tire garden can have different purposes. Most often, they not only play the role of decoration, but also carry a functional load.

By giving the rubber a different shape, you can create garden figures in the form of animals, fences, flower beds, drainage systems and a lot of other useful things.

To create complex shapes, it is better to take foreign-made tires - they are thinner and softer, so they turn out easily.

Fences and garden furniture

The simplest rubber tire crafts do not require effort and the use of cutting tools.

From solid objects, you can build low fences for dividing summer cottages or zoning the territory.
To do this, you need to put the wheel on the edge halfway into the ground, leaving a semicircle outside. A fence consisting of such elements can be brightly painted or planted with climbing plants.
To make comfortable seats, you can hoist the tires one on top of the other and equip a soft seat on top with a plywood base, foam rubber and leatherette.
Such structures can be installed in a garden among trees, in recreation areas, on open terraces, in the area of a garage or parking space.

Beds and flower beds

Flower products can be simple or complex.

The former do not require any special modification of the starting material, except for a slight expansion of the neck due to the partially cut cord.
In the second case, simple pots from old tires, with the help of cutting tools and some techniques, turn into elegant flowerpots with openwork edges.

To create flower beds, old wheels with disks are often used - they make original products in the form of bowls with legs.

You just need to do a few things:

With the wheel on the ground, make a notched cut to the side of the tire.
Turn both tire parts inside out.
Paint and decorate the resulting bowl on a stand with stones or shells.

Tire beds are first filled with small stones, then soil for flowers. It is better to plant low lush bushy plants in them. Petunia, nasturtium or marigolds will look especially good.

Decorative figures

To decorate the garden, flower beds and decorative ponds, figures of exotic animals or birds are made.

As the simplest option, you need to dug the tire halfway into the ground, and turn the remaining semicircle into the body of the animal, painting and adding details from wood and other materials to form the head and tail accordingly.

This way you can turn an old tire into a horse, giraffe, zebra or dog. Such figures will not only decorate the site, but also attract children to play.

Diy diy schemes from tires in the form of a swan are also quite simple. You need to prepare two tires, a cutting tool and paint.

The figure is made as follows:

Prepare the base in the form of a pond from one tire. You need to cut the cord and fill the bowl with small stones, which can be coated with blue paint from a spray can.
On the second tire, draw two lines to cut the half of the product into three strips.
Unscrew the tire and fold back the side strips in the form of wings. Pull out the central ribbon in the form of a swan's neck.
Paint the product white, draw the beak and eyes.

If the tire is too soft and the bird's neck falls off, you can reinforce it with a metal bar.

Baby swing

For swing making, it is better to take large tires from trucks or SUVs.

You should not use rubber that is too old, from which tough threads can stick out, which can injure a child.
If possible, it is better to take a new product.
Suspend the tire so that it is away from a tree trunk or post.
One chain or rope is used for vertical suspension.
This will not be enough for the horizontal version. In this case, three ropes must be used to maintain balance.
A structural strength test must be carried out before use.

Material advantages

Making various crafts from tires with your own hands is quite easy, since the work does not require special skills, and the material is available and does not require large purchase costs. Tires are comfortable to use due to their performance: