Plastic bottles are an excellent option for creating unique crafts; finished designs are used as a decor for a garden or for a summer residence. You can lure the whole family and have a great time, and then decorate your garden plot.
These crafts will delight your eyes and cheer you up. Also, the benefits of using them are enormous, because they make nature cleaner, because we do not throw them away. Below you can find out options for DIY bottle crafts and choose the idea you like.
The main thing is to show all your creativity and surrender to the process, then the time spent in this lesson will fly by very imperceptibly, and the result will surprise you. In addition to bottles, it is advisable to have paints, scissors, a stationery knife with you.
To decorate your site with flowers, you don't have to worry about big waste, you just need 5 liter plastic bottles, to make them you need to:
- Prepare the bottoms of the bottles, scissors, acrylic paint.
- Cut the bottom along the lines not to the end, two, three centimeters should remain in the middle.
- Cut one, two strips and twist towards the center
- To shape the desired flower, you need fire, using matches or a lighter, then bring the bottom to the fire and turn.
- You will see that the bottle melts into the desired shape.
- At the end of this process, paint with the selected paint. To avoid streaks, take a sponge.
Gardeners put flowers to decorate the fence or as a decor at home, you can also decorate the path leading to the house.
Palm
Palm, will become a real exotic and add zest to your garden. Looking at it, it is difficult to guess that it was made by hand. If you wish, you can build it on your site. It doesn't take much effort to create it.
You will need brown and green bottles, knife, duct tape, barrel tube, rope (thick)
The creation process consists of three steps (create leaves, create a trunk and put everything together)
- Cut off the bottom of the green bottles, this will be the crown of the palm tree.
- Cut the upper part into strips and bend them in the opposite direction.
- For brown bottles, also cut off the bottom and make stripes towards the neck.
- It must be borne in mind that if you have few bottles, you may not have enough of them, it is better to have a lot in stock, then the palm tree itself will look more magnificent.
- The last one is collecting wood, for this the rope is tied to the lids.
Swan
The swan is a popular product made from plastic bottles, it will perfectly complement and decorate your site, you can also make and decorate a small pond and create a seascape. You will need to take a bottle of five liters, a knife, putty and a net.
Process of creation:
- Cut off the side of the bottle
- Make a hole through the cover, then insert the wire inside, while bending it, it will be the neck.
- To shape the circle, you need to use sand.
- We make a stand - for this, form a putty into a tourniquet and make a neck
- Apply with a spatula to the bottle, these will be feathers
- For the wings you need a mesh, you need to arrange it on the sides and use a spatula.
Pig - as an element of decoration
The bottles can also be adapted to create an animal such as a pig. It looks unusual and creative, it can not only stand on your site, but also serve as a flower bed.
To create it, you will need: a bottle (5L), a knife, a brush, a pencil, a black marker, cardboard, glue, wire, paint.
Process of creation:
- Cut the ears out of cardboard, paint with paint
- Make legs from the tops of the bottles
- Make cuts, these will be the ears, also for the legs and tail.
- Twist the wire and insert into the desired hole
- Finally, spray paint
Flower bed
Tires are used to create a flower bed. It is great for growing a variety of garden flowers.
You will need: Lots of small bottles, a tire and glue designed for plastic, paint may also come in handy.
Process of creation:
- Put the wheel from the machine in the chosen place, you can install it in the garden. The tire can be changed to a different color or left the same, for everyone to suit every taste.
- Glue bottles at the top of the tire, most likely the flower bed will be narrow, it is worth filling it with earth carefully.
- Paint the bottles a different color if desired.
Owl
The owl will also perfectly complement the interior of the garden and it will sparkle with new colors. You need to have with you 5 brown containers, a colorless container, pliers, threads, paints, a glue gun.
Process of creation:
- Cut off the throat and bottom, and form cuts at the edges
- Pull off the top and bottom with a thread, the top is the head, the bottom is the tail
- The remaining bottles will serve for the wings - form rectangles out of them and repaint them in white paint
- Fix the wings
- Eyes made from bottle caps
Peacock
The peacock is also easy to make, like the other crafts mentioned above, the main thing is to have the desire and inspiration and everything will work out.
The peacock is a beautiful and vibrant bird, so why not make one and decorate your site. You need to have foam with you, which will become the body and serve as the basis for the future bird.
Process of creation:
- Cut out feathers and paint with paint, then glue to tail shape
- Make feathers by cutting them out of a green bottle
- Make a beak from the top by cutting out a triangle and at the end you need to fix it with nails
- Make paws from parts of small bottles, where the neck is, you need to use wire
At the end of the fourth action, the assembly should go - paws to the body and glue them with feathers, then the wings and tail.
Donkey
Donkey, also a good craft idea. Its habitat is most often chosen near trees, where it will fit perfectly, you can also build a flower bed.
You need to make a torso - for this you need a 5 liter bottle, and paws can be made from milk or kefir bottles.
An animal's face and ears are made of plastic from under a bottle of kvass. At the end, paint it with gray paint, you can fix the braid on the muzzle of the donkey, and hang a bottle for growing flowers on the side.
Photo of crafts from plastic bottles
