If you want a bright strawberry bush to decorate the cottage at any time of the year, a stork to rise, daisies turn white, and a firefly burns in the evening, then find out how all this can be done from plastic bottles. The content of the article:
- Broom
- Stork
- Flowerbed number 1
- Flowerbed number 2
- Crafts for giving
- Strawberries and flowers
The summer cottage season is not far off, you need to approach it fully armed. In order not to spend a lot of money, see what you can do with your own hands for a hacienda from plastic bottles.
Plastic bottle broom
She will certainly come in handy on the farm. She can sweep not only garbage from the hut, but also collect fallen leaves, litter from garden paths.
To make such a sturdy panicle, you will need:
- 6 plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- hammer;
- stalk.
First of all, wash the bottles under warm water, remove the labels from them. Now cut off the bottom of five bottles, cut off the necks from four. Starting from the bottom, cut the canvas of containers into strips 1, 5 cm wide. For the broom to have sufficient rigidity, stop before reaching the shoulders, as shown in the photo.
Do not cut the neck of the fifth bottle, in the same way make a fringe on it. Now put 4 bottles on top of it. Prepare the sixth differently. Cut it below the shoulders, leaving a neck.
Slide this sixth bottle over the five-jar blank. Insert the handle into the neck. Now squeeze the pieces a little, so that the broom is flatter.
The final touch remains, make several holes with an awl in the working part of the panicle, put on the wire here, fix the product on the handle. Here's how to make a broom from plastic bottles.
How to make a stork
This is what a wonderful stork can decorate your garden, city courtyard.
If you have scraps of floorboards left after building a house or renovating, they will come in handy. Here's what needs to be prepared besides them:
- plastic milk bottles;
- green and red electrical tape;
- self-tapping screws;
- block of wood;
- 2 metal rods;
- glue gun;
- eyes for toys.
Cut off the bottom and neck of the bottles. From the resulting canvas, make four feathers. To do this, first cut the bottle from the side, then use scissors to divide the resulting canvas into rectangles. Round off the bottom of each and frame the feathers with a fringe, notching the edges of the blanks.
Draw a stork pattern on paper or cardboard, attach it to the board, outline it, cut it out with a jigsaw. Draw the wing separately, also cut out 2 such details, screw them to the stork's body with self-tapping screws.
Leave the bird's beak unformed for now, starting from the head, glue the stork's body and wings with blanks from plastic bottles. Note that the plumage of a bird on the head is different from the plumage on the body. Shorter blanks are made for the head.
To decorate the wings, you need to make not only white, but also black feathers. You will make the latter by taking a shampoo bottle of that color. The same, but long ones, you will need when decorating the stork's tail.
Wrap the red tape around the bird's beak. Glue the eyes, attach two metal rods in place of the legs. Fix their lower part on the bar.
Here's how to make a stork so as not to spend extra money on buying such a garden figurine.
Decorative flower beds - the first idea
Beautifully decorated flower girls are pleasing to the eye. Plastic bottles will also help in their creation. If you do not have a summer cottage, you can implement the idea presented below in the summer on the local area in the city, on your balcony and even on the windowsill.
This container flower bed is also made of plastic containers, but rectangular in shape. Prepare the following to work:
- 3-4 plastic bottles;
- awl;
- scissors;
- glue;
- white paint.
Cut off the necks and sides of two bottles, leaving the "sides". Match the 2 containers, glue their junction as shown in the photo.
Such plastic flower beds can be based not on two, but on more bottles. Then the middle elements of the flower garden are cut out without "sides".
Now you need to make holes with an awl in the bottom of the blanks to drain excess water. If such a decorative flower bed will be at home, then you need to put it on a pallet or tray.
The beautiful fence is also cut from plastic bottles. Its vertical fragments are 4 cm wide, and the height should be 5-7 cm higher than the height of the sides of the containers. The upper part of such a picket fence is pointed, the lower one is rounded.
Now cut the rest of the bottles into long strips. Attach them horizontally to a vertically located picket fence, glue. If the bottles are transparent, first paint them white or any other color, let the paint dry, and then cut out the elements of the fence. After that, glue it to the flower girl.
You can leave the flower bed like this or decorate it with flowers made from plastic bottles. When filling containers, first put a drainage in the form of small pebbles on the bottom, then a small layer of coarse sand, and then add fertile soil.
The second version of a flower bed made of plastic bottles
This idea will certainly appeal to lovers of classic shapes. Trim the necks of two eggplants, but do not throw them away. The photo shows how they need to be shaped so that these parts turn into the legs of a mobile flower bed.
Cut out the sides of the bottles themselves, but leave them along the side near the bottom and near the shoulders. Slide these parts of the two containers into one another, remembering to secure with glue. Use it to attach the legs.
It remains to cover your creation with paint, let it dry, fill it with a small layer of drainage, light soil and plant your favorite plants.
When purchasing glue, see if it is suitable for plastic. The same applies to paint, because not all paint well on this material.
Crafts for giving
After winter, there are still few bright colors in the garden. Such mischievous crafts from plastic bottles will help fill this gap. These funny little mice will become both small flower beds and garden decoration.
For such a garden craft, you will need:
- plastic bottles;
- acrylic paints;
- scissors;
- glue;
- fishing line;
- buttons;
- felt-tip pen.
Lay the plastic bottle horizontally, cut out the side that is now the top of the container, but don't throw it away yet. Draw 2 ears and a tail on it.
Paint the tail and body of the plastic bottle mouse gray and the ears pink. Glue all the details in place, use 2 dark buttons as eyes. Draw a mouth for the craft, glue pieces of fishing line on the nose, which will become the toy's mustache. After that, it can be used for its intended purpose.
The next flower garden for a summer residence is made in almost the same way. Also cut out the side of the bottle, ears, tail for these funny piglets, then paint them pink. When the paint dries, pour earth into the container and plant flowers.
There are crafts for a summer residence that look good during the day, and even more impressive - at dusk, due to the fact that a neon lamp is lit inside.
Here are the materials required for the job:
- green plastic bottle;
- black or green wire;
- yellow paper;
- decorative gold wire;
- neon lamp;
- scissors.
Wash the bottle with warm water, remove the label. Now cut 3 strips of wire, twist them on the container as shown in the photo. The bottom of the wire will become the legs of the firefly, and the rest of the wire will be draped with a rectangle cut out of yellow paper.
Draw wings on cardboard, cut them out and glue them on the back of the insect. Glue 2 beads to the lid, which will become the eyes of the firefly. Twist the gold wire in the form of his antennae. Bend the neon stick so that it lights up, insert it inside the container, secure its upper part inside the neck with tape.
Here's how to make a firefly out of a plastic bottle. It will look beautiful next to ornamental plants, also made by hand.
Strawberries and flowers from plastic bottles
These are such beautiful daisies when using empty containers from dairy products. Of course, you need to wash them well first and remove the labels. To make one flower, place in front of you:
- 3 plastic bottles of white color;
- cover;
- scissors;
- wire;
- felt-tip pen.
Cut off the lower parts from the containers, we will not need them when making flowers from plastic bottles.
Leave a neck on one bottle, cut it off from the other two.
The orange lid is perfect as a flower core. It will only be necessary to erase the numbers indicating the date of production and the expiration date of the product. This can be easily done with acetone or paint thinner.
Now make 8 petals on each blank. To make them the same, use a stencil or first outline them with a felt-tip pen and then cut out. It will also need to be erased later. Put on the first blank, on which the neck is preserved, the second, then the third. Pre-drive the petals so that the flower is voluminous. Screw the lid back on.
Using a drill or a hot nail, make 2 holes in the lid, pass a soft wire through them, wind it over a hard one, which will become the stem of the plant. It can be wrapped with green duct tape or painted in that color. It remains to cut and fix leaves from a green bottle on the trunk, make 2 more daisies, and the flowers made by yourself are ready.
Such bright juicy berries will also be a wonderful decoration for a summer cottage at any time of the year.
This strawberry bush is made extremely simple. The bottom of the bottle is cut off, set aside. The middle part of the container is not useful, it and the neck must be cut off and thrown away. But insert the remaining fragment from the neck to the bottom of the shoulders into the bottom of the container. Also, 2 more berries are made, or as many as you wish to create.
Now these blanks need to be painted red, and when this tone dries up, make points of white or dark color.
A sepal is cut out of a green bottle and put into the berry recesses. In its and its center with a drill or with a nail and a hammer, you need to make along the hole, combine them and thread the wire. On the other hand, leaves cut from a green plastic bottle are put on it. Below the wires are connected and the bottom edge is stuck into the ground. As a result, what a wonderful garden craft you can make!
There are other interesting ideas for giving. From the video you will find out what else you can make flowers from plastic bottles:
This video shows you how to make bees from small plastic bottles:
The next master class will teach you how to create summer cottage figures of storks from the same material:
