Use plastic bottles to make graceful swans floating on a scenic lake. Its surface reflects a palm tree, also made by hand. It is not difficult to make a summer cottage extraordinarily attractive. To do this, you do not have to spend a lot of money, it is enough to put empty plastic bottles in bags, and then select ideas from the proposed ones and bring them to life. Such work is inspiring, allows you to make the site well-groomed. Neighbors and guests will certainly pay attention to him, and the owners themselves are pleased to be in such an environment. Start your makeover with some simple work to create a fabulous corner of your backyard.
Lake or pond for bottle cottages
To make the reservoir itself, no special skill is required, depending on its size, you will need 30–250 bottles. First, outline the place of the future fairy pond with a shovel. Select the sod inside its outlines. It can be piled up, covered with a dark film, periodically sprinkled with water and kitchen waste, and you will have excellent compost next year.
If you are using a non-virgin plot of land, then simply loosen it with a shovel and, starting from the middle to the edges, lay the workpieces. To make them, cut the neck to the shoulders of the plastic bottles, now press the blanks upside down into the ground so that the container looks 8 cm above the soil surface. You can use the lower halves of the bottles left over from creating other things for this type of site design. The main thing is that they are not shorter than 10 cm.
If you are using only the bottom of the plastic bottles, then fill it with soil, turn it upside down so that the blanks rise above the ground. Place containers close to each other to minimize gaps. After completing several rows of inverted plastic bottles, paint them blue. It is better to do this right away, since if the lake is large, it is difficult to get into its center. If you do not have numerous containers available, make the lake gradually. The edging can be decorated with large stones. For a scenic pond, plant a few plants around the edges.
Decorate the lake with water lilies. How to make such crafts with your own hands was described in one of the previous articles, and from this one you will learn how to make a swan from improvised material. Such a bird looks great not only near the lake, but also in any other corner of the garden.
Swan made of tires and plastic bottles
For this type of creativity, you need a car tire. Paint it white, attach a strong wire to the outside with iron staples. It should wrap the bottom of the tire, then bring it up and bend it in the shape of a swan's neck.
Now slide a plastic water hose over the wire, if you don't have one, a piece of watering rubber will do. Slightly cut its upper part on both sides, put the bird's head here. To craft it, cut the soft bottle below the shoulders, making a curly cut. Put the blank on the wire, make a beak from a small ketchup bottle. If you don't have one, then cut a triangle out of plastic, glue its two opposite sides. After placing the beak in place, paint over it with red paint. You can make a head from synthetic foam, and take a hose from an old vacuum cleaner for the neck.
Paint the head and neck white, and black mark the junction of the beak and face so that the supra-forehead and eyes of the bird are clearly visible.
If you have extra time, then modify the tire a little before doing the swan. As you can see in the photo, on one side there are small cuts on it, on the other - solid, it is made so that the tail remains. The place of the cut is fastened with a bolt and a screw.
Bird with fluffy feathers from plastic bottles
Do-it-yourself swans are graceful if they are beautifully feathered. To do this, you will need white plastic milk bottles.
In the next photo you can see how to make the wings. To do this, cut out their base from the metal mesh in the form of a triangle with beveled corners. For feathering, use white plastic milk bottles. Cut off the neck and bottom of each. Divide the resulting canvas into 6 parts, also round each of them with scissors. These are feathers. Use an awl and thin wire to attach them. Make punctures in the blanks and tie them to the mesh.
Cover it with feathers on both sides. Attach 2 fenders to the tire using self-tapping screws. You can do it differently by pulling the wings together with a wire through the tire.
How are graceful birds made from plastic bottles?
Another Graceful Swan can be crafted from the following materials. To work you will need:
- large plastic bottle of rectangular shape;
- putty;
- thick wire;
- bandage;
- sand.
Lay the plastic bottle horizontally, cut off the wide side. Make a hole in the lid with a soldering iron, insert the edge of the curved wire, as shown in the photo. Sand is poured into the bottle so that the swans, made with their own hands, are stable.
Now grease the entire outside of the canister with a thick putty. Take a bandage, starting to wrap the wire with it from the bottom up, also generously coat it with this solution. As a result, you get the neck of a graceful bird. Where the head will be, the bandage will need to be wound even more, sandwich it with putty. Decorate this part of the blank.
Let's get down to the wings. As in the first case, they will need a coarse-mesh iron mesh. To attach it, first cover the bird's body with a primer, let it dry, then attach the mesh and secure it to the sides of the swan with putty.
You can leave the wings like this, or decorate them on the outside with feathers from plastic milk bottles, and hide the mesh on the back under a layer of putty.
You just need to let the product dry, then paint the eyes and beak of the bird in the desired colors. If you want to use a swan as an original flowerpot for a summer residence, then fill the canister with sand only a quarter, and pour fertile soil on top and plant your favorite flower. Or craft a second bird. As a result, you will get such beautiful do-it-yourself swans.
How to quickly make snow-white birds out of bottles?
If you have a little empty container, and you want to quickly decorate your site, then read how to make a swan quickly and from a small amount of materials. Also, he can not only decorate a summer cottage, but also become a beautiful and original flower bed. For this, transparent containers are quite suitable, they need to cut off the necks along the top of the shoulders.
Draw the shape of the future flower garden on the ground. Fill bottles with sand or unnecessary soil such as clay and paint them white. When the paint is dry, dig the bottles about a quarter into the ground according to the marked markings, turning them upside down. To keep them well, fasten them in a circle with 2-3 layers of wide tape. It also needs to be covered with white paint.
The swan's head and neck are made of plywood. First, draw this part of the bird on the blank, and then cut it out. As shown in the photo, paint this part with the appropriate paints. Pour fertile soil into the flower bed, plant flowers and you can admire the original creation.
Plastic swans can be made without much hassle. To make the following, you only need:
- 5 liter canister;
- milk bottles;
- scissors;
- glue;
- paints;
- wire.
Put the canister horizontally on a large part, cut off the upper side from it, pour on a third of the wet sand. Insert a wire into the hole in the cork made with a soldering iron, bend it in the form of a bird's neck and head.
Cut one off the milk bottle. Cut it from bottom to shoulder into 6 pieces, round off the resulting feathers with scissors. Decorate the entire container like this, and then put the blanks on the bird's neck in turn. In the neck of the last top, insert its beak. You can also make it from plastic or polymer clay.
Now you need a few more milk bottles. Cut 4 feathers out of each, stick them on the canister, starting from the bottom, so that the rounded part of the feathers looks up and slightly to the side. After the glue is dry, place the flower pot in the canister. The master class uploads a story about how to make graceful swans from plastic bottles.
We decorate a summer pond-lake with plastic bottles
If we imagine that a lake with swans swimming in it is located on an island, then why not place a palm tree on its shore? It is also made from plastic bottles. It is very interesting to make such products with your own hands. If you do this with your children, they, too, will certainly grow up to be creative people, capable of looking at any materials and finding craft ideas.
For a palm tree you will need:
- metal fittings of the required length;
- brown and green plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- candle or lighter.
A palm tree from plastic bottles is made in several ways. Check out one of them first. For such a craft, you need to take bottles of the same volume. It can be a container from 1 to 2.5 liters. If the tree is short, small plastic bottles will do. For a larger one, take a container of a larger volume.
First, the labels are torn off. If they are glued too well, then place them in hot water for 40 minutes, then remove, sometimes using a knife. Now cut off the bottom of the bottles, make the place of the cut in a zigzag manner, slightly bend the resulting large notches outward. Stick the fittings in the intended place so that they hold tightly, start stringing the bottles with the neck down.
Such a technology of creation is suitable if you have little of the necessary containers. If there is more of it, then use only the bottom of the bottle. Drill each hole with a drill, and then thread onto a metal rod as shown in the photo. And in the next photo you can see how you can make a trunk for a palm tree if you have an unnecessary log and bottoms from brown bottles. They are nailed or attached with self-tapping screws to a wooden base, but the bottom is left free so that the tree can be dug into the ground.
How to make palm leaves from bottles?
When you finish the trunk of a southern tree, proceed to its leaves. For them, you will need a green plastic container. A workshop on making bottle palms will describe this process in detail.
There are also many options for obtaining this part of a tropical tree. If you liked the idea with a wooden base, then you can make the leaves in a simple way. This requires large plastic bottles with a pre-cut bottom. Cut them from the bottom to the shoulders, not reaching the neck, into many small ribbons.
Now drive metal rods into the upper part of a wooden palm tree, bend them slightly and string them with the neck down on each bottle. What you get is also seen in the photo.
And here is another way to make leaves from plastic bottles. For this, a container of any size is suitable, from it you need to cut off the bottom and make 4 cuts on large bottles, and 3 cuts on small ones to the shoulders, round them off. These are blanks of leaves.
Now make a thin fringe around the edges of each sheet. Leave a 1–2 cm gap in the center - this is the vein of the leaf.
Next, hold the blanks in turn over the flame to wrap the fringe. You need to bring them to the fire with the outside of the sheet so that they take the desired shape.
On the top of the barrel, put a brown bottle without a bottom with the neck up. Make 6 holes on the cover crosswise with a soldering iron or a drill. Pass one rod or wire through the two opposite holes, one more rod through the other two, and a third wire through the third pair of holes. Now string the first blank of leaves on each rod, then the second, and so on. You should have 6 leaf pieces, each containing six bottles. For reliability, fasten them together on the covers with wire.
To prevent the bottles from jumping off the rod, just bend it on the back side. And this is what you get as a result.
If you want to visually see the process of making a palm tree, then watch the video:
