Not everyone knows how you can transform plastic buckets so that they turn into flower pots, into a basket. See how to make a box, bird feeder from a plastic bucket. Plastic buckets are an excellent material for needlework. Many people still have containers from mayonnaise, from water-based paint, from putty, from purchased salads. Don't throw it away, but turn it into wonderful items.
How is a box made from a plastic bucket with your own hands?
Such a wonderful little thing will turn out from ordinary buckets of PVA glue. See what you need to get started:
- plastic buckets with a volume of 1 liter;
- scissors;
- baby bucket;
- the cloth;
- pencil;
- ruler;
- cardboard;
- PVA glue;
- plastic beads;
- disposable teaspoons and tablespoons;
- varnish in a spray bottle;
- enamel in a spray gun of white color, which dries quickly;
- universal putty;
- breadboard knife.
Take three buckets and cut each in half. You will need 5 of these blanks. Cut from the hole to the hole where the handle is inserted.
Cut off the bottom of one bucket, and cut off the rim of the other. Leave these details, they will be needed soon. Cut off the rim of all blanks, it is not needed.
Measure the halves of the plastic bucket and cut out the pieces of fabric using these measurements.
Very soon, these plastic buckets will turn into a wonderful jewelry box. But you still need to work a little. On the wrong side of the fabric, apply a little Titanium glue and spread it over the canvas. Now attach this piece of fabric to the half of the bucket and glue it here. In this case, you need to straighten the canvas well so that it lies flat.
Mix PVA glue and putty in equal proportions and brush the cloth on a bucket with this mixture with a brush. Dry these parts and then smooth the surface with fine sandpaper.
Place the bottom of the workpiece on a sheet of drywall, outline it, find the middle. From here, draw a perpendicular line upward.
Then place all 5 blanks here and circle them.
Make sure they are symmetrically positioned and glue them here.
Now you need to close the gaps between the buckets. To do this, take narrow plastic skirting boards, glue them with a cloth and then glue them to the blanks between each plastic bucket inside and out.
If you do not have such skirting boards, then weave a pigtail from the rope and attach it here, or close the seams with strips of thin cardboard taken, for example, from a box of chocolates.
Cover your product inside and out with putty, then sand it.
As you can see, the edges are sharp. If you want to make them round, then use a baby plastic bucket or a suitable container. In this case, the diameter of the upper part is the same.
Therefore, you need to put a piece of fabric to the buckets and outline in order to understand how wide the corner will be.
Cut off the excess. Place the resulting strip on top of the bucket, brush with glue on top and place another one.
But if the fabric is not translucent, it is enough to arrange it in one layer. You will need 5 of these blanks to then glue them to the top of the box.
Do this. Now you need to make a lid for the box. See how amazing the result is.
To make it from plastic buckets, first put the blank of the box on a sheet of corrugated cardboard and draw it up.
Cut the lid out of the cardboard and find the middle. Next, draw some line segments going through the center of the lid. Place the spray can cap in the middle and outline it.
Glue two fabric blanks onto the top of the plastic spoon.
When the canvas is dry, remove it from the spoon and dry on the other side. Then grease with PVA papier-mâché and putty and dry. It remains to go over this workpiece with fine sandpaper.
Make 5 of these parts, try them on by attaching them to the lid. Trim off any excess if necessary. Glue the blanks with paper strips.
Attach the resulting lid to the box. See if everything suits you.
Glue strips of cardboard to the cut halves of plastic cans, then cut off the excess and use glue to attach to the back of the lid.
Decorate all these elements with strips of fabric, gluing it to them.
Cut off the excess. When the glue is dry, apply the putty. When it dries, sand and lubricate the lid inside and out with a generous coat of thick PVA glue.
To make a box of this type, you can use the most unusual objects, for example, a metal part from a mixer. Place it on a strip of fabric and glue it over with a cloth.
Now you need to pour paper chips onto the inside of the lid. To make it, put cardboard egg trays in hot water, grind them here, squeeze well and dry. It remains to pour PVA glue here, grind between palms, dry then, sift, use a colander.
Take small plastic spoons, glue the working part with a cloth, first breaking off the handles.
Form flowers and buds from the fabric. To make it easier to do, first hold some of the spoons slightly over the fire so that they become more pliable and bend these parts.
And to make leaves, cut a strip from the canvas and grease it with Titan glue, and then roll it up, forming a sausage. Cut and shape the veins for the leaf. Put them on one sheet, coat with glue, cover with another.
Very soon you will get a very beautiful box. In the meantime, you need to decorate the lid. To do this, on the tops of the spoons, pasted over with a cloth, apply a little Titanium glue and sprinkle with beads.
The inside of the lid can be decorated with beads. And if it is not enough, cut small pieces of plastic and glue them here.
In the center, attach the piece covered with fabric from the mixer and 5 spoons. Glue flowers and spoon handles to the top of the lid. Decorate the top of the box.
Attach spoons decorated with beads here, and glue beads around the edge.
This is how the lid looks from the inside.
Spray it on top and bottom with matte white paint.
Decorate the lid with white beads tied in bunches. Glue all of these decorative elements to the box.
Do a little work on the bottom of these items. To do this, you need to glue the working parts of the tablespoons with a cloth, and then glue a crumpled newspaper leaflet inside each. Then these blanks will attach well.
Glue them to the bottom of the box and fill the space between them with glue and shredded egg trays.
Pour Titanium glue onto the fabric, spread it over the entire surface. This is necessary so that the butterflies cut from this canvas have a shape. You will make them using a stencil.
Decorate the box with these amazing insects and you can proudly admire the result of the work.
This is what a wonderful thing is made of plastic buckets. Many more useful items can be made from them. Some are quite simple to make, for example, the next one.
How to make a plastic bucket feeder?
From such a container, you can make a dining room for birds. If the handle is preserved in the plastic bucket, then it will be very convenient to use it to hang the finished feeder on the tree. Do it with the children. The guys will be happy to decorate such a product. First, you yourself, using a clerical knife, cut a hole in the side. It can be like this rectangular.
Have your child cut a strip of fabric out of felt and glue it in place of the window so that the notch is not sharp. Also, you need to cut a flower out of this material and attach it with glue to the lid of a plastic bucket. Pour dry grain here and hang the feeder in place.
You can round the neckline if you wish. It should be such that the birds can easily crawl through for the next portion of the treat.
Decorate this feathered dining room with your child. To make the birds more comfortable, glue a perch in front of the entrance, for example, made from a branch.
A plastic bucket feeder can turn into a colorful parrot. To do this, turn the jar over, make a cutout on both sides. Glue the handle to the bottom of the container. Decorate the resulting product with your child. And let him make a colorful crest out of strips of brown paper.
To make it easier for birds to cling to the sides of the container, the bird feeder and plastic bucket may be next.
For manufacturing you will need:
- plastic bucket;
- glue;
- twine;
- awl;
- stationery knife.
Cut out the side of the container with a knife. Lubricating the outside of the bucket with glue, attach the string here in rows.
Titmouses will enjoy the seeds with pleasure. So that this food does not crumble and it is convenient for them to get it, cut 2 round through holes in a plastic bucket and insert a plastic tube here. At the top, make two holes (one opposite the other) with an awl, thread a rope or wire here to hang your creation.
You can make the following bird feeder so that the feed comes in metered. Take:
- plastic bucket;
- stationery knife;
- plastic bottle;
- glue.
Cut off the top of the plastic bottle. Place it in a bucket of mayonnaise or other foods. Make small cutouts at the bottom of the container, glue the second lid from the bucket down. Pour cereals or seeds into the top of the plastic bottle. Now several birds will be able to eat at the same time in such a dining room, and the food will not spill out, as it will flow into the lower part of the container.
Here are some plastic bucket feeders you can make. There are other ways to use such empty containers beneficially.
Useful things from plastic buckets: how to make a basket
The plastic food bucket will easily turn into an original accessory. In such a basket, you can store sweets or small items for needlework.
Here's what will be needed:
- plastic bucket;
- scissors;
- yarn;
- hook;
- cardboard;
- glue.
Can be used for the basket and the plastic food jar in which the salad is sold. If you took a jar, then you need to cut off the top rim from it, which will soon become a handle for the basket.
If you took the bucket, it will already have a handle, and you will skip this step. And for the jar, you need to make the 1st and 2nd puncture opposite each other in the stiffener, then insert the resulting handle here.
Use a hot nail to make holes on one side and the other of the handle and can, you will need them so that you can then secure the handle here.
Take out the handle and tie it with single crochets. In this case, the edge of the thread should be fixed in the upper hole.
Put the handle back in place, matching the holes previously made in it and in the jar.
Cut a circle out of felt and crochet with single crochet stitches. Thus, the entire outer part is decorated. Therefore, a circle made of this fabric should be of the same diameter as the diameter of the container. The second circle corresponds to the inside diameter of the bucket. It also needs to be knitted in single crochet stitches.
Now insert a bucket between these two blanks and stitch them over the edge.
You can decorate the basket or leave it as it is to store various items.
How to make a flower pot with your own hands?
This is how original it can turn out. For decoration, buckwheat and twine were used here. You can use corn, semolina or any other. But first you need to prepare everything you need, these are:
- plastic buckets;
- PVA glue;
- paper;
- a bowl;
- gypsum;
- drill or nail scissors;
- cereal;
- newspaper;
- acrylic lacquer.
To make a pots, you can take containers not only from food, but also from chemical products, for example, paint containers. But first you need to wash it thoroughly.
If it was not possible to remove the stains and the label, you can skip this stage, since you will soon hide all this under a layer of decorative materials. Dry the pots and turn them upside down. Make some drainage holes using a drill or nail scissors. Remove the handles from the buckets, they will not be needed in this case.
Pour 2 parts water into a bowl, add one part gypsum or alabaster and one part PVA. Tear the newspaper into squares with a side of 5 cm and begin to moisten them in the prepared solution.
Do not put all the pieces of newspaper in the solution at once, so that they do not get too wet. Use one sheet of newspaper at first.
Start gluing the newspapers to the pot from the top of the container. Slip this material under the bezel using an awl.
Now smooth out the relief and glue the newspapers to the rim and below it. At this stage, you can give the container the desired shape. Cover it with 3 or 4 layers of newspaper. Now you can take a break from work by removing the pot to dry completely. This usually takes 3 days.
After this time, you can start decorating the container. Paint it, glue sand or cereal, shells here. After the glue dries, spray the surface with automotive varnish.
See what a pot looks like, which is decorated with corn grits. And below the crests of waves are made of buckwheat. You can also glue several turns of twine around the bottom. The finished work was covered with automotive varnish.
The next pot from a plastic bucket looks no less original. When the papier-mâché on the container is dry, you will need to glue the semolina to it, and then paint it with acrylic paint. String the candies on top and bottom of the string and secure it to the pot by tying the ends of the string.
The next do-it-yourself planter is also made of a plastic bucket, it is decorated with threads. Lubricate the planter with glue and wrap with yarn. You can embroider flowers in some areas by sewing on an imitation pearl into their center.
If you have string and bottle caps, the next flower pot will be very original.
Also, an empty plastic bucket must be wrapped with twine, gluing it. Use a hot glue gun to attach corks and other decorative items to the surface of the pot.
You can glue such containers with braid and decorate them with satin ribbons tied with bows and beads or beads.
A beautiful planter can be made in just 10 minutes. To do this, decorate the plastic bucket with a cloth, at the bottom where the bottom is, secure it with a thread and a needle, and tie it with a ribbon closer to the top. Fasten upwards using an elastic band, or by gluing it.
Garden lamps made of plastic buckets look wonderful.
For these, you need transparent containers. You can put colored stones in them, and put an LED bulb inside.
Here's how many interesting and useful things can be made from plastic buckets. See how interesting it is to decorate such a container using the art of decoupage.
But what a wonderful do-it-yourself pots can be made from a mayonnaise can by connecting imagination. The master class will quickly teach you this.
