It would seem that a plastic bottle is such an ordinary thing, but once it was worth its weight in gold - our grandparents carefully folded precious containers on the balcony to use instead of a milk can or a jar for storing compote. Now PVC bottles are a dime a dozen, so humanity has become thoughtful, because soon there will be nowhere to step because of plastic containers. How to adapt all this abundance of plastic for the benefit of the business? Most amazing ideas using the costs of the food and chemical industries - these are floating islands and huge installations, residential buildings and energy-saving systems created from a lot of waste plastic containers. We invite you to join the global plastic bottle boom. Rate original crafts for a garden from used packaging, which we offer you as an ideological basis for further creativity on the way to creating an amazing and unusual country design.
The burning problem of all summer residents is the laying of a house and ancillary buildings on a garden plot in conditions small area land and limited funds. In addition, the seasonal purpose of the dacha does not imply the construction of capital buildings "for centuries."
So, the enterprising people decided to adapt a prosaic plastic bottle as a building material. Walls of houses, arbors, greenhouses, etc. garden structures are laid out traditionally - in a checkerboard pattern using cement mortar, only instead of a brick, an unnecessary plastic container filled with sand is used.
To maintain this not quite familiar eco-style, you can make a variety of garden bottle crafts so that the design of the site is decided in a unified way. Let's take a closer look at how you can make your life easier and more comfortable with the help of PVC containers.
Country house
Despite the seeming simplicity of building a building from plastic containers, there are some nuances that you need to consider if you decide to build country house with my own hands. Here are a couple of helpful tips:
- Lay a reinforcing mesh between the rows of masonry - the adhesion of the solution to the surface of the bottle will improve.
- Do not forget that plastic does not come into contact with cement, like brick, so make small holes in the container - this way the mortar will begin to interact with the sand inside the bottle and the wall will become stronger.
- During masonry work, fix the bottles with a rope or wire so that the rows do not move apart.
Keep in mind that plastic tends to break down under the influence of frost and heat, especially from temperature changes, so be prepared that after some time - 5-10 years, the walls of the building will begin to “countdown”.
Using PVC bottles as a building material, you can build an economy house in the country
The cylindrical shape of plastic bottles allows you to build houses and gazebos, round in plan
In addition to the supporting structure of the house made of plastic containers, this universal construction material, as it turns out, can be applied to roofing works. We offer you two options for a roof made of used PVC containers:
- Plastic tiles. To make this simple roofing compress plastic bottles. If this process is carried out without light heating of the plastic, then the containers will simply crack, so the easiest way is to put the raw material in the sun and then flatten the containers. PVC installation modules is carried out with ordinary self-tapping screws to the frame with laying the material in several layers. From such tiles, you can easily form a cone-shaped roof for a gazebo or bath.
- Plastic slate. From the cylindrical part of a plastic bottle, it is easy enough to make something like slate cover for the roof. To do this, it is necessary to cut off the bottom and neck from the container, cut the middle part of the container lengthwise and in half, connect the resulting PVC elements with glue, forming a wavy surface.
If you decide to build a house of wood, brick or on your suburban area there is already a residential building, pick up a plastic bottle, show your imagination - decorate the facade unusual decor from plastic tubes. Complex geometric patterns, floral patterns or slightly naive "cartoon" animals - choose for yourself any style that suits your spirit.
It is quite affordable to make a roof for a summer residence from plastic bottles - either in the form of tiles, or in the likeness of slate
Bright plastic lids from used containers will give the facade of a country house an expressive flavor
Decor from bottle caps for the facade of a country house will give the building a personality
Gazebos, greenhouses, pergolas
The most rational use of plastic bottles for the garden is not only crafts designed to decorate it, but also more significant things, such as greenhouses or. Why buy expensive polycarbonate for building a greenhouse if the PVC from which the container is made is practically the same material?
Why equip the greenhouse with even more expensive glass than laminate if there are unnecessary bottles? refracting Sun rays, PVC packaging performs the same tasks as glass with polycarbonate, moreover, it is the most economical option for the construction of a greenhouse, which can only be found.
An economical option for arranging a gazebo or greenhouse in the country - building from plastic bottles
If you are bored with the traditional rectangular gazebo, make it in the form of a hemisphere using a metal frame and plastic bottles
Having built a frame of wood or metal, arm yourself with a red-hot knitting needle, a drill or a hammer with nails. In one of the ways, make holes in the bottom and cork of a plastic bottle and put plastic vessels on a fishing line or wire, the length of which will be slightly more than the height of the building. Stretch the resulting elements and fix them on the crossbars of the frame - this is how you will form the walls of the greenhouse or gazebo. Additionally, you can fix the vertical modules in the transverse direction by tying the bottles within one row with wire. Using containers different color, try to create some kind of ornament - this is how you diversify the colorless mass of walls made of transparent plastic.
What else can be built from plastic bottles for the garden? The most easily built version of the small architectural form from plastic bottles in the garden - a lightweight gazebo - which usually serves as a frame for climbing plants. However, despite the fact that in spring and summer the structure of the pergola will be hidden by weaving roses or ivy, in winter its frame will be exposed and will not look very good. To avoid similar phenomenon, you can ennoble the design of the pergola with plastic bottles of a natural shade - brown or green. The brownish colors of PVC vaguely resemble wood, and the grassy ones will enliven the appearance of the garden in the cold season.
Fences, railings, gates
A lot of money can be saved if you use plastic bottles to equip the fence of the garden plot. Using the same principle that was described in the construction of the gazebo, instead of corrugated board, chain-link mesh or polycarbonate, use plastic containers to fill the space between the fence posts.
A little creativity and diligence - the border of your garden will become not only impassable, but also extravagant, attracting attention. If the fence has already been erected earlier, a new sound will give it floral decor from plastic bottles - the most natural option for the garden.
In support of summer cottages from plastic bottles, build a fence using the same containers for the integrity of landscape design
Multi-colored flowers cut out of plastic bottles will refresh and decorate old fence or cottage building
carport
The eternal problem of car owners is the allocation of space for land plot for parking a car or several Vehicle- bicycles, scooters or quad bikes. Not always the project of a compact private or country house involves a room for a car, so it becomes necessary to build a detached garage or shed. The construction of these structures is expensive and many cannot afford, so the car is standing under scorching sun exposed to wind, rain and snow. Ordinary plastic bottles come to the rescue in this situation - junk, useless containers that allow you to experiment without fear, without fear of spoiling the building material. If something does not work out and the bottle becomes unusable, you can always take another one and not lose a penny.
Also, material on parking options for a car in the country will be useful:
A canopy for a car made of plastic bottles will not only fulfill its immediate function, but will also bring an original accent to the country landscape
So, from plastic bottles you can form a plastic structure, unusual in its configuration and performing several functions at once - it will create a protective plane from precipitation, the sun and, at the same time, decorate your garden. There is nothing difficult in forming a canopy from bottles - it can well be made by hand.
First, you need to make through holes in plastic containers, or rather, it is best to burn them with a red-hot rod, and then put the bottles on a fishing line, rope or wire, connecting them in rows. Between themselves, the sequences of bottles are fastened with perpendicular bonds by means of another pair of holes and the previously selected material for “firmware”. Thus, a movable surface is obtained, resembling a “bottle cloth”, which remains to be attached to a metal or wooden frame using suspensions of different lengths to create a wave-like effect.
It's important to know! Considering that a plastic bottle is a kind of lens that refracts light like glass, it is advisable to paint over the bottom of the container to block direct sunlight.
Useful devices for the garden
solar collector
Surely you have come across the fact that there is no central water supply, you didn’t have time to get a boiler, and after a hard day of caring for the garden, you really want to take not an ice shower, but wash warm water. We suggest you try to do for your site Summer shower with an energy-saving system - a solar collector made of PVC bottles. The principle of operation of such water heating is based on the so-called "thermosyphon" - a denser hot water moves up, less dense cold - down. The developer of the system, a Brazilian engineer who received a patent for the invention, claims that 1 m 2 solar panel enough for 1 person to swim.
From plastic bottles you can assemble a solar panel and forget what it is ice water in the summer shower
Cold water coming from the tank to the solar collector is returned already heated
Consumables and tools for making a collector from plastic bottles:
- 2-liter plastic bottles - 60 pcs.;
- 1-liter milk bags - 50 pcs.;
- PVC pipe 100 mm - 70 cm;
- PVC pipe 20 mm - 11.7 m;
- PVC corner 20 mm - 4 pcs.;
- Tee 20 mm PVC - 20 pcs.;
- Plugs 20 mm PVC - 2 pcs.;
- PVC glue;
- Black matte paint;
- Brush;
- Emery;
- Scotch;
- Rubber mallet, wood jigsaw.
Plastic bottles need to cut off the bottom and insert one into the other. 100 mm PVC pipes used to form a rectangular frame of the solar panel, 20 mm pipes are cut into lengths of 10x1 m and 20x8.5 cm and assembled into single design with triplets. One meter long pipes and milk bags are painted with black paint, which are placed under the bottles to improve heat absorption.
Solar panels from plastic bottles should be located at least 30 cm below storage tank with water on the south side of the wall or roof. To optimize heat absorption, the panels must be installed at an angle calculated as follows: add 10° to your latitude. It is recommended to replace plastic bottles in panels with new ones every 5 years, as after a while the plastic becomes opaque, and this reduces its thermal conductivity.
Another energy-saving idea "sailed" to us from hot Brazil called "1 liter of light." The essence of this engineering thought in terms of how to illuminate a room without windows on a sunny day is striking in its simplicity - it is enough to hermetically integrate a plastic bottle into the roof - but not empty, but with water. It is water, refracting the rays of the sun, that will fill the room without natural light with bright light.
By pouring water into a plastic bottle and crashing it into the roof of the house, you will always have a bright source of light in rooms without natural light.
Growing and watering plants
Plastic bottles will be useful in the garden not only for buildings or decor, but also directly in growing plants, flowers and vegetables. By cutting a hole in the container and filling it with earth, you can use a plastic container for growing seedlings. Just don't forget to drill holes in your new pots for drainage and take care of water drainage.
Glue corks to a plastic bottle - you will get funny little men instead of boring pots for growing seedlings
Pots for growing plants can be given a little color by painting them with stained glass paints or decorating with bottle caps. If your dacha is small in size - try to create vertical gardening- hang plastic pots from bottles on a fishing line under the wall. So you decorate a deaf, inexpressive plane and save space.
To create pots for seedlings and flowers, not only plastic bottles from drinks are suitable, but also multi-colored containers left after use household chemicals
Make multiple holes in a plastic bottle - this will allow you to get a drip irrigation device in the country
PVC bottles also come in handy in the process of watering the garden, if you poke miniature holes in the bottom of the bottle and attach the container to the hose, you will have a good tool for drip irrigation. Equipping a home-grown bottle water sprayer with wheels from an old baby car or stroller, you can move the watering machine around the garden.
Garden and home furniture
A lot of trouble for summer residents is the care of furniture in garden house and on the street - the constant proximity to the ground negatively affects appearance sofas, beds and armchairs. Having built country furniture made of plastic bottles, you will forget about what a sloppy upholstery is, which is so hard to put in order outside the city, away from the services and dry cleaners. The containers and corks themselves are a unique material for the production of furniture with your own hands - durable and easy to clean.
From plastic bottles you can collect enough practical furniture for garden and home
Chairs and a table for summer cottages made of plastic corks are an economical solution for outdoor furniture
A convenient ottoman for giving will turn out from unnecessary plastic containers wrapped with foam and covered with upholstery fabric
A couple of dozen plastic bottles, a metal frame - and a comfortable chair for the garden and cottage in front of you
garden lamps
Lighting fixtures for the garden plot is another expense column that gardeners often ignore. With a plastic bottle, the lighting problem is solved in a minute. Take a colored canister from household chemicals, cut off the neck and fill the cartridge with a light bulb inside - the dacha lamp is ready. Create a more complex ceiling configuration by deforming plastic bottles by heating, melting the edges and painting in different colors. Original lamps made of PVC containers will perfectly replace industrial analogues, as well as decorate your home and garden.
To create original design lamps for giving, it is enough to paint them with stained glass paints or deform them a little
From plastic bottles you can get unusual street lamps for giving - both electric lamps and candles serve as a light source in them
Landscape decor from plastic bottles
When creating garden decorations from plastic bottles, everything is used - the whole container, the bottom and the neck, middle part and carved fragments, and corks are especially popular. They make a very expressive decor for the garden - paths and decoration of empty planes of the house or fence. Another unforgettable decoration of the site can be installations made of PVC containers - three-dimensional and planar figures of animals and plants. Flower beds and borders limiting planting different types colors, can be successfully made from the same plastic container. And so that your ears are always delighted with the singing of birds, hang feeders and drinkers for birds made with your own hands from PVC bottles on the trees.
Multi-colored corks from plastic bottles serve as an excellent material for creating planar compositions in a country landscape
Examples of flower beds
Without a doubt, the main decoration of a summer cottage is flowers formed into flower beds or growing in a picturesque mess. A special “cutting” of the flower bed is given by low borders that outline its shape and complete the flower arrangement.
In the absence of stone or brick, traditionally used to form a border, bury plastic bottles upside down along the border of the flower bed - you will get a simple fence for flower planting. good decision for the shady areas of the garden plot, where nothing wants to grow - original flower beds from PVC containers, various in shape and color.
Arrange with the help of a flower bed made of plastic bottles shady or swampy areas of the garden
Small flowerbed in the form ladybug looks bright and unusual
Green plastic bottles are perfect for forming a border for a flower bed
garden paths
Gasket question garden paths is always difficult - and the soil needs to be strengthened, and decorative material buy - as a result, a considerable amount is obtained. And you don't want to walk in the mud. While you are accumulating cash and are looking at the pavement for the tracks, we offer you a temporary option for arranging them with minimal cost. Fill the paths in the country with a thin layer of cement mortar and immerse plastic bottle caps in it - due to the corrugation along the side plane, they will be well fixed in the building mixture.
A prosaic cement walkway can be turned into a picturesque mural thanks to multi-coloured plastic covers
Decorative installations
A fairly popular direction for decorating a garden landscape is the creation of voluminous installations from various improvised materials, including plastic containers. However, here you need not just some skill and patience, because you need to lay out either whole containers or parts cut out of them according to a certain pattern.
The most expressive decor for a garden landscape is voluminous installations from plastic bottles
We suggest you make a not very complicated installation of plastic bottles in the form of a Christmas tree in the country. Although the New Year is still far away, as they say, prepare a sleigh in the summer - think about it in advance. Of course, the Christmas tree is the main attribute of the winter holiday, without which it is impossible to create a truly upbeat, New Year's atmosphere. What if your site does not have coniferous trees, and you do not welcome the traditional logging on the eve of the New Year? An excellent solution in its simplicity and environmental friendliness is the creation of a Christmas tree from plastic bottles.
The basis of such a composition is a rigid rod, to which the bottles can be hung or put on a wire and wrapped around, create tiers of circles, tie or install auxiliary supports and form a tent tree shape.
It is not necessary to make a Christmas tree from standard green plastic bottles - it can be assembled from containers in any shade
Whole plastic bottles, and bottoms, and chopped parts of the container will be used. The bottles themselves can be deformed, melted, painted in unusual colors- in general, there is where to roam fantasy and ingenuity. Do not discount bottle caps either - they will make unusual garlands and miniature decor.
By the way, the Christmas tree does not have to be hidden or dismantled for the summer season - if you choose a cone-shaped tree, then inner space designs will serve you on hot days as a gazebo or become a place for children's games. From used green sprite bottles, you can make a miniature Christmas tree for the house, you just need to cut the curved planes of plastic containers with “noodles” and stick them on the base.
Bird feeders and nests
One of the types of garden decor that combines many functions - feeders, nests and drinkers for birds. A feeder made with love will decorate the garden and attract birds - they will repay you for your kindness with cheerful chirping, destroying garden pests at the same time.
Create nests, drinkers and bird feeders from plastic bottles and paint them in natural colors
Bird nests and feeders will be useful decoration your garden
Decor for a country interior
In addition to garden decor, a plastic bottle is good for creating an extravagant interior design for a country house. Bright panels for walls and furniture, partitions and screens, even curtains - you can do all this yourself from PVC containers. Such decorations for the home look quite original and original, at least you won’t see anything similar in anyone else’s. Putting your soul into decorating a country house, you will also enjoy creative process, and from the results of your imagination combined with skill.
By cutting the bottoms of transparent plastic bottles and connecting them with a thin wire, you will get air screens for separating the space of a country house
rainbow curtain for front door assembled from ordinary bottle caps, but looks very original
Coloring the interior of a country house in all shades of the rainbow will help you plastic lids from bottles
Entertainment, recreation, games in the country
Playgrounds
Playgrounds on the land are not only a pleasant thing for organizing leisure time, they are also a certain element of garden decor. Bright swings and slides, mini-golf courses and fabulous houses will create a pleasant atmosphere for a child to stay in the country.
Plastic bottles will help separate the area for children's games, and will also serve as the basis for creating interesting toys.
Equip a field for playing croquet in your country house, and make gates from plastic bottles
Boats and watercraft
Surely there is a river or a lake near your garden plot. If so, then your vacation on the shore of the reservoir will become more exciting if you have a means of transportation on the water. Getting to a deserted island, going on a boat trip or fishing - nothing is easier when you have a boat. You can easily build this simple transport from plastic bottles.
A narrow boat similar to an Indian pirogue with a capacity of 1-2 people or a larger boat for 3-4 passengers - there are a lot of options. The simplest watercraft is a rectangular raft, from which it is convenient to fish, having sailed a little from the shore.
From plastic bottles you get a boat or raft that is quite stable on the water.
To make a boat in the form of a kayak, cut the bottom of the bottles, thread one into the other one after the other and form something like long tubes. Glue the joints with furniture tape - it is wide and will not peel off when in contact with water. From separate tubes, connecting them together, glue the sides and bottom of the boat with the same adhesive tape to get a wedge-shaped shape. Here it is important to correctly calculate the ratio of the width of the vessel and its height - trial launches and a little engineering will help you to turn a mountain of unnecessary containers into a useful thing.
A non-trivial approach to decorating a pond in the country - delicate daisies from bottles on the surface of the water
More complex structure at the boat for the whole family, which involves a vertical connection standing bottles in two rows and additional sealing of the ship's hull with bags. Nothing prevents you from installing a motor on the boat, which will significantly improve its driving performance and range. So, using the unsinkable properties of plastic bottles, from which, by the way, entire islands are built in Japan and Taiwan, you can surf the surrounding water bodies with breeze and comfort.
Haven't you embraced the idea of a plastic boom yet? Do something extraordinary for your garden and you will not have time to look back, as you will immediately join the ranks of admirers of a plastic bottle.
Plastic bottles - inexpensive material and also easily accessible. In addition to their main purpose, they can perform many other functions. For example, you can make real masterpieces - do-it-yourself crafts from plastic bottles. Moreover, they will serve for a very long time, in the process of creativity they can be easily bent or cut. The main thing you need to make crafts from plastic bottles is to prepare a free container.
You probably have a question, what can be made from a plastic bottle? Most interesting options described below.
Making a plastic palm tree
The scheme for creating a palm tree is similar to creating various plastic trees. You need bottles, scissors, and paint.
For a palm tree, you will need the middle and lower parts of the dark-colored container.
Insert the same part into the lower part (with the bottom) until you get desired height. String the parts on a wire passing through the neck, and attach a green neck to the top of the tree - without a bottom. After that, cut the same green stripes and tilt them down.
If you make several of these palm trees, your Agrosad will be one of the most unique, and made with your own hands!
butterflies
Crafts from plastic bottles will look very original and decorate any gazebo.
To make such a masterpiece of art, the middle part of the bottle is cut out. A cardboard blank is preliminarily made - butterfly wings. Then you simply apply them to the plastic to cut out necessary form along the edges. A wire is attached along the bend line. And the “butterfly body” itself is decorated with beads of different sizes. Decorate the wings of your butterfly with absolutely any colors of acrylic paints.
Such flower beds can be seen not only in summer cottages. They are also made in the city, near high-rise buildings and private houses.
Bottles are selected identical in shape, size and color. If you wish and opportunities, you can decorate them as soon as you want. Next, decorate the fence of the flower bed by digging the bottles to a certain depth.
Flower pots
Among other things, you can make flower pots from bottles. Cut off the bottom of the container and get a cylindrical planter. Using the top of the container, get a cone-shaped planter. In addition, the resulting pots can be decorated with corrugated paper, fabrics, yarn or decorating with paints.
Before or during work, you can slightly warm the plastic. So you can create any shape for him.
What else can be made from a plastic bottle?
Do-it-yourself gazebo to the country
Creating a gazebo from plastic containers is not so difficult, for which you need a lot of material and a kind of thinking.
To add strength to your structure, fill the bottles with earth/sand. For the manufacture of the frame, it is not necessary to overload it at all. And to decorate the sides of the gazebo, you can use different fabrics.
Plastic curtains - original decoration!
This solution is interesting and original. In addition, you can always see all the new items for the garden with your own hands! You can use curtains on the doorway / on the window. Need to prepare a large number of material. Everything here is individual and depends on the size of the window / doorway.
Plastic bottles are not just a container for water, but also an excellent material for creativity and. Some craftsmen manage to make something out of them that is difficult for many to imagine. All that is needed in this matter is the actual material, scissors, sometimes paint, glue and free time. Also, it would not hurt to turn on creativity and stop looking at the container from under your favorite soda as an ordinary thing. So let's get started!
Piglets-pots
This craft is easy to make, so that's where we start. In this, you can plant flowers for the summer or use piglets as. This will revive anyone, especially children will be happy with this creation.
Tools and materials:
- Five liter plastic bottle. Their number is according to the number of piglets that will be created. 1 container - 1 pig.
- Sharp knife, most convenient stationery.
- Bottles - 0.5 l or 1.5 l, 4 pieces for each piglet.
- Glue.
- White enamel and red or pink paint.
Manufacturing sequence
The container must be rinsed and dried, and if there are labels on it, they should be removed, as they will interfere. If you decide to make a planter, then cut a hole in the upper part so that there is where to plant flowers and pour earth. If you create garden sculpture, skip this step.
The smaller bottles will be used to create the legs. They need to be cut from the neck by 10-15 cm or to the length that is needed.
Advice! The more hooves you make, the higher the piglet will be. Moreover, the containers should be selected of the same volume so that the limbs come out even and beautiful.
Advice! In order to make it more convenient to glue the legs, cut each neck in the widest place with a fringe and bend its edges.
Now the important task is gluing. For this you can use:
- Glue "Moment".
- Glue "Titan".
- Thermal gun. It is most convenient to work with it, although the plastic can be deformed from hot silicone, so it should be handled with extreme care.
Advice! It is more convenient to glue two limbs, since after applying the adhesive, they need to be held for some time for high-quality bonding. Use glue according to the instructions.
After everything dries, you can cut out the ears, they will be from the same material as the entire piglet. It is convenient to cut them from the lower parts, as there is a factory bulge there. The shape is natural, the size is arbitrary. For ease of gluing at the bottom, you can also make a fringe - like on legs.
On a note! It is most convenient to glue if you are making flower pots. The cuts in this case must be glued to the container from the inside with the same composition.
Now the creative stage - painting. natural color - pink, but you can use another if you wish. Experienced craftsmen it is advised to use it, it fits well on plastic and is more durable. You need to tint only on the outside, but carefully so that the color of the bottle does not shine through. It is very convenient to hold the lid-piglet. Do not forget to cut and glue the tail, it is also made of plastic, it is more convenient to paint it before gluing. Eyes can be drawn or bought, these are sold at any sewing store.
Important! If the piglet is to be used as flower pot, it is necessary to make holes in the lower and side parts for the free outflow of water.
Fly agaric for garden decoration
A detailed master class on making fly agarics from bottles is on the video:
Hello, dear readers! Did you know that you can make a lot of interesting and useful things from the simplest plastic bottles? In addition, the recycling of materials is zealously welcomed by environmentalists, so in this way we will “kill” several birds with one stone, create really interesting things, and even save nature (probably everyone knows, according to scientists, that plastic bottles decompose for more than 100 years). Well, let's go directly to the practical part ...
What to do with plastic bottles
1. Garland
We take a bottle, cut off the bottom, create a hole in the middle of the bottle bottom, so that the garland light bulb fits into it. According to this scheme, we prepare the required number of "lampshades", in each of which we fix the garland bulbs.
2. Planters
We take a bottle and cut a rectangular hole on one side with a clerical knife. Thus, we prepare the required number of bottle cache-pots, stock up on the rope, create punctures from the side of the neck and bottom, into which we thread the rope, we fix the rope from below with special clips - crimps (they can be purchased in needlework departments or sewing studios) or tie knots. It remains only in the resulting pots, fill the ground and plant flowers.
3. Stand for jewelry
We cut off the bottoms of several different-sized bottles. We drill a hole in the center of the cut bottoms (the hole must correspond to the thickness of the rod). Then we take a metal rod and string bottoms on it, each of which is fixed with nuts planted on hot melt adhesive. Attention: the base of the stand must be stable, so it is better to take a 2 liter bottom. bottles, which we install in the future composition upside down.
4. Flowers from plastic bottles.
From the considered bottles are obtained beautiful flowers how to make such flowers can be found in the video.
5. Casket.
We cut off the bottoms of identical bottles, 6 cm high, and with inside sew by hand - zipper.
6. Curtains from plastic bottles.
A wonderful decoration of a country house or a street gazebo will be interesting curtains. How to make such curtains, as well as consider additional photos.
7. Medusa.
We cut off the bottom of the bottle, melt it with a lighter or a lit candle. We make a hole in the center of the bottom, into which we fix pre-cut strips from the rest of the bottle with hot glue. Finally, the resulting strips can also be melted with a lighter.
8. Bird feeder.
We continue the theme of “using plastic bottles” ... We take a bottle and two wooden spoons, make through holes in the bottle corresponding to the thickness of the spoon. We insert spoons into the resulting hole, and from the “scapula” side, a little higher, we create another hole through which bird food will pour out. We fix the self-tapping ring in the bottle cap and thread the rope.
9. Organizer.
We cut the bottles in half, fasten the blanks to the wall with nails or self-tapping screws.
10. Volumetric printing.
The bottom of a bottle immersed in paint can create interesting flower prints, and that's it. this example you can watch the magnificent sakura branch!
11. Boat.
Particularly creative natures tried and made such interesting tool movement on water.
12. Candlesticks and holders.
Cut off the necks of the bottles. We set one part up with the neck, and the other down with the throat, and in order to hold the structure, we install a candle in the stand. Thus, the upper neck will act as a "collector" of drops of a melting candle.
In everyday life, there are many things that can become excellent materials for creativity. If you have accumulated unused plastic bottles, do not rush to throw them away. With their help, you can create amazingly beautiful things that will become a wonderful element of home decor, decoration of a summer house or yard. Crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands will help you have a fun time, especially young children will like this activity. See below for master classes with photos that will step by step show the creation of such original things.
Step by step instructions for making crafts from plastic bottles
It's amazing how many products can be created using ordinary plastic bottles. Together with your child, you can make fairytale heroes- Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Princess Frog. Figures of birds look original - storks, capercaillie, pigeons, swans. Crafts of domestic animals and wild animals look great, such as a cat, dog, parrot, penguin, donkey, squirrel, piglet.
You can place these things in the kitchen or in the nursery, decorate the yard on the street. For home decoration, not only decorative, but also functional crafts can be used. For example, beautiful plastic vase will be useful for storing bouquets - dry or live, and in original pot it will be possible to plant houseplants. For a summer cottage, you can make figurines of animals and plants, cars, rockets, and a bottle lake will surprise guests at home and become a true work of art. How to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, read on.
Original palm tree for a summer residence
Plastic bottles are unusual and a budget option, which will help gardeners decorate their plots. The original exterior will definitely be appreciated by relatives who come to visit, and neighbors. Looks great stylish tall palm, for which you will need the usual containers of brown and green. What materials are needed to make a southern tree:
- bottles (brown, green);
- a metal sheet;
- cable (take high-voltage, 12-14 mm);
- scissors;
- rods (not less than 25 cm), tubes (2 cm in diameter) and bushings (metal).
How to do:
- Remove labels from bottles. Take the green ones, start making leaves: to do this, cut them in half with scissors. Cut thin strips along the surface (up to the narrowing of the container). Thread the finished leaves onto the cable. For one tree, seven such elements are needed.
- For the trunk, take brown bottles, cut them lengthwise into six pieces to make wide stripes. Also string on the cable.
- How to make a base: weld rods to a sheet of metal at different angles. Put tubes on them. Attach the bushings to the end of the rod so that you can pass green containers through them.
- Assemble the trunk on the rod: to do this, put the brown blanks on top of each other, lowering the neck down. Pull the cable through the bushings, securing the leaves on top.
- After assembly, bury the structure in the ground, but no more than half a meter.
How to make an original palm tree, see the video:
Beautiful baby elephant made of plastic bottles for kindergarten
A child who goes to kindergarten enjoys the environment: beautiful places to play, new toys. Crafts made with plastic bottles can be a wonderful decoration for the interior of a garden or street. If you want to surprise the little ones, make a beautiful baby elephant. What materials will be needed to create an interesting decoration:
- two bottles (six-liter);
- two-liter containers (six pieces);
- half-meter corrugated pipe (with a small diameter);
- acrylic paints gray (or blue), white, black, red shades;
- thick wire fifty-five cm;
- sand;
- glue for plastic;
- scissors.
How to do:
- Cut the two-liter bottles in half, the lower parts will be the legs of the elephant.
- From a six-liter material, make ears. In the second large capacity cut holes to secure them.
- Bend the wire - this will be the shape of the trunk. Put a pipe on it.
- Color all elements gray or blue color. Connect by gluing the legs to the body (before that, pouring a little sand there), the hose - to the hole of a large bottle that serves as the body of an elephant. Insert your ears into the holes.
- Paint the eyes with black and white paint, and the mouth with red acrylic.
How to make a swan to decorate a playground
A beautiful swan will be a wonderful decoration for a playground for games or your own summer cottage. This bird, for the manufacture of which plastic bottles are used, looks beautiful and original. Children will definitely like such a figurine serving decorative element. What materials will be needed to create a beautiful white swan:
- one bottle of five liters;
- hose on a rigid wire;
- milk bottles;
- marker;
- candle;
- wire;
- scissors;
- dye.
How to do:
- Chart on big bottle cut lines. Carefully remove upper part, but leave the neck - this is the body of the bird.
- Insert a hose with wire through the throat - this is the neck of a swan.
- Cut off the bottoms and necks of dairy plastic elements. Cut out the feathers. Decorate their edges with a fringe. Light a candle a little. Collect two feathers with wire. Glue to the body.
- Cut off the bottom of small bottles, put on a hose, forming a neck. The head of a swan will turn out from the top of the white container. Make holes in it and the hose on both sides, fasten with wire material. Close the lid.
- Take the cap off chemicals. Cut in half. Insert the cap into the lid. Glue to the head.
- Color the beak, draw the eyes.
Master class on making a Christmas tree for the new year
A Christmas tree is a tree that is traditionally bought before a big holiday. But if there are a lot of green plastic bottles left at home, it’s not difficult to make a budget and original version on one's own. In addition, such a tree does not fall off the needles and it can stand for a long time. What materials will be needed for the manufacture of wood:
- six bottles (two-liter);
- scissors;
- wooden base(half a meter);
- paint, brush;
- plasticine;
- pot.
How to make:
- Cut off the bottom of the bottles. Cut the top lengthwise into eight strips, forming them with scissors sharp corners. Do it carefully.
- Run the scissors over the petal to curl it up.
- Fix the base in a pot on plasticine. Put bottle blanks on it. Use scissors to cut off excess plastic from the top petals to shape the tree.
- Paint the tree green.
Cache-pot cat from a plastic bottle for indoor plants
A beautiful cat vase will be a great decoration room interior. You can use this element to store various small items or plant beautiful plants. Cacti, ivy, succulents look good in such a flowerpot. Small children will like to make an original cat. What tools are needed to create an interesting decoration:
- a bottle of one and a half or half a liter;
- acrylic White paint;
- markers;
- scissors.
How to make:
- Cut off the bottom third of the container. Form ears, removing excess.
- Outside and inside paint over with acrylic paint.
- Draw the cat's eyes, ears, mouth using the template.
- Plant your favorite plant in a pot. If you want, make a hanging planter by cutting symmetrical holes on four sides.
How to make a peacock with your own hands
A beautiful peacock is a bird that symbolizes happiness, fulfillment of desires and nobility. Such a figurine, placed on a summer cottage, will bring good luck to its owner. A peacock requires painstaking and serious work, so it will take a lot of free time to make it. What materials are used to create a wonderful bird:
- a lot of plastic bottles of different colors and sizes;
- stand;
- synthetic foam;
- glue gun;
- abrasive mesh;
- colored paper;
- scissors.
How to create a craft:
- Remove the necks, the bottom from the bottles. Cut a lot of feathers from the main part of the containers different sizes- from small to huge. Trim the edges with a fringe.
- Sort blanks by size.
- Make a bird figurine using foam. Attach to stand.
- Cut out the beak (use the red bottle).
- Decorate the bird's chest with small multi-colored plastic parts. Gradually cover the foam as you approach the tail, using larger feathers.
- Alternate colors to make the peacock come out bright.
- For the tuft, make a few plastic strips with a fringe at the end.
- To shape the bird's head, take oval, round pieces of plastic of a small size. Make eyes from a brown bottle.
- Cut out the abrasive mesh in the shape of wings. Attach feathers to it - move from small to large.
- Make the tail also using the grid.
- Complete the ends of the feathers with paper details: cut out circles different colors and sizes. First stick a large oval, a smaller one on it, and place a very small element inside.
- Connect all parts with glue.
See the video for more details:
Children will absolutely love the creation of beautiful crafts - butterflies. An easy master class will help create an original figure even for the smallest. The craft can serve as an element of interior design or part of the picture. You can make many butterflies different shapes to decorate the nursery with them. What materials will be needed for this workshop:
- paints;
- marker;
- plastic bottle;
- scissors.
How to make a craft:
- Cut out a cylinder from the flat part of the bottle. Cut in half.
- On the resulting convex plate, draw a butterfly.
- Cut it out.
- Bend the wings so that they take on a natural shape.
- Color as desired.
For more details on creating crafts, see the video:
Decorative flowers
Decorative flowers will be a wonderful decoration for your home. You can create sunflowers, daisies, roses, other plants. An easy master class with photos will help you easily make original decoration. Decorate them with boxes, baskets, shelves or make an unusual picture. What elements will be needed to make the original crafts:
- bottle;
- lighter;
- scissors;
- marker.
How to create a craft:
- On the surface of the plastic container, draw flowers with a marker. Cut out.
- Bend the petals so that they look in one direction. Burn them for a nice shape.
- Make a few things. Connect them, putting on top of each other, glue, wire, heat. Decorate the middle with beads or a plastic flower.
Bright flower beds for the garden
A flower bed, for which plastic containers are used, is created simply. This material will help you make a budget and beautiful decoration for garden plants, fencing them off from the lawn. The craft will not take much time, and the result will please with its originality and beauty. What materials are needed to make a simple flower bed for garden plants:
- a lot of plastic containers (plain or color);
- paint (if desired);
- sand/earth.
How to do:
- Clean the bottles.
- Fill them with sand or earth (full or half).
- Make a flower bed fence by firmly digging containers into the ground with their throats down. It is important that they fit snugly against each other.
- If desired, paint the finished fence.
See the video for options for such flower beds.
