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What skillful hands can do from unnecessary (junk) items. DIY crafts from bottles are made for furnishing summer cottages, children's playgrounds. Moreover, they look very attractive and original. Plastic is the cheapest and most accessible and very flexible material. You can use it to create figures of animals, flowers, dolls, children's transport, and borders. Some craftsmen use them in the construction of gazebos, fences, greenhouses, garden furniture and even boats.
Features of plastic as a material
Many people throw away plastic containers, considering them garbage, but this is a unique material for crafts that will certainly find use in the household. Its features as a material for creativity are that:
- To make crafts and work, you will not need any complex tools or devices, except for those that every good owner has in the house: scissors, sharp knives, candles, glue, stapler, drills, glue gun and so on.
- Not only the bottle itself will do the job. You can use the lids to create colorful panels, paths, and decorate old furniture with them.
- Thanks to the flexibility of the fusible bottle, you can even create bendable structures both indoors and outdoors.
- Crafts can have different shapes and sizes, so both very small bottles and large bottles will be useful in your work.
- Plastic is considered safe material, so you can use it to create crafts for playing at home or in kindergarten.
What bottles can be made for kindergarten or kindergarten
Creating characters and all sorts of figures for children is a special area of amateur creativity. It is advisable to do them together with them. This makes it easier to teach them perseverance, to teach attentiveness, concentration, and to develop imagination. Let's look at the example of master classes on how to create simple figures and fairy-tale characters for children.
Chamomile
There are several options for making this delicate flower.
Option 1
To work you will need white bottles. They usually sell their milk and you should collect a little. As a last resort, you can use transparent, but then repaint it white. For each chamomile we need 3 bottles. They all must have the same neck diameter, otherwise we will not be able to put the lush parts together.
Cutting off top part(neck with a lid), just below the expansion point. We do this with only two bottles, leaving one. It is desirable that the lid has yellow.
Cut out about 8 petals on each neck. Just so that they hold on and don’t fall apart. Bend them one by one in the opposite direction.
Let's start assembling the flower: we put one of the blanks on top of the one that was left uncut.
Then the second one in exactly the same way.
We unfold and bend the petals so that the chamomile looks natural and lush.
We fix all three layers with a lid, trying to make it tighter.
Such flowers can be left as is, or after assembly they can be painted in different shades. They can be planted on a wire stem or attached to a fence.
Option 2
This daisy has a more complex design, but it also looks more natural and beautiful.
Cut circles from the cylinder of the bottle (about 8 cm in diameter, larger if you want to create a large daisy). Each one will require three mugs.
We subsequently cut each circle into 16 strips and form flower petals from them.
Using an awl heated over a fire, make a hole in the center.
A little later, when we assemble the workpiece, we need to hold it a little over the fire. So the petals curl themselves, creating correct form daisies.
From the yellow lid we cut out the core of the flower, pierce it and fasten it with wire to the inflorescence.
We make a sepal from a green bottle and melt it a little over the flame.
First we attach the sepal to the stem, then three blank petals, the core and bend it with pliers so that the chamomile does not fall apart. After bending, we pass the wire again through the sepal and twist it with the stem.
The stem will be a wire on which thin strips (about 5mm) of green plastic are wound. In order for the layers to bond well, they also need to be scorched.
If you want to create a whole composition, make leaves by cutting them out of green plastic, singe them a little, and wrap them around a stem.
You can diversify the bouquet by combining them with cornflowers. Here you will need blue plastic; the petals are cut out in the shape of cornflowers. The flower is assembled in the same way as a chamomile.
Using this technique you can make any type of wildflower, and even roses if you can roll them correctly.
Option 3
Now let's try to make a giant daisy.
As we can see, to create such wonderful decorative flowers, you will only need a few hours of time, bottles, an awl, a candle, glue and scissors.
Penguin
Plastic Coke bottles are useful for creating a penguin; thanks to their narrowed shape in the middle and widening at the bottom, they create a believable penguin body.
Tools and materials:
- 2 bottles of the same size;
- scissors;
- cool gun with silicone pencils;
- brushes;
- black marker;
- a piece of thick fabric;
- white, black and red paints.
Step-by-step assembly of the penguin:
- We cut the container in this way: the first, acting as the lower part, is cut in the middle or a little closer to the bottom, the second is the top of the penguin, so we only need the bottom. Rice. 1
- Now we connect both parts with cuts facing each other. Fig.2
- When connected, secure with glue (you can use a silicone gun). Fig.3
- Next, according to the plan, we will paint the penguin's body. Choose a paint type that is resistant to moisture. We paint the future toy in several layers. Rice. 4
- When the paint coating dries, use a black marker to outline the chest and muzzle. Fig.5
- Paint the outer part (behind the contours) completely with black paint. We leave only the top - this will be the place of the cap. Riess 5. and 6.
- In principle, the penguin is almost ready. All that remains is to paint the space left under the hat with red paint. You can, as shown in Figure 8, decorate it with black dots.
- Draw eyes and beak on the muzzle. This can be done with a thin brush and paints, or use colored markers. Rice. 9.
- Cut a scarf from a small piece of fabric and tie it on the penguin.
Crocodile
Let's try to make another toy together for kindergarten- crocodile.
For work, prepare:
- two plastic bottles, 0.5 l;
- screw caps from the same container – 4 pcs;
- sharp knife;
- stationery scissors;
- thin cardboard;
- glue;
- brushes;
- waxed paper;
- paints for painting;
- buttons for eyes.
Manufacturing and assembly instructions:
First cut the bottles in half, then so that there is a distance of about 7 cm to the neck.
You need to shape the edges so that when assembling the crocodile's body is slightly bent. As shown in the photo.
Glue the covers in place of the legs.
Form from cardboard dense balls– eyes, attach to the body.
Cover the entire body of the alligator with green colored paper.
We cut out eyes, teeth, and paws from waxed paper.
Use a brush to paint the teeth (white), nostrils (black), eyes (also black) or use dark buttons as eyes.
Bees
These funny insects are very easy to make.
Option 1
Prepare in advance:
- plastic container with a capacity of 0.33 l;
- sharp scissors;
- acrylic paints;
- glass 0.5 l;
- brushes;
- glue;
- black electrical tape;
- wire;
- stationery knife.
Instructions for implementation:
Cut out the wings of a bee from a plastic glass, as shown in the photo.
There is no need to cut the bottle completely. We make only small cuts on the sides using a stationery knife. These will be the locations for the wings.
Insert the wings into place and glue them.
Next we start painting the bee. There are two ways of painting: paint the body black, then make yellow stripes, or vice versa, make it completely yellow, then draw black stripes. Let's use the first one - paint it dark.
Draw the eyes on the lid with white and the mouth with red.
Option 2
You can make it in one copy, you can create a whole hive
To create a hive, prepare:
- plastic bottles according to the expected number of bees;
- yellow enamel or paint;
- black electrical tape;
- wash brushes – 4 pcs;
- for the eyes - beads or buttons;
- glue gun;
- synthetic thread;
- leg-split.
We paint plastic bottles yellow. You can do it a little differently - pour yellow paint inside, twist the bottle so that the paint evenly lies on the entire inner surface.
This method is a little more difficult and takes longer, but the coloring will be more impressive and glossy. In addition, it will not wash out, break or deteriorate.
This should be done in several stages in order to paint the entire surface evenly. Pour paint into a bottle, shake it and place it on its side. As soon as the first layer of paint begins to set, twist it so that the next area is painted and so on until the end.
When the bees' bodies take on a yellow color, we use black electrical tape to make transverse stripes.
We glue eyes and a nose from pre-prepared beads and buttons onto the lid.
From another plastic container we cut out shapes that look like wings. At the same stage of work, we attach threads to them. For them we will then hang the bee from the tree.
Using the same glue gun, glue a thread with wings to the bee's body.
We also color it yellow. You can, again, use a complex painting method. Or, so as not to waste a lot of time, just paint on top with a brush.
We will make the roof of the hive from brushes. We take them in a pile and tie them with twine.
On the lid of the bottle - this is the roof area, we apply thick layer glue. Place the washcloths on it so that they are distributed evenly on all sides. If they come off a little somewhere, we glue them back on.
Leave the craft at rest for a while to dry.
Everything is ready, bees and hive. All that remains is to take it to the kindergarten and hang it on a tree.
In a similar way, you can make many bees, but without a hive, and hang each one from a tree. Having thus created a real child Center beekeeping.
Creating bee crafts is an interesting activity, the work is not difficult. If the child makes it himself, under your strict guidance, it can be a good souvenir for grandparents. Such a craft will look very impressive against the backdrop of abundant tree foliage.
Butterflies
An easy-to-make and very interesting craft model.
Option 1
Let's prepare materials:
- plastic containers (a few pieces will be enough);
- paper, no smaller than A4 format;
- stationery scissors;
- silver nail polish Brown;
- glitter;
- red gel pen;
- rhinestones;
- butterfly in a stencil.
Let's start making an insect:
First, let's prepare the bottles for work: wash them, preferably with soap, remove the labels, and dry them.
On a blank sheet of paper, scan or transfer the shape of a butterfly using carbon paper. For this we need a stencil. You will find it at the end of this subsection.
Using a gel pen, you need to trace the contours of the insect onto the surface of the plastic and cut it out.
We have a figure with downward curved wings.
Let's turn it over, we need them to look up.
Take the gel pen again and draw all the lines as shown on the stencil.
Use silver nail polish to paint the middle (body) and antennae. Let's draw the contours of the wings in the same tone.
Now you need to use varnish to draw all the lines, including the smallest ones, which were previously drawn with a gel pen.
We put small dots (blotches) in front of the edges.
Against the background of the silver drawing of the wings, we also put dots, only in brown.
We decorate the body of the butterfly with rhinestones. To do this, use any nail polish, put drops and plant a pebble on top.
The butterfly is ready, for everything, we needed a little time and material, which, for sure, will be found at home in the household and at the mother’s.
Similar to the previous butterfly, we make another one, only this time it is monochromatic and without pebbles.
We got two plastic butterflies, painted in the same tone.
If you glue a magnet to them, they will serve nice decoration on the refrigerator or any other metal surface.
Option 2
Let's look at another implementation option. We will paint it not with nail polish, but with stained glass paints. In the first version, we drew a butterfly on plastic, cut it out, and only then started painting. The technology here is different. We will draw an insect on the bottle, and we will paint it on it.
Let's prepare everything that will be useful in the work:
- stencil drawing paper:
- plastic containers;
- stained glass paints;
- wire or thick fishing line;
- scissors;
- beads (several small pieces);
- awl.
Step-by-step instructions for implementation:
We transfer the butterfly from the stencil onto the paper.
Let's redraw the insect onto plastic. You can do it like this. We cut the bottle and adjust the design from the inside so that we can clearly see it from above. Using a gel pen, transfer the contours onto the plastic.
When we finish drawing, we can start coloring. Let us remind you that we paint without cutting out the insect; the paint goes on the bottle, along the contours. After painting, leave the workpiece to dry. After it dries well, cut it out. Use your fingers to give the desired shape.
We form a body. To do this, take the wire or fishing line that we have prepared and string several beads onto it. You can take the same color, or you can make it multi-colored, whatever your heart desires.
A butterfly, or more than one, if you made several of them, are ready. They can be used to decorate indoor flowerpots, hang it on the curtains, attaching a pin at the bottom, it’s better to glue it.
If the insect is made by a child’s hand, then it will be a pleasant surprise and a gift for March 8th for a mother, teacher or grandmother.
Stencils for making butterflies
Hedgehogs
Waste material has a lot of possibilities and ways to extend its life. Moreover, every family has at least something. Here you don’t need to buy or invent anything special, much less spend money on them. Let's try to make a hedgehog from the same waste material, which is used plastic containers.
For our work we will need:
- plastic bottle;
- pine cones, about a dozen, the main thing is that they are the same size;
- two covers white, from the same bottles;
- glue (you can use “Moment” or, if you have polyurethane foam);
- colored plasticine.
Technique for creating a hedgehog:
First, we put the container in proper shape: wash it, remove the labels, wipe it and dry it.
On the prepared container, glue the pine cone directly on top with glue or foam (you can also use a glue gun if you have such an item on your household). We start from the center, this will be the back of the hedgehog. We glue each cone as a separate element, after making sure that the previous one is firmly held.
If at least one of them falls, and the neighboring ones hold on tightly, then it will be difficult to “put” it back in place. Take this into account and take your time.
When all the cones - the needles of our hedgehog - are put in place, we will begin to form the muzzle. To do this, cover the bottle cap with black plasticine.
For the eyes you will need white lids prepared by us. On them, in the center, we will glue circles from the same black plasticine - these will be the pupils of the hedgehog.
Glue the eyes to the animal's face.
Now let's embellish our craft a little. What is a real hedgehog without supplies? We will make mushrooms, leaves, fruits and berries from plasticine. Then we carefully lay it on his back.
You can create a baby for the company of an adult hedgehog by molding it from plasticine. And since its dimensions do not make it possible to experiment with pine cones, the needles on the body can be made from sunflower seeds.
Helicopter
An interesting craft that you can do with your son for kindergarten. This way you will teach him to use various waste materials as material for creating toys and other necessary things.
For work, prepare:
- a small plastic bottle, perhaps from a baby yogurt bottle;
- one tailor's pin;
- 3 juice straws;
- scissors;
- one ping pong ball;
- stapler
Step-by-step work:
First, make a hole in the lid so that the tube can fit in freely.
Cut the bottle so that the upper (thick) part remains intact.
Take the remaining 2 tubes and cut them to the length of the intended propeller blades.
Cross them and pin them in the middle with a pin. Insert the tail of the helicopter into the bottle cap. Make runners from the two remaining parts of the tubes, connect them with a strip cut from an unnecessary part of the bottle with a stapler.
Attach the main part of the helicopter with the skids also with a stapler. Insert a ping pong ball into the hole.
The helicopter is ready. A minimum of time is spent on it, and the child will have a lot of pleasure from a toy created with his own hands.
Matryoshka
Matryoshka is probably the only toy that more than one generation has grown up with. In addition, it is considered a symbol of Russia. Many foreign tourists, coming to our state, buy them as souvenirs. Is it possible complex figure create it with your own hands, and even from waste plastic? Yes, you can, even if it will not be as functional as modern ones in toy stores, but it will be personal and, for sure, the most beloved.
When creating such crafts, not only plastic food containers are suitable, we will look at this a little later. The toys that you see in the photo below are made only from the upper parts of flasks. This way they will be more stable. To prevent the edges from being too sharp, they can be treated with electrical tape.
In this photo, the upper part is inserted into the lower part, the middle one is completely removed. This nesting doll has a more respectable appearance, looks more natural and believable. Colored acrylic paints. Children will not be able to make it in the same way, but there are many stickers and patterns of a similar image on the Internet. As a last resort, they have a lot of options to learn and draw on such a matryoshka doll model.
The next photo and the model itself can be considered multifunctional. Here you can find a custom-made nesting doll and a pencil case for storing pencils and pens. As you can see, it is not made from a food bottle, or from shampoo or cream containers.
Approximate drawings and diagrams for creating matryoshka dolls from plastic containers in kindergartens and at home.
Bottle cut diagram
Everyone knows that plastic takes more than 100 years to decompose. Therefore, by giving a second life to bottles, we not only create interesting accessories for the garden, home and gardens, but also help preserve the purity of nature.
Description of crafts made from plastic bottles
The variety of products made from bottles is limited only by your consciousness - there are a huge variety of them: from small flowers to such serious things as boats or fences for flower beds.
Organizers and stands for decorating your workspace
By cutting off the necks of bottles or eggplants, you can design storage areas for sewing supplies, correspondence, stationery, and cosmetics. If you connect cut bottles together with glue, you get whole sets with containers for different things.
For example, you can hang similar design in the bathroom, for rolled up towels, or in the office, at the entrance to the office - for letters. The cut off bottom of the bottle is suitable for buttons, pins, paper clips, and beads.
Any similar product can be decorated with paints, ribbons, ribbons, handles can be attached, resulting in a convenient portable “handbag” for clothespins, curlers, hairpins and other necessary accessories.
You can make lids from thick fabric in the form of beautifully designed hats - such a product will not only be functional and practical, but will also decorate any room.
Curtains made from plastic bottles
If you have accumulated a large number of identical plastic bottles– don’t rush to throw them away. By cutting off the bottom of all of them and fastening them with threads, you can get an original transparent curtain that will shine favorably in the sun, protect from the wind and add zest to any veranda. This design will look like delicate flowers floating in the air.
Floating devices
Due to the lightness of the material and the voids, the bottles do not sink in water, which means that if you have a sufficient supply of material, you can construct an entire boat or raft.
However, the product must meet all reliability requirements and withstand a certain weight, so you must first make careful calculations, or better yet, watch a master class in order to create a high-quality product that will serve for a long period and will not leak, creating a danger to life.
The most in demand are crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden, vegetable garden, and local area.
Bird feeders
There are many schemes for creating such a product. If you take a large container with a handle, used for water softeners or dishwashing detergent, and cut holes in the sides, you will get a whole house for birds.
If you only have a two-liter blank, you can leave the bottom, cut half the bottle vertically and pour the food down - on the remaining uncut bottom it will be convenient for the birds to reach food.
If you make a hole in the side of the bottle, closer to the bottom, suitable for inserting a wooden spoon, you will get a whole feed supply system. Through the hole, the grains will spill onto the spoon, which serves as a platform for the birds.
Containers for plants
Using plastic bottles you can make a whole vertical garden. To do this, you need to cut a rectangular hole in a horizontally lying bottle and fill it with earth. Secure the bottle with ropes on both sides and hang it.
You can plant seedlings, flowers or small shrubs in the ground and thus equip the entire wall. Don't forget to make holes in the bottom of the flowerpot for drainage.
Caps for seedlings
The cut off top of the bottle can be used to create a microclimate around just the planted plant or seeds. The convenience of this use also lies in the fact that by opening the lid and without removing the bottle itself, you can water.
Fences for flower beds
The most common way to use plastic bottles is to create fencing for flower beds and vegetable gardens. This design looks neat, attracts attention and creates reliable protection from spilling and washing away the earth. For greater effect, you can tightly fill the containers with sand or earth.
To make the flower bed seem more elegant, you need to use the same bottles. There are several ways to lay them - horizontal, vertical, using whole containers or cut parts. The fence made from the lower parts of the bottle looks very gentle. Together they create flowers that would be perfect for a flower garden.
Products from caps
Lids can be used to decorate walls, flower pots, create paintings, compositions, figures, toys, decorate various surfaces. The greater the variety of colors, the more fun and brighter the product looks. A rug, coasters, sculptures and other decorations for home and garden will look original.
You can find thousands of examples and ideas reflected in photos of crafts made from plastic bottles and caps. City authorities in many cities deliberately decorate entire streets, walls and pavilions with covers in order to attract public attention and encourage the rational use of plastic.
conclusions
Plastic bottles are an endless field of activity for a creative person. With their help, you can create real masterpieces that can optimize working space, create a functional place to store various things, give the house an original, unique design.
And most importantly, you can make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, simply using unnecessary material that is ready to be thrown away.
Photos of crafts made from plastic bottles
When a person has free time and any fantasy useless thing will turn into a work of art. Many “skillful hands” use crafts from plastic bottles as elements, as well as in the form of furniture. From colored bottle caps you can make mosaic panels, which cover the surfaces of walls, paths, fences.
The range of creative possibilities is so wide that you often don’t know where to start. We will help you understand what is suitable specifically in your case and what crafts to decorate the empty space with.
Application of plastic bottles
After several attempts to make a souvenir from a plastic bottle with your own hands, your one-night hobby will grow into a full-fledged hobby. It's so simple and accessible! There is practical and decorative use products from plastic bottles.
Practical- This:
- storage containers,
- feeders,
- stands,
- plant containers,
- furniture
and even carports, greenhouses, washbasins, outdoor showers, etc.
Crafts from plastic bottles - this and homemade furniture . Looks pretty complex design It's quite easy to make. The only condition is that there must be many bottles of the same type available. Hand-made armchairs, sofas and ottomans are not inferior in comfort to classic factory furniture.
How to make an ottoman from plastic bottles: master class
Decoratively homemade plastic bottles have a wider scope:
- figures made from plastic bottles;
- lamps;
- flowers
- garlands, etc.
They have one important advantage - the availability of material. At the same time, products made from PET bottles are highly reliable, provided that the parts are connected correctly.
Often made from plastic bottles vases, pots and flowers.
In addition, using plastic containers, you can original decorate the room by making an artificial bouquet. Roses, tulips or daisies are placed in a homemade vase. If desired, the composition is decorated with LED lighting. Thus, an impromptu flower will turn into an unusual night light.
What can you make from plastic bottles for your yard?
There is always an empty plot in a dacha. Building a gazebo or an extension is long and difficult, but the “bare”, uncluttered area just “hurts” the eye. Crafts made from plastic bottles for the street will help decorate your courtyard. Using plastic bottles, caps and frames, make beautiful tables with chairs. Such garden furniture It will be easy to surprise guests during a festive feast in nature.
In products made from plastic bottles included and bird feeders, which will not only decorate country cottage area, but will also help birds survive in winter.
Ideas from plastic bottles: lamps made from caps
From the caps and cut necks, with the help of simple manipulations, they come out original lamps, which will decorate both the interior of the house and the yard. Unusual lamps are harmoniously complemented by plastic compositions designed in the form exotic plants.
Learn to collect simple crafts from plastic bottles possible within 2-3 hours. Go for it!
Crafts from 5 liter plastic bottles
The bulky-looking container is also suitable for decorating the interior or yard. Large plastic bottles are often used to make pet figurines(pigs, bulls, dogs, etc.). Crafts from 5 liter PET bottles - a common decoration for cottages, flower beds and playgrounds. Therefore, there are many ideas for using them, and the most striking examples of products made from plastic bottles are collected on our website. simple but tasteful.
Application of 5 liter plastic bottles: master class
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You can make many useful things for your garden and dacha from plastic bottles
While lovingly arranging our city dwellings, we are no less touching about our summer cottages. We try to improve them, create comfortable conditions for ourselves and add special notes of attractiveness to the even rows of beds and berry bushes. Many summer residents have chosen the most accessible and flexible material for their creative experiments - ordinary plastic bottles. We will talk further about what products can be made from it for the garden and dacha!
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wonderful hanging pots for cacti from plastic bottles
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Beautiful flower made from plastic caps
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Manufacturing idea useful devices and decorative things made from plastic containers are not new. The first attempts led our grandparents to build low fences for paths. Having appreciated the plasticity and low cost of the material, craftsmen from among the people moved on. And now the summer cottages are decorated with full-fledged fences, funny figures and unusual devices made from plastic bottles.
Your children will definitely like this beautiful ostrich from a pet container!
Thanks to imagination and such excellent material, like plastic bottles, we have almost limitless possibilities for creating crafts for every taste, any complexity and direction
Paintings made from the caps of plastic bottles and other containers have grown into an entire art movement.
Plastic bottles have long been in great demand among gardeners
Gorgeous orange flowers from pet containers
Crafts and decorations for the cottage and garden made from plastic bottles do not require any use complex instruments and specialized skills. The main thing is to have time and desire, as well as enough material. Those who happened to have both have convincingly proven the limitless possibilities of such needlework, and we have prepared a review best examples crafts.
DIY furniture, flowerpots and a vase made from a plastic bottle
Comfortable and very stylish chair made from plastic bottles
Sheet of plywood, sixteen and a half liter bottles, adhesive tape - and your site will have a convenient and durable coffee table. Plywood can be replaced with plastic or hardboard, an old countertop or plexiglass. From the same materials, slightly changing the design, you can make a garden bench. Some diligent and patient craftsmen manage to assemble full-fledged sofas and armchairs from bottles.
You can even make the basis for a full-fledged sofa from plastic bottles if you fasten them firmly and carefully
Hanging flowerpot or base for flowerpots
DIY ottoman made from plastic bottles
How to make a pouf from pet containers
House made of plastic bottles
Among the summer residents there are also real builders who know that they can build whatever their heart desires from plastic bottles. They collect gazebos, toilets, sheds and even from plastic bottles. The only difficulty with such structures is not in their assembly, but in collecting the required number of bottles.
House with a roof made of 7,000 bottles
Plastic bottles are a good base material for building the walls of a summer house, greenhouse, shower, toilet or other partitions
Greenhouse walls made of containers on a wooden frame
Bottoms from plastic bottles will help you decorate garlands for the garden
Children's playground: flowers made from plastic bottles and toys made from plastic bottles
Crafts made from plastic bottles will help decorate the playground
All kinds of crafts made from plastic bottles are especially attractive for decorating a children's playground. Absolutely safe, they can become the basis for toys, for fun decorations, and for creating story compositions. Funny elephants, bees, bunnies and hedgehogs, bright flowers, cheerful lanterns will turn the country island of childhood into a fairy-tale kingdom.
A whole plot for a children's playground from the caps of plastic bottles and canisters
Together with children, you can make small crafts and large plot mosaics from the caps of plastic bottles
Plastic bottle doll
Examples of a variety of crafts that will help the gardener with placement, easy transportation and care of plants
Piglets from the big ones plastic bottles– stable stands for germinating seedlings or small plants
Craft for garden or lawn decor: parrot from pet container
Crafts for the garden and useful little things
Multi-colored turtles will be an excellent element of your garden decor.
With what ease do the “crazy” hands of summer residents transform used plastic containers into useful ones? country fixtures, you can verify by walking through suburban areas. Here, on the trunk of a tree, a washbasin was nestled comfortably, and in the next yard, the gazebo was decorated with multi-colored, fragrant and ampelous geraniums. We have also prepared for you several descriptions of crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden.
DIY bird made from plastic bottles
DIY painted garden owl lanterns
Birdhouse made from a plastic bottle
It’s very easy to make a birdhouse from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottles cut in half will become cute flower pots; it is important to carefully paint them. It is also advisable to take opaque bottles for this.
The ever-tangling and stuck twine for tying seedlings will stop tormenting you if you hide the ball in a plastic bottle. Just cut the bottle in the middle, insert a ball into the top, pass the end of the twine into the neck, connect the parts, secure the cut with tape - and your convenient storage is ready.
Drip irrigation from plastic bottles
Your seedlings will not wither, even if you go away for several days: install semi-automatic watering. Once again, plastic bottles come into play. We cut off the bottom of the bottle, about 2/3, drill 4-8 holes in the cork, close the neck, bury the bottle upside down, pour water - and the seedlings are provided with moisture during your absence. A similar garden made from plastic bottles (photo confirms this) will significantly save your time and money.
Automatic watering "Aquasolo" - these are conical nozzles on a bottle with a thread that do not require wasting time on drilling slots, digging into the ground, and so on.
Anthurium with convenient system automatic watering"Aquasolo"
Maximum space saving: plastic bottles suspended one above the other with a cut tube with water passing through them
- For the same seedlings, plastic bottles make excellent containers. After cutting the bottle in half and taking the bottom, pour the prepared substrate into it, plant the plants and place them on a shelf made of wooden planks. This design is also suitable for decorating your home with flowers.
Beautiful hanging pots made from plastic bottles will not only decorate the interior, but also make it unique
Excellent flowerpot made from a shampoo bottle with your own hands
Arrangement at the dacha compact placement seedlings or small plants
Bird feeder made from a plastic bottle
Some crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden amaze the owners with their ingenuity. By placing a bottle on a hose and making many holes in the bottom, you will get an excellent diffuser for watering your garden. From a five-liter container you can build an elegant lamp for the veranda, and a mineral water container is suitable as a bird feeder.
Bird feeder made of plastic container
A simple and convenient hose sprayer for garden watering
- Plastic bottles will help you save trees from pests. Cut the bottle lengthwise into two halves, fill it with a mixture that is attractive to pests and add insecticides, and bury it at the base of the trunk.
- From bottles you can make a magnificent decorative all-weather and all-season flower bed. Just paint the bottoms of the bottles in different colors and make a wonderful carpet out of them by sticking them open side into the ground. The carpet pattern can be pre-reproduced on paper.
Decorating flower beds with pet containers has become very popular
- One Brazilian engineer did the calculations and built a solar collector from plastic bottles. The structure can be placed on a summer cottage, connected to storage tank, and you will always have a warm shower.
Device solar collector from plastic bottles
Automatic watering of seedlings and ornamental plants in your absence, using a plastic bottle dug next to the roots with small holes drilled in the neck or cap
Cut plastic containers suspended one above the other are the fastest and most economical way out of a situation when you need to germinate a lot of seedlings in a limited space
Making an owl from a plastic bottle with your own hands
Bottles for germination and winter holding of plants - an opportunity to save space and ensure good irrigation and drainage
Products made from plastic bottles: artistic masterpieces
Magnificent dandelions from pet containers will never cease to delight you and your guests
The imagination of folk craftsmen is so diverse that it leads to the appearance of outlandish animals, fairy tale and cartoon characters, exotic plants, and original thematic compositions in summer cottages.
We cover the bottom of a plastic bottle or cup with dry twigs and get an unusual candlestick, protected from the wind.
Rainbow decor for a garden, workshop, garage: a fountain of spirals cut from multi-colored plastic bottles
Plastic bottles are used not only to decorate the garden, but also to decorate the home.
Country crafts from plastic bottles:
If you have a small pond on your site, you can decorate it with a plastic palm tree. It's not at all difficult to make. You will need:
- 10-15 brown plastic bottles (for the palm trunk);
- 5-6 green bottles (preferably long);
- iron or willow rod;
- an awl or drill for making holes;
- sharp knife or scissors for cutting bottles.
A palm tree made from plastic bottles looks very beautiful
Now let's start making the decoration.
- Cut everything brown bottles in half. We take the lower parts and use an awl to make holes in the bottom of each of them, equal in size to the diameter of the rod.
Advice! You can also take the tops of the bottles, then you won’t have to make additional holes.
- For green bottles, cut off the bottom by about 1 cm. Leave one of the blanks with a neck, cut it off for the rest to make a loop.
- Carefully cut the green bottles lengthwise into three equal parts up to the loop.
Making palm leaves
- We cut out the edges of the brown parts with jagged edges to create an imitation of a rough palm tree trunk.
- We securely fix the rod in the soil. We calculate the length of the rod by laying out the brown parts on the ground in one row, plus 2-3 cm for the leaves.
We put brown bottles on it. 
Making a trunk for a palm tree
- We string our leaves onto the free top of the rod, finishing the work with a blank with a neck. We make a hole in the lid and screw it onto the last sheet, securely securing the entire crown.
Connection of trunk and leaves
Assembling a palm tree from plastic bottles
Using several rods of different lengths, you can create a real oasis. As you can see, making garden crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands is not so difficult; the main thing is to find a sufficient amount of material and take one of the proposed ideas as a basis.
Step-by-step guide: making fabric pots on bases from plastic bottles.
Hedgehog from a plastic bottle and twine rope: growing seedlings and small creeping plants
Crafts for the garden from plastic bottle caps
You can create real masterpieces from plastic lids
Don't throw away bottle caps. Decorative crafts made from caps from plastic bottles for the dacha and garden can also beautifully fit into its landscape. They will serve excellent mosaic material for decorating fences and walls of a country house.
Bright compositions made from plastic lids will help make your landscape design more fun
Video master class (from plastic bottles of standard capacity):
A path made of plastic covers is not only economical, but also very beautiful
Large-scale red and blue mosaic of caps of different sizes
Having tinkered a little with the pattern, painted and drilled holes in the sides of the covers, you can use them to assemble a curtain for the door. An excellent option for protection against insects!
The lids can be turned into a beautiful tabletop or a practical doormat. Use them for decorative finishing of the interior space.
Gorgeous door curtains made from plastic covers
Carport that diffuses sunlight
Beautiful lanterns in Hawaiian style
Before starting work, remove the labels from the bottles and wash the container thoroughly.
For stability vertical structures fill the bottles with sand or small pebbles.
Dragonflies made from corrugated plastic bottles
An ingenious device for collecting fruit from trees
Hanging pots made from pet containers with images of animals will fit perfectly into the interior of a children's room
Choose plastic bottles of different softness for crafts. For example, for the body of a dog or an elephant, take strong foundation, and for the ears it is better to use softer plastic.
Master class from plastic bottles (step by step):
The trend of rational use of household waste in Lately is becoming increasingly popular, especially for plastic containers. You can make almost everything from plastic bottles with your own hands. country house interior and not only. One of the main advantages of this material is long term service, and it is also very elastic. Don't forget that plastic bottles are... available material, which is always available to every owner or hostess.
Cheap and cheerful - we make flower beds from bottles
Plastic containers are ideal option for, since it has a great advantage over wood and even metal. Wooden fencing in flower beds or flower beds, it dries out over time or rots under the influence of moisture and sun. Even metal curbs are susceptible to corrosion and require periodic maintenance, such as regular painting.
What about plastic? It does not lose its shape and does not collapse for a long time. This means that such a flower bed will last for more than one season or even one year, and it also requires absolutely no maintenance. Even if a “breakdown” occurs, the required “element” can always be found in the pantry and easily replaced, without resorting to long, tedious shopping trips to find a suitable fragment.
So, what can you make from plastic bottles with your own hands?
Bottle borders
If you need to fence a flower garden, plastic containers of different sizes will do the job perfectly. This will not only limit space and prevent growth perennial plants, but will still retain moisture and prevent the appearance of weeds.
The shape and size of the flowerbed depend only on the imagination of the summer resident: it can be either equilateral or in the form of some kind of animal or plant. You can also use bottles to break the flowerbed itself into segments.
Even a child can build a bottle border (with the help of adults, of course):
- The first thing you should do on the site is to draw sharp object or fill the contours of the flowerbed with sand.
- Remove the labels from the bottles, wash them, pour sand into them and screw on the cap. If you don't have one, you can use ordinary land or water. This is necessary for stability, since empty containers will quickly fall out of the fence.
- Dig a groove along the outlined contour so that the bottle can be deepened into it by about 1/3.
- Place the filled bottles in the groove with the neck down, as close to each other as possible, and cover with soil.
For visual effect you can use bottles from different color plastic (green, white, brown).
Some summer residents do without digging in bottles. For example, bottles without a bottom are simply inserted into each other, forming a circle. The finished structure can be “put on” or taken into a ring trunk circle tree. To secure the curb, it must be pressed tightly to the ground with arcs.
Multi-tiered flower bed
If you really want to have a flower garden, but there is too little space, you can make it yourself from plastic bottles. The principle is the same as when constructing a border, only after laying the first tier it is necessary to fill it with nutritious soil, and only then lay out the next floor.
When planting plants for lower tier It is better to choose moisture-loving specimens, since when watering the water will flow down.
Mini flower beds
Beautiful and useful crafts for a summer residence, you can make it from 5-liter plastic bottles. They will serve as miniature and cute flower beds, for example, in the shape of everyone’s favorite piglets.
Group compositions in the form of trains with flowers look no less impressive.
And if instead of flowers you sow lawn grass, a large bottle turns into a cute hedgehog with green spines. All that remains is to attach the eyes and nose.
Those who are not afraid of small rodents will like cute mice from small (liter) bottles. They are good for planting petunias.
Flower pots and flowerpots
With a little imagination, plastic bottles can easily be transformed into small decorative pots for flowers or herbs. You can make them even or cut them to fit a marker in the shape of a face. Such flowerpots will look great not only in garden gazebo, but also in the house on the windowsill.
But if you put a fabric cover on the cut bottle and attach ropes, you will get elegant flowerpots for the summer veranda.
The easiest way to make hanging pots is to cut out fragments of the walls on both sides of the bottle, and secure a rope under the neck for hanging. Compact, low-growing plants can be planted in such flowerpots.
Making a beautiful garden path
Particularly popular among summer residents are paths made of plastic containers. The strength of such a path depends on the laying method and what part of the plastic container serves as a building material:
Paths made of plastic bottles become very slippery in winter.
Fun playground - decorating a place for children to play
Caring parents always strive to provide their children with a place to play in their dacha, where the children can while away the time while the adults are busy in the garden. Of course, it should not only be safe, but also colorful so that the kids will like it. With the help of plastic bottles it is easy to decorate the playground by making a variety of plants and animals. Regular paint will help give them brightness.
In the shade under a palm tree
What is a children's playground without a sandbox? And where there is sand, a palm tree must “grow”. For the tropicana you will need green and brown bottles for the trunk and leaves, respectively.
Before you begin assembly, you need to take care of solid foundation. For example, fix in concrete screed a metal pin, and it must be quite long so that the tree is tall and children can walk freely under it.
When the base is fixed, you can start “growing” the palm tree:
- cut off half the bottle (the top and neck are not needed) and form a jagged edge;
- Make a hole in the center of the bottom, string the blanks onto the base pin, bending the teeth to the side for a more natural look;
- cut off the bottom of the green bottle and make straight cuts along the entire contour to the place where the wall meets the neck (if desired, the branches can be made into shapes - cut into 4 parts and make teeth on each one);
- string fragments of the branch onto the base;
- firmly attach the finished branches to the top of the stem (by welding or construction cords).
If after assembling the palm tree there are still a lot of green bottles left, you can use them to make a small (or large) Christmas tree. Remove the bottom of the bottle and cut it into long narrow strips right up to the neck. Trim the edges of the strips to resemble thorns. String the leaves onto the base.
Such a Christmas tree will look great on the site in winter, especially under the snow, and will also help out on New Year's Eve those who, in a hurry, did not have time to buy a living tree.
Guests from a fairy tale - funny animals
And of course, there must be toys. Children often take their old favorites outside. With the help of plastic bottles you can easily diversify the “zoo”, creating real masterpieces - from the fairy-tale Frog Princess and Goldfish to modern heroes cartoons.
Take, for example, a handsome cat, painted with black and white paint. Or you can use brown beer bottles and you will get a brown cat, also beautiful.
Form a head from two bottle bottoms (connect them), and the curves on the bottoms will indeed look like a real head. On one of them, paint eyes, eyebrows and mustaches with white paint, and a neat tongue with red paint. Insert small cut out ears on top. For the body, string the same short-cut bottoms onto the base, closing the body last. Melt the edges of the bottoms. Apply white paint along the melted contour of the ears and body fragments, and make a white spot on the chest on the front bottom.
Glue the head and legs - the top parts of bottles with elongated necks will be useful for them. Cut them to the place where the bottle expands, cut the edges with sharp teeth and build legs from 4-5 parts, putting them on the base wire. Screw the plugs onto the upper necks and use them to glue the legs to the body. For the tail, take a long wire and string the narrowest parts of the neck onto it, but without the plugs. To make the tail fluffy, cut the edges into thin strips.
Beautiful animals are also obtained from large 5-liter containers. With the right combination of bottles of different sizes and with the help of bright colors, you can place a zebra, horse, cow, donkey and even a giraffe on the site.
Flowers for my daughter
In the sandbox, children not only make Easter cakes. Little girls love flowers very much and often collect dandelions on the lawn (or in their mother’s flowerbed) to plant them in their sand garden. But you can make a whole greenhouse of flowers from bottles, and little girls will be happy to take part in making the most simple options. Chamomiles, cornflowers and tulips will decorate the sandbox, especially since young flower growers will be able to repeatedly “transplant” them from bed to bed without harm to the plants or mother’s nerves.
For flowers you will need:
- wire for the stem;
- straight parts of bottles for cutting leaves out of them;
- necks or bottoms for the inflorescences themselves;
- dye.
Adults can make more complex versions. Plastic roses or poppies will decorate not only the playground, but also the flower bed. 
Plastic design for garden
Plastic bottles have a wide range of applications. So, if small animals and birds look appropriate in flower beds and playgrounds, then larger animals can be placed in the garden, among trees and shrubs. They will give the garden a unique look and enliven it.
Amazing garden sculptures
Representatives of large birds made of plastic look almost alive. Using multi-colored paints you can achieve a stunning realistic effect. To make them, you just need to master the technique of cutting feathers from the sides of bottles and prepare a frame on which they will be attached.
The following will look very impressive in the garden:
In the garden you can place sculptures of not only birds, but also animals of a large enough size so that they do not get lost against the background of tall trees.
Among the greenery, a bright spot will be a white sheep, which is quite easy to make if you have 2 liter bottles and several 1.5 liter bottles lying around in the pantry:
- Cut the necks of two 2 liter bottles and put them on top of each other - this will be an elongated head. Cut out long ears from the third bottle, roll them up a little into a tube and attach them to the head in appropriate places with wire (or glue). You can draw eyes or glue two corks.
- For the body, insert the whole bottle with the neck inside into the cut-off top. Make 3 more such blanks and attach them to the first one on the sides and top, thus giving the sheep the desired “waist” volume.
- The neck will be a whole two-liter bottle, which should be attached to the body at an angle of approximately 120 degrees so that the cork is on top.
- Place the head to the neck (on the plug).
- For the legs, cut off the top of a two-liter bottle and insert a whole bottle of a smaller volume (1.5 l) into it. Make three more such blanks and attach the legs to the body with the wide part up.
- Make a fleece from the cut bottoms of two-liter bottles, fastening them together, and put them on the body. Grip the edges of the fur coat under your belly.
- Paint the sheep with white paint and draw black eyes.
Caring for birds
Plastic bottles can be used not only for decorative purposes, but also for the benefit of the garden. After all, it is always inhabited by the summer resident’s little helpers - various birds that collect pests from the trees. In the warm summer they have something to eat, but in winter it becomes more difficult to get food. That’s when the feeders hanging around the garden will come in handy. And if you involve children in the process, you get a double benefit: the children get an interesting activity and pleasure, and the birds get cozy house with grains.
The simplest ones can be made from large 5 liter plastic bottles by simply cutting large arch-shaped holes on both sides.
To prevent birds from injuring their paws on the sharp edges of the bottle, they must first be melted or covered with electrical tape.
For those who rarely visit their summer cottage in winter, a feeder that fills automatically will come in handy.
You can make it from a bottle and two wooden spoons:
- make two holes in the bottle opposite each other, with the second one located slightly lower;
- unwrap the bottle and reverse side repeat the procedure;
- insert the spoons crosswise into the holes.
After the bottle is filled with food, it will be poured through the holes into the spoons as they are emptied.
A cozy place to relax using improvised means
Not only birds, but also the owners themselves should have their own secluded corner among the greenery, where on warm summer evenings you can happily drink a cup of tea, inhaling the aromas of nature. Many people prefer to place it in the garden. They are very beautiful, you can’t argue with that, but they require certain financial investments. But it’s cheap and cheerful to make from plastic not only a recreation area, but also to completely equip it.
Alcove? Easily!
A gazebo is one of the largest-scale garden crafts made from plastic bottles. But plastic gazebo has two big advantages:
- it is easy to assemble;
- will last for more than one year without damaging the material.
Perhaps the only drawback of the building is the presence of a large number of bottles, which need to be stored somewhere during the collection process.
What the gazebo will look like depends only on the desire of the owner, and, accordingly, on the availability of “building materials”:
Practical curtains for the gazebo
IN summer gazebos there is a lot of fresh air, but, unfortunately, also dust. Ordinary tulle requires frequent washing, while a plastic curtain does not collect as much dust, and you can “wash” it without even removing it - just spray it with water from a hose (of course, if such a curtain is not hanging in the house). 
For dreamy and romantic housewives, delicate curtains made from the bottoms of plastic bottles strung on a base are suitable. 
Energetic people who love bright colors are more suitable for cork curtains assembled according to the same principle.
garden furniture
A table, ottoman, armchair and even a sofa in a gazebo can also be made from plastic bottles. The old one from the house is also quite suitable for relaxing on fresh air, but like the curtains, it will eventually become a collection of dust. In addition, it is quite difficult to take a wooden sofa outside, because such furniture is quite bulky and heavy. But rearranging the plastic chair will not be difficult.
Assembling the furniture is not difficult - the bottles just need to be placed tightly and connected together with tape, giving the desired shape. For ottomans, knitting or sewing a cape - no one from the outside will guess what they are actually made of.
Leatherette covers are more suitable for a sofa.
Unbreakable chandeliers for the garden
If you are planning an evening tea party, you should definitely go to the gazebo. To decorate the light bulb, you can cut the bottle into two parts and make a simple lampshade from the upper half and paint it or cover it with colored thread.
IN plastic chandeliers It is better to use energy-efficient light bulbs - they do not heat up so much and will not melt the material.
In more complex options chandeliers are assembled from fragments of leaves or flowers cut from multi-colored bottles. 
Gardening supplies for gardening
In order for a summer cottage to look beautiful and tidy, it is necessary to take care of it all the time - weeding, collecting fallen leaves and small debris. To do this you will need tools. Of course, you won’t be able to make a hoe or rake out of plastic, but simpler ones are quite possible.
Craftsmen have long known how to use plastic bottles to benefit themselves and save the family budget. After all, if the scoop suddenly breaks, you no longer have to run to the store for a new one. From household waste, which is found in every home, a lot of useful things are obtained at no extra cost:
Garden cares
From plastic bottles you can make useful things not only for the garden, but also for the vegetable garden. These can be both small crafts in the form of, and larger-scale structures such as greenhouses.
Greenhouses for seedlings
Most summer residents grow seedlings garden crops on one's own. Some do this in apartment conditions, but better quality seedlings are obtained from greenhouses - there is enough heat and light.
We can’t even talk about cost, but as for durability, plastic bottles will certainly last longer than film shelters or glass structures.
To increase the service life of greenhouses made of plastic bottles, it is advisable to place them on a foundation and use a metal profile for the frame.
The simplest version of a greenhouse involves constructing walls from whole bottles that are placed on top of each other.
It will take a little longer to tinker with a greenhouse made of plates, but it will turn out warmer. In this case, you need to cut out even parts from the bottles and fasten (sew) them together in the form of a canvas. Use ready-made canvases to assemble a greenhouse.
Watering "systems"
For gardeners, watering is no less pressing issue than having a greenhouse. Instead of ready-made watering systems in the garden, you can use. They must either be hung above the bush, having previously made holes in the lower part, or dug into the ground.
In addition, the bottle makes a good sprinkler - you just need to make small holes in it and connect it to a watering hose.
Getting rid of pests
A repeller made from a plastic bottle will help drive away the gardener’s worst enemy, the gardener, from the property. It not only plows up the beds, digging its tunnels, but also damages the root system of plants in the process, depriving gardeners of the future harvest.
If you cut it in a bottle side walls, bend them and put the container on a steel rod; when there is a gust of wind, the bottle will spin and make noise. The sound will go into the ground through the rod and deprive the mole of the desire to manage in this noisy place.
The list of things you can make from a plastic bottle with your own hands is quite long. These are just a few crafts that make life easier for summer residents. Agree – it’s better to get the most out of bottles than to pollute them environment. Take care of nature and work with pleasure!
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