Household supplies from plastic bottles
From a plastic bottle, you can make not only jewelry or children's toys, but also functional products that are relevant in everyday life.
Options for things:
Flowerpots for indoor and garden flowers. Cut the container in half, give the base its original shape and paint.
- Country washbasin. Cut off the bottom. Fix the container upside down. With a slight slackening of the lid, water begins to pour out.
- 10 identical containers can be used to make a broom for outdoor cleaning. Cut off the lower parts. Fold each piece in half lengthwise and create a fringe. Thread the elements by connecting them with wire.
- The containers cut in half can make the ideal seedling caps in the vegetable garden. If you remove the covers, the cover will be additionally ventilated.
- If you cut off 1/3 of the top of the bottle, you get a wonderful container for storing pencils, crayons and other small items.
- Plastic containers can be the basis for weaving a variety of baskets that can be used on the farm.
- If there is a zipper between the two parts of the cut container, then you get an original organizer for storing cotton wool, bandages.
- Cut off the bottoms from several containers, string the parts through the center of the element onto a metal rod. Spread the bowls evenly along the rod. You will get a stand for jewelry.
Cut the bottle in half. Cut a square at the base. Such a device becomes a pocket for the phone, which is put on the base of the charger, and the phone is placed in the bowl.
You can decorate the craft by using paints, rhinestones, beads, glass stones, beads, ribbons. The elements can be attached to a plastic bottle using a construction stapler or a glue gun.
Article design: Natalie Podolskaya
Crafts from plastic bottles for the playground
The incredibly beautiful bird with plastic plumage is a whole "meadow of fairy tales". These are peacocks or firebirds, swans, pigeons, bullfinches and parrots. They are all made from empty PET bottles according to the general principle:
- Design an aesthetic bird head with eyes and beak;
- Build the torso and neck;
- String on plastic plumage;
- Equip with wings and tail;
- Place on the legs or fasten to the selected surface.
Plastic swans can be fenced off by a blue "lake" of inverted plastic bottles. Outlandish birds will decorate the trees in the corner of the garden, which is reserved for children's games. You can choose themed décor, such as a desert island with palm trees and parrots.
Plastic animals, birds and insects, familiar to our latitudes, as well as favorite fairy-tale characters, are complemented with other materials. Tires, wood and empty containers that are easy to paint will be used.
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Homemade figures
Figures for the garden and vegetable garden are the cheapest way to do it yourself. Clay or gypsum can be used as material.
In the first case, you will need a kiln for firing, so for many this can be a problematic solution. Most often, clay products are covered with a special glaze so that they serve longer and do not lose their brightness.
Plaster figures are more accessible, they can not even be painted, but specially aged. Ideal for creating original sculptures. Speaking of simpler materials, you can even use construction foam.
The main feature: you can cut out a large number of figures from it, fill them with ordinary solution and paint.
The cost of several products will barely reach 100 rubles. There are usually a few unfinished bottles of this mixture in the back room.
If you don't want to waste a lot of time, you can use plastic bottles or tires as a base. Even such a decoration can be a source of good mood.
Hedgehog
A funny hedgehog placed near a flower bed, under a tree, on the porch of a garden house will draw attention. It can be made using a 3 liter plastic bottle and gray bags.
The table shows the stages of making this animal.
| Stage No. | Description | Photo |
| 1. | Pour cement into the bottle or fill it with soil, pebbles, sand. The neck is wrapped with tape for shaping |  |
| 2. | Strips 50 mm wide are cut out of gray packages. They are wrapped around, fixing with glue, and on top with adhesive tape, the future muzzle of a hedgehog |  |
| 3. | Fold two strips in half and cut the fringe with scissors |  |
| 4. | They are attached to the body, starting at the wide end. Part of the abdominal container remains free |  |
| 5. | The operation is repeated until the beginning of the muzzle, which remains without "needles" |  |
| 6. | For the back, the strip is rolled up into a cylinder and fixed with glue. |  |
| 7. | On a sheet of black self-adhesive tape, draw a circle to fit the hedgehog's nose. Add 5 mm allowances |  |
| 8. | After cutting along the edge, incisions are made and the nose is fixed |  |
| 9. | Cut out details for the eyes from white and black oilcloth and glue them |  |
| 10. | For ears, a 40 x 40 mm square is glued diagonally, after removing the protective layer beforehand. Round off the top corner |  |
| 11. | After gluing the ears, the hedgehog is ready |  |
Fascinating creativity can be hired together with children, developing their artistic abilities. This craft is available to novice craftsmen who want to make original garden decorations.
Curtains made of colored plastic caps and bottles
Space zoning is a popular design technique, where a self-made translucent curtain is often used. The original curtain can decorate any living space, cottage or covered terrace. Original hanging partitions made of unusual materials are widely used in the interior.
In modern decor, plastic is in demand, including bottles and caps for them. There are options for curtains:
- from scraps of the bottom of small containers - strips on a thick fishing line, swaying when air moves;
- from colored lids - a fantasy panel of tightly strung elements;
- a garland of plastic and lights to give the curtain on the diodes more aesthetics.
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Pros and cons of using plastic
Why choose plastic for crafts:
- it is easy to get it;
- plastic, easy to cut and melt;
- moisture resistant, suitable for outdoor use.
> By not throwing away plastic containers, but recycling them into useful and beautiful devices, you can contribute to the protection of the environment.
Negative qualities:
- fusible;
- unpainted fades, gets dirty;
- retains odors.
White plastic will be covered with dust and streaks after rain, so it is better to take a dark material or paint the product with acrylic paints.
The material does not withstand high temperatures. It is rarely used in the manufacture of lamp shades. The plastic cap will withstand a low-power light bulb, and will melt from a bright one. An option is to make a floral, leafy decor over heat-resistant glass.
How to make swan shapes
Beautiful white swans will be a real decoration of the site. An unnecessary plastic basin installed upside down is suitable as a frame base. The neck is made of intertwined metal wires curved in the shape of the letter S. The wire is attached to the basin by drilling a hole in it.
The basin is coated with cement, rags and pieces of foam are used to form the necessary bends. Form wings, tail.The wire for the neck is wrapped with rags soaked in cement, on top of it gradually, in thin layers, cement is applied, forming a neck of the required thickness and a head
On the wings and tail, decorative adjustments are made, imitating plumage by scraping. Eyes and beak are outlined on the head. Leave the swan to dry for at least a week. After that, the product is sanded, primed and painted.
Crafts for the garden from improvised means
Styrofoam
This durable material is useful for making unusual compositions. It is well cut with a regular or clerical knife, so it can be given absolutely any shape. For example, make a goldfish. From a rectangular piece of styrofoam, cut a fish-shaped blank. Cover it with shells and paint with gold paint from a can. Place the craft near the pond and let the fish fulfill your every desire.
You can cut any cartoon characters from the foam sheets. The base is excellently painted, you can stick both dried flowers and pieces of fabric or other material on it.
Natural material
Spikelets of wheat or panicles of field grass, physalis fruits, dried flowers, berries, fruits and moss can be easily used to make a huge composition. If you are gathering guests at the dacha, then make an unusual stand from different natural components.
At some distance, vertically drive metal rods into the ground and pull a mesh (metal or nylon thread) over them. Make a background from the ears and stalks of dry grass, place a bright sun and two charming butterflies of flowers and herbs on it. At the bottom, place two floor compositions made of vegetables, fruits and green moss.
Artificial flowers
For some reason, some people associate artificial flowers and plants with going to the cemetery. This is far from the case, many bouquets just look like living ones and can be used in creativity. For example, make such a composition in the form of two swans. It will be appropriate for celebrating a wedding anniversary, as a symbol of love and understanding.
Make a frame from metal rods - two wings and two long necks. Decorate the wings with a white translucent fabric. But paste over the necks of the swans with white artificial daisies. Make the beaks out of red wire. It turns out to be a gentle and romantic composition.
Crafts for the garden from polyurethane foam
It can be used not only in construction, but also in creativity. For example, for making a bright garden snail. The torso and head are formed from two wooden decks connected with self-tapping screws. Polyurethane foam is applied to them from a spray can. The shell of the snail is also made of foam blown in a spiral. All details of the craft are painted with bright paints from spray cans.
You can decorate the snail with green self-adhesive film, cones, tree leaves and other materials.
Cardboard tubes
If you have ever been brought linoleum, wound on a cardboard tube, then you know what this is about. It needs to be cut into segments using a fine-toothed saw. Any composition can be formed from these details. For example, a beautiful bird with a bushy tail.
The spaces between the large rings should be filled with thin tubes (such as paper towels). And in the middle of the rings it is better to place openwork weaving using the quilling technique. The last stage of work is painting. The result is an openwork composition that attracts the eye.
These are original ideas that will help you transform a flowerbed or meadow at your summer cottage. Such simple but original crafts can be made with your own hands and your garden or summer cottage will simply have a fabulous look!
Useful little things for home from plastic bottles
Flowers and vases
Decorating a student's bedroom or children's room with crafts from plastic containers is not difficult. You can build a whole bunch of artificial flowers.Put the resulting chrysanthemums, chamomile or roses in a vase of the same material, complementing the middle with diode bulbs on an insulated wire. This will look like a night light of extraordinary beauty, where a weak light shimmers in plastic petals.
To place a homemade bouquet, you need a suitable vessel, just cutting off a part of the bottle is not aesthetically pleasing. The edges of the cut are marked with a ruler to make a cut, securing the result by heating the folds. A small transparent bottle is cut off to the very top, about half of a large container is cut off. Choose a material with a ribbed or “waist” in the middle for an interesting base.
Then we do it as our imagination allows, but bend the edges beautifully. The fringed cut is obtained from vertical or diagonal notches of the plastic base. The resulting stripes are bent evenly to the outside.
Depending on which edge is desirable, the strips of the vase (the edges of any other product) are fixed in different ways:
- curly bend;
- staple staples;
- fusing;
- bonding with transparent polymers.
Planters, flower pots and seedling containers
Colored plastic containers in the form of bottles and bottles of different sizes are suitable as containers for growing live plants. It is very easy to make a fragrant balcony from 3-liter cisterns - a cascade of ampelous petunias. Fragrant flowers hanging from cut containers will help to realize the dream of a beautiful corner of paradise.
Large bottles and tanks, cut in half, are hung with the bottom down and with the lid. It is recommended to lay large pebbles at the bottom for drainage. Excess water after watering will go to the plants in the lower rows. Plants are grown in the same containers without soil - hydroponically with the addition of fertilizers. Fresh greens and seedlings (in urban and suburban conditions) are also germinated in prepared plastic bottles.
Traps and feeders
Use plastic bottles to repel pests or attract birds to your area. For this, the tank is used as a feeder, and traps from bottles with chemicals are placed at the roots of fruit trees. From a double plastic container, craftsmen construct traps for wasps, where they fly into sweet water and cannot get out.
Suburban area equipment
At the dacha "hastily" it is easy to build handicrafts from plastic bottles in the form of an impromptu washbasin, hanging a full bottle upside down. Unscrew the lid a little, and a small stream of water will help wash your face and hands. It is also worth making a bench and organizing lighting with beautiful owls or gnomes from their plastic. Any garden decor for inspiration - in interesting illustrations.
Multifunctional items for the home
Make an original cosmetic bag from 2 bottoms of plastic bottles, sewing the edges with a zipper. This box can be used as a multifunctional item - a piggy bank, a case for large beads, hairpins or jewelry.
It is convenient to knit from a similar ball, suspended somewhere nearby, pulling the thread from the ball inserted inside. Nail polish or lipstick collection is easier to find in a makeshift zippered jewelry box.
New Year's decor
Bright Christmas balls, garlands or toys from plastic bottles are worthy use for transparent containers. A transparent ball will come out of one bottle, cut into round strips. After securing the sphere with a stapler, decorate in any way:
- winding "rain";
- pasting with crumbled foam (snow);
- decoration with sequins, beads and stones.
Christmas decor made of white plastic bottles "with a waist" is suitable for snowmen or penguins. You can use black nail polish to paint eyes and other elements, cotton wool (snowball), sequins, small buttons, beads, and whatever is at hand. Funny caps for characters - made of colored socks without a pair, strips of jersey are used as a scarf.
Garden accessories
Containers for mineral and carbonated water are suitable for use in the garden in order to facilitate the work performed.
Spray
Having securely fixed on the hose a bottle with many small holes on the side plane, a water spray is obtained.
Spray
Garden bed decoration
Garden beds with fences are easier to care for. In parallel, they become a decoration of the site, if they are made of multi-colored plastic bottles, connected into a continuous ribbon with the help of a wire. For reliability, they are filled with sand, earth or small pebbles before installation.
Garden fencing
Miniature greenhouse
When planting seedlings of zucchini, squash, watermelon, pumpkin in spring, it is required to provide them with protection from a possible night cold snap. A plastic bottle without a lid becomes a convenient local greenhouse.
Miniature greenhouse
Shrub fencing
After planting shrubs, there is a need for a fence, which will provide convenient maintenance and prevent the branches from touching the soil surface. You can use the option with plastic bottles of the same volume with cut-off bottoms. Forming a circle, they insert them one into the other and fix them in several places with arcs.
Shrub fencing
Acquaintance with the options for turning waste material into useful products for the garden allows you to independently generate your own ideas and translate them into practice.
Garden Decor Ideas
This is perhaps the most widespread use of plastic bottles. To decorate a garden plot, you do not need to be a master, you just need to dream up and read useful tips.
Fences for flower beds of various shapes and beds
This design option for the beds is not only beautiful, but also useful: the earth does not crumble from them, it is not washed out by rains, the view is bright and attractive. For registration, you need to collect a lot of plastic containers of the same size, fill them with sand, and then close them again with lids.
Then, dropping bottles into the ground around the garden, we create a "fence". You can make a garden bed of rectangular, oval or any fancy shape according to the author's idea. The finished border can be painted with paint in different colors, you get a unique vegetable garden that will delight the eye all season.
Flowers and butterflies to decorate the cottage
To make flowers, you need to cut off the necks of the prepared bottles. Cutting the necks along, but not completely, you can get petals (usually 6-8 pieces) by rounding them around the edges. Then the edges of the petals must be scorched on a lighted candle, they become even.
Bending the petals, we scorch them at the base, at this time bend and shape. When plastic is heated, it lends itself very well to forming into various products. A stem for flowers can be made of wire, of which it is thinner, and beads - stamens. You can fasten all the components with glue and wire, using an awl to pierce the plastic.
To make a butterfly, you must first cut a template out of paper. It is necessary to cut off the bottom and neck from the bottle, leaving only the middle, cutting it along. By ironing the middle with an iron, placing a sheet of paper, you can get a flat surface. Having placed a template, you need to draw a butterfly on the workpiece, cut it out and bend the wings up. You can decorate with varnish and paints at will.
Zoo in the garden
Various animals can be made from bottles. For example, to make a crocodile, you need to cut two 1.5 liter bottles in half, and then so that 7 cm remains to the neck. Then insert the bottles into each other. The edges need to be joined so that the body is slightly bent, so the crocodile will look more natural. The lids will serve as legs. Cut out the paws and teeth on the back from cardboard. Glue all parts with glue and paint with paints.
Pigs are very easy to do. You need to cut out the ears, bend them, glue the tail and paint. The pigs are ready.Coca-Cola bottles have a special shape, the bottom of it is similar to the fitted body of an animal, so it is easy to make, for example, penguins out of them.
We need two bottles: from the bottom of the first one will get the body of a penguin, the second will only need a bottom, it will serve as a hat. Now you can take brushes and paint the animal as you like. You can glue a pompom on the hat, and tie a scarf around your neck. It's going to be a lot of fun.
So you can collect a whole zoo, thanks to which you will not be bored at the dacha.
Making and decorating the gazebo step by step
For construction, you need to collect 400-500 bottles of 0.5 liters, the same color and shape. Pour sand into the container for weighting and close with plugs. Bottles will replace bricks.
Instructions:
- dig in 4 metal support pipes in the cleared area;
- cement the foundations of the supports;
- lay out the bottle bottoms with the bottoms outward or inward, coating with cement;
- tie each row with wire to the supports;
- lay out the bottles in a checkerboard pattern;
- fasten metal corners on top of the supports;
- put a roof made of plywood sheets.
The polycarbonate roof lets in more light. Any lightweight material will do. Furniture for a gazebo is also easy to make from bottles by placing them vertically, folding them horizontally and wrapping them with tape. The floor can be decorated with mosaic covers.
Small utility
To make pots, plastic bottles are cut in half. Then their edges are melted on a candle flame. The resulting blanks are painted or prepared cloth covers are put on them.
Hangers for pots are made of wire or twine. In this case, you can braid the workpiece or simply thread the suspension through the holes pre-punched along the perimeter of the upper quarter. Don't forget the drainage holes at the bottom of the pots.
Practical garden bottle crafts like feeders or mole repeller are also extremely easy to make. The very first glance at the photo allows you to determine all the subtleties of the manufacturing process.
Cute hedgehogs
You can use handicrafts from scrap materials that look not only original, but also funny as decoration elements for the garden. A very popular craft is the hedgehog.
To make it, you will need a regular empty bottle and hemp rope for wrapping. To ensure that the ropes are held securely, staples or glue should be used as a binding element.
In order for the hedgehog to look as natural as possible, you should take care of such trifles as the nose and eyes.
Some masters are of the opinion that it is enough to paint these elements with black paint. However, if you want your craft to look as natural as possible, you can sew separately the eyes and nose.
You can attach them to the product using glue. Thus, the mount itself will be invisible, but at the same time very reliable.
Ordinary grass will serve as thorns for the hedgehog. Therefore, if you have several small accumulations of grass on your site, which you don’t have time to harvest, you can quite successfully disguise this with the help of this craft.
How to make decorations from plastic bottles for cottages and gardens
An original garden decor made from scrap material is another way to add personality to the site while the young plants come into effect. Green plastic bottles are easy to make funny frogs on the edge of the pond, watching dragonflies and butterflies from the same material.
Palm trees are a popular garden decor, consisting of trunks (up to 15 brown bottles) and palm leaves (green plastic 5-10 pcs.). It is a simple process that even children are willing to participate in.
Prepared brown cups with notches are strung on a thick steel rod (bamboo rod), after piercing the base. It is better to use brown containers (1.5-2 liters) whole, cutting in half, then you will have to punch only the bottom.
We leave green bottles without a bottom and a neck, with the exception of the last one with a neck, which is needed as a loop. We cut these containers lengthwise into 3 parts to a loop and cut like leaves. If longer leaves are required, attach the other half of the leaf with a stapler. All parts of the stem are strung on the base and attached to the top, connecting with a common loop. It remains to reliably install on the site "exotic guests" with a lush crown.
Crafts from household items
Interesting do-it-yourself cement crafts can be made from a variety of household items, shoes, clothes, for example:
- Old boots or boots. They are simply dipped in a solution, dried, polished, primed, painted if desired. This craft will be an excellent flowerpot for plants.
- Shirts. The garment is placed in the solution. 3-4 sticks are stuck into the ground, a shirt is hung on them until it hardens. The finished product will be an original version of a flower bed.
- Plastic containers. The container is wrapped in a plastic bag. A bag of sand is placed inside to maintain its shape. The outside is covered with cement. Allow to dry, after which the sand bag is removed, several holes are drilled in the bottom for better drainage. The craft is primed, painted. Cacti can be planted in containers.
When decorating the landscape design of a garden, a vegetable garden, you must first study how to make crafts from cement and correctly arrange them on the site. Do not put too many crafts in a small area (2-3 original compositions will be quite enough), figures are too large. In a large garden, on the other hand, too small products run the risk of getting lost. Compliance with these conditions will turn the site into a beautiful, unique and cozy place.
