The amount of garbage that each person "produces" is growing year by year. The problem becomes global, as flying plastic bags and the plastic bottles lying around everywhere have already wet the eyes of everyone. I am burning, it turns out, you can help, and even for the benefit of yourself. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how diverse and, importantly, useful crafts from plastic bottles can be done in just a matter of minutes. Well, or hours ... Depends on the scale.
The buildings
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:
- density - 1.38-1.4 g / cm³,
- softening temperature (t dim.) - 245 ° C,
- melting point (t pl.) - 260 ° C,
- glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 ° C,
- decomposition temperature - 350 °C.
Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made decomposes for more than 200 years. The same property makes it possible to use practically waste raw materials as a building material. Craftsmen are already building houses from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, fences. Worked out various technologies- the approach is quite serious.
How to build a house out of plastic bottles
The main idea is to pour into bottles bulk material, screw them with lids and use them like bricks. Fill the bottles with sand, soil. Sand is preferable, as there is too much plant debris in the soil that can rot. It must be sifted, dried, bottled, well compacted, topped up even to the very top. Get kind of bricks.
To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the "bricks". There are options here too. It can be an ordinary mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, or clay mortar can be made. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine from the side of the covers. Later, these "grids" will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so alignment is indispensable.
We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse
From plastic bottles you can build a greenhouse or greenhouse. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary that the light passes in sufficient quantities. For the construction of a barn, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what is inside.
The first technology - one to one
The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, it will not work to fold the walls so that they retain heat - it will “siphon” into curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. It is also necessary to prepare pins or rods - bottles are strung on them. Their diameter is small so that the neck passes freely. Now you can start building a greenhouse / barn from plastic bottles.
For the construction of a greenhouse or a barn, poles are dug in at the corners. Frames are assembled from timber according to the size of the walls. These frames will be the base for the bottle walls. We collect them (frames) on the ground and already ready-made fasten to dug-in poles. When making the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.
We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, string them on a pin. From such "columns" we assemble walls, a roof
The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles on the pins, directing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a row of the desired height, we attach it to the frame. You can fasten with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails ... In any way available to you. We press the second row to the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten in this position. So, row after row, we collect all the walls, then the roof.
Using the same technology, you can make a gazebo. But there is already no need for tightness, so you can collect figured and colored containers. So it will turn out even more interesting (an example is in the photo).
The second technology - we sew plastic
Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. The central part is cut out of them, getting a square-shaped piece of plastic. Pieces are sewn together in long strips. In the strip, the pieces are arranged so that they are twisted in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are arranged so that they are twisted in different directions. As a result, they equalize each other. Finished canvases are nailed to the frame. On this building their greenhouses plastic bottles finished.
Such a plan "sheathing" for greenhouses perfectly tolerates winters, it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to adjust the humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will push autumn back to you, and it will speed up the arrival of spring.
You can sew plastic for the greenhouse manually, but it's not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious Sewing machines. The old Podolsk cars cope with this task. Others may have problems.
Fence and fence
How to make a fence out of plastic bottles different ways. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use the bottles as bricks. The technology is the same as when building a house. To avoid plaster (after all, there is a high risk that it will collapse) - select the color of the plastic to obtain the necessary rust. But in this case, you will have to look for "building material" of the same diameter or from different sizes lay out patterns. In general, the creative process, no matter how you look at it.
You can also make filling for the fence from plastic bottles. Make a frame, say, from wood, and come up with a beautiful filling from curly containers and their parts.
Furniture from improvised materials: recycle plastic bottles
From plastic bottles you can make not only a house and a fence, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers instead of wood for the frame. With tightly screwed lids, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled in blocks, they are quite able to withstand loads of up to 100 kg or more.
A bed made of plastic bottles ... needed good mattress, and the base is not too difficult to make
Although the furniture is made differently, the general algorithm of actions is the same:
- Select "building material" of the same height, tighten the covers well.
- collect blocks right size, fastening them with tape.
- Having collected the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, add furniture foam.
The whole trick is that the bottles fit one to the other very tightly and do not move. The slightest play can lead to the destruction of the structure. Therefore, collect the blocks slowly, carefully fixing. You can fold the bottles in layers, securing each layer in several places. For the inner layers, it is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.
Ottomans / banquettes
The easiest way is to make an ottoman or a bench out of plastic bottles. We act in the order described above. It is necessary to find bottles of the same height. It is better if they are of the same shape - it is easier to collect. From plastic containers with tightly screwed lids, we assemble the base in the form of a cylinder. It is desirable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - so the bench will not turn over.
Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting base radius - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We fix them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the dimensions obtained, cut out the necessary spare parts. We sew a cover from furniture fabric, a color that matches the interior.
Such a bench can be not only round. It is quite possible to make a square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be weighted by pouring water. But water is not a very reliable business. It is better to pour sand. Heavier and more reliable.
Sofas, chairs, armchairs
If you need furniture of greater height than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find "material" of the same shape and height. The first bottle is left intact, the cork is screwed tightly (you can pour sand so that it does not turn over). The bottom of the other is cut off, put one on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move any further, no matter how hard you try. If the resulting height is enough - great, if not - put on the next one. In this way, collect the rows of the desired height, then fasten them into blocks.
There is another way. It is more reliable in the sense that the bottles are held not by compressed air, but by a mechanical stop. And the walls in them are double, which is also important. Minus - more work, more raw materials needed. The whole process in a step by step illustration.
- We take a bottle, cut it approximately in the middle of the height (the upper part with the neck is smaller).
- The upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) is inserted all the way into the bottom.
- We take a whole one, of the same size and shape, insert it upside down into the prepared structure.
- We cut the third one in about half and put the lower part on top (with a lid).
From such modules we assemble blocks desired configuration, fastening them with tape. Don't feel sorry for the scotch. You can first fasten two bottles, then assemble large blocks from double ones.
As you understand, with this technology, there are a lot of tops from bottles (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical household items.
Flower making methods
The most common plastic bottle crafts are garden figurines and flowers. Pro garden figurines read There are others interesting ideas, but many interesting little animals and insects have been collected. And we will tell about flowers from plastic bottles below - these are probably those crafts from plastic bottles that give the most pleasure. The process is simple, the possibilities are many, the result is amazing.
You have probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you need to do is find a bottle of a beautiful color, cut off the bottom of it. Now you already have a pretty flower. In the middle, you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from a plastic strip cut with noodles, or glue beads inside, but a little more about everything.
Using the power of fire
To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it is more convenient with a candle). If available, take pliers, tweezers or pliers - hold the workpiece during processing. You will also need acrylic paints, you may need glue and beads. The whole manufacturing process comes down to several steps:
There are a lot of options here. Just start doing. Right away, it may not work out perfectly, but you will understand what and how can be corrected. See more pictures from step by step photos the process of making flowers from plastic bottles.
The simplest
For beginner needleworkers, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles. simple forms to decorate the garden. In this case, milk containers can also be used. In order not to paint plastic, look for colored ones. It doesn't matter if they are transparent or not. They can be combined, getting flowers of different shapes.
To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, a core of a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy will do). Here is the buttercup.
Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warming up a little at the base). Make the middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint the transparent plastic with acrylic paint.
The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, twist it into a roll and then heat it. Get a fluffy core.
It's all about the shape ... Despite the imperfection, they decorate the site
The topic is really inexhaustible. Flowers from plastic bottles are made in a variety of ways. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much about skill, but about different tastes and desires.
Useful ideas for the home
PET containers turned out to be so good stuff that they do a lot of useful things. In this section, we have collected useful crafts from plastic bottles that can be used on the farm.
For the kitchen and beyond
If you cut off the bottom of a bottle with a capacity of 2-3 liters, you get a bowl or a bowl, and so that its edges are even, they can be melted on a heated iron. But so that the sole does not have to be cleaned later, use a special silicone pad. If not, you can do it through a sheet of parchment for baking.
Product container. Plastic is food grade...
From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. 1-2 cm of plastic should remain around the thread (the edges are melted using already known technology). Now it will not be difficult to hermetically close any package: we pass it through the cut off neck, wrap it outward, twist the lid.
From the bottom of the bottles attached to the bar, you get a great newspaper shelf (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.
From plastic cut into strips, you can weave different shapes of containers. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips. certain thickness. It is necessary to cut in a spiral - as a result, rather long strips are obtained. If their length is not enough, they sew perfectly.
Lampshades
You can even make a lampshade, but on one condition: you will use similar crafts from plastic bottles in co lamps - only they almost do not heat up. Plastic is incompatible with other lamps. We describe three ways to make a lampshade from plastic bottle.
First. You need a large bottle. We draw it into strips of the same width. At the beginning and at the end of each strip, we make holes with a heated soldering iron or a nail heated on fire. We insert scissors into this hole, cut. Get even stripes.
When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, bring it out through the hole in the bottom, with reverse side attach decor. You can - a button, you can - a pebble suitable color. Now, pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shape of a lampshade. You can put a light bulb in it.
Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut a part of the bottle with a neck into strips, wrapped the strips and fixed them on the neck. To give the desired shape, the place of the fold can be warmed up a little over the flame of a candle or lighter. The resulting "flowers" are attached to the base. Here we get an unusual design.
They also make lampshades from bottoms. You need to find a sufficient number of identical bottles, cut off their bottom, glue them together using universal glue (choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues plastic and quickly hardens.
flower vases
Making a vase from a plastic bottle - what could be easier ... Just cut off the neck and you're done. But there is a technique that allows you to get patterned walls. You will need a soldering iron with the thinnest tip. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: with the help of a heated sting, you burn out the patterns.
Magically! To make the picture appear brighter, we take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in an ordinary can, but it is faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.
Here are the options...
Photo Ideas
Crafts from plastic bottles are such a vast topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What is nice, knowing a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do by looking only at the photos. So here we put together a few ideas that we found interesting.
You can even make a boat ....
And it's just a decoration ....
Masters and beginners use crafts from plastic bottles for the interior, as garden decor and in the form of practical furniture. Colored plastic bottle caps are a great material for mosaic panels on walls and fences. Best Ideas With detailed instructions and the photo is easy to embody in the country, turning a bare area into a "glade of fairy tales", and filling the house with useful little things.
One of the craziest pens in Runet, Roman Ursu, presented a crazy video in which he showed 70 ways to use plastic bottles.
Advantages of crafts from plastic containers
A well-made souvenir or trinket will eventually develop into a hobby if there are no limits to fantasy. Do not cease to amaze summer residents who have moved from simple hedges on a wire to buildings that delight in scope.
From the available material, which many people throw away, someone constructs:
- greenhouse;
- carport;
- summer shower or bath;
- country toilet or shed;
- summer gazebo or sun visor;
- a teremok for children or a playground;
- sandbox with decorative borders;
- various temporary structures on the site.
Plastic eventually becomes a real environmental disaster - it is difficult to recycle. But it is enough to involve all those who are not indifferent to the cleaning of the territory, and there will be a whole mountain of empty PET bottles for the construction of a greenhouse, a cascading flower bed or vertical gardening. The only drawback is the long collection of the same container, since the containers are produced in different colors and volumes.
To create an original decoration you need:
- interesting idea;
- ready-made role model (illustration);
- craft material with tools;
- step by step guide to the training plan.
In the hands of a real master, plastic bottles take on a second life, becoming functional objects. Souvenirs are best done on a seasonal basis. For example, christmas toys make in winter, practical country buildings- in summer, and in spring and autumn, it remains to build a "glade of fairy tales" near the house for children.
Furniture and interior items from plastic bottles
Furniture made from plastic bottles looks like a masterpiece that not everyone can afford. They will need a lot of plastic containers of the same sample. Sofas and pouffes impress with their design and comfort, not inferior to real furniture. There is nothing complicated if the sofa is made in blocks - seat, back, sidewalls. If there are not enough containers, sofa blocks can be made alternately. It is better when they collect bottles from one drink, for example, two-liter kvass or lemonade.
The principle of "assembling" furniture from bottles is simple - they are exposed in layers and tightly wrapped with tape. To make the furniture softer and springier, a little air is released from each bottle and twisted tightly. In the place where the cap is, cut out the cap from another bottle and wrap it with tape. It turns out a block, which has a bottom on both sides - this is the basis of the furniture.
Then it all depends on the imagination, the type of furniture and the number of bottles available. We wrapped 7 containers of the same volume with tape, we get the basis for an ottoman. What will be its appearance and style depends on the master. For a soft seat, you will need a round pillow or a block of foam rubber according to the size of the top. The cover is cut out according to the size of the ottoman in the form of a cylinder, and it is convenient to insert a zipper along the side seams, but it is easier to sew up the upholstery tightly.
For construction coffee table you will need 4 racks of plastic bottles and a plywood shield as a tabletop, which can be hidden with a long tablecloth. In a similar way they do convenient stand under a laptop or a portable table for giving. For large furniture(sofa, deck chair or chair) from plastic bottles, it will take a lot of patience and source material.
Useful little things for the house from plastic bottles
Flowers and vases
It will not be difficult to decorate a schoolchild's bedroom or a children's room with crafts from plastic containers. You can build a whole bunch of artificial flowers. Put the resulting chrysanthemums, daisies or roses in a vase of the same material, adding the middle with diode bulbs on an insulated wire. This is how a night lamp of extraordinary beauty will look like, where a weak light shimmers in plastic petals.
Advice: To give the leaves a special shape, use the heating of the blanks and folding the corners with tongs!
To place a homemade bouquet, you will need a suitable vessel, just cutting off part of the bottle is not aesthetically pleasing. The edges of the cut are marked with a ruler to make a cut, fixing the result by heating the bends. A small transparent bottle is cut off to the very top, about a half is cut off from a large container. We choose a material with a corrugation or a “waist” in the middle so that there is an interesting base.
Then we do as fantasy allows, but we bend the edges beautifully. A fringed cut is obtained from vertical or diagonal notches plastic base. The resulting strips are evenly bent to the outside.
Note! It is important that all the notches and the depth of the slot are exactly the same, then the whole product will come out neat.
Depending on which edge is desired, the strips of the vase (the edges of any other product) are fixed in different ways:
- curly bend;
- stapler staples;
- fusing;
- bonding with transparent polymers.
Planters, flower pots and containers for seedlings
color plastic container in the form of bottles and bottles of different sizes suitable as containers for growing live plants. It is very easy to make a fragrant balcony from 3-liter tanks - a cascade of ampelous petunias. Fragrant flowers hanging from cut containers will help make the dream of a beautiful piece of paradise come true.
Large bottles and tanks cut in half are hung upside down and with a lid. At the bottom it is recommended to lay large pebbles for drainage. Excess water after watering will go to the plants in the lower rows. In the same containers, plants are grown without soil - in a hydroponic way with the addition of fertilizers. Fresh herbs and seedlings (in urban and country conditions) are also germinated in prepared plastic bottles.
Advice: Use compact shape and the ability to hang containers for vertical gardening with automatic watering. In the absence of the owners, watering cans with water immersed in the ground will cope with moistening the plants.
Traps and feeders
Using plastic bottles, you can scare away pests or attract birds to the site. To do this, the tank is used as a feeder, and at the roots fruit trees place traps from bottles of chemicals. From a double plastic container, craftsmen build traps for wasps, where they fly into sweet water and cannot get back.
Equipment of the suburban area
At the dacha "in haste" it is easy to build crafts from plastic bottles in the form of an impromptu washbasin by hanging a full bottle upside down. It is worth unscrewing the lid a little, and a small stream of water will help to wash and wash your hands. It is also worth making a bench and organizing lighting with beautiful owls or gnomes of their plastic. Any garden decor for inspiration - on 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.
From a similar ball, suspended somewhere nearby, it is convenient to knit, pulling the thread from the ball inserted inside. Nail polish or a lipstick collection is easier to find in a makeshift zipper box.
New Year's decor
Original all seasonal flower beds
The summer season is over, and home-made plastic flowers are replacing the living flower beds, which are not inferior in beauty to real ones. Their advantage is the ability to decorate the territory at any time. These flower beds fade against the background of living plants, but in early spring And late autumn only they attract admiring glances.
For daisies you will need small plastic containers white color(petals), yellow (middle) and green (leaves). You will also need an awl and a candle (for heating), “liquid nails”, scissors and hard wire in green insulation.
We cut the base of the white bottle to the center, marking 16 segments - these are the petals. We bend the neat edges over the candle flame, we also make 2-3 chamomile corollas, which we connect in the center with an awl. Here the stem with leaves is fixed on the green wire, closing with the middle. We fill the center of the flower with a yellow basket with small cuts from 2 finely dissected circles with a fringe bent over the candle. We supplement the flower with green sepals from the bottom, collect all the parts and fix them together.
From the remaining pieces of green plastic, cut out leaves with a hole at the base (for stringing) and attach desired shape warming over the flame of a candle. We fasten leaves on a wire handle, they should slightly bend around it. It remains for chamomile to make a few "companions" and find a decent place for the bouquet.
All seasonal flower beds include mosaic compositions from containers filled with earth. Wall panels are made from covers. "Butterfly" or " ladybug"- in different versions.
Crafts from plastic bottles for the playground
The incredible beauty of a bird with plastic plumage is a whole “field of fairy tales”. This is a peacock or firebird, swans, doves, bullfinches and parrots. All of them are made from empty PET bottles according to the general principle:
- Design an aesthetic bird head with eyes and a beak;
- Build the torso and neck;
- String plastic plumage;
- Provide wings and tail;
- Plant on paws or fix on the selected surface.
Plastic swans can be fenced off with 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 decor, for example, desert island with palm trees and parrots.
The material is collected for a whole year, but it is easier to involve neighbors and acquaintances in the idea of \u200b\u200b"ecological" cleaning. In the yards there are special containers for plastic - it is much easier to collect.
Preparation for work - removal of labels and glue residues from plastic bottles, it is important to rinse well and discard the deformed material.
If vertical hedges, they need to be filled. Depending on the idea, sand, stone chips or dry soil are poured into PET bottles, burying 1/3 with the neck down.
For selected purposes, plastics of different elasticity are used. Heat treatment is required for filigree work (flowers). It is important not to overheat the fragments cut into strips.
Fairy tale characters sometimes require additional painting. For example, pink piglets for a playground are best covered with an aerosol spray, fixed with transparent acrylic paint.
Plastic bottles are an excellent material in skillful hands. Using them as a basis, it is easy to teach children a lesson in environmental education and fill the house or yard with practical things. With a creative approach, the color, volume and shape of plastic bottles themselves will prompt new ideas for an exciting creative process.
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Products made of plastic are used everywhere, as they require less investment to create than products made from other materials.
However, discarded plastic can take hundreds or even thousands of years to decompose, which is why it is very important to recycle it or refuse plastic altogether.
The second option is very difficult to implement today, so recycling comes to the fore. Plastic can be given to special recycling plants, or you can make useful things out of it.
In this collection, you will learn how to make various useful things for your home and garden from plastic bottles.
1. Do-it-yourself ottoman from plastic bottles step by step
You will need:
Plastic bottles
Foam rubber
Knitting needles
Ruler
Scissors
Sewing machine
1. Wash and dry several plastic bottles with caps on. Gather all the bottles in a circle and tape them together.
2. Cut out two circles from the cardboard so that they cover the top and bottom of all connected bottles. Tape these circles to the connected bottles with tape.
3. Prepare two rectangular pieces of foam rubber and one round piece. Rectangular pieces need to cover the side collected bottles, and a round piece of the upper part. Secure everything with tape.
4. From any fabric, make a cover for your seat. If you like knitting, you can knit a cover.
2. We make a do-it-yourself faucet extension from plastic bottles
It will be more convenient for children to wash their hands.
3. Products from plastic bottles with your own hands: a pocket for a rag / sponge
1. Cut out the desired shape from the bottle.
2. Finish the edges with sandpaper.
3. Hang on the faucet.
4. How to make a plastic bottle bag
Photo instruction
Video instruction
5. What can be made from plastic bottles: cups for storing cosmetics
6. Plastic bottle feeder for a cat or dog
There are many ways to make bird feeders, but this bird feeder is designed for cats and dogs.
You will need:
2 large plastic bottles
Scissors
1. In the middle of one bottle, you need to make holes slightly larger than the neck of another bottle.
2. The second bottle must be cut in half across.
3. Fill the bottom with food.
4. Connect the parts and open the cover.
7. Vase for sweets: a master class crafts from plastic bottles
You will need:
Record, round plastic or thick cardboard
6 two-liter plastic bottles
Wooden or plastic rod (you can use an even branch of a suitable diameter and length)
Super glue
Spray paint and glitter (optional)
1. We make the basis for crafts. To do this, you need a plate, ceramic or glass plate. In the middle of the plate, you need to increase the hole to 10 mm with a drill.
2. The drill will also need to make holes in the center of the three plastic bottle pieces you will be using. It's easier to drill from the inside out.
3. Cut off the bottom of each of the 6 plastic bottles. Put 3 parts on the rod and secure with glue. Glue the remaining parts to the base (plate) around the rod. If desired, you can paint everything with spray paint.
It is worth noting that the rod is held on the base thanks to the plastic part, which is glued to the plate, as well as to the rod itself.
4. If you wish, you can decorate your vase.
8. DIY wicker baskets from plastic bottles (master class)
And here is a variant of a wicker basket made of plastic cocktail tubes:
9. Crafts for the garden from plastic bottles (photo): broom
1. Remove the label from the plastic bottle.
2. Use a utility knife to cut off the bottom of the bottle.
3. Start making cuts on the bottle, leaving 1 cm between each.
4. Cut off the neck of the bottle.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for 3 more bottles. Leave one bottle with a neck.
6. Place all cut bottles without a neck on top of one bottle with a neck. You will get a blank for a broom.
7. Cut off the top of one bottle and put it on top of the resulting blank.
8. Make two holes through all the bottles and insert the wire into them and wrap the ends.
9. Insert a stick or rod into the neck and secure with a nail. You can also use glue.
Video instruction
10. Modular boxes: a description of crafts from plastic bottles
You will need:
Several large plastic bottles or canisters
Stationery knife
Scissors
Marker or pencil
Strong thread.
1. Use a utility knife and/or scissors to cut a suitable hole from a bottle or canister. It shouldn't be too small for everything to fit, or too big for the plastic structure to fall apart.
2. Start connecting the bottles with a strong thread. Start with two, then add two more already connected to them, and so on. Tie strong knots. You can also try using hot glue or super glue (Moment glue).
3. Assemble the design that is convenient for you. You decide how many rows and "floors" to make. However, it is worth knowing that the higher the design, the less stable it is. You may need to once again secure the entire structure with a rope.
4. It's time to clean up the scattered things on the shelf.
Unnecessary things that, unfortunately, litter in abundance today environment, can successfully serve building material And available material for all kinds of crafts, the main thing is to have enough imagination, desire and basic skills in handling improvised tools.
You may be surprised to learn what a huge variety of crafts - from elementary trifles to quite presentable and comfortable furniture - can be made, for example, from used plastic bottles from mineral water and drinks! With the wide distribution of such containers, craftsmen paid close attention to it, effectively and often ingeniously using the characteristic shape and strength-plastic properties of the material. A lot of opportunities for creativity are provided by separate caps from these bottles.
Fantasy manifests itself well with experience, and experience, as everyone knows, comes with time. We suggest you take advantage of the available developments of craftsmen: repeating them with my own hands, you will definitely have your own unique ideas, which, with the development of skills in working with simple tools like a construction knife and hot melt adhesive, you can perfectly implement in the material and make an example for other novice home-made craftsmen to follow! Therefore, if you do not yet have an exciting (and, importantly, useful!) Hobby, it's time to turn to a plastic bottle. And we will help you with advice and ideas for the first, and not only, crafts.
Tools for crafts from plastic bottles
The main advantage of such a hobby is outright cheapness with huge creative possibilities. All that you have to purchase is a convenient and high-quality construction knife, a hot glue gun, an awl, scissors and, perhaps, a sheet of the smallest sandpaper: for a start this will be enough, in the future paints and some other materials may be required, which also will not put a significant burden on your personal budget. Much can still be found, as they say, underfoot and near the nearest garages - wire, colored cable insulation, etc. Over time, a useful ability to notice necessary items where an ignorant person simply does not notice them.
An important advantage of used plastic bottles is their absolute safety for health, unlike, they say, from old ones. car tires. The material of the bottles does not cause allergic reactions, it is very difficult for them to get injured.
Preparatory stage of work with plastic bottles
At first, one or two bottles of the same type will be enough, for more grandiose projects, however, they will need much more, and this is the main problem that requires time and some effort to solve. Great options are to involve relatives and acquaintances, friends and classmates in the collection of plastic bottles, who, instead of throwing them in the trash can, will collect them for you. The process of collecting suitable bottles for creativity resembles the preparation of the desired types of wood by a master cabinetmaker, who must have enough suitable material in stock.
Many summer residents use a variety of improvised materials to decorate their site, one of the most simple options is the manufacture various decorations from plastic bottles. The use of this option has a lot of advantages: the cheapness and availability of the material, ease of operation and the ability to manufacture a wide variety of crafts. You do not need to have special skills and use a special tool, everything is very, very simple.
What do you need to work
As you know, plastic bottles are often simply thrown away, meanwhile, the material can be given a second life, especially since this requires very little:
| bottles | Products of various colors and sizes are suitable for work - from the smallest to the largest. In some cases, the color of the products matters, but if desired, any materials can be used. |
| Scissors and sharp knife | Almost any work involves a lot of cutting, sometimes it is more convenient to use scissors, but sometimes a knife is better. It all depends primarily on what is more convenient for you to work. |
| Hard wire or metal rods | These materials are needed when creating products that are additionally reinforced with a frame to give reliability and resistance to deformation effects. It is important to choose the optimal elasticity option so that it can provide sufficient frame stability. |
| Paint for plastic | Any composition that fits well on plastic will do. The choice of colors depends on what color design you have chosen for future designs. Acrylic-based formulations are most often used, their price is low, and the quality is quite high. |
Important!
Remember that all products will be located on the street and be exposed to many adverse effects: the sun, high humidity, temperature fluctuations and so on.
That is why it is necessary to use weatherproof compounds that are able to maintain color and structure for at least several years.
Main use cases
As noted above, you can make the most various crafts from plastic bottles for giving. It is important to choose an option that you like and that will organically fit into the decor of your site.
palm trees
A very popular option due to a fairly simple workflow and an excellent result in the end. The most important thing is that, having learned how to make palm trees, you can easily make any other tree, since the principle of work is exactly the same.
Consider the manufacturing technology in stages:
- To work, you need a knife or scissors, a wire or a metal rod for making a frame and the bottles themselves. For leaves, it is best to use green products, and for the alignment - brown. IN last resort, the trunk can be painted, but it is still better to make the branches green initially.
- First, brown bottles are cut in half and teeth are cut along the upper edge as shown in the photo.. It is worth considering that a very large number of blanks will be needed for work, so take care of the necessary stock in advance so that work does not stop halfway.
- Next, a strong pin with a diameter of 5-8 mm is taken, you can use fittings, or you can use any other metal element that is suitable in height. It should be borne in mind that part of the element will go into the ground, for reliable fixation, for big crafts it may even be necessary to concret the base in order to give the necessary stability.
- Next, the blanks are strung on a pin, after which the corner elements are bent to give the trunk even more naturalness and resemblance to a real tree.. Of course, bends can not be done, but with them similar crafts from plastic bottles for a summer residence look much more interesting.
Important!
Be sure to remove the labels from the bottles ahead of time, as they can ruin the look of the finished product.
Sometimes they peel off easily, and if it is difficult to remove them, then you can place the products in hot water for a few seconds - then the process will be much easier and faster.
- Next, green products are taken, first of all, the bottom is cut off in them, after which the petals of future branches are cut. They can have a variety of configurations - from straight to curly cut. Everything again depends on your desire and preferences, fantasy is not limited to anything.
- Next, the finished leaves are strung on pins, after which they can be bent to give even more naturalism.. Lastly, all the elements are connected to each other, the easiest way to do this is by welding, but if there is no equipment, then you can use special clamping clamps, which are sold in all construction fastener stores.
flowerbeds
Compact flower bed:
- You can take any container as a base, the main thing is to choose optimal size, a barrel cut in half, a stack of car tires or something else will do.
- Next, the base is installed in the right place and prepared cement-sand mortar in the ratio of 1 part cement to 2 parts sand. Water is added until the consistency of thick sour cream is obtained.
- Next, bottles are taken, while both plastic and glass products can be used.. The walls of the container are coated with a thick layer of solution, after which the necks of the bottles are stuck into it. The rows are staggered, you can use different color options to get a pattern or ornament.
- After the solution hardens (after 1-2 days), the container can be filled, the bottom layer is gravel or crushed stone, it will serve as drainage, and the top one is fertile soil, into which flowers will be planted. The solution, which is visible from above, can be decorated with any material at hand.
Compositions from bottoms
The instructions for making such a composition are quite simple:
- Take half bottles, they can be of various colors, this allows you to create the most unusual compositions.
- A hill is poured from the ground, and halves are stuck into it, depending on the shape of the slide and the color of the elements, you can create any flower beds.
Decoration of flower beds and beds
You can not make full-fledged crafts from bottles to give, but use them as decorative element, which, among other things, also has a practical function, which we will consider below:
- You can take products of the same color, or you can use any options, but later they will have to be painted to improve appearance compositions. The most important thing is that the size and shape of the bottles are approximately the same.
- Next, it is necessary to cut off the necks approximately at the place where the narrowing begins, after which the resulting containers are filled with white sand or black soil- this will give them rigidity and simplify installation.
- Filled blanks are dug in along the perimeter of flower beds or beds, this design will help to give originality to the summer cottage. In addition, such improvised fences make it possible to prevent spilling of earth on the paths - they can be sprinkled with gravel to further improve the appearance of the garden.
planter
Another very attractive option is a planter, such crafts from plastic bottles for giving are very easy to work with, but the result is excellent.
There are several options:
- The easiest solution is to cut off the top of the bottle(then you get a straight pot) or its bottom (then you get a conical one). Naturally, it is best to use large containers, they can fit almost any plant. Products can be decorated with paints, pebbles or shells - it all depends on your imagination.
- You can cut off the side of the bottles and make hanging planters, in this way you can decorate any wall. This option allows you to decorate nondescript surfaces.
- From large containers, you can make flowerpots in the form of various animals or birds, this option is somewhat more difficult to implement, but the result is much more interesting and attractive.
Other options
Do-it-yourself country crafts from plastic bottles do not always have a large size, these can be quite tiny decorative elements.
There are a lot of options, and we will consider only a few of them:
- From the bottoms, which often remain in the process of work, you can make various figures of animals or fairy-tale characters.. In this case, staining is also required in order to achieve maximum similarity.
- Using a grid with large cells, you can create flower arrangement . You can do it even easier: just create flowers, in which the bottom of the bottle will be the middle, and the sliced \u200b\u200belements will be the petals. How the plastic is cut also depends on what happens in the end.
- If necessary, even a fence can be decorated with bottles- such a fence will last for many years and will perfectly fulfill its intended purpose - protection against the penetration of animals. (See also the article.)
- You can do this: just decorate the products in the form of fairy-tale characters and put them in the garden or in the garden. Such figurines are very popular with children, while you can create a whole fairy-tale world in how many hours.
The use of traffic jams
In the process of work, very often a large number of caps remain, which can also be used to make quite interesting products and compositions:
- Corks are great for creating bright and elegant curtains for a summer residence.. The process of their manufacture is extremely simple: each cap is punched with an awl or a screwdriver with a thin drill, after which all the elements are strung on a fishing line or cord.
- Another entertaining option is to create pictures from caps.. You can make any composition, the more elements are used, the more colorful the picture will turn out.
Conclusion
Do not throw away plastic containers, because with their help you can make your own almost for free. country cottage area unique. The video in this article will clearly show some of the manufacturing options considered.
