A beautiful site is not only a weathered garden, a clean garden, flowering flower beds. The attractiveness and comfort of your cottage can give charming crafts from plastic bottles for the garden.
What can be done from simple bottles and how? - Read further in this article.
"Three pigs"
For such crafts from plastic bottles for the garden you need:
- white paint (enamel) - about half a liter;
- plastic bottles (five liters) - three pieces;
- red paint (enamel) - about three hundred milliliters;
- knife and scissors;
- plastic bottles (one liter) - six pieces;
- black paint (enamel) - a little;
- construction stapler.
Making crafts from plastic bottles for the garden:
The upper and lower parts are cut off from the bottles - these are “piglet legs”. From the remaining central sections, “ears” and “ponytails” are cut out.
“Piglets” bodies, as you might have guessed, will be bottles, the volume of which is five liters. To attach all the details of this craft from plastic bottles to the garden, you need to make cuts on the “bodies of piglets” with a knife. Each individual fragment is additionally attached to the “body” by a construction stapler. When you collect all the "pigs" - you need to prepare the paint. To paint their “bodies”, it is necessary to mix red and white paint, it is impossible to specify the exact color ratio, since the color of the paint can be of different saturations. White paint is also required for the eye, so you need to leave it a little.
After you have painted the “piglets” and the paint has dried, you can draw eyes for them. Your craft is ready. It can be placed next to apple trees or other fruit trees.
"Collecting honey" - crafts from plastic bottles for the garden.
To create a composition you will need:
- white paint (enamel) - about half a liter;
- plastic bottles (half a liter) - ten pieces;
- red paint (enamel) - about one liter;
- knives and scissors;
- yellow paint (enamel) - about one liter;
- plastic bottles (one liter) - ten pieces;
- black paint (enamel) - about one liter;
- strong thread or lace - ten meters.
Making crafts from plastic bottles for the garden:
From the bottles, the volume of which is one liter, the upper and lower parts are cut off. Of these details, flowers of various shapes are made. Finished crafts are painted with red, yellow, white and pink paints. From the remaining pieces of bottles (middles), “wings” and “antennae” for “bees” are cut out. “Wings” are painted in gray color, which can be obtained by mixing white and black colors. "Mustache" is to add color to black paint.
Five hundred milliliters of plastic bottles create “bee bodies” - containers are painted alternately in yellow and black. Previously, holes are made in them for the wings and pulling the thread. All finished parts of the composition are laid aside until completely dry. Finished parts are assembled in one piece - the composition "Collection of honey." “Bees” and “flowers” should be placed on trees and attached with threads. "Flowers" should be located slightly below the "bees."
You can also create exclusive “apples” or chic “butterfly moths” from plastic bottles.
In order to make one "apple" is required:
- two bottoms from different bottles;
- red paint;
- a stalk with leaves made of colored paper.
The bottoms need to be painted and allowed to dry. Then make a hole for the stalk in one of them. Connect all parts. If you attach a thread, then such a wonderful "apple" can be hung on a tree.
To create moths you need:
- the central part of several bottles;
- paint blue and black;
- wire;
- glue;
- beads and bugles.
The wings are made from bottles. With the help of paint, patterns are applied, you can decorate the wings with beads, if it is glued with glue.
The antennae and bodies are made of wire, beads and glass beads. All parts are interconnected by wire.