Don't you like things to disappear and try to squeeze the most out of the surrounding objects? Are you worried about the environment, looking for unusual budget jewelry, or just love to create with your own hands? You have no idea how many interesting things you can do from ordinary plastic bottles!
Crafts for a summer residence and a garden
Old and unnecessary plastic bottles in the garden and in the country are a real find! They can be used to make not only decor, but also quite functional and useful little things. Here are just a few ideas!
Flower bed decoration
First of all, unnecessary plastic is perfect for fencing your favorite flower beds. If you have accumulated many identical bottles of the same size - their finest hour has come. Just fill them with sand and bury them in the ground around a flower bed like a palisade, and then paint them in your favorite bright colors.
Bottles of different sizes and shapes can be used to make beautiful tropical flowers. In addition to them, you will need ordinary glue, scissors, an awl, thick strong thread, wire, paints, beads and various little things for decoration.
Cut the neck off the bottle, then cut and shape the petals. An interesting rounded shape will be given by ordinary heating: the edges of the candle have fallen off and the flowers are formed by folding and folding. Thick wire is good for the stem and thin wire for the stamens. A large bead will make an excellent core, after which it is enough to put the flower together.
Garden figurines
Almost any garden figure can be made from plastic bottles: from the beloved gnomes to tall tropical palms. Palm trees are the easiest to work with: just take the brown and green bottles, cut off the lower parts and string them one on top of the other.
It is easy to make cute pigs from large five-liter bottles and several disposable glasses. You only need to glue the ears with a ponytail and draw a muzzle. Peacocks, rabbits, flamingos and other animals look spectacular. And the main advantage is that you can create such entertaining crafts with the whole family together with children.
Green wall
You can also make a real living green wall from plastic bottles - in fact, they are used as flowerpots. Cut out a large rectangular hole on one side of the bottle, and on the opposite, punch a few holes with an awl for drainage. Pour the soil inside, plant grass or flowers there - and repeat until you collect the required number of flowerpots.
Connect them together using a strong cord, sisal or other suspensions. You will get an impromptu "curtain", which will be enough to fix on the base. And if there are too many bottles, attach them directly to the wall or fence in any arbitrary order at your discretion.
Bird Feeders
Making a feeder out of plastic bottles is as easy as shelling pears, and bottles of any size and shape will do. Cut a large hole on one or both sides so the birds can get to the grain. File or emery the edges to avoid sharp corners and burrs.
Attach a stone or other weighting material from below - and lightweight plastic will not constantly turn the wind over. Attach the feeder to the wall, fence, or simply hang it from a tree, fill it with grain and wait for the first feathered guests!
A lane of plastic bottle caps
An interesting and unusual option is a path of bottle caps that have already been used. Laying them is as easy as shelling pears - in fact, they are simply pressed into the previously leveled ground. Of course, it will take time, because there are a lot of covers and they are small, but the fancy mosaic will surely delight you and your household!
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Crafts for home
Waste plastic bottles can be adapted not only in the country. Even at home, they will be very useful, because this is an excellent accessible basis for any creativity. Share your options!
Lamps and lampshades
From a few plastic bottles, a store frame for a lamp and a dozen ties, you can make a very unusual and effective lamp shade for a chandelier. Remove the caps from the bottles, cut off the bottom and cut them into different curved strips 10-20 mm thick. Bend them in different directions, intertwine and form fancy petals.
Insert the neck of the bottle into the frame and tighten with a zip tie - you will need about a dozen of these "colors". The more magnificent and abstract your "hedgehog" turns out - the better. Make sure that the plastic lampshade does not come into direct contact with the incandescent lamp, otherwise it will melt!
A spectacular night light will also turn out if you wrap a simple frame from a cut bottle with a thick sheet of paper or cardboard with decorative slots and petals. And the top of a five-liter bottle is an almost finished lampshade for a table lamp, which is easy enough to paint and decorate.
Flower pots and vases
Making a flowerpot from a plastic bottle is easy - just cut off the top and punch the drainage holes from the bottom. And then paint, cover with cloth, wrap with threads or decorate the pot with any other available materials.
A pot on a leg, reminiscent of a glass, looks interesting: for it you will need not the lower, but the upper part of the bottle. The rest of the mechanism is the same, only for stability to the lid, you need to glue a wide and stable stand.
Plastic bottles will make a good improvised greenhouse for seedlings on the windowsill. The “cover” of the upper half protects sensitive sprouts from adverse external conditions.
Candlesticks
When creating candlesticks from plastic bottles, you can completely let your imagination run wild. There is only one limitation - plastic should not come into contact with open fire. Therefore, you will not be able to make a semblance of an icon lamp - it deforms very quickly from heat.
But small candlesticks under tall long candles look great! To do this, you will need a cut-off bottle top without a cap, silicone glue, and decoration materials. Make a textured pattern with glue, use acrylics, glitter, beads, ribbons and bows to decorate.
To make the candlestick more stable, you can glue the bottle to the stand and fill it with cereals. Or evenly paste over the bottom along the perimeter with large beads - it will turn out very romantic! The candle is inserted directly into the open neck - and the candle holder from the plastic bottle is ready to use!
Stands and organizers
To make a tall organizer stand for small items, use a few plastic bottles and a cardboard base for paper towels. Cut the lower parts to the level of the shelves with the sides and glue them to the base at different heights around the perimeter.
If you need a pencil case, lunch box or other resealable container - take two bottles of the same diameter, a glue gun and a regular zipper. Cut the bottoms, based on the desired size, and glue a zipper to them around the perimeter - it will connect the two parts.
To make an unusual gift wrapping, cut off the bottom of the plastic bottle and cut it into four parts until the middle - you get a kind of petals. Place the present or candy inside and fold the edges, securing them with clear glue, tape or tape.
Decorative figurines
In addition to large garden figures, you can make a lot of cute little things out of plastic bottles. For example, make a beautiful bunny with paws and ears for storing sweets. Or hide in a bottle a miniature boat made of half a cork and a toothpick.
You can cut adorable cats right away with the ears and store small office supplies in them. Stick on wings and eyes with a paper feather skirt and you've got an owl.And if you paste over a plastic bottle with cones and draw a face, you get an amazing autumn hedgehog with a cap nose.
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