What material should I use?
When creating decor for your garden plot with your own hands, you can also get rid of many unnecessary things. After all, many of those items that you have not used for a long time will turn into original garden decor.
You can use the following items as a basis for realizing your ideas:
- old tire;
- broken pieces of furniture or vehicles;
- unnecessary dishes, plastic bottles, glass jars;
- household appliances;
- pipes or fittings;
- branches or logs.
- worn shoes or clothes.
Before throwing these things away, look at what crafts for the garden and dacha you can make from them.
Wood
Garden crafts made of wood on the site look most natural. Cut trunks, stumps, old wooden barrels - all this can be used for crafts.
Treating the wood with varnish or paint to protect it from mold and fungi is the key to the durability of the pots.
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Distinctive features
Any DIY crafts for the dacha characterize the owner of the house. In addition, they have a number of other advantages.
The process of creating decorative elements captivates family members. Such activities in an interesting playful way teach children to work hard. Little helpers have a rich imagination, so they can enrich your arsenal of ideas for arranging your garden.
A significant advantage of such creativity is its low cost. To create designer masterpieces, you can use any material that is convenient for you.
You can make do with only what you have in the house, or you can visit a specialty store and purchase some additional materials. Here everyone decides independently, focusing on the idea and the available amount of money.
Creating crafts from scrap materials is a great way to pass the time with an interesting activity. The creative process always enriches a person with positive emotions and also increases self-esteem. And your creation will delight not only household members, but also all guests for a long time.
Perhaps the most important advantage of this activity is speed. After all, to create such a decorative element you do not need special knowledge and skills, it will not take much time.
Every housewife has all the necessary tools in her home. You just need to decide on the necessary crafts that will suit the style of your site, allocate a little time and use your imagination.
Column-flowerbed
The flowering columns look very beautiful. Petunia and pelargonium are usually planted in them. These two types of flowers bloom profusely throughout almost the entire growing season. Against the background of lush greenery, the abundance of flowers of different shades attracts the eye. At first glance, you won’t guess how such a column was created. It's actually simple.
How to make a flowering column with your own hands
You need a metal mesh made of wire 2-3 mm in diameter. A column is formed from it - the mesh is twisted into a cylinder and secured. A bag is inserted inside (a thick plastic one is possible, but linen is better), into which the earth is poured.
A whole garden of flowering columns
To moisten the soil more evenly, a piece of drainage pipe is inserted into the middle of high columns. It differs in that its surface is perforated and water will pass through it perfectly. So, a piece of pipe is inserted in the center and covered with soil on all sides. With this design, watering the flowering column is not a problem. You need to throw the hose inside, into this pipe, for a couple of minutes, and the water will distribute itself through the holes.
It can be done even simpler - take a large-diameter plastic pipe, cut holes in it...
Plants are planted on top and in holes cut on the sides. The distances between the plants are not too large - so that the column quickly takes on the desired appearance.
Decor with plastic bottles
People who have experience in creating garden decor do not throw away plastic containers, but turn them into interesting figures. Bright birds, animals and plants made of plastic will become an original decoration for your garden plot, making it more fun. To learn, just look at the photos of garden crafts and descriptions for them.
Using plastic bottles, you can easily create various fences that divide the space of a flowerbed or vegetable garden, openwork curtains for a door, or a bird feeder. Such crafts perform not only a decorative function, they are also practical.
In addition, you can make sculptures from plastic containers that enliven your garden plot, giving it originality and beauty.
A decorative deer can be easily created from a five-liter brown bottle. To make such a craft for landscape design, cut off the neck of a large bottle and place a one and a half liter bottle at the cut site so that its bottom is at the bottom. Self-tapping screws can be used to connect parts.
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Another liter bottle must be attached to the neck of the second bottle so that it is at a right angle. This design should look like the body, neck and head of the animal. The legs for the animal are made of wooden slats. They need to be placed at the bottom of the bottle in pre-prepared slots.
Next you need to cut out the ears and tail from plastic and place them. At the final stage, the craft is painted using brown and white paint. Two wooden branches will replace the horns of our animal.
There are a huge number of options for such sculptures. Their popularity can be explained by practicality. When creating a figure, you can use different parts of the bottle. Thanks to the characteristics of plastic, such crafts for a flower bed or garden are durable and last a long time.
The material is easy to cut, elements can be connected in different ways: glued, stitched, screwed. When creating plastic structures, there are no restrictions on colors. If you do not find the material of the desired shade, you can paint it.
Flowerpot from a stump
Pots made from stumps in the garden look impressive and aesthetically pleasing. To do this, you need to carefully remove the core without damaging the bark.
Treat the middle with a special impregnation and you can start planting flowers. Wooden flowerpots should be placed on stands - this way, the flowerpot will be protected from rotting from below.
Second life of tires
Decorative elements from old tires are created quite simply. After all, this material is soft and easily deformable. Such crafts are used for vegetable gardens and gardens as fences, flower beds or paths. Tires are used to create children's swings, exclusive pieces of furniture, and rugs.
Thanks to the durable and elastic material, the tire can turn into original flowerpots. Having created a beautiful figurine of an animal or bird, plants are planted in it. Such flower beds are always attractive and interesting.
And since the material of the tires is quite resistant to moisture and other environmental factors, these crafts will delight the eye for many years.
The process of creating decorative crafts is interesting and exciting. It gives a person the opportunity to be creative. Therefore, regardless of the choice of shape and material, you will enjoy making decorative figures.
Garden Sculpture Ideas
A variety of materials are used to make figurines yourself. Sculptures for the garden can be concrete, plaster, wood, wire, made from household utensils and even cast from foam.
The fence will sparkle with new colors if you decorate it with carved plywood figures of domestic animals and birds. Ceramic pots for indoor plants can also play the role of a good “raw material” for country crafts.
You can create original figures of insects, chickens, geese from balloons and concrete. Consider the master class:
- Inflate the balloons to the desired size.
- Make a concrete solution.
- Cover the balls with the prepared mixture and leave to dry for a while.
- After the concrete has hardened, remove the balls, cover the blanks with paint and use them as components of amazing garden sculptures.
Having soaked a piece of burlap with cement, it must be carefully hung on any cylindrical object, draped beautifully. And after drying, the workpiece should be painted or decorated in some other way. Then you need to fill it with soil and plant the plants you like.
A similar technology is used to create figurines. These can be dolls, animal figures made of rubber or plastic. All that is required is to coat the finished templates with cement mixture and cover with paint.
Today, many good crafts have been invented to decorate the local area. The Internet is full of photos on related topics. You can use a ready-made idea or come up with something of your own based on it, getting a truly unique decor.
Spectacular flowerpots made of cement and fabric
Cement and fabric planters will hold even large plants. DIY garden crafts are not inferior to finished products.
To make it you will need:
- thick cotton fabric;
- cement;
- old bucket or basin;
- polyethylene.
Procedure:
- Cover the selected container with polyethylene and secure it with tape or rope.
- Immerse the fabric in the prepared solution.
- Place the fabric on top of the bucket, carefully smooth it out and correct the folds.
- Leave for a day or two for the cement to completely harden.
- After two days, remove the mold. Lightly moisten the entire surface of the flowerpot and leave again for a while.
Try adding dyes to the solution, then the flowerpots will turn out even more beautiful.
Garden cans
It’s easy to select tin containers of the right size for the craft. They can be used whole or cut. Cans are attached to the fence. This simple idea allows you to transform your garden plot. It is important to think through the decor of each jar and the placement of all elements.
Flowers made of tin along the path look beautiful. This material is easy to cut, paint, and simply fasten elements from it. It will take very little effort for bright daisies, poppies, and cornflowers to appear in the yard.
Amazing figures of animals and fairy-tale characters are made from tin cans. You can make the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Wolf, Baba Yaga. Any character will be a worthy decoration of the garden.
Second life of toys
Old and broken children's toys, balls and cubes, cars and dolls will help create original sculptural compositions or become elements of decoration.
In addition to toys, you can use old furniture and elements of furniture structures, discarded items and clothes as material for crafts that decorate a garden or vegetable garden.
Old things
Crafts for the garden are made from different materials. An excellent solution would be to use old things to decorate flower beds.
Bicycles, chandeliers, and boats are suitable for this. Such decorative elements are hard to miss. They will definitely be remembered by guests and will delight property owners.
Oval or round flower beds are created from ordinary flower pots. You can open an old suitcase, pour soil into it and plant flowers.
Shoes are used as containers for plants. Bright shoes and boots, which you would hate to throw away but have no one to give them to, will be a great addition to your garden.
Practical solutions
By making interesting crafts for the garden, you can forget about scarecrows and devote your free time to building practical structures.
In the flower beds, several tiers made from old boxes or basins, unnecessary utensils or even shoes, where you can plant climbing and flowering plants, will look interesting.
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In front of a private house or country house there is always a small plot of land that can be concreted and made into an open terrace.
The beautiful decor of this site and the arrangement of a protective canopy will help complete the landscape composition, and decorative elements will increase the aesthetics of its arrangement.
Hanging chair
From an old chair that no longer fits into the interior of a house or apartment, you can make a hanging chair or sofa for relaxing in the country.
For such a craft, it is important to choose the right installation location and ensure correct and reliable fastening; in order to increase the operating comfort of such a craft, it is better to install a special, protective canopy in the recreation area.
Swan made of plaster
To make it you will need:
- gypsum;
- 5 liter bottle;
- thick wire;
- bandage;
- 2 iron grates;
- paints.
Preparation method:
- Place the bottle on the ground and cut off the top.
- Place sand inside the bottle.
- Bend the wire in the shape of a number 2 and stick it into the neck lid.
- Place two wing lattices diagonally and apply plaster to the bottle and wings.
- Apply plaster of Paris to the wire and carefully tie it with a bandage, doing this twice.
- Leave it to dry for a while.
- All that remains is to polish and decorate the swan.
