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Vladimir 04/28/2020
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What can be made from plastic bottles
Sometimes you can’t even believe how many useful things can be made from plastic bottles. These can be interior elements and crafts that even a child can make. From them you can make tools for working in the garden, in the garden and much, much more.
Manufacturing of stands and decorative elements
To make jewelry stands, you should use bottles of various sizes from 0.5 to 3 liters . Using scissors or a utility knife, cut out the bottom, leaving 4 cm of plastic. We will get bottle saucers.
It is necessary to make a hole in each saucer, which must correspond to the diameter of the rod we have chosen. It is best to string saucers onto a threaded rod between special layers with washers and fastening washers and their nuts.
Stand for decorations
A wooden rod or metal pin is suitable for an improvised rod. You can also glue the saucers using glue. A saucer cut from a 3-liter bottle will represent the lower base of the stand.
Decorative decorations made from plastic bottles
The bottom, neck and body of the bottle can be used as decorative decorations.
Garland
A garland for lighting a garden or a children's room will be an interesting decoration. To do this, you need to cut off the top of the bottle; you can cut it in the shape of a star or a flower and insert an LED garland into the cut necks.
The bottoms of the bottle will make beautiful snowflakes if you hang them in the rain and paint them with acrylic paints.
Decorative curtains
You can make decorative curtains from the bottoms of bottles. By connecting them together on a vertical thread, you get a bright and original curtain.
You can use bottle caps to decorate curtains.
Butterflies
Butterflies for decorating the garden and walls are made from the middle part of the bottle:
- To do this, cut off the top and them from the bottle.
- The resulting cylinder is cut vertically.
- The resulting fabric is slightly heated and straightened.
- A butterfly stencil is applied to the canvas and painted with varnish or acrylic paints.
- The butterfly is cut out and glued to the wall or to a wooden skewer to decorate a garden bed or flowerpot.
A wide variety of crafts will help you decorate a room, make toys for children, and transform your garden plot. Available material will help develop creativity and imagination using various forms and ideas.
Cupcake containers
Cupcakes and pieces of cake have an unpleasant property - they quickly become chapped and therefore lose their appearance and taste. Beautifully decorated cakes can be very difficult to take home without breaking their shape and keeping the cream decorations intact.
Cupcake containers
The use of improvised plastic boxes will solve this problem. You can make containers for cakes and cupcakes from plastic bottles yourself. To do this, you will need a circle cut out of cardboard and two parts from a plastic bottle.
Peacock - an unusual solution for the site
Another colorful, but no less easy to make bird is the peacock. Its beautiful and colorful feathers will amaze guests of the country house, because the peacock will become the center of the composition. In order to make it yourself, you need to take pieces of foam plastic - they will be the base and body. The remaining elements are made from plastic bottles:
- Feathers are cut out from containers of different sizes, after which they are painted with acrylic and glued along the perimeter of the tail.
- Feathers in the form of a fringe can be made with thin scissors on a green bottle.
- The beak is made from the top of the container by cutting out a triangle and secured to the head with nails.
- The legs are made from the tops of small bottles with necks and wire.
At the final stage, the bird needs to be assembled: the legs are attached to the body, after which it is covered with feathers. Next, attach the wings and tail - the peacock is ready!
Organizers
Are you annoyed by clutter in your workplace? Organizers made from plastic bottles will come to the rescue.
Organizers for textiles
Using a utility knife, carefully cut off the neck. These items can serve as storage for newspapers, magazines, and office supplies.
The choice of design and decoration is yours
Product for deep watering of plants
Useful device for deep watering
Not every plant is well adapted to surface watering, so a special device will be needed here. In order not to waste money, you can make it yourself from plastic.
First, you need to take scissors and cut off the neck with a small margin so that it looks like a lid. It is necessary to make a trench on the convenient side of the plant and place stones there; such drainage will not allow water to erode the soil.
Cut off the neck with a small margin
The cut part of the bottle is installed so that the neck is at the bottom, after which it is sprinkled with earth. To water the plant, you need to open the installed lid and add water. If installed the other way around, it is advisable to make holes for water drainage.
To water a plant, you need to pour water into a bottle.
Curtains and artificial flowers
Light curtains and elegant partitions for dividing the space of a room into several zones can be made from plastic bottles.
Such decorative elements look quite impressive
They form reflections in the rays of the setting sun. This decorative element will surprise and be remembered by your guests for a long time.
Insect trap
One of the most creative things you can make from plastic is to trap mosquitoes and other insects. To do this, it is better to use dark containers, since in this case pests are caught in it much more often.
Cut the bottle and insert the top part inside the container so that the neck is approximately 5 cm from the bottom
The first thing to do is cut and insert the upper part inside the container so that the neck is approximately 5 cm from the bottom. You should use sugar-yeast syrup as bait. To prepare it, you need to take yeast, sugar and mix them in hot water.
After the syrup has cooled, it can be poured. The neck should be at least 1 centimeter above the liquid. This will get rid of not only mosquitoes, but also wasps, flies or bees.
You should use sugar-yeast syrup as bait.
The trap must be cleaned at least once a week. To improve the effect, the bait can be hung from a window or ceiling.
Specific features of the material
Due to the repulsive properties of plastic, products made from it can be easily washed and cleaned of contaminants, are lightweight, resistant to rotting and corrosion, but can become deformed under the influence of low and high temperatures.
You cannot make candlesticks, sconces or lampshades, or chandeliers for lighting fixtures containing incandescent lamps from this material: when heated, the plastic will melt, release toxic substances and may ignite. It can only be used in lamps with LEDs - they hardly heat up.
To cut hard plastic, use a stationery knife or special scissors.
When cutting, it is recommended to work with protective gloves, since sharp edges can easily injure you if you are careless.
Do not place hot food in homemade products, store any liquids in them for a long time, marinate, can or salt foods, or place hot frying pans or pots on them.
When using plastic in construction work, it is advisable to lay a reinforcing mesh or wire, which enhances adhesion and increases the strength of structures.
Smooth plastic has low adhesion, making it difficult to glue. You should select the correct adhesive with the appropriate marking, which contains a solvent of synthetic polymers and liquid polystyrene. The industry offers the following assortment for these purposes: hot-melt adhesive (transparent or colored), adhesive-sealant, contact adhesive (complete with hardener), liquid (water-based), reaction (waterproof, one- or two-component), epoxy. If you need to attach materials of a different structure (wood, glass, metal), then when choosing an adhesive you need to take into account the characteristics of both surfaces to be joined.
Matryoshka dolls
Bright and ruddy girls in elegant sundresses will decorate the garden or veranda. For crafts, it is enough to be able to draw.
It is also necessary to select containers of different sizes, but of the same shape. Such amazing figures will definitely interest guests and household members.
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On the farm
A lot of useful things and household items are made from eggplants. These can be boxes, baskets, vases for sweets or dry cookies, fruits, bulk products , cereals.
During outdoor gatherings, cloches (caps) will be a very useful accessory to protect dishes from annoying insects or dust .
Dryers for plates and cutlery; stands for packets of condiments, sanitary napkins, various cosmetics, stationery, books; reliable bags for carrying wrinkled and fragile items - surprisingly, savvy country property owners make all this and much more from recycled materials at hand.
Simple design keeps your toilet paper roll clean
Collected into blocks, interconnected, additionally covered with padding polyester and a removable cover sewn to size, the containers can become both outdoor furniture and elements of the interior of the house: poufs, banquettes, low coffee tables.
phone holder directly next to an electrical outlet .
In a garage or shed, they are used to create an ergonomic wall storage system for gardening tools , tool boxes, organizers for small accessories and spare parts, which allows you to rationally organize the limited space of auxiliary rooms.
It’s easy to build an ergonomic storage system for country shoes from roomy 5-liter bottles
The canisters are suitable for distributing individually large numbers of seed varieties or bulbs. It is convenient to apply inscriptions, stick labels, and visual photographs on their smooth, flat surface.
