Using recyclable materials is now a very common activity. In addition to the fact that you can create interesting things from used plastic bottles, it is also a solution to environmental problems.
Plastic bottles will not be scattered, but will all be used. In order to make large volumetric things from bottles, you have to collect them in large quantities, involving relatives and friends in this activity.
Such crafts do not require any special skills or additional investments, and the benefits of life-essential items made from plastic bottles are enormous.
Materials for work
In order to make crafts from used bottles, you need a minimum amount of additional tools and materials. First of all, sharp scissors and a knife will come in handy. Be sure to sharpen them before work. If you plan to paint your work, then stock up on acrylic paints or varnish.
A heat gun is useful for gluing parts. You can use wire to connect parts of figures.
The fabric is useful for decorating furniture made from plastic bottles.
Application of plugs
Many crafts made from plastic bottle caps are suitable not only for decorating a summer cottage, but also for decorating windows and doorways. Corks strung on wire or fishing line will become spectacular curtains.
The easiest way is to pierce them with an awl, but this work is not recommended for children; due to the density of the material, there is a high risk of injury.
Country paths lined with corks also look very unusual. At the same time, you can create real masterpieces of mosaic art by combining colors and forming patterns.
Corks will also be useful for arranging the floor on a country veranda; it will be a bright and very beautiful decorative item.
When there are a lot of corks, they can be poured into transparent containers and placed around the garden. Bright and colorful original jewelry has no practical value, but looks very unusual.
In skillful hands, available materials really cannot be useless. Imagination, creative thought and a little free time are all that is required to create a unique design for your summer cottage.
Crafts for children
Children love to use simple materials at hand for creativity. This is very convenient: you don’t mind spoiling it if it doesn’t work out. You can make many interesting options for toys.
Furniture made from plastic bottles
Houses and furniture for dolls can be made from bottles. In order to make a chair for dolls, you need to cut off the top of the bottle. Use the bottom as the base of the chair, and cut the back and armrests from the cylinder.
You can cut out the openwork back and the girls will be happy with beautiful furniture for their dolls. We insert a chair cushion into the bottom of the bottle; the back can be covered with fabric.
In order to make a table for dolls, just cut off the bottom of a five-liter bottle and attach it to the neck. A beautiful tablecloth will decorate a doll's table.
You can use large bottles or plastic canisters to make doll rooms. To do this, just cut out windows and doors in the wall of the bottle. The young assistant can hang the curtains and paint the walls in the house herself.
You can make a stroller for a doll from a five-liter bottle or canister. Having placed the bottle horizontally, you need to cut out the shape of a stroller from it. Bottle caps can be used for stroller wheels.
Toys for boys
For boys you can make a helicopter, robots and cars.
For the helicopter you need to prepare cocktail straws and a tennis ball:
- Cut off the bottom of the bottle.
- We make a helicopter turntable from two straight parts of tubes.
- We connect it with the cut part of the bottle, placing it horizontally.
- The hole is covered with a ball.
- We make a helicopter support from two tubes: we cut off a strip from the unnecessary part of the bottle and connect the two helicopter supports with it.
- We attach the helicopter frame to the base using a heat gun.
To make robots, you can use not only bottles, but also caps, after first piercing them with a hot awl or nail, and then stringing them on wire.
Dad can always help his child make a whole fleet of different machines, from various bottles and cans. Bottle caps can be used as wheels for cars.
For children's crafts, the edges of the cut bottles must be slightly melted so that the child does not get hurt by the sharp cut. Bottles are used only for food products so that they are safe for the child.
Donkey
Donkey is also a good craft idea. Its habitat is most often chosen near trees, where it will fit perfectly; you can also build a flower bed.
You need to make a body - for this you need a 5 liter bottle, and the paws can be made from milk or kefir bottles.
From under a bottle of kvass they make an animal's face and ears from plastic. At the end, paint it with gray paint, you can fasten the braid to the donkey’s face, and hang a bottle on the side for growing flowers.
Using plastic bottles in the garden
You can use plastic bottles in the garden as flowerpots, crafts for garden decoration, and flower bed fencing.
Pots made from plastic bottles
Gardeners often use cut plastic bottles for planting plants. This material is very strong, durable, cheap and lightweight. To grow seedlings for the garden, cut bottles are used, with holes poked in the bottom to drain water.
Gardeners grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins and zucchini in such plastic cups. When transplanting, it is convenient to remove seedlings from plastic; the root system of the plants is not deformed and takes root well in the soil.
To grow flowers, especially petunias, various shapes of pots made from bottles of different sizes are used. So five-liter bottles can be cut in half and both halves can be used as flowerpots.
When placed on the cap, the top of the bottle looks like a vase. If you paint such flowerpots with paint, then beautiful flowerpots with flowers will adequately decorate your summer cottage.
Smaller bottles placed horizontally will also look original on a fence or veranda. In such pots it is easy to pierce holes for threads on which you can hang flowers.
Figures made from plastic bottles
Interesting figures can be made from this material. Palm trees, birds, animals, plants and flowers will decorate your garden plot.
A palm tree made of brown and green bottles can decorate the area:
- Cut off the bottom and top of brown bottles.
- After making small cuts on the side of the cylinder, insert several cylinders into each other.
- Cut the green bottles into strips, cutting the body to the bottom of the bottle.
- Place several pieces on top of each other.
- Attach the resulting leaves to the trunk of the palm tree.
- You can secure it with a heat gun or wire.
Funny birds and animals can be made from bottles.
A pig from a bottle will be an original decoration for the site. To do this, you need to place the bottle on the ground and cut out the ears, bending them up the body. The tail can be attached with a heat gun or wire.
The nose can be made by poking two holes in the bottle cap with a hot nail or awl. Paint the pig pink and use it as a planter.
Bottle fencing
You can fence a flower bed or area using plastic bottles. To do this, they are filled with sand or another mixture and dug into the ground. Such fences can be made colored or painted after digging.
Flowers from plastic bottles
Chamomiles, chrysanthemums, orchids will decorate your room or garden if you make them from bottles. The plastic melts and cuts very well. Therefore, it will not be difficult to make beautiful bouquets of flowers.
To do this, cut off the top of the bottle and cut the remaining part into strips - flower stems. Flowers and leaves cut from the bottom of the bottle are glued onto the resulting stems. For beauty, you can hold the workpieces over the fire for a little while, and they will take on beautiful smooth shapes.
Holder for your mobile phone
Any person has encountered the problem when the socket is high and there is nowhere to put the mobile phone. Homemade inventions come to the rescue. Take a regular shampoo bottle. It is cut out into the required shape, in the form of a small handbag. Be sure to leave a loop for fastening. A simple little thing, but it brings so many benefits.
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Furniture made from plastic bottles
Comfortable and practical furniture is made from plastic bottles. The only condition for creating furniture is the presence of bottles of the same size. If you have a sufficient amount of craft material, then you can safely get to work.
Ottoman
A light and comfortable ottoman can be made from plastic bottles. It is better to take two-liter bottles for work. Before starting work, you need to release a little air from the bottles and close the lid tightly:
- Arrange the bottles in a shape that is convenient for you: square or circle.
- Secure the ottoman shape with tape in three places: bottom, middle and top.
- Attach a sheet of cardboard or plywood cut to the shape of the ottoman to the top of the ottoman.
- Attach it with tape.
- Wrap an old blanket, terry towel, or other thick material around the ottoman.
- Sew a cover for the ottoman and put it on the frame.
Sofa made of plastic bottles
For the sofa you will need a large number of bottles of the same size and shape. Therefore, you can assemble its structure in parts.
Separately we make the seat, back and sides of the sofa. We strengthen the seat according to the principles of an ottoman. After all the parts of the sofa are made, we assemble the sofa and put a cover on it.
Cereal storage
The most obvious reuse of bottles is to turn them into cereal storage containers. This is, at a minimum, simple and convenient; in addition, such “jars” are less likely to harbor dampness and unwanted insects.
Simply remove the label from the surface and pour the desired product inside. If desired, such bottles can be beautifully decorated - painted, decoupaged, or stuck on pieces of paper with inscriptions so as not to get confused about where everything is.
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.
Owl
An owl will also perfectly complement the interior of the garden and it will sparkle with new colors. You need to have 5 brown containers, a colorless container, pliers, threads, paints, and a glue gun.
Process of creation:
- Cut off the neck and bottom, and form slits at the edges
- Use a thread to tighten the upper and lower parts, the upper is the head, the lower is the tail.
- The remaining bottles will be used for the wings - form them into rectangles and paint them white
- Fix the wings
- Make eyes from bottle caps
Casket for needlework
Empty boxes can be found in every home. Every kitchen has a drawer of small items. It contains something that would be a shame to throw away. What if it comes in handy? Don't rush to throw away the plastic cake box. You'll get some great crafts.
- Cut a circle to size from a beautiful piece of cardboard. We insert it in the middle. For the inner sides, you can take a laminate backing or padding polyester.
- Making a fabric top. It is adjusted, the top and sides are stitched. It will be closed with a lace with a drawstring.
- We glue the filler - the backing - to the cardboard strips. We wrap everything in fabric. We fix it.
- We put the elements inside. Everything is connected with a hot compound using a special gun.
- The bottom will also consist of three layers. Sew it to the base. Later, the seam can be decorated with braid.
- We decorate the product with any little things at hand. Flowers, ribbons, beads - everything will come in handy. This box is convenient for storing sewing threads and needles.
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Speaker for phone
For a homemade sound amplifier you need a toilet paper roll and two lower parts from a liter container. A slot is made in the cardboard for the device. Plastic elements are attached on both sides. To do this, you need to make holes in them, the size of the diameter of the cardboard sleeve. This design is suitable if the speaker is located at the bottom of the mobile device.
Bag for bulk products
Plastic bags have become an integral part of our lives. They apply to everything. A very convenient device is obtained if you take a neck with a stopper. We push the package through it. Stepping back a little, screw on the lid. You no longer have to suffer, constantly untying annoying knots. Now not a single grain will pass by.
