Few materials can compare in versatility and multifunctionality with plastic bottles. PET containers for soft drinks, yoghurts and other dairy products in skillful hands turn into original crafts and souvenirs; educational toys; elements for decorating interiors and walking areas; small architectural forms; Sports Equipment; bird feeders; palm trees; intricately decorated vases and much more.
Do you want to know how to make plastic bottles“just like real” Fixies or other cartoon characters? Or maybe dolls in national costumes? Or a full-fledged sofa for a “corner of privacy”? Flip through the pages of this section and you will be amazed at the wide possibilities of simple PET material.
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Necessary materials And tools: plastic bottle baby doll, preferably, Barbie green and satin ribbons yellow color braid white lace yellow and green organza crepe-satin white needle and thread scissors ribbon with divisions ...
Manual "Magic Bottles" Municipal educational institution Blyeborysovskaya secondary school (preschool groups) Benefit "Magical bottles» Educator: Astapova E.A. 2020 Goal. Development of observation skills, the ability to compare, analyze, generalize, develop cognitive interest in...
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Gift for dad "Boat in a bottle" (applique in middle group) Preliminary work: familiarization with the Russian army, its function of protecting Russia from enemies. Examination of pictures depicting military personnel of various branches of the military (infantrymen, pilots, tank crews, sailors, military...
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My craft for the municipal competition "Christmas tree toy" - a decoration for the main tree of the settlement. The name of the craft is “Mouse Peak”. To complete the craft, improvised materials were used: large buttons for the nose, mouth and eyes, wire and pieces of soft foam...
The method of creating a Dymkovo young lady from plasticine and a plastic bottle is very simple. Such a toy does not need to be burned, and plasticine does not need to be prepared in advance either. Materials needed: A plastic bottle with a suitable bell neck (the sides are slightly rounded)...
Maslenitsa week has a lot of traditions that have been observed for a long time by our Slavic ancestors. Modern people they try to adhere to Maslenitsa rituals: pancakes are baked all week, fun festivities take place on the street, everyone goes to visit each other. The main attribute of Maslenitsa...
Creative project « New life plastic bottle" Contents. I Introduction. II Main part. 1. The history of the appearance of a plastic bottle. 2.Environmental problems associated with plastic bottles. 3. New life for a plastic bottle. 4. Practical work. III Conclusion. IV List...
Goal: improving professional skills and sharing experience in making crafts from waste material. Objectives: - expand the knowledge of teachers in the field of artistic creativity; -introduce the types and methods of making a penguin from waste material as a means...
Plastic bottles are generally considered garbage and are sent to the appropriate places - garbage cans and landfills. But in the right, creative hands, these things can sparkle with new colors. And you don’t have to be a master to breathe a second life into ordinary plastic. You just need a little patience and imagination.
The crafts are quite simple and anyone can make similar things with their own hands. Or maybe for some this business will become a real hobby.
Plastic bottles come in different shapes. They are also different in color and size. Therefore, it is quite possible to make small decorative items from them for the garden plot. And it’s quite suitable for a summer house plastic furniture or even a summer gazebo, built from the same plastic dishes.
And even caps from plastic bottles in skillful hands can turn into real masterpieces - mosaics on the walls, a hot stand, cute toys for children and other useful little things.
Everyone can make one thing or another. Here main role It is fantasy that plays. After all, the material for making crafts is available almost everywhere. They can be found in parks, on lawns, near rivers and in landfills.
And by collecting them for his creativity, a person thereby cleanses nature of harmful things. After all, plastic these days has turned into a real disaster that threatens environment. This material is durable, so crafts made from plastic bottles will serve and delight you for a long time.
The most important thing in every decision is the action plan. In order to start working on the craft, you will need the following:
Then you just need to be patient and follow the instructions. And soon the children will enjoy the new fairy-tale playground, the guests will enjoy spending time in the “almost crystal” gazebo, and the hostess will appreciate the unusual practical devices in the kitchen.
You can make an excellent box from plastic bottles, in which you can conveniently store various small things: hair bands, buttons, paper clips. To do this, you will need two bottom parts of plastic bottles of the same size. They are connected to each other by a zipper, which is sewn along the edges.
Or a simpler option is to cut off the top of the bottle at the point where it begins to narrow. The container is ready. All that remains is to decorate the bottle using decorative ribbon, buttons and beads. They are glued with glue. Sew a fabric cap, which is tightened with a cord, and also glue it to the edge of the container.
And it’s not at all difficult to make a convenient and original container for sandwiches that you won’t be embarrassed to take to school or work. The main thing is to decorate it with intention. And it is done in just a few steps.
In the bathroom there is also a place for a plastic box in which you can put all the necessary supplies: toothpastes and brushes, washcloths and shampoos. If these boxes are hung on the wall one above the other, you can free up space.
Plastic bottles can make an unusual stand for pencils and pens. It is enough to cut it out in a circle in the shape of a cat or owl’s face and paint it. The same technique is used to make a flower vase. Just to make it stable, you should add a handful of small pebbles to the bottom.
To decorate children's playgrounds, decorations are made in the form of plants, animals and even insects.
For a palm tree you will need about 15 bottles Brown, from which the palm trunk is made, and 7-10 green bottles for the leaves. The trunk is assembled from bottles cut across, stringing them onto a frame made of durable rod.
To create leaves, green bottles need to be cut lengthwise, forming the desired shape. To make longer leaves, you need to attach an additional one to the main sheet using a stapler.
Decorate your garden plot it is possible even in winter time. Funny penguins in colorful hats and scarves will cheer you up on a cold winter day. You can make penguins of different sizes. For one bird you will need two identical bottles, which have a “waist” at the bottom.
This bottle needs to be cut in half. This will be the penguin's body. For the second bottle you only need to cut off the bottom with a small margin - these are the legs. Connect the two parts using a glue gun and paint. Make a pompom from wool and a scarf from a strip of fabric.
Such crafts are not sustainable, since plastic is very lightweight material. In order for the penguins to stand quietly in the chosen place, before gluing the parts together, they need to be filled with sand or small pebbles placed.
Even plastic lids turn into cute ones in skillful hands. ladybugs. You just need to color them accordingly and glue funny eyes on them.
If the plastic lids are connected to each other with the edges in the form of a small circle, then the result will be original stand under a hot pan or kettle. This device will come in handy in the kitchen.
Flowerbeds can also be decorated in an original way using plastic bottles. If you take the bottom parts of the bottles, paint them from different colors and stick them into the ground next to each other, you can create a flowerbed that will “bloom” all year round.
The tops of bottles with caps can also be used as flower pots. They are not stable, but in the form of flower pots they will look fabulous.
Plastic bottles with a volume of 3-5 liters will make a bright flower bed-train. You need to cut out one side of each bottle. Paint it in different colors. Fill the bottles with soil and transplant low-growing garden flowers into them. Lay them horizontally and lean against each other, creating trailers.
Building a summer gazebo will require more expense and effort. After all, for construction you will first need to make a frame made of wood or metal. The walls are built from whole bottles, which are strung on wire or rod.
First, a hole is made in the bottom of the bottle and the cap is unscrewed. A rod with stringed bottles is attached to the frame in a horizontal or vertical position.
Using bottles you can create a sofa, armchair, ottoman. Here you first need to make separate blocks: seat, armrests, backrest. Then connect them according to the design. It is better to make blocks from 2 liter identical bottles.
You need to put the lower part of another bottle on the top of the bottle (where the cap is) so that you get the bottom of the bottle on both sides. All bottles and blocks are attached to each other using tape. To make the seat soft, you need a foam block suitable size. The cover is sewn to the size of the furniture.
Everyone knows that plastic takes more than 100 years to decompose. Therefore, by giving a second life to bottles, we not only create interesting accessories for the garden, home and gardens, but also help preserve the purity of nature.
The variety of products made from bottles is limited only by your consciousness - there are a huge variety of them: from small flowers to such serious things as boats or fences for flower beds.
By cutting off the neck of bottles or eggplants, you can design storage areas for sewing supplies, correspondence, stationery, and cosmetics. If you connect cut bottles together with glue, you get whole sets with containers for different things.
For example, you can hang a similar design in the bathroom, for rolled towels, or in the office, at the entrance to the office - for letters. The cut off bottom of the bottle is suitable for buttons, pins, paper clips, and beads.
Any similar product can be decorated with paints, ribbons, ribbons, handles can be attached, resulting in a convenient portable “handbag” for clothespins, curlers, hairpins and other necessary accessories.
From thick fabric you can make lids in the form of beautifully designed hats - such a product will not only be functional and practical, but will also decorate any room.
If you have accumulated a large number of identical plastic bottles - don’t rush to throw them away. By cutting off the bottom of all of them and fastening them with threads, you can get an original transparent curtain that will shine favorably in the sun, protect from the wind and add zest to any veranda. This design will be similar to delicate flowers, floating in the air.
Due to the lightness of the material and the voids, the bottles do not sink in water, which means that if you have a sufficient supply of material, you can construct an entire boat or raft.
However, the product must meet all reliability requirements and withstand certain weight, therefore, you must first carefully make calculations, or better yet, watch a master class in order to create a high-quality product that will serve for a long period and will not leak, creating a danger to life.
The most in demand are crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden, vegetable garden, and local area.
There are many schemes for creating similar product. If you take a large container with a handle, used for water softeners or dishwashing detergent, and cut holes in the sides, you will get a whole house for birds.
If you only have a two-liter blank, you can leave the bottom, cut half the bottle vertically and pour the food down - on the remaining uncut bottom it will be convenient for the birds to reach food.
If you make a hole in the side of the bottle, closer to the bottom, suitable for inserting a wooden spoon, you will get a whole feed supply system. Through the hole, the grains will spill onto the spoon, which serves as a platform for the birds.
You can make an entire vertical garden using plastic bottles. To do this, you need to cut out a bottle lying horizontally. rectangular hole and fill with soil. Secure the bottle with ropes on both sides and hang it.
You can plant seedlings, flowers or small shrubs in the ground and thus equip the entire wall. Don't forget to make holes in the bottom of the flowerpot for drainage.
The cut off top of the bottle can be used to create a microclimate around just the planted plant or seeds. The convenience of this use also lies in the fact that by opening the lid and without removing the bottle itself, you can water.
The most common way to use plastic bottles– is the creation of fencing for flower beds and vegetable gardens. This design looks neat, attracts attention and creates reliable protection from spilling and washing away the earth. For greater effect, you can tightly fill the containers with sand or earth.
To make the flower bed seem more elegant, you need to use the same bottles. There are several ways to lay them - horizontal, vertical, using whole containers or cut pieces. The fence made from the lower parts of the bottle looks very gentle. Together they create flowers that would be perfect for a flower garden.
Lids can be used to decorate walls, flower pots, create paintings, compositions, figures, toys, decorate various surfaces. The greater the variety of colors, the more fun and brighter the product looks. A rug, coasters, sculptures and other decorations for home and garden will look original.
You can find thousands of examples and ideas reflected in photos of crafts made from plastic bottles and caps. City authorities in many cities deliberately decorate entire streets, walls and pavilions with covers in order to attract public attention and encourage rational use plastic.
Plastic bottles are a vast field of activity for creative person. With their help, you can create real masterpieces that can optimize working space, create a functional place to store various things, give the house an original, unique design.
And most importantly, you can make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, simply using unnecessary material that is ready to be thrown away.
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You can make many useful things for your garden and dacha from plastic bottles
While lovingly arranging our city dwellings, we are no less touching about our summer cottages. We try to ennoble them, to create for ourselves comfortable conditions and add special notes of attractiveness to the even rows of beds and berry bushes. Many summer residents have chosen the most accessible and flexible material for their creative experiments - ordinary plastic bottles. We will talk further about what products can be made from it for the garden and dacha!
Wonderful hanging cactus pots made from plastic bottles
Resourcefulness in ways to place many plants in the garden area
Plastic bottles in skillful hands will become wonderful decoration your landscape
Beautiful flower from plastic caps
Manufacturing idea useful devices and decorative things made from plastic containers are not new. The first attempts led our grandparents to build low fences for paths. Having appreciated the plasticity and low cost of the material, craftsmen from among the people moved on. And now the summer cottages are decorated with full-fledged fences, funny figures and unusual devices made from plastic bottles.
Your children will definitely like this beautiful ostrich from a pet container!
Thanks to imagination and such excellent material, like plastic bottles, we have almost limitless possibilities for creating crafts for every taste, any complexity and direction
Paintings made from the caps of plastic bottles and other containers have grown into an entire art movement.
Plastic bottles have long been in great demand among gardeners
Magnificent orange flowers from pet containers
Crafts and decorations for the cottage and garden made from plastic bottles do not require the use of complex tools and specialized skills. The main thing is to have time and desire, as well as enough material. Those who have had both have convincingly proven the limitless possibilities of such needlework, and we have prepared a review best examples crafts.
Comfortable and very stylish chair made from plastic bottles
A sheet of plywood, sixteen one and a half liter bottles, adhesive tape - and your site will have a comfortable and durable coffee table. Plywood can be replaced with plastic or hardboard, old table top or plexiglass. From the same materials, slightly changing the design, you can make a garden bench. Some diligent and patient craftsmen manage to assemble full-fledged sofas and armchairs from bottles.
You can even make the basis for a full-fledged sofa from plastic bottles if you fasten them firmly and carefully
Hanging flowerpot or base for flowerpots
How to make a pouf from pet containers
Among the summer residents there are also real builders who know that they can build whatever their heart desires from plastic bottles. They collect gazebos, toilets, sheds and even from plastic bottles. The only difficulty with such structures is not in their assembly, but in collecting the required number of bottles.
House with a roof made of 7,000 bottles
Plastic bottles are a good base material for building the walls of a summer house, greenhouse, shower, toilet or other partitions
Greenhouse walls made of containers on a wooden frame
Bottoms from plastic bottles will help you decorate garlands for the garden
Crafts made from plastic bottles will help decorate the playground
All kinds of crafts made from plastic bottles are especially attractive for decorating a children's playground. Absolutely safe, they can become the basis for toys, for fun decorations, and for creating plot compositions. Funny elephants, bees, bunnies and hedgehogs, bright flowers, cheerful lanterns will turn the country island of childhood into a fairy-tale kingdom.
A whole plot for a children's playground from the caps of plastic bottles and canisters
Together with children, you can make small crafts and large plot mosaics from the caps of plastic bottles
Examples of a variety of crafts that will help the gardener with placement, easy transportation and care of plants
Piglets from large plastic bottles - stable stands for germinating seedlings or small plants
Craft for garden or lawn decor: parrot from pet container
Multi-colored turtles will be an excellent element of your garden decor.
With what ease the “crazy” hands of summer residents transform used plastic container into useful summer cottage devices, you can see by walking through suburban areas. Here, on the trunk of a tree, a washbasin was nestled comfortably, and in the next yard, the gazebo was decorated with multi-colored, fragrant and ampelous geraniums. We have also prepared for you several descriptions of crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden.
DIY painted garden owl lanterns
It’s very easy to make a birdhouse from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottles cut in half will become cute flower pots; it is important to carefully paint them. It is also advisable to take opaque bottles for this.
The ever-tangling and stuck twine for tying seedlings will stop tormenting you if you hide the ball in a plastic bottle. Just cut the bottle in the middle, insert a ball into the top, pass the end of the twine into the neck, connect the parts, secure the cut with tape - and your convenient storage is ready.
Your seedlings will not wither, even if you go away for several days: install semi-automatic watering. Once again, plastic bottles come into play. We cut off the bottom of the bottle, about 2/3, drill 4-8 holes in the cork, close the neck, bury the bottle upside down, pour water - and the seedlings are provided with moisture during your absence. A similar garden made from plastic bottles (photo confirms this) will significantly save your time and money.
Automatic watering "Aquasolo" - these are conical nozzles on a bottle with a thread that do not require wasting time on drilling slots, digging into the ground, and so on.
Anthurium with a convenient system automatic watering"Aquasolo"
Maximum space saving: plastic bottles suspended one above the other with a cut tube with water passing through them
Beautiful hanging pots made from plastic bottles will not only decorate the interior, but also make it unique
Excellent flowerpot made from a shampoo bottle with your own hands
Arrangement of compact placement of seedlings or small plants at the dacha
Some crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden amaze the owners with their ingenuity. By placing a bottle on a hose and making many holes in the bottom, you will get an excellent diffuser for watering your garden. From a five-liter container you can build an elegant lamp for the veranda, and a container from under mineral water Suitable as a bird feeder.
Bird feeder made of plastic container
A simple and convenient hose sprayer for garden watering
Decorating flower beds with pet containers has become very popular
Device solar collector from plastic bottles
Automatic watering of seedlings and ornamental plants in your absence, using a plastic bottle dug next to the roots with small holes drilled in the neck or cap
Cut plastic containers suspended one above the other are the fastest and most economical way out of a situation when you need to germinate a lot of seedlings in a limited space
Making an owl from a plastic bottle with your own hands
Bottles for germination and winter holding of plants - an opportunity to save space and ensure good irrigation and drainage
Magnificent dandelions from pet containers will never cease to delight you and your guests
The imagination of folk craftsmen is so diverse that it leads to the appearance of summer cottages and strange animals, and characters from fairy tales and cartoons, and exotic plants, and original thematic compositions.
We cover the bottom of a plastic bottle or cup with dry twigs and get an unusual candlestick, protected from the wind.
Rainbow decor for a garden, workshop, garage: a fountain of spirals cut from multi-colored plastic bottles
Plastic bottles are used not only to decorate the garden, but also to decorate the home.
If you have a small pond on your site, you can arrange it plastic palm. It's not at all difficult to make. You will need:
A palm tree made from plastic bottles looks very beautiful
Now let's start making the decoration.
Advice! You can also take the tops of the bottles, then you won’t have to make additional holes.
Making palm leaves
We put brown bottles on it. 
Making a trunk for a palm tree
Connection of trunk and leaves
Assembling a palm tree from plastic bottles
Using several rods of different lengths, you can create a real oasis. As you can see, making garden crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands is not so difficult; the main thing is to find a sufficient amount of material and take one of the proposed ideas as a basis.
Step-by-step guide: making fabric pots on bases from plastic bottles.
Hedgehog from a plastic bottle and twine rope: growing seedlings and small creeping plants
You can create real masterpieces from plastic lids
Don't throw away bottle caps. Decorative crafts made from caps from plastic bottles for the dacha and garden can also beautifully fit into its landscape. They will serve as an excellent mosaic material for decorating fences and walls of a country house.
Bright compositions made from plastic lids will help make your landscape design more fun
A path made of plastic covers is not only economical, but also very beautiful
Large-scale red and blue mosaic of caps different sizes
Having tinkered a little with the pattern, painted and drilled holes in the sides of the covers, you can use them to assemble a curtain for the door. An excellent option for protection against insects!
Lids can also be turned into beautiful table top, and into a practical doormat. Use them for decorative finishing internal space.
Gorgeous door curtains made from plastic covers
Carport that diffuses sunlight
Beautiful lanterns in Hawaiian style
Before starting work, remove the labels from the bottles and wash the container thoroughly.
For stability of vertical structures, fill the bottles with sand or small pebbles.
Dragonflies made from corrugated plastic bottles
An ingenious device for collecting fruit from trees
Hanging pots made from pet containers with images of animals will fit perfectly into the interior of a children's room
Choose plastic bottles of different softness for crafts. For example, for the body of a dog or elephant, take a strong base, but for the ears it is better to use softer plastic.
The amount of garbage that each person “produces” is growing every year. The problem is becoming global, as flying plastic bags and plastic bottles lying everywhere have become an eyesore for everyone. I’m grieving, it turns out that you can help, and even for your own benefit. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how varied and, importantly, useful crafts from plastic bottles can be made in literally a matter of minutes. Well, or a watch... Depends on the scale.
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:
Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but are harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made takes more than 200 years to decompose. This same property allows the use of almost waste raw materials as construction material. Craftsmen Even houses are already being built from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, fences. Worked out various technologies- the approach is quite serious.
The main idea is to pour into bottles bulk material, screw them on with lids and use them as bricks. Fill the bottles with sand and soil. Sand is preferable because there is too much plant debris in the soil that can rot. It must be sifted, dried, filled into bottles, compacted well, and topped up. The result is a kind of brick.
To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the “bricks”. There are options here too. This can be a regular mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, you can make clay mortar. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine on the side of the lids. Later, these “grids” will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so you can’t do without leveling.
You can build a greenhouse or greenhouse from plastic bottles. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary for sufficient light to pass through. For the construction of a shed, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what’s inside.
The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This one, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, folding the walls so that they retain heat will not work - it will “siphon” into the curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. You also need to prepare pins or rods - bottles are strung on them. Their diameter is small so that the neck passes freely. Now you can start building a greenhouse/shed from plastic bottles.
To build a greenhouse or shed, pillars are dug in the corners. Frames are assembled from timber according to the size of the walls. These frames will be the base for the bottle walls. We assemble them (the frames) on the ground and, ready-made, attach them to the dug-in pillars. When you make the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.
We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, and string them onto a pin. From such “columns” we assemble walls, roof
The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles onto pins, pointing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a number required height, attach it to the frame. You can fasten it with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails... In any way available to you. We press the second row against the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten it in this position. So, row by row, we assemble all the walls, then the roof.
Using the same technology you can make a gazebo. But here there is no need for tightness, so you can collect shaped and colored containers. This will make it even more interesting (example in the photo).
Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. The central part is cut out of them, resulting in a square-shaped piece of plastic. The pieces are sewn together into long strips. In the strip, the pieces are placed so that they curl in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are positioned so that they curl in different sides. As a result, they equalize each other. The finished canvases are nailed to the frame. This completes the construction of the greenhouse for plastic bottles.
This type of “cladding” for greenhouses withstands winters well; it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to regulate humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will delay autumn for you and speed up the arrival of spring.
You can sew plastic for a greenhouse by hand, but it is not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious Sewing machines. Old Podolsk machines cope with this task. There may be problems with others.
You can make a fence from plastic bottles in various ways. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use bottles as bricks. The technology is the same as when building a house. To avoid plaster (after all, there is a high risk that it will collapse) - select the color of the plastic to obtain the required russian finish. But in this case, you will have to look for “building materials” of the same diameter or lay out patterns from different sizes. In general, the process is creative, no matter how you look at it.
You can also make filling for the fence from plastic bottles. Make a frame, say, from wood, and create a beautiful filling from shaped containers and their parts.
Not only can you make a house and a fence from plastic bottles, they are also used as a basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers rather than wood for the frame. With the lids screwed tightly on, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled into blocks, they are quite capable of withstanding loads of up to 100 kg or more.
A bed made of plastic bottles... you need a good mattress, and the base is not too difficult to make
Although the furniture is made differently, the general algorithm of actions is the same:
The trick is to ensure that the bottles fit very tightly against each other and do not move. The slightest play can lead to destruction of the structure. Therefore, assemble the blocks slowly, carefully securing them. You can stack bottles in layers, securing each layer in several places. For inner layers It is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.
The easiest way is to make an ottoman or banquette from plastic bottles. We proceed in the order described above. You need to find bottles of the same height. It’s better if they are the same shape - it’s easier to assemble. From plastic containers With the lids tightly screwed on, we assemble the base in the form of a cylinder. It is advisable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - this way the bench will not tip over.
Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting radius of the base - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We secure them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the obtained dimensions, cut out the necessary parts. We sew a cover from furniture fabric, colors that suit the interior.
Such a banquette can be not only round. It is quite possible to make it square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be made heavier by pouring water. But water is not very reliable. It's better to pour sand. Both heavier and more reliable.
If you need furniture higher than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find “material” of the same shape and height. Leave the first bottle intact, screw the cap tightly (you can add sand to prevent it from turning over). The bottom of the other is cut off and one is placed on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move further, no matter how much effort you make. If the resulting height is enough, great; if not, put on the next one. This is how you assemble rows of the required height, then fasten them into blocks.
There is another way. It is more reliable in the sense that the bottles are not held by compressed air, but due to mechanical stop. And they have double walls, which is also important. Disadvantage: more work large quantity raw materials are needed. The whole process is illustrated step by step.
From such modules we assemble blocks of the required configuration, fastening them with tape. Don't skimp on scotch. You can first fasten two bottles together, then assemble larger blocks from the double ones.
As you understand, with this technology there are a lot of bottle tops left (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical things for the household.
The most common crafts made from plastic bottles are garden figurines and flowers. About garden figurines read There are others interesting ideas, but there are a lot of collected interesting animals and insects. And we’ll tell you about flowers made from plastic bottles below - these are probably the crafts made from plastic bottles that bring the most pleasure. The process is simple, there are a lot of possibilities, the result is amazing.
You've probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you have to do is find the bottle beautiful color, cut off the bottom of it. Now you have a nice flower. In the middle you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from plastic strips cut into noodles, or glue beads inside, but more on that in a little more detail.
To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it’s more convenient with a candle). If you have them, take pliers, tweezers or pliers to hold the workpiece while processing. You will also need acrylic paints, glue and beads may be needed. The entire manufacturing process comes down to a few steps:
There are a lot of options here. Just start doing it. It may not work out perfectly right away, but you will understand what and how you can fix it. Check out some more pictures from step by step photos process of making flowers from plastic bottles.
For beginner crafters, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles simple shapes for garden decoration. In this case, you can also use milk containers. To avoid painting plastic, look for colored ones. And it doesn’t matter so much whether they are transparent or not. They can be combined to produce flowers of different shapes.
To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm it up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, the core from a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy bottle will do). So it turned out to be a buttercup.
Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warm up a little at the base). Make a middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint clear plastic with acrylic paint.
The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, roll it up and then heat it. You will get a shaggy core.
It's all about the form... Despite the imperfections, they decorate the site
The topic is actually inexhaustible. A variety of flowers are made from plastic bottles. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much a matter of skill as different tastes and desires.
PET containers turned out to be so good material that they make a lot of useful things. In this section we have collected useful crafts made from plastic bottles that can be used around the house.
If you cut off the bottom of a bottle with a capacity of 2–3 liters, you get a bowl or a bowl, and so that its edges are even, they can be melted on a heated iron. But so that you don’t have to clean the sole later, use a special silicone pad. If you don't have one, you can do this through a sheet of baking parchment.
Container for food. The plastic is food grade...
From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. There should be 1-2 cm of plastic left around the thread (we melt the edges using a well-known technology). Now it won’t be difficult to seal any package hermetically: we pass it through the cut neck, wrap it outward, and screw on the lid.
From the bottom of the bottles attached to the bar, it turns out great shelf for newspapers (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.
You can weave containers of different shapes from plastic cut into strips. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips of a certain thickness. You need to cut in a spiral - the result is quite long strips. If their length is not enough, they are sewn perfectly.
You can even make a lampshade, but under one condition: you will use similar crafts from plastic bottles in lamps - only they hardly heat up. Plastic is incompatible with other lamps. We will describe three ways to make a lampshade from a plastic bottle.
First. You need a large capacity bottle. We draw it into strips of equal width. At the beginning and at the end of each strip, we make holes with a heated soldering iron or a nail heated on fire. We insert scissors into this hole and cut. The result is smooth stripes.
When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, bring it out through the hole in the bottom, with reverse side we attach the decor. Maybe a button, maybe a pebble of a suitable color. Now, by pulling the fishing line, we get interesting shape shade. You can put a low power light bulb in it.
Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut part of the bottle with the neck into strips, wrapped the strips and secured them to the neck. To give the desired shape, the bend can be slightly warmed over the flame of a candle or lighter. We attach the resulting “flowers” to the base. So we get an unusual design.
They also make lampshades from the bottoms. You need to find a sufficient number of identical bottles, cut off the bottom of them, and glue them together using universal glue (choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues the plastic and hardens quickly.
Making a vase from a plastic bottle - what could be easier... Just cut off the neck and you're done. But there is a technique that allows you to get patterned walls. You will need a soldering iron with the thinnest tip possible. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: use a heated tip to burn out the patterns.
Magically! To make the drawing appear brighter, take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in a regular can, but it’s faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.
These are the options...
Crafts from plastic bottles is such a broad topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What’s nice is that if you know a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do just by looking at photographs. So here we have collected a few ideas that we found interesting.
You can even make a boat...
And this is just decoration...
