For people with imagination and skillful hands, it will not be difficult to turn unnecessary things into real masterpieces. Masters and beginners alike use crafts made from plastic bottles for the interior, as garden decor and in the form of practical furniture. Colored plastic bottle caps are an excellent material for mosaic panels on walls and fences. The best ideas with detailed instructions and photos can be easily implemented at the dacha, turning a bare area into a “clearing of fairy tales”, and filling the house with useful little things.

Important advantages of crafts made from plastic containers

A well-made souvenir or trinket will eventually develop into a hobby, if there are no limits to your imagination. Summer residents who have moved from simple fences on wire to buildings that delight in scale never cease to amaze.

From available material that many throw away, someone builds:

• greenhouse;
• carport;
• summer shower or bath;
• country toilet or shed;
• summer gazebo or sun canopy;
• a mansion for children or a playground;
• sandbox with decorative sides;
• various temporary buildings on the site.

The main advantage of such structures is the available material. When the elements are securely fastened, the walls of the building are aesthetically pleasing and completely reliable. It all depends on the way the plastic bottles are connected. If you approach the matter thoroughly, the desired result will impress even experienced builders.

Over time, plastic becomes a real environmental disaster - it is difficult to recycle. But if you involve everyone who cares in cleaning the area, there will be a whole mountain of empty PET bottles for building a greenhouse, cascading flower bed or vertical gardening. The only drawback is that it takes a long time to collect identical containers, since containers are produced in different colors and volumes.

Some manage to collect enough craft material in one season, while others involve neighbors and friends in collecting plastic. Someone decides to clear the area for picnics in order to improve the environment on the way to the dacha and collect material. As a result, the plastic bottles are in use and the area is clean.

Another advantage is that plastic containers are soft and pliable, they are easy to cut and do not require complex tools. With little skill, the material itself “dictates” ideas.

To create an original decoration you need:

• interesting idea;
• ready-made role model (illustration);
• material for crafts with tools;
• step-by-step training plan guide.

In the hands of a true master, plastic bottles take on a second life, becoming functional objects. It is better to make souvenirs on a seasonal basis. For example, New Year's toys are made in the winter, practical country houses are made in the summer, and in spring and autumn it remains to build a “clearing of fairy tales” near the house for children.

Recycling plastic containers is a fun activity for the family. It is easy to attract children to him by entrusting him with a simple part of the work. Don’t forget to remind them that you’re not just making a firebird or “Chunga-Changa island” with palm trees from bottles, but that you care about the environment. You can involve a yard or a school classroom in beautifying the area.

Furniture and interior items made from plastic bottles

Furniture made from plastic bottles looks like a masterpiece that is not accessible to everyone. They will require a lot of plastic containers of the same type. Sofas and poufs impress with their design and comfort, not inferior to real furniture. There is nothing complicated if the sofa is made in blocks - seat, back, sides. If the container is not enough, the sofa blocks can be made one at a time. It’s better when you collect bottles from one drink, for example, two-liter kvass or lemonade.

The principle of “assembling” furniture from bottles is simple - they are placed in layers and tightly wrapped with tape. To make the furniture softer and more springy, a little air is released from each bottle and twisted tightly. At the place where the cap is, cut out a cap from another bottle and tape it with tape. It turns out to be a block with a bottom on both sides - this is the basis of the furniture.

Then it all depends on your imagination, the type of furniture and the number of bottles available. We wrapped 7 containers of the same volume with tape to create the base for an ottoman. What its appearance and style will be depends on the artist. For a soft seat, you will need a round pillow or a block of foam rubber that fits the size of the top. The cover is cut to the size of the ottoman in the form of a cylinder, and it is convenient to insert a zipper along the side seams, but it is easier to sew the upholstery tightly.

If there is not enough furniture for the summer, an ottoman for the cottage is made from an old wadded blanket and a baby pillow, wrapped in a block of bottles. Old curtains or a bedspread will be used for the lining. If the pouf should have a presentable appearance, choose newer and more expensive fabric or eco-leather.

To build a coffee table you will need 4 racks of plastic bottles and a plywood board as a table top, which can be hidden with a long tablecloth. In a similar way, they make a convenient stand for a laptop or an external table for the garden. For large furniture (sofa, chaise longue or chair) made from plastic bottles, you will need a lot of patience and raw material.

Useful little things for the home from plastic bottles

Flowers and vases

Decorating a schoolchild's bedroom or children's room with crafts from plastic containers is not difficult. You can build a whole bouquet of artificial flowers. Place the resulting chrysanthemums, daisies or roses in a vase made of the same material, adding diode bulbs on an insulated wire to the centers. This is what a night light of extraordinary beauty will look like, where the faint light shimmers in the plastic petals.

Advice: To give the leaves a special shape, use heating the blanks and folding the corners with tongs!

To place a homemade bouquet you will need a suitable vessel; simply cutting off part of the bottle is not aesthetically pleasing. The edges of the cut are marked with a ruler to make the cut, securing the result by heating the bends. A small transparent bottle is cut off to the very top, and about half of a large container is cut off. We choose a material with a ribbed or “waist” in the middle to create an interesting base.

Then we do it as our imagination allows, but we bend the edges beautifully. The fringed cut is obtained from vertical or diagonal cuts in the plastic base. The resulting strips are evenly folded to the outside.

Note! It is important that all the notches and the depth of the slot are absolutely identical, then the entire product will come out neat.

Depending on which edge is desired, the strips of the vase (the edges of any other product) are secured in different ways:

• curly bend;
• staplers;
• fusing;
• gluing with transparent polymers.

Flowerpots, flower pots and containers for seedlings

Colored plastic containers in the form of bottles and bottles of different sizes are suitable as containers for growing live plants. It is very easy to make a fragrant balcony from 3-liter tanks - a cascade of hanging petunias. Fragrant flowers hanging from cut containers will help make your dream of a beautiful piece of paradise come true.

Large bottles and tanks cut in half are hung with both the bottom down and the lid. It is recommended to place large pebbles at the bottom for drainage. Excess water after watering will go to the plants in the lower rows. In the same containers, plants are grown without soil - hydroponic method with the addition of fertilizers. Fresh greens and seedlings (in urban and country conditions) are also germinated in prepared plastic bottles.

Advice: Use the compact form and ability to hang containers for vertical gardening with automatic watering. In the absence of the owners, watering cans with water immersed in the ground will cope with moistening the plants.

Traps and feeders

Using plastic bottles you can repel pests or attract birds to your site. To do this, the tank is used as a feeder, and traps made of bottles with chemicals are placed at the roots of fruit trees. From double plastic containers, craftsmen build traps for wasps, where they fly into sweet water and cannot get back out.

Equipment for a summer cottage

At the dacha, it’s easy to whip up crafts from plastic bottles in the form of an impromptu washbasin by hanging a full bottle upside down. Just unscrew the lid a little and a small stream of water will help you wash your face and hands. It is also worth making a bench and organizing lighting with beautiful owls or plastic gnomes. Any garden decor for inspiration - with interesting illustrations.

Multifunctional items for the home

Make an original cosmetic bag from 2 bottoms of plastic bottles, sewing the edges together with a zipper. This box can be used as a multifunctional item - a piggy bank, a case for large beads, hairpins or jewelry.

It is convenient to knit from such a ball, suspended somewhere nearby, by pulling the thread from the ball inserted inside. It’s easier to find nail polish or a lipstick collection in a makeshift zippered box.

New Year's decor

Bright New Year's balls, garlands or toys made from plastic bottles are a worthy use for transparent containers. One bottle, cut into round strips, will produce a transparent ball. After securing the sphere with a stapler, decorate it in any way:

• “rain” winding;
• pasting with crushed polystyrene foam (snow);
• decoration with sequins, beads and stones.

New Year's decor made from white plastic bottles with a waist is suitable for snowmen or penguins. You can use black nail polish to draw eyes and other elements, cotton wool (snowball), glitter, small buttons, beads and whatever is at hand. Funny caps for characters - from colored socks without a pair, strips of knitwear are used as a scarf.

Advice: From homemade winter characters, a candle, ready-made tinsel and a couple of pine branches with cones, create an original New Year's composition so as not to buy a Christmas tree.

Curtains made of colored plastic caps and bottles

Zoning space is a popular design technique, where a hand-made translucent curtain is often used. An original curtain can decorate any living space, cottage or covered terrace. Original hanging partitions made from unusual materials are widely used in the interior.

Plastic is in demand in modern decor, including bottles and bottle caps. There are options for curtains:

• from scraps from the bottoms of small containers - strips on a thick fishing line, swaying with the movement of air;
• from colored lids - a fantasy panel of tightly strung elements;
• a garland of plastic and lights to give the LED curtain more aesthetics.

Original all-season flower beds

The summer season is passing, and living flower beds are being replaced by homemade plastic flowers that are no less beautiful than real ones. Their advantage is the ability to decorate the territory at any time. These flower beds pale in comparison to living plants, but in early spring and late autumn they alone attract admiring glances.

For daisies you will need small plastic containers of white (petals), yellow (centers) and green (leaves). You will also need an awl and a candle (for heating), “liquid nails,” scissors and stiff wire in green insulation.

We cut the base of the white bottle to the center, marking 16 segments - these are the petals. We bend the neat edges over the candle flame, and also make 2-3 chamomile corollas, which we connect in the center with an awl. Here the stem with leaves is fixed on a green wire, closing with the middle. We fill the center of the flower with a yellow basket with small cuts from 2 finely dissected circles with a fringe bent over the candle. We supplement the flower with green sepals from the bottom, collect all the parts and fix them together.

From the remaining pieces of green plastic, cut out leaves with a hole at the base (for stringing) and give them the desired shape, heating them over a candle flame. We attach the leaves to the wire handle; they should bend around it slightly. All that remains is for the chamomile to make several “companions” and find a worthy place for the bouquet.

Using samples and imagination, it’s easy to make plastic lilies of the valley, roses, chrysanthemums or tulips. To do this, you need plastic of a suitable color, from which several layers of petals are made to achieve a resemblance to real flowers.

All-season flower beds include mosaic compositions made from containers filled with earth. The lids are used to make wall panels. “Butterfly” or “ladybug” - in different versions.

Crafts from plastic bottles for the playground

An incredibly beautiful bird with plastic plumage – a whole “clearing of fairy tales”. These are the peacock or firebird, swans, pigeons, bullfinches and parrots. All of them are made from empty PET bottles according to the general principle:

1. Design an aesthetic bird's head with eyes and beak;
2. Construct the torso and neck;
3. String plastic plumage;
4. Provide with wings and tail;
5. Place on paws or secure to selected surface.

Plastic swans can be fenced off by a blue “lake” of upside down plastic bottles. Outlandish birds will decorate the trees in the corner of the garden, which is reserved for children's games. You can choose a themed decor, for example, a desert island with palm trees and parrots.

Plastic animals, birds and insects, familiar to our latitudes, as well as favorite fairy-tale characters, are supplemented with other materials. Tires, wood and empty containers that can be easily painted will be used.

How to make decorations from plastic bottles for the cottage and garden

Original garden decor made from scrap material is another way to give the site some personality while the young plants come into their own. From green plastic bottles it is easy to make funny little frogs on the edge of the pond, watching dragonflies and butterflies from the same material.

Palm trees are a popular garden decoration, consisting of trunks (up to 15 brown bottles) and palm leaves (green plastic 5-10 pieces). This is a simple process that even children willingly participate in.

Prepared brown cups with notches are strung on a thick steel rod (bamboo fishing rod), after first piercing the base. It is better to use brown containers (1.5-2 l) entirely, cutting them in half, then you only have to punch through the bottom.

We leave the green bottles without a bottom and neck, with the exception of the last one with a neck, which will be needed as a loop. We cut these containers lengthwise into 3 parts up to the loop and dissect them like leaves. If longer leaves are required, staple the second half of the leaf. All parts of the stem are strung on the base and attached to the top, connecting with a common loop. All that remains is to reliably install “exotic guests” with a lush crown on the site.

The material is collected throughout the year, but it’s easier to involve neighbors and acquaintances in the “ecological” cleaning project. There are special containers for plastic in the yards - it’s much easier to collect.

Preparation for work - removing labels and glue residues from plastic bottles; it is important to rinse well and discard the deformed material.

If vertical fences are built, they need to be filled. Depending on the idea, sand, stone chips or dry soil are poured into PET bottles, burying them 1/3 of the way down.

For selected purposes, plastics of varying elasticity are used. Heat treatment is required for filigree work (flowers). It is important not to overheat the fragments cut into strips.

Fairy-tale characters sometimes require additional painting. For example, it is better to cover pink piglets for a playground with an aerosol from a spray can and secure them with transparent acrylic paint.

Plastic bottles are an excellent material in the right hands. Using them as a basis, it’s easy to teach children a lesson in environmental education and fill your home or garden with practical things. With a creative approach, the color, volume and shape of plastic bottles themselves will prompt new ideas for an exciting creative process.

69 photos of ideas for crafts made from plastic bottles

1. Crafts from plastic bottles can be very beautiful - you just need to use containers made of a certain type of plastic and try to make not primitive flowers, but elegant ones.

Flowers from plastic bottles - elegant fantasies

This is proven by designer Veronika Richterova, whom we have talked about more than once and presented her work as an example of high taste (strange as it may sound when we are talking about crafts from plastic bottles), and also in this.

The master has wonderful works, looking at which it is impossible to believe that they are made of bottle plastic. I want to look at them and look at them. And this is quite possible not only in the pictures, but also if you make such garden crafts with your own hands to decorate your own plot.

So, we take plastic containers not from water or other drinks, but from shampoo, gel, and other cosmetics or detergents.

It is advisable that bottles for elegant flowers should initially be the color you want. That is, so that crafts made from plastic bottles do not have to be painted, it is unlikely that you will get a better color than it was specified during production. In addition, you won’t have to worry about the paint being washed off in the rain or peeling off in the sun. Of course, any plastic on the street fades over time. But when it fades, then paint it. At the same time, update your flower bed. For the centers of flowers, you can use decorative caps from containers.

It’s good if you have curly scissors, the blades of which give a wavy edge. If you don’t have such scissors, you will have to try to cut out the “wave” with ordinary scissors. In principle, it's not that difficult.

In principle, the pictures show very well exactly how to make such flowers. Try not to cut small elements - then you will need to fasten them, and this is not always easy. If you want curved petals, hold the piece over the fire and shape it. But don’t bring it too close to the fire - the plastic melts and burns very quickly, almost instantly.

2. But, by the way, this property can be successfully used to make a flower stem. You can simply take a rigid metal wire or rod of small diameter and, wrapping strips of plastic (here you can use regular bottle plastic), melt it.

And flowers from plastic containers are so different! Let's try to make a beautiful flower with graceful petals. It will be fantasy: for some it will remind one of cosmos, for others of daylily, for others of heliopsis, zinnia, Christmas star, etc.

Materials for 1 garden craft - flower

• plastic bottle - capacity 1 l. Please note that the best bottle options for these colors are those with smooth necks. Basically, these are bottles of mineral water;
• ball made of polystyrene foam, polystyrene foam, plastic, wood, etc. - diameter 25 - 40 mm;
• flexible metal wire;
• wire for the flower stem;
• paints.
• scissors, brush.

Flowers from plastic bottles - step by step tutorial

We use a plastic bottle, well washed and dried.

Cut the bottle in half crosswise. We try to make the cut as even as possible - this determines whether the flower petals will be the same in length. If you are making a flower with children, they may need help cutting the plastic.

Cut the plastic bottle into five or more pieces. Here we also try to cut, maintaining an even distance between the stripes - the future petals of the flower.

We take each strip with our fingers and bend it outward from the neck.

Cut out petals of the desired shape from the strips. Here they are so graceful and pointed.

It's time to paint the flower blank. Cover the table tightly with a layer of paper or old oilcloth, prepare paints and brushes.

If we buy paint specifically for painting plastic crafts, choose a glossy one - it gives a beautiful shine.

To enhance the effect, you can add glitter to the paint - special glitter. By the way, such glosses are found not only in nail polish - they are introduced into interior paints and varnishes. You can buy it in construction stores or in shops that are so loved by handicraft masters.

We make the background color of the flower with the main color (in this case, red). The plastic is transparent, you can paint the workpiece on one side, but it is better to paint both - this way the flower will look more elegant.

After the petals have dried, we draw the details with a different color of paint - we paint the tips, and put neat dots on some petals. To make it easier to draw a clear, even point, we do this not with a brush, but with the tip of a toothpick, knitting needle, kebab stick, etc.

We paint a small ball of polystyrene foam or other material - it will be the convex center of the flower.

We attach the ball to the center of the workpiece - screw it with wire, making holes with an awl, or glue it with glue for external use. For example, very good in this regard

The stem for the flower can be made from wire, painted green. Or you can buy special stems for artificial flowers in a store that sells products for florists. They are often available in wire form (called gerbera) - you can make stems of any height.

Large flowers made from plastic bottles are not uncommon, but try to “grow” huge flowers from this material and you will see how your garden has changed thanks to them.

Huge flowers look fabulous and bring magic to the world around them.

Materials for huge magical flowers

For one such flower you will need:

10-12 plastic bottles with a capacity of 2 liters or 3-4 plastic bottles of water with a capacity of 3-6 liters;

• A rim from the wheel of an old bicycle, maybe a teenager's or a child's. If there is no wheel rim, you can take a children's gymnastics hoop, and instead of knitting needles, tightly wrap wire or rope;
• durable metal rod (reinforcement) or wheel fork;
• thin flexible hose;
• paint - color depending on the color of the flower, as well as green;
• wire - for fastening. But if you have a construction stapler, this will make the job much easier.

Plastic bottles or bottles are prepared - clean and dry. Working with them is basically the same, you just get more petals from 1 bottle.

Cut off the necks and bottoms of the bottles/bottles.

We cut out large, simply huge flower petals - to the entire height of the containers.

Let's start coloring the petals. We choose the color as desired, paint that matches the look. The paints that are most often used for other plastic crafts are described here in great detail.

You shouldn’t paint the entire petal with one paint - if you make it two-color, with veins and spots, it will look more vibrant. We use one light paint, the second one is darker. You can use three colors in one product, but no more, otherwise it will be too “variegated”.

You can paint the petals on one side (the plastic is almost transparent), or on both sides.

How to attach flower petals to a base

First we make the middle of the flower. To do this, cut out a circle from plywood or use the bottom of a plastic bottle. We paint the middle in the color we need. Attach to the knitting needles in the center.

We begin to attach the petals one by one to the middle. For reliability, we also attach each petal to a knitting needle or rim.

When all the petals are in place, we mask the fastenings in the middle with thinly cut strips from a plastic bottle. By the way, the voluminous center of the flower is very beautiful.

How to make a flower stem

If there is a wheel fork, turn it into a “stem” (paint it green. If there is no fork, put a rubber/plastic hose on the reinforcing rod, paint it green and also get a stem. However, you will have to tinker with attaching the head to such a stem flower.You can make a bolted fastening or securely wind the parts with metal wire.

Huge magical flowers made from plastic bottles look great both in groups and individually. We sit them down and admire our work.

Crafts made from plastic bottles are multifaceted in terms of themes: figurines of animals, insects, and people are created from this material.

If you are going to connect the layers to the petals with wire, you will have to make holes in the plastic. You can do this instantly with a hot nail or awl. To prevent the fastening from spoiling the appearance of crafts made from plastic bottles, make holes in those places that will subsequently be covered with the next layer.

It is very easy to staple the layers together, but you will need a stapler to do this. By the way, this is a very useful household item - it holds together almost any materials.

We make the middle of the flower - to do this you need to find and attach a suitable lid to the center of the craft or use some kind of ball (tennis ball, for example), cutting it in half.

It is not difficult to attach such flowers from plastic bottles to the surface - you can simply nail them or use wire.

Plastic bottles, which are most often used to create crafts for the garden, are a convenient material in terms of cutting, durability, etc. But often the flowers from it turn out to be “flimsy”, with thin petals that scream: “We are made of plastic!”

Dense, evenly colored petals

In many cases, even coloring does not help. It’s especially offensive when you make flowers from plastic bottles: beauty seems to be implied, but, frankly, it’s not there. What to do?

You can do like designer Laura Karnitz, who creates amazing crafts for the garden and interior from PET bottles with denser plastic, namely bottles for shampoos, cosmetics and household products, milk, etc.

Another good thing about these bottles is that the plastic is already painted, and the colors are very beautiful. That is, all that remains is to work with scissors, then fasten the parts, and the craft for the garden is ready.

How to make lush flowers from plastic bottles

There are many techniques for creating plastic flowers for the garden, but there are some that allow you to make very lush heads. Here is one of them, very simple, by the way.

1. Cut fairly wide strips (4-5-7 cm) from round plastic bottles.
2. Cut out rather steep “waves” from one edge of the strips - these will be petals.
3. Pass the petals over the fire. There is no need to “melt” the plastic too much; you just need to warm it up a little so that the petals can be bent in the desired direction.
4. Now collect the strips in a “stack”, forming a flower head. More stripes - a more magnificent flower.
5. Fastening - using a hot awl and wire. In principle, it will not be visible among the petals.
6. Flower centers can be made using corks.

Lilies from plastic bottles

Wonderful flowers from plastic bottles are obtained not only from round containers. For example, you can make a mesmerizing lily from an ordinary flat shampoo bottle. And you won’t have to bend the petals to give them shape: you will only need to cut off the corners of the bottle - the bend is already there. If the result is not satisfactory, you can always correct the details of the flower over the fire.

Flowers from plastic bottles: Lotuses 2 options

There are two options for creating lotuses from plastic bottles: one is easier, the other is more difficult.

Lotuses made from plastic bottles - looks interesting

And, as often happens, a more complex option also gives a more interesting effect: flowers from plastic bottles - delicate lotuses - turn out lush and “full”.

Although the simple option is interesting, especially if there are a lot of flowers.

As for the material, it is better to use plastic bottles with dense, light-colored plastic - for example, milk bottles or bottles for shampoos and other cosmetic products.

Lotuses with petals in several tiers

In general, the task of creating such flowers from plastic bottles is not particularly difficult. The only thing is that you will need a strong fastening so that the lotus does not fall apart into its components (petals). If you are going to decorate some small container with these flowers and you know for sure that you will be moving them, except occasionally, you can fasten the petals into a flower with glue (hot glue, for example, or some kind of “thermonuclear” construction glue).

Such containers, which are essentially mini-ponds, are sometimes made to decorate verandas, terraces, patios, etc.

But if you do everything “for real,” spend a little time, make a hole at the base of each petal (with a hot nail) and tightly connect the petals into a flower with wire (it won’t be visible anyway).

Here's how to make the middle.

Lotuses with petals in one tier

Making these flowers from plastic bottles is as easy as shelling pears. Cut off the top of the bottle and make petals along the edge of the cut. The flower stand is also the top part of the bottle, but larger. We insert the flower with the petals with the neck into the neck of the stand, with the center inside, with the help of which the lotus will be tightly secured in the stand.

These simple flowers make wonderful borders for small flower beds.

In both cases, we paint the petals with acrylic paint (easier than aerosol, “spray can”). The color can be white or pink (like most lotuses), although if you paint it yellow and decorate a decorative pond in your garden, you will get wonderful water lily nymphs (which, in fact, are the same lotuses, but not so “glorified”).

Can artificial orchids be more beautiful than living dendrobiums or phalaenopsis? Quite if the inflorescences are carefully made by hand. By creating this beauty, like living nature, the master puts his soul into it, filling it with energy, albeit inanimate, but still beautiful bouquets for decorating a home or a very special gift. Apart from the makings of decorative talent, nothing special is needed for this. Today we will “grow” bright orchids and many other flowers from plastic bottles. Surprised? Then we will immediately begin our exciting master class.

Orchids

Everlasting orchids are something out of science fiction. But making flowers from plastic bottles will allow us to defeat the laws of nature. To begin, prepare the necessary materials: several multi-colored soda flasks (milk, beer, etc.), plastic paints (acrylic, aerosol in bottles), glue for polymers, a candle or alcohol burner (a soldering iron or burner is also useful), scissors . All is ready? Then let's get to work! We will follow the step-by-step instructions:

• Based on Fig. 1, cut off the bottom of the bottle. This is an excellent planting base for an orchid - the upper petals are already there. All that remains is to adjust the shape of the 4 petals with scissors and slightly melt their edges with a candle flame;
• We continue to “grow” flowers from plastic bottles with our own hands: cut out a “false” flower from the body into 4 (6-8 - optional) petals. It can be glued to the base. Or, having made through holes in the details with a burner, assemble the orchid bowl on a decorative carnation;
• Make several inflorescences and plant them on an improvised stem - a woody twig painted green. This way you can collect large flowers from seemingly garbage. And if you work with your soul, artificial flowers will not be inferior in appearance to living orchids.

Surely you already have a decent vase for a luxurious orchid branch. No? Then make it all from the same familiar material!

Daisies

Rice. 2 clearly shows how to make daisies from plastic bottles. As you can see, the main difficulty here is the formation of the stem, stem petals and receptacle on the burner flame. However, as soon as you start working on the flower, the plastic daisy will begin to appear as if by itself - everything will be so simple. So, let's proceed step by step:

• Using a stencil or by eye, cut out the basic detail - a chamomile inflorescence with petals. At first it will be a rough blank, but then you will correct it with scissors and give it a natural look;
• Cut out various stem petals from scraps of green plastic and melt them slightly in an alcohol lamp. Thanks to this, each chamomile will become unique;
• Make a flower core from a piece of yellow (brown) plastic. Prepare the stem by carefully melting a thin strip of plastic - a twisted or straight piece of bottle - on an alcohol lamp;
• Put your craft together using the technique of soldering parts to each other. However, somewhere you can use glue.

The peduncle can be made even simpler: cut a wide strip of plastic along the entire height of the bottle and fold it lengthwise, pressing tightly. Cut off the excess planes with scissors, leaving only a thin corner - the leg is ready. Now it’s no secret to you how daisies are made from plastic bottles. Shall we move on?

Roses

Making roses yourself from plastic bottles is not only simple, but also surprisingly interesting. Each flower will be different from the others. Diagram 3 will tell you in detail how to make a garden queen. In a short time, large flowers from waste materials will bloom in your hands. Will your loved ones be able to guess what all this beauty is made of? Hardly. Let's get started soon? So:

• Look at what preparations the homemade plastic rose in Fig. requires. 3 and make 2-4 similar parts of different sizes. You can first make a stencil or cut out the components of the flower by eye, which will be better if you want to get exclusively unique crafts from plastic bottles;
• Similar to the methods described earlier, make a rose stem by slightly melting a strip of transparent plastic over an open flame. Cut out various petals from the scraps of the bottle and also slightly deform them with a candle light;
• When you finish collecting luxurious flowers with your own hands, connect all the fragments of the rose together by soldering the parts heated over the fire. Or use glue. Assemble the flower cap according to the matryoshka principle - insert smaller pieces of petals into large bowls.

The resulting craft can be used to decorate an empty shelf or window sill. Or use it for the garden. Your rose will easily take root there! From a distance, the buds are indistinguishable from real ones.

Lilies

In summer there are countless water lilies on the river, but now it will be difficult to find Red Book lilies. But we can make artificial water lilies from plastic bottles in winter, and we don’t necessarily need to look for the graceful queen of ponds. Let's make lilies right now and don't forget about water lilies:

• Taking rice for help. 4, cut out several identical blanks from the plane of a white plastic bottle (milk) with the pointed petals characteristic of lilies. Provide a hole inside the part large enough for the bottle neck to pass through;
• For another bottle (for example, yellow), cut off the neck with a margin - it will go to the core of the lily from bottles with stamens (cut the “bunch” into strips and deform them by heating). Place the white blanks with petals on the bottom onto the neck thread, and secure the assembled products with a stopper.

And water lilies made from plastic bottles are a smaller version of the same lily. Make them yellow by significantly reducing the size of the petals and rounding them rather than pointing them. You can handle this easily. Now you can even make a sunflower from plastic bottles, not like the simplest river swimsuits.

Poppies

Let's not forget to mention bright poppies in our master class. In general, homemade products made from plastic bottles are easily played up by the color of the materials and the size of the blanks. Much is done in the image and likeness. Likewise, poppies made from bottles are similar in their execution method to roses made from similar materials. Rice. 5 will not allow you to get confused if you want to make several poppies for the garden or for a combined bouquet.

And our rice. 6 will teach you how to make tulips. Here you can use various techniques, the main trick of each of which is the use of sections of the bottle that have already been given a convex shape, allowing you to cut out voluminous petals. Plastic tulips are assembled arbitrarily: with glue, by soldering melted parts, with a decorative nail, etc.

You now know how to make flowers from recycled materials. Feel free to realize your creative ideas, inspired by our visual aids. And finally, a couple of useful tricks: to prevent plastic from catching fire and becoming treacherously smoky when heated over an open fire, use lower flame levels to warm up the part. And if you can’t solder the flower parts to each other, take regular superglue and everything will work out. And don’t forget about aerosol paints in cans if you need a specific color for your craft, but you simply don’t have a plastic bottle of the right color.

Useful tips

With these flowers you can decorate gifts, rooms and/or cards. Not only do they look beautiful, but they will also forever "bloom".

And since plastic bottles are used in production, you are also helping nature - Plastic products can take 450 - 1000 years to decompose. Today about 90% of all plastic bottles are not recycled, and we want to change that.

Making beauty out of trash is beautiful and noble towards our planet. We offer you several color options made from plastic bottles.

Flowers from a plastic bottle. Option 1.

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Scissors

Lighter or candle

Pliers or tweezers

Tip: try to work in a room with good ventilation, on a balcony or outside. If you decide to make plastic flowers at home, then open the windows and leave them open during and, for some time, after work.

1. You can use the center, bottom and/or top of a plastic bottle.

First you need to draw a template of your flower and cut it out.

3. All flower petals need to be bent in one direction.

4. Have your lighter ready. Use pliers to take the flower and bring it to the flame. As the flower begins to heat up, its petals will begin to become deformed.

Be careful not to overheat or you will ruin the flower.

Form all the petals one by one.

5. It’s worth making several similar blanks.

6. You have semi-finished products ready. Now they need to be connected together in the middle. Prepare 2-3 pieces. The connection can be made using the same heat.

You can also make two holes in the middle of the blanks in advance and sew them together, pre-attaching a decorative button on top.

Flower from a plastic bottle. Option 2.

1. You need to make 7 blanks, but each one must be smaller than the previous one. To make them, first draw 7 templates (see picture).

2. Trace the templates onto pre-prepared pieces of plastic bottles and cut out the quatrefoils.

3. In the middle of each workpiece you need to make a small hole with an awl.

4. Now each workpiece needs to be melted over the fire. Use a lighter or candle and, as in the first example, begin to heat the workpiece, while bending the petals upward one by one.

5. Prepare a green plastic bottle to make the corolla of sepals. Make the whisk like the previous parts, i.e. melt each petal a little and make a hole in the middle.

6. The flower stem with leaves is also made from a green bottle and wire. You need to cut a spiral from the central part of the bottle. Its width should be about 1cm.

7. Prepare the wire. It needs to be wrapped with a spiral cut from a bottle. It is worth noting that when wrapping, you need to heat the spiral over a flame.

9. Press the whisks firmly against one another to release the end of the wire, which in turn needs to be bent into a loop.

10. Make a leaf stencil from construction paper and use it to cut out leaves from a green plastic bottle. Like the rest of the parts, the leaves need to be melted a little and twisted (see picture).

Flower made from plastic bottles. Option 3.

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Scissors

Spray paint cans

1. Prepare paints of two colors. Use one spray can to paint the entire bottle, and with the other paint several different stripes.

2. When the paint is dry, cut each bottle into 2 parts (you can choose any size).

3. Start cutting out the petals. To do this, you need to make cuts on each part of the plastic bottle. Do this so that you get stripes that resemble petals.

Plastic bottles. Flowers. Master Class. Option 4.

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Stationery knife

Bead

1. Prepare plastic bottles and cut off the bottom of each of them.

2. Hold the tips of the petals over the candle to give them a more realistic look.

3. Choose a paint color, such as orange, and paint the flower. You can also paint the tips of the petals by applying a thin green line.

4. Heat a point in the middle and glue a twig to it.

5. Use green paint to color the small flower.

6. For beauty, you can attach a bead to the center of the flower.

7. Now you can connect all the parts.

How to make flowers from plastic bottles. Option 5.

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Markers

Scissors

Decorations for flowers

Glue (preferably superglue)

Baking tray

Oven

1. Wash and dry the plastic bottle.

2. Use scissors to cut off the bottom of the bottle. Feel free to experiment with the shape, but you should still end up with a flower-like shape.

3. Make sure the area is well ventilated. Prepare an old baking sheet and place the bottoms of plastic bottles on it.

Turn on the oven and bring the internal temperature to approximately 200 degrees. At this temperature you need to hold the baking sheet with plastic flowers for about 10 minutes.

4. Remove the pan and let the pans cool. Remove them and start decorating to taste. You can use markers, or glue beads into the middle of the flower.

How to make a flower from a plastic bottle. Option 6.

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Stationery knife

Scissors

Acrylic paint and brush

Glue (preferably a glue gun)

Drill (for holes)

Buttons

Connecting rings

Candle, lighter or heat gun

Baking tray

Oven

Needle nose pliers

1. Cut the bottom of the plastic bottle to create a flower-like shape.

2. Using an awl, make 2 holes in each “flower” - the holes should be on opposite sides, on the edge of each petal. Using these holes you can connect all the flowers with rings.

3. Place the preparations on a baking sheet. Holding the flower with tweezers, begin heating the flower with a flame or heat gun. Do this carefully and don't overdo it. It is also worth remembering about safety and ventilation of the room.

During heating, the flower petals will begin to bend, so stop heating when the petals have reached the shape you want.

4. Start painting flowers with acrylic paints. Next, let the paint dry. It is not necessary to paint on both sides.

5. Make two holes in the middle of each flower to sew on buttons.

The trend of rational use of household waste has recently become increasingly popular, especially with regard to plastic containers. From plastic bottles you can make almost the entire country house interior and more with your own hands. One of the main advantages of this material is its long service life, and it is also very elastic. Don’t forget that plastic bottles are an affordable material that every owner or housewife always has in stock.

Cheap and cheerful - we make flower beds from bottles

Plastic containers are an ideal option because they have a great advantage over wood and even metal. Wooden fencing in flower beds or flower beds dries out over time or rots under the influence of moisture and sun. Even metal curbs are susceptible to corrosion and require periodic maintenance, such as regular painting.

What about plastic? It does not lose its shape and does not collapse for a long time. This means that such a flower bed will last for more than one season or even one year, and it also requires absolutely no maintenance. Even if a “breakdown” occurs, the required “element” can always be found in the pantry and easily replaced, without resorting to long, tedious shopping trips to find a suitable fragment.

So, what can you make from plastic bottles with your own hands?

Bottle borders

If you need to fence a flower garden, plastic containers of different sizes will do the job perfectly. This will not only limit the space and prevent the growth of perennial plants, but will also retain moisture and prevent the appearance of weeds.

The shape and size of the flowerbed depend only on the imagination of the summer resident: it can be either equilateral or in the form of some kind of animal or plant. You can also use bottles to break the flowerbed itself into segments.

Even a child can build a bottle border (with the help of adults, of course):

1. The first step is to draw the contours of the flower bed with a sharp object or sprinkle sand on the site.
2. Remove the labels from the bottles, wash them, pour sand into them and screw on the cap. If this is not available, you can use ordinary soil or water. This is necessary for stability, since empty containers will quickly fall out of the fence.
3. Dig a groove along the outlined contour so that the bottle can be deepened into it by about 1/3.
4. Place the filled bottles in the groove with the neck down, as close to each other as possible, and cover with soil.

For visual effect, you can use bottles made of different colored plastic (green, white, brown).

Some summer residents do without digging in bottles. For example, bottles without a bottom are simply inserted into each other, forming a circle. The finished structure can be “put on” or taken into a ring around the trunk of a tree. To secure the curb, it must be pressed tightly to the ground with arcs.

Multi-tiered flower bed

If you really want to have a flower garden, but there is too little space, you can make it yourself from plastic bottles. The principle is the same as when constructing a border, only after laying the first tier it is necessary to fill it with nutritious soil, and only then lay out the next floor.

When planting plants for the lower tier, it is better to choose moisture-loving specimens, since when watering the water will flow down.

Mini flower beds

Beautiful and useful crafts for the garden can be made from 5-liter plastic bottles. They will serve as miniature and cute flower beds, for example, in the shape of everyone’s favorite piglets.

Group compositions in the form of trains with flowers look no less impressive.

And if you sow lawn grass instead of flowers, the large bottle turns into a cute hedgehog with green spines. All that remains is to attach the eyes and nose.

Those who are not afraid of small rodents will like cute mice from small (liter) bottles. They are good for planting petunias.

Flower pots and flowerpots

With a little imagination, plastic bottles can easily be transformed into small decorative pots for flowers or herbs. You can make them even or cut them to fit a marker in the shape of a face. Such flowerpots will look great not only in a garden gazebo, but also on a windowsill in a house.

But if you put a fabric cover on the cut bottle and attach ropes, you will get elegant flowerpots for the summer veranda.

The easiest way to make hanging pots is to cut out fragments of the walls on both sides of the bottle, and secure a rope under the neck for hanging. Compact, low-growing plants can be planted in such flowerpots.

Making a beautiful garden path

Paths made from plastic containers are especially popular among summer residents. The strength of such a path depends on the laying method and what part of the plastic container serves as building material:

Paths made of plastic bottles become very slippery in winter.

Fun playground - decorating a place for children to play

Caring parents always strive to provide their children with a place to play in their dacha, where the children can while away the time while the adults are busy in the garden. Of course, it should not only be safe, but also colorful so that the kids will like it. With the help of plastic bottles it is easy to decorate the playground by making a variety of plants and animals. Regular paint will help give them brightness.

In the shade under a palm tree

What is a children's playground without a sandbox? And where there is sand, a palm tree must “grow”. For the tropicana you will need green and brown bottles for the trunk and leaves, respectively.

Before you begin assembly, you need to make sure you have a solid base. For example, fix a metal pin in a concrete screed, and it should be quite long so that the tree becomes tall and children can walk freely under it.

When the base is fixed, you can start “growing” the palm tree:

• cut off half the bottle (the top and neck are not needed) and form a jagged edge;
• Make a hole in the center of the bottom, string the blanks onto the base pin, bending the teeth to the side for a more natural look;
• cut off the bottom of the green bottle and make straight cuts along the entire contour to the place where the wall meets the neck (if desired, the branches can be made into shapes - cut into 4 parts and make teeth on each one);
• string fragments of the branch onto the base;
• firmly attach the finished branches to the top of the stem (by welding or construction cords).

If after assembling the palm tree there are still a lot of green bottles left, you can use them to make a small (or large) Christmas tree. Remove the bottom of the bottle and cut it into long narrow strips right up to the neck. Trim the edges of the strips to resemble thorns. String the leaves onto the base.

Such a Christmas tree will look great on the site in winter, especially under the snow, and will also help out on New Year's Eve those who, in a hurry, did not have time to buy a living tree.

Guests from a fairy tale - funny animals

And of course, there must be toys. Children often take their old favorites outside. With the help of plastic bottles, you can easily diversify the “zoo”, creating real masterpieces - from the fairy-tale Frog Princess and Goldfish to modern cartoon characters.

Take, for example, a handsome cat, painted with black and white paint. Or you can use brown beer bottles and you will get a brown cat, also beautiful.

Form a head from two bottle bottoms (connect them), and the curves on the bottoms will indeed look like a real head. On one of them, paint eyes, eyebrows and mustaches with white paint, and a neat tongue with red paint. Insert small cut out ears on top. For the body, string the same short-cut bottoms onto the base, closing the body last. Melt the edges of the bottoms. Apply white paint along the melted contour of the ears and body fragments, and make a white spot on the chest on the front bottom.

Glue the head and legs - the top parts of bottles with elongated necks will be useful for them. Cut them to the place where the bottle expands, cut the edges with sharp teeth and build legs from 4-5 parts, putting them on the base wire. Screw the plugs onto the upper necks and use them to glue the legs to the body. For the tail, take a long wire and string the narrowest parts of the neck onto it, but without the plugs. To make the tail fluffy, cut the edges into thin strips.

Beautiful animals are also obtained from large 5-liter containers. With the right combination of bottles of different sizes and with the help of bright colors, you can place a zebra, horse, cow, donkey and even a giraffe on the site.

Flowers for my daughter

In the sandbox, children not only make Easter cakes. Little girls love flowers very much and often collect dandelions on the lawn (or in their mother’s flowerbed) to plant them in their sand garden. But you can make a whole greenhouse of flowers from bottles, and little girls will be happy to take part in making the simplest options. Chamomiles, cornflowers and tulips will decorate the sandbox, especially since young flower growers will be able to repeatedly “transplant” them from bed to bed without harm to the plants or mother’s nerves.

For flowers you will need:

• wire for the stem;
• straight parts of bottles for cutting leaves out of them;
• necks or bottoms for the inflorescences themselves;
• dye.

Adults can make more complex versions. Plastic roses or poppies will decorate not only the playground, but also the flower bed.

Plastic design for garden

Plastic bottles have a wide range of applications. So, if small animals and birds look appropriate in flower beds and playgrounds, then larger animals can be placed in the garden, among trees and shrubs. They will give the garden a unique look and enliven it.

Amazing garden sculptures

Representatives of large birds made of plastic look almost alive. Using multi-colored paints you can achieve a stunning realistic effect. To make them, you just need to master the technique of cutting feathers from the sides of bottles and prepare a frame on which they will be attached.

The following will look very impressive in the garden:

In the garden you can place sculptures of not only birds, but also animals of a large enough size so that they do not get lost against the background of tall trees.

Among the greenery, a bright spot will be a white sheep, which is quite easy to make if you have 2 liter bottles and several 1.5 liter bottles lying around in the pantry:

1. Cut the necks of two 2 liter bottles and put them on top of each other - this will be an elongated head. Cut out long ears from the third bottle, roll them up a little into a tube and attach them to the head in appropriate places with wire (or glue). You can draw eyes or glue two corks.
2. For the body, insert the whole bottle with the neck inside into the cut-off top. Make 3 more such blanks and attach them to the first one on the sides and top, thus giving the sheep the desired “waist” volume.
3. The neck will be a whole two-liter bottle, which should be attached to the body at an angle of approximately 120 degrees so that the cork is on top.
4. Place the head to the neck (on the plug).
5. For the legs, cut off the top of a two-liter bottle and insert a whole bottle of a smaller volume (1.5 l) into it. Make three more such blanks and attach the legs to the body with the wide part up.
6. Make a fleece from the cut bottoms of two-liter bottles, fastening them together, and put them on the body. Grip the edges of the fur coat under your belly.
7. Paint the sheep with white paint and draw black eyes.

Caring for birds

Plastic bottles can be used not only for decorative purposes, but also for the benefit of the garden. After all, it is always inhabited by the summer resident’s little helpers - various birds that collect pests from the trees. In the warm summer they have something to eat, but in winter it becomes more difficult to get food. That’s when the feeders hanging around the garden will come in handy. And if you involve children in the process, you get a double benefit: the children get an interesting activity and pleasure, and the birds get a cozy house with grains.

The simplest ones can be made from large 5 liter plastic bottles by simply cutting large arch-shaped holes on both sides.

To prevent birds from injuring their paws on the sharp edges of the bottle, they must first be melted or covered with electrical tape.

For those who rarely visit their summer cottage in winter, a feeder that fills automatically will come in handy.

You can make it from a bottle and two wooden spoons:

• make two holes in the bottle opposite each other, with the second one located slightly lower;
• unfold the bottle and repeat the procedure on the reverse side;
• insert the spoons crosswise into the holes.

After the bottle is filled with food, it will be poured through the holes into the spoons as they are emptied.

A cozy place to relax using improvised means

Not only birds, but also the owners themselves should have their own secluded corner among the greenery, where on warm summer evenings you can happily drink a cup of tea, inhaling the aromas of nature. Many people prefer to place it in the garden. They are very beautiful, you can’t argue with that, but they require certain financial investments. But it’s cheap and cheerful to make from plastic not only a recreation area, but also to completely equip it.

Alcove? Easily!

A gazebo is one of the largest-scale garden crafts made from plastic bottles. But a plastic gazebo has two big advantages:

• it is easy to assemble;
• will last for more than one year without damaging the material.

Perhaps the only drawback of the building is the presence of a large number of bottles, which need to be stored somewhere during the collection process.

What the gazebo will look like depends only on the desire of the owner, and, accordingly, on the availability of “building materials”:

Practical curtains for the gazebo

In summer gazebos there is a lot of fresh air, but, unfortunately, also dust. Ordinary tulle requires frequent washing, while a plastic curtain does not collect as much dust, and you can “wash” it without even removing it - just spray it with water from a hose (of course, if such a curtain is not hanging in the house).

For dreamy and romantic housewives, delicate curtains made from the bottoms of plastic bottles strung on a base are suitable.

Energetic people who love bright colors are more suitable for cork curtains assembled according to the same principle.

garden furniture

A table, ottoman, armchair and even a sofa in a gazebo can also be made from plastic bottles. The old one from the house is also quite suitable for relaxing in the fresh air, but it, like the curtains, will eventually become a collection of dust. In addition, it is quite difficult to take a wooden sofa outside, because such furniture is quite bulky and heavy. But rearranging the plastic chair will not be difficult.

Assembling the furniture is not difficult - the bottles just need to be placed tightly and connected together with tape, giving the desired shape. For ottomans, knitting or sewing a cape - no one from the outside will guess what they are actually made of.

Leatherette covers are more suitable for a sofa.

Unbreakable chandeliers for the garden

If you are planning an evening tea party, you should definitely go to the gazebo. To decorate the light bulb, you can cut the bottle into two parts and make a simple lampshade from the upper half and paint it or cover it with colored thread.

In plastic chandeliers, it is better to use energy-efficient light bulbs - they do not heat up so much and will not melt the material.

In more complex versions, chandeliers are assembled from fragments of leaves or flowers cut from multi-colored bottles.

Gardening supplies for gardening

In order for a summer cottage to look beautiful and tidy, it is necessary to take care of it all the time - weeding, collecting fallen leaves and small debris. To do this you will need tools. Of course, you won’t be able to make a hoe or rake out of plastic, but simpler ones are quite possible.

Craftsmen have long known how to use plastic bottles to benefit themselves and save the family budget. After all, if the scoop suddenly breaks, you no longer have to run to the store for a new one. From household waste, which is found in every home, a lot of useful things are obtained at no extra cost:

Garden cares

From plastic bottles you can make useful things not only for the garden, but also for the vegetable garden. These can be either small crafts in the form of, or larger-scale structures such as greenhouses.

Greenhouses for seedlings

Most summer residents grow seedlings of garden crops on their own. Some do this in apartment conditions, but better quality seedlings are obtained from greenhouses - there is enough heat and light.

We can’t even talk about cost, but as for durability, plastic bottles will certainly last longer than film shelters or glass structures.

To increase the service life of greenhouses made from plastic bottles, it is advisable to place them on a foundation and use a metal profile for the frame.

The simplest version of a greenhouse involves constructing walls from whole bottles that are placed on top of each other.

It will take a little longer to tinker with a greenhouse made of plates, but it will turn out warmer. In this case, you need to cut out even parts from the bottles and fasten (sew) them together in the form of a canvas. Use ready-made canvases to assemble a greenhouse.

Watering "systems"

For gardeners, watering is no less pressing issue than having a greenhouse. Instead of ready-made watering systems in the garden, you can use. They must either be hung above the bush, having previously made holes in the lower part, or dug into the ground.

In addition, the bottle makes a good sprinkler - you just need to make small holes in it and connect it to a watering hose.

Getting rid of pests

A repeller made from a plastic bottle will help drive away the gardener’s worst enemy, the gardener, from the property. It not only plows up the beds, digging its tunnels, but also damages the root system of plants in the process, depriving gardeners of the future harvest.

If you cut the side walls of the bottle, bend them and put the container on a steel rod, when there is a gust of wind, the bottle will spin and make noise. The sound will go into the ground through the rod and deprive the mole of the desire to manage in this noisy place.

The list of things you can make from a plastic bottle with your own hands is quite long. These are just a few crafts that make life easier for summer residents. Agree – it’s better to get the most out of bottles than to pollute the environment. Take care of nature and work with pleasure!

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