Figures made from tires decorate many summer cottages. The use of these car wheel parts allows you to make your garden design original. The material is cheap and practical. You can easily make garden figures from tires with your own hands.
Old tires can be used to make original figures that will be an excellent decoration for your summer cottage.
How to make soft ottomans from tires and create the composition “Donkey with a cart”
In order to have something to sit on in your free time in the garden, you can use car tires instead of wood. To do this, you need very little - fabric in the form of a ribbon or wide belts. The tire is tightly wrapped with these elements, and their ends are intertwined with each other. It takes no more than 60 minutes to create and decorate a soft pouf for a summer cottage. Tires of any diameter are suitable for such a furniture set, but you must try to select ones so that their reinforcing fibers do not stick out from the main body, otherwise you can get cut (scratched). The resulting ottomans will look something like the one in Fig. 1.
Figure 1. Stages of making a pouf from tires.
Many people have wooden figures of horses and other animals on their property. These statues are not difficult to make, but the material for them requires painting to protect against moisture or rain. They are made from logs, timber, and most often all summer residents have such things. You can use car tires to make the figure of a donkey (or a horse - as you like).
To make such a statue, you need to use only 2 wheels, which all summer residents usually have in their barn or garage.
To work, you will need a sharp knife, a small skein of knitting wire, a metal or wooden ring, 2 poles, 2 bicycle wheels, and legs from an old chair. You can create a composition within a few hours.
Work begins by cutting the tire in half. Then one half is rotated 180° and inserted into the second. Secure with wire. The hanging end is processed with a knife and given the shape of an animal's head. The donkey's ears and mane are cut out of the second tire and attached to the main body. Then they attach the legs from the chair and place the figure on them. A ring is placed on the donkey's neck and connected to poles. They make a cart from bicycle wheels and boards and attach them to the free ends of the poles. You can install a flower bed on the resulting cart, and the entire composition can be easily rearranged from time to time to different places on the site, thus changing the design of the garden. An approximate view of a donkey with a cart is shown in Fig. 2.
How to make a parrot from tires
Figure 2. To make a donkey, you only need two old tires.
There is nothing difficult in creating the figure of an exotic bird. First you need to draw on whatman paper what you want to see. Then you should prepare the necessary tool for the job. The technology for making a parrot from a car tire is as follows:
- The tire is cut on both sides, leaving a thin strip on its inner circumference. You should get a whole small radius, and the large one will be divided into 2 parts.
- To obtain the desired shape for decorative work, you need to make cuts along a small radius.
- The parrot's head and tail are made along the cut edges, for which the tire must be cut into strips. They become pointed at the ends. You need to cut a shape out of rubber that looks like a parrot's head.
- In the right places, all these parts are painted in a color corresponding to the design concept.
- The figure is hung in the right place.
The composition can be made in 2-3 hours even if you have no experience working with such things.
The parrot is shown in Fig. 3.
How to make a Frog Princess for a summer cottage
Figure 3. Tire cutting diagram for the parrot figure.
If a person has several old tires, then you can try to make a fabulous composition and place it on the territory of your summer cottage. This will be the Frog Princess resting on the edge of the lawn. The only purchased materials you need are paint. All work will last 3-4 hours.
Work begins by laying two tires on the ground. They must be installed close to each other. Another tire is installed on top of them and an improvised pedestal is obtained. The inside of the tires must be filled with soil. After this, you can begin designing the composition. This is done as follows:
- Using 2 short branches, make the front legs of the frog.
- The hind legs are made using the same method, but from two long branches.
- The bars are processed with a hacksaw to shape the resulting legs.
- Using a knife, a crown and frog eyes are made from a plastic bottle, and everything else is painted on.
How to make a flowerbed from an old tire
To create a reliable shelter for flowers, you need to use not only the rubber of the tires themselves, but also a metal wheel rim, from which you can build a durable stand for a flower bed. To do this, you need to take and cut out the semblance of petals along the small diameter of the tire with a knife, which are then folded upward. The metal rim is slightly deepened into the ground and the resulting rubber casing is installed on it. Soil is poured inside and flowers are installed. The flowerbed can be painted in different colors.
Figures made from old tires
To get a fairy-tale plot and install it in your summer cottage, you can use such popular characters as bears.
They are made this way. First, a large diameter tire is installed on the rib. Then a smaller splint is attached to it. This is the body and head of the future bear. A plastic basin of the appropriate size must be inserted into the inside of the large wheel. To obtain the animal's face, it is painted on plywood and attached to the inside of a small tire. The ears are made of plastic or wood, and paws can also be attached. To do this, strengthen a plastic bottle and a pole. Flowers are planted around the figure.
If there is a natural pond or swimming pool at your summer cottage, then you can decorate it with figures of swans, which are made from old tires. The technology for their creation is reminiscent of what was described above for the parrot. The difference is that instead of the head of an exotic bird and a loose tail, you need to make a long neck and secure it in the desired position with wire. The swan's beak is painted red. You can place a flower pot with plants inside this figure and secure it in a certain place in the pond.
You can create a caterpillar using tires painted in different shades of green and flexible plastic hoses. To do this, take a dozen old wheels and, placing them in a horizontal plane next to each other, form a body. Then plastic hoses, bent in the proper order, are attached to the sides. The head is made from a plastic container.
If a person does not want to make the donkey described above, then you can make a simple horse. To do this, the old tire is buried edgewise into the ground. On the remaining outside part they put on a horse’s head cut out of plywood, and the mane is made from a bunch of straw. You can install such a figure anywhere in your summer cottage, and it takes 40-60 minutes to create it.
Materials and tools for creating different compositions
- Old tires from a car.
- Bicycle wheels.
- Fabric ribbons or wide belts.
- Wooden or metal ring.
- Poles and board.
- Bars.
- Legs from an old chair.
- Paints of different colors.
- Wire.
- Hacksaw.
- Construction knife.
- Paint brush.
- Whatman paper and pencil.
Anyone who has the skills to use the simplest tools and gives free rein to their imagination and imagination can decorate their summer cottage with various figures made from old tires.
Crafts made from tires and tires are widely used to decorate the site of a kindergarten or dacha.
It is difficult to find cheaper material for decorating a playground, old car wheels. After looking at the photos and reading the instructions and master classes in our thematic section, you will notice that tires in skillful hands can turn into not only original homemade garden decorations and decorative sculptures, but also often perform special functional tasks. You can make excellent vases, flower beds and flower beds from tires with your own hands. Tires dug into the ground are used as zoning of the territory or design of a children's playground. Wheels can be used as a sandbox, pond or pool.
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The use of car tires in the countryside is just as justified as the use of plastic bottles. This is a cheap and quite practical material for creating a wide variety of objects and things that may be needed for work, recreation, and even designing a garden landscape.
Until recently, we talked about crafts at the dacha using improvised materials, created TOP lists of the most interesting things and determined rating and exclusive ideas for using old and used things to create something new. We used wood, metal, plastic and glass bottles, but today it’s our turn to pay attention to an equally interesting material – car tires. It is very easy to get tires for use in the country, and working with them is not at all difficult. Therefore, we suggest taking a little time and exploring new ideas. Also, we immediately ask you to actively participate in the discussion of the article, because the opinion of each reader is very important to us!
Soft ottomans
For comfortable seats in the countryside while relaxing, you can use car tires. To do this, they are wrapped in ribbons of fabric or belts that are simply intertwined. There is nothing complicated about this technique, and by practical means we have found that it takes literally an hour to design a soft ottoman from a tire.
You can use tires of almost any diameter and size to produce “country furniture,” but try to choose ones that are not very dilapidated, so that the reinforcing fibers from the base material do not cause you trouble in the form of scratches and cuts.
Donkey with a cart made of tires
Remember, not so long ago we studied in detail the original works of some summer residents - at the dacha? They were made of timber, logs, branches and other materials that you don’t have to buy, but simply find at the dacha. Today we propose to consider the horse model in a new light. It will no longer be a horse, but a donkey made from a car tire.
The production of such a creature takes only two tires, which simply take up space in the garage or shed. Using a sharp knife, a little knitting wire and imagination, you can build a nice decoration for your dacha lawn within a few hours. In addition, it is quite possible to create not only a small donkey, but also a cart, and, for example, install flower pots in it, thereby creating a mobile flower bed.
Tire parrots
When we start talking about exotic birds, we immediately present you with an image of such a masterpiece.
It looks like real art, the hand of a professional. But if you take a closer look, there are no difficulties in producing such birds. If you systematize your work, make a simple drawing and pick up a quality tool, all you have to do is follow our instructions:
- Cut the tire on both sides, leaving only a small strip of the inner circumference. That is, you get a solid small radius of the product, and divide the large one in half;
- Next, make a cut along a small radius, on both sides, due to which you get the desired shape with which you can carry out decorative work;
- Along the edges of the cut you should make the head of the parrot and its tail. We spread the original material into several strips and sharpen them at the end, and also cut out the resemblance of a parrot’s head from rubber, only in shape;
- The rest is done by bright paints, with the help of which a piece of black rubber acquires the desired shade and the clear image of a beautiful bird.
Frog princess made of wheels in the country
Do you have some old tires? Then, on the territory of the dacha, you can create a very pleasant and cheerful picture - a frog sitting on the edge of the lawn.
The whole process takes several hours; in terms of costs, you only purchase paint for decoration.
First, two tires are laid on the ground, next to each other, close to each other. A third is laid on top of them, so we get something somewhat reminiscent of a pedestal.
We fill the tires with soil from the inside and proceed to the design:
- Two shorter and thicker branches and two longer but thinner ones form the legs of the frog;
- Specially shaped wooden blocks, which can be cut with an ordinary hacksaw, complement the legs;
- We cut out eyes and a crown for our cute “princess” from plastic bottles, and simply paint on the rest.
DIY tire crafts (video)
Flower beds made from tires
Some time ago, when we talked about interesting ideas for a summer house, we focused on creating flower beds from tires. Today we only have a reminder, as well as a call to use not only the rubber part, but also metal rims from wheels, on the basis of which you can build reliable and durable stands for flower beds.
Bird figures
Decorations for gardens and lawns can also be made from old tires. Today we have before us a rather cute white goose, the production of which took only one car tire.
As you can see, it is laid on its side and trimmed, its main part forms a decorative design with slices, and the cut part forms the neck and head of the bird.
It is very difficult to make a head out of rubber alone, so wood is used for stability and shape.
After the image is formed, the new garden figure is painted.
It is also noteworthy that as a result we get not just a garden figure, but also an excellent flower bed for planting ornamental plants.
Pool made from an old tire
Of course, in order to make even the smallest pool, you will need to take a large tire, for example, from a tractor or a large loader, and so on.
It is difficult to work with dense material, but there will be no need to cut it, because we have a ready-made mold that can be filled with water. All that remains is to make a reliable bottom so that when such a pool is filled, the water does not immediately drain away.
Initially, you should choose a place for installation, cover it with dense material that will create a base. It can be screenings or clay, but it can also be ordinary lawn soil with grass, the main thing is that it is well-established.
Now we spread a piece of awning or special film at the installation site, which is used for constructing artificial reservoirs in dachas. Along the perimeter of our wheel, we degrease the awning and generously lubricate it with special glue. This could be rubber glue or even universal Velcro.
A wheel is placed on the awning, presses the awning with its weight, and remains in this position for a day. After this, the glued seam should be additionally treated with sealant from the inside and outside. After another day, you can pour water inside and use a completely sealed tire from special equipment in the form of a country pool.
Path at the dacha
If the territory of the dacha has a slight slope, a descent to the water or a passage through a ravine, tires can be used to ensure maximum comfort along the way of movement. With their help, strong and durable steps are created that are comfortable and safe to walk on.
Original garden figures
We have already studied some options, but now we are moving on to real fairy-tale characters that can appear in any dacha.
First of all, we present bears made from car tires, which are organically formed and installed, decorated and endowed in a special way. As you can see, next to them are the cute flowers made from plastic bottles that we talked about recently.
Next up is the caterpillar, which really couldn’t be simpler. It's a nice shape made of vertically mounted tires that fit tightly together at slightly different heights. Painting and simple decoration help complete the look.
At the very beginning of the article, we mentioned wooden horses and showed you a donkey made from tires, but now we have come to a horse made from an old tire, the construction of which and its complete design will take you no more than a couple of hours. Agree, this is not much to create a favorite country toy for children or grandchildren. The shape is formed very simply - a tire is installed in a small hole and concreted. Next, it is shaped and painted, complemented by a head and mane, and immediately after that it becomes a nice object in the exterior of the dacha.
Furniture made from tires
Oddly enough, car tires can play the role of not only original decorations for the landscape of a summer cottage, but also become truly practical furniture. We already looked at one such example at the beginning of the article, but here we came across several more very successful ideas.
We present to your attention a good dacha kit, for the production of which tires and a metal frame are used. But as you may have noticed, this is not simple, but wicker furniture, and therefore interest in it has increased.
A similar set is a little lower, but this is already upholstered furniture for a summer house. Naturally, not the most practical option and far from the ultimate dream, but very cute!
Using tires for practical purposes
In conclusion, we present to you the idea of a homemade septic tank or a special pit for a country toilet from old tires. We will not talk in detail about the construction of a toilet or cesspool, since the site already has thematic material, but we will simply present you with another useful area in which you can use car tires.
What can be made from car tires (video)
Human imagination has no limits, and the desire to achieve maximum practicality in a summer cottage is often the main goal. This is exactly what we consider a reason to develop new opportunities and implement even those ideas that initially may not seem very practical. Today we presented you with a considerable list of decorative items, furniture and even sewer elements made from old tires, and therefore we are waiting for your reaction to the material below, in the comments.
Crafts for the garden from car tires (20 photos)
Reviews and comments
Lydia 03/20/2014
Yes, of course... But all car tires and tubes cannot be disposed of this way. Tires must be recycled. First for heating oil, and then for gasoline or diesel fuel and cord. We can help with the purification of heating oil into gasoline.
Sasha 10/04/2014
By the way, I saw a bunch of fakes made from tires at other dachas, but I never thought of doing something like that myself, because I was lazy, and I didn’t want to, but now I’ll make myself a couple of interesting fakes in order to decorate my dacha house a little)
Igor 12/07/2014
The flight of fancy, of course, pleased me. And yet, I have a cool attitude towards this use of tires - this kind of aesthetics is still questionable. It is interesting only in cases of a completely unexpected and original type or application.
Dmitry Belokonny 21.09.2015
Very original, I learned a lot for myself, I liked the idea with ottomans, not only cute, but also functional, better than dragging chairs from the house, or putting up an old bench. And the steps made of tires are also interesting, there is a descent to the garage, and you have to go around it behind the yard (it’s very sharp), now I’m thinking about making a descent with tires to save time and not make a huge detour!
Alla 03.10.2015
In these photos, the figures made from tires look interesting. I saw several similar figures among my neighbors, and I didn’t really like them: they look a bit clumsy. But the idea of steps made from tires is interesting and functional. We can do this down to the river. True, I don’t know where to get so many tires.
Elena 10/14/2015
And in our city, such decorations have been implemented on playgrounds in kindergartens! Cartoon characters: Krosh, Nyusha, Cheburashka, Masha and the Bear! And the kids really like it, including my Ryo.
During my childhood in kindergartens, old tires were used only for flowerbeds or buried sideways halfway in the ground, like sports equipment. (((Was there really not enough imagination for more? After all, no supernatural materials are required for such crafts?
I haven’t seen anything like this at our dachas yet. I think people don’t want to install such structures, because on 5–6 acres of land there is barely enough land for planting. Alexander 11/27/2016
I have always liked making crafts with my own hands. My garage is fully equipped for one purpose only - making crafts. Some time ago, I began to notice how in my city I am starting to place such crafts in flower beds, in kindergartens and other cultural places. I liked this idea and I started making all sorts of crafts from tires, etc. I think that now I will make black swans from tires. When everything is ready, I will post what happened.
Karrina 01/16/2017
Can you please tell me what is the best paint to use for such “folk art”?) So that it doesn’t run from the rain and doesn’t have a strong smell, there are a lot of options to choose from now, I would like it to not peel off in a month or two, I don’t understand anything about this, and there are tires left from my father’s old car, the children want to experiment) I want the poisoning to happen without wearing respirators and without consequences...
Vova 02/14/2017
Class! We are looking forward to the continuation of the digest of tire products!
Masha 03/22/2017
We made four of these swans with tires and placed them in the garden. It turned out very nice, and the process itself is simple. Only we didn’t bother with the wings so much; it turned out rougher. And in the photo I was simply captivated by the parrots, but this is a very delicate work both in terms of cutting out of rubber and in terms of painting. My husband and I’s team of Crazy Hands is not yet capable of this)
Masha 08/15/2017I have never seen crafts that really look beautiful on a summer cottage; in my opinion, it’s better to plant more flowers or have a smooth lawn than to litter the area.
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Recycling car tires is becoming an integral part of our lives. Everyone solves this problem in their own way. Tire car for the playground! Many people like this idea.
The kids are simply delighted with this craft, and adults look at it with admiration. Considering that the tires are resistant to negative external influences, this design will please the eye for many years.
For parents with small children, arranging a playground in their country house or street will require little time and do not require any financial expenses. And the children will play without distracting their parents from important matters.
You can make crafts for such a site yourself, even if you have never done this before. Ideas and work procedures can be found on the Internet. Most often they are made from plastic bottles and tires. There is nothing complicated in manufacturing.
The main thing is desire and a little time.
You will not need to spend money on purchasing expensive materials, since the tires will be gladly given away by car service workers, who usually have a sufficient amount of them. Craftsmen make a lot of things out of tires: swings, sports equipment, flower beds, etc.
Types of machines
Transport is a constant success among boys, and even modern girls. Therefore, you can start by making a car for children. A car made from tires for a playground can be of various brands (types) - from very simple to quite complex.
Instructions for making a car from wheels
The simplest option would be to bury a steering wheel from a real car and a seat into a quadrangle made of tires.
It is better to choose a place for the site where the craft will be installed that is illuminated, spacious, and located close to the house. The best covering would be a backfill of sand or a lawn, which will have to be cleared of stones and glass to protect children from injury.
Machine-shop
It won't be difficult to make it. To do this, after thoroughly cleaning and painting the board, it is secured between tires of the same size. These will be the rear wheels. The front ones can be done in the same way. But you can install only one wheel in the center so that the craft resembles a racing car.
The depth of the holes for the wheels of the car should be such that the latter are hidden up to the disk. Then transport will be sustainable. After covering them with soil, compact it well. It is better to dig in tires with rims. But, if they are not there, you can replace them with plywood to give the structure rigidity.
Linoleum is used to imitate flooring, but it can be replaced with plywood. To prevent the wind from picking up the linoleum, it is advisable to dig the steering wheel into the ground through it. The tilt of the steering wheel is selected in accordance with the height of a particular child.
Truck made from tires
You can make a children's sandbox in the shape of a truck.
Manufacturing of seats
The seat can be made from one tire or by placing two on top of each other.
In the simplest version, they are limited to mounting plywood on tires. If you want to make it more comfortable, you will need a backrest. You can upholster the seat with something soft - foam rubber, carpet, blanket.
A plastic chair that is not used at home, wooden seats from chairs, or old armchairs will do. Having sawed off the legs, they are fastened, fixing them with self-tapping screws.
The parts are washed and dried well before painting. After this, the brand new car is painted in your preferred colors.
To make the craft more similar to the original, headlights are added. Jar lids will work for them.
And the next model is for the kids of the whole yard, because it allows you to travel with a large group.
What else will help make it look like a real car?
Doors attached to the craft will undoubtedly make the craft look like a real car. For a large number of children to play with the car, several rows of seats (2-3) are made. If there is an extra tire, make a spare tire by attaching it to the back and writing the number in paint.
A car roof covered with linoleum, in addition to making it look like a real car, will protect from sun rays and light rain. To secure it, you will need wooden blocks, bent in the shape of the letter “P”. You need 3 pieces in total. Two structures are installed in the rear part above the machine (it is better to dig them into the ground), the third is closer to the front. They are connected from above with bars to form a horizontal frame, onto which linoleum is secured on top with screws or nails.
For a racing car you need to find 5 tires of the same size. A little effort from parents and they will turn into a wonderful car that will not leave the child indifferent.
Three tires are enough to make a car like the one in the photo below. On it, little racers will not be able to race across the expanses of the planet, but they will play with pleasure.
For “cool” kids you can make a motorcycle. You really have to use your imagination. But the happy faces of the owners of such bikes will be a reward for caring parents.
Video: Racing car made of wheels and tires.