A fairytale house made from a plastic bottle will be useful for housewives in the kitchen, as it is not just beautiful
house - it also serves as an organizer for detergents. You can build a bottle house
next to the sink and hide a sponge, mesh and dishwashing liquid in it. If you are interested in handmade
from waste material, from a plastic bottle, which is found in every home and is usually thrown away -
come watch the master class in photographs). And prepare salt dough and putty to create
tiled roof of the house, doors, windows and vegetation.
Fairytale house made from a plastic bottle
To create a kitchen organizer house we will need the following materials and tools:
Plastic bottle - preferably 3 liter, low and wide, with a handle,
sharp kitchen or stationery knife,
salty dough,
putty,
acrylic paints,
kebab sticks,
protective varnish spray,
PVA glue.
Having prepared all the above materials, we begin to work. First of all we need plastic
bottles to make a kitchen organizer - cut a window in it with a sharp knife. There should be a window
large enough to easily hold the dishwashing detergent you normally use.
The door, windows, all plant elements on the house are made of putty. Easy to work with, easy to apply
patterns and texture, easy to stick to plastic. Pay attention to the “wooden” parts - windows and doors -
the texture on them is created using polyethylene. Just take a plastic bag, make a ball out of it and
lightly press onto the putty. Recesses on doors and vegetation are made using the tip of a kebab
sticks. The wavy fragment above the door is also made using a kebab stick.
But to create a tiled roof of the house we will use salt dough or any other mass for modeling.
After all the stucco fragments have dried, you can begin painting the house with acrylic paints. The final step will be to coat the stucco molding with a protective spray varnish.
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.
The buildings
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:
- density - 1.38-1.4 g/cm³,
- softening temperature (t size) - 245 °C,
- melting temperature (t pl.) - 260 °C,
- glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 °C,
- decomposition temperature - 350 °C.
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 practically waste raw materials as building material. Craftsmen already even build houses from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, and fences. Various technologies have been developed - the approach is quite serious.
How to build a house from plastic bottles
The basic idea is to pour bulk material into bottles, screw them on with caps 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, or you can make a 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.
We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse
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 first technology - one to one
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 row of the required height, we 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).
Second technology - sewing plastic
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 directions. 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.
Fence and enclosure
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 Rusinka. 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 come up with a beautiful filling from shaped containers and their parts.
Furniture from scrap materials: recycling plastic bottles
Not only can you make a house and a fence from plastic bottles, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers rather than wood for the frame. With the lids tightly screwed on, they have a high load-bearing capacity, and when 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:
- Select “building material” that is the same height and tighten the lids well.
- Assemble blocks of the required size, securing them with tape.
- Having assembled the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, adding furniture foam.
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 the inner layers, it is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.
Ottomans/banquettes
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 tightly screwed lids we assemble a 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 the cover from furniture fabric in a color that matches 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.
Sofas, chairs, armchairs
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 held not by compressed air, but by a mechanical stop. And they have double walls, which is also important. Disadvantage - more work, more raw materials are needed. The whole process is illustrated step by step.
- Take the bottle and cut it approximately in the middle of the height (the upper part with the neck is smaller).
- We insert the upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) until it stops into the lower part.
- We take a whole one, the same size and shape, and insert it bottom down into the prepared structure.
- We cut the third approximately in half and put the lower part on the top (with a lid).
From such modules we assemble blocks of the required configuration, fastening them with tape. Don't skimp on scotch tape. 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.
Flower making methods
The most common crafts made from plastic bottles are garden figurines and flowers. Read about garden figurines. There are other interesting ideas, but there are many 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 need to do is find a bottle of a beautiful color and cut off the bottom. 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.
Using the power of fire
To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it’s more convenient with a candle). If available, 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. Look at a few more pictures with step-by-step photos of the process of making flowers from plastic bottles.
The simplest
For beginner crafters, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles in simple shapes to decorate the garden. 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.
Useful ideas for the home
PET containers turned out to be such a good material that many useful things are made from them. In this section we have collected useful crafts made from plastic bottles that can be used around the house.
For the kitchen and more
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.
The bottom of the bottles attached to the bar makes an excellent newspaper shelf (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.
Lampshades
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, take it out through the hole in the bottom, and attach the decor to the back side. Maybe a button, maybe a pebble of a suitable color. Now, by pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shaped lampshade. 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.
Flower vases
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...
Photo ideas
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...
Useful tips
7. Lift the fabric and thread the string through it.
Master class from plastic bottles. Mobile phone holder.
You can also make a good and very useful mobile phone holder from a plastic bottle. You need it when you urgently need to charge your phone, you find an outlet, but there is nowhere to put the phone.
Prepare a 0.5 liter plastic bottle and pierce a hole with a knife to further cut off the unnecessary part of the bottle.
Using scissors or a utility knife, cut out a circle for the fork.
All that remains is to insert the cord from the charger into the “neck” and plug it into the outlet.
Master class from a plastic bottle. Chandelier.
You will need:
50 plastic bottles (volume 0.5 l)
Flower wire
Regular wire
Bulb
Spray paint
Glue (preferably a glue gun)
Scissors
Stationery knife
1. Prepare plastic bottles and remove labels from them.
2. Cut each bottle into the shape of a flower (see picture). To do this, use a stationery knife.
3. Spread the "petals" of the flowers.
4. Once you've completed steps 1-3 with all 50 bottles, it's time to paint them. Use spray paint, or you can take a little more time and paint each flower with acrylic paints. You can choose any color. You can also vary the colors by making some flowers one color and others another.
5. Make a circle out of regular wire. Wrap the jute and use a glue gun to glue it to the wire. You will have the base of the chandelier to which the flowers will be attached.
6. Using floral wire, attach each flower to the circle you made from the wire.
There are two ways to attach floral wire to a flower: wrap it around the neck, or glue it.
This is what the first layer looks like.
7. Repeat all steps to make several layers. In this example, 3 layers were made.
8. Use jute to attach the chandelier to the ceiling (see picture).
What you can do from plastic bottles. Waterer.
Simply make holes in the cap of a plastic bottle with an awl or nail.
Products made from plastic bottles. Funnel.
Plastic products from bottles. Money box.
1. Prepare a plastic bottle. Wash it with hot water and soap and leave to dry.
2. From colored cardboard, cut out details such as ears, eyes, snout and nostrils.
3. Use glue or double tape to attach all the parts.
4. Wrap the bottle with patterned paper.
5. For the legs, you can use empty spools that need to be glued to the bottle.
6. Make a cut at the top for coins.
We make a dispenser for plastic bags from a plastic bottle
You will only need one 3-liter plastic bottle in which to store your plastic bags.
Simply cut off the bottom of the bottle so you can slide the bags in, and the neck so you can carefully remove one bag at a time.
You can use sandpaper to make the edges of the bottle more even and smooth.
Making bracelets from plastic bottles
You will need:
Plastic bottle
Adhesive tape (the width of the bracelet depends on the width of the tape)
Double-sided tape
Felt (or other material)
Scissors
Stationery knife
Decorations
1. First, wrap some adhesive tape around the bottle. Make several "rings" as shown in the picture. Everything needs to be done carefully and evenly, since it is the tape that will determine how smoothly you can cut the bracelet out of the bottle.
2. Using a utility knife, carefully cut off each ring.
3. Carefully remove the adhesive tape.
4. Glue double-sided tape to the resulting plastic bracelet.
Many homestead owners create all sorts of products from plastic bottles to decorate their place. You can create real works of art by spending a minimum of money.
Not only decorative items are made from plastic, but even furniture. All you need is a knife, an awl and a little imagination.
In this article we will look in detail at how to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands.
Decorating the site
You won’t see any kind of homemade products on personal plots. There are flowers, animals, and trees. You can create beautiful sculptural compositions that will not only decorate the garden, but will also give you a great mood.
Let's look at a couple of instructions for beginners that will help you easily create crafts from plastic bottles. It will be a palm tree and a pig.
Bottle palm
To make a palm tree you need to create a frame. Its length should be equal to the height of the tree.
Take bottles of the same size, cut off their bottoms and place them on top of each other. Then the leaves are cut out. They are attached to the top of the created structure. When everything is ready, the palm tree is painted green.
Funny pig made from bottles
The pig will look great anywhere in the garden. To make it you will need:
- 5 liter bottle;
- four bottle necks for making legs;
- one top part from a bottle, which is cut into two parts to make ears;
- wire for tail;
- two beads for eyes;
- glue;
- pink paint.
The parts are connected and secured with glue. The finished product needs to be painted. You can use oil or spray paint. To prevent the piglet from being blown away by the wind, you need to pour sand into it.
In addition to its decorative function, the structure can serve as a flower bed. To do this, the top is cut off, filled with soil and flowers are planted.
Crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden can serve as flower beds, borders or paths. To make a path, bottles are inserted into the ground with their necks.
Both whole and cut plastic are used. It is important to fill the bottles with soil so that they do not become deformed when they are walked on.
Use of bottles on the farm
Bottles are used not only for decoration. These can be used to make a dustpan, washbasin, or pest trap.
Undoubtedly, everyone needs a container for storing some items. To make it, just cut off the neck.
The washbasin is also very easy to make with your own hands. The bottom of the bottle is cut off and holes are made through which the rope is threaded. The structure is hung in the desired place and water is poured. To wash your face, just unscrew the cap a little.
To make a trap, you need to cut the container in half. To catch insects, some kind of bait is placed at the bottom. For example, sugar syrup with yeast is suitable for this.
You will need hot water in which the sugar and yeast will dissolve. The cooled liquid must be poured into the trap. Not only flies and wasps, but also mosquitoes will flock to this delicacy.
Note!
Even a child can make a scoop. First you need to outline its shape and then cut it out.
Plastic can be used to make flower pots, greenhouses or containers for seedlings. Descriptions of such crafts made from plastic bottles can be found in large quantities on the Internet, but to create something unique, you need to show your imagination.
It is fashionable to build a self-watering device from plastic containers. To do this, cut the bottle, make holes on the sides and insert the hose into the neck. With the help of such a device, the plants will be perfectly hydrated.
For plants that do not like surface watering, make the following device. The bottom of plastic containers is not completely cut off. A trench is opened on the side of the plant where stones are placed. The bottle is buried upside down.
Then the required amount of water is poured to carry out irrigation. You can place the bottles upside down, but in this case you will need to make holes in the container.
Plastic containers are also used to heat plants. To do this, bottles are filled with warm water and placed around the plant.
Note!
For inspiration, you can look at various photos of crafts made from plastic bottles. You don’t need to put in a lot of effort to make an original decoration or useful item for your garden that will last for many years.
Photos of crafts made from plastic bottles
Note!
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):
- The first step is to draw the contours of the flower bed with a sharp object or sprinkle sand on the site.
- 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.
- Dig a groove along the outlined contour so that the bottle can be deepened into it by about 1/3.
- 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, and close 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Place the head to the neck (on the plug).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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