Handmade crafts from plastic bottles for the garden, cottage, vegetable garden - photo ideas, master classes, tips

What features does plastic have

Different kinds of plastic decompose within 100-500 years, so products made of it will last for many years. In addition, plastic is easy to work with available tools (scissors, knives, awl, glue, etc.), so it is not difficult to make interesting things from it.

Bottle caps can also be used for different types of decorations. Plastic is safe, so you can safely create crafts from it for children.

Ideas for garden decor

This is probably the most widespread use of plastic bottles. You do not need to be a craftsman to decorate a garden plot, you just need to imagine and read useful tips.

Fences for beds of different shapes and beds

This option of decorating beds is not only beautiful, but also useful: the soil from them does not crumble, rains do not wash away, the view is bright and attractive. To decorate it, you need to collect a lot of plastic containers of the same size, fill them with sand, and then close them again with lids.

Then, by burying the bottles in the ground around the bed, we create a "fence". You can make the bed rectangular, oval or any fancy shape according to the author's idea. The finished curb can be painted in different colors, you will get a unique vegetable garden, which will be pleasing to the eye all season.

Flowers and butterflies to decorate the dacha

To make flowers, you need to cut off the necks from the prepared bottles. Cutting the neck lengthwise, but not all the way through, you can get the petals (usually 6-8 pieces), rounding them at the edges. Then the edges of the petals should be burned on a lit candle, they become flat.

Bending the petals, scorch them at the base, at this time to bend and give shape. When plastic is heated, it is very well shaped into different products. The stem for flowers can be made from wire, from the same, thinner, and beads - stamens. You can fasten all the components with glue and wire, using an awl to pierce the plastic.

To make a butterfly, you must first cut a template out of paper. You need to cut off the bottom and neck of the bottle, leaving only the middle, cutting it lengthwise. Having ironed the middle with a sheet of paper, you can get a flat surface. Having put a template, you should draw a butterfly on the workpiece, cut it out and bend up the wings. You can decorate it with varnish and paint as you wish.

Zoo in the garden

From bottles you can make a variety of animals. For example, to make a crocodile, you need two 1.5 liter bottles cut in half, and then cut so that the neck was left to 7 cm. Then insert the bottles into each other. The edges should be connected so that the body is slightly bent, so the crocodile will look more natural. Caps will serve as legs. Paws and teeth on the back cut out of cardboard. All parts glue and paint.

Piggies are very easy to do. You need to cut out the ears, bend them, glue the tail and paint. The pigs are ready. Coca-Cola bottles have a special shape, the bottom is like a fitted animal body, so it is easy to make penguins out of them, for example.

You need two bottles: the bottom of the first will be the body of the penguin, the second will need only the bottom, it will serve as a cap. Now you can take brushes and paint the little critter as you like. On the hat you can glue a pompom, and tie a scarf around his neck. It turns out very funny.

So you can assemble a whole zoo, thanks to which the country house will not be boring.

Homemade "usefulness" of plastic

From bottles you can make not only beautiful, but also useful things for the home. If you show imagination and ingenuity, bright, beautiful, unusual things will captivate your housemates and neighbors.

Curtains and drapes

Bottles of different sizes are suitable here, the bottoms are good for flowers, and from the bottle itself you can cut leaves. The cut flowers and leaves can be painted or left transparent. You need to string them up and hang them in the garden house, in the gazebo, on the porch, even in the pre-bathroom.

Washbasins and boxes

A washbasin from a bottle is a very simple and convenient thing. To make it elementary simple: cut off the bottom (if you cut not all the way, you get a sink with a lid, which protects the water from leaves and dust), and attach it to a tree trunk or to the wall of the barn. If you need to wash your hands, all you have to do is open the lid. You can fill the bottle with cellophane bags - you get an original box.

Slippers

A step-by-step description of making slippers out of a bottle:

• cut the soles to the right size;
• Cut off the upper part of the appropriate size;
• punch holes all around the perimeter of the soles and tops;
• crochet around the perimeter of the slippers, simultaneously connecting the top with the sole;
• You can decorate the top with any materials you like.

The slippers are ready!

Insect traps

The bottle neck should be cut off and inserted into the bottom of the bottle with the neck down. Then it is necessary to pour specially prepared syrup into it. Such a trap is left untouched for a week, insects flock in huge numbers. After a week, prepare a new syrup.

Many more useful things can be made. Make a round hole in the top of the bottle according to the size of the hand, you can use it as an organizer for fasteners. Making holes in the bottom and digging bottles into the ground next to cultivated plants can be a device for deep watering. And certainly pots for flowers, candle holders and vases, funnels and feeders for birds, children's toys can easily cut out any shape and any size.

Buildings from plastic containers

Some gardeners build real greenhouses, greenhouses, pergolas and even houses from bottles. For reference: to build a greenhouse will need 500-1000 bottles. There are several construction technologies. The most common is as follows: the bottles must be cut off the bottom, then the bottles are put on slats. The resulting slats are fastened to each other, and then to the frame prepared in advance from wooden bars. Greenhouse turns out lightweight, durable, cheap and easy to repair.

For the construction of the pergola and the cottage, of course, will require additional materials, but such a construction also has a right to exist.

It is impossible not to mention the fact that, not throwing out discarded plastic, and making from it interesting, beautiful and useful things, people improve the ecology of the planet. And for his family, he creates a variety of unique and beautiful things. It would be a desire and lazy hands.

Photo ideas of homemade crafts from plastic bottles