Garden handicrafts from improvised materials - interesting master classes, photo ideas, tips
Beauty should surround a person not only inside the house, but also outside. Garden crafts are a great tool for beautifying the landscape. Of course, they can be purchased in any store specialized in the sale of items of dacha equipment.However, it is much more interesting to do the making of such decor yourself. All the more, such creativity contributes to the strengthening of mutual ties between family members and diversity of leisure time.
What materials can be used to create handicrafts
Before proceeding to the aesthetic arrangement of the garden or vegetable garden, it is necessary to carefully think through the idea of decoration.
The design solution can be anything: from the embodiment of images of a favorite literary work to the creation of interplanetary transport. It all depends on the owners of the site, or rather, on their abilities, available free time for creativity, the possibilities of the family budget.
Today, handicrafts for dacha can be made:
- from metal;
- from wood;
- of concrete and / or cement;
- stone (both natural and artificial);
- from brick or butte;
- of plywood and chipboard;
- cardboard sheets;
- unnecessary furnishings;
- from tires;
- from plastic.
When choosing a material, you need to consider its:
- moisture resistance;
- resistance to temperature fluctuations;
- resistance to impacts of mechanical nature.
These criteria will help to determine the possible use of this or that type of "raw material" for dacha handicrafts.
Decor from improvised means
A small vertical garden can be easily made, using scraps of plastic pipe or gutter. They will need to be attached one above the other to a vertical surface. Such placement will allow them to form a natural flower wall.
A novelty in landscape design is a funny hanging garden of ornamental plants, made from buckets unnecessary in the household. Suitable containers should be painted in any rich colors, with the help of hooks to hang along the perimeter of the fence of the area and plant flowers.
Update the gazebo can be, nailed to its walls wooden boxes in the form of shelves, and placing on them a composition of plants.
You can give the flower bed an unusual look by decorating its edges with painted flowerpots, which are allowed to assign both the function of the fence and the living curb. And also for marking the border of the bed is appropriate to use the branches and saw cuts of trees.
If the area of the yard is limited, the masters of design recommend decorating it with a multi-storey flowerbed, made of pots of different diameters standing on each other.
Handicrafts from plastic bottles
Modern mineral water and lemonade bottles differ in a variety of sizes, colors and shapes. Therefore, they are a convenient "raw material" for garden crafts. From plastic you can get:
- a gorgeous palm tree, a beautiful spruce or pine, three-dimensional flowers;
- a charming piglet, an intricate hedgehog, an elegant butterfly, ladybug, or dragonfly;
- figurines of various birds and amphibians;
- aesthetic fencing for flowerbeds, children's playgrounds;
- garden furniture;
- pergola;
- greenhouse;
- flowerpots.
Garden accessories made of bottle caps
The caps of plastic bottles are the easiest material to create exquisite mosaic images. They are glued or nailed to the base and coated with two coats of varnish. Thus it is possible to create not only panels and paintings, but also mats.
Also such improvised means are used as a compact sidewalk covering. And, having strung them on a fishing line, you can get a nice curtain, covering the opening of the front door in the gazebo.
Tire decor
Old large tire, for example, from a truck, easy to turn into a pond - just cover it with plastic wrap and fill with water, and along the perimeter lay out pebbles or river sand.
Often tires are used in the arrangement of sports and playgrounds. They make a good obstacle course, swings, sandboxes, etc.
Also out of the tires can make a stylish garden furniture. Another original idea is an unusual flower bed. You only need a couple of hours of free time to create it, and you can involve a child in the painting.
Ideas for garden sculptures
For self-made figures, a variety of materials are used. Sculptures for the garden can be concrete, plaster, wood, wire, made from household utensils and even cast from assembly foam.
The fence will play with new colors, if you decorate it with carved plywood figures of domestic animals and birds. The role of not a bad "raw material" for dacha crafts can play and ceramic pots for indoor plants.
Create original figures of insects, chickens, geese can be made of balloons and concrete. Consider the master class:
- Inflate balloons to the desired size.
- Make concrete mortar.
- Cover balloons with prepared mixture and leave for some time to dry.
- After the concrete hardens, remove the balls and paint the blanks and use them as the building blocks of amazing garden sculptures.
After soaking a piece of burlap with cement, it should be carefully hung on any cylindrical object, beautifully draped. And after it dries, the workpiece should be painted or otherwise decorated. Then fill it with earth and plant the plants you like.
A similar technology is used to create figurines. These can be dolls, figurines of animals made of rubber or plastic. All that is needed is to coat the ready templates with a cement mixture and cover them with paint.
To date, a lot of good crafts for decorating the area around the house have been invented. The Internet is full of photos on the relevant subjects. You can use a ready-made idea or come up with something of your own on its basis, getting a truly unique decor.
Photo selection of homemade crafts for the garden
