Useful crafts from plastic bottles for a student. Crafts from plastic bottles - elegant simplicity. Ideas from plastic bottles: lamp caps

Plastic bottles have firmly taken their place in everyone's life as disposable containers and their use is only in the form of containers, but we can get much more benefit without throwing them away. For most people, a bottle is useless, but if you're smart, you can find many ways to make life easier and save money with bottles. Can be made from a plastic bottle almost everything, you need the bottles themselves and a little imagination.

Irrigator for the garden.

One of the simplest ways is useful apply the bottle in the vegetable garden or garden- make her garden sprinkler, to make it nowhere easier. We attach a plastic container to the garden hose and make several small holes, then we tightly fasten the hose to the neck. In this way, we made a watering can for the garden.

Advice.For convenience, use a square container or secure a round one with a heavy object.

It is not uncommon that the charger wire is missing from socket to place where you can put a mobile phone, everything can be fixed by making a clumsy holder for your mobile phone. It is necessary to cut the bottle diagonally, take the bottom and cut a round hole for the outlet in the upper part. Now the phone will lie in the bottom with the help of a socket.

Advice.It is better to cut the bottle as close to the top as possible, this will allow you to hold the phone more securely.

You lose every time stationery, you have to look for them, you need to make an easy-to-make stand. In addition, the bottle will need a bolt with a nut. You need to cut off the top and bottom after drilling a hole in the plug and the bottom and connect with a bolt and nut. It will be convenient to use this because it turns out 2 departments. Pens and pencils will fit in the upper section, and paper clips, buttons, graters will fit in the lower section and you won’t have to get your pens because of the little things.

Advice.Tighten the bolt with the nut loosely, then the top can scroll.

empty canister with manual it is not necessary to throw it away, it can be useful if you do not need it or it has become unusable, it will turn out scoop. It is necessary to mark the canister with a marker as in the photo and cut it.

Advice.For convenience, make the bow of the scoop square.

Glass jar lamination.

We use glass jars for different purposes and you have to mark them in all ways, but the inscriptions do not stick well on the glass, and the glued pieces of paper quickly become unusable, and laminate no possibility. With the presence of an industrial hair dryer, this problem is solved forever, while the strength of the dishes will increase. If you break it, you won't have to pick up the pieces and cut your hands. Having shown imagination, the jar can be well decorated. It is easy to make, you need one bottle that is suitable in size and color and a piece of paper with an inscription or a picture that we want to attach. However, there is a way to do without an industrial hair dryer.

Method one.

We cut off the top of the bottle and place it on the bottom with the cork up, then put on the cork a jar with the inscription, put on gloves and start heating the industrial hair dryer. When the hair dryer heats up, you can begin to gently heat the jar in a circle, without stopping in one place. You need to take a stock, the plastic will settle both in width and in height. When the jar is tightly tightened with plastic, cut off the excess and heat the angular parts again, if all the parts have become even, the jar is ready.

Advice.Start heating the plastic from the bottom, gradually rising.

Method two.

We cut off the top of the bottle and put a jar with a glued inscription on the bottom. To heat the plastic in this case, we need a tall pot of water and a stove. The pan should not be full, otherwise the water will splash onto the stove. When everything is ready and the water boils, we lower the bottle into boiling water and begin to slowly turn it, holding the neck of the glass jar with tongs.

Advice.By holding the jar at an angle, the effect will be achieved faster.

Are you fed up balls of thread, confusing with each other and getting stuck in knots, the way out is simple - from bottles of any size we make a device for holding threads in one place. At the same time, the balls will be less rubbed, confused and stuck. You can make a holder with a mount on a chair or armchair. We cut the bottle closer to the neck, leaving a part that needs to be cut in the form of a rectangle to the bottom, after which we make a hole in the resulting tail according to the size of the cap and put it on.

Advice.The device can be suspended by making holes on opposite edges and threading through them.

With the onset of cold weather, all possible types of heaters are turned on in each house, and at the same time indoor air becomes dry and we begin to experience discomfort. Headache, skin problems, mucosal irritation and other inconveniences can be avoided by making a silent, simple, convenient and reliable indoor humidifier. For this you will need:

• adhesive tape
• Scissors or knife
• Strip of fabric or string
• 2 liter bottle
• gauze fabric

Advice.Pouring into a container essential oils we'll get an air freshener.

Instruction

1. In the side of the bottle we make a slot of 5 × 10 centimeters, errors are permissible.
2. We hang the resulting bottle with strips or a cord on a straight upper tube entering the battery with the hole up and tightly fasten it with adhesive tape so that the bottle does not jump out and spin.
3. We adjust the gauze several times to get a rectangle 10 centimeters wide and a meter long.
4. We place the middle of the folded fabric in the hole, and wind the ends onto the battery pipe.
5. Pour water into the resulting container and moisten the wound gauze, this is the maintenance of the device.

Mosquito trap

From a two liter bottle making a mosquito trap. The trap will attract small insects by the results of fermentation processes, namely carbon dioxide. For manufacturing you will need:

• 1 gram baker's yeast
• two liter bottle
• dark fabric
• 50 grams of sugar
• 200 ml of water with a temperature not exceeding 40 degrees

We start manufacturing by cutting in such a way that the inverted neck fits snugly into the bottle and lacks water. Now, when the container is ready, pour out the sugar, yeast and fill it with forty-degree water, it should not be warmer or hotter. If the liquid is too hot, fermentation will not start due to the death of yeast bacteria. Water should be poured slowly and mix the mixture. Now insert the neck into the bottle in the manner of a funnel. In order for mosquitoes to come across, the trap must be covered with a dense cloth that does not transmit light or paper. Once in such a trap, mosquitoes will not get out. Insects will fall into such a trap for up to a week, after which we will change the mixture.

Advice.After preparing the mixture, put it in a warm place.

From several one and a half liter bottles we make a simple and extremely durable broom. It is convenient to sweep the floor and fleecy surfaces with such a broom. The rigidity of the broom depends on the number of cut pieces.

Manufacturing.

To begin with, we make preparations. We cut off the neck and bottom, dissolve the middle into flaps to the middle, no wider than two centimeters. You will need 4 of these, and leave another top with a neck. Now we put everything together, and cut off the top of the next bottle, put it on what happened and squeeze it. We take a strong wire and thread it through all the bottles along the edges. We put everything on the handle through the cork and fasten it with wire. For reliability, we drive a nail through the neck into the stalk.

Advice.Use copper stranded wire.

If in nature we did not have mugs you can easily make it out of a bottle. First, cut off the top, then cut out a square with a knife or scissors, retreating 2-3 centimeters from the top cut. We cut it evenly and with the expectation that the width of the remaining jumper will be the handle. Turn the top ring inside out and push the bottom through. Now we have a mug that can help us out in nature.

Advice.Without cutting out a large square, you can roll up the middle part and put a cork ring on it.

Create self watering flower pot just cut off the top of the bottle first, then the middle part, so that the top part goes in without touching the bottom. After carefully making a hole in the cork and threading a thread into it. The thread should come out 5 centimeters from both sides of the cork. Now that everything is ready, pour water and insert the top part similar to a funnel. Now we fall asleep soil, not forgetting to moisten it. The plant will absorb the right amount of liquid, this will simplify the care of plants.

Advice.Fertilizer can be added to the tank.

Arriving in nature you forgot cutlery nothing to notice them. To save the situation, a bottle, a knife, and a lighter will suffice. Cut out one of the five pieces of the bottom and a bit of the top in one piece after burning the edges with a lighter. You can use this spoon to eat and cook food.

Advice.Rinse the appliance after firing.

Not all refrigerators have vegetable cells and you have to store vegetables in a variety of ways, while the products beat, scratch and roll around the refrigerator. For convenience, use five-liter eggplants. Cut off the top and fill with vegetables or fruits. In this form, the products will not wrinkle and there will be significantly more free space in the refrigerator.

Advice.Store fruits and vegetables in separate containers.

During the cooking process, separate egg white or yolk. But they are not easy to separate, the yolk is very fragile and when it is punctured, it will mix with the protein. With the help of a bottle you can cheat. We split the egg on a plate, squeeze the bottle and bring it to the yolk. Unclenching, we will draw the yolk into it without damaging it. The method is suitable for cooking dishes, the recipe of which includes a lot of eggs, for example, the common French meringue dessert Meringue.

Advice.Rinse the bottle before use.

We all have a weakness for flowers. Men give "a million scarlet roses" to the beautiful half of humanity, confirming their feelings. Children make gifts to mothers and grandmothers on the eighth of March. For many women, this is not enough, and they create artificial crafts, armed with paints, scissors, and glue.

All of these examples are fairly easy to implement.

Thus, a huge number of the most amazing crafts from plastic bottles. We want our flowers to please those around us constantly and regardless of the weather, soil, watering and lighting of the garden and vegetable garden. This means that we will consider crafts that best meet the following requirements:

• easy to manufacture;
• do not require coloring, in any case, complex;
• harmoniously fit into the surrounding landscape.

Ordinary bottles easily turn into fabulous beauty

Throughout the article, descriptions of master classes of the most successful flower crafts for the garden follow. After studying these examples, you can make any flowers for the garden with your own hands.

Simple and touching flowers from plastic bottles without coloring

Of course, first of all, I want to make daisies for a flower bed. They can be made from parts or whole white bottles. A yellow lid or a bottom from a brown container is suitable as a core. Plant leaves can be made from green containers. Stems can be wire, pipe, rebar or wood. The latter should be painted green.

Consider making chamomile from three white bottles step by step:

Lilies of the valley from white bottles for summer cottages also turn out great. Depending on the availability of containers, the upper or lower parts of the bottles are used. Lily of the valley petals can be made round, sharp, and also bent. Depending on the material and diameter of the stem, the buds are fixed with screws or wire. It is convenient to make lily of the valley foliage from a five-liter eggplant, lowered neck down. Leaves will need to be painted.

Dandelions are made in different ways. White dandelions can be crafted from bottles of the same color. To do this, it is convenient to use the upper parts of the container, cut out in the form of sharp petals. Each part is attached to a wire of the same length to a common center. It turns out a light white ball.

A group of transparent bottles can be fixed to a common center. Get a big dandelion. If you create a spatial structure with several centers, you can make a huge dandelion.

Colored dandelions made from containers of the corresponding color look very interesting. Consider step by step instructions making brown handsome:

We make charming buds with a magic candle

Candle flame does wonders for plastic bottles. See examples in the photo below. Together we will make just one flower, and you can repeat any other with your own hands.

Master class for making a flower using a candle:

1. We prepare seven fragments from one container, as in the photo below. The largest has dimensions of 8x8cm, the smallest - 3.5x3.5cm. We make holes in the center of the parts.
2. We melt the edges of the parts with a candle flame. We hold the part to the side of the flame. Sooty areas are easy to clean. Do not ignite plastic.
   
   
3. For the stem of the craft, we will prepare the copper wire in isolation. The end of the wire must be stripped and bent by 5-10mm.
4. To cover the stem, we cut out a ribbon 7-12 mm wide from a green container.
   
   
5. We insert the end of the tape into the bend of the wire. We wrap the ribbon around the stem and melt it on a candle flame.
6. It turned out a green stem of a flower. The end of the wire is stripped of insulation by 20mm.
7. We prepare a template for making foliage from paper in accordance with the pattern.
8. Another template will be required for the leaves next to the bud.
   
   
9. We cut out the foliage for the cutting according to the template.
10. We make leaves under the bud according to the template.
11. We melt the edges of the leaves under the bud. Look at the photo to see how it turned out.
12. We melt the leaves for the cutting along the edges, and twist the plastic strips connecting them over the flame.
    
    
13. You should get a branch, as in the picture.
14. With the help of a flame, we wrap the base of the twig around the stem. We put leaves under the bud on the protruding part of the wire.
15. First, we put on the wire the largest fragment of the bud petals.
    
    
16. Consistently put on the petals of the bud as their size decreases. We try to expand the petals so that they overlap the gaps between them. We bend the end of the wire with pliers so that the petals do not fall off. The flower is ready!

We make flowers for flower beds, ponds and fence decorations; use paints and large bottles

Flowers from plastic bottles for the pond - very relevant. In the simplest case, you can make a water lily from the bottom of a white bottle, as shown below. The core of the flower is easy to imitate with a yellow cork.

We will consider a master class for making a more complex flower for a pond:

A bright sunflower will serve as a worthy decoration for both flower beds and gardens. As you can see, it can be made in different ways. Sunflower petals made from containers look good Brown. A disposable plate can serve as the core.

The easiest way is to use a 5 liter plastic bottle. A blank is cut out of it, as shown below. Petals will have to be painted yellow.

After painting, you need to wrap the cap on the neck. It is convenient to make the core of a sunflower from the bottom of a brown bottle and screw it to the cap on the neck of the sunflower with a self-tapping screw.

Large flowers are quite appropriate on their own site.

Giant plants are made from large plastic eggplants. The red flowers pictured below are made exactly the same way we made the daisy.

For each plant, three 5-liter containers are needed. The core of a flower is the lower part of an ordinary plastic bottle. The design of the bees is obvious.

Petals of a huge yellow flower made from just one large bottle. As a core, a regular brown container was used. Its lower part is cut into strips 1 cm wide, which are painted.

It is easy to decorate the fence with plastic flowers. We already know how to make all these flowers. As you can see, the use of paint complicates the work and expands the possibilities. Please note that even the old fence, decorated with bright flowers, is getting a little younger.

It is convenient to make flowerpots from plastic bottles: they do not rot and do not break! The given examples of flowerpots are simple in execution and suitable for various conditions. Flowerpots from plastic bottles can be placed on the ground, on a fence or wall of a building.

If you want a bright strawberry bush to decorate your cottage at any time of the year, a stork to rise, daisies to turn white, and a firefly to burn in the evening, then find out how all this can be done from plastic bottles.

Broom from plastic bottles

It will certainly come in handy in the household. She can sweep not only garbage from the hut, but also collect fallen leaves, rubbish from garden paths.

To make such a strong whisk, you will need:

• 6 plastic bottles;
• scissors;
• a hammer;
• cutting.

First of all, wash the bottles under warm water, remove the labels from them. Now cut off the bottom of five bottles, cut off the necks from four. Starting from the bottom, cut the canvas of the containers into strips 1.5 cm wide. For the broom to have sufficient rigidity, stop before reaching the shoulders, as shown in the photo.

Do not cut off the neck of the fifth bottle, make a fringe on it in the same way. Now put 4 bottles on top of it. Prepare the sixth differently. Cut it below the shoulders, leaving the neck.

Put this sixth bottle on the blank of five containers. Insert the stem into the neck. Now squeeze the blanks a little so that the broom becomes flatter.

The final touch remains, make a few holes with an awl in the working part of the panicle, put a wire here, fix the product on the handle. Here's how to make a broom out of plastic bottles.

How to make a stork

This is what a wonderful stork can decorate your garden, city yard.

If you still have floorboard trimmings after building a house or repairing, they will come in handy. Here is what you need to prepare in addition to them:

• plastic milk bottles;
• green and red electrical tape;
• self-tapping screws;
• block of wood;
• 2 metal rods;
• glue gun;
• eyes for toys.

Cut off the bottom and neck of the bottles. From the resulting canvas, make four feathers. To do this, first cut the bottle on the side, then divide the resulting canvas into rectangles with scissors. Round the bottom of each and frame the feathers with a fringe by cutting the edges of the blanks.

Draw a stork template on paper or cardboard, attach it to the board, outline it, cut it out with a jigsaw. Draw a wing separately, also cut out 2 such details, screw them to the stork's body with self-tapping screws.

Leave the bird's beak unformed for now, starting from the head, glue the body and wings of the stork with blanks from plastic bottles. Note that the plumage of the bird on the head is different from the plumage on the body. For the head, shorter blanks are made.

To decorate the wings, you need to make not only white, but also black feathers. You will make the last ones by taking a shampoo bottle of that color. The same, but long, you will need when decorating the stork's tail.

Wrap red tape around the bird's beak. Glue the eyes, attach two metal rods in place of the legs. Fix their lower part on the bar.

Here's how to make a stork so as not to spend extra money on buying such a garden figurine.

Decorative flower beds - the first idea

Beautifully decorated flower girls are pleasing to the eye. Plastic bottles will also help in their creation. If you don't have suburban area you can implement the idea below in the summer on adjoining territory in the city, on your balcony and even on the windowsill.

This flower bed-container is also made of plastic containers, but rectangular in shape. Prepare the following for work:

• 3-4 plastic bottles;
• awl;
• scissors;
• glue;
• white paint.

Cut off the necks and sides of two bottles, leaving the "sides". Match 2 containers, glue the place of their connection as shown in the photo.

Similar plastic flower beds may be based on not two, but more bottles. Then the middle elements of the flower garden are cut out without "sides".

Now you need to make holes in the bottom of the blanks with an awl to drain excess water. If such a decorative flower bed will be at home, then you need to put it on a pallet or tray.

A beautiful fence is also cut out of plastic bottles. Its vertical fragments have a width of 4 cm, and the height should be 5-7 cm more than the height of the sides of the containers. The upper part of such a picket fence is pointed, the lower one is rounded.

Now cut the rest of the bottles into long strips. Attach them horizontally to a vertically located picket fence, glue. If the bottles are transparent, first paint them white or any other color, let the paint dry, and then cut out the elements of the fence. After that, glue it to the flower girl.

You can leave the flower bed like this or decorate it with flowers made from plastic bottles. When filling containers at the bottom, first put drainage in the form of small pebbles, then a small layer of coarse sand, and then fill in fertile soil.

The second option of a flower bed made of plastic bottles

This idea will certainly appeal to lovers of classic forms. Cut off the necks of two eggplants, but do not throw them away. The photo shows how they need to be shaped so that these parts turn into the legs of a mobile flower bed.

At the bottles themselves, cut out the sides, but leave along the side near the bottom and near the shoulders. Slide these parts of the two containers one into the other, remembering to secure with glue. Use it to attach the legs.

It remains to cover your creation with paint, let it dry, fill it with a small layer of drainage, light soil and plant your favorite plants.

When purchasing glue, see if it is suitable for plastic. The same applies to paint, because not every one fits well on this material.

Crafts for giving

After winter, there are still few bright colors in the garden. These naughty plastic bottle crafts will help fill this gap. These funny little mice will become both small flower beds and garden decoration.

For this garden craft you will need:

• plastic bottles;
• acrylic paints;
• scissors;
• glue;
• fishing line;
• buttons;
• felt-tip pen.

Lay the plastic bottle horizontally, cut off the side of it, which is now the top of the container, but don't throw it away just yet. Draw 2 ears and a tail on it.

Color the tail and body of a mouse from a plastic bottle in grey colour and the ears are pink. Glue all the details in place, use 2 dark buttons for the eyes. Draw a mouth for the craft, glue pieces of fishing line on the nose that will become the mustache of the toy. After that, it can be used for its intended purpose.

The next flower garden for giving is done in almost the same way. Also cut out the side of the bottle, ears, tail for these funny piglets, then paint them pink. When the paint dries, fill the container with earth and plant flowers.

There are crafts for giving that look good during the day, and even more spectacular - at dusk, due to the fact that a neon lamp is lit inside.

Here are the materials needed for work:

• green plastic bottle;
• black or green wire;
• yellow paper;
• gold decorative wire;
• neon lamp;
• scissors.

Wash the bottle with warm water, remove the label. Now cut 3 strips of wire, twist them on the container as shown in the photo. The bottom of the wire will become the legs of the firefly, and the other parts of the wire will be draped with a rectangle cut out of yellow paper.

Draw wings on cardboard, cut them out and glue them on the back of the insect. Glue 2 beads to the lid, which will become the eyes of the firefly. Twist the golden wire in the form of his antennae. Bend the neon stick so that it lights up, insert it inside the container, secure its upper part inside the neck with adhesive tape.

Here's how to make a firefly out of a plastic bottle. It will look nice next to ornamental plants also made by hand.

Strawberries and flowers from plastic bottles

These beautiful daisies will turn out when using empty containers from under dairy products. Of course, first you need to wash them well and remove the labels. To make one flower, put in front of you:

• 3 white plastic bottles;
• cover;
• scissors;
• wire;
• felt-tip pen.

Cut off the lower parts from the containers; we will not need them when making flowers from plastic bottles.

Leave the neck on one bottle, cut it off from the other two.

Lid orange color perfect for the center of a flower. It will only be necessary to erase the numbers indicating the date of production and the expiration date of the product. This is easy to do with acetone or paint thinner.

Now make 8 petals on each blank. To make them the same, use a stencil or first outline them with a felt-tip pen, and then cut them out. Then it will also need to be erased. Put on the first blank, on which the neck is preserved, the second, then the third. Remove the petals first to make the flower more voluminous. Close the lid.

Using a drill or a hot nail, make 2 holes in the lid, thread through them soft wire, wind it on a solid one, which will become the stem of the plant. That can be wrapped with green electrical tape or painted in that color. It remains to cut and fix the leaves from the green bottle on the trunk, make 2 more daisies, and the hand-made flowers are ready.

Such bright juicy berries will also be a wonderful decoration for a summer cottage at any time of the year.

This strawberry bush is made very simply. The bottom is cut off from the bottle, set aside. The middle part of the container is not useful, it and the neck must be cut off and thrown away. But the remaining fragment from the neck to the bottom of the shoulders, insert into the bottom of the container. 2 more berries are also made, or as many as you wish to create.

Now these blanks need to be painted red, and when this tone dries, make dots of white or dark color.

A sepal is cut out of a green bottle and put on the recesses of the berry. In his and her center with a drill or with a nail and hammer, you need to make a hole, combine them and thread the wire. On the other hand, leaves cut from a green plastic bottle are put on it. Below the wires are connected and the lower edge is stuck into the ground. As a result, what a wonderful craft for the garden you will get!

There are others interesting ideas for giving. From the video you will learn what else you can make flowers from plastic bottles:

This video shows how to make bees from small plastic bottles:

The following master class will teach you how to create country figures of storks from the same material:

The amount of garbage that each person "produces" is growing year by year. The problem is becoming global, as flying plastic bags and plastic bottles lying everywhere have pricked everyone's eyes. I am burning, it turns out, you can help, and even for the benefit of yourself. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how diverse and, importantly, useful crafts from plastic bottles can be done in just a matter of minutes. Well, or hours ... 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 dim.) - 245 ° C,
• melting point (t pl.) - 260 ° C,
• glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 ° C,
• decomposition temperature - 350 °C.

Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made decomposes for more than 200 years. The same property makes it possible to use almost waste raw materials as construction material. Craftsmen are even building houses from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, fences. Various technologies have been worked out - the approach is quite serious.

How to build a house out of plastic bottles

The main idea is to pour into bottles bulk material, screw them with lids and use them like bricks. Fill the bottles with sand, soil. Sand is preferable, as there is too much plant debris in the soil that can rot. It must be sifted, dried, bottled, well compacted, topped up even to the very top. Get kind of bricks.

To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the "bricks". There are options here too. It can be an ordinary mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, or clay mortar can be made. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine from the side of the covers. Later, these "grids" will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so alignment is indispensable.

We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse

From plastic bottles you can build a greenhouse or greenhouse. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary that the light passes in sufficient quantities. For the construction of a barn, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what is inside.

The first technology - one to one

The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, it will not work to fold the walls so that they retain heat - it will “siphon” into curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. It is also necessary 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 / barn from plastic bottles.

For the construction of a greenhouse or a barn, poles are dug in at 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 collect them (frames) on the ground and fasten them to dug-in poles in a ready-made form. When making the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.

We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, string them on a pin. From such "columns" we assemble walls, a roof

The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles on the pins, directing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a row of the desired height, we attach it to the frame. You can fasten with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails ... In any way available to you. We press the second row to the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten in this position. So, row after row, we collect all the walls, then the roof.

Using the same technology, you can make a gazebo. But there is already no need for tightness, so you can collect figured and colored containers. So it will turn out even more interesting (an example is in the photo).

The second technology - we sew plastic

Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. The central part is cut out of them, getting a square-shaped piece of plastic. Pieces are sewn together in long strips. In the strip, the pieces are arranged so that they are twisted in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are arranged so that they are twisted in different directions. As a result, they equalize each other. Finished canvases are nailed to the frame. On this, the construction of the greenhouse of their plastic bottles is over.

Such a plan "sheathing" for greenhouses perfectly tolerates winters, it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to adjust the humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will push autumn back to you, and it will speed up the arrival of spring.

You can sew plastic for the greenhouse manually, but it's not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious Sewing machines. The old Podolsk cars cope with this task. Others may have problems.

Fence and fence

There are many ways to make a fence out of plastic bottles. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use the 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 necessary rust. 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 creative process, 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 curly containers and their parts.

Furniture from improvised materials: recycle plastic bottles

From plastic bottles you can make not only a house and a fence, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers instead of wood for the frame. With tightly screwed lids, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled in blocks, they are quite able to withstand loads of up to 100 kg or more.

A bed made of plastic bottles ... needed 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" of the same height, tighten the covers well.
• collect blocks right size, fastening them with tape.
• Having collected the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, adding furniture foam rubber.

The whole trick is that the bottles fit one to the other very tightly and do not move. The slightest play can lead to the destruction of the structure. Therefore, collect the blocks slowly, carefully fixing. You can fold the 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 a bench out of plastic bottles. We act in the order described above. It is necessary to find bottles of the same height. It is better if they are of the same shape - it is easier to collect. From plastic containers with tightly screwed lids, we assemble the base in the form of a cylinder. It is desirable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - so the bench will not turn over.

Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting base radius - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We fix them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the dimensions obtained, cut out the necessary spare parts. We sew a cover from furniture fabric, a color that matches the interior.

Such a bench can be not only round. It is quite possible to make a square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be weighted by pouring water. But water is not a very reliable business. It is better to pour sand. Heavier and more reliable.

Sofas, chairs, armchairs

If you need furniture of greater height than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find "material" of the same shape and height. The first bottle is left intact, the cork is screwed tightly (you can pour sand so that it does not turn over). The bottom of the other is cut off, put one on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move any further, no matter how hard you try. If the resulting height is enough - great, if not - put on the next one. In this way, collect the rows of the desired 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 the walls in them are double, which is also important. Minus - more work, more raw materials needed. The whole process in a step by step illustration.

1. We take a bottle, cut it approximately in the middle of the height (the upper part with the neck is smaller).
2. The upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) is inserted all the way into the bottom.
3. We take a whole one, of the same size and shape, insert it upside down into the prepared structure.
4. We cut the third one in about half and put the lower part on top (with a lid).

From such modules we assemble blocks of the desired configuration, fastening them with adhesive tape. Don't feel sorry for the scotch. You can first fasten two bottles, then assemble large blocks from double ones.

As you understand, with this technology, there are a lot of tops from bottles (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical household items.

Flower making methods

The most common plastic bottle crafts are garden figurines and flowers. Read about garden figurines There are other interesting ideas, but a lot of interesting little animals and insects have been collected. And we will tell about flowers from plastic bottles below - these are probably those crafts from plastic bottles that give the most pleasure. The process is simple, the possibilities are many, the result is amazing.

You have probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you have to do is find a bottle beautiful color, cut off her bottom. Now you already have a pretty flower. In the middle, you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from a plastic strip cut with noodles, or glue beads inside, but a little more about everything.

Using the power of fire

To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it is more convenient with a candle). If available, take pliers, tweezers or pliers - hold the workpiece during processing. You will also need acrylic paints, you may need glue and beads. The whole manufacturing process comes down to several steps:

There are a lot of options here. Just start doing. Right away, it may not work out perfectly, but you will understand what and how can be corrected. See more pictures from step by step photos the process of making flowers from plastic bottles.

The simplest

For beginner needleworkers, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles. simple shapes to decorate the garden. In this case, milk containers can also be used. In order not to paint plastic, look for colored ones. It doesn't matter if they are transparent or not. They can be combined, getting flowers of different shapes.

To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, a core of a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy will do). Here is the buttercup.

Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warming up a little at the base). Make the middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint the transparent plastic with acrylic paint.

The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, twist it into a roll and then heat it. Get a fluffy core.

It's all about the shape ... Despite the imperfection, they decorate the site

The topic is really inexhaustible. Flowers from plastic bottles are made in a variety of ways. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much about skill, but about different tastes and desires.

Useful ideas for the home

PET containers turned out to be so good stuff that they do a lot of useful things. In this section, we have collected useful crafts from plastic bottles that can be used on the farm.

For the kitchen and beyond

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 the sole does not have to be cleaned later, use a special silicone pad. If not, you can do it through a sheet of parchment for baking.

Product container. Plastic is food grade...

From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. 1-2 cm of plastic should remain around the thread (the edges are melted using already known technology). Now it will not be difficult to hermetically close any package: we pass it through the cut off neck, wrap it outward, twist the lid.

From the bottom of the bottles attached to the bar, you get a great newspaper shelf (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.

From plastic cut into strips, you can weave different shapes of containers. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips of a certain thickness. It is necessary to cut in a spiral - as a result, rather long strips are obtained. If their length is not enough, they sew perfectly.

Lampshades

You can even make a lampshade, but on one condition: you will use such crafts from plastic bottles in co lamps - only they almost do not 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 bottle. We draw it into strips of the same 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, cut. Get even stripes.

When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, bring it out through the hole in the bottom, and fasten the decor on the reverse side. You can - a button, you can - a pebble of a suitable color. Now, pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shape of a lampshade. You can put a light bulb in it.

Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut a part of the bottle with a neck into strips, wrapped the strips and fixed them on the neck. To give the desired shape, the place of the fold can be warmed up a little over the flame of a candle or lighter. The resulting "flowers" are attached to the base. Here we get an unusual design.

They also make lampshades from bottoms. It is necessary to find a sufficient number of identical bottles, cut off their bottom, glue them together using universal adhesive(choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues plastic and quickly hardens.

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. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: with the help of a heated sting, you burn out the patterns.

Magically! To make the picture appear brighter, we take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in an ordinary can, but it is faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.

Here are the options...

Photo Ideas

Crafts from plastic bottles are such a vast topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What is nice, knowing a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do looking only at the photos. So here we put together a few ideas that we found interesting.

You can even make a boat ....

And it's just a decoration ....