Plastic Bottle Crafts for the Summer Camp: Piglet, Bee and Flowers

Plastic bottles have become a part of our lives. Today, producers of any beverages( from milk to alcohol) use this container, naturally, because of its low price. But the minus of these bottles is in their quantity, and in that they mercilessly pollute the environment. True, some craftsmen have already found a way to use them for good - it turns out that a lot of useful and necessary things can be made from plastic bottles. So, today on the agenda is a master class: crafts from plastic bottles with their own hands.

Crafts from plastic bottles for the design of the summer cottage

The most suitable place for decor of plastic bottles is a cottage, a garden. Here, fantasy can wander: flowers, insects, animals, trees. All these elements are able to revitalize and beautify your site. For you, an instruction was prepared, how to make artifacts from plastic bottles for cottages and gardens.

Piglet from bottles for garden

Very cute and interesting look different figures of animals that are used as flower pots for flowers:

To make such a pig you will need:

• 1 large five-liter bottle
• 6 standard bottles 1,5 l
• Paint pink
• Brush
• Thick wire
• Peg or bead for the eye

The photo below is an instruction for its manufacture.

In addition, having shown a fantasy, you can make other piglets:

Using bottles of another shape, similar to pigs, you can make rats:

Bee on a bed

Any flower can be animated by a funny bee from a plastic bottle.

To create 1 bee you will need:

• 2 bottles of 1.5L
• Paint( yellow, black)
• Brush
• Scissors

Instruction on manufacturing:

1. The bottle is painted in the color of a bee.

2. Wings are cut from the second bottle.

3. In the striped bottle, small holes are cut into which the wings are inserted.

5. This bee can be planted on a twig near the flower bed, suspended over a rope on a bush, tree or fence.

Flowers from plastic bottles

Despite the fact that the flowerbeds are full of flowers in summer, the flowers from bottles will not be superfluous and will visibly revive the landscape. To make, for example, a camomile, we will need:

• White plastic bottles( from dairy products) - 3 pieces( necks of approximately the same diameter)
• One lid of suitable size( yellow or orange)
• Scissors

Instruction:

1. Bottles are cut, as in the photo.

2. Two bottles of neck need to be cut off.

3. Cut the bottles from the edge to the neck several times - it will be petals. Their tips need to be made round and slightly bend.

4. A bottle with the cut off neck we put on a bottle with a throat. Petals slightly bend.

5. The neck of the bottle is twisted with a suitable lid in color and size.

6. Leaflets are pressed a little to make the flower take the form of chamomile.

7. We plant our flowers in the garden.

Frog princess of plastic bottles

Near the artificial pond on your site, you can plant a wonderful frog, and even one:

To make it, you will need:

• 2 bottles of 2L
• Paint
• Accessories for peepholes and ornaments
• Glue
• Scissors or clerical knife

Instruction on manufacture:

1. The top part of bottles is cut off so that the bottom part was about 15 cm in height.

2. The lower parts are combined, and we should have a barrel.

3. The frog's feet are cut from the rest of the bottle.

4. We glue the front legs, and the rear ones are inserted into the holes on the sides of the keg.

5. Color the frog in green.

6. Draw or glue the eyes, draw a mouth.

7. From the top of the remaining bottle we make a crown, paint it with yellow or gold paint and glue it to the frog's head.

8. Decorate princess frog can be fashion jewelry( beads, bracelets)

Frog ready!

What else can you do from plastic bottles

The above dachas from plastic bottles are just a small part of what you can do with your own hands, having a rich imagination and skillful hands.

Landscape designers, for example, create real sculptural masterpieces from bottles:

Besides, you can even make a bath, a gazebo, a shed for garden accessories from the bottles:

Specially for you, we collected a small selection of videos on what can be made from plastic bottles!!

We wish you successful creativity!