Peacock from plastic bottles: master class and video lesson

Crafts for the garden have gained immense popularity, because they allow you to transform the garden, make it special, unlike any other. And one of these crafts is the bird of the peacock. It is quite complex in manufacturing and even professionals can not cope with the first time, and even more so the newcomers. But one thing is absolutely certain - the peacock will become the main character in your garden collection. Difficult in its manufacture, in principle, there is nothing, but you will need perseverance and patience. If you think that you have these qualities, feel free to do it. So that you do not doubt that you will get a peacock made of plastic bottles, we will conduct a master class in detail and in detail.

Take a 10-liter canister, it will be a peacock's body, a thick wire, plastic tubes( we'll make paws from them), a metal grid of 45x150 cm, polystyrene( a head is cut out of it), and many plastic bottles( shape and size can be very diverse).

From the canister, cut the strip from the top and the side and fix it with a screw, moving slightly backwards.

Bend the wire that serves as the frame, put on the tubes of the future legs and install it all on the stand. When bending the wire, consider that this will be the back of the bird( top of the canister).

Now we will create the trunk. Using a wire, attach our canister to the frame. Connect the legs to the trunk and give the position where the bird will stand. Attach the legs with a wire.

Cut a two-liter bottle into long and short feathers. Long should be 8 pieces, short - 6 pcs. Short feathers are best cut from the bottom.

Now attach the feathers to the trunk row in a row. For the top of the legs, take the milk bottles, cut off the smooth part and fold them in the form of a bag. Attach to the trunk.

The lower and lateral parts of the trunk are covered with feathers.

This is how our bird should look in front.

Now we work with the grid. These are the future wings. Round it in front, shaping the wing. At the same stage we work with the tail. Trim it in the form of a triangle, the length - at your discretion, but remember that the peacock is quite long.

This is how the bird looks from the side.

Now proceed to making feathers. Their width should be 5-7 cm, so we take a large thirty-gallon balloon. But if you did not find one, then you can get by with a lot of 2-liter.

Tie each pen in turn along the edge of the wire mesh, while shifting each relative to the previous one.

For the next row, bottles of 1.5 liters are needed. Cut out of them 6 pcs.feathers. It will be enough to have three or four bottles.

These feathers are screwed in a semicircle.

Feathers for the remaining rows are cut from bottles of 0.5 liters. One bottle should have four feathers. A total of 30 bottles will be needed.

We continue to lay out the rows of feathers, closing each new series with the previous one.

This is how the finished wing looks.

The formation of the peacock's head begins. Cut it out of a piece of thick foam with a knife. Glue the eyes. As eyes can serve as buttons or eyes from a toy.

Sand grinded sandpaper.

As you remember, on the head of a peacock is a crest of feathers. That's their manufacture and will do. Feathers can be cut from the remaining strips from the bottles. For shaping, bend them.

At the top of the head, make a few holes, pour in the glue and insert the feathers of the tuft.

Glue the eyelids. Also glue on the beak a plastic triangle, cut from the bottle. Instead of glue, you can fix it with screws, they will look like nostrils.

The neck consists of two five-liter bottles. Fold the bottles in the form of bags and connect.

While moving in a circle, fasten the feathers.

That's how it is necessary to cut a foot with fingers from a half liter bottles.

Our bird is already taking shape. What complicated in the execution of crafts from plastic bottles, peacock is one of the most ingenious.

The last rows of feathers are gently glued to the head.

It's time to paint our bird. It is better to make it with enamel paint, it does not leak and gives a uniform color. From above you can walk through the paint from the can, it will give the surface a velvety texture.

In principle, it is not necessary to copy our instructions in detail, how to make a peacock from plastic bottles. Take it as a basis, and then your peacock will be individual and unlike anybody.

Now let's deal with the tail. The feathers will be green, so we take the corresponding bottles. First, cut out a semicircular shape, then bend it along the middle and trim the edges with a fringe. One bottle should have two small feathers and one bigger one. To the tail was lush and beautiful, feathers need at least 60 pcs. Look at the tips of the feathers with enamel.

To the metal mesh-frame, tie the feathers of the tail, moving in a semicircle from the bottom. The principle of laying feathers is the same as on wings - each row overlaps the previous one.

Not bad, if you have a bottle of salad color, this color will refresh the peacock's tail.

Photo of a peacock in the natural environment.

This is the whole master class. If you managed and everything turned out, we can congratulate you. If not everything was clear to you, try to find a video master class. To do this, in the search box type the phrase "m peacock from plastic bottles with your own hands" and select the options you need. He certainly will answer many questions.

By the way, did you know that there is a breed of peacocks of absolutely white color?

According to the proposed instructions, you can do just that. The white peacock will stand out beautifully against the backdrop of a flowering garden, and you will save on paint.

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