Variety of bottle crafts

Waste plastic and glass bottles can be great creative materials. The main thing is to approach the creation of crafts from them with imagination.

Plastic bottles can be used to create beautiful flowers. Even a preschooler can learn to make them.

Lovely voluminous daisies are made from transparent bottles, painted white.

• To create each flower, 3 containers with the same neck size are used. From them it is necessary to cut off the upper parts. For two bottles, you also need to remove the neck along with the cap.
• After that, each part must be cut into 8 petals. They have to stick together. Each petal must be carefully bent in the opposite direction.
• After that, you can start collecting flowers. Two others are put on the part with the lid. The flower should be lush and beautiful.
• The lid of the finished flower should be painted yellow or orange.

You can also use a plastic dandelion to decorate your plot. The process of its creation consists of the following steps.

• First you need to take a few yellow bottles. From each of them, you need to cut off the lower part.
• The base of each bottle must be cut into thin strips. They should be bent outward.
• The flowers should turn out to be multi-layered, so the individual parts are connected to each other.
• Fill the middle of the bud with cut individual petals, which are connected with a paper clip.
• Dandelion base is made from a small green bottle. It is prepared in the same way.
• The second similar part is attached to the base upside down.
• When the flower is ready, you can glue the stem, painted green, to it. It is worth decorating the plant with voluminous sheets.

The process of creating figurines of animals and insects can captivate young children.

You will need 2 bottles to create this craft. From each of them you need to cut off the lower part. Next, one half should be placed inside the other. These parts must be glued together. The resulting workpiece needs to be painted white. After that, the base of the body needs to be highlighted in black, leaving the front part light. The top of the figurine can be painted in any color by drawing a penguin hat.

It is easy to make a cute pig out of a 5-liter bottle at home. The step-by-step process of creating it consists of the following stages.

• First you need to wash and dry the 5 liter bottle.
• Cut off the tops from five regular bottles. One of them must be carefully cut into two halves. Their edges must be burned with a lighter so that they acquire a semicircular shape. A small ponytail can be made from a piece of plastic or rubber.
• After that, start creating the figurine. To the lower part of the "body" you need to glue 4 legs from the tops of the bottles. At the top you need to place the ears and eyes made of buttons. A twisted tail is attached at the back.
• The resulting figurine should be painted pink.

Another interesting version of a toy from a transparent bottle is a crocodile. To create it, 2 half-liter containers and 4 lids are used. A step-by-step master class for beginners consists of the following steps.

• Cut off the top of two bottles. Then the bottom is also cut off from the first container. The center piece will become the base of the shape.
• It is necessary to glue parts with a neck to it on both sides. The crocodile's body should be slightly arched.
• You need to glue the caps-legs to the bottom of the figure.
• The body must be pasted over with green colored paper. You can decorate the figure using the papier-mâché technique. The figurine trimmed with white paper or pieces of newspaper will need to be additionally covered with a layer of green paint.
• Crumpled paper or papier-mâché should also form a base for the eyes.
• Then you need to cut out spikes, a tail, paws and teeth from cardboard. All these details are glued to the body of the animal.

You can make a butterfly out of transparent plastic to decorate your home or garden. To create it, you need to prepare a paper stencil in advance. Using this blank, a small insect must be cut out of plastic.

You need to touch up the torso and antennae with nail polish. The same material is used to draw the outlines of the wings. Next, draw a pattern on the wings with a thin brush. The base of the calf can be decorated with rhinestones or beads. You can attach a bamboo stick to the body of the butterfly. In this case, it can be used to decorate flower pots.

Another simple and funny craft for kindergarten is a bee made from a plastic bottle and glass. It is done as follows.

• Cut the plastic cup into two halves. From them you need to cut out voluminous bee wings.
• There is no need to cut the plastic bottle, but small cuts should be made on its surface for the wings. They need to place the blanks made in advance. They need to be fixed with glue.
• After that, you can start painting. It is best to first paint the figurine completely yellow, and then paint black stripes on its surface, because the dark paint overlaps the others more easily.
• On the lid, you can depict the eyes and mouth of an insect, and on the wings - an elegant pattern.

A great autumn craft for school - a hedgehog made from a plastic bottle and cones. It is done very simply.

• Cut off the top and bottom of the bottle. The base should be set aside and used for other purposes.
• Glue the top and bottom of the bottle.
• Next, the resulting blank must be painted black.
• When the paint dries, the hedgehog's face should be painted gray. Later, you will need to draw the eyes of the animal on its surface.
• It is necessary to make small antennae from dark wire. They are fixed on the cork nose.
• When the base is ready, the body of the hedgehog needs to be pasted over with cones. They should fit snugly against each other.

Large bottle swans can be seen in many flower beds. To create such a shape, you will need several plastic containers and a piece of foam. The latter is used to make the base of the figurine. The neck is cut from this material. On the head you need to draw the beak and eyes of the bird.

Plastic bottles should be painted with white paint. They are buried in a circle in a flower bed. A foam blank is installed in one of the parts. In the center of such a mini-flower bed, you can plant any flowers.

A small bottle is used to create a cute little owl. From it you need to cut off the upper and lower parts. One part must be inserted into another. The workpiece should be neat and small.

When the figurine is ready, it must be painted black. As soon as the workpiece dries out, on the front you need to depict large eyes, beak and belly. If desired, the figurine can be supplemented with wings made of leaves or plastic parts. They are attached to the base with glue.

A plastic palm tree can also become an original tropical decoration of a site or room. It can be made both from large bottles and from small ones. You should choose green and brown containers. An exotic plastic plant is made as follows.

• First you need to make the crown of the palm tree. To do this, cut off the lower parts of the green bottles, cut the base into two parts. Each of them should be cut into thin strips. They must be bent in the opposite direction. The cap and neck must remain intact.
• The bottoms are also cut off from brown bottles. Small cuts are made in the lower half.
• Then you can start assembling the barrel. Brown bottles are inserted into each other. To make the palm more stable, individual parts must be fixed with glue.
• Sheets are glued to the top of the trunk. They are collected from cut green bottles.

Plastic bottles can be used to make not only toys, but also functional decor for the interior.

Such an unusual curtain can decorate a creative workshop or kitchen. To create it, you will need a large number of bottles. The bottom must be cut off from each of them. It is these details that can be the same or different.

The prepared parts need to be washed, dried and connected with threads. The length of the curtains depends on the wishes of the needlewoman. A big plus of these curtains is that they are very easy to care for. It is enough to simply rinse the curtains under running water and dry.

One of the symbols of Russia can also be easily made from a plastic bottle. For this, the lower part must be cut off from the container. Then the base, together with the lid, must be painted in the selected color. After that, based on the figure, it is worth drawing any selected character. Using bottles of different sizes, you can create a whole collection of these nesting dolls.

Many kids love these cute yellow characters. Making them with your own hands is very simple. It is enough to paint the bottle yellow-blue. After that, you need to draw eyes and a smile on the blank. Since the scheme for creating minions is very easy, a child can make several such characters at once. They can be made not only from small bottles, but also from five-liter ones.

A cute flower pot can be made from a container of any size. For this, the lower part of the plastic bottle must be cut off with a clerical knife so that small "ears" remain on the front of the product.

The prepared pot is covered with a layer of paint. When it dries up, you can draw a cat's face in front of the product. After that, it is recommended to fill the container with nutritious soil and plant flowers there. Such a pot will look beautiful on a desktop or shelf.

To create crafts, you can use not only plastic bottles, but also glass products.

Such interior decoration is easy to make from a glass container. They make it in the following way.

• The door for the mill must be cut out of thick cardboard. Its front part must be greased with glue. Attached to it are cut wooden ice cream sticks.
• The same cardboard is used to create two symmetrical blades. They are wrapped with twine. The edges of the material are fixed with a glue gun. Finished blades can be decorated with wooden sticks. After that, they are connected together in the form of a cross. The base is wrapped with twine again.
• After that, you can proceed to the design of the bottle. On it you need to outline the places for the windows. After that, the bottle should be wrapped with twine.
• When the bottle is completely filled, wooden sticks need to be glued in place of the windows.
• Next, a door is attached to the mill. The edges of doors and windows are trimmed with twine. The lower part of the building should be decorated with thinly cut pieces of cork.

To create an original candlestick, you can use a bottle of champagne or wine. It is done quite simply. Cut off the bottom of the bottle. For this, a conventional glass cutter is used. The edge of the bottle can be additionally treated with a waterproof sandpaper. It will turn out to be smooth and neat. The finished product is used as a regular candlestick.

An original decoration for the kitchen will turn out from bottles with a cut-off neck. As in the case of candlesticks, the place of the cut is necessarily leveled. The container prepared in this way must be washed, dried and filled with cereals. A regular crust ball can be used as a lid. Such crafts are not only beautiful, but also useful.

An unusual bathroom decoration can be easily made from a whiskey bottle. For this, the container must be well washed and dried. The stopper must then be replaced with a suitable size soap bar. To prevent the label from getting wet under the influence of water, it can be pre-coated with a transparent varnish. This will make the craft more durable.

You can also make an original hanger from glass wine bottles. To do this, the neck of each glass container must be cut off at an angle. Such blanks are fixed on the selected basis. It can be either wooden or glass or mirrored. It is most convenient to glue parts of bottles with liquid nails. The junction is best hidden with a piece of string.

This craft will appeal to many flower growers. To create a hanging pot, cut off the bottom of the bottle. In this case, the neck must be plugged with a stopper. A base for a glass pot should be weaved from the string. The bottle must be placed in a pre-prepared grid and filled with earth and seeds. Such an original hanging pot will look great on a balcony or terrace.

For information on how to make cute flowers for the garden from plastic bottles, see the next video.