Crafts from plastic bottles for the garden with your own hands (figures and flowerpots), instructions + photos of the best garden decorations

What will you need?

For creativity, you will need scissors, double-sided tape, glue, metal wire and a mini drill. Depending on the size of the products, one craft takes from several hours to several days. Larger projects that combine a couple of dozen decorative elements require pre-preparation of PET containers. These can be ordinary 1,5-liter soda bottles, and this is the best option for making lambs, tigers, frogs and kittens. Five-liter vessels are more suitable for flowerpots and flower beds. If you need to assemble a human figure with your hands, you will definitely need plastic buckets or canisters with a capacity of 20 liters.

Because plastic products are weather-resistant and non-corrosive, they can be used everywhere. Their other benefits include:

• a light weight;
• maintainability;
• susceptibility to processing by any improvised means;
• good adhesion with other polymeric materials;
• long period of outdoor use;
• the ability to create three-dimensional figures without injury;
• 2004% environmental friendliness of products, proven by scientists of the Institute of Technology and Packaging. Fraunhofer in Germany back in XNUMX.

On the Internet, 1,5-liter plastic bottles are sold for 8-10 rubles apiece. When ordering from 500 products, the price is half.

Video “Bird feeder from a plastic bottle”

From this video you will learn how to make a bird feeder from a plastic bottle with your own hands.

functional products

Original flower beds, fences, bird feeders and even garden chairs are obtained from PET containers. The minimum project budget is 850 rubles. If you calculate the cost of the same products purchased in the store, the savings is 55%.

Vases and pots

Volumetric decorative vases serve as a home for most of the lush flowering shrubs in the country. As a basis, you can take a bottomless barrel or, for example, a flexible polycarbonate sheet. Next, you need to fill the bottles with sand and lay them in a checkerboard pattern with cement mortar. The bottom should be covered with ashes, and earth should be poured on top. From the inside, the finished flowerpot can be decorated with colored glass or pebbles.

If you cut off the lower part of the vessel and cut out the ears along the contour, you will get a funny flower pot in the form of a cat. Eyes and antennae can be drawn with a marker. After that, you need to make holes on the sides of the craft and fix it in the window openings of the gazebo with the help of ropes. Small-flowered geyhera, fragrant lavender, ivy and petunias are suitable as plants.

Flower beds and flower beds

Horizontally arranged bottles are an exquisite fence for any flower garden. Several hundred 2-liter containers, cement mortar and old tires will come in handy. The latter serve as a support for 1,5-meter structures.

If the garden is dominated by undersized plants, in particular primroses, irises or marigolds, the bottles should be placed vertically. We bring to your attention step-by-step instructions for fencing:

1. Rinse and dry identical vessels.
2. Dig a rectangular trench 15–20 cm deep.
3. Install pre-painted bottles in the ground.
4. Fill the gaps between the structural elements with colored pebbles or clay.

If there are a large number of bottles, the front garden can be decorated with artificial plants of various shapes and shades. They do not need to be watered or thinned out, which is especially important for people who do not know a lot about caring for fresh flowers.

Furniture

Outdoor sofas made of natural rattan cost from 5 to 7 thousand rubles. But for the same money you can buy several rolls of glass wallpaper for interior decoration, and make furniture from ordinary bottles. It is better to give preference to 2-liter vessels with tight lids, and in order to avoid technical errors, study the craft diagram in advance.

Each bottle must be cut in half, then the upper parts of the products should be inserted into the lower ones. Wrap the completed “bricks” with adhesive tape, thus forming 4 sofa blocks. At the end of the work, it must be sheathed with foam rubber or soft fabrics.

By the same principle, you can make a swing chair, ottoman, table and stool.

Alcove

It is impossible to completely build a building out of bottles. In order for it to withstand heavy winds, it will be necessary to form a solid frame from wooden boards or metal pipes. And only after that you can proceed to the installation of walls from 1,5-liter vessels with their necks down.

A wire should be fixed on the upper harness, then the required number of bottles should be strung on it, and at the end – connected to the lower harness. So you need to act until you get a full-fledged wall that can withstand a shed roof made of polycarbonate or reeds.

Fence

Self-tapping screws, construction glue, a hammer and a screwdriver are useful in the work. Cross rails and poles can be made of wood, and for a decorative base, take 2-liter bottles at the rate of 6 pcs. for 1 fence. Then we proceed step by step:

• we make holes in the bottles so that you can insert the wire;
• we form a frame of 50–70 vessels of the same shape and color;
• we weld or fasten finished spans to wooden supports;
• We paint over each element of the structure with an acrylic composition that is resistant to ultraviolet radiation.

Birdhouse

Artificial nesting can really be made in a few hours. To do this, you need 3 plastic bottles, pliers, scissors, sandpaper, hot glue and pins for pins. Using a mini drill, you can make neat holes in the caps. In the absence of a professional tool, any metal cutting device will do.

First you need to make a birdhouse hook with wire. Then cut off the tops from two bottles and prepare the base for the roof. After it falls into place, small gaps will appear, which will have to be hidden by the third bottle.

At the very end, it is important to make a hole for the perch, install the pin and once again fix the structural elements with hot glue. The surface of the product can be painted with paints with children.

Drip irrigation

Irrigation systems made of plastic contribute to the rapid development of plants in vegetable gardens and greenhouses. At the same time, their owners do not need to weed the beds every day and bring water under each nightshade bush. Constant control over the state of the future crop is needed only in the heat.

For a completely open area, a watering system with a cap up is suitable. It can be made from a 5-liter eggplant, punctured from 8 to 10 small holes in the bottom of the vessel. The narrowing part of the bottle should rise above the ground, so you need to make a hole near the cucumber lashes. Then it is necessary to place an eggplant wrapped in cloth there, fill it with water and close the lid.

To prevent the container from deforming, it must be regularly filled with liquid.

decorative crafts

This is the most original version of the decoration of landscape gardening areas and open terraces. For example, windows in a half-open gazebo can be decorated with plastic roller blinds, and figures of mermaids, pirates, elves and unicorns will look good on the playground. The shelf life of such outdoor crafts often exceeds 10-12 years.

Birds

If you need to decorate the entrance to the main building, make swans or peacocks out of bottles. Graceful birds with large wings and fluffy tails will be a worthy decoration of a pond, the area around a fountain or a flower garden.

In the front garden, it is better to “settle” wise owls, symbolizing secret knowledge. To make a night predator, you will need 5-liter bottles and plastic canisters. The convex part of the bottoms will serve as the basis for voluminous feathers, and the claws can be formed from aluminum wire.

Now consider the stages of crafts in more detail:

1. We form the frame of an owl using a chain-link mesh and a transparent eggplant. The XNUMX liter container is perfect for the breast.
2. We sew paws and attach feathers to the base with wire.
3. We make the torso ovoid, and leave the back open for further fixation of the flying organs.
4. We strengthen the homemade structure with PVC pipes.
5. We attach a foam head at least 12 cm thick to the central part of the body. For a wide neck, you will need an additional 5 liter bottle.

At the last stage, the bird is painted and the installation of the tail section is completed. Beads are needed to imitate keen eyes.

trees

A wooden stick at least 2 cm thick will serve as a frame for the New Year tree, and the largest bottom will be needed for the stand. First you need to prepare from 10 to 30 identical bottles. It is necessary to separate the lower part of the products with a clerical knife and cut them into 2-centimeter strips for twigs. The area around the neck should remain intact.

Neat cuts are left on the sides of each line. The “needles” obtained in this way are bent. Do the same with other PET containers. Then the finished elements are strung neck down on the frame. In the left bottom, a hole is made to fix the green beauty with nails and cork. In the same way, strengthen the base from above.

For a small 1,5-meter palm tree, you will need 40 brown bottles and about 20 green ones. The frame can be made of wire, and the branches of corks. To simulate bananas, yellow vessels with a capacity of 0,5 liters are needed.

Animals

For a bunny figurine, you will need 2 bottles. A five-liter vessel is for the body, and a two-liter vessel is for the ears. To prevent the craft from being blown away by the wind, the container must be filled with sand or water. First, the ears are cut out on the smaller bottle, leaving about 5 cm of plastic for further attachment to the head. On a large eggplant, draw the eyes, mouth and teeth of a hare. At the very end, the dried parts are connected, and the finished figure is installed in the garden. Similarly, you can make a pig, a raccoon and a cat.

Figures can be mounted on a tree, fence or porch. So that the painted elements are not exposed to the negative effects of ultraviolet radiation, crafts are varnished.

Flowers

Plastic bottles make beautiful roses, lilies, poppies, lotuses and freesias. In the work, you can use vessels of different shapes and shades.

At the first stage, you need to cut the inflorescences, stems and leaves according to the template. Make holes in the center of the blanks, and process the outer part of the plants with a candle flame. To attach the outer shoots of plastic, you will need electrical tape. To make the flowers look as realistic as possible, they should be painted in several layers with waterproof compounds.

With such crafts, you can decorate the walls of the gazebo, the garden fence, the area near the fountain, and even the roof of the main building in the country.