Plastic packaging is becoming the scourge of our time. It practically does not decompose, littering the ground and water bodies. Environmentalists are sounding the alarm, but ordinary citizens continue to use containers that are convenient from the consumer's point of view, without thinking about the consequences.
Crafts from plastic items will not only help keep things clean, but also create really useful things or pretty knick-knacks.
DIY plastic bottle bags
These bags can be used by children to store pencils, constructors, etc. Adults, on the other hand, can use these bags to store clothespins, cookie cutters, and more.
You will need:
- plastic bottle
- the cloth
- eyelets
- tape (can be replaced with a lace)
- candle (can be replaced with a needle with a plastic top or an awl)
1.
Prepare a plastic bottle and cut off the top (choose the height yourself).
2.
You can use an elastic band to make holes in one line. The holes can be made with a heated needle or awl and should be about 2 mm in diameter.
2.
Determine the size of the top to be made of the fabric. In this example, the fabric is 26 cm wide + 2 cm allowance and 15 cm high (including allowances).
3.
Now you need to iron the folds (at the bottom 1 cm, at the top it is folded twice by 0.5 cm and 3 cm - this is done in order to hide the raw edge).
4.
Install the eyelets and sew the top edge.
5.
We make a side seam. To do this, you need to step back exactly 1 cm from the edge. If you pay attention to the image, you will see that the bottom is tucked up. It must be sewn unfolded. Next, you need to iron the seam.
6.
We attach the top to the plastic bottle. Turn the top inside out first, then slide it over the bottle. This must be done so that the folded edge can pass exactly under the holes. Then you need to raise it, and the ironed fold should be 1 mm below the holes.
How does plastic attract summer residents?
This material is especially loved by summer residents. Gardeners and gardeners. Very often, looking at someone's summer cottage, you can see the inverted bottoms of plastic containers cut in half and laid out in a circle or rectangle one after another. The easiest way to decorate flower beds and flower beds.
Those for whom simplicity is not enough, and who want to stand out with something in the design of their summer cottage landscape, resort to the implementation and installation of more complex and original homemade products made of transparent plastic. Here you cannot do without the advice of the masters and visual images of the results of their art.
Master class from plastic bottles. Mobile phone holder.
You can also make a good and very useful mobile phone holder from a plastic bottle. You need it when you urgently need to charge your phone, you have found an outlet, but there is nowhere to put the phone.
Prepare a 0.5 liter plastic bottle and poke a hole with a knife to further cut off the unwanted part of the bottle.
Use scissors or a utility knife to cut a circle for the fork.
It remains only to insert the cord from the charger into the “neck” and plug it into a power outlet.
Plastic bees in the garden
In order for your garden or vegetable garden to liven up, you definitely need to decorate it with bees. Such products, created by hand from half-liter plastic bottles suspended from low-growing trees, will cause a lot of admiration and smiles among your relatives, children, grandchildren and acquaintances. Our step-by-step master class with a photo idea will be useful and informative for you. Study it and start creative work immediately so that you can quickly make a wonderful craft at home.
For manufacturing you will need:
- plastic half-liter bottles;
- black and yellow paints;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- brush;
- thread for the eyelet.
Work process:
- To get beautiful cartoon bees, we need to take half-liter plastic bottles with lids and paint them with paints, giving them a natural striped color.
- When the craft is dry, attach the wings to it, cut from the same material at hand as the insects. We make small cuts with a clerical knife, almost at the base of the expansion of the container, and insert our blanks into them. For reliability, fix the work with universal glue.
- The final stage will be the formation of a loop on the back of the bee and hanging it on a tree you like. This is how elementary it is, you can simply create a cool decorative product with your own hands, even with children for the garden and vegetable garden. They will be delighted with your ideas and fantasies.
Products from plastic bottles. Funnel.
Plastic products from bottles. Piggy bank.
1.
Prepare a plastic bottle. Wash it with hot soapy water and leave to dry.
2.
Cut out details such as ears, eyes, patch and nostrils from colored cardboard.
3.
Attach all parts with glue or double tape.
4.
Wrap the bottle with patterned paper.
5.
For the legs, you can use empty spools that need to be glued to the bottle.
6.
Make a cut at the top for the coins.
Crafts for the garden and vegetable garden
To make a colored fire, a wooden rectangle should be dug in.
- Plastic bottles are painted in different colors.
- The bottoms are cut off from the bottles.
- The bottles are cut into longitudinal strips. The cut bottles with thin carnations are nailed to a wooden rectangle with corks. Such a heel will rustle in the wind, frighten crows, delight the eyes of the owners and amuse children.
We make a dispenser for plastic bags from a plastic bottle
You only need one 3 liter plastic bottle to hold your plastic bags.
Just cut off the bottom of the bottle so you can tuck the bags in, and the neck so you can gently pull out one bag at a time.
You can use sandpaper to make the edges of the bottle smoother and smoother.
Palm making
To make a palm tree, you need to take several brown and green bottles. You also need a thin iron pin. The bottoms are cut from brown bottles. The bottles are strung on an iron pin with the neck down.
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The bottoms and necks with a cork are cut off from green bottles. Thin strips are cut from the canvas with a spiral.
Instead of strips from a green bottle, you can cut longitudinal leaves with cloves. They are attached to the top brown bottle with a stapler. The more green bottles you cut, the more luxuriant the palm tree will be.
Making curtains from plastic bottles
It is very beautiful and very easy to make such curtains.
Just prepare a few plastic bottles and cut out the bottom of them - you will get a shape that resembles a flower.
Make several holes in each flower with a heated needle.
Prepare fishing line or strong threads and connect all the "flowers".
The product can be hung on a window or in a doorway.
You can also make a hole in the middle of each "flower" for LED bulbs, and you will have a beautiful luminous garland.
You can use different colored bottles, or use spray paint to add different colors to the product.
Crafts for home
For needlewomen, you can make a great yarn ball. For buttons, beads and sequins, a stand of several bottoms of plastic bottles is suitable. They can be attached to plywood, and everything you need for creativity will be at hand.
The same stands are used to store nails, screws and other men's little things.
Before the New Year, you can make a big snowman or small snowmen, beautiful balls and snowflakes to decorate the Christmas tree and the room.
So do not throw away plastic containers, littering your native nature. It is better to give her a second life and beautifully decorate a plot or house.
Irrigation from plastic bottles for summer cottages
You will need:
- plastic bottles for 2 l
- awl or screwdriver
- knife
1.
Use a knife to make two small cuts at the base of the bottle and two more in the middle. Also make two small holes with an awl at the bottom of the bottle.
2.
Pour water into the bottle to check if the water is leaking out quickly or dripping little by little, ideally, you want the water to drip and not pour out in a stream.
3.
Dig a small hole in the ground where you want to irrigate and insert a bottle with holes in it. Next, fill the bottle with water.
