How nice it is to walk past the lawns, lawns and just small front gardens, decorated with bizarre and funny faces of different animals! Original products from plastic bottles will make any area lively and unusual. Here, a hedgehog peeks out from under the leaf or in a small lake a swan gracefully arched his neck. Or maybe hares or pink pigs have settled in your garden? It all depends on imagination and skillful hands. Well, if you still have lots of plastic bottles on your balcony and a lot of free time, then there’s nothing to think about - you have to do it!
Creative ideas
Let's start with a simple one: a hedgehog made of plastic bottles fits perfectly into the landscape of any site. To make a hedgehog, you will need a plastic bottle (the larger the area, the more the bottle is selected) with an extended neck - this will be a muzzle. You can make a rectangular cut along the bottle, cover it all with earth and plant ordinary lawn grass or flowers, which will play the role of thorns. You can glue the hedgehog with cones, from which good thorns will also come out. The face of the hedgehog can be arranged as you like: two halves of the pea are quite suitable for the eyes, if they are painted with black varnish, instead of the nose you can take a dark cover (brown or black).
Brief instruction
A hedgehog made of plastic bottles will look more attractive if its face is painted with acrylic paint or covered with burlap. Only in such matters is caution important. The work must be done very carefully, otherwise the appearance of the craft will be spoiled. And to make our hedgehog from plastic bottles more lively and original, you can decorate his needles with various fruits, which are just as easy to make from the same bottles. For example, to make an apple, it is enough to take two bottoms from the bottles and insert one into the other, after having inserted a juice stick or an ordinary twig into one of them. After that, you need to paint the apple with red varnish or acrylic paint, make a green leaf of the same color plastic, stick it to the stick. We fix the apple on the back of the hedgehog either with glue, if we have cones instead of needles, or we simply put it on the grass if the needles are “live”. Hedgehog from plastic bottles is ready! Now it can become a worthy decoration of your garden or summer cottage. It is worth noting that such a souvenir is also a great gift for a loved one.
Forest of ideas for the garden
Any other figures from plastic bottles are made just as easy. Take for example a mumps. The main points are the same as in the manufacture of the hedgehog - we take a bottle (a milk bottle is good), cut a rectangular hole into which you can plant flowers, and draw a face. Two holes in the lid, eyes - black beads or peas, ears cut out of the bottle, glue them to the head. Cute pig is ready! If you have artistic skills, you can completely draw a face, giving it lively emotions.
Show your imagination
Another unusual option for decorating the garden is plastic bees. For one bee, we need a small bottle with a volume of about 0.5 liters, yellow and black paint. We paint the bottle yellow, then draw black stripes, the nose of the bee should also be black. We cut two oval details from another bottle - these will be the wings, we attach them to the body. The bee is almost ready. It remains to draw or cut out the eyes from the remaining bottle, color them and attach the antennae, which can be made of wire, after wrapping it with yellow threads or a patch. Now we attach a rope to the bee on its back and hang it on a favorite tree or shrub. If you make a lot of such bees, you get a whole hive that fits organically into any area.
Conclusion
Crafts from plastic bottles - animals or insects - will not only decorate your garden, kitchen garden or summer cottage, but will also present an excellent mood for the whole day.