Crafts for the garden from do-it-yourself mayonnaise buckets

Landscaping is now popular not only among professionals. Many amateur gardeners are happy to decorate the territory adjacent to the house. Any available tools and materials are used for this. Learn and you to create unusual crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets. If you consume this product in large quantities, probably a couple of copies of empty containers are already gathering dust somewhere on the shelf. Use it for business - create spectacular jewelry. By the way, you can organize a joint creative process with children, nephews, grandchildren.

Crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets

The photographs given in the article clearly demonstrate how varied jewelry can be made from such a simple and affordable, one might say, junk material. If to summarize all the ideas, the list will be as follows:

• cache-pot;
• decorations with cache-pot elements;
• decorative containers (not for flowers);
• figures of animals and fairy-tale characters;
• bells or lanterns;
• borders for flower beds and paths;
• complex compositions from several parts;
• combined objects from buckets and lids.

As you can see, the field for the manifestation of fantasy is large. Most importantly, all of the above items are made only of plastic containers.

DIY crafts for the garden from do-it-yourself mayonnaise buckets: decorating methods

Since the products will be designed mainly for the street, any decor should be resistant to weather conditions (do not get wet, do not spread, do not fade, etc.). In this regard, the surface is usually decorated with paints and other details, after which everything is covered with waterproof varnish. If the product will be on the veranda, in the gazebo, in a word, where there is no rain, you can use any decor: threads, fabric, paper elements.

Particular attention should be paid to the reliability of fastening buckets. When you are not making a flowerpot in which there will be land and flowers, the empty buckets are very light, and if they are empty, they can easily be carried away by the wind. Accordingly, if you will put decorated buckets on any plane (porch, stone, earth), they should be filled with something, for example, pebbles, shells, beads. If possible, attach the bucket with glue or a self-tapping screw to the base. When the side for the flower garden is made, the bottom of the buckets, or rather the top (after all, they are put upside down) is simply buried. This is an important point, since only with reliable fastening your decor will retain its pristine beautiful appearance.

Materials and Tools

To make crafts from mayonnaise buckets with your own hands, you need the following:

• buckets themselves;
• acrylic paints;
• brush or sponge (sponge);
• napkins for decoupage (when decorating with this technique);
• glue;
• stencils;
• clear nail polish;
• decor (shells, pebbles, beads, beads, colored glass, purchased jewelry - ladybugs, butterflies, artificial flowers).

Bucket pots

Very beautiful and functional crafts from mayonnaise buckets for summer cottages can be made in the form of flower pots. The most common way to decorate a surface is decoupage.

It allows you to get not just painted colorful elegant buckets, but real picturesque masterpieces, even if you do not know how to draw. The meaning of this technology is as follows:

1. Take a bucket and degrease the surface, for example, with alcohol.
2. Apply white acrylic paint with a sponge (sponge). The surface should be as even as possible.
3. After drying one layer, you can put another one.
4. Cut napkins with thematic drawings into parts with specific details of the image, for example, colors. Be sure to separate the top layer with the pattern. The edges, by the way, are better to gently pluck out rather than cut out. With an even line, then it will be noticeable that on the surface of the bucket is not a picture, but a sticker.
5. Put PVA on the surface of the bucket, carefully straighten the pictures placed on top.
6. After drying, paint additional details with a brush.
7. Coat everything with clearcoat.

Do not forget to make a drainage hole in the product, because it should turn out not only beautiful, but also comfortable for plants, if they are planted directly in it. If you put the pot in a pot, then the hole is not made.

Another option is the braided shape of the bucket. To do this, first make vertical cuts on the surface of the workpiece, and then braid with any material.

Cache-pot or decoration from half a bucket

Crafts from mayonnaise buckets for the garden can be made using only half the container. In this case, you will get two flowerpots from one package. You can decorate an object in any way, using the same decoupage, for example. It is important to carry out a solid construction of the product frame itself. To do this, do the following:

1. Cut the bucket in half.
2. Glue the blank to the vertical base (portable or stationary) made of wood, plastic or other material using quick-fix glue or a hot gun. You can create a whole composition of several elements on one vertical wall.
3. Try to make a smooth transition between the boundaries of the surfaces using glued fabric, polyurethane foam, sealant, gypsum - what is at hand. This will complement the adhesive bond and give a more accurate appearance and a convenient configuration for decoration.
4. Decorate the planter in one piece with the base in the same style using the decoupage technique described earlier, or by any other method. The decor can be either single (a bucket and a back base, for example, an image cut from a napkin, partially passes from the background to the pot), or independent, contrasting (the background is stylized as a lawn, and the pot is like a pebble or a decorated flowerbed).

Bells or lanterns

Unusual crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets can be done by turning the product upside down. Attach a beautiful pendant and tongue or imitation light bulbs, and if you can, then a real lamp. The surface of the bucket, both external and internal, can be painted or decorated with decoupage, supplemented with sparkles or other interesting effects (perform a slotted silhouette pattern). Decorate the upper part with a bow made, for example, in the form of a flat shape on a stencil of plastic or plywood. If lantern bells will hang in the gazebo or on the veranda and will not be exposed to rain, of course, a satin ribbon for a bow is also suitable.

Animals and fairy-tale characters

Unusual funny crafts from mayonnaise buckets for the garden are easy to make with the children. This is nothing complicated, and the kids will be happy to participate in the process. It is easiest to make animal figures from blanks turned upside down. If enough containers, create a whole farm. You can seat the characters in a flowerbed, on a lawn, or even on a fence (cat or bird). For work, you will need, in addition to buckets, paints, brushes and additional details (eyes, noses, beaks, paws, wings, tails). All elements of the appropriate shape can be easily cut from the lids of buckets or plastic bottles. The parts must be fastened with waterproof glue or with the help of the slots made at the base according to the size of the inserted part.

Sculptural compositions

If you eat a lot of mayonnaise in the country and you have accumulated enough containers from under it, then you can perform complex, but beautiful crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets. It all depends on your imagination and the amount of material available. Decor objects can be formed both in one plane, and in the form of volumetric designs. As the first option, you can give an example border for a flower garden. Paint the buckets in any color, just bright, under the imitation of wood, stone, or draw on the surface a continuation of the elements of the flowerbed (flower leaves with butterflies or ladybirds). Even children can easily make something simple. Let them paint the blanks in different colors and arrange them in a certain sequence around the perimeter of the flowerbed, slightly buried in the ground.

Using the same principle, it is easy to create a caterpillar, a decorative path in the flower garden. If you fasten the buckets with bottoms on a vertical wall, you will get pocket cells (children will always figure out what to hide there), and if fastening is done along the upper plane of the bucket (in thickness), it is easy to get an imitation of logs. Volumetric sculptures can be imagined by anyone - from animals to houses.

Use bucket covers

If you carry out crafts from mayonnaise buckets for the garden, then, of course, you still have lids. They are easy to use for the same purpose separately or in combination with buckets. You can apply them like this:

• as stands for pots decorated in the same style;
• as elements of a decorative path in a flower garden;
• flowerbed border (if placed vertically);
• details of the same caterpillar, only flat, fixed on a vertical surface;
• blanks for suns, apples, berries, flowers, which can be hung in the gazebo, on the veranda, on a tree or, fixed on a stick, stick into a flower bed.

The design of the lids and all the additional decor that is suitable for the street, use the same as for the buckets themselves.

So, you saw what unusual crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets can be made easily and quickly at home. Choose ideas, complement. Engage in a new useful and interesting business.