Each owner thinks about how to ennoble his summer cottage and give it a special flavor, but decorative ornaments are quite expensive, and there is not always extra money to purchase them. In order to give special beauty to your garden, we offer you to make unique handicrafts. Such decorative products can be made from a wide variety of materials, including plastic containers, bottles and caps.
Plastic containers are very inexpensive, so using them does not require serious material costs. One of the most interesting decorations is a bee made of plastic bottles. It is made simply and easily, only a little imagination and perseverance is required. You can create such a fun and bright bee, even without any skills in working with plastic, glue and paint. This creative task will also appeal to children; it will certainly bring you joy from spending time together. Cheerful
bees from plastic bottles can decorate a flower bed, tree or shrub. And an insect can be additionally made a hive house, as a result of which you will get a perfect composition - almost a work of art in your summer cottage.
Stages of making crafts "Bee" from plastic bottles
In order to make bees you will need:
- plastic bottles (0.5 l and 1 l);
- acrylic paints;
- electrical tape black
- glue "Moment";
- buttons
- wire.
So, let's begin. For bees, you can take either transparent or yellow bottles. If you use a color container, then you can simply wrap it with electrical tape, so that bright stripes appear on the body of the "bee". If you have regular transparent bottles in your arsenal, you should first paint them yellow with acrylic paint. After the billets have completely dried, black strips are made using the same electrical tape (as an option, paint them with black paint). After creating the body of the insect, you can start decorating. Draw a bee eyes and nose or glue the buttons selected for this work on the glue. Then make your beauty antennae of wire: pierce the plastic in the right place with an awl and bend them with pliers. So, your bee is almost ready, it remains only to make wings. They can be cut out of a transparent bottle and gently inserted into the insect body through the slots made. Everything, a bee from plastic bottles is ready! In the same way, you can make a few more insects, so to speak, for the company.
Bee from plastic bottles: decorate a flower garden or garden tree
Bees can be planted on branches of a bush or tree. To do this, make two holes on the sides of the insect and stretch a twine in them. Now you can easily bind insects to the branches. If you want your beauties to "fly", make supports for them. Take a long pin or rod and make a hole under it at the bottom of the bee. It should be small so that the pin fits tightly into it. Now it remains to plant the bee on the pin, and then fix its other end in the ground. A bee from plastic bottles can "circle" not only in the company of its girlfriends, but also have a hive house. To create it, take a large eggplant (5 L),
paint it with yellow
acrylic paint and leave to dry. After the paint has dried, make the top of a regular washcloth, which can be purchased at any hardware store. Such colorful crafts from plastic bottles "bee" will make your summer cottage unique and interesting. You will definitely be able to create an original decorative product by spending a minimum of effort!