DIY herringbone from plastic bottles made can be a great surprise for the New Year and Christmas holidays. In this article, various methods for making such a craft will be described.
Materials and Tools
To begin with, we will deal with those materials and tools that will be needed in the process of making such a magnificent decoration as a do-it-yourself Christmas tree from plastic bottles. This list includes the following items:
Plastic bottles. Preferably green: after all, the natural color of the Christmas tree is green. But any other is possible. In this case, you will have to additionally purchase green paint and use it to properly draw up the final craft.
Stationery scissors and a knife for cutting plastic bottles.
Black marker for marking.
Glue and tape.
Wire.
Steel pipe.
Electric drill with a drill.
Hammer.
Cardboard or Whatman paper.
Markers, pencils and paints.
Ways
There are several ways to make a do-it-yourself fir tree out of plastic bottles. It could be:
A large tree on the street with a central frame made of metal pipe.
Miniature Christmas tree of 3-4 plastic bottles.
Flat applique made of plastic containers.
Method one: a big tree
Such a Christmas tree made of plastic bottles with your own hands It is made of a sufficiently large number of containers. Therefore, before starting work, it is necessary to collect an impressive supply of such bottles. There are two ways to create such a craft. The first of them consists of the following sequence:
We take a metal pipe of the required length and install it in the ground at the gathering place of the Christmas tree with a hammer.
Then, in stages, around this pipe we make circles of the “lower tier of the Christmas tree” from plastic bottles that fit snugly together. We fix them with tape.
Similarly, create the next tiers of our tree and fix them using tape. We also take into account the fact that with each next tier the diameter of the formed circle decreases. That is, you should get a cone, which in appearance will resemble a New Year's beauty.
The topmost tier of the Christmas tree should consist of only one bottle, dressed on a metal pipe.
Then you need to decorate the tree properly.
The key disadvantage of this method is that the New Year beauty turns out to be motionless. Not everyone likes it. Therefore, some craftsmen use the second method, which consists of the following steps:
As in the previous case, we install the central supporting frame from a metal pipe with a hammer in the place of creation of the craft.
Using an electric drill, we drill holes in the pipe at the level of each tier of the tree.
In the drilled holes we install a straight wire, the length of which is equal to the diameter of the tier. Then we make a circle from the same wire. Again, the diameter of each higher level is reduced so that the end result is a cone.
The upper part is made of a single plastic bottle, which we put on the free end of the metal pipe.
Then we make a hole in the cap of each bottle, into which we install a wire hook, which is then fixed on the ring.
Filling each of the tiers of the tree, we get the final result - New Year's beauty.
At the next stage, we decorate the Christmas tree.
Unlike the first case, here the bottles hang on the ring and can move.
Option two: a small Christmas tree on the table
A big Christmas tree made of plastic bottles is not always needed, as in the previous case. Then you can make a miniature beauty from plastic containers of green color with a capacity of 2 liters. The algorithm for making a Christmas tree in this case is as follows:
We retreat about 3 cm from the bottom of the neck of the bottle and use the clerical knife to cut off its upper part.
Then we twist the sheet of whatman paper and set it in the neck. We fix this whole structure with adhesive tape. The frame of the Christmas tree is ready.
At the next stage, cut off the bottom of the container, and cut the remainder into rings 3-4 cm wide.
Then cut the bottom of each ring into thin strips, and do not touch the top. After that, we cut the ring itself into 2 equal parts and fasten it to the Whatman paper. For fixing, do not forget to use tape. So, in stages, we turn the Whatman paper into green branches and get a miniature New Year's beauty. The top of the tree is left sharp and fixed with the same adhesive tape.
Next, our crafts should be decorated. DIY Christmas tree made of plastic bottles is ready.
Another way
In the form of a volumetric application, a Christmas tree can be made of plastic bottles with your own hands (photo some crafts, by the way, are presented in the review). In this case, as a basis we take a sheet of cardboard or Whatman paper of the required size. Then we take 3-4 plastic bottles and mark them in the form of a three-dimensional model of a Christmas tree. For example, it can be triangles or trapezoids. Cut with the help of stationery scissors and a knife according to the marking of the model. Then we glue them to the base with glue. Then we properly draw up a sheet of cardboard or whatman paper. At the end, you can supplement this craft with a frame, and it will be an excellent decoration for your home.
Decorate the craft
Do-it-yourself Christmas tree from a plastic bottle made at the final stage must be adorned without fail. For these purposes, you can use the usual glass toys, and garlands, and other improvised materials. In general, we do not limit the flight of fancy and use everything that we consider necessary.
Summary
This article describes three main ways of how to make a herringbone from plastic bottles with your own hands. Each of them is strictly suitable for one specific situation. The simplest is the last, third, which allows you to create a three-dimensional image of the Christmas tree. The most difficult is the first. It requires a large amount of material and is not so simple to implement.