Recently, lawns and adjoining areas in the city are decorated with plastic crafts. When the snow has just melted, and the buds appear on the trees, flowers from plastic bottles are already flaunting on the lawns. A master class on field, indoor and garden plants from this material we will consider in the article.
The basic rules when working with plastic bottles
It is better to work with plastic for adults or older children under the supervision of a mentor. The fact is that in this work you have to work with pricking tools (scissors, an awl, a knife, a cutter), spray paints, fire, which can lead to injury if you are inattentive.
The technique for making flowers is simple: draw a template, transfer it to a plastic base. Next, cut leaves, petals or a finished flower. Poke a hole in the middle of the flower blanks with an awl or a soldering iron and give them the shape of the petals using fire. First, burn the edges, then from the seamy side of the petal under the flame, create a bend in almost the same way as when creating flowers from satin ribbons. Use tweezers when performing this procedure.
You can make flowers from a plastic bottle from its top. In this case, a hole is pierced in the lid itself, which fixes the position of the stamens and pistils. Leaves are attached using fire or green tape. The stem can also be wrapped with fused plastic or tape. To make the plants look like real ones, it is advisable to paint them with rain-resistant alkyd aerosol or acrylic paints.
Decorations for wicker fences and trees
A variety of fences for flower beds are woven from branches. In the interweaving of branches different flowers are attached for beauty. Trees are also decorated with flowers and other plastic crafts using a rope or wire, without deformation of the trunks.
Consider how to make small five-petal flowers from plastic bottles. The master class is very simple.
- Draw a five-petal flower on paper.
- Translate this template with a marker on the bottle.
- Cut the workpiece.
- Bend the petals with your hands to the sides.
- Flame all edges of the flower to make the slices smooth.
- Then go through the flame under the petals to give them a bend or tilt.
- Try on blanks to each other.
- Define the middle of the flowers and pierce with an awl in two places.
- Connect the workpieces with a wire onto which you thread two or three beads.
- Twist the wire from the wrong side and cut off the excess ends.
- Now the flowers can be attached to the fence. If you do not want to make holes, then the first blanks can be made from the top of the bottles, where the mount goes through the lid.
Roses for street and home
To make roses you need to draw patterns of different sizes. The more elements, the more magnificent the flowers from a plastic bottle (a photo of roses confirms that multilayer layers are created due to the petals of different sizes).
Draw seven patterns of rectangles and squares on paper (these will be elements for one rose). Within their borders, display a flower of four petals, in which the edge has a concave cut. Now transfer the rectangular and square blanks to the bottle. Cut them to floral patterns.
Using an awl in the middle of a rose, make a hole. Now burn all the flowers above the candle, lifting the petals up. Remember that molten plastic can be very burned, so use tweezers.
Next, cut a sepal of four petals with three sharp corners. Also make a hole in the middle and scorch it with fire. For the stem, cut the bottle in a spiral strip of one centimeter wide.
Rose formation
Wrap a thick wire with a plastic strip, which melt over the flame. Leave one edge of the wire for flower blanks and sepals (you will wear them in descending order). The middle of the rose can be decorated with a bead and secured with wire. Or cut a small circle from a bottle, cut it into strips, singe it on a fire, forming stamens, and attach it to the middle of the flower.
Next, from a green bottle, cut out a leaf pattern on a 3-stalked stem. Burn the blank over the candle. Twist the leaves of leaves under the flame and attach the leaf to the base of the stem of the rose, wrapping it with a molten plastic edge. According to this scheme, make yourself a whole bouquet.
Flowers made from plastic bottles will be more realistic if tinted with paints. For example, veins or dark parts can be drawn in the leaves; in the petals to enhance the color or add an additional shade. To simplify the work, you can wrap the stems with green tape to match the color of the leaves.
Outlandish flowers from plastic bottles
A master class is a very interesting way of transferring experience, as it shows how to make real flowers out of plastic.
- From seven transparent plastic bottles, cut off the top with a cap.
- Notch 6 strips, form petals and singe them above the flame. In this case, first bend each petal. Then singe along the edges and again walk through the middle of the petal.
- Paint blanks with red spray paints.
- As soon as the surface of the petals dries, apply a yellow paint to the middle of the flowers.
- Using the awl and scissors, make a hole in the lid of each flower of such a diameter that the pestle and stamens that will be made of beads climbed through.
- Paint it green (this will be a sepal).
- For a pestle, string a large bead onto the wire, which will be its stigma, twist the ends of the wire. Only then dial 22 pcs. green beads.
- Make stamens similarly from bugles and 19 pcs. blue beads.
For one flower, you need to collect the pestle and 6 stamens in a bunch, wrap them with thread and insert into the lid with glue.
We collect flowers in a bouquet
Our flowers are similar to clivia, so consider their location on the stem in any photo. The colors of plastic bottles for one plant need to make seven pieces. While the stamens dry, make 8 large leaves, four medium and small oval leaves, from a green bottle.
Treat each petal over a flame and straighten it a little. Make a hole at the base of the leaflet and attach the wire. Now for the stem, take a meter thick wire or cable and start arranging the flowers in the right position: one flower above, then, after 20 centimeters, 3 flowers, and another 3 flowers that look in different directions, since their stems bent 90 degrees.
Then, after 10 centimeters, the leaves are fastened in 2-3 pieces, starting and ending with the smallest. That is, the arrangement will be as follows: two small, four rows of large leaves, two rows of medium and two small leaves. The stems are attached using green electrical tape. Such flowers can be installed in the flowerbed.
Palm trees - interesting crafts from plastic bottles
A flower is often made from transparent bottles, but where to get a brown container? And let's make a palm of them! We will need brown and green bottles. For the trunk of a palm tree, dig a cable into the ground, which should withstand strong winds. Brown bottles will need to be cut from one edge with 8 pointed teeth. If you leave the bottom, then make a hole in it, if you use the top of the bottle, then unscrew the cap.
You put brown tooth-shaped blanks on the cable, while spreading the leaves to the sides with your hands or using a flame, creating the effect of a tree bark. Once you have reached the desired length of the palm tree, fasten the leaves that you make of green containers.
For foliage, the bottom of the bottles is cut and long strips are cut to the top. Lids are not needed in this case. Next, leaves of the desired length are put on the cable and attached to the trunk of the palm. The more branches you make, the more magnificent the tree will be, but then take a thick cable.
Yellow elegant flowers
Consider how to make elegant flowers from plastic bottles. The master class is as follows.
- From transparent bottles cut up and down.
- Then, on them, draw the usual rose-like petals: narrow at the base and with wide edges.
- You burn each petal over a candle.
- From a transparent or green bottle, cut out individual leaves without stalks and sepals with 10 teeth, which also melt over the flame.
- Color the blanks with acrylic paints: the petals are yellow, and the edges are red, the leaves and sepals are green.
- In the leaves, make two holes so that they can then be attached to the stem.
- Now cut the foam ball in half.
- Color it yellow and the bottom green.
- In the middle, make an incision to insert a petal, which with fire is twisted into a bud.
- Insert the remaining petals with a point, creating one or another slope if necessary.
- Once the flower has been picked, turn it over.
- Insert a kebab stick painted in green into it.
- String a sepal and leaf on it.
Create a whole bouquet according to this scheme.
Curly flowers
Now consider a master class on climbing plants . Plastic bottles (flowers - from transparent, leaves - from green) are prepared according to the standard scheme, cutting off the tops and bottoms. For leaves, cut the bottle in a spiral 10 centimeters wide. You draw leaves on it on a long branch, cut and melt above the candle, twisting the petioles in some places.
Then you make patterns in two colors with five petals: large and small. Also scorch a candle and paint with paints. In the middle of the flowers, make holes and connect two patterns with a wire, taking a few beads for the stamens.
The next step is to pierce holes in the leaves in the right places and fasten the prepared flowers, cutting off the excess ends and hiding the wire in the foliage. Next, connect all the curly branches in one bundle, fasten and hang on a nail or in a cache-pot.
As you can see, from plastic bottles you can make a wide variety of flowers for the garden and home. And naturalness and naturalness can be given to them with the help of paints.