One of the best decorations for the garden are swans from a plastic bottle. They can be easily and simply made from improvised materials and using a standard set of tools. This craft is ideal to begin your acquaintance with such a craft. That is, it is perfect for
novice master. Professionals also turn their attention to them, but it takes them significantly less time to make one bird.
Raw materials and tools
Let's start with the tools. Swans from a plastic bottle are made using the following:
- a knife or scissors (it is better if both are at hand);
- pliers (they are used for cutting and twisting wires);
- marker or felt-tip pen (for marking);
- ruler and pattern;
- awl.
When creating such crafts, most of the waste is used. Due to this, two important points are achieved:
- the amount of garbage thrown is reduced;
- used things get a second life.
The raw materials in this case are:
- Large container with a volume of 5 liters.
- A set of milk containers in white (you can consider other options, but then everything must be opened at the final stage with paint of the corresponding color, which is not very convenient).
- Wire mesh.
- A metal-plastic pipe with a diameter of half an inch, curved in the form of the letter "G".
- Glue.
- Red paint (if not, then you can replace it with orange) - with its help a beak is drawn.
- Two buttons for the eyes.
- Soil or sand.
- Scotch.
Swans from a plastic bottle are made much easier and much faster, if all this is at hand, and there is no need to run around and look for the necessary material.
Frame
Immediately fill a 5-liter container half with sand or earth. We lay it on its side. In the lid we make a hole for the pipe and install one of its sides into it. We fix this frame element using wire in the lid. Two vertical cuts are made on the sides of the container at the end of the cone. They set two pieces of wire mesh. This is the frame for the wings.
Firmly, both of these components are interconnected by wire. After that, the frame is ready, and you can proceed to the next stage of how to make a swan from plastic bottles.
Exterior finish
Cut the beak, head and feathers from milk containers in the required quantity. The beak is covered with red paint. With the help of glue and wire, all these elements are attached to a previously made frame, starting with the head and ending with the body and wings. At the final stage, buttons are glued. If necessary, they can be replaced with two spots of black paint. After the glue has dried, the work is finished, swans from a plastic bottle can be placed in the garden or on the playground.
Conclusion
The issue of waste management has recently become increasingly relevant. One way to solve such a problem is to use them for purposes for which their application was not planned. Making a swan from plastic bottles is one of the possible ways to solve such a problem. It allows you to give a plastic container a second life.