A swan made of plastic bottles will become a simple and at the same time elegant decoration of your garden. You can make it on your own from improvised materials. The only thing that is needed is a great desire and perseverance. Also, patience will not be superfluous.
Materials and Tools
Before making a swan out of bottles, it is necessary to prepare materials and tools that may be needed during operation. Let's start with the materials. IN
in this case you will need:
- a large number of white plastic containers;
- a large canister with a capacity of 5 liters (its color does not play a role already);
- a piece of pipe made of metal;
- wire;
- candle;
- paints of red and black colors (instead of the last, you can use buttons, for example).
Among the materials required:
- stationery scissors;
- a knife;
- marker.
Idea
First, a swan from plastic bottles should materialize on paper. That is, there should be a sketch. It can be done independently or taken from special literature. You must admit that it is much simpler and more convenient to create something when the result of the work is already before your eyes.
The foundation
A 5-liter liquid tank acts as the frame of the figure. Neck
it should look at the tail, and the neck should come out of the top of the bottom. The frame for it will be a tube made of metal-plastic, in which the corresponding hole must first be required. Additional fixation is carried out using wire. On this basis, from which the swan will be made of plastic bottles, is ready.
Create the look
Next, proceed to the head. The beak can be cut out of plastic and painted red, and the head can be built from a 0.5 l container (white). It should be cut in the middle and the beak should be installed on the side of the neck. Eyes can be painted or buttons glued in their place. Then you need to cut a lot of feathers from a white container. After that, you can proceed to sizing the rest of the body. All parts must
very close to each other. If you need to bend the pen in a special way, then a candle is used for these purposes. The workpiece heats, bends and then cools. This design is most often used on the neck. This allows you to give the craft a natural look. But below the feathers are even and stacked tightly to each other. After this stage is completed, it is necessary to wait for the time required for the glue to dry. After it has dried, the swan from the plastic bottles is ready, it can be taken out to the street and installed in the required place. If desired, you can make not one, but a flock of swans. Everything rests only on desire and time.
Conclusion
Swans from plastic bottles are not so rare in summer cottages. With their help, you can turn an ordinary garden into a part of a fabulous country or a magic pond. There is nothing complicated in the manufacture of this craft, so a novice master can also cope with this task. The only important thing is perseverance and desire. And there shouldn’t be any problems with materials - they are available in most suburban areas, and if necessary, they can be replaced with something else.