More and more parents are thinking about how to make toys with their own hands from plastic bottles. The material is always at hand in the required quantity, there is nothing complicated in this. So you can safely proceed. Another advantage of this technique is that it will be quite enough a home set of tools, and there will be no need to acquire anything special to perform such work. The flight of imagination is not limited to this, you can make everything that your heart desires.
Piggy for kids
Various do-it-yourself toys from plastic bottles can be made with minimal labor. The easiest way to make pigs. To make it, you will need two liter containers (from under the cola they are best suited), scissors, a marker, adhesive tape (can be replaced with an insulating tape), light and dark pink paint. Eyes are best done with buttons. On each container, cut the base at a distance of 5 centimeters from the bottom. We apply them to each other. The teeth below and above should be in antiphase. For example, if there are two protrusions on the base and a notch on top, then everything will be vice versa below. We glue all this with adhesive tape in the middle. Draw the lines of demarcation with a marker. We apply one type of paint, let it dry. A similar procedure for another. Glue the eyes. Everything, the craft is ready. In a similar way, such toys can be made with their own hands from plastic bottles: a cow, a goby and a lamb.
Basket for christmas tree
To make this craft, you need one two-liter green bottle,
scissors, a sheet of paper for packing gifts, a knife, a simple pencil, a ruler and scotch tape. At a distance of 10-15 cm from the bottom, cut up at the container. We make strips of paper with the help of scissors, having previously drawn it. Their length should correspond to the perimeter of the circumference of the tank. Then we apply a strip to the workpiece, draw it, every 2 cm make an incision. In the resulting holes we stretch the paper. We do the second row in a similar way, but only with the difference that everything is done in a checkerboard pattern. That is, in one case the paper should be outside, and in the next row it should already be inside. And so almost to the very edge of the tank. On top, leave 1-2 centimeters for attaching the handle. We cut it from the upper previously separated part and glue it on both sides of the container. Other
Christmas decorations can be made in the same way from plastic bottles. You can, following the instructions from the previous paragraph, make any craft and hang it on a Christmas tree.
Flowers on the windowsill
A simple and at the same time elegant decoration of your apartment can be a bouquet of flowers. The easiest way to make tulips. We will stop at them.
Initial materials and components: 3 half-liter containers made of plastic, wire with a cross section of about 10 mm
2 , green and red paints, scissors, an awl, a brush, a thin wire up to 1 mm
2 . Immediately cut flower buds from bottle caps. We make holes in the corks and put them on the wire, from which 3 stems were previously made. Cut the petals out of the rest of the bottles. At the base of their awl we make holes. Next, using a thin wire, we attach them to the stem. At the final stage, we paint everything and let it dry. The above algorithm describes
how to make flowers from plastic bottles with your own hands almost without exception.
Conclusion
These are just a few do-it-yourself plastic-bottle toys that can be easily and quickly made. It is with their manufacture that it is easiest to begin your acquaintance with such crafts.