Do-it-yourself stork from plastic bottles is done without any problems. To do this, you only need to prepare well and be patient. Most of the materials required for the manufacture, is necessarily in the required quantity in most suburban or household plots. The situation is similar with a tool that is also available. So it turns out that to create a craft you only need time and desire. All this, if necessary, can be distinguished.
Materials and Tools
During the manufacture of such a figurine as a stork from plastic bottles with their own hands, the following components are needed:
- strong, but at the same time quite light 5-liter capacity;
- wire with a large cross section (8-10 mm);
- a plastic tube or rubber hose, the inner diameter of which is slightly larger than that of the wire;
- a set of white and black plastic bottles;
- Styrofoam;
- welded wire mesh segment;
- glue;
- wooden circle.
From the tool you will need:
- pliers;
- scissors;
- knife;
- the marker is black.
Before carrying out the work, it is best to prepare a picture according to which the work will be performed.
The foundation
Stork from plastic bottles with their own hands is done for a long time. For beginners, this can take up to 10 days. So before work you need to be patient. A 5-liter capacity, which is dressed on two wires, acts as a frame. At the first stage, the side and bottom are cut out, except for one seam below on the other side. The cut area is lowered to the middle of the tank and its top is fixed with a wire or screws. It also removes the handle, if any. The wire is bent with the Russian letter "P". Its bottom is fixed on a wooden circle, but before that either a pipe or a hose is put on it. It is enough to hide two parallel sections. A 5-liter canister is put on the resulting supporting structure through a previously made cutout. A mesh is put on the top of the canister and fixed with a wire. The basis for making a stork from plastic bottles with your own hands is ready.
Finishing work
At the first stage of finishing work we cut feathers of a bird from plastic flasks. Next, it is necessary to distinguish between the white and black parts of the body. For this, the corresponding line is drawn with a black marker. Further, with the help of glue, the lower part of the body of the bird is glued with clippings from black containers. While the result obtained earlier dries up, we make a head from foam with the help of a knife. As eyes, we use buttons that stick in the pits. The beak is cut out of a plastic container of any color and then covered with a red helmet. After it has dried, it is fixed with screws. Head and torso are connected by wire. It is advisable to make as many of these seams as possible, but at the same time you need to make sure that they are not visible.
Then you need to stick the remaining white feathers in the upper body, on the neck and head. As an alternative, you can cover the last two elements with a thick layer of white paint. Then the legs turn red. All this should dry. At the final stage of making a stork out of plastic bottles, we install the feet. To do this, cut out 8 fingers of the required length from plastic. They are mounted on a wooden circle with a thin wire and covered with red paint. This must be done very carefully so as not to stain the base. Everything, the work is ready, and after the last components have dried, it can be taken out to the garden.
Summary
Crafts from PET bottles are gaining more and more popularity every day. Using this material, you can do whatever your heart desires. The proposed option is only one of many. It can be considered as basic. By adding something of your own to it, you can get a completely unpredictable result.