A bee from a plastic bottle is easy, cheap and original. With the help of such crafts, you can quickly and beautifully revitalize the garden in the country. The manufacturing process is an exciting pastime with children.
Ornaments made of plastic occupy a special place in our life, since eco-art has become another peculiar way of processing recycled materials. There are many options for what can be made of this material, for example, it can be herons, storks, eagles, different types of flowers.
A bee from a plastic bottle is one of the easiest crafts. Its production does not take much time, for this you do not have to spend much or look for some hard-to-reach materials.
All you need is plastic bottles (it’s worth noting that they can be of different types, for example, yogurt, kefir, ordinary water or drink bottles, small half-liter or large ones), scissors, black electrical tape, paint, brushes, glue.
If the desire to create such a craft arose spontaneously, then the eyes of the bees can be drawn independently. If you are preparing in advance, then you can go to the store and buy decorative special eyes and beads for the nose.
First you need to paint the bottles yellow. Note that oil paints dry for a very long time, so it may be better to take acrylic or gouache. In order for the plastic bee to turn out beautiful, the color must be saturated and bright. Therefore, 3-4 layers should be applied, and then allowed to dry well.
Next, you can make the bee black stripes with paint. If there is an electrical tape, then you can use it, then the stripes will turn out more even and saturated.
Now we take our decorative eyes and beads for the nose and gently stick them on the bottle cap. Well, if there are none, then draw a muzzle yourself. You can make an angry funny face or just a smiling bee.
After that, you need to cut out a shape in the form of wings from a transparent plastic bottle. Next, make holes at the junction of one and the other wing, in order to thread a thread on which it will be possible to hang a bee. To make them look even more realistic, with the help of white paint draw veins on them.
Bee from a plastic bottle is almost ready! It remains only to glue the prepared wings, for this it is better to take a quick-drying glue.
Here is such an easy-to-do craft. One of the pluses is that it can be done together with children, there is nothing complicated in it, there are no materials that can injure a child.
A bee from a plastic bottle will be an excellent decorative element in your garden, kitchen garden, just a decoration in the yard. Due to the fact that it is light, you can simply put it on a bush of a plant or hang it among tree branches. Also for bees you can make a whole hive from a five-liter bottle for water. To do this, it is necessary to cut a hole in the form of a window in the container, paint it yellow. Using the washcloths, decorate the lid on top. The hive is ready!