Each owner decides how to refine his summer cottage area and give it a special color, but decorative ornaments are quite expensive, and not always there are extra money for their purchase. In order to give a special beauty to your garden, we offer you to make unique crafts with your own hands. Such decorative products can be made from a wide variety of materials, including plastic containers, bottles and lids. Plastic packaging is very inexpensive, so its use does not require you to material costs. One of the most interesting ornaments is a bee made of plastic bottles. It is made simply and easily, only a little imagination and perseverance is required. Such a cheerful and bright bee you can create, even without having the skills to work with plastic, glue and paint. This creative task will appeal to children, it will certainly bring you joy from sharing pastime. Cheerful bees from plastic bottles can decorate a flower bed, a tree or a bush. And an insect can additionally make a hive-house, as a result of which you will get the perfect composition - almost a work of art in your dacha section.
Stages of the manufacture of crafts "Bee" made of plastic bottles
To make bees you will need:
- Plastic bottles (0,5 l and 1 l);
- Acrylic paints;
- Black electrical tape
- Glue "Moment";
- Buttons;
- wire.
So, let's begin. For bees, you can take either transparent or yellow bottles. If you use a color container, then you can simply wrap it with electrical tape, so that bright strips appear on the body of the "bee". If you have in your arsenal the usual transparent bottles, then first they should be painted in yellow with acrylic paint. After the workpieces are completely dry, black strips are made using the same insulating tape (as an option - paint them with black paint). After creating an insect body, you can start decorating. Draw a bee eye and nose or glue on the glue the buttons selected for this work. Then make your beautiful antennae of wire: plastic in the right place, pierce with an awl and bend them with pliers. So, your bee is almost ready, it remains to make only wings. They can be cut from a transparent bottle and carefully inserted into the insect body through the cuts made. Everything, the bee from plastic bottles is ready! In exactly the same way, you can make a few more insects, so to speak, for the company.
Bee from plastic bottles: decorate flower garden or garden tree
The bees can be planted on branches of a bush or a tree. To do this, it is necessary to make two holes on the sides of the insect and stretch the twine in them. Now you can easily tie insects to branches. If you want your beauties to "fly", prepare them for support. Take a long pin or rod and make a hole under it at the bottom of the bee. It should be small, so that the pin would tightly enter into it. Now it remains to plant the bee on the pin, and then fix its other end in the ground. The bee from plastic bottles can "circulate" not only in the company of their girlfriends, but also have a hive-house. To create it, take a large eggplant (5 liters), color it with yellow acrylic paint and leave to dry. After drying the paint, make the top of the usual washcloth, which can be purchased at any hardware store. Such colorful hand-made articles made of plastic bottles "bee" will make your summer residence unique and interesting. You must create an original decorative product, having spent a minimum of effort!