Pot of plastic bottles: we will make an interesting garden decor with our own hands

Very often you can see on the private plots decorative sculptures. This decoration for the garden in the store is not cheap. But our enterprising people can always find an alternative to an expensive product. People with creative thinking and golden hands learned to perform garden sculptures themselves from available materials. For example, from automobile tires, PET containers, wood. This article tells how you can make pots of plastic bottles in the form of a swan figurine and funny animal muzzles. This work does not require much effort and special expenses. Relying on this master class, everyone will be able to perform from an improvised means an original flowerpot for the cultivation of flowers or cultivated plants.

Swan-pot from a plastic bottle. Preparation of materials for its manufacture

Before you start the creative process, make sure that you have all the necessary tools and materials. We present their list:

• Plastic capacity of 5 liters;
• PET bottles made from milk with a volume of 300 milliliters of white color (about 20 pcs.);
• Piece of rubber hose or pipes of metal-plastic (60-70 cm);
• The wire is thick and thin;
• Large, strong scissors;
• candle;
• marker;
• Paint is black and red;
• Household gloves.

When all these materials are prepared, you can start making pots from plastic bottles.

We form a frame of garden sculpture in the form of a swan figurine

The five-liter capacity will be the basis of the flowerpots (the torso of the swan). Since the purpose of this product is to grow plants in it, it is necessary to make a container for the soil. A bottle of 5 liters is placed on one side, mark with a marker a circle of plastic cut. The opening should be marked from the bottom of the container and almost to the neck. Then we cut the plastic along the line with scissors. You get a bottle with a big hole on your side. Insert a thick wire into the hose or pipe. Place this construction through the neck into the container. The part that remained on the surface, arch, forming the swan neck of the figure. Do on the plastic two holes next to each other with an awl or burn it to them, preheating beforehand on the fire. A thin wire stretch through these holes, grasping the tube, and twist its ends from the outside. In this way, you secure the hose, which will make the plastic bottles stable.

We make a "feather" for a swan from a white PET container

With plastic containers from under the milk cut off the bottom and neck. Cases of bottles cut into length by 4-5 elements, approximately the same in width. On one side, cut the tips obliquely, giving the workpieces the shape of feathers. Next, mark them with a marker to place the cuts to make a "fringe" that visually transfers the structure of the pen. Scissors perform this design. To plastic pots from bottles in the form of birds looked even more believable, you need to "peru" to give a rounded shape. To do this, hold the blanks for several seconds over the candle. From heating, the plastic will begin to melt, and the "fringe" will be wrapped. On the finished feathers, make two holes. Using a thin wire, connect these elements in pairs.

For neck design figures perform feathers differently. With milk bottles, remove only the bottom. Cut them into 4-5 bands, leaving the joint at the neck. Next, proceed to the stage of attaching the "pen" to the frame of pots from plastic bottles

Decoration of garden sculpture "Swan" from PET containers

The pen, connected in pairs, fasten the wire around the body of the figure, beginning with the tail. Arrange the workpieces so that they are found one on top of the other. On the neck, wear plastic feathers, made from bottles with necks. They must also overlap one another. Next, the swan needs to form a head. One piece with a neck puncture in the thread area in two places. Through the holes, attach the hose to it with a wire. On the lid of the milk bottle, screw another one or two lids, placing them as parts of the pyramid. Screw the construction onto the neck of the last bottle on the neck. So you made a swan out of the lids.

Draw a black paint on the sculpture of the eye. Beak you will decorate with red color. The paint can be used acrylic, enamel for external work or any other waterproof. The plastic sculpture dries up quickly. Within an hour you can make homemade plastic bottles from bottles to use for their intended purpose - pour in them soil and plant plants. Or, even easier, put flowerpots in them with an already growing flower. Next, select a location on the site and set your decorative swan there. Such an original figure will please you and attract the attention of passers-by.

How to make small outboard plastic bottles: preparation stage

For flower pots of small form from PET-containers in volume of 1,5-2 liters it is possible to make outboard flowerpots. How to do it, read the next part of the article.

According to this description, it is possible to perform the product in the form of animal muzzles. But on the same principle are produced and pots with other decorative design or even without it. For work we prepare such materials:

• A bottle of plastic;
• acrylic paints;
• Paper template of the face of an animal (rabbit, bear, mouse, etc.);
• marker;
• rope;
• scissors.

Small flowerpots on pendants: making

Remove the label from the bottle, rinse the remaining adhesive with hot water. Trim the top of the container, it will not be required in the work. Put the pattern on the second half of the bottle, circle it with a marker. Trim the top of the product along the lines drawn, giving the kashpo a silhouette of the animal's head, so that the ears stick out. On the sides of the workpiece, pierce the holes through which the rope will be stretched. Painting with white acrylic paint. Further, when it dries, decorate the features of the face with other colors: eyes, nose, mouth, mustache, ears. Through the holes on the sides stretch the rope. Everything, plastic flower bottles (pendant) is ready. Place a pot with a flower in it and place it in the intended place.