Crafts from plastic bottles: ideas and workshops

Plastic bottles have long entered the everyday life of every person. This is due to their practical use. They do not fight, have small weight, any size, small cost. These characteristics have contributed to the displacement of glass in favor of plastic.

The counters are filled with milk, water, carbonated drinks, other useful liquids poured into plastic bottles. Every person making a purchase brings such products home. At the same time, garbage is gradually accumulating, among which bottles are the most inconvenient waste. You will not put them in the trash, a few pieces will occupy the entire volume. There is no need to store them, and they are scattered everywhere on the street. The problem of plastic has become global. However, there is a good way out, it is possible to use it properly. Unnecessary thing can be a subject of decor, material for all kinds of handicrafts.

Features plastic bottles as material for crafts

Containers are made of different materials, such as polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polypropylene, polystyrene. Substances have a long decomposition, which can reach five hundred years. However, these characteristics are taken into account in the practical use of raw materials. Even houses, sheds, greenhouses are built from it. Apply to country needs. Create crafts, taking into account the characteristics of the material, which are as follows:

• Raw pliable, well bends, cut. Such properties allow you to create different home, outdoor designs;
• Combining bottles of excellent sizes, it is possible to get products of any shape;
• In addition to the capacity, they also work with covers. You can make boxes from them, decorate furniture, create a panel, a picture, lay out garden paths;
• To work with the material suitable tools that are in every home: a knife, pen, felt tip pen, needle, glue, matches, stapler;
• Plastic does not differ in environmental properties, but is a relatively safe raw material that allows you to make toys from it.

Gift wrap

Homemade is done simply, the work does not take much time. It will allow to decorate a gift, a souvenir prepared for friends and relatives. Plastic containers are good material for packaging. Without much effort, you can beautifully pack a hotel, for example, put cupcakes in a bucket from under mayonnaise, removing the label and decorating it with ordinary paint.

If it is necessary to make an impression, then more complex products are made. From a bottle cut off on both sides, it is easy to imitate candy, while it can be filled with fruit and citrus, different sweets. Combining the two cropped bottoms, make a small box that resembles an apple. It is more difficult to create square, rectangular boxes for large gifts. This is suitable for lovers of crafts. To make a bright, decorated package, you will need:

• Plastic bottles;
• Scissors, stationery knife;
• A simple pencil, felt tip pen, measuring devices;
• Elements for decoration (ribbons, jewelry).

Lunch box

Visit the dining room every day, the cafe is expensive. We have to take to work food cooked at home. This often raises the question of what to carry it. There are many options, the best of which is the lunchbox. He will have on hand a full meal. Create a container from a plastic bottle is not difficult, while it will have the original look. Consider the following master class:

1. We take a six-liter empty bottle. It is advisable to choose a container with flat surfaces. With ribbed - worse cut, apply markup.
2. Marker do the markup as follows:
   - on one of the large planes in area, we draw a straight line parallel to the base, which runs before the start of the bottle bend to the neck;
   - along the edges of the dock with other planes, we draw lines down from both sides, not reaching the lower base by ten centimeters;
3. We outline a bottle on this level in a circle to the plane with the upper mark, then on top of the obtained line on each plane we make a semicircle up to four centimeters high.
4. By marking we cut off the future product with a stationery knife.
5. On three sides, where the semicircles were marked, we bend the ears, the fourth side, where the straight large plane was located, will serve as a cover. In the upper part of the middle we make a hole in which we fasten the elastic (eyelet).
6. Sew a button from the side opposite the cover. It will serve as a clasp.
7. The resulting product can be decorated with a special colorful scotch tape.

Universal basket

The basket, in the household sense, is intended for storage, carrying things. This is a wicker. It has the appearance of ordinary boxes, or it is distinguished by its rugged top. A very useful thing that can serve as hand luggage, a container for collecting dirty laundry, a home decor item. From plastic, you can weave such a product at home without spending significant funds. For this you need paper, ruler, glue, scissors, waste plastic material.

There are several ways that baskets are created. The most simple - weaving corners. For this, the bottles are cut from two sides and marked on them. By marking, from the resulting billet, cut into strips, which are woven together. If necessary, the basket makes the bottom, attach the handle.

The second method is chess weaving. Often requires an additional form, for example, a cardboard box. In this case, the strips are cut out differently; only one long tape is obtained from the bottle. Next, turn the cardboard box upside down and weave the bottom of the basket, and then proceed to its side edges.

Bags and shopping bags

Typing a couple of dozen plastic bottles, you can easily turn them into an original bag. It may consist of identical squares, rectangles, ovals, or combine different geometric shapes. The size of the blanks depends on the area of ​​the plane obtained from the bottle. Consider a simple bag creation workshop:

• We take several two-liter bottles of the same color and cut them from two sides;
• The resulting cylinders are leveled by folding them in half;
• From blanks you can cut out squares, the rectangles of which the maximum size will be 6x6 cm for the first and 10x6 cm for the second;
• We put the obtained figures on a regular sheet in a cell, and, retreating 0.5 cm from each side, with a soldering iron we burn holes in a circle with a stroke of one cell;
• Using a hook, we tie each side with threads;
• The resulting elements are joined with the same threads into a single plane, after which we attach the handles to it using special clips;
• The bottom of the bag and the side parts are prepared in the same way;
• Combining all the elements together, get the finished product.

Much more difficult is the case with the bag. To create it, the bottle should be dismissed into thin strips, from which later rather strong threads will be made. Will require special tools and equipment. Next, using the hook, knit mesh. For comfortable carrying on the handles you can wear flexible pipes.

Bathroom Crafts

The fantasy of man is limitless. Even in the bathroom can be useful plastic bottles, not only for storing water. You can make interesting crafts from them. Consider some original ideas:

• An interesting stand for toothbrushes and toothpaste. To do this, you need to cut the bottle on both sides, glue the upper and lower parts of it. Cut one wide and a pair of narrow necks with a different plastic container. Then glue them to the product, paint it. Put pasta in the wide neck, brushes in the narrow ones.
• Rug of covers. We need silicone glue, rubber base, degreasing agents, colorful covers. The process will take a little time. It is necessary to degrease the base and covers, smear the base with glue. Glue covers, you can lay randomly or create an ornament, drawing.
• Suspended shelf from the bottle. To do this, you need eight five-liter bottles to get the design in 2 rows of 4 cells. Cut off their upper part. If there are labels on the container, we remove them. Next on the elements located at the edges, we make holes at the top and bottom of the bottles so that they match. We glue the plastic container into the holes, set up the ropes in the holes, stretch them along the analog of the hanging swing.

You can also make: a basket for storing dirty laundry; a mirror framed with cut-off bottoms of bottles painted in different colors imitating emoticons; decorative toys in the form of fish, ships.

Ideas for organizers

From a small plastic bottle you can make a nice organizer for the office. Depending on the type of container, it may be a desktop or wall version. Do not rush to get rid of empty jars of shampoo. Bright plastic can be a raw material for a funny organizer. First, it is necessary to cut the neck of the bottles as close as possible to the opening part, to outline the places for future figure cuts. Cutting plastic on one side with a fence, you can make a funny monster. The decor will suit the most diverse - fabric, foil, paper. Any loose adhesive can be used. Hanging organizer attached to the wall on the double-sided tape.

You can create order on your desktop using a spacious and convenient multi-cell organizer. We make it out of six large plastic bottles out of any non-toxic liquid. Better if the plastic is tight. We begin work with the division of all bottles into two parts. The upper halves with a cover set aside, we will not need them. Cylindrical containers are placed in two rows and wrapped around the perimeter of any piece of beautiful fabric. The bottom of the organizer can be closed with a rectangular segment or left as is. For the decoration of the upper edge, you can use lace, beautiful laces, satin ribbons.

The height of all containers for the organizer with cells must be the same. If the sections come out different, they need to be trimmed.

Paper box

For storage papermans, sheets A3, wrapping paper, you can use ordinary plastic bottles. To make an original cylindrical box, you will need two pet containers with lids, scissors, a rectangular piece of cardboard, a glue gun, acrylic paints and multi-colored clips for decoration.

On both sides of the cardboard it is necessary to make holes in the shape of the covers and glue the blank with beautiful paper. Cover the caps with a spray can and glue them to the holes in the cardboard. While the stand dries, you can do the base box for the papers. We cut off the upper parts of the bottles, glue the pieces of adhesive tape in a chaotic manner and decorate with acrylic. After drying the paint and removing the scotch, you get the original space pattern. The rim of the cylinder can be decorated with colorful clips. We fix the finished boxes on the stand with hot glue.

Plastic bottle jewelry

Recycling plastic is a kind of contribution of each person to nature conservation. Empty containers of any size can be used as raw materials for original jewelry. There are many simple ideas that can unleash the creative potential of novice needlewomen. The following decorations from pet bottles look beautiful:

• Exquisite necklace. This masterpiece is created from pieces of transparent, colored plastic, candles, wire and beads. Cut out flowers from the bottles must be heated over the fire, wrap the edges with forceps. On the wire we string beads and two multi-colored elements. A composition of simple parts is symmetrically and tightly attached to the base of the necklace.
• Suspension. From a green or blue beer bottle, you must cut out three different squares, from 1 cm to 3 cm, and give them the shape of a flower. Every detail we put on the button and melt the edges. We connect the details and fasten a beautiful bead. In the next step, we cut a drop of the suspension, pierce the holes around the perimeter and weave it in beads. Apply blue forget-me-not to the base and connect with narrow tape.
• Bracelet. The size depends on the diameter of the bottle. Cut the workpiece into rings and melt the sharp edges on the iron. For decoration, you can use any fabric, beads, textile animal figures.

Casket apple

Due to the shape of the bottom, the plastic bottle is great for making decorative handicrafts - apple caskets. It can be used to store useful things or as a decoration of the garden plot.

To create such a decoration, you will need two bottoms from bottles of the same color and two plastic rings - 5 cm and 1 cm wide. We cut out leaflets from the green container and scratch the veins. With a heated awl, we pierce one of the bottoms, insert a narrow strip and detail with leaves. Artificial stalk fix glue. Then we connect the two halves and fix it with tape on both sides. The edges of the decorative box are pasted over with satin ribbon. So that the parts are not lost, you can fasten them with a cord or thread.

Butterflies for decor

The lack of bright colors in the interior can be successfully restored with the help of decorative needlework. Suitable and affordable material for creative activities - a plastic bottle. Elegant butterflies made from plastic will complement any outdoor composition.

The first step is to get rid of the top and bottom of the bottle. We will work only with the cylinder. We straighten the plastic with an iron through the paper and cut a butterfly according to a pre-circled pattern. The blank is ready for painting. With a felt-tip pen, we make the markup and paint it with paint on the glass. With the help of wire and beads can be made legs and antennae.

Flowers and Bouquets

It is possible to create flower compositions and bouquets from any plastic container. Jars from an actimel, eggs from a kinder of surprises, pet packaging from juices and ordinary drinks bottles will do.

From several prepared halves with a neck, a beautiful bouquet of daisies is obtained. Make it very easy. Plastic blanks should be cut into thin strips and twist each element with scissors to half. To give the flower volume, you can separate the twisting parts of all parts and glue them in the center.

An excellent flower meadow will come out of plastic containers from chocolate eggs. We cut off the central strip from the multicolored halves, adjust the products to one size. In each half we make a hole, we form a toothed rim. The stem of a bright tulip will be the cocktail tube, and the leaves will be pieces of plastic juice packaging. Ready-made flowers can be placed on a stand, emitting a glade or in a decorative vase, a wine bottle. You can also make a beautiful needle bed.

Decorative flowerpots

Old five-liter bottles can be used as pots for flower pots or for storing household utensils. In order for a new suburban interior item to have an attractive appearance, it needs to be refined. You can simply decorate with foil, shiny powder or colored paper, or you can use an interesting technique of weaving food bags.

At the bottom of the water container we make vertical stripes, no more than 2 centimeters thick. We pass the prepared polyethylene yarn between the strips of the bottle in a checkerboard pattern. If irregularities appear in the process of working with unusual material, they can be removed by melting with a lighter. Interesting pots can be left on the windowsill or hang on the wall, passing the ribbon between the weave.

Decorative vases

There are many options for the manufacture of flowerpots from plastic bottles. Suspended products are made from a closed 2-liter container, simply by cutting a hole and hanging it horizontally. They are convenient to plant flowers or seedlings.

For the manufacture of outdoor floor vase will require a little more effort. From the whole five-liter bottle separate the bottom, about 5 cm, set it on the ground. We turn the rest of the structure upside down and fasten the closed lid to the stand or plate. At the bottom you need to make several small holes to eliminate the stagnation of moisture in the soil. You can decorate the budget pot with any paint.

We use bottles for games

Plastic empty bottles can not only create jewelry, crafts, flower arrangements, but also functional equipment for sports games. Plastic packaging is lightweight and safe, can be involved in moving and quiet activities. You can play with it in the following games:

• Bowling. The game will require a ball, a tape for a fence and several liter bottles. The pins are placed two meters from the border and try to knock down. Bottles can be left transparent or painted on the inside with acrylic paints;
• Catch the ball. You can make a toy from the cropped part of the bottle with a twisted neck. From foamed rubber or cardboard we make petals and glue them to the cut. Lid clamp one end of the thread, and the other fastened to a light ball. Суть игры - толчком подбросить мяч и поймать пластиковой ловушкой-цветком;
• Бросание колец. Интересная групповая игра для детей. The main element of the design is plastic bottles filled with water. They serve as rods for throwing rings.

Kids toys

Creating bottle animal figurines is an exciting activity for children and adults. From the cylinders and trimmed lower parts get charming penguins in caps. Details need only be folded and painted. From the bottom of the bottle you can make a turtle. It is necessary to impose a plastic blank on the cardboard shape, fasten it with a beautiful thread. The intersection of laces on the shell can be hidden by a flower or butterfly.

You can make a torso of a crocodile, a hedgehog, a large bee, a cat or a swan out of two plastic bottles. Taking into account the peculiarities of the toy, we cut the packaging into parts, we join with tape. For the bee and the crocodile, only parts of the neck and cork for the legs will be needed. The wings of an insect are made of paper or plastic straightened with an iron. For hedgehog needles suitable foil. The craft frame can be decorated using papier-mâché technique or left transparent.

Furniture for dollhouse

Upgrade a dollhouse is easy and absolutely free. For the manufacture of a miniature dining room will require several bottles of 0.5 liters, cups, a little bit of textiles and bonding material. Chairs dolls do from the bottoms of the bottles, cutting curly back. We fill the container with cotton wool, turn it over and decorate it with a fabric cover. The little table can be made of the smoothed square piece of plastic. Bend the edges, fix the tape on the inside. The legs will be matches stuck in lumps of clay.

Toy shower cabin for dolls can be made from a plastic cylinder. We cut a part of the bottle, visually divide it into four parts, fold one with a fork and work it out well. It will be the door for little men. The stand can be made of cardboard or a straightened piece of plastic. We fasten parts with a glue gun.

Candlesticks for comfort

Decorative candlesticks can be made from glass containers or plastic. The second option is equally functional and safe. Create a beautiful decor for comfort can be from the bottom or top of the bottle. Cut off the part with the neck, set on a stand, decorate with non-combustible materials. It can be natural stones, beads, wire. This product fits the usual elongated candle.

From the bottom of the bottle you can make a candle holder in the form of a tablet. We fill the tank with flour, colored sand or fill it with water, put the light in the center. To make an original decorative candlestick for a straight candle, you will need to connect two plastic necks and fix them. On sections cut the petals and circle their outline with a black marker.

Christmas decorations

You can decorate the Christmas tree at home, the walls of the entrance, or use them as a street decor with simple plastic decorations. Plastic material is in good contact with all types of paints, sharp objects, easily cut with a knife and glued. By the New Year, be sure to try to make the following toys:

• Snowflake. It will take two identical bottoms of the bottle. We join them with scotch tape and decorate them with various patterns using paints or toothpaste. The seam can be hidden under the satin ribbon. You can hang it on a Christmas tree or make a turntable;
• Cone. We will use a brown beer bottle. Cut flowers of different sizes and string them on a fishing line. If desired, the edge can be lit with a cigarette lighter;
• Icicle. We will work with a rectangular piece of the bottle. Tightly wrap it on a pencil, hold for a few minutes. Plastic beautifully curled spiral. For decoration you can use sparkles, satin ribbon.

Ceiling lamps and fixtures

There are many workshops on the manufacture of ceiling lamps for lamps of varying complexity. Some of them imply skills in working with such material. Inexperienced craftsmen should start with simple crafts. The lampshade is made from the top of a five-liter bottle. A brightly painted group of plafonds hanged at different levels will make the interior fun and fabulous.

The bottle can not only be dome-shaped, but also assembled from several parts, for example, from bottoms or sliced ​​autumn fringe. A real masterpiece is a huge chandelier-sun from whole bottles arranged like rays.

Furniture

To make functional furniture, you need more than a dozen empty bottles. Before you start work, you need to think about the design, prepare the frame and bonding material. You can make your own bed, armchairs, a small cabinet. Since each piece of furniture has its own characteristics, it must be designed taking into account the frequency of use. It is very easy to make an ottoman by performing the following steps step by step:

1. We choose the central bottle and make an incision in its widest part;
2. We place in the opening the neck of another container;
3. We continue to collect the structure until we reach the optimal height;
4. Fix the workpiece tape;
5. Create several similar parts;
6. We join with a scotch tape a round construction;
7. Wrap the product with foam rubber and any cloth.

It is not necessary to firmly sew fabric to the ottoman. Over time, it will wear out, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to wash the entire structure.

Pictures of the covers

Many talented craftsmen create amazing products from scrap materials. Pictures of the covers can be seen not only in modern interiors, but also on the streets of major cities with a call to preserve nature. To begin the creation of such beauty is necessary with the selection of the basis. Suitable plywood or cardboard. Transferring to a kind of canvas drawing. We prepare multi-colored covers and glue.

You can fill the picture with different lids. Move better from the center of the main figure. Lastly, we lay out the background, fix the material with a spoon. If there are no covers of the desired color, suitable size can be simply painted.

Crafts for giving

Plastic packaging can serve not only as a decorative material for furnishing the interior of a dacha, but also an indispensable, affordable helper in a garden. You can make an original, and most importantly, functional greenhouse from tightly packed containers. In this design, you can easily grow seedlings. To save space, sprouts can be placed in vertically suspended bottles on the wall. Planted in the ground plants will continuously receive moisture, if next to put a homemade design for drip irrigation of practical plastic.

Creating vertical beds from bottles

Great idea for small household plots. You can grow plants in suspended plastic structures directly on the fence or hangers. To create the beds fit any two-liter containers. The easiest way is to cut a bottle in half with a tightly screwed cap. In the upper part of the soil is laid and placed the plant, for example, a special variety of strawberries. The neck is laid in the bottom element, which serves as a storage device for moisture. The assembled module is wound with wire to the frame.

To make a vertical bed, you need to cut a large hole on one side of the bottle, and to make holes for drainage on the other. Through the bottom and neck thread the rope and fall asleep ground. The design is mounted to a vertical surface only in finished form. With improvised beds, it is possible to equip all the walls in the greenhouse, observing the zoning by grades.

Garden decor

It is possible to decorate a personal plot with stylish and inexpensive hand-made articles from plastic bottles. At the children's playground, near the curb, you can place a giraffe made from several cylinders. All parts are tightly connected and fixed with glue. For the body using a six-liter container, for a few liter legs. Sand is poured into the bottles at the base of the feet. The tail is made of wire and a heated strip of plastic. Ostrich, donkey and other exotic animals are collected on the same principle. You can complete the picture with a palm tree from the bottle, with different wheels.

To decorate flower beds and terraces, you can make a few pigs-pots. On the one side of the six-liter bottle, we cut out a large rectangle - this will be the body of the pig. For the ears, we use the curved parts of one-liter containers. We paint pots in pink color, we draw a penny and eyes. Soil lay out before planting.

Bird feeders

You can benefit from nature by making a bird feeder in various ways and from the most amazing materials. A plain plastic bottle with a slotted window is the easiest way to feed the birds. Two adjacent small bottles can be made bunker crafts. If you hang the container vertically, you can increase the area for grain and feed several birds at the same time.

The most convenient and practical trough can be made from a large plastic container. It is necessary to make windows on all sides, paste over the tape with tape or sing it with a cigarette lighter. Lightweight construction can be done by putting a piece of plywood on the bottom.

Conclusion

Plastic bottles are one of the most affordable materials. In each house, many empty containers are periodically collected, which can be used with benefit. Original colors and various sizes make it possible to manufacture bright handicrafts, jewelry, multifunctional items. Due to the strength and durability of plastic, all products long retain an attractive appearance.