How to make a scoop from a plastic bottle. Crafts from plastic bottles (115 photos): we make original decorations with our own hands
Very practical and handy sandbox accessories. Made in five minutes from a plastic bottle. Your child will really like a transparent bucket and a scoop, especially if he decorates them with his own hands.
Bucket and scoop
Preparation method:
Both the bucket and scoop are made from the same bottle.
- First, cut off the bottom of the bottle. With a knitting needle or scissors heated over a fire, we make holes on both sides for a wire handle. Insert and fasten the handle. We stick stickers or translators. If the edge of the bucket turned out to be sharp, you can wrap it with ordinary electrical tape.
- The scoop or spatula is made from the rest of the bottle. The upper part of the bottle with the cork will be the handle, and cut out the middle part of the bottle smoothly under the scoop. It can also be glued with stickers, just try to glue it closer to the handle, otherwise they will quickly peel off on the working part of the scoop.
It is advisable to choose even bottles for these sand accessories. In our version, the bottle was embossed only at the bottom and near the cork, and the middle, from which the spatula was cut, was even.
Hello dear gardeners! The topic of today's material is interesting to everyone and always relevant. It is probably familiar to many, but still I hope to surprise you.
Today, everything is sold in plastic bottles: water, lemonade, milk ... Of all the garbage that we accumulate, the most voluminous are the bottles: you put one in the trash can - and that's it: consider half a bucket occupied. And what is it like in the country! In many holiday villages, there are simply no garbage containers. There is only one way out: either take all this “good” to the city, to the nearest container, or somehow use what cannot be processed in country conditions.
Logical question: how plastic bottles can be used on the farm to be both useful, and convenient, and beautiful? That's what we'll talk about.
By the way, information sheet: plastic decomposes in water 100 to 500 years(according to different sources and depending on the type of plastic).
We have few factories that process garbage, so people themselves find interesting uses for simple and seemingly completely unnecessary things.
Plastic bottles in garden decor
If you wish, you can create such beauty - the neighbors will envy! Want to decorate your garden without spending too much? See if there are empty plastic bottles in your country house.Beautiful neat flower beds
Plastic bottles can be used to protect flower beds. The benefits here are obvious: flower beds and beds are not washed away by showers, they always look neat and pleasing to the eye. I think it looks great ... How to make such a flower bed?
Of course, you will need a lot of bottles (preferably the same size). We pour sand into them, close them and begin to build a "palisade". Bottles will have to be dug a little into the ground to give them stability. After the flower bed is fenced, paint the resulting border in any color. In principle, you can do this in advance - as you wish. But it seems to me that it is more convenient to paint an already finished fence than each bottle individually. And dark plastic containers can be left as they are, it also looks pretty. An example of the performance and opinions of summer residents on this method of using bottles, see the materials:
Flowers, palm trees, butterflies and other "tropics"
The beauty is indescribable. Turn on your imagination, wake up your fantasy and create all kinds of flowers in your garden that will never fade or rot)).
To make it clearer how to make something out of bottles (for example, flowers), let's look at an example.
What may be needed:
- plastic bottles of different colors;
- scissors, awl, thick threads;
- PVA glue and "Master";
- acrylic paints;
- candle;
- wire;
- beads, beads - for decoration.
The stem is best made from thick wire. The stamens are made of thin wire, on which beads can be strung. It remains only to assemble the whole thing, fastening it with glue, using an awl and wire if necessary. Just look how beautiful the result is!
Cute animals for the garden
No one is made from bottles. The simplest, perhaps, is this. All you need is to cut and bend the ears, attach the tail and color it beautifully. However, there are crafts and very complicated ones. For example, animals from fairy tales. I will not describe their production step by step, otherwise the article will turn out to be of galactic proportions. I'd rather just show the video from the slides. From the photo, in principle, you can see what and how to do, it's not difficult to figure it out.How do you like these animals? I think they look great! And if you involve children in the process, they will be delighted!
The tools used are the same as listed above. Paints - not necessarily acrylic. But they dry faster, which is a plus. And they hardly smell. True, they are also different.
Air curtains for the garden
These crafts captivated me precisely with their lightness and unusualness. I’ll specially collect bottles and make such a curtain in my yard! I think you can use bottles of different sizes.
The bottoms will come in handy, but you can also cut the leaves! From a distance it is not very clear what these transparent flowers are hanging on, but the idea is all the more interesting. We look ...
As you can see, you can fasten the flowers with threads, you can glue them to the base (for example, plastic wrap). I think this option is perfect for a gazebo. And it will be light, and the rain will not penetrate. There are a lot of options for curtains from bottles. But I still liked the first one better, and you?
Lamps and chandeliers for the garden
Actually, why not? Buying a lamp for the garden is unprofitable, just hanging a light bulb is ugly. A lamp made of plastic bottles is an excellent option for lighting a garden plot.Such chandeliers are not ashamed to hang in the house.
Main rule: do not allow plastic parts to come into contact with the light bulb, otherwise they may melt. True, you can use an energy-saving lamp, it heats up less - up to +50 ... + 60 ° C.
Girls! If you don’t know how to attach the light bulb itself, leave this matter to husbands, brothers or fathers ... From you - creativity, from them - a lighting element \u003d)))
bottle garden path
I recently wrote about garden paths in an article. But there was nothing about bottles, only about their caps. It turns out that a good path is obtained from the bottoms, along which it is pleasant to walk barefoot. note: the bottoms are laid on loose sand, the master must make an effort to fill them with sand. This will prevent their deformation in the future when you walk around them.Household supplies from plastic bottles
That's where the expanse is ... If you think that garden decor from bottles is not for you, perhaps you will be interested in useful things that can be made from them.Wash basins and boxes
The easiest option is to hang upside down the bottle, and when you need to wash your hands, just turn off the cap a little. It is better to cut off the bottom of the bottle and make it removable so that it is more convenient to pour water. There is nothing complicated here, even a child can handle it. Such a washbasin can be hung on a tree or somewhere else. By the way, use this idea when you go on a picnic - it's very convenient, and your hands are always clean.
It is advisable to make a homemade washbasin closeable so that leaves, insects and other debris do not get into the water. There are also more complex designs. You can, for example, embed a hose with a tap into a large bottle. But this is to be quite convenient.
Or you can make a box for bags, napkins or something similar out of a bottle.
Scoops and shovels
Making a scoop with your own hands is easy. Take the bottle and mark the shape of the future scoop with a marker. Next is the case of scissors. Well, or a knife.
Slippers
These are shoes that wear out pretty quickly. Therefore, durable and beautiful slippers on the farm will always come in handy. No, no, don't think that bottle slippers are just scoops with heels =))). I would like to see it ... Although there are simple options too. For example, this one:A more complex version looks like this:
Of course, it is not necessary to make such bouquets. But in general, slippers are excellent. In order not to slip, and the leg feels comfortable, you can experiment with “layers”. How to make holes? Yes, even a hole punch! And if there are men in the house, let them solve this problem.
And from plastic bottles you can make very useful large containers for household needs:
Devices for repelling rodents and insects
There are many different ones. I will only talk about the mole repeller and the mosquito trap.Let's start with the trap
Make it very easy. Cut off the top of the bottle and insert it into the bottom with the neck down. The design must be darkened with paper or cloth - mosquitoes will be more likely to fly there.
Pour into the bottom of the bottle as bait sugar yeast syrup. It is easy to make: pour hot water, add sugar and yeast, stir and cool. Such a trap will attract not only mosquitoes, but also bees, wasps, flies.
You can put the structure on the window or hang it - this is optional. It needs to be cleaned once a week.
By the way, I don’t know why the syrup is brown in the photo - maybe from cane sugar?))) Or maybe it’s kvass. By the way, yes - insects also fly to kvass. Somehow they left a jar of kvass on the porch, so many midges flocked there!
Wind vane repelling moles and more
These devices were described in detail in the article. There is also a video - you can see how to make such a design, how it works. Ask what scares him? At the bottom of the bottle, it is advised to pour beads, balls from bearings and other “rattling” elements. They say that the sound that this windmill makes is not tolerated by moles. Who has moles? Try it, then unsubscribe here, agreed?
Yes, the axis on which the craft is attached must be stuck into the ground - I think you understand.
About the fact that some use bottles, I think you already know. The bottom and throat of the bottle are cut off - a cylinder is obtained, which is dug into the ground. Such a cover protects the root system of a young plant from attacks by a bear.
Tool boxes
For these purposes, rectangular bottles are more suitable. For example, from under machine oils. However, there are also water bottles of this shape. Containers are made simply: mark with a marker, cut. Everything =))
These boxes can be very useful in the household.
Device for deep watering plants and their night heating
Some plants do not like surface watering. Therefore, my mother waters some beds with plastic bottles.You need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, but not completely, to get something like a cap. We tear the earth on the side of the plant, make a small trench and put pebbles there. Drainage is needed so that water does not erode the soil. Then we put the bottles with their necks down and lay them on the ground. Now, to water the plant, all you need is to open the lid and pour the right amount of water. Here, look how our summer residents use plastic containers.
Some people dig in containers upside down, but then you need to make holes in the bottle so that the water leaves.
As for heating plants, you can simply pour water into bottles and put them over the plant. In the sun, the water will heat up and will give off heat to the earth for some time. I know that glass bottles are also dug into the ground, but today we are talking about plastic.
Garden knee pads
It is generally contraindicated for many people to work bending over, this is especially true for hypertensive patients. But how then to weed the garden? Yes, I'll tell you about the knee pads. If you work on your knees, your head will no longer be down, therefore, your well-being will not suffer.All you have to do is find the right bottles, fit them to your knees and cut the knee pads to the desired shape. Then attach the ties. Everything is simple.
Flower pots
And what only pots from plastic bottles do not exist! Some simply pour earth into bottles, others make real masterpieces. The possibilities are endless. What's good: the bottles can always be painted in any color and hung anywhere. For example, what do you think of these ideas?
Very cute, and you will not immediately guess what the pots are made of.
Candlestick
I made my first candlestick from a plastic bottle back in elementary school, at a labor lesson. It's simple. Cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle (about half the bottle). Then cut the part with the bottom into strips and bend them. And inside you insert the part with the neck. She will hold the candle. In general, it's easy.
But this is only one of the options, you can connect two necks.
Broom
Instead of a thousand words, I will show one video.Why buy a broom when you can make one in half an hour?
Funnels
On the farm, from time to time there is a need to pour something from one container to another. Not necessarily something edible - it happens, and diluted fertilizer, and poison for Colorado beetles ... Do not use a funnel from the kitchen for such purposes! And you can make a funnel from a bottle at any time.
Bird feeders
We fed the birds in these all winter. Bottles used large, 5-liter. I cut out windows in them, made small “thresholds” and “porches”. So that it was comfortable for the birds to sit, and the snow did not sweep inside. Another plus is that it is convenient to hang such feeders on trees, they already have handles.
Buildings made from plastic bottles
These are not funnels with pots, but something more serious. Entrepreneurial people can build something out of anything. Plastic bottles, for example, make excellent greenhouses and gazebos.Greenhouses from plastic bottles
A finished medium-sized greenhouse costs more than 15 thousand rubles. I know for sure, because I was interested in this issue. Add to that the cost of assembly. Not everyone can figure out what's what. But there is an alternative that is not inferior in performance and will cost you ... only 500-700 empty plastic bottles! =))The plastic from which the bottles are made is 20 times stronger than dense polyethylene. It keeps the temperature perfectly, does not melt in the sun and can last for decades. Greenhouse made of plastic bottles there are a number of advantages:
- she is cheap;
- durable;
- easily repaired;
- light in weight, it can be rearranged if necessary;
- looks pretty cute.
I took a look at different sites and realized that there are 2 main ways to use plastic bottles in construction:
- The bottom of each bottle is cut off. A thin rail is taken and all the bottles are strung on it. Get ready-made building strips.
- The bottom and neck of the bottles are cut off. Then what happened - the middle part - is cut along. It turns out a rectangular piece of plastic. We iron it with an iron (necessarily through hard paper) to level it. From such sheets we sew more sheets. Overlap preferably. You can use an awl; for fastening parts - cord thread or wire. It is not recommended to sew with thread or fishing line - the seams will quickly rot and disperse.
When the sheets (slats) are ready, you can make a frame. It is made from ordinary wooden bars with a hammer and nails. Form - any. You can - a house, you can - a triangle. And then we attach what we made from bottles to the frame. In the first case, the planks should be placed as close to each other as possible so that the wind does not walk. Well, you can always stick it with tape. In general, you'll figure it out!)) And in the second case, ready-made plates from plastic bottles are simply nailed to a wooden frame.
The important thing is the roof. In general, a good frame is able to withstand a rather heavy weight, but knowledgeable people advise covering the roof not with bottles, but with polycarbonate sheets. Or something to strengthen for the winter - suddenly it will pile up a lot of snow. Here is another interesting post
Two useful things could be made from one plastic bottle at once. See for yourself.
1. Scoop from a plastic bottle
2. Cell phone holder
Once again I was at the market and saw an interesting thing. You yourself have noticed a hundred times. Everything is very simple and banal, but when you need to do it yourself, you won’t remember and you won’t do it.
Scoop cut out of a plastic bottle for picking up a small amount of bulk materials! As soon as I got home, I got to work. We take a plastic bottle, scissors and a marker. With a marker, mark the borders along which you need to cut, as shown in the photo, and forward.
We do not throw away the cap from under the plastic bottle, but close the “neck” so that the collected bulk material does not spill out.
This is how we made a scoop for scooping up sugar, cereals, etc.
That's not all.
Cell phone holder.
See for yourself.
The rest of the plastic bottle also found its use.
Carefully correct the cut edges so that there are no irregularities and it looks beautiful.
Cut out a round hole. Here is the cell holder. We hang the holder for charging and stick it into the socket, and put the phone inside. Very comfortably. Recomend for everybody.
If the holder is large, you can cut it out smaller - at your discretion, I left it like that.
This is how I made two useful items from one plastic bottle.
A cell phone holder can be made in a similar way from the top of a plastic bottle with a neck.
If we talk about the obvious, but about what we sometimes don’t even think about, it turns out that the average period of using a plastic bottle is only 10-15 minutes. However, the period of its complete decay in nature is about 300 years. Comparing such dates is difficult, but necessary. It is necessary to realize how long, after we have taken advantage of the "momentary weakness", nature will restore the natural balance. Although, in order to somehow “brighten up” such a significant difference in the period of use and disposal, you can give a “second life” to already used plastic bottles. In this article, we will just talk about what can be made from empty, used, plastic bottles.
How to make a greenhouse out of plastic bottles
You can make a greenhouse out of plastic bottles by planting the bottles in rows on the wire and putting these rows one to the other. Do not forget about the well-known method, when even small “pieces” of plastic are cut out of bottles, and then sewn into a large canvas. It is from this "canvas" that the walls and roof of the greenhouse are made.
How to make a pencil holder from a plastic bottle
The simplest thing that can be made from a bottle is an ordinary pencil holder. It is enough just to cut the bottle to the desired height and melt the edges, for example, on the surface of the iron.
How to make a drawing stamp out of a plastic bottle
It is important to have some imagination here. If you have one, then your plastic bottle can be a useful drawing tool.
How to make a toy out of a plastic bottle
You can shorten the bottle by cutting out a piece of plastic from the middle of it, and then fasten the top and bottom, decorating the resulting toy.
How to make a spoon out of a plastic bottle
This option of using a plastic bottle will come in handy on a hike or on a picnic when there is no spoon, but there is an extra plastic bottle.
How to make a case from a plastic bottle
It is very practical to use a plastic bottle when modifying it to a case where you can store various useful little things.
The lock can be poured in or sewn in, it depends on what seems more reliable and easier to you.
How to make a sprinkler from a plastic bottle
How to do without plastic bottles in the country. Here they are both a container for seedlings and material for greenhouses and even an irrigator for planting. It is enough to supply water through the neck of the bottle, while having previously made many holes in its walls.
How to make a feeder - dispenser from a plastic bottle
From two plastic bottles you can make a dispenser feeder for pets.
How to make a broom out of plastic bottles
You can even make a broom out of plastic bottles. To do this, we put the already loose bottle bodies one on top of the other, like leaves in cabbage, and then we fix them with the help of all the same elements from plastic bottles. Do not forget about the stalk and the broom is ready.
How to make a plastic bottle closure for a plastic bag
The neck and cork from a plastic bottle can be used as a shutter dispenser, together with a plastic bag. We pass the edges of the bag into the neck and twist the lid. If necessary, we unscrew and dispense bulk products through the neck of the former bottle.
How to make a scoop from a plastic bottle
If you have used bottles made of thick plastic, then with a little imagination and skill, you can make a good scoop.
How to make a phone holder from a plastic bottle
Practical pocket - the holder can be made from a plastic bottle if it is cut according to the photo below.
How to make a lamp out of a plastic bottle and plastic, disposable spoons
An unusual lamp can be obtained from a plastic bottle and disposable tableware (spoons).
How to make a vase out of plastic bottles
If you have patience, time and desire, then plastic bottles make good vases.
How to make slippers from plastic bottles
If you came to someone's bath and forgot slippers at home, then plastic bottles can make good disposable slippers.
How to make a washbasin from a plastic bottle
Well, everyone knows about the washbasin made of plastic bottles.
Of course, in fact, we have given only special cases, since there are many more real examples of the use of used plastic bottles. That is why we once again urge you to try to use what many consider to be garbage. Such decisions will help us save time, money, develop our imagination and logic, become a hobby for someone, and most importantly, support the ecology of our planet a little.
