Plastic is very affordable and pliable material that even a child can handle. Especially when it comes to the thin plastic, from which the bottles are made. Plastic hyacinth, carnations, lilies and lilies of the valley will decorate your personal plot, become a highlight of the garden or vegetable garden, and the process of their manufacture diversifies children's leisure and gives you pleasure.
Handmade flowers from plastic bottles with their own hands
Flowers from plastic bottles can be very diverse - as far as your imagination allows. In view of the fact that the plastic can easily be shaped and colored using scissors, awl, acrylic or gouache, the finished product will look a little like the original material - plastic bottles. Effective compositions of different sizes are suitable for decorating an interior, an entrance, a garden or a garden.
Lilies of the valley from plastic bottles: step by step instruction
Lilies of the valley is very simple to make from plastic bottles from kefir, yogurt or milk, since they usually have a matte white color. You can make a whole flower bed for a dacha from such floral arrangements, while it's completely free, as all the materials are at your fingertips. To do this, you need the following tools:
- Silo or Gypsy needles, depending on the scale of the composition;
- Wire of different thickness, flexible enough to be bent by hand;
- Plastic bottles of different sizes and colors.
- Acrylic colors or gouache.
Bottles from yoghurt actiumel are ideal for making buds, since they have snow-white rounded sides with smooth transitions.
Step-by-step instruction on manufacturing lilies of the valley from plastic bottles:
- To create a craft, take 5-7 bottles and cut them at a distance of 7-10 centimeters from the throat.
- Lower the bottom of the bottle and make a few cuts on the top in the direction of the neck from top to bottom, the width between the notches is equal to the width of the future petals.
- Round their edges and heat the part over the candle. When the plastic softens, bend the petals to the sides to make a bud.
- For the middle, you can use a circle of yellow plastic or a plastic lid from an egg kinder-surprise. The second half of the egg can be dyed with acrylic paint in green and make her sepals.
- Attach the buds to the thick wire-base using a green wire of smaller diameter. Instead of a thick wire, you can use a colored garden pin or a watering hose.
A ready-made craft can be used to decorate a street. Desktop composition of lilies of the valley can be created from large balls of polystyrene and a two-liter plastic bottle of green color. Do it not so long as a flower bed of lilies of the valley for a garden, the process takes no more than 2-3 hours. The bottle is cut across in the middle, making incisions towards the bottom and forming petals from them. Between the petals leave for 3-5 centimeters of plastic, it is cut into thin ribbons, twisted over the flame and threaded on them balls of foam at different heights. You can use live images for an example.
Plastic lilies for the garden: a master class
Water lilies make of white plastic, as a material for them you can use milk bottles or a dozen disposable spoons.
To make a bud, cut the bottles up to 7 centimeters from the neck, form rounded petals and shape them, slightly softening the plastic over the flame. You can use the middle part of the bottle, spread it on the plane and cut out the desired shape from the pattern, then under the influence of heat you will not need to unbend the petals, but, on the contrary, to collect them in the bud. You need a few such blanks, in the center of each of them make a hole with a hot on the fire. Through this hole a wire-stalk is threaded and bent into a loop at the end. To make the stem, cut a thin (2-3 mm) strip from a plastic bottle of green - do not necessarily cut it in half, work with scissors in a spiral. Next, wrap the wire with the tape, heating the plastic over the candle in passing, so that it will take better shape. To make curly flowers, wire with a green winding is twisted in different directions.
Photo of flowers from plastic bottles: video
Photos and pictures will prompt you new ways to create spectacular plastic artifacts and will provide you with inspirational ideas. It is not necessary to strictly follow the instructions, the master class only shows the production variant, whereas you can develop your style and use any tools and techniques that are convenient for you. Video tutorial, where you can see how to make plastic colors with your own hands, will help you to understand the nuances and avoid mistakes that are typical for beginners. The video explains step by step the process of making flowers from plastic, it can be used to conduct lessons for children, detailed description in pictures excludes all incomprehensible moments.