Master class on the creation of palm trees from plastic bottles - photos and videos

Many owners of suburban areas are trying to decorate the homestead territory. For this, figurines from gypsum are often used. However, in recent years, handicrafts from improvised, often junk materials have become increasingly popular. Products from plastic bottles have won special love from the masters. The craftsmen create from their own hands a variety of compositions, including exotic trees.

Bottles from bottles: a variety of options

Decorate your home can be various handicrafts made on the basis of plastic bottles. This solution simultaneously solves 2 problems - recycling of garbage and decoration of the territory. With the help of this handy material, you can decorate the flower beds. The crooks also create from it:

• stuffed animals;
• curly flowers;
• owls;
• sparrows;
• trees.

Out of the raw material, original voluminous flower compositions, decor for the design of mirror frames, unusual pots, plants, seals are obtained. Through such debris you can make cute and funny seals, which will become a visiting card of the garden.

However, in recent years, unusual plastic palm trees have become very popular. There are several technologies for the production of tropical wood. In any case, the composition is not ordinary and catchy.

Palm of plastic bottles: step-by-step instruction with a photo on the creation of the stem of the trunk

Based on the photo and step-by-step instructions, it will be quite easy to create a palm tree with your own hands. You can involve children and all household members in the process, as it is truly fascinating and interesting. For work you will need to prepare:

• not less than 100 pieces of plastic bottles of brown and green color;
• a candle;
• knife;
• wire;
• iron pin or reinforcement;
• scissors.

On a note! To create an extravagant tree, you can use material and other shades. If there is no raw material of the required color, it is worth using transparent bottles, which are then easy to paint.

Optimum use of capacity of 1.5-2 liters. From them the design of the most natural appearance is obtained. Step 1 - First, the trunk of the palm tree is prepared. To do this, brown containers are used. With a knife they are cut in the middle. The lower fragment is recommended to do a little more. There is nothing to throw out. Everything will be used in the work.

Step 2 - Half with the neck is cut. It is necessary to do this in eight places. Cuttings are performed until the area of ​​the vessel is narrowed. Step 3 - A petal forms from each fragment obtained. It is optimal to give each part the shape of a triangle. At the bottom it is necessary to make a bend, after which it is necessary to open from them original flowers. Step 4 - Fragments with the bottom will need to be cut according to the same principle. In the middle of each detail it is still necessary to make a hole with a diameter equal to the size of the neck.

On a note! To work with plastic was easier, it is recommended to use a hot knife.

A palm of bottles with our own hands: we make foliage

After the foundation is ready, you can proceed to create foliage. Drawing on a master class, the work will not seem complicated. To do this, use green bottles. Step 1 - Cut the bottom of the bottles and neck. Step 2 - Moving from below, you need to cut the workpiece into equal parts with the scissors. Must receive at least 3-4 fragments. At the same time, it is not necessary to reach the very edge. It is optimal to leave the edge 2-3 cm wide. The fragments must have a base.

Step 3 - Forming sheets. The lower parts of the incisions need to be slightly twisted to make them round. In the field of the neck, it is recommended to narrow the fragments, after which they must be straightened on an even surface. Step 4 - All the big details have to be cut on each side. The center should remain 2 cm. Scissors should be placed along an oblique trajectory. The incisions must go to the narrowed center from the sides that have been rounded.

Note! To make the composition lush and voluminous, each strip must be unbent one up and down.

How to make a palm from plastic bottles: video with assembly of blanks

When all the fragments for the palm are prepared, you can start assembling the composition yourself.

On a note! The iron pin or polypropylene tube is ideal for the rod. The main thing is that the diameter should be small, since all the workpieces need to be fastened to this material.

After selecting the rod and forming the elements of a plastic exotic tree, it is possible to assemble the composition. It is recommended to insert fragments in turn. The details are fixed downward with a neck. First, there are larger parts, and then smaller ones.

When most of the trunk is ready, you can go to the foliage. At the height between the brown elements you need to insert the petals. It is recommended to work in staggered order. The first fragment of green color should be fixed on the pipe with adhesive tape. Then the leaves also need to be fastened in turn so that the spaces are securely hidden.

Decorate the finished palm tree with balls that resemble coconuts, or make bananas from improvised materials.