Do-it-yourself decorative elements made from plastic bottles will help add bright colors to your summer cottage. Crafts vary in degree of complexity, but always become the subject of attention of others. Many birds made from plastic bottles are made using a similar algorithm, only the outlines and details differ. Options for their manufacture will be discussed further.
Available materials and nuances of the design process
The creative imagination of a master is capable of creating a masterpiece from ordinary things. In addition to bottles, other available materials are used to decorate birds:
- Plastic canisters make an excellent base for the bird's body.
- Polyurethane foam helps to add the required volume.
- Styrofoam will help make the bird's head as close to the original as possible.
- Self-tapping screws, wire or glue are used to connect the parts together.
- The finishing of the bird's legs is carried out with a corrugated pipe, twine, or parts are cut out from plastic containers.
- Small dairy bottles help give the bird's thighs the desired shape.
- Moisture-resistant acrylic paints and anchor varnish transform the nondescript silhouette of the bird beyond recognition.
To cut and connect all this, you will need scissors, a stationery knife, a stapler, and an awl. This is the main list, which changes depending on the selected bird model.
Comment! The beauty of a craft is largely determined by the quality of the plumage. If you want to decorate your area with a spectacular bird, be patient to make a large number of small and large feathers.
For novice craftsmen, we can offer a simple step-by-step guide, where a peacock acts as a bird made from plastic bottles:
Advice! Preliminary filling of the body with sand will help to give stability to the bird's figure.
Making poultry using a rooster as an example
Having gained experience with easy crafts, you can move on to a more complex process. The proposed algorithm for making a rooster from plastic bottles will be an excellent guide for making other birds.
Available materials:
- plastic canister and 5 liter bottle;
- PVC pipe about 40 cm long;
- 1.5 liter containers for thighs - 2 pcs.;
- lots of fletching bottles.
Frame
Process of creation:
- The work begins with the formation of the bird's frame. The side of the plastic canister is cut and moved to the side.
- The pipe is given the desired shape, after which it is screwed with self-tapping screws to the body of the bird.
- The rooster's neck is made from a 5 liter plastic bottle rolled into a ball. Depending on the selected bird model, elements can be replaced with other parts. For example, another piece of plastic pipe would be perfect for a flamingo’s neck.
- The rooster's legs have a thickening at the top, bags made from 1.5 liter bottles will serve as thighs. For other birds, the volume of containers is selected in proportion to their figure. The elements put together represent a similar frame:
Head
The rooster's head is cut out of foam plastic. If it is difficult to cut out a whole figure with a comb and beard, you can prepare all the elements separately and then connect them with glue. Sometimes this part is also formed from a plastic bottle. To ensure that the foam blank can be easily painted in the future, the following measures are carried out with it:
- carefully processed with sandpaper;
- covered with acrylic putty;
- after the composition has dried, sand it again to give a smooth surface;
- Apply a layer of PVA glue.
Elements of the bird's head are decorated at the discretion of the master. Eyes can be painted with paints or finished parts can be fixed. Various crests and scallops are cut out of plastic or foam. The beak is often made from a thick plastic container (usually a shampoo container).
Plumage
The size of feathers varies not only among different birds, but also on the same figure:
- The back, sides and breast are usually decorated with medium-sized feathers.
- Smaller elements are cut out for the neck.
- The wings and tail are most often formed from long feathers.
Comment! Feather bottles are supported in the same color, so that after dyeing you get a uniform shade over the entire figure.
They begin to form the plumage from the thighs, fixing each subsequent row in such a way that the attachment point of the previous one is not visible. The work is carried out using wire, threading it into holes prepared with an awl, or with self-tapping screws.
After the legs, they move on to the rest of the body, leaving the back free, where the bird’s wings will be attached. In order for a rooster made from plastic bottles to stand firmly on its feet, it needs to have its paws made. The frame is made of rigid wire, which is subsequently fixed on a plastic pipe. Then the base is processed with a corrugated tube or twine.
The most difficult stage for many may be the formation of the wings and tail of a bird using plastic bottles. For these purposes, reinforcing mesh is usually used. The size of the base for the wings and tail is selected depending on the species characteristics of the selected bird. For example, peacock tail feathers can be mounted on an oval piece of linoleum. But the grid is a more common option. The elements are fixed with an overlap, each row covers the fastening of the previous parts.
The moment of complete assembly of all elements from plastic bottles can be carried out before or after applying paint. At the finish line they are painting. A bird with the same plumage throughout the body can be decorated after complete assembly. It is more convenient to paint the elements of the frame, tail and head separately, and then connect them using screws and wire.
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The versatility of plastic bottles allows you to make crafts of varying degrees of complexity. The same bird can be presented in different variations, and its production is not always a labor-intensive process.
Bright pink handsome flamingos will help add exoticism to the area. Guided by the algorithm proposed above, you can make a bird in a short time thanks to its large plumage. A variety of options are shown in the photo:
Another pretty bird of hot countries is the parrot. A lot here determines the originality of the coloring. The body made of plastic bottles can be trimmed with feathers or simply covered with paint. The complexity of feathers and tail is chosen at the discretion of the artist. Design methods are shown in the photo:
The owl or eagle owl, familiar to our regions, is another worthy garden decoration. An impressive beauty made from plastic bottles can take a lot of time.
For busy people, there is a simplified version of the night bird.
A peacock will help you get closer to the scenery of the royal court. The gorgeous tail of the bird will not leave anyone indifferent. It is up to the owner of the site to decide whether to make the peacock bright or white, to leave the tail folded or straightened. Or maybe you liked this firebird?
A chic dove will require perseverance and patience, for the production of which white plastic bottles will be useful. It is better to prepare the plumage on long winter evenings, when all work in the garden is suspended, so that by spring the area will be transformed with a new resident.
Which model of bird to choose is up to the craftsman to decide. The process of making any craft can be made easier by replacing jewelry-style parts with simpler elements made from plastic bottles.
Elena Dyachenko
Every summer in our city of Severodvinsk there is a traditional “Stroller Parade” dedicated to City Day.
This is not the first time our family has participated in such a large-scale, spectacular and family-uniting event. This year we decided to make a stroller" Firebird"Based on the fairy tale by Pyotr Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse".
Firebird my husband and I made it from plastic bottles and covered it with bright spray paint.
And I sewed costumes for fairy tale heroes for all the members of our support group. My two-year-old granddaughter Alyonushka suited the role of “The Little Humpbacked Horse”
Mom became "Mare". A bright suit was made for my niece" Firebirds"Alyonushka's grandfather reincarnated as Ivan the Fool,"
and I'm in "The Tsar Maiden". The rest of our group also wore beautiful costumes corresponding to the fairy tale.
After the parade of strollers, I decided to plant " Firebird" to the flowerbed located on the territory of the "Children's House", which I create every year.
Together with the children we plant seedlings.
Kids enjoy caring for plants, watering them, loosening the soil, and watching the plants grow.
In addition, the children get acquainted with the types of plants and their structure (flowers, grass, bushes, trees, and become familiar with the world of beauty. Also, with our own hands, my husband and I made figurines of caterpillars, frogs, ladybugs, snails, bees, grasshoppers, butterflies and other insects that children become familiar with during walks.
The firebird was a worthy decoration for the flower bed, which I called “The Cheerful Flower Garden,” and evoked pleasant emotions not only in children, but also in adults. Thank you for your attention.
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10/07/2017 219 ViewsDo-it-yourself decorative elements made from plastic bottles will help add bright colors to your summer cottage. Crafts vary in degree of complexity, but always become the subject of attention of others. Many birds made from plastic bottles are made using a similar algorithm, only the outlines and details differ. Options for their manufacture will be discussed further.
Available materials and nuances of the design process
The creative imagination of a master is capable of creating a masterpiece from ordinary things. In addition to bottles, other available materials are used to decorate birds:
- Plastic canisters make an excellent base for the bird's body.
- Polyurethane foam helps to add the required volume.
- Styrofoam will help make the bird's head as close to the original as possible.
- Self-tapping screws, wire or glue are used to connect the parts together.
- The finishing of the bird's legs is carried out with a corrugated pipe, twine, or parts are cut out from plastic containers.
- Small dairy bottles help give the bird's thighs the desired shape.
- Moisture-resistant acrylic paints and anchor varnish transform the nondescript silhouette of the bird beyond recognition.
To cut and connect all this, you will need scissors, a stationery knife, a stapler, and an awl. This is the main list, which changes depending on the selected bird model.
Comment! The beauty of a craft is largely determined by the quality of the plumage. If you want to decorate your area with a spectacular bird, be patient to make a large number of small and large feathers.
For novice craftsmen, we can offer a simple step-by-step guide, where a peacock acts as a bird made from plastic bottles:
Advice! Preliminary filling of the body with sand will help to give stability to the bird's figure.
Making poultry using a rooster as an example
Having gained experience with easy crafts, you can move on to a more complex process. The proposed algorithm for making a rooster from plastic bottles will be an excellent guide for making other birds.
Available materials:
- plastic canister and 5 liter bottle;
- PVC pipe about 40 cm long;
- 1.5 liter containers for thighs - 2 pcs.;
- lots of fletching bottles.
Frame
Process of creation:
- The work begins with the formation of the bird's frame. The side of the plastic canister is cut and moved to the side.
- The pipe is given the desired shape, after which it is screwed with self-tapping screws to the body of the bird.
- The rooster's neck is made from a 5 liter plastic bottle rolled into a ball. Depending on the selected bird model, elements can be replaced with other parts. For example, another piece of plastic pipe would be perfect for a flamingo’s neck.
- The rooster's legs have a thickening at the top, bags made from 1.5 liter bottles will serve as thighs. For other birds, the volume of containers is selected in proportion to their figure. The elements put together represent a similar frame:
Head
The rooster's head is cut out of foam plastic. If it is difficult to cut out a whole figure with a comb and beard, you can prepare all the elements separately and then connect them with glue. Sometimes this part is also formed from a plastic bottle. To ensure that the foam blank can be easily painted in the future, the following measures are carried out with it:
- carefully processed with sandpaper;
- covered with acrylic putty;
- after the composition has dried, sand it again to give a smooth surface;
- Apply a layer of PVA glue.
Elements of the bird's head are decorated at the discretion of the master. Eyes can be painted with paints or finished parts can be fixed. Various crests and scallops are cut out of plastic or foam. The beak is often made from a thick plastic container (usually a shampoo container).
Plumage
The size of feathers varies not only among different birds, but also on the same figure:
- The back, sides and breast are usually decorated with medium-sized feathers.
- Smaller elements are cut out for the neck.
- The wings and tail are most often formed from long feathers.
Comment! Feather bottles are supported in the same color, so that after dyeing you get a uniform shade over the entire figure.
They begin to form the plumage from the thighs, fixing each subsequent row in such a way that the attachment point of the previous one is not visible. The work is carried out using wire, threading it into holes prepared with an awl, or with self-tapping screws.
After the legs, they move on to the rest of the body, leaving the back free, where the bird’s wings will be attached. In order for a rooster made from plastic bottles to stand firmly on its feet, it needs to have its paws made. The frame is made of rigid wire, which is subsequently fixed on a plastic pipe. Then the base is processed with a corrugated tube or twine.
The most difficult stage for many may be the formation of the wings and tail of a bird using plastic bottles. For these purposes, reinforcing mesh is usually used. The size of the base for the wings and tail is selected depending on the species characteristics of the selected bird. For example, peacock tail feathers can be mounted on an oval piece of linoleum. But the grid is a more common option. The elements are fixed with an overlap, each row covers the fastening of the previous parts.
The moment of complete assembly of all elements from plastic bottles can be carried out before or after applying paint. At the finish line they are painting. A bird with the same plumage throughout the body can be decorated after complete assembly. It is more convenient to paint the elements of the frame, tail and head separately, and then connect them using screws and wire.
The versatility of plastic bottles allows you to make crafts of varying degrees of complexity. The same bird can be presented in different variations, and its production is not always a labor-intensive process.
Bright pink handsome flamingos will help add exoticism to the area. Guided by the algorithm proposed above, you can make a bird in a short time thanks to its large plumage. A variety of options are shown in the photo:
Another pretty bird of hot countries is the parrot. A lot here determines the originality of the coloring. The body made of plastic bottles can be trimmed with feathers or simply covered with paint. The complexity of feathers and tail is chosen at the discretion of the artist. Design methods are shown in the photo:
The owl or eagle owl, familiar to our regions, is another worthy garden decoration. An impressive beauty made from plastic bottles can take a lot of time.
For busy people, there is a simplified version of the night bird.
A peacock will help you get closer to the scenery of the royal court. The gorgeous tail of the bird will not leave anyone indifferent. It is up to the owner of the site to decide whether to make the peacock bright or white, to leave the tail folded or straightened. Or maybe you liked this firebird?
A chic dove will require perseverance and patience, for the production of which white plastic bottles will be useful. It is better to prepare the plumage on long winter evenings, when all work in the garden is suspended, so that by spring the area will be transformed with a new resident.
Which model of bird to choose is up to the craftsman to decide. The process of making any craft can be made easier by replacing jewelry-style parts with simpler elements made from plastic bottles.
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Thanks to the variety of shapes, colors and sizes of plastic bottles, you can use them to create a wide variety of original crafts with your own hands. At the moment, there are various schemes for manufacturing plastic products. Using certain skills and a simple set of tools, it is possible to create various flowerpots, equipment such as spatulas, dart targets, figures of animals and animals, wild birds, interior items and furniture, and even buildings and houses. But there are such unusual tasks as the production of fictional or fairy-tale characters, for which there may not be ready-made manufacturing schemes. This is primarily due to the fact that similar species of animals and birds do not exist in nature. You will not meet them in the forest, in the field, in the city. All that is known about them is the fiction of the authors of children's books or films, which greatly complicates the task of making such crafts. Master class on creating a firebird from ordinary plastic bottles!
Master class on making a firebird from plastic bottles with your own hands
One of the rather complex examples of this kind of product can be considered the fabulous firebird.
In addition to a rich artistic imagination, an existing prototype of this miracle bird can help in making a firebird from ordinary plastic bottles, even with your own hands. Such a prototype is the white peacock. Considering the similarity of these two creatures, real and fairy-tale, after making a white peacock, it will need to be painted in bright, varied colors so that the product ends up looking like a bird of happiness. Still, how to make a firebird out of bottles? This article proposes a scheme for making such a craft.
You need to start making a fairy-tale character by creating the body of a bird. To do this, you will need dense foam, from which the base will be cut.
After this, you should paint a 1.5 liter plastic bottle white. Staining is required to be done twice. This will prevent the finished product from showing through in the light. After the paint has dried well, you need to cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle. The resulting cylinder must be cut into two equal parts with scissors. After this, each resulting part must be divided into two more identical elements. Next, you need to cut the edge of the part into the shape of teeth and bend it in the middle, thus obtaining a feather-shaped element.
The next step is to make the bird's tail. It uses a sheet of ordinary linoleum measuring 1.2 x 1.4 m and already made plastic feathers. The feathers should be secured over the entire area of the tail using metal wire, after making small holes with an awl. The result is a wonderful and original tail with minimal effort. Then you need to attach the manufactured tail to the foam body using nails, masking them using white paint.
Next, the bird's wings are made. To create the wings, almost the same algorithm of actions is used as when creating feathers for the tail. It is necessary to cut the plastic cylinder from the bottle into two equal parts. After that, teeth are cut along the edges of the parts. The finished wing feathers are secured to the foam body of the bird, again using nails.
To create an attractive craft, you need to cover the entire base of the firebird with plastic plumage. And only after this can you begin to make the feathers of the crest.
To create a bird's crest, you need to cut out an element from a plastic bottle that looks like an ordinary spoon. The edges of the upper round part of the spoon must be cut into teeth, and the entire part must be bent in the middle of the leg. Then the ornament is applied to the round part of the product with paint. Next, cut a triangle of the required size from the neck of the bottle. It will serve to make the future beak. The beak is painted white and bent in half, after which it is attached to the foam head, first from the bottom and then from the top using nails. After this, the already made crest feathers are fixed with glue, and the eyes are applied with a brush and paints.
The firebird's legs are made from two plastic bottles, from which it is necessary to separate half and the bottom. This part is not needed. The two trained elements should be attached to the main body. At the final stage of creating a firebird with your own hands, you must choose a suitable place on your summer cottage for the finished craft. For stability of the structure, you can use two tubes of the required diameter. These tubes are inserted at one end into plastic legs, and the other end is immersed deep into the ground.
All that remains to be done to complete the craft is to paint the finished product in the colors of the firebird. Using spray paint or any other paint, you can turn a white peacock into a fabulous wonder bird. The video below shows one example of the firebird's coloring.
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