Many people are wondering what can be made of plastic bottle caps to avoid throwing them away? Various products from this material have now become quite popular among those who want to create original and simple crafts. This "garbage" can be found in almost every home. Do not rush to throw them away, it can help you decorate your home.
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All children have a beautiful imagination. They are happy to create and create using any of the things that are available to them. In kindergarten and school, children are taught a love of handicrafts to develop their skills.
Plastic plugs are great for children's creativity. They can be glued anywhere that allows you to make from this material a figure or picture, perhaps an application. Such crafts are very popular with all the guys, they gladly make them.
Basically from the slugs you can make three types of handicrafts:
- toys;
- figures;
- applications.
Applications:
- The easiest option is the caterpillar. You can make it of different sizes and different colors. Select also the background color and add details to make it even better. You can make a flower as a background or the sun.
- Another good application, which can be made from caps from plastic bottles - birds. Take the two covers and make them head and body. To make feathers, use real feathers, cloth or cardboard.
- Run crafts from cork from plastic bottles can be very diverse, trusting your imagination or displaying in stages in pictures.
- Try also to make an applique, for example, in the form of a rabbit. It is done in a similar way to a bird - take two covers of different diameters, make ears of paper and a small tail, you can use cotton wool for it.
Important! In this simple way, you can make a variety of applications in the form of different animals that your child will want to make.
Try also to make bulk crafts, perhaps they will seem more interesting to you than appliques.
Application "Aquarium"
This is another craft that can be made from plastic bottle caps. The child himself can do it, almost without your help.
You will need:
- plastic plugs;
- colored paper;
- adhesive;
- blue cardboard;
- plastic eyes.
Instruction:
- Make tails for fish by cutting out triangles.
- Glue them randomly onto a cardboard that will be the backdrop.
- Glue the plugs to the tails - they will be fish bodies.
- If you use double-sided adhesive tape, you need to carefully cut it in the shape of the cover.
- Glue the eyes of the fish on the lids. You need them to look colorful - you can use a felt pen.
- Decorate the composition with algae from paper or draw them. You can draw bubbles or other details - they will revitalize the composition.
- Draw on the bottom of the treasure or castle, let your child fantasize.
Mosaic
There are several options for how you can make your own hands a mosaic of plugs from bottles. Each of them has certain difficulties, and each requires its own tools.
In any case, you need a lot of caps of different colors. Select a drawing and execute it according to the gamma. The method of production depends on the surface on which you will lay the mosaic.
In case you do not use any base, then:
- The plugs must be glued with glue for plastic.
- Draw a picture on the cardboard, make it relatively simple.
- Use the sketch to glue the plugs together. This is more difficult than doing the same on the facade of the building, for example.
You can also fasten the corks on a base of wood - this is another way to make this craft:
- Use plywood, chipboard or attach to the surface of the house if you decide to decorate your dacha.
- In general, the method is similar to the previous one, draw a picture on the plywood or on the wall, using paints.
- To fix everything, you need nails that will match the diameter of the lids and the thickness of the tree.
Important! Choose which side you will fix the plugs, if you fix them with the inside out, then you will need to clean them with a certain periodicity, otherwise - the mosaic will lose its appearance.
There is a third method with which you can make a mosaic of bottle caps yourself:
- You can take as a base a concrete or brick wall. To do this, mix the special compound to glue the plugs. You can buy it at the shop. In fact, it is a regular paste, this is often used in construction. You can use plaster or cement.
Important! The composition must be made correctly consistency, so that it is not too liquid, not too thick.
- Gently glue the plugs in accordance with the previously made sketch.
- You can make your work of any size - it all depends on how much you want to spend time. However, the question is how much you can collect traffic jams.
Figures
They can also be made of covers. Use a wire or fishing line - putting them on the plugs, you can make a little man or a snake.
For example, you can make a turtle. To do this:
- Take a large lid - from it you can make a shell.
- Of cotton swabs - paws.
- To make a turtle body, take a stick from the ice cream.
- Paint the turtle green or the one you want, glue the cap to the calf and make the limbs of cotton buds.
- Draw her eyes or face.
Turtle is ready!
Other variations that can be made from caps from plastic bottles:
- Similarly you can make a spider, but for the extremities use a wire.
- A child will easily make a bee or ladybug. It is enough to paint the lids with suitable colors. Glue the cardboard wings, antennae from the wire, and ready.
- Compositions made of mosaic made with the help of bottle caps are quite popular. For such a picture you will need covers of different colors, and there must be many. To make this craft, glue them together.
Important! You need to use a fairly strong adhesive or glue gun.
Attach the parts to the base. You can use screws to attach them back. As a basis, use plywood - open it, make a marking of the pattern, and then glue it.
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products If you have a lot of plastic yellow bottle caps, you can make a sun application of them. Take the caps of different radii and fold them one into the other, perhaps it will turn out interesting.
You can make a cockerel from multi-colored corks. But this is a little more complicated, you will need a lot more time, but you will get a very interesting hand-crafted article, which will be an excellent decoration.
to the contents ↑Magnets from the plugs
If you do not have experience in making crafts, start with the simplest - try making magnets for the refrigerator. They will not only allow you to hang notes on the refrigerator and decorate it, but also hide the various defects appearing on its surface. You can make them without spending too much time.
You will need to make magnets:
- colored pens or pencils;
- magnets;
- adhesive;
- inks;
- alcohol;
- multi-colored covers;
- colored paper.
Magnets are the simplest artifacts from this material:
- To begin with, completely clean the plug using alcohol.
- Next, glue the magnet inside.
- Using colored paper, cut out circles of radius corresponding to the diameter of the lid itself.
- You can write a letter on each piece of paper - so you will get the alphabet on the refrigerator.
- Hang bows or any other decorations on the magnets.
Important! Similarly, you can perform a whole picture with paper of different shades. You can learn more about the manufacture of these crafts, referring to the mater-classes, which are posted on the Internet.
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Most often, everyone tries to make a mat of cork from plastic bottles to use it for foot massage. To make it, do not need a lot of effort, while it is quite original and beautiful, especially if made of plugs of different colors.
Important! This product, among other things, is very useful. Doctors recommend using it to improve health. Massage relaxes the foot. It works in such a way that when you step on it, the nerve endings that are on the feet that correspond to certain organs work. This massage becomes a charge for you.
To make a rug of lids from plastic bottles you need:
- cover;
- wire;
- awl.
Instruction:
- You need 15 caps to one side of the hexagonal rug. To calculate everything correctly, multiply the number of traffic jams on one side by the number of sides, then subtract the duplicate plugs.
- After typing the required amount, perform in each 6 holes using an awl.
- All plugs located on the edge, you need to pass one line.
- Then tightly braid them with a wire, making a hexagon in this way.
- For beauty, take colored caps - you can make a picture of them.
Important! You can first decompose the image, and only then attach it with a wire.
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A mat in the corridor can be made from plugs from plastic bottles with your own hands. To make it, glue the corks with a glue gun. You can make any drawing using multi-colored covers to make the product more beautiful.
Important! This material for the rug is good because it is able to quickly and without much effort to cleanse any dirt.
But it is better not to put it in a room where there is a linoleum, which can be damaged by the edges of the covers, which can scratch the coating. Better put your hand-made article on the tile, for example, in the bathroom.
The plastic has such a quality as resistance to wear. It can be used at any temperature and humidity level. The only problem is that the product can become discolored. Correct it in a simple way, by coloring it again, or by making a new one, because it is made from the cheapest material.
For this reason, many different crafts can be made from plastic bottle caps, trying different colors and shapes.
to the contents ↑Curtains for cottages
With the help of plastic stoppers, you can make a huge number of different things - show your imagination. The most uncommon and useful idea is thread curtains, which will be very useful for those who have a cottage.
Important! This approach will help you to save - you will not spend much effort and money on making, but get original thread curtains.
Materials
Take many covers, one color or different shades, in case you want to make a drawing. Take a better outline scheme.
You will also need: nails, fishing line, awl, hammer and needle.
Instruction:
- Make holes in the plugs on both sides with a knife.
- Please decompose them according to the drawing. Watch him while you string.
- Thread the line through two rows, starting with the first one and proceeding to the second one.
- Secure the entire structure by tying the knots at the ends. Better burn the ends.
- Similarly, make the remaining rows in the amount you want.
- To make it easier to make a curtain, leave the marks, moving to the next row.
- Take hold of the first and second rows. Find the mark indicating the change of the series.
- When fastening to a tree, you can nail the curtain with nails, taking separate plugs for fastening.
- Before nailing, make the markings by making the same distance between the fasteners.
- Nail a few covers, then hang a thread on them, on which the first rows are planted.
Important! The design is quite dense and suitable for any purpose, experiment with colors.
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This material can be used not only for different crafts - they can also decorate your dacha. Of these, garden paths are often made. They only lack - they become slippery in the winter season.
Important! A garden path, which can be made from cork from bottles, will decorate your backyard. Use it in suburban areas near the beds, where you rarely go in winter.
Materials
Take the covers, cement, sand, special glue, wood from which you make the formwork for the manufacture of the track.
Instruction of
Approach the process carefully, be patient, and do the following:
- Decide which will be your track, where you place it. Mark its position.
- If you place it on the grass cover, remove the top layer of the soil, make a groove 10 cm deep. Put the formwork along the entire length and fill in the sand.
- Make a solution to fill your path. Dilute sand and cement in a ratio of 1: 4, also put the glue there.
- Fill the solution and put the plugs in it in accordance with the selected pattern.
- Keep the covers carefully so that they create an even coating. It is necessary to close the sides of the lids with cement, without touching only the top.
- When the cement hardens, clean the surface of excess dirt with a brush. Clean the entire track.
- At the end remove the formwork.
Important! A multi-colored garden path will decorate your site, it can easily be made with your hands from the lids from the bottles. Make it even better by decorating the original curbs, so the work will look finished.
If we talk about what can be done from lids from bottles, we can assemble a structure of boards, some figure and attach the assembled lids to it.
Put your design on the backyard. Ask the children to help you make it - let them fantasize!
