In each family there is always a huge number of plastic bottles made from juice, yoghurt or milk. Someone just throws them out, and someone gathers, in the hope that someday they will come in handy. If you belong to the second version of people, then this article is for you. We offer you not to store empty containers, but to make of plastic bottles simple crafts of bells, which you can decorate the yard and plot.
How to make bells from a bottle?
Of course, there can be many ways, but we will focus on two of the simplest options.
Option number 1
Materials:
- blue, green and white plastic bottles, although if not, then you can move away from generally accepted standards, why not make, for example, a red bell ?;
- metal rods;
- wire;
- latex paint - useful if you do not have bottles of suitable colors, but there is a great desire to do everything to make crafts look exactly like bells.
Let's get to work:
- We cut an empty bottle in half. The upper narrow part with the neck and will be the base of our bell.
- Now you need to work hard on the petals. Just cut them from the cut off top of the bottle. Petals on some colors, slightly bend, some leave it so - let your twig be different. The curved, twisted petals will give your bells the volume. Let's open a little secret, so that the plastic was more malleable, and it was possible to fashion something beautiful out of it, just warm it up a little over the fire. Naturally, the entire top should not be warmed, treat only the lower part.
- We pass to the fastening. We hope that you did not discard the caps from the bottles? After all, all this elegant design is attached with their help. The lids need to be pierced and inserted into them rods from the wire, which then to fix and the flower with a branch.
- It remains to give a little attention to the stalk itself. To make it more interesting, you also need to work a bit. From the green bottle, we cut out the ribbon of the spiral and wrap it around our rod. After that, heat the plastic slightly over the fire to melt it. Everything, the branch is ready, now you can attach bells to it.
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Option number 2
This hand-crafted article differs from the previous one only in its foundation. In this case, we'll see how you can differently attach bells.
Materials:
- pieces of old pipes;
- wire or wires;
- liter plastic bottles of green color;
- self-tapping screws according to the number of planned bells;
- blue and white bottles of different sizes, if there is no suitable color, then the paint.
Let's get to work:
- We prepare pipes, the optimal length for them is a little more than a meter. The tops of the pipes need a little bend, let the men help you with this.
- As in the previous version, we prepare bells.
- In the caps we make small holes, equal in diameter to the screws.
- In the pipes we drill small holes, for colors, think about the distance yourself. If necessary, we paint them with green paint.
- Pipes are driven into the ground and connected together with the help of a wire, so that they stand firmer between them you can put something heavy.
- In the drilled holes self-tapping bolts bells.
- From the green green bottles we make the leaves and attach them to the bottom. Everything, the courtyard of bells of plastic bottles is ready.
Using our advice, and, of course, your imagination, many beautiful bellflowers can be made from plastic bottles, and not only them. In order for you to get away from anything, we have prepared some interesting photographs that you can use when decorating your site. Also you can take on arms and other ideas for jewelry: flowers from plastic bottles or shapes, for example, a frog or piglets .
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