Butterflies from plastic bottles

Each of us at home has plastic bottles that we are going to throw out. However, do not rush to do this, because they can find use. For example, make butterflies that can decorate the interior of any home.

Crafts "Butterflies" with their own hands, made of plastic bottles

Before you make a butterfly from a plastic bottle you need to prepare the following materials:

• several plastic bottles;
• A4 paper;
• scissors;
• nail polish: brown, silver;
• sequins;
• red gel pen;
• stones;
• stencil butterfly.

1. First it is necessary to prepare the bottle: rinse it with soap, remove from the label and dry it.
2. On the sheet of paper, print out the butterfly's stencil, then apply it to the bottle.
3. Using the gel pen, draw a stencil along the contour.
4. We cut out the resulting butterfly with scissors.
5. Butterfly turned curved wings down.
6. It is necessary to bend the butterfly in such a way that the wings look upwards.
7. Gel pen draw on the butterfly all the details as on the stencil.
8. Silver paint varnish middle of the butterfly and draw a path.
9. Brilliantly sprinkle the body of butterflies and antennae.
10. We begin to draw all the details of the butterfly, which were painted with a gel pen. We do this with the help of silver lacquer.
11. At the edge of the wings we put small dots.
12. On the silver varnish, which is painted with a contour of wings, draw small dots with brown varnish.
13. We take a varnish of any color, drip a few drops on the butterfly's body and glue the stones. Butterfly is finally ready.
14. Similarly, you can paint another butterfly, but make it one-color and do not glue stones to it.

Thus, we have got two butterflies made of a plastic bottle and painted with usual nail polish.

There is another way to create butterflies from plastic, which can be painted with stained glass paints. In the first version, we first draw a butterfly outline on a bottle, cut it out and then paint it. The second option involves drawing and painting the butterfly immediately on the bottle before it needs to be cut. It is necessary to prepare the materials:

• paper;
• plastic bottles;
• stained-glass paints;
• scissors;
• fishing line or wire;
• small beads;
• awl.

1. Draw a butterfly outline on paper.
2. We transfer the stencil to the plastic of the bottle. You can do this as follows: cut the narrow part of the bottle, insert the sketch of the butterfly inside, fix it with a paper clip and outline the outline with a black felt pen.
3. We begin to paint the butterfly with stained-glass paints. Leave it to dry for a while.
4. Cut the butterfly from a plastic bottle with scissors.
5. Fingers give the butterfly a shape, bending the wings in the desired direction.
6. We make the torso. We take a line or wire and beads of small size. String beads. We fix in the holes, which were previously made with an awl.
7. Butterflies, painted with stained-glass paints, are ready.

In order for you to get a butterfly from a plastic bottle, you can use a large number of butterfly patterns.

Such butterflies from plastic can decorate the curtains, if you attach a needle or a pin from the back of the butterfly. This decoration of the room will create a cozy and remind of the summer days. If, on the other side of the butterfly, you attach a small magnet, you get a wonderful magnet on the refrigerator. Such a butterfly made by own hands can be used as an original gift to a loved one, which, undoubtedly, will surprise him.