Stork for the garden with their own hands

A beautiful well-kept garden is always pleasing to the eye. To make it more comfortable will help garden sculptures, which can be made self-careably, for example from old tires or mounting foam . One of the most popular is the stork. In this article, we'll look at what you can make a stork.

How to make a stork with your hands from plastic bottles?

For work it is necessary to cut out a template from a sheet of plywood. This is the body of the bird and wings on the sides. Also prepare plastic opaque bottles of white and black colors, screws and red electrical tape.

1. We fasten the patterns together with self-tapping screws.
2. For feathers we use bottles made of plastic from milk. We cut them into strips of the same width and make fringe at the edges.
3. Next, using a glue gun, attach the feathers to the body of the bird.
4. For the tail and the lower part of the body we use bottles of black color from under the shampoo.
5. We wrap the beak with red tape.
6. The legs can be made of wire. A toy eyes to buy in the store for needlework.
7. Stork for the garden with your own hands is ready!

We make by our own hands the stork from the mounting foam

Now consider another option, how you can make a stork of your own. In this case, we use a five-liter container, an adhesive tape with foam and a mounting foam.

1. Using adhesive tape, attach parts of the body to the plastic container. The neck consists of a wire covered with foam plastic pieces.
2. For hips we also use pieces of foam plastic.
3. To make a beak, a big nail will do.
4. This is what the procurement looks like at this stage.
5. Legs the author of the lesson proposes to make out of spent electrodes. You can choose a similar material: it can be metal rods or thick wire in several turns.
6. Before proceeding to the next stage of manufacture, check the reliability of the support.
7. Next, just apply the mounting foam on top of the layout.
8. Crop excess.
9. The ready sculpture is painted with acrylic paints.
10. From the piece of wood we finish the nose and attach it to the nail.
11. To the stork looked like a real one, we put real feathers into the tail and wings.
12. Here is such a wonderful stork turned out.

Making a stork with your own hands from a canister

For work the following materials will be needed:

• five-liter canister;
• strong thick wire and plastic tubes;
• grid;
• Styrofoam;
• white and dark plastic bottles;
• corrugation.

Now consider step by step all the stages of manufacturing.

1. From the sheet foam we cut the workpieces.
2. Then knife we ​​give them the shape of the head.
3. We give the beak a more flat shape and cut out the eye sockets.
4. Using a sanding pad, make the surface smooth. In the eye sockets we insert toy eyes.
5. From a plastic bottle we cut out a beak and we fix it on glue "Titan".
6. We make a trunk for a stork with our own hands from a plastic canister.
7. We cut off the handle.
8. From the grid we cut out a piece so that it can be wrapped around a canister.
9. A little rounded the grid, so that it was more like wings.
10. We bend a thick rod and make our legs.
11. Of white bottles we cut feathers.
12. Now you can start assembling all the components together.
13. Work begins with the tail.
14. To make a neck, we put on the wire a corrugated hose from a vacuum cleaner or a similar part.
15. All feathers are attached to self-tapping screws.
16. Since the stork's wings are folded, it's enough to attach the feathers to the belly and slightly to the sides.
17. Cut the white bottles in half and make cuts in the form of fringe. We attach them to the neck on the scotch tape.
18. We begin to make wings from the edge of the grid.
19. The next row covers the previous one by one third.
20. Starting with the third row, we use white plastic.
21. To make the legs, cut out the blanks from half a liter bottles.
22. In the end, we color the bird's beak and legs in red.
23. Stork for the garden with their own hands is ready.