Many homestead owners create all sorts of products from plastic bottles to decorate their place. You can create real works of art by spending a minimum of money.

Not only decorative items are made from plastic, but even furniture. All you need is a knife, an awl and a little imagination.

In this article we will look in detail at how to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands.

Decorating the site

Which ones homemade products you won't see on personal plots. There are flowers, animals, and trees. You can create beautiful sculptural compositions that will not only decorate the garden, but will also give you a great mood.

Let's look at a couple of instructions for beginners that will help you easily create crafts from plastic bottles. It will be a palm tree and a pig.

Bottle palm

To make a palm tree you need to create a frame. Its length should be equal to the height of the tree.

Bottles are taken same size, cut off the bottom of them and install them on top of each other. Then the leaves are cut out. They are attached to the top of the created structure. When everything is ready, the palm tree is painted green.

Funny pig made from bottles

The pig will look great anywhere in the garden. To make it you will need:

• 5 liter bottle;
• four bottle necks for making legs;
• one top part from a bottle, which is cut into two parts to make ears;
• wire for tail;
• two beads for eyes;
• glue;
• pink paint.

The parts are connected and secured with glue. Finished product needs to be painted. You can take oil or spray paint. To prevent the piglet from being blown away by the wind, you need to pour sand into it.

In addition to its decorative function, the structure can serve as a flower bed. To do this, the top is cut off, filled with soil and flowers are planted.

Crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden can serve as flower beds, borders or paths. To make a path, bottles are inserted into the ground upside down.

Both whole and cut plastic are used. It is important to fill the bottles with soil so that they do not become deformed when they are walked on.

Use of bottles on the farm

Bottles are used not only for decoration. They can be used to make a dustpan, washbasin, or pest trap.

Undoubtedly, everyone needs a container for storing some items. To make it, just cut off the neck.

The washbasin is also very easy to make with your own hands. The bottom of the bottle is cut off and holes are made through which the rope is threaded. The structure is suspended in right place and pour water. To wash your face, just unscrew the cap a little.

To make a trap, you need to cut the container in half. To catch insects, some kind of bait is placed at the bottom. For example, suitable for this sugar syrup with yeast.

You will need hot water in which the sugar and yeast will dissolve. The cooled liquid must be poured into the trap. Not only flies and wasps, but also mosquitoes will flock to this delicacy.

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Even a child can make a scoop. First you need to outline its shape and then cut it out.

Can be made from plastic flower pots, greenhouses or containers for seedlings. Descriptions of such crafts made from plastic bottles can be found on the Internet at large quantities, but to create something unique, you need to show your imagination.

It is fashionable to build a self-watering device from plastic containers. To do this, cut the bottle, make holes on the sides and insert the hose into the neck. With the help of such a device, the plants will be perfectly hydrated.

For plants that do not like surface watering, make the following device. The bottom of plastic containers is not completely cut off. A trench is opened on the side of the plant where stones are placed. The bottle is buried upside down.

Then pour required quantity water for irrigation. You can place the bottles upside down, but in this case you will need to make holes in the container.

Use plastic container and for heating plants. To do this, bottles are filled warm water and place them around the plant.

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For inspiration you can look various photos crafts from plastic bottles. You don't need to put in a lot of effort to make original decoration or a useful item for your garden that will last for many years.

Photos of crafts made from plastic bottles

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We managed to make two useful things out of one plastic bottle. See for yourself.

1. Scoop made from a plastic bottle
2. Holder for cell phone

IN once again I was at the market and saw interesting thing. You also noticed it a hundred times yourself. Everything is very simple and banal, but when you need to, you won’t remember and won’t do it.
A scoop cut from a plastic bottle for scooping up small amounts of bulk materials! As soon as I got home I got down to business. Take a plastic bottle, scissors and a marker. Using a marker, mark the boundaries along which you need to cut, as shown in the photo, and go ahead.

We don’t throw away the cap from the plastic bottle, but close the “neck” so that the collected bulk material didn't get enough sleep.

This is how we made a scoop for scooping sugar, cereals, etc.

That's not all.

Cell phone holder.

See for yourself.
The remaining part of the plastic bottle also found its use.

Carefully correct the cut edges so that there are no unevenness and it looks beautiful.
Cut it out round hole. So we got a holder for a cell phone. We hang the holder on the charger and plug it into an outlet, and put the phone inside. Very convenient. I recommend it to everyone.
If the holder is large, you can cut it smaller - at your discretion, I left it this way.

This is how I made two useful items from one plastic bottle.

A cell phone holder can be made in a similar way from the top of a plastic bottle with a neck.

See for yourself.

This handy scoop is very easy to make. It can come in handy in a variety of situations; for example, it is very convenient to pick up bulk materials. It is used in the kitchen or in stores for “bulk”: sugar, buckwheat, rice, flour and so on. It is also very convenient to collect bulk construction materials, such as sand or dry construction mixtures.

Materials and preparation

A scoop made from plastic bottles, as mentioned above, is really easy to make. All you need is one plastic bottle. The capacity of the plastic bottle for the scoop is selected depending on what tasks it will solve.

The larger the bottle, the larger the scoop will be and the faster you can use it to transfer bulk materials from one container to another. Accordingly, the smaller the plastic bottle, the smaller the scoop, which can be more convenient in some cases.

If you plan to use a scoop made from plastic bottles for food products, the bottle must first be washed well using detergents under running water. You also need to remove stickers and labels. Then the plastic scoop bottle is thoroughly dried.

How to make a scoop from plastic bottles

Once the bottle is properly prepared, it can be made into an owl. This is done very simply, literally in a few seconds. The main thing is that the knife is sharp enough, large and thin. It is much more difficult to wield a knife with a thick blade, and even a dull one.

So, to make a scoop from plastic bottles, you just need to cut off the excess bottom part of the plastic bottle. It must be cut at an angle, that is, diagonally, as shown in the photographs. In this case, the scoop will be very convenient to work with.

In principle, you can first cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle, and only after that cut a scoop of the required shape from the remaining part of the bottle. That's it - a scoop made from a plastic bottle with a comfortable handle is ready!

Once the scoop is cut, you can take scissors (large and sharp ones are best) and trim the cut line. If you want to bring the scoop of plastic bottles to perfection, this very cut line can be melted a little with the help of a candle. You just need to work carefully, because plastic bottles are made of thin plastic, and a scoop made from such plastic bottles can melt very easily.

We managed to make two useful things from one plastic bottle. See for yourself.

1. Scoop made from a plastic bottle
2. Cell phone holder

Once again I was at the market and saw an interesting thing. You also noticed it a hundred times yourself. Everything is very simple and banal, but when you need to, you won’t remember and won’t do it.
A scoop cut from a plastic bottle for scooping up small amounts of bulk materials! As soon as I got home I got down to business. Take a plastic bottle, scissors and a marker. With a marker we mark the boundaries along which we need to cut, as shown in the photo, and go ahead.

We do not throw away the cap from the plastic bottle, but close the “neck” so that the collected bulk material does not spill out.

This is how we made a scoop for scooping sugar, cereals, etc.

That's not all.

Cell phone holder.

See for yourself.
The remaining part of the plastic bottle also found its use.

Carefully correct the cut edges so that there are no unevenness and it looks beautiful.
Cut a round hole. So we got a holder for a cell phone. We hang the holder on the charger and plug it into an outlet, and put the phone inside. Very convenient. I recommend it to everyone.
If the holder is large, you can cut it smaller - at your discretion, I left it this way.

This is how I made two useful items from one plastic bottle.

A cell phone holder can be made in a similar way from the top of a plastic bottle with a neck.