The trend of rational use of household waste in Lately is becoming increasingly popular, especially for plastic containers. From plastic bottles you can make almost the entire country house interior and more with your own hands. One of the main advantages of this material is its long service life, and it is also very elastic. Don’t forget that plastic bottles are an affordable material that every owner or housewife always has in stock.

Cheap and cheerful - we make flower beds from bottles

Plastic containers are an ideal option because they have a great advantage over wood and even metal. Wooden fencing in flower beds or flower beds dries out over time or rots under the influence of moisture and sun. Even metal curbs are susceptible to corrosion and require periodic maintenance, such as regular painting.

What about plastic? It does not lose its shape and does not collapse for a long time. This means that such a flower bed will last for more than one season or even one year, and it also requires absolutely no maintenance. Even if a “breakdown” occurs, the required “element” can always be found in the pantry and easily replaced, without resorting to long, tedious shopping trips to find a suitable fragment.

So, what can you make from plastic bottles with your own hands?

Bottle borders

If you need to fence a flower garden, plastic containers of different sizes will do the job perfectly. This will not only limit the space and prevent the growth of perennial plants, but will also retain moisture and prevent the appearance of weeds.

The shape and size of the flowerbed depend only on the imagination of the summer resident: it can be either equilateral or in the form of some kind of animal or plant. You can also use bottles to break the flowerbed itself into segments.

Even a child can build a bottle border (with the help of adults, of course):

1. The first step is to draw the contours of the flower bed with a sharp object or sprinkle sand on the site.
2. Remove the labels from the bottles, wash them, pour sand into them and screw on the cap. If this is not available, you can use ordinary soil or water. This is necessary for stability, since empty containers will quickly fall out of the fence.
3. Dig a groove along the outlined contour so that the bottle can be deepened into it by about 1/3.
4. Place the filled bottles in the groove with the neck down, as close to each other as possible, and cover with soil.

For visual effect, you can use bottles made of different colored plastic (green, white, brown).

Some summer residents do without digging in bottles. For example, bottles without a bottom are simply inserted into each other, forming a circle. The finished structure can be “put on” or taken into a ring around the trunk of a tree. To secure the curb, it must be pressed tightly to the ground with arcs.

Multi-tiered flower bed

If you really want to have a flower garden, but there is too little space, you can make it yourself from plastic bottles. The principle is the same as when constructing a border, only after laying the first tier it is necessary to fill it with nutritious soil, and only then lay out the next floor.

When planting plants for the lower tier, it is better to choose moisture-loving specimens, since when watering the water will flow down.

Mini flower beds

Beautiful and useful crafts for the garden can be made from 5-liter plastic bottles. They will serve as miniature and cute flower beds, for example, in the shape of everyone’s favorite piglets.

Group compositions in the form of trains with flowers look no less impressive.

And if you sow lawn grass instead of flowers, the large bottle turns into a cute hedgehog with green spines. All that remains is to attach the eyes and nose.

Those who are not afraid of small rodents will like cute mice from small (liter) bottles. They are good for planting petunias.

Flower pots and flowerpots

With a little imagination, plastic bottles can easily be transformed into small decorative pots for flowers or herbs. You can make them even or cut them to fit a marker in the shape of a face. Such flowerpots will look great not only in a garden gazebo, but also on a windowsill in a house.

But if you put a fabric cover on the cut bottle and attach ropes, you will get elegant flowerpots for the summer veranda.

The easiest way to make hanging pots is to cut out fragments of the walls on both sides of the bottle, and secure a rope under the neck for hanging. Compact, low-growing plants can be planted in such flowerpots.

Making a beautiful garden path

Paths made from plastic containers are especially popular among summer residents. The strength of such a path depends on the laying method and what part of the plastic container serves as building material:

Paths made of plastic bottles become very slippery in winter.

Fun playground - decorating a place for children to play

Caring parents always strive to provide their children with a place to play in their dacha, where the children can while away the time while the adults are busy in the garden. Of course, it should not only be safe, but also colorful so that the kids will like it. With the help of plastic bottles it is easy to decorate the playground by making a variety of plants and animals. Regular paint will help give them brightness.

In the shade under a palm tree

What is a children's playground without a sandbox? And where there is sand, a palm tree must “grow”. For the tropicana you will need green and brown bottles for the trunk and leaves, respectively.

Before you begin assembly, you need to make sure you have a solid base. For example, fix a metal pin in a concrete screed, and it should be quite long so that the tree becomes tall and children can walk freely under it.

When the base is fixed, you can start “growing” the palm tree:

• cut off half the bottle (the top and neck are not needed) and form a jagged edge;
• Make a hole in the center of the bottom, string the blanks onto the base pin, bending the teeth to the side for a more natural look;
• cut off the bottom of the green bottle and make straight cuts along the entire contour to the place where the wall meets the neck (if desired, the branches can be made into shapes - cut into 4 parts and make teeth on each one);
• string fragments of the branch onto the base;
• firmly attach the finished branches to the top of the stem (by welding or construction cords).

If after assembling the palm tree there are still a lot of green bottles left, you can use them to make a small (or large) Christmas tree. Remove the bottom of the bottle and cut it into long narrow strips right up to the neck. Trim the edges of the strips to resemble thorns. String the leaves onto the base.

Such a Christmas tree will look great on the site in winter, especially under the snow, and will also help out in New Year's Eve those who, in a hurry, did not have time to buy a living tree.

Guests from a fairy tale - funny animals

And of course, there must be toys. Children often take their old favorites outside. With the help of plastic bottles, you can easily diversify the “zoo”, creating real masterpieces - from the fairy-tale Frog Princess and Goldfish to modern cartoon characters.

Take, for example, a handsome cat, painted with black and white paint. Or you can use brown beer bottles and you will get a brown cat, also beautiful.

Form a head from two bottle bottoms (connect them), and the curves on the bottoms will indeed look like a real head. On one of them, paint eyes, eyebrows and mustaches with white paint, and a neat tongue with red paint. Insert small cut out ears on top. For the body, string the same short-cut bottoms onto the base, and close the body last. Melt the edges of the bottoms. Apply white paint along the melted contour of the ears and body fragments, and make a white spot on the chest on the front bottom.

Glue the head and legs - the top parts of bottles with elongated necks will be useful for them. Cut them to the place where the bottle expands, cut the edges with sharp teeth and build legs from 4-5 parts, putting them on the base wire. Screw the plugs onto the upper necks and use them to glue the legs to the body. For the tail, take a long wire and string the narrowest parts of the neck onto it, but without the plugs. To make the tail fluffy, cut the edges into thin strips.

Beautiful animals are also obtained from large 5-liter containers. With the right combination of bottles of different sizes and with the help of bright colors, you can place a zebra, horse, cow, donkey and even a giraffe on the site.

Flowers for my daughter

In the sandbox, children not only make Easter cakes. Little girls love flowers very much and often collect dandelions on the lawn (or in their mother’s flowerbed) to plant them in their sand garden. But you can make a whole greenhouse of flowers from bottles, and little girls will be happy to take part in making the simplest options. Chamomiles, cornflowers and tulips will decorate the sandbox, especially since young flower growers will be able to repeatedly “transplant” them from bed to bed without harm to the plants or mother’s nerves.

For flowers you will need:

• wire for the stem;
• straight parts of bottles for cutting leaves out of them;
• necks or bottoms for the inflorescences themselves;
• dye.

Adults can make more complex versions. Plastic roses or poppies will decorate not only the playground, but also the flower bed.

Plastic design for garden

Plastic bottles have a wide range of applications. So, if small animals and birds look appropriate in flower beds and playgrounds, then larger animals can be placed in the garden, among trees and shrubs. They will give the garden a unique look and enliven it.

Amazing garden sculptures

Representatives of large birds made of plastic look almost alive. Using multi-colored paints you can achieve a stunning realistic effect. To make them, you just need to master the technique of cutting feathers from the sides of bottles and prepare a frame on which they will be attached.

The following will look very impressive in the garden:

In the garden you can place sculptures of not only birds, but also animals of a large enough size so that they do not get lost against the background of tall trees.

Among the greenery, a bright spot will be a white sheep, which is quite easy to make if you have 2 liter bottles and several 1.5 liter bottles lying around in the pantry:

1. Cut the necks of two 2 liter bottles and put them on top of each other - this will be an elongated head. Cut out long ears from the third bottle, roll them up a little into a tube and attach them to the head in appropriate places with wire (or glue). You can draw eyes or glue two corks.
2. For the body, insert the whole bottle with the neck inside into the cut-off top. Make 3 more such blanks and attach them to the first one on the sides and top, thus giving the sheep the desired “waist” volume.
3. The neck will be a whole two-liter bottle, which should be attached to the body at an angle of approximately 120 degrees so that the cork is on top.
4. Place the head to the neck (on the plug).
5. For the legs, cut off the top of a two-liter bottle and insert a whole bottle of a smaller volume (1.5 l) into it. Make three more such blanks and attach the legs to the body with the wide part up.
6. Make a fleece from the cut bottoms of two-liter bottles, fastening them together, and put them on the body. Grip the edges of the fur coat under your belly.
7. Paint the sheep with white paint and draw black eyes.

Caring for birds

Plastic bottles can be used not only for decorative purposes, but also for the benefit of the garden. After all, it is always inhabited by the summer resident’s little helpers - various birds that collect pests from the trees. In the warm summer they have something to eat, but in winter it becomes more difficult to get food. That’s when the feeders hanging around the garden will come in handy. And if you involve children in the process, you get a double benefit: the children get an interesting activity and pleasure, and the birds get a cozy house with grains.

The simplest ones can be made from large 5 liter plastic bottles by simply cutting large arch-shaped holes on both sides.

To prevent birds from injuring their paws on the sharp edges of the bottle, they must first be melted or covered with electrical tape.

For those who rarely visit their summer cottage in winter, a feeder that fills automatically will come in handy.

You can make it from a bottle and two wooden spoons:

• make two holes in the bottle opposite each other, with the second one located slightly lower;
• unfold the bottle and repeat the procedure on the reverse side;
• insert the spoons crosswise into the holes.

After the bottle is filled with food, it will be poured through the holes into the spoons as they are emptied.

A cozy place to relax using improvised means

Not only birds, but also the owners themselves should have their own secluded corner among the greenery, where warm summer evenings You can enjoy a cup of tea while inhaling the aromas of nature. Many people prefer to place it in the garden. They are very beautiful, you can’t argue with that, but they require certain financial investments. But it’s cheap and cheerful to make from plastic not only a recreation area, but also to completely equip it.

Alcove? Easily!

A gazebo is one of the largest-scale garden crafts made from plastic bottles. But a plastic gazebo has two big advantages:

• it is easy to assemble;
• will last for more than one year without damaging the material.

Perhaps the only drawback of the building is the presence of a large number of bottles, which need to be stored somewhere during the collection process.

What the gazebo will look like depends only on the desire of the owner, and, accordingly, on the availability of “building materials”:

Practical curtains for the gazebo

In summer gazebos there is a lot of fresh air, but, unfortunately, also dust. Ordinary tulle requires frequent washing, while a plastic curtain does not collect as much dust, and you can “wash” it without even removing it - just spray it with water from a hose (of course, if such a curtain is not hanging in the house).

For dreamy and romantic housewives, delicate curtains made from the bottoms of plastic bottles strung on a base are suitable.

Energetic people who love bright colors are more suitable for cork curtains assembled according to the same principle.

garden furniture

A table, ottoman, armchair and even a sofa in a gazebo can also be made from plastic bottles. The old one from the house is also quite suitable for relaxing in the fresh air, but it, like the curtains, will eventually become a collection of dust. In addition, it is quite difficult to take a wooden sofa outside, because such furniture is quite bulky and heavy. But rearranging the plastic chair will not be difficult.

Assembling the furniture is not difficult - the bottles just need to be placed tightly and connected together with tape, giving the required form. For ottomans, knitting or sewing a cape - no one from the outside will guess what they are actually made of.

Leatherette covers are more suitable for a sofa.

Unbreakable chandeliers for the garden

If you are planning an evening tea party, you should definitely go to the gazebo. To decorate the light bulb, you can cut the bottle into two parts and make a simple lampshade from the upper half and paint it or cover it with colored thread.

In plastic chandeliers, it is better to use energy-efficient light bulbs - they do not heat up so much and will not melt the material.

In more complex versions, chandeliers are assembled from fragments of leaves or flowers cut from multi-colored bottles.

Gardening supplies for gardening

In order for a summer cottage to look beautiful and tidy, it is necessary to take care of it all the time - weeding, collecting fallen leaves and small debris. To do this you will need tools. Of course, you won’t be able to make a hoe or rake out of plastic, but simpler ones are quite possible.

Craftsmen have long known how to use plastic bottles to their benefit and to save money. family budget. After all, if the scoop suddenly breaks, you no longer have to run to the store for a new one. From household waste, which is found in every home, a lot of useful things are obtained at no extra cost:

Garden cares

From plastic bottles you can make useful things not only for the garden, but also for the vegetable garden. These can be either small crafts in the form of, or larger-scale structures such as greenhouses.

Greenhouses for seedlings

Most summer residents grow seedlings of garden crops on their own. Some do this in apartment conditions, but better quality seedlings are obtained from greenhouses - there is enough heat and light.

We can’t even talk about cost, but as for durability, plastic bottles will certainly last longer than film shelters or glass structures.

To increase the service life of greenhouses made from plastic bottles, it is advisable to place them on a foundation and use a metal profile for the frame.

The simplest version of a greenhouse involves constructing walls from whole bottles that are placed on top of each other.

It will take a little longer to tinker with a greenhouse made of plates, but it will turn out warmer. In this case, you need to cut out even parts from the bottles and fasten (sew) them together in the form of a canvas. Use ready-made canvases to assemble a greenhouse.

Watering "systems"

For gardeners, watering is no less pressing issue than having a greenhouse. Instead of ready-made watering systems in the garden, you can use. They must either be hung above the bush, having previously made holes in the lower part, or dug into the ground.

In addition, the bottle makes a good sprinkler - you just need to make small holes in it and connect it to a watering hose.

Getting rid of pests

A repeller made from a plastic bottle will help drive you away from the area worst enemy summer resident - . It not only plows up the beds, digging its tunnels, but also damages the root system of plants in the process, depriving gardeners of the future harvest.

If you cut the side walls of the bottle, bend them and put the container on a steel rod, when there is a gust of wind, the bottle will spin and make noise. The sound will go into the ground through the rod and deprive the mole of the desire to manage in this noisy place.

The list of things you can make from a plastic bottle with your own hands is quite long. These are just a few crafts that make life easier for summer residents. Agree – it’s better to get the most out of bottles than to pollute the environment. Take care of nature and work with pleasure!

21 ideas for using plastic bottles - video

For many people, regular plastic bottles don't make a big difference. Of course, now everyone has such containers and in quite large quantities, so they are simply thrown away as unnecessary. However, as today's craftsmen with golden hands show, it is in vain. You can use them to make wonderful crafts from plastic bottles, which will be not only useful, but also beautiful decorative elements. These things can decorate your personal plot, changing his appearance beyond recognition.

Crafts from bottles for the garden (+photo)

As a rule, various crafts are made, the material for which is plastic bottles, for garden plots or vegetable gardens. After all, every summer resident wants to equip his plot in such a way as to create comfort and coziness, and making crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands is not so difficult, or rather, quite simple. And the materials for the products do not require large financial outlays; everyone always has them at hand.

Products made from bottles do not require the use of any special tools, and no skills are required to create something unusual from such material.

Tired of spending money on clay pots that constantly break - original hanging plastic pots will be a real salvation for prudent owners

With a little ingenuity, an ordinary plastic bottle turns into a wonderful bird feeder

What can be made from a plastic bottle

Plastic bottles can be an excellent material for making decorative items intended not only for the site, but also for the home. After reading this article you will find many various examples successful use of this material. So, a little more about everything...

Greenhouse or gazebo

It can be built from bottles. Such buildings will not require large expenditures on various building materials, and the result will please any avid gardener.

Having a large number of polyvinyl chloride bottles, you can safely begin building a building, giving it any desired shape. Using this material, you can build not only a greenhouse or, but even.

To build this structure you will need to adhere to the following instructions:

1. Before you start building a gazebo or greenhouse, you need to build a frame made of metal or wood;
2. After the frame is ready, holes should be made in the bottom of the bottles. The covers also need to be drilled;
3. Next, through the holes, the bottles are threaded onto the wire. Next, you need to secure the wire to the frame, thus carrying out the process of erecting walls;
4. You can use vertical and horizontal methods for threading bottles onto metal wire. When these methods are mixed, the structure is much stronger. To create patterns on the future walls of the structure, you need to use multi-colored bottles.

PVC bottles can be used for cultivating plants as well as vegetables. To do this, you need to cut off the top of the bottle and make holes in its bottom. Then you can pour soil into the resulting container and plant seedlings or flowers.

Manufacture original crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, you can absolutely different topics. Using your imagination, you can make a comfortable chair or table for your garden that will harmoniously fit into the overall design of your summer cottage. You can also build an original birdhouse or bird feeder that will not only decorate your garden, but also bring benefits.

You can use absolutely any item as a material, of which there is always plenty in any household. It could be an old unnecessary bucket, a cast iron pot, worn out car tires and much more.

Using original decor for decoration, plastic bottles can be used to make excellent containers for storing various small items

How to make original decor from a bottle

As mentioned above, plastic bottles can be an excellent material for making decorative items intended not only for the site, but also for the home.

To make the design of the area more beautiful, you can use bottles to create flower arrangements. These can be daisies, tulips, roses, cornflowers, asters, begonias, carnations and many other flowering plants.

Daisies from plastic bottles (+photo)

For example, to create daisies you will need green and white bottles. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. For white bottles you will need to cut out the base for daisies. To do this, you need to cut out the side walls in the shape of a circle. The diameter of the circle should be 7 centimeters;
2. The resulting circles should be cut without reaching the center. The result will be future chamomile petals;
3. Next, you need to give the petals an oval shape. After which you need to warm the future flower over the fire. This way the chamomile will seem real;
4. Small circle of plastic yellow color Perfect for making the core of a future chamomile. The green bottle will act as leaves and stem;
5. The final stage is to combine all the elements into a single composition.

Lilies of the valley from plastic bottles (+photo)

To make your garden look more beautiful and attractive in spring, you can also create lilies of the valley from plastic bottles. This craft will look very unusual in the garden.

To create lilies of the valley you will need the same plastic white and green bottles:

1. The top of white bottles is cut off. The cork in this case will play the role of a bud;
2. Holes are made in the lids;
3. Leaves and stems should be made from green bottles;
4. The buds are attached to the stems with wire.

After the lilies of the valley are ready, they must be carefully placed in the ground; you can place such flowers in a small flower bed.

Vase made from a plastic bottle (+photo)

From unnecessary bottles you can create an original vase, which can be used as a decoration not only in the garden but also at home. For this we need a regular transparent bottle and sharp scissors.

1. The first step is to cut off the neck of the bottle. This must be done so that the cut is smooth and without burrs;
2. Next, cuts are made in strips of the same width;
3. The resulting strips need to be bent outward;
4. After which, the strips need to be bent, giving the vase its shape. For this you can use the same scissors.

When working with plastic bottles, you need to do everything carefully and slowly, otherwise your work may be in vain, and all your efforts will be nullified. You should also be extremely careful when using sharp tools, which can seriously injure you.

A beautiful vase is only for beautiful flowers

A white stork and a pink flamingo together is a picture that you will probably never see in nature

For making a flower vase, you can also use glass bottles. It is advisable that they have a wide neck and are made of thick glass, so they will be more convenient and practical to use.

You can decorate them using multi-colored wool threads and special glue. The bottle is wrapped completely, from the bottom base to the very neck, where the end of the rope is securely fixed with glue. It is best to use beads as decoration for finished products.

As practice shows, everything is ingenious, simple!!!

Broom made from plastic bottles

You can make a broom from a bottle, which will be convenient for cleaning up garbage. It is done quite simply.

1. To do this, you need to cut the bottom, cut the bottle into strips to the base of the neck;
2. After that, the resulting broom should be placed on a handle specially selected for the width of the neck and securely fix the attachment point with a nail or self-tapping screw.

Crafts from bottles for children

Who else, if not small children, will be delighted by various crafts made from plastic bottles, especially if they are made with their own hands. The most important thing in this matter is to find the time and desire, but there is no need to worry about the material; as the summer resident says, it is always in abundance.

The limitless possibilities of this universal material allow you to turn even your wildest ideas and fantasies into reality.

There is probably nothing better than the mischievous laughter of children, their joy and delight. Therefore, by making various fun decorations for your kids, you are guaranteed to provide them, and yourself, with a good and fun time at your summer cottage, which will give you a storm of positive emotions.

Sometimes you can take a break from plastic bottles and try to create something from other scrap materials.

Look around, use your head, ingenuity and imagination - this is exactly the occasion when you need to show your true ingenuity and creative skill.

There are many more ideas related to the use of plastic bottles that are easy to make. And the result can please everyone.

And the functionality of crafts can be aimed at various areas. The main thing is imagination, and then the plastic that no one needs will become a real work of art.

We hope that this article was useful to you and you were able to emphasize something for yourself personally. Good luck in your endeavors!

It would seem that a plastic bottle is such an ordinary thing, but once upon a time it was worth its weight in gold - our grandparents carefully stacked the precious container on the balcony to use instead of a milk can or a jar for storing compote. Nowadays PVC bottles are a dime a dozen, so humanity has become thoughtful, because soon, due to plastic containers, there will be nowhere to step. How to use all this abundance of plastic for good? The most amazing ideas using the costs of the food and chemical industries are floating islands and huge installations, residential buildings and energy-saving systems created from a lot of unnecessary plastic containers. We invite you to join the global plastic bottle boom. Evaluate the original garden crafts from waste packaging that we offer you as an ideological basis for further creativity on the path to creating an amazing and unusual country house design.

The burning problem of all summer residents is the construction of a house and auxiliary buildings on a garden plot in conditions of a small land plot and limited funds. In addition, the seasonal purpose of the dacha does not imply the construction of permanent structures “for centuries”.

So, enterprising people decided to use a prosaic plastic bottle as a building material. The walls of houses, gazebos, greenhouses, and other garden structures are laid out traditionally - in a checkerboard pattern using cement mortar, only instead of bricks, unnecessary plastic containers filled with sand are used.

To support this not entirely familiar eco-style, you can make a variety of crafts from bottles for the garden so that the design of the site is decided in a single key. Let's look in detail at how you can make your life simpler and more comfortable with the help of PVC containers.

Country house

Despite the apparent simplicity of building a building from plastic containers, there are some nuances that you need to take into account if you decide to build a country house with your own hands. Here are a couple of useful tips:

• Place a reinforcing mesh between the rows of masonry - the adhesion of the solution to the surface of the bottle will improve.
• Do not forget that plastic does not come into contact with cement like brick, so make small holes in the container - this way the solution will begin to interact with the sand inside the bottle and the wall will become stronger.
• During masonry work, secure the bottles with rope or wire so that the rows do not move apart.

Please note that plastic tends to deteriorate under the influence of frost and heat, especially from temperature changes, so be prepared that after some time - 5-10 years, the walls of the building will begin the “countdown”.

Using PVC bottles as a building material, you can build an economical house in the country

The cylindrical shape of plastic bottles allows you to build houses and gazebos that are round in plan

In addition to the supporting structure of a house made of plastic containers, this universal building material, as it turns out, can be used for roofing work. We offer you two options for roofing from used PVC containers:

1. Plastic tiles. To make this simple roofing covering, you need to compress plastic bottles. If this process is carried out without slightly heating the plastic, the container will simply crack, so the easiest way is to lay the raw material out in the sun and then flatten the containers. Installation of PVC modules is carried out using ordinary self-tapping screws to the frame with laying of the material in several layers. From such tiles you can easily form a cone-shaped roof for a gazebo or bathhouse.
2. Plastic slate. From the cylindrical part of a plastic bottle it is quite easy to make something like a slate covering for a roof. To do this, you need to cut off the bottom and neck of the container, cut the middle part of the container lengthwise and in half, and connect the resulting PVC elements with glue, forming a wavy surface.

If you decide to build a house from wood, brick, or there is already a residential building on your summer cottage, pick up a plastic bottle and show your imagination - decorate the facade with unusual decor from plastic corks. Complex geometric patterns, floral patterns or slightly naive “cartoon” animals - choose any style that suits your spirit.

It is quite easy to make a roof for a summer house from plastic bottles - either in the form of tiles or like slate

Bright plastic lids from used containers will give the facade of a country house an expressive color

Decor made from bottle caps for the facade of a country house will give the building individuality

Gazebos, greenhouses, pergolas

The most rational use of plastic bottles for the garden is not only crafts designed to decorate it, but also more significant things, for example, greenhouses or. Why buy expensive polycarbonate to build a greenhouse if the PVC from which the containers are made is practically the same material?

Why equip a greenhouse with glass that is even more expensive than laminated plastic if there are unnecessary bottles? Refracting Sun rays, PVC containers perform the same tasks as glass and polycarbonate, moreover, they are the most economical option for building a greenhouse that you can find.

An economical option for arranging a gazebo or greenhouse in the country - building from plastic bottles

If you are bored with the traditional rectangular gazebo, make it in the form of a hemisphere using a metal frame and plastic bottles

Having built a frame of wood or metal, arm yourself with a hot knitting needle, drill or hammer with nails. One way is to make holes in the bottom and cap of a plastic bottle and put the plastic containers on a fishing line or wire, the length of which will be slightly more height the buildings. Stretch the resulting elements and secure them to the cross members of the frame - this way you will form the walls of a greenhouse or gazebo. Additionally, you can fix the vertical modules in the transverse direction by tying the bottles within one row with wire. Using containers of different colors, try to create some kind of ornament - this way you will diversify the colorless mass of walls made of transparent plastic.

What else can you build from plastic bottles for your garden? The most easily erected version of a small architectural form made from plastic bottles in the garden is a lightweight gazebo, which usually serves as a frame for climbing plants. However, despite the fact that in spring and summer the pergola structure will be hidden by climbing roses or ivy, in winter its frame will be exposed and will not look very good. To avoid this phenomenon, you can decorate the pergola structure with plastic bottles of a natural shade - brown or green. The brownish colors of PVC vaguely resemble wood, while the grassy colors will enliven the appearance of the garden in the cold season.

Fences, railings, gates

You can save a lot of money if you use plastic bottles to fence your garden plot. Using the same principle that was described in the construction of the gazebo, instead of corrugated sheeting, chain-link mesh or polycarbonate, use plastic containers to fill the space between the fence posts.

With a little creativity and diligence, the border of your garden will become not only impassable, but also extravagant and eye-catching. If the fence has already been erected earlier, floral decor made from plastic bottles will give it a new sound - the most natural option for the garden.

To support country houses made of plastic bottles, build a fence using the same containers for the integrity of the landscape design

Multi-colored flowers cut from plastic bottles will refresh and decorate an old fence or country house

Carport

An eternal problem for car owners is allocating space on a plot of land to park a car or several vehicles - bicycles, scooters or ATVs. The design of a compact private or country house does not always include space for a car, so there is a need to build a separate garage or shed. The construction of these structures is expensive and beyond the means of many, so the car sits under the scorching sun, exposed to the winds, rain and snow. Ordinary plastic bottles come to the rescue in this situation - waste, useless containers that allow you to experiment without fear, without fear of spoiling the building material. If something doesn’t work out and the bottle becomes unusable, you can always take another one and not lose a penny.

Material about parking options for a car in the country will also be useful:

A carport made from plastic bottles will not only fulfill its immediate function, but will also add an original accent to the country landscape

So, from plastic bottles you can form a plastic structure, unusual in its configuration and performing several functions at once - it will create a protective plane from precipitation and sun and, at the same time, decorate your garden. There is nothing complicated about forming a canopy from bottles - it can easily be made with your own hands.

First, you need to make through holes in plastic containers, or rather, it is best to burn them with a hot rod, and then put the bottles on fishing line, rope or wire, connecting them in rows. Sequences of bottles are fastened together by perpendicular connections through another pair of holes and the previously selected material for “firmware”. Thus, a movable surface is obtained, reminiscent of “bottle fabric”, which remains to be attached to a metal or wooden frame using hangers of different lengths to create a wave-like effect.

It is important to know! Considering that a plastic bottle is a kind of lens that refracts light in the same way as glass, it is advisable to paint the bottom of the container to block direct sunlight.

Useful devices for the garden

solar collector

You've probably encountered the fact that your dacha doesn't have a central water supply, you haven't had time to get a boiler, and after a hard day of caring for the garden, you really want to take a warm water bath rather than an ice-cold shower. We invite you to try making a summer shower for your site with an energy-saving system - a solar collector made from PVC bottles. The principle of operation of such water heating is based on the so-called “thermosyphon” - denser hot water moves upward, less dense cold water moves downward. The developer of the system, a Brazilian engineer who received a patent for the invention, claims that 1 m 2 of solar panel will be enough to bathe 1 person.

You can assemble a solar panel from plastic bottles and forget about ice-cold water in a summer shower

Cold water entering the solar collector from the tank returns back already heated

Consumables and tools for making a collector from plastic bottles:

1. 2-liter plastic bottles – 60 pcs.;
2. 1-liter milk cartons – 50 pcs.;
3. PVC pipe 100 mm – 70 cm;
4. PVC pipe 20 mm – 11.7 m;
5. PVC corner 20 mm – 4 pcs.;
6. Tee 20 mm PVC – 20 pcs.;
7. Plugs 20 mm PVC – 2 pcs.;
8. PVC glue;
9. Matte black paint;
10. Brush;
11. Emery;
12. Scotch;
13. Rubber hammer, wood jigsaw.

Plastic bottles need to cut off the bottom and insert one into the other. 100 mm PVC pipes are used to form the rectangular frame of the solar panel, 20 mm pipes are cut into sections of 10x1 m and 20x8.5 cm and assembled into a single structure using tees. Black paint is applied to meter-long sections of pipe and milk cartons, which are placed under bottles to improve heat absorption.

Solar panels made from plastic bottles should be located at least 30 cm below the water storage tank on the south side of the wall or roof. To optimize heat absorption, the panels should be installed at an angle, which is calculated as follows: add 10° to your latitude. It is recommended to replace plastic bottles in panels with new ones every 5 years, since after some time the plastic becomes opaque, and this reduces its thermal conductivity.

Another energy-saving idea came to us from hot Brazil called “1 liter of light”. The essence of this engineering idea in terms of how to illuminate a room without windows on a sunny day is striking in its simplicity - you just need to hermetically integrate a plastic bottle into the roof - not empty, but with water. It is water, refracting the rays of the sun, that will fill a room without natural light with bright light.

By filling a plastic bottle with water and sticking it into the roof of your house, you will always have a bright source of light in rooms without natural light.

Growing and watering plants

Plastic bottles will be useful in the garden not only for buildings or decoration, but also directly in growing plants, flowers and vegetables. By cutting a hole in the container and filling it with soil, you can use a plastic container to grow seedlings. Just remember to drill holes in your newly made pots for drainage and take care to drain the water.

Glue corks to a plastic bottle - you will get funny little people instead of boring pots for growing seedlings

Containers for growing plants can be given a little color by painting them with stained glass paints or decorating them with bottle caps. If your dacha is small in area, try creating vertical gardening - hang plastic pots from bottles on a fishing line under the wall. This way you will decorate a dull, featureless surface and save space.

To create pots for seedlings and flowers, not only plastic drink bottles are suitable, but also multi-colored containers left over after use household chemicals

Make multiple holes in a plastic bottle - this will allow you to get a drip irrigation device at your dacha

PVC bottles can also serve you well when watering your garden; if you poke miniature holes in the bottom of the bottle and attach the container to a hose, you'll have a nice drip irrigation tool. By equipping a homemade water sprayer from a bottle with wheels from an old children's car or stroller, you can move the watering machine around the garden.

Furniture for garden and home

A lot of trouble for summer residents is caused by caring for furniture in the garden house and on the street - constant proximity to the ground negatively affects appearance sofas, beds and armchairs. Having built country furniture from plastic bottles, you will forget about sloppy upholstery, which is so difficult to put in order outside the city, far from service providers and dry cleaners. The containers and corks themselves are a unique material for making furniture with your own hands - durable and easy to care for.

From plastic bottles you can assemble quite practical furniture for the garden and home.

Chairs and a garden table made of plastic corks are an economical solution for outdoor furniture

A comfortable ottoman for the cottage will be made from unnecessary plastic containers, wrapped in foam rubber and covered with upholstery fabric.

A couple of dozen plastic bottles, a metal frame - and a comfortable chair for the garden and dacha in front of you

Garden lamps

Lighting fixtures for a garden plot are another expense column that gardeners often ignore. With a plastic bottle, the lighting problem is solved in a minute. Take a colored canister of household chemicals, cut off the neck and tuck a socket with a light bulb inside - the lamp for the dacha is ready. Create a more complex lampshade configuration by deforming plastic bottles by heating, melting the edges and painting them in different colors. Original lamps made from PVC containers will perfectly replace industrial analogues, and will also decorate your home and garden.

To create an original design for garden lamps, just paint them with stained glass paints or slightly deform them

Plastic bottles can be used to make unusual street lamps for your dacha - the light source in them is both electric lamps and candles

Landscape decor from plastic bottles

When creating garden decorations from plastic bottles, everything is used - the entire container, the bottom and neck, the middle part and cut out fragments, and the corks are especially popular. They make very expressive decor for the garden - paths and decoration of empty areas of the house or fence. Another unforgettable decoration of the site can be installations made of PVC containers - three-dimensional and planar figures of animals and plants. Flowerbeds and borders limiting planting different types flowers, can be successfully made from the same plastic containers. And so that your ears are always delighted by the singing of birds, hang feeders and water bowls for birds on the trees, made with your own hands from PVC bottles.

Multi-colored plastic bottle caps serve as an excellent material for creating planar compositions in a country landscape.

Examples of flower beds

Without a doubt, the main decoration of a summer cottage is flowers, formed into flower beds or growing in a picturesque disorder. The flowerbed is given a special “edge” by low borders that outline its shape and add completeness to the flower arrangement.

In the absence of stone or brick, traditionally used to form a border, bury plastic bottles with the neck down along the border of the flower bed - you will get a simple fence for flower planting. A good solution for shady areas of a garden plot where nothing wants to grow is original flower beds made from PVC containers of various shapes and colors.

Use a flower bed made from plastic bottles to create shady or wetlands in your garden.

A small flowerbed in the shape of a ladybug looks bright and unusual

Green plastic bottles are perfect for creating a border for a flower bed.

Garden paths

The issue of laying garden paths is always difficult - both the soil needs to be strengthened and decorative material needs to be purchased - as a result, a considerable sum is obtained. And I don’t want to walk through the mud. While you are accumulating money and looking closely at covering the paths, we offer you a temporary option for arranging them at minimal cost. Fill the paths in the country with a thin layer of cement mortar and immerse plastic bottle caps in it - due to the corrugation along the side plane, they will be well fixed in the building mixture.

A prosaic cement path can be transformed into a picturesque mural thanks to multi-colored plastic covers

Decorative installations

A fairly popular trend in garden landscape decoration is the creation of three-dimensional installations from various available materials, including plastic containers. However, here you need a lot of skill and patience, because you need to lay out either whole containers or parts cut out of them according to a certain pattern.

The most expressive decor for a garden landscape is voluminous installations made from plastic bottles

We suggest you make a not very complicated installation from plastic bottles in the form of a New Year tree at your dacha. Although New Year still far away, as they say, prepare your sleigh in the summer - think in advance about. Of course, the Christmas tree is the main attribute of the winter holiday, without which it is impossible to create a truly upbeat New Year’s atmosphere. What to do if there is no coniferous trees, and you don’t welcome traditional logging on the eve of the New Year? An excellent solution in its simplicity and environmental friendliness is to create a Christmas tree from plastic bottles.

The basis of such a composition is a rigid rod from which bottles can be hung or put on a wire and twisted, tiers can be created from circles, auxiliary supports can be tied or installed and a tent-shaped tree can be formed.

It is not necessary to make a Christmas tree from plastic bottles of a standard green color - it can be assembled from containers in any shade

Whole plastic bottles, bottoms, and cut container parts will be used. The bottles themselves can be deformed, melted, painted in unusual colors - in general, there is room for imagination and ingenuity to run wild. Don’t discount bottle caps either – they will make unusual garlands and miniature decor.

By the way, the Christmas tree does not have to be hidden or dismantled summer season– if you choose a cone-shaped tree, then inner space The structure will serve you well on hot days as a gazebo or become a place for children to play. You can make a miniature Christmas tree for your home from used green Sprite bottles; you just need to cut the curved planes of plastic containers into “noodles” and stick them on the base.

Bird feeders and nests

One of the types of garden decor that combines many functions - feeders, nests and drinking bowls for birds. A feeder made with love will decorate the garden and attract birds - they will repay you for your kindness with cheerful chirping, at the same time destroying garden pests.

Create nests, water bowls and bird feeders from plastic bottles and paint them in natural colors

Bird nests and feeders will become useful decorations for your garden

Decor for country interior

In addition to garden decor, a plastic bottle is good for creating an extravagant interior design for a country house. Bright panels for walls and furniture, partitions and screens, even curtains - you can easily make all this yourself from PVC containers. Such home decorations look quite distinctive and original, at least you will not see anything similar from anyone else. By putting your soul into decorating your country house, you will also enjoy creative process, and from the results of your imagination combined with skill.

By cutting the bottoms of transparent plastic bottles and connecting them with thin wire, you will get air screens to divide the space of a country house

The rainbow curtain for the front door is made from ordinary bottle caps and looks very original

Plastic bottle caps will help you paint the interior of your country house in all shades of the rainbow.

Entertainment, relaxation, games in the country

Playgrounds

Playgrounds on a plot of land are not only a pleasant thing for organizing leisure time, they are also a certain element of garden decor. Bright swings and slides, mini-golf courses and fairy-tale houses will create a pleasant atmosphere for your child to stay at the dacha.

Plastic bottles will help to separate the area for children's games, and will also serve as a base for creating interesting toys.

Set up a croquet field at your dacha and make a gate out of plastic bottles

Boats and watercraft

Surely there is a river flowing nearby your garden plot or there is a lake. If so, then your vacation on the shore of a reservoir will become more exciting if you have a means of transportation on the water. Getting to a deserted island, going on a boat trip or fishing - nothing is easier when you have a boat. You can easily build this simple transport from plastic bottles.

A narrow boat like an Indian pirogue with a capacity of 1-2 people or a larger boat for 3-4 passengers - there are a lot of options. The simplest watercraft is a rectangular raft, from which it is convenient to fish by sailing a little from the shore.

Plastic bottles will make a boat or raft that is quite stable on the water.

To make a boat in the form of a kayak, cut off the bottom of the bottles, thread one into the other one after another and form something like long tubes. Cover the joints with furniture tape - it is wide and will not come off when in contact with water. From separate tubes, connecting them together, glue the sides and bottom of the boat with the same tape to get a wedge-shaped shape. Here it is important to correctly calculate the ratio of the width of the vessel and its height - trial launches and a little engineering will help you in order to turn a mountain of unnecessary packaging into a useful thing.

A non-trivial approach to decorating a pond at the dacha - delicate daisies from bottles on the surface of the water

A boat for the whole family has a more complex design, which involves connecting vertically standing bottles in two rows and additionally sealing the hull of the boat with bags. There is nothing stopping you from installing a motor on the boat, which will significantly improve its performance and range. So, using the unsinkable properties of plastic bottles, from which, by the way, entire islands are built in Japan and Taiwan, you can surf the surrounding waters with breeze and comfort.

Haven't you bought into the idea of ​​a plastic boom yet? Do something unusual for your garden and before you know it, you will immediately join the ranks of plastic bottle admirers.

Useful tips

7. Lift the fabric and thread the string through it.

Master class from plastic bottles. Mobile phone holder.

You can also make a good and very useful holder from a plastic bottle. mobile phone. You need it when you urgently need to charge your phone, you find an outlet, but there is nowhere to put the phone.

Prepare a 0.5 liter plastic bottle and pierce a hole with a knife to further cut off the unnecessary part of the bottle.

Using scissors or a utility knife, cut out a circle for the fork.

All that remains is to insert the cord from the charger into the “neck” and plug it into the outlet.

Master class from a plastic bottle. Chandelier.

You will need:

50 plastic bottles (volume 0.5 l)

Flower wire

Regular wire

Bulb

Spray paint

Glue (preferably a glue gun)

Scissors

Stationery knife

1. Prepare plastic bottles and remove labels from them.

2. Cut each bottle into the shape of a flower (see picture). To do this, use a stationery knife.

3. Spread the "petals" of the flowers.

4. Once you've completed steps 1-3 with all 50 bottles, it's time to paint them. Use spray paint or you can take a little more time and paint each flower acrylic paints. You can choose any color. You can also vary the colors by making some flowers one color and others another.

5. Make a circle out of regular wire. Wrap the jute and use a glue gun to glue it to the wire. You will have the base of the chandelier to which the flowers will be attached.

6. Using floral wire, attach each flower to the circle you made from the wire.

There are two ways to attach floral wire to a flower: wrap it around the neck, or glue it.

This is what the first layer looks like.

7. Repeat all steps to make several layers. IN in this example 3 layers were done.

8. Use jute to attach the chandelier to the ceiling (see picture).

What you can do from plastic bottles. Waterer.

Simply make holes in the cap of a plastic bottle with an awl or nail.

Products made from plastic bottles. Funnel.

Plastic products from bottles. Money box.

1. Prepare a plastic bottle. Rinse it off hot water with soap and leave to dry.

2. From colored cardboard, cut out details such as ears, eyes, snout and nostrils.

3. Use glue or double tape to attach all the parts.

4. Wrap the bottle with patterned paper.

5. For the legs, you can use empty spools that need to be glued to the bottle.

6. Make a cut at the top for coins.

We make a dispenser for plastic bags from a plastic bottle

You will only need one 3-liter plastic bottle in which to store your plastic bags.

Simply cut off the bottom of the bottle so you can slide the bags in, and the neck so you can carefully remove one bag at a time.

You can use sandpaper to make the edges of the bottle more even and smooth.

Making bracelets from plastic bottles

You will need:

Plastic bottle

Adhesive tape (the width of the bracelet depends on the width of the tape)

Double-sided tape

Felt (or other material)

Scissors

Stationery knife

Decorations

1. First, wrap some adhesive tape around the bottle. Make several "rings" as shown in the picture. Everything needs to be done carefully and evenly, since it is the tape that will determine how smoothly you can cut the bracelet out of the bottle.

2. Using a utility knife, carefully cut off each ring.

3. Carefully remove the adhesive tape.

4. Glue double-sided tape to the resulting plastic bracelet.

Plastic bottles are generally considered garbage and are sent to the appropriate places - garbage cans and landfills. But in the right ones, creative hands these things can sparkle with new colors. And you don’t have to be a master to breathe a second life into ordinary plastic. You just need a little patience and imagination.

The crafts are quite simple and anyone can make similar things with their own hands. Or maybe for some this business will become a real hobby.

Useful things from trash

Plastic bottles have different shapes. They are also different in color and size. Therefore, it is quite possible to make small decorative items from them for the garden plot. And for a dacha, plastic furniture or even a summer gazebo, built from the same plastic dishes, is quite suitable.

And even caps from plastic bottles in skillful hands can turn into real masterpieces - mosaics on the walls, a hot stand, cute toys for children and other useful little things.

Everyone can make one thing or another. Here main role It is fantasy that plays. After all, the material for making crafts is available almost everywhere. They can be found in parks, on lawns, near rivers and in landfills.

And by collecting them for his creativity, a person thereby cleanses nature of harmful things. After all, plastic these days has turned into a real disaster that threatens environment. This material is durable, so crafts made from plastic bottles will serve and delight you for a long time.

Where to begin

The most important thing in every decision is the action plan. In order to start working on the craft, you will need the following:

• detailed description and photo of crafts made from plastic bottles or one individual craft of your choice;
• bottles of suitable sizes and colors;
• additional materials and tools that may be useful: knife, scissors, tape, glue, paint, fabric, etc.

Then you just need to be patient and follow the instructions. And soon the children will enjoy the new fairy-tale playground, the guests will enjoy spending time in the “almost crystal” gazebo, and the hostess will appreciate the unusual practical devices in the kitchen.

Boxes

You can make an excellent box from plastic bottles, in which you can conveniently store various small things: hair bands, buttons, paper clips. To do this, you will need two bottom parts of plastic bottles of the same size. They are connected to each other by a zipper, which is sewn along the edges.

Or a simpler option is to cut off the top of the bottle at the point where it begins to narrow. The container is ready. All that remains is to decorate the bottle using decorative ribbon, buttons and beads. They are glued with glue. Sew a fabric cap, which is tightened with a cord, and also glue it to the edge of the container.

And it’s not at all difficult to make a convenient and original container for sandwiches that you won’t be embarrassed to take to school or work. The main thing is to decorate it with intention. And it is done in just a few steps.

In the bathroom there is also a place for a plastic box in which you can put all the necessary supplies: toothpastes and brushes, washcloths and shampoos. If these boxes are hung on the wall one above the other, you can free up space.

Plastic bottles can make an unusual stand for pencils and pens. It is enough to cut it out in a circle in the shape of a cat or owl’s face and paint it. The same technique is used to make a flower vase. Just to make it stable, you should add a handful of small pebbles to the bottom.

Playground toys and decorations

To decorate children's playgrounds, decorations are made in the form of plants, animals and even insects.

For a palm tree you will need about 15 brown bottles, from which the palm trunk is made, and 7-10 green bottles for the leaves. The trunk is assembled from bottles cut across, stringing them onto a frame made of durable rod.

To create leaves, green bottles need to be cut lengthwise, forming the desired shape. To make longer leaves, you need to attach an additional one to the main sheet using a stapler.

You can decorate your garden plot even in winter. Funny penguins in colorful hats and scarves will cheer you up on a cold winter day. You can make penguins of different sizes. For one bird you will need two identical bottles, which have a “waist” at the bottom.

This bottle needs to be cut in half. This will be the penguin's body. For the second bottle you only need to cut off the bottom with a small margin - these are the legs. Connect the two parts using a glue gun and paint. Make a pompom from wool and a scarf from a strip of fabric.

Such crafts are not stable, since plastic is a very light material. In order for the penguins to stand quietly in the chosen place, before gluing the parts together, they need to be filled with sand or small pebbles placed.

Even plastic lids turn into cute ones in skillful hands. ladybugs. You just need to color them accordingly and glue funny eyes on them.

If the plastic lids are connected to each other with the edges in the form of a small circle, you will get an original stand for a hot pan or kettle. This device will come in handy in the kitchen.

Flowers and plastic bottles

Flowerbeds can also be decorated in an original way using plastic bottles. If you take the bottom parts of the bottles, paint them from different colors and stick them into the ground next to each other, you can create a flowerbed that will “bloom” all year round.

The tops of bottles with caps can also be used as flower pots. They are not stable, but in the form of flower pots they will look fabulous.

Plastic bottles with a volume of 3-5 liters will make a bright flower bed-train. You need to cut out one side of each bottle. Paint it in different colors. Fill the bottles with soil and transplant low-growing garden flowers into them. Lay them horizontally and lean against each other, creating trailers.

Furniture and buildings

Building a summer gazebo will require more expense and effort. After all, for construction you will first need to make a frame made of wood or metal. The walls are built from whole bottles, which are strung on wire or rod.

First, a hole is made in the bottom of the bottle and the cap is unscrewed. A rod with stringed bottles is attached to the frame in a horizontal or vertical position.

Using bottles you can create a sofa, armchair, ottoman. Here you first need to make separate blocks: seat, armrests, backrest. Then connect them according to the design. It is better to make blocks from 2 liter identical bottles.

You need to put the lower part of another bottle on the top of the bottle (where the cap is) so that you get the bottom of the bottle on both sides. All bottles and blocks are attached to each other using tape. To make the seat soft, you need a foam block of a suitable size. The cover is sewn to the size of the furniture.

Photos of crafts made from plastic bottles