Who and what may need cones from plastic bottles? It is possible that this is what you thought when you saw the title of the article. However, those who have long been fond of making crafts from "garbage" do not need to be explained. This product is a great accessory for decorating an apartment (especially in the winter season), as well as a house adjoining area. After all, if you have already mastered how to make a tree out of plastic bottles, and “planted” a Christmas tree in the yard, then you will certainly want to provide it with cones. In addition, if you make them tiny, they will come in handy not only as Christmas decorations, but also as a keychain.
Master class: cones from plastic bottles
Scroll necessary materials and tools (based on 1 cone):
- A 2-liter plastic bottle of the color that the cone will be (the product looks natural from dark brown or dark green plastic, and more interestingly from transparent);
- a green bottle for a Christmas tree branch;
- images of the "layers" of the cone (you can draw immediately by hand or use templates);
- wire, large bead;
- scissors, candle, marker.
Work order:
1. Available plastic bottles must be prepared for work. Many needlewomen advise letting the bottle lie down for a couple of hours in soapy water to make it easier to clean the label and remove the adhesive layer. Otherwise, the product turns out to be untidy and dust particles quickly stick to it.
2. Now you need to cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle, and cut the resulting cylinder along the seam. Get a plastic rectangle. For convenience, it can be put under pressure for a day so that it straightens. Next, with a marker, draw blanks of different sizes on the plastic and cut them out. In each "layer" we make a hole with a red-hot awl, and in the smallest one (the core of the cone) - two. The wire will be threaded through these holes.
3. Now you need to process the slices, as well as give a concave shape to the blanks, which will help convey the natural look of the spruce cone. It is better not to hold the blanks in your hand, but to use pliers and cotton gloves. Remember that plastic, when heated, releases substances that are harmful to health, so spend this step with windows open for ventilation. Take the blank with pliers and hold it over the candle for a few seconds until the plastic begins to wrap inward. Repeat this with all parts of the product.
4. Now you need to collect the bump. To do this, string all the layers on the wire, starting with the largest. After that, fasten a large bead or button as a core, and then go the way back with the wire. Twist its outer ends to make a twig out of them.
5. Cut out a blank representing a spruce branch from a green bottle. Work it over the fire of a candle and put the cones on top of the wire.
6. Cut a thin strip from the remaining neck of the brown bottle and, heating it over the candle, gradually wind the wire around. If this does not work out, then you can simply string a few dark brown beads onto the wire.
If you have already learned how to make cones from plastic bottles, then you need to provide a Christmas tree for them. How to do it is described.
These are the flowers I call them Crocus, they are also called Cone and Pineapple can be made from plastic bottles. On the left, a bottle of 2.5 liters, and on the right, 1.5 liters. One flower is made from bottles only !!! of the same volume. For this you need: nail scissors and ordinary scissors (you can use a clerical knife). I repeat the bottles once again, for one flower only the same volume and preferably similar in shape, fittings (I took a corrugated figure eight, you can also use a wooden stick) centimeters long 20-30 longer than the resulting flower, patience and great desire.
So we take the bottles, remove the label, and wash it well. This is how we make a puncture from the side of the bottle (I invented this method myself, by trial and error, at first I tried to pierce the bottom, but it's not very easy).
Then we insert the scissors into the hole and cut it like this (why I write that the scissors are manicure, because it is very convenient to cut the bottom with them, I tried the usual ones, I broke the handle).
Leave approximately 0.5 cm from the edge of the ledge
This is how it should turn out.
And so near each ledge of the bottom. As a result, such an asterisk is obtained. If someone gets scared, do not be scared, it is cut easily and quickly, and this is the most difficult part of the work.
Unfortunately, not all bottles are even, there are some, I don’t recommend making them, they stick out in different directions and it doesn’t turn out so beautifully. But it’s on such a bottle that you can better see how to cut further, but with ordinary scissors. .How much exactly you need to leave, it becomes clearer by trial and error. (Cut four or five bottles and put one into one with the neck down. They should go in a little tight, then you will get what you saw in the first picture). Better not before cutting, we will always have time to cut.
Approximately, completely cut bottles should look like this. Please note that all bottles are cut in the same way (in order to avoid a sea of questions like: -How is the top bottle cut. Just like everyone else). then, just cut off everything to the end. Do not forget to take bottles for one flower only!!! of one volume!!! And advice, for those who have nowhere to put bottles for a flower. pieces, and I put one in one with the neck down, as a rule, I have three blanks at once: 1.5 liters; 2 liters; 2.5. And you can put it in a corner or even on a windowsill. street, drive in a pin and string a flower (in (checkerboard pattern alternating cut out leaves), the pin should not be visible.
There are so many beautiful things around us, created by nature, as well as not always beautiful, but practical work of human hands. A huge field for activity opens up for creative nature. There are unique opportunities to combine natural materials with artificial ones. In the process of this, before our eyes, new masterpieces of crafts made from natural materials, made by hand, are opening up.
Let's try together to make a hedgehog out of cones and a plastic bottle with our own hands.
Option 1
For this hedgehog model you will need:
Pine cones in sufficient quantity;
Plastic bottles - 3 pcs. (2 transparent, 1 dark brown);
Small plastic bowl;
Cork wine corks - 2 pcs.;
Glue;
Scissors;
Green corrugated cardboard;
Red gouache;
Black marker;
Sharp knife;
Tassel.
Getting Started Turning Our Materials into a Cute Hedgehog
Initially, we take a plastic bottle Brown color and cut off the upper part from it, with the so-called "nose".
Along the entire circumference of the wide part of the cut "nose", we cut 1 cm each. We bend these cuts.
We select a bowl of a suitable size and glue a “nose” from a plastic bottle to it.
We carefully glue the bowl with pine cones.
Why do you think we needed cork corks? The answer is simple - to make the bulging eyes of our cute hedgehog. To do this, cut circles from the cork with a sharp knife.
Using a black marker, draw eyes on the hedgehog.
We glue the eyes of the hedgehog from above on the border of the connection of the bottle and the bowl, right in front of the "thorns" of the cones.
Our hedgehog is ready! It remains to treat him with a delicious ripe apple!
You can make such an apple from ordinary transparent plastic bottles. To do this, take two plastic bottles and cut off the bottom of them. Moreover, one of the parts should be slightly larger.
Insert the smaller part into the larger one. The folded halves form an apple. We just have to paint it with red gouache and attach a petiole of corrugated cardboard twisted into a tube to the apple. The image of a just collected apple will be completed by a green piece of cardboard glued to the petiole. We glue our apple to the hedgehog - the image is ready!
DIY crafts from natural material, hedgehog
Another version of a do-it-yourself garden hedgehog, complete with a flower meadow and fly agaric. To make this composition you will need:
Plastic bottle;
Pine cones;
Acrylic or gouache paints;
Thick wire;
Priming;
Grass for animals from a pet store;
Scissors;
Glue;
Two old bowls for fungus and mound;
A piece of foam;
Another plastic bottle for the mushroom leg;
Hedgehog making step by step:
1. On a plastic bottle, closer to the base, cut out a rectangle, thereby turning an ordinary bottle into a flower pot.
2. On the nose of the bottle, draw a muzzle of a hedgehog using paints.
3. Around the cutout for flowers, glue the entire cut surface in two rows with pine cones.
4. Bend the thick wire into an arc and pierce the bottom of the hedgehog so that the sharp edges pass through the bottle and come out again. With the help of wire staples, the hedgehog will be attached to the ground.
5. Fill the resulting flowerpot with soil and plant grass for animals in it, which perfectly imitates hedgehog thorns. Grass for animals is sold in any pet store.
Now let's deal with such elements of the composition as a mound overgrown with flowers and a fly agaric mushroom.
1. We take an old unnecessary toe or salad bowl.
2. Cut out chamomile flowers from plastic bottles, paint them acrylic paints into white.
3. Glue with glue to the "bump" of the inverted toe flowers.
4. Draw leaves between the flowers with green paint.
5. For the fly agaric, we again take a plastic bottle, turn it over with the lid down (now the bottom is the top, and the top with the lid, on the contrary, is the bottom of the mushroom) and glue a deep plastic plate to the top of the mushroom.
6. We paint the plate-hat with acrylic red paint and glue the foam balls in the order you like.
7. You can cut a butterfly out of a plastic bottle, paint it with paints and stick it to the mushroom.
Craft a hedgehog from cones and a plastic bottle
8. Install this autumn composition in the garden, fixing all its elements firmly in the ground!
More useful crafts see in the section: DIY crafts
Crafts are more often intended for landscape design plot, but sometimes they look relevant in the apartment. One of the clearest examples of widespread use are cones from plastic bottles. Small neat specimens will organically fit into the New Year's interior of the room, giant products will effectively decorate adjoining territory. The proposed master classes will help you master the art of forming cones for various purposes.
Pine cone: manufacturing steps
A pine cone, depending on the chosen size, can become a decoration for a plastic Christmas tree in the yard, be used at home as a New Year's toy or serve as a keychain.
To make one copy, you need to prepare:
- Plastic bottle for 2 liters. The color is chosen arbitrarily, brown or dark green product looks natural, transparent plastic can be interestingly painted at your own discretion.
- A pine branch is formed from a plastic bottle of a rich green hue.
- Sketches of the layers of the cone, made on thick paper.
- Large dark bead and wire.
- Marker, scissors and candle.
So, a pine cone from a plastic bottle master class:
A bump without a frame looks uninteresting. A branch will help to achieve a spectacular composition. To do this, a strip is cut out of a green plastic bottle, frequent cuts are made on both sides. The blank is held over the candle so that the “needles” disperse in different directions and the branch becomes fluffy.
On this, the transformation of the bottle into a pine cone can be considered complete.
Giant cone
The second method is ideal for decorating the territory. It could be a playground country cottage area or house garden.
Improvised materials and tools:
- Many bottles of the same volume and shape. You can use plastic containers of 1.5 l, 2 l or 2.5 l. It all depends on the desired result.
Attention! The container is selected in one, two or three shades. Usually used brown, dark yellow and green specimens.
- Corrugated fittings or a flat pointed stick for stringing workpieces. The length depends on the volume and number of prepared bottles for the cone.
- Scissors for manicure and stationery (completely metal, without plastic handles).
Giant bump from plastic bottles master class:
The bump can be made plain or combine 2-3 colors. It is not always convenient to store a large amount of plastic containers, so having accumulated 5-6 copies, the bottles can be cut, as described in the master class, and left folded. Thus, they do not take up much free space.
