How to make a parrot tire or a toucan?

Today, a lot of accessories for the garden are sold in the shops, but they have a high price, and to fully equip your summer cottage, you will have to pay a fairly round sum. But there is a great alternative - to make everything with own hands from improvised and already unnecessary materials. With success plastic canisters and bottles, caps from them, spoiled utensils and some old things are used. And the most interesting crafts are obtained from ordinary tires, as they play not only a decorative role. They can be used as a pot or a swing. Of these, children's sandboxes and entire sports towns are made. Consider one of the examples - the parrot-pot. How to make a parrot tire? Yes, such that in it and flowers can be grown, and as a swing to use.

To do this, you will need the following things: an old shabby tire, an iron bar or a yoke. Two washers, a nut with a bolt, wrenches and a drill with a drill. And, of course, a sharp knife, preferably for cutting rubber and any remaining paint for outdoor work. Now the process itself, how to make a parrot out of a tire.

The first thing to do is to mark the tire with chalk. For this, it is visually divided into three parts. One of these parts draws a curved rectangle. A sharp knife (it is desirable to constantly wet with water) on the tires on both sides make symmetrical cuts along the bead ring for 2/3. The side and protector are cut at a distance of 1/3. In the larger side a triangular cut is made and the lateral part is separated. It turns out that the drawn rectangle on each side is completely cut out. The result is a workpiece that turns out, and as a result, you see a bird body from which you can make a parrot and a toucan. We consider further how to make a parrot tire.

Take the edge of the lateral part and cut out the beak from it. On its workpiece, the smaller side should be cut along the middle. The length of the incision should be slightly larger than the height of the beak. Now in this cut we insert a beak and halves we press to it with the help of a clamp. We take a drill, make a hole where the parrot's eye will be, insert a suitable bolt and use the washers and a nut of the halves of the head and draw the beak. It remains to give the head the right shape. For this part of the tire is cut off from both sides, the head becomes narrow and the image of the parrot appears. What else do you need to answer the question of how to make a parrot tire?

And it remained on the opposite large side to decide on the tail. Rather, with the way it will look. Here already how your imagination will work. You can cut one single tail. And you can cut strips and make them of different lengths, you will get a magnificent tail. Now, the inner round stripes-handles are tightened together by a yoke, which can be replaced with a rope or wire. And for these hands the parrot from the tire is hung in any convenient place. We take paint, paint the product, paint the eyes, beak and feathers of the bird. And when the paint dries, you can outweigh the parrot to a permanent place, and inside it to put a pot of flowers. And you can just pour in the earth and plant ampel flowers. Although there are great looking any plants, and especially good in the parrot fern.

That's the process and it's over. Now you know how to make a parrot out of the tire and can place these birds throughout your site. By the way, to get a toucan, you just need to cut out the corresponding beak and make a tail of the desired shape.