Stylish flowers from plastic bottles

It's no secret that plastic is harmful to the environment. It slowly decomposes and rot in the soil for centuries. Why not take care a little about the planet and not adjust the garbage, forcing it to serve you and your house? But for this you need to give him a second life. And let this life be brighter and more beautiful than in the form of an ordinary jar. After all, what crafts can be made from plastic bottles! Simply awesome! Folk craftsmen not only adapt the half-cut capacity to protect roses seedlings from frosts, they create roses themselves. And even from bottles you can make candy bars, vases and even a holder for a cell phone!

But let's talk about beautiful ornaments for your garden, balcony and living room. In order to make flowers from plastic bottles with your own hands, you will need paper, a marker, a candle, sharp scissors, nail polish, wire, tweezers or pliers. And a large number of used jars, of course. Part of the work will have to be done outdoors or in a well-ventilated room. Since work with open fire is to be carried out, take precautions: work on the iron surface, avoid the ignition of different household items.

So, we start to work. What do we want to create: a poppy, a rose, a lotus, a tulip? From what kind of flowers from plastic bottles we "grow", and the algorithm of our actions will depend. Let's start, as a warm-up, from the easiest - a tulip. If you have a small half-liter bottle, draw a star with 8-10 rays on the paper. Cut it out. Stencil attach strictly to the middle of the bottom of the bottle, the edges of the star bend to the sides of the jar. Mark the stencil and cut the plastic. Do not be embarrassed that you have a crown, not a flower. We pass to fresh air and proceed to the second stage.

We light a candle and bring the crowns to the flame. It is important not to overdo it: plastic should only heat up, and not catch fire, turn black or start bubbling. Using tweezers or pliers, we form the tulip petals, pulling them out quietly. So we create a cup. Flowers from plastic bottles will turn out more beautiful if we give them a bright, rich color. To do this, we use nail polish and our own imagination. While the varnish dries, we take up the stems. We take the top part of the flask and cut out a spiral from it (as if we are cleaning an apple). With this curl with the help of a candle, to make the plastic more pliable, we wind the wire. The tip of the last we pass to the bottom-sepals (for this we make a hole with scissors or an awl).

You can also make flowers from plastic bottles with a lot of petals - roses, poppies. Then you need a few stencils of these parts of plants, where they will be of different sizes - from large (external) to small (internal). Cut the plastic over these patterns. For one flower, several bottles may be needed. When heating over a candle, form petals. The more stencils you have in different sizes, the more magnificent the future rose will be. From the bottom, form the base of the flower, drill a few holes in the center. There must also be a hole in the bottom of each petal. Now sew the semi-finished products to the base with threads. It remains only to decorate your rose with nail polish.

Very stylish look flowers from plastic bottles in the garden decoration. If you have a 5-6 liter jar, you can make it something amazing in the form of a water lily or a lotus. From the bottom cut out a beautiful flat sheet with a low upwardly protruding edge. Fuse the plastic in the candle flame to look natural. Paint it with green waterproof paint. Sit on it a decorative frog (a ready sculpture or a rubber toy). Carefully place the leaf in your small pond. He now will never turn yellow, and the amphibian will not escape anywhere.