Swans from a plastic bottle - an excellent decoration for your garden

One of the best adornments for the garden are the swans from a plastic bottle. They can be easily and simply made from improvised materials and using a standard set of tools. Such an article is ideal for starting your acquaintance with such craft. That is, it is perfect for Beginning master. Professionals pay attention to them too, but they take considerably less time to produce one bird.

Raw materials and tools

Let's start with the tools. Swans made of plastic bottles are made with the following:

• Knife or scissors (it is better if both are at hand);
• Pliers (they are used for cutting and twisting wires);
• Marker or marker (for marking);
• Ruler and templates;
• awl.

When creating such hand-made articles, waste is used for the most part. Due to this, two important moments are achieved:

• The amount of garbage dropped;
• Used things get a second life.

As raw materials in this case are:

1. Large containers of 5 liters.
2. A set of milk containers of white color (you can also consider other options, but then everything must be opened at the final stage with the paint of the corresponding color, which is not very convenient).
3. Wire mesh.
4. Metal-plastic tube in diameter of an inch, curved in the form of the letter "G".
5. Glue.
6. The paint is red (if not, it can be replaced with orange) - with its help the beak is made out.
7. Two buttons for eyes.
8. Soil or sand.
9. Scotch.

Swans made of plastic bottles are made much easier and much faster, if all this is at hand, and there is no need to run and look for the necessary material.

Frame

Immediately fill the 5-liter container with half sand or earth. We put it on its side. In the lid make a hole under the pipe and install one of its sides into it. We fix this element of the frame with the help of a wire in the lid. On the sides of the container two vertical sections are made at the end of the cone. They install two pieces of wire mesh. This is the frame for the wings. Both of these components are firmly connected with each other by wire. After that, the frame is ready, and you can proceed to the next stage of how to make a swan from plastic bottles.

Exterior finish

We cut out the beak, head and feathers from the milk container in the required quantity. The beak is covered with red paint. With the help of glue and wire, all these elements are attached to the previously fabricated frame, starting from the head and ending with the trunk and wings. At the final stage, the buttons are glued. If necessary, you can replace them with two spots of black paint. After the glue has dried, the work is finished, the swans from the plastic bottle can be placed in the garden or on the playground.

Conclusion

The issue of waste management is becoming more urgent recently. One way to solve such a problem is to use them for purposes in which their application was not planned. Making a swan from plastic bottles is one of the possible ways to solve such a problem. It allows you to give a plastic container a second life.