Exotic palm from plastic bottles with your own hands
Flying to the tropics for a holiday this year is not an option.does it work? No problem, because once you set an idea, your backyard will instantly turn into an exotic beach. All you need is to install an inflatable pool and decorate the area with resort paraphernalia. Get an old chaise lounge out of the closet and cover the lack of island atmosphere with rich “overseas” vegetation — basic landscape design, potted ferns and… A palm tree made from plastic bottles will add the missing color. Look how realistic it looks in our pictures. Want to “grow” the same? Nothing could be easier!
In fact, palm trees are made from plastic bottlesare good not only in outdoor street decor. They become a successful thematic decoration of a child's room and play up empty corners in the main interior of a large house, are not afraid of the dampness of the bathroom and remain green without claims to watering and fertilizing. Such crafts from scrap materials look great in winter gardens or in green corners inside a private cottage. You determine the size of the tropical tree, as well as its location in your possessions. And our master class will tell you how to make a palm tree from plastic bottles.
Crown of a homemade palm tree
A spectacular tree is 80% lush crown.It can be assembled on the body of a plastic bottle, gluing feathery leaves with tape or planting them on glue. Here you need to take into account the effect of turning over, so glue all the feathers in one direction. After you turn the workpiece over, the leaves will bend down beautifully. And the crown can also be made according to the principle of a hat - an independent structure, which will then be placed on the trunk and fixed.
Make your own palm leaves from green beer cansbottles is easy: cut the feathers, using the entire height of the container. Beer bottles of 2.5 liters. are quite large, which gives a sufficient size of foliage for a small palm tree. But if this is not enough for your larger idea, make composite feather leaves from several pieces of plastic sheeting. It is most convenient to fasten them together with a 100-150 mm office stapler.
How to make a trunk
Your plastic beauty will be prettylight, but it still needs a strong trunk. A small palm tree can be assembled from plastic bottles almost instantly, but if you decide to make your craft more massive, be patient. A primitive trunk is folded in no time, inserting cut cylinders from plastic containers into each other. And with complex supports you will have to tinker with it. Figured ornaments on a tree trunk are created in an elementary way - you need to cut the cylinders in a wave. Next, we will consider step by step the assembly of a wide tree trunk for a future plastic palm tree:
- Determine the required volume of the barrel, multiplyingDiameter of a standard bottle for 2, 3, 4 - as you wish. Let's say you have enough grip in 3 diameters of an ordinary bottle. It is 3 bottles and take for the assembly of the first stem crown;
- Each cylinder of the bottle (part without top and bottom)Smoothly cut along, then sew the edges of the resulting sheets with each other with the help of an adhesive tape or, more reliable, a stationery stapler. Make enough wreaths for the tree of the planned height. While waving the finished wreaths against each other, fasten them in any accessible way;
- Or just use bulk pet kegs from underBeer. They give a very large volume of cylinders, without requiring a long time to collect the construction of the trunk. Yes, and for cutting pinnate leaves, such impressive canvases can be useful to you.
Having gradually assembled a worthy frame for the crown,Finish assembling the palm tree, involving your imagination as much as possible in the process. You can invent interesting vines and decorate your spectacular crafts with them. Or, for example, put an LED strip inside the tropical tree so that the palm tree can glow in the evening and decorate your summer outdoor parties. You can install a plastic tree in a flower pot, deepening the structure into expanded clay. Or simply dig it into the ground in a convenient place on the site - on a playground or by the pool.
Other trees from empty bottles
Now it is more or less clear to you how to do itpalm tree made of plastic bottles. But will you be able to "grow" other realistic trees from recycled materials? The materials allow it, you have already practiced the skills on the palm tree, so what's the point? No one forbids you to use additional fastening materials and any other additions to the "main course" - empty polyethylene bottles. Show your creativity as best you can, inspired by our photo ideas.
To begin, construct a small tree fromsmall and medium-sized bottles. Step-by-step instructions for a palm tree will help you with a tree. Then, most likely, you will master more complex designs that do not require tape or a stapler at all. Experiment and create such crafts using patterns and without them. Develop your design potential with us and delight your friends and family with new and new amazing crafts every day.
