Vases and flower pots from plastic bottles
The second life of empty PET bottles can be different.Some people cut them into pots for seedlings, while others like to make molds for "pies" for a children's sandbox from plastic containers. Some make convenient scoops for bulk products from polyethylene bottles, while others manage to create real works of decorative and applied art from unnecessary plastic cylinders - figured flowerpots and original flower pots. A homemade vase from a plastic bottle can amaze with the magnificence of artistic execution. And you can make such beauty with your own hands.
However, let's not get ahead of ourselves, even though you alreadyand can't wait to cut out vases from plastic bottles using our inspiring illustrated patterns. First, prepare the necessary materials and simple equipment: a couple of multi-colored PET flasks, handy scissors, acrylic paints, colored aerosols or markers for plastic, sticks and stickers, any decorative additions (beads, buttons, ribbons, etc.) according to your design. To apply patterns to openwork vases from plastic bottles, you will need a soldering iron. Ready to get started? Then we begin our exciting master class.
Vase with a figured border
To begin with, let's master a simple scheme step by step -Fig. 1. This interesting craft can be, for example, a tabletop candy bowl, and if you take an empty five-liter bottle to make it, you will get a real floor vase. So:
- Cut off the upper conical part of the bottle, you will not need it in this diagram;
- Then cut the scissors with uniform strips. Cut each end at the same level;
- Bend each strip outward and squeeze, giving the design a shape of the sun from the children's drawings;
- Now bend the strips inward at an angle, fixing their ends in the adjacent slots (as shown in Figure 1).
Additional decoration depends only on your imagination. You can simply tie the craft with a scarlet ribbon or cover it with bright stickers. An unusual fruit vase is ready.
Flower pot
Was the floor vase easy for you? Then you will also make a pot from a plastic bottle without any particular difficulties. Fig. 2 will help you get inspired. Let's look at it in more detail:
- Cut off the top of the bottle, given that this is the future bowl of a flower pot - plan its size;
- Make a hole in the cork, through which excess water from the irrigation will flow into the stand;
- Insert the tip from the bottle with the stopper down into the remaining base of the same bottle. A pot of drainage is ready.
You just assembled a pot with your own handsan ordinary plastic bottle, and now decorate it and fill it with soil. Plant seeds or cuttings of your favorite flowers and wait for abundant shoots to appear.
Funny pots for herbs
How to make a vase from a plastic bottlealready known. And simple flower pots are no longer a problem either. But a flower pot can be not only the one we have discussed above. Let's now make some funny little grasshoppers using the cut off bottom part of a plastic bottle? So:
- Cut off the bottom of the PET bottle with a "puff" to be able to give the pot the desired shape;
- Give the "face" to the herb, gluing the eyes and the spout from the colored stickers (see Figures 3 and 4);
- Set the shape of the pot. It can be a cat or a bunny - cut out the ears of the desired length;
- And you can give the grassy look of a funny gnome, using plugs from PET bottles like his nose and eyes.
Fill the pot with soil and sow in itlawn grass seeds. Very soon your little grass will have an original green hairstyle. Just don't forget to water the garden troll's hair from time to time.
Decorative vases
See how easy it is to create something originalcraft from empty plastic containers! Just cut the walls of the bottle into thin strips of different lengths and put on them white foam balls, foam or cardboard inflorescence blanks or corrugated paper roses - you will get a luxurious decorative composition for decorating home interiors. An everlasting original bouquet.
Openwork vases
What do you think about the luxurious openwork vases, looking at Fig. 5? Are you ready to create such a masterpiece? Maybe not, but it is worth trying right now!
- Cut off the top of the bottle at the point of narrowing the neck, setting the desired size of the neck of the future vase;
- With the help of a soldering iron or burner, create an author's ornament on the body of the craft. The bottom can be left untouched, so that the vase holds water and is practically useful.
Almost finished vase from a bottle with your own ornamentswill be almost invisible, unless you paint the transparent craft with colored spray. Having done this, you will see how vividly the patterns-slits on the unique designer vase will sparkle. You won’t even be ashamed to give this one as a gift, your loved ones will certainly appreciate your original hand-made.
In general, the plastic bottle itselfan inexhaustible source of ideas for making original vases, planters and decorative tabletop compositions. Start with our step-by-step instructions and you won’t even notice how inspiration will hit you and more and more complex ideas will come to you by themselves. Your creativity will manifest itself without instructions and visual aids. Are you ready to decorate your home with beautiful vases of your own making? Then it’s time to get down to the enjoyable work!
