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The trend of rational use of household waste has recently become increasingly popular, especially with regard to plastic containers. You can make almost the entire country house interior and more from plastic bottles with your own hands. One of the main advantages of this material is its long service life, and it is also very elastic. Don’t forget that plastic bottles are an affordable material that every owner or housewife always has in stock.
By showing ingenuity and a little imagination, you can not only make necessary and useful things that will decorate the site, but also free it from unnecessary trash without harming nature. After all, it is known that plastic takes a very long time to decompose, and when burned, it releases hazardous substances. Therefore, it is better not to throw bottles into a fire or take them to a landfill - they can still serve in the form of a variety of crafts, some options of which are presented in the article.
Cheap and cheerful - we make flower beds from bottles
Plastic containers are an ideal option for flower beds, as they have a great advantage over wood and even metal. Wooden fencing in flower beds or flower beds dries out over time or rots under the influence of moisture and sun. Even metal curbs are susceptible to corrosion and require periodic maintenance, such as regular painting.
What about plastic? It does not lose its shape and does not collapse for a long time. This means that such a flowerbed will last for more than one season or even one year, and it also requires absolutely no maintenance. Even if a “breakdown” occurs, the required “element” can always be found in the pantry and easily replaced, without resorting to long, tedious shopping trips to find a suitable fragment.
So, what can you make from plastic bottles with your own hands?
Bottle borders
If you need to fence, plastic containers of different sizes will do the job perfectly. Such a border will not only limit the space and prevent the growth of perennial plants, but will also retain moisture and prevent the appearance of weeds.
The shape and size of the flowerbed depend only on the imagination of the summer resident: it can be either equilateral or in the form of some kind of animal or plant. You can also use bottles to divide the flowerbed itself into segments.
Even a child can build a bottle border (with the help of adults, of course):
For visual effect, you can use bottles made of different colored plastic (green, white, brown).
Some summer residents do without digging in bottles. For example, bottles without a bottom are simply inserted into each other, forming a circle. The finished structure can be “put” on a bush or taken into a ring around the trunk of a tree. To secure the curb, it must be pressed tightly to the ground with arcs.
Multi-tiered flower bed
If you really want to have a flower garden, but there is too little space, you can make a multi-tiered flower bed with your own hands from plastic bottles. The principle is the same as when constructing a border, only after laying the first tier it is necessary to fill it with nutritious soil, and only then lay out the next floor.
When planting plants for the lower tier, it is better to choose moisture-loving specimens, since when watering the water will flow down.
Mini flower beds
Beautiful and useful crafts for the garden can be made from 5-liter plastic bottles. They will serve as miniature and cute flower beds, for example, in the shape of everyone’s favorite piglets.
Group compositions in the form of trains with flowers look no less impressive.
And if you sow lawn grass instead of flowers, the large bottle turns into a cute hedgehog with green spines. All that remains is to attach the eyes and nose.
Those who are not afraid of small rodents will like cute mice from small (liter) bottles. They are good for planting petunias.
Flower pots and flowerpots
With a little imagination, plastic bottles can easily be transformed into small decorative pots for herbs or herbs. You can make them even or cut them to fit a marker in the shape of a face. Such flowerpots will look great not only in a garden gazebo, but also on the windowsill of a house.
But if you put a fabric cover on the cut bottle and attach ropes, you will get elegant flowerpots for the summer veranda.
The easiest way to make hanging pots is to cut out fragments of the walls on both sides of the bottle, and secure a rope under the neck for hanging. Compact, low-growing plants can be planted in such flowerpots.
Making a beautiful garden path
Paths made from plastic containers are especially popular among summer residents. The strength of such a path depends on the laying method and what part of the plastic container serves as a building material:
Paths made of plastic bottles become very slippery in winter.
Fun playground - decorating a place for children to play
Caring parents always strive to provide their children with a place to play in their dacha, where children can pass the time while adults are busy in the garden. Of course, it should not only be safe, but also colorful so that the kids will like it. With the help of plastic bottles it is easy to decorate the playground by making a variety of plants and animals. Regular paint will help give them brightness.
In the shade under a palm tree
What is a children's playground without a sandbox? And where there is sand, a palm tree must “grow”. For the tropicana, you will need green and brown bottles for the trunk and leaves, respectively.
Before you begin assembly, you need to ensure a solid base. For example, fix a metal pin in a concrete screed, and it should be quite long so that the tree becomes tall and children can walk freely under it.
When the base is fixed, you can start “growing” the palm tree:
- cut off half the bottle (the top and neck are not needed) and form a jagged edge;
- Make a hole in the center of the bottom, string the blanks onto the base pin, bending the teeth to the side for a more natural look;
- cut off the bottom of the green bottle and make straight cuts along the entire contour to the place where the wall meets the neck (if desired, the branches can be made into shapes - cut into 4 parts and make teeth on each one);
- string fragments of the branch onto the base;
- firmly attach the finished branches to the top of the stem (by welding or construction cords).
If after assembling the palm tree there are still a lot of green bottles left, you can use them to make a small (or large) Christmas tree. Remove the bottom of the bottle and cut it into long narrow strips right up to the neck. Trim the edges of the strips to resemble thorns. String the leaves onto the base.
Such a Christmas tree will look great on the site in winter, especially under the snow, and will also help out on New Year's Eve those who, in a hurry, did not have time to buy a living tree.
Guests from a fairy tale - funny animals
And of course, there must be toys on the playground. Children often take their old favorites outside. With the help of plastic bottles, you can easily diversify the “zoo”, creating real masterpieces - from the fairy-tale Frog Princess and Goldfish to modern cartoon characters.
Take, for example, a handsome cat, painted with black and white paint. Or you can use brown beer bottles and you will get a brown cat, also beautiful.
Form a head from two bottle bottoms (connect them), and the curves on the bottoms will indeed look like a real head. On one of them, paint eyes, eyebrows and mustaches with white paint, and a neat tongue with red paint. Insert small cut out ears on top. For the body, string the same short-cut bottoms onto the base, closing the body last. Melt the edges of the bottoms. Apply white paint along the melted contour of the ears and body fragments, and make a white spot on the chest on the front bottom.
Glue the head and legs - the top parts of bottles with elongated necks will be useful for them. Cut them to the place where the bottle expands, cut the edges with sharp teeth and build legs from 4-5 parts, putting them on the base wire. Screw the plugs onto the upper necks and use them to glue the legs to the body. For the tail, take a long wire and string the narrowest parts of the neck onto it, but without the plugs. To make the tail fluffy, cut the edges into thin strips.
Beautiful animals from plastic bottles are also obtained from large 5-liter containers. With the right combination of bottles of different sizes and with the help of bright colors, you can place a zebra, horse, cow, donkey and even a giraffe on the site.
Flowers for my daughter
In the sandbox, children not only make Easter cakes. Little girls love flowers very much and often pick dandelions on the lawn (or roses from their mother’s flowerbed) to plant them in their sand garden. But you can make a whole greenhouse of flowers from bottles, and little girls will be happy to take part in making the simplest options. Chamomiles and cornflowers will decorate the sandbox, especially since young gardeners will be able to repeatedly “transplant” them from bed to bed without harm to the plants or mother’s nerves.
For flowers you will need:
- wire for the stem;
- straight parts of bottles for cutting leaves out of them;
- necks or bottoms for the inflorescences themselves;
- dye.
Adults can make more complex versions. Plastic or poppies will decorate not only the playground, but also the flower bed. 
Plastic design for garden
Garden crafts made from plastic bottles have a wide range of applications. So, if small animals and birds look appropriate in flower beds and playgrounds, then larger animals can be placed in the garden, among trees and shrubs. They will give the garden a unique look and enliven it.
Representatives of large birds made of plastic look almost alive. Using multi-colored paints you can achieve a stunning realistic effect. To make them, you just need to master the technique of cutting feathers from the sides of bottles and prepare a frame on which they will be attached.
The following will look very impressive in the garden:
In the garden you can place sculptures of not only birds, but also animals of a large enough size so that they do not get lost against the background of tall trees.
Among the greenery, a bright spot will be a white sheep, which is quite easy to make if you have 2 liter bottles and several 1.5 liter bottles lying around in the pantry:
Caring for birds
Plastic bottles can be used not only for decorative purposes, but also for the benefit of the garden. After all, it is always inhabited by the summer resident’s little helpers - various birds that collect pests from the trees. In the warm summer they have something to eat, but in winter it becomes more difficult to get food. That’s when the feeders hanging around the garden will come in handy. And if you involve children in the process, you get a double benefit: the children get an interesting activity and pleasure, and the birds get a cozy house with grains.
The simplest feeders can be made from large 5 liter plastic bottles by simply cutting large arch-shaped holes on both sides.
To prevent birds from injuring their paws on the sharp edges of the bottle, they must first be melted or covered with electrical tape.
For those who rarely visit their summer cottage in winter, a feeder that fills automatically will come in handy.
You can make it from a bottle and two wooden spoons:
- make two holes in the bottle opposite each other, with the second one located slightly lower;
- unfold the bottle and repeat the procedure on the reverse side;
- insert the spoons crosswise into the holes.
After the bottle is filled with food, it will be poured through the holes into the spoons as they are emptied.
A cozy place to relax using improvised means
Not only birds, but also the owners themselves should have their own secluded corner among the greenery, where on warm summer evenings you can happily drink a cup of tea, inhaling the aromas of nature. Many people prefer to install wooden gazebos in the garden. They are very beautiful, you can’t argue with that, but they require certain financial investments. But it’s cheap and cheerful to make from plastic not only a recreation area, but also to completely equip it.
Alcove? Easily!
A gazebo is one of the largest-scale garden crafts made from plastic bottles. But a plastic gazebo has two big advantages:
- it is easy to assemble;
- will last for more than one year without damaging the material.
Perhaps the only drawback of the building is the presence of a large number of bottles, which need to be stored somewhere during the collection process.
What the gazebo will look like depends only on the desire of the owner, and, accordingly, on the availability of “building materials”:
Practical curtains for the gazebo
In summer gazebos there is a lot of fresh air, but, unfortunately, also dust. Regular tulle requires frequent washing, while a plastic curtain does not collect as much dust, and you can “wash” it without even removing it - just hose it down with water (of course, if such a curtain is not hanging in the house). 
For dreamy and romantic housewives, delicate curtains made from the bottoms of plastic bottles strung on a base are suitable. 
Energetic people who love bright colors are more suitable for cork curtains assembled according to the same principle.
garden furniture
A table, ottoman, armchair and even a sofa in a gazebo can also be made from plastic bottles. Old furniture from home is also quite suitable for outdoor recreation, but, like curtains, it will eventually become a collection of dust. In addition, it is quite difficult to take a wooden sofa outside, because such furniture is quite bulky and heavy. But rearranging the plastic chair will not be difficult.
Assembling the furniture is not difficult - the bottles just need to be placed tightly and connected together with tape, giving the desired shape. For ottomans, knitting or sewing a cape - no one from the outside will guess what they are actually made of.
Leatherette covers are more suitable for a sofa.
Unbreakable chandeliers for the garden
If you are planning an evening tea party, the gazebo must be illuminated. To decorate the light bulb, you can cut the bottle into two parts and make a simple lampshade from the upper half and paint it or cover it with colored thread.
In plastic chandeliers, it is better to use energy-efficient light bulbs - they do not heat up so much and will not melt the material.
In more complex versions, chandeliers are assembled from fragments of leaves or flowers cut from multi-colored bottles. 
Gardening supplies for gardening
In order for a summer cottage to look beautiful and tidy, it is necessary to take care of it all the time - weeding, collecting fallen leaves and small debris. To do this you will need tools. Of course, it will not be possible to make a hoe or a rake from plastic, but simpler specimens are quite possible.
Craftsmen have long known how to use plastic bottles to benefit themselves and save the family budget. After all, if the scoop suddenly breaks, you no longer have to run to the store for a new one. From household waste, which is found in every home, a lot of useful things are obtained at no extra cost:
Garden cares
From plastic bottles you can make useful things not only for the garden, but also for the vegetable garden. These can be either small crafts in the form of repellers or larger-scale structures such as greenhouses.
Greenhouses for seedlings
Most summer residents grow seedlings of garden crops on their own. Some do this in apartment conditions, but better quality seedlings are obtained from greenhouses - there is enough heat and light.
We can’t even talk about cost, but as for durability, greenhouses made from plastic bottles will certainly last longer than film shelters or glass structures.
To increase the service life of greenhouses made from plastic bottles, it is advisable to place them on a foundation and use a metal profile for the frame.
The simplest version of a greenhouse involves constructing walls from whole bottles that are placed on top of each other.
It will take a little longer to tinker with a greenhouse made of plates, but it will turn out warmer. In this case, you need to cut out even parts from the bottles and fasten (sew) them together in the form of a canvas. Use ready-made canvases to assemble a greenhouse.
Watering "systems"
For gardeners, this is no less pressing issue than the availability of a greenhouse. Instead of ready-made watering systems in the garden, you can use plastic bottles. They must either be hung above the bush, having previously made holes in the lower part, or dug into the ground.
In addition, the bottle makes a good sprinkler - you just need to make small holes in it and connect it to a watering hose.
Getting rid of pests
A repeller made from a plastic bottle will help drive away the gardener’s worst enemy, the mole, from the property. It not only plows up the beds, digging its tunnels, but also damages the root system of plants in the process, depriving gardeners of the future harvest.
If you cut the side walls of the bottle, bend them and put the container on a steel rod, when there is a gust of wind, the bottle will spin and make noise. The sound will go through the rod into the ground and deprive the mole of the desire to manage in this noisy place.
The list of things you can make from a plastic bottle with your own hands is quite long. These are just a few of the crafts that make life easier for summer residents. Agree – it’s better to get the most out of bottles than to pollute the environment. Take care of nature and work with pleasure!
Constructor made from plastic bottles - video
The modern world is oversaturated with waste and garbage, which increases many times every day. If recycling waste takes a lot of time, effort and energy, then you can come up with a lot of ideas for crafts made from waste.
Target
Crafts made from garbage can not only be convenient and useful, but also have several goals, including protecting the environment, using waste as raw materials for making new products, and also calling for waste sorting.
Such events are often held in school and preschool institutions, where children are taught not only craftsmanship skills, but also taught not to litter anywhere.
You can make beautiful crafts from waste with your own hands from absolutely any garbage that is considered household waste. Among the materials you can easily highlight cans, bottles, plastic, packaging, cardboard, paper and much more.
Moreover, you can even use wood, metal or glass. And for fastening, they usually use all kinds of glue that are suitable for a particular material, as well as ropes, wire, etc.
Paper products
If you have a stack of old newspapers lying around and a small roll of wire, you can build a wonderful wicker basket.
Surely you have seen that grandmothers very often have such baskets, but wicker from wood, and you can do the same, only from paper.
To do this, you just need to wrap paper sheets around the frame and weave a product from them. The work is very painstaking and long, but with hard work, at least in the evenings, you can make a wonderful thing that will not just lie somewhere in the corner, but will be used for its intended purpose.
Plastic
What can be made from household plastic waste? This material is perfect for absolutely any product. For example, you can associate a themed holiday and do something interesting for it. Plastic is often used to build storage boxes or any other small item. It also happens that large objects are made of plastic. The main thing here is to turn on your imagination and show interest in the matter.
Fabric and accessories
Do you have any unwanted fabric or yarn left? Try making soft toys for your children or "painting" a real picture. To do this, you don’t have to buy new products, just take some materials, come up with an idea and turn it into reality. Various buttons, decorations, zippers will complement the look and make a truly unique product.
Metal
Such items are perfect for the male half, since the work will be labor-intensive and hardy. Metalworking may involve using force to bend or cut metal sheets.
There is no limit to imagination here, since a craft can be for both home and garden, have a decorative function or be functional.
Graceful courtyard
Conduct a real master class on crafts from waste in your yard. To do this, organize a cleanup day, collect all the waste that has accumulated in your yard, and together try to make figures for your favorite area. You can decorate the yard with figures of animals or people. To do this, you can use plastic bottles, paper and cardboard products, and in general all the garbage that is suitable for building crafts.
Art and income
Look at the photos of crafts made from waste, among which you can often even find dresses that were made from old bags or unnecessary items.
Moreover, if someone takes a fancy to your products, then most likely there will be an opportunity to sell it and make money practically out of thin air.
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Try it, maybe you can earn a lot of money from this. As an idea, you can use lamps that are very easily made from almost any waste material.
If you don’t have enough imagination, then step-by-step making of crafts with your own hands using diagrams can help you with this. Remember that such an activity not only adds joy, but also cleanses our world of garbage.
Photos of crafts made from waste
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Many housewives are unaware of how many necessary and useful things are stored in their home. Therefore, plastic bottles, disposable tableware, scraps of fabric and other items that seem unnecessary are thrown into the trash. Such improvised materials can be used. Crafts made from waste will decorate not only the yard, but also your home.
Crafts from paper waste
You can make a lot of interesting things out of old newspapers, magazines and cardboard boxes. One example is a cup holder. The workflow for making this craft from waste consists of several stages:
- Prepare 6 magazine pages. Carefully cut each of them into 2 halves.
- Fold the resulting strips in half. Cover the third part on the right side with the left. You should get 1 thick strip.
- The next stage is weaving. First you need to connect 2 parts. Add another one to them, wrapping it around the one located below (horizontally).
- Add 1 paper strip at a time like this so that it fits tightly to those already woven into the structure. The finished cup holder should have 6 stripes horizontally and vertically.
- Decorate the edges. Cut off the protruding ends and fix them under the closest weave.
- Apply to product any acrylic coating.
You can make other options for crafts from recycled materials:
- easel for drawing;
- child's playhouse;
- toy furniture;
- a children's stove (you will need pencils, old CDs and small bottle caps);
- a racing car, a rocket and any other vehicle.
Cardboard calendar
From cardboard tubes left over from toilet paper you will get an original calendar. To make it you need to take:
- bushings;
- paper suitable for scrapbooking;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- a piece of satin ribbon;
- colored paper;
- numbers printed on a printer;
- felt-tip pen or black marker.
The process is quite simple:
- Cut the bushings into pieces of different sizes.
- Cover the resulting parts with paper on both sides. You can put sweets, souvenirs, etc. inside as small surprises.
- Decorate each sleeve using colored paper.
- Fix the numbers. Lay out the parts in the desired order and tie them together with a ribbon.
Such crafts made from waste will help you not only decorate your interior, but also become a real designer, showing all your imagination and sense of style.
Options for what can be made from plastic waste
Plastic bottles, like leftover cardboard, are suitable for making crafts from recycled materials. One example is “apple” boxes. To make them you should prepare:
- 2 bottles;
- multi-colored cardboard;
- scraps of fabric;
- Super glue;
- scissors;
- awl;
- hole puncher;
- a twig made of any material;
- ribbon.
Before making crafts from household waste, you need to carefully separate the bottoms from the bottles. Use a hole punch to make holes in them. Thread and tie a ribbon there.
In the part that will be on top, use an awl to make a small hole. Insert a twig with paper or fabric leaves attached to it. Fix securely with glue.
This scrap craft can be used to store candy, jewelry, and other small items.
Disposable tableware products
Crafts made from garbage (from plastic plates, forks and spoons) are easy to make and have a rather attractive appearance. You can use them to make a bright handbag, attributes for a birthday celebration or any other children's party, an unusual lampshade, animal figurines, etc.
An example of such a craft made from recycled materials is a wreath made from cocktail straws. It’s easy to make; you just need to prepare a cardboard circle of a suitable diameter and a couple of packs of tubes in advance. The latter can be of different colors and sizes. Using a glue gun, the tubes must be securely fastened on both sides of the circle. Decorate with a bright bow or flower.
Crafts from knitted waste and accessories
To make crafts from recycled materials, scraps of fabric, buttons, zippers and other accessories are used. You can sew toys, decorative pillows, bags, etc. Old jeans, for example, are suitable for sewing a pillowcase:
- Take 16 denim belts or stripes. Intertwine them together.
- Make a polyester insert on the inside.
DIY pillowcase pattern made from knitted waste
The result will be a pillow measuring 45 by 45 cm.
Crafts made from recycled materials will decorate your yard or garden. Any material will do:
- bottles;
- used rubber;
- empty boxes;
- flower pots.
Yard decoration made from plastic bottles
In this case, crafts made from garbage can be doll houses, children's slides, decorative elements and even garden benches.
Crafts made from recycled materials or garbage are a great opportunity to give a second life to worn-out items, used containers or broken items. They will not only become a worthy decoration for your home/apartment or yard, but will also help protect the environment from unnecessary waste.
The topic of waste recycling is gaining popularity in our country. Social programs are being launched whose direct task is to offer residents of large cities and small towns the opportunity to use waste sorting, after which it can be more conveniently recycled. But few people can imagine that they can make crafts from garbage with their own hands for school.
general information
In this regard, there was even an idea to make separate lessons at school dedicated to ecology. It is worth highlighting several obvious advantages of recycling waste in our time:
- Reducing the final price of the product;
- Ecology and further life of the Earth;
- Improving living conditions.
To develop recycling habits, you must first explain to your children what the benefit of this action is. And this can only be done in a playful way.
Ecology theme in schools
Trash crafts for school can be easily implemented in several ways. You need to immediately understand that absolutely any hard or soft waste that has not yet been processed is considered waste. Of course, no one will make crafts from food waste, since there is no point in this process. The goal is to show the child that even garbage can be used for some creative ideas. And doing this from decomposing organic waste is almost impossible.
Therefore, difficult-to-degrade types of waste are most often used for this purpose. These include:
- Aluminum cans;
- Batteries;
- Internal combustion batteries.
Of course, there are other categories. Recycling has many directions, but it is important not to overload the child with information that is personally useless to him, but to teach him the actual recycling of garbage, explaining its meaning. To do this, you just need to conduct a gaming session in class.
And here the creative process begins. You can safely give your child the opportunity to choose what project he will do. It just so happens that any thing in the hands of a baby will immediately come to life and become a new project.
Crafts from waste for school are made with your own hands at home or in a special lesson, which is now conducted at the expense of the Ministry of Education. But such a fact is rare, so far only Moscow and St. Petersburg have already held such open lessons. Yekaterinburg, Ryazan and Kazan are next in line.
Public lesson
There are many ways to make crafts from garbage for children with your own hands together with their parents, because the child himself is not very capable of working with such complex materials. He needs parental help, and helping children is the duty of every adult. Even if an adult has no intention of breaking away from personal affairs, you should know that a child can easily damage his health if he is allowed to come into contact with some subtle matters alone.
Usually a special lesson is held according to a certain pattern. First, parents are asked to talk to their child about the benefits of recycling. Since there is only enough time at school to make crafts, we need to somehow organize a theoretical basis for such a project. In a conversation, an adult should immediately invite the child to try to assemble his first craft on his own. When he studies the entire range of materials, you can ask him to plan and create a prototype of the future craft in his head. After which you can already collect the necessary materials for it.
An open lesson, as a rule, involves more than just creating crafts. While the child is busy and his attention can be used for his own purposes, teachers give a specially prepared lecture on recycling.
There is, of course, a minus at this stage. Both the open lesson itself and the lecture must be conducted by a trained person. His task is to be both an animator and a subtle child psychologist. In other countries, open environmental lessons are held regularly. Children at an early age already know this topic, so almost everyone can do a craft on this topic. Similar lessons have been conducted in our country before, but now this topic is becoming even more relevant.
What can be done
Favorite materials for crafts are plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes, plastic caps, old CDs, cardboard tubes from toilet paper rolls or paper towels, disposable plastic and cardboard utensils - plates, cups, spoons and forks. As well as car tires, paint cans, old newspapers, magazines and much more.
There are no barriers to imagination if there is something from which you can work, creating some interesting products . In this case, you should follow a few simple rules:
Many adults try to add a lot of tricks to simple crafts made from household waste made by a child with their own hands. After all, this has been the case since time immemorial - any creative task must be won, and not get maximum pleasure from the process.
To create a craft story, you need to think about several parameters. You immediately need to put everything in the hands of your offspring, so that he himself can logically explain what waste recycling means for him personally. Let him make mistakes, let him confuse concepts - the goal is to prove to him that recycling can be an interesting process, a fun game, and not a tedious lecture. Design and its creation allow you to include the creative possibilities of the baby.
Learning is a given in the modern world. And as soon as among this variety of actions you encounter a couple or three interesting ones, you can safely forget about the very possibility of learning. This is the only moment at which a son or daughter can ask for help. And you need to provide it at the first call.
The last point in this plan, where handmade crafts from waste for children will be completed during an open lesson. Do not help your child until he asks for help. Taking away the most important moment of learning is stupid, but many parents do just that with their children.
Types of crafts
Do-it-yourself crafts from household waste, made at home, can be both useful, which can then be used in the house as part of his immediate everyday life, and those that will still go in the trash, but for a couple of days the child will be occupied only with it and nothing else. other toys. Every student can make crafts from garbage with their own hands and take them to school. And finding a use for your invention is really difficult work.
Popular DIY waste craft for children - birdhouse that can be hung in the garden. This craft has existed since the Soviet Union, because the model of such lessons did not just come, but has existed since a very long time. The goal is as simple as a March day. An old box turns into a new house for birds, which is let in and does not last long, but fits into the coordinate system of ecologists. The birds inhabit the box, making it their home.
Over the life of the birdhouse, bird excrement changes the properties of the box, making it recyclable by nature. After the birdhouse falls to the ground, the worms will slowly begin to eat it. They will eat cardboard that is digestible for their body, recycling the boxes instead of spending extra money on the process.
Bridges are assembled from batteries, fastened with wire. It must be said right away that such projects very often go together for recycling. The process of separating and separating batteries is very expensive. But if you store all the batteries in one place and don’t touch them, this pile will decompose only after 250 years. All this time, the batteries will harm the soil, actually contaminating it with harmful impurities.
And here it is important to understand several things right away. Even if we build huge factories and start recycling all lithium batteries tomorrow, it will still take at least five long years for the inhabitants of the planet to see the first results.
Return system
Many schoolchildren began creating robots from boxes and cans. This is due to the fact that now in almost every district there is a special machine gun. He takes a jar found or brought on the street and gives a certain percentage of the money into your hands. The business is unprofitable, but it’s very good as cashback. This system was not invented in our country. It has existed since the nineties, and was primarily introduced in Germany. The whole topic of ecology came from Europe, since the Asian part has not yet even thought about preserving Mother Nature in its original form.
If you explain to a child that part of the money can be returned for a purchased product by returning its components, he will probably immediately be glad to understand this scheme. But so far no one here is too eager to take the concept to a different level. There are a couple of places that are willing to cover the costs, but they are owned by private investors. Meanwhile, the issue is already acute in some regions, because people live in a created world of constant stench.
There is a chance to change the situation for the better, there is a chance to stop living like pigs. But to do this, you need to work with the younger generation, literally explaining to them what will work and how. Of course, additional infrastructure still needs to be created. Otherwise, all undertakings will simply go down the drain.
Today, many adults are truly concerned that our children are mostly destroyers, not creators. They are trying to solve this problem. And these wise educators offer an interesting solution - do-it-yourself crafts from garbage! Children who see this and then begin to turn unnecessary trash into amazingly beautiful things themselves will certainly be characterized by a desire for creativity and creativity.
Fairytale house made of plastic bottles
As you know, plastic practically does not decompose in the ground. And during processing it emits harmful gases. Therefore, it is easier to reuse drink containers than to destroy them or recycle them at recycling plants. And craftsmen with “golden hands” offer to make such crafts from garbage with their own hands for children’s playgrounds, such as gazebos or houses from plastic “eggplants”. Even the roof of a building can be made from cut bottles, gluing the pieces “under the tiles” and painting it in a bright color.
Of course, adults must do the main work of constructing the bottle building, and children can only act as observers. However, even such participation will bring great benefits to the kids.
Original flower beds on children's playgrounds
Large things that are often found in landfills can also be successfully used and creative crafts made from garbage. With your own hands, it is appropriate for children on the territory of the institution to make flower beds from old toilet bowls, painting them and turning them into cheerful gnomes who have green grass and bright flowers instead of hair.
And an iron bed can easily turn into a flowerbed if you work a little magic on it. Although here you can’t do without additional material: boards will be needed to make a box, which is strengthened where the mattress used to be. Plants should be planted as climbers that will “crawl” along the headboards of the bed and hang down beautifully.
Flowerbeds made from old tires are very common today. They are used either one at a time or stacked in a pyramid, arranging a “vertical” flower garden.
Students themselves can make crafts from garbage for school, such as flower beds from bags. They just need to fill the bags with earth and old leaves, which they will collect from the site in the spring while cleaning the area, make small holes in the bags, where they put the seeds of climbing plants. Caring for these flower beds is common: watering and weeding. But the extraordinary beauty of the site is guaranteed!
Sculptures made from trash
DIY trash crafts for kids can be truly fundamental. Fairy-tale creators suggest making entire sculptures from used plastic containers. Some build huge fish from bottles, while others specialize in elephants made from disposable cups or cups.
Very often you can see such crafts made from garbage for children, such as sculptures from car tires. Moreover, craftsmen turn them into swans, and dinosaurs, and giraffes, and hares, and squirrels, cutting the rubber here and there and painting the product in the desired colors.
Handicraft competitions at school
Competitions for craftsmen and needlewomen will help to instill in teenagers a desire to create. A separate point in this competition should be crafts made from garbage. It is very important for schools to instill in the younger generation the desire to do something unique, to make a discovery, albeit small. Children's imagination, as everyone knows, is inexhaustible! And crafts made from garbage for children are one of the ways of self-expression.
Surely kids will bring here whole compositions of broken toys, sculptures made of clay or plasticine, covered with buttons, scattered Lego parts, and made from plastic bottles.
Weaving from newspapers
Many crafts made from household waste at the children's competition will surprise even adults. For example, charming boxes and vases woven from newspaper tubes can be a real discovery for some. But making such things is not so difficult.
Old newspapers are cut into strips about 6 cm wide. Then this part is wound on a knitting needle so as to form a tube. To do this, the knitting needle is applied to the right corner of the strip at 30 degrees to the long base of the rectangle. You need to twist the paper tightly. The strip will curl around the knitting needle, partly covering the finished tube, and partly lengthening it. The tip of the paper original part should be glued.
A product is woven from ready-made tubes in the same way as things are woven from willow and willow twigs. You can extend the end of the tube by inserting another one into its hole. For strength, it is also recommended to coat the tip of the new tube with glue.
Amazing things made from trash bags
It is appropriate to create an entire exhibition for children's creations. For example, an exhibition where crafts made from garbage bags will be presented can be very original. Craftsmen and craftsmen will present to the audience, for example, wickerwork from carved various baskets, boxes, vases, even bedside tables for dirty laundry.
And especially gifted ones will try to create clothes knitted from this creative “yarn”. Otherwise, crafts made from garbage bags, such as a ball gown with a fluffy skirt made from inflated and tied garbage bags, or an elegant crocheted handbag, cannot be called a masterpiece. Using colored bags as the starting material, you can create a charming attribute for a fashionista.
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Increasingly, polyethylene cut into strips is used by craftswomen for knitting. Here you just need to take into account that it is best to cut the bags in a spiral so that the “thread” is as long as possible. Wonderful washcloths and floor mats are made from this “yarn.”
Those who are wondering how to make crafts from garbage should look at these two photos.
For strength and stability, ordinary clothesline or soft insulated wire is tied with packet tape. You should knit with a single crochet. By the way, here too you can use trash prepared for discarding (rope, twine or unnecessary wire).
After the bottom of the product is knitted (round for a box or oval for a handbag), adding loops in the rows must be completed. And if you knit strictly along the loops of the previous row, the product will “grow” upward.
Handles for a handbag or a lid for a box or chest can also be knitted.
Elegant and useful items made from old fabric
Children's crafts made from garbage can be quite practical and can be used in everyday life. These, for example, will be rugs made from strips of old fabric. They are also easy to crochet.
Rugs can also be created using sewing. To do this, pieces of multi-colored material are placed in rows on a base cut from thick fabric. You can cut them in the form of triangles or squares, circles or petals. You need to stitch the row along the top part. Then you should lay the pieces of the second row so that their lower part overlaps the seam line. The row is stitched again. In this way, you can sew not only a rug, but also a creative bag for shopping or for storing small items, toilet paper, or a newspaper holder.
Products from old jeans
A skilled craftsman will find a use for any trash. For example, from old jeans you can cut strips, process the edges and weave a beautiful one. It is best used when making fabric of different shades to highlight the principle of weaving. Pockets for small items should be sewn onto the panel, decorating them with applique.
You can weave a bedspread for a chair or sofa, a rug, or a handbag using the technique described. Although sewn together they look extremely elegant.
By the way, an original accessory can be obtained for an extravagant fashionista if she cuts off the top part of her jeans, which have become too small for her, as for shorts, sews up the bottom of the legs, and attaches handles to the belt.
The use of colored lids from plastic dishes in children's creativity
Making crafts from garbage for the garden also plays a huge role. For very young children, you can offer simple applications - flowers, bees, butterflies or caterpillars.
Older children can already create a picture in the form of a mosaic, where the background of the picture is also laid out with lids. By the way, it is reasonable to use this technique to decorate gazebos and houses on the playground, doors and walls in the room itself.
Creating works of children's creativity from disposable cardboard plates
In manual labor classes, educators can also use unnecessary trash as source material. Interesting crafts from garbage for the garden, such as applications from disposable plates made of cardboard. Using scissors, glue and paints, you can easily create beautiful wall decorations in the form of cute animals.
Sometimes you don't need glue to create panels from cardboard plates. You can use a stapler to connect the parts of a caterpillar or an adorable cat.
Parsley-shifter
The motto of true creators and creators should be: “Give a second chance to everything you are going to throw away!” Even something as useless at first glance as the inside of a toilet paper roll can be reused.
For example, the wonderful Upside Down Parsley is easily made using this part. You just need to prepare a metal ball of slightly smaller diameter than the cylinder itself. After placing the ball inside the part, the ends of the tube should be sealed with cloth. Now the part should be checked for functionality. The tube is placed vertically on an inclined surface and released. The ball, having rolled to the edge with the fabric, should not drag the entire structure down, but, having rolled over the fabric, turn its upper end down, simulating the process of “tumbling” forward.
If the required length of the cylinder and the weight of the ball are selected correctly experimentally, you can proceed to the next stage - sewing the upper part of the toy, that is, Parsley itself. The weight of the ball and its volume can be increased using plasticine and small metal parts placed inside the mass.
Egg coasters for Easter. Master Class
Crafts made from garbage can even decorate a holiday table. For example, elegant coasters for Easter eggs can be easily made from cardboard toilet paper cylinders, even for a child.
- A stand of the required length is cut from the middle part of the roll.
- A strip of glue is smeared in the middle of the cylinder.
- A decoration for a cylinder is made from corrugated paper by cutting off a rectangle of equal height, but slightly wider than the circumference of the tube.
- Glue a frill of corrugated paper so that you get a fluffy “skirt” at the bottom and top.
- The place where the frill is attached is decorated with a piece of lace, a “belt” made of golden paper, an elegant cord, or tied with a ribbon with a bow.
You can make a stand in the shape of a blooming flower by gluing petals to the top of the cylinder. You can decorate the stand with applique by gluing bright pictures cut out from old unnecessary magazines onto the outside of the craft.
By making beautiful things from trash, people show their taste, help realize their creative potential, save money, and make the world around them beautiful and bright.