Master class Weaving: Pots from plastic bottles And plastic bags Plastic bottles, waste material

Dear craftswomen and masters!

I think I came up with something new!
We've got a few big 5's liter bottles from under water. And since I really love weaving, my thoughts worked in this direction.

So let's take a bottle

We cut off the lower half and cut it into vertical strips (it must be an uneven number!), not reaching the bottom a couple of centimeters (so that the water does not leak when watering). You can see in the photo that I just made a mistake and cut too low!!! Don't repeat it!!!

Now we take bags (I had regular T-shirts and for garbage) and make yarn out of them, alternating colors to suit your taste. Let me not repeat myself and just give a link to a detailed MK on how to do it: http://stranamasterov.ru/node/84004?tid=451%2C363
I hope Elena.ost won’t mind :-)

And we begin to put the cut bottle back together to its previous shape. For convenience, you can insert a whole eggplant into our blank and braid it, as when weaving with magazine tubes - I think everything is clear in the photo: we pull the yarn behind one ribbon and in front of the next.

This is what happens. I increase the yarn as we weave different colors- the upper part turned out to be a checkerboard pattern of alternating two white and two green packet rings.

In some places the yarn breaks - I have to tie it back - in such cases I try to hide them inside, and then with a lighter, bringing it a little closer to the knot, I melt it. I also run a light over the places where the yarn doesn’t lie straight or is puffy - everything immediately looks neater

Now even the broken branches of begonia grow roots in a beautiful flowerpot...

And other flowers are not offended...

Greetings, dear friends! There are flowers in almost everyone. They all stand in sometimes nondescript and ordinary store-bought pots. But what if you give them a twist? Today we invite you to learn how to decorate pots with your own hands.

To do this, you can use a variety of materials: glass pebbles for aquariums, lace, buttons and even simple pencils. The result is vibrant handmade products that you can’t help but admire.

DIY pots: unusual options

The ability to make something original and new out of unnecessary or ordinary things is very valuable when decorating a home. Create with your own hands from scrap materials useful thing- one of the most common hobbies, and hand made never loses its popularity.

You can make any thing yourself - from decorative ornaments to pieces of furniture. Here we will look at decorating a flower pot with our own hands, which provides enormous scope for creativity. Products created by craftsmen are suitable for both rural houses and country gardens, as well as modern interior apartments.

You can consider decorating a flower pot from finished base in the form of the most ordinary plastic or earthenware, or you can use things that at first glance are unsuitable for this as a base - cans, glass vessels, cardboard, pebbles, various Decoration Materials and many other items.

A masterpiece from nothing

For lovers of handicrafts, decorating a flower pot with your own hands will not cause any special problems. Moreover, they can use a variety of materials to make it. It is only important that appearance The product was combined with the decoration of an apartment or house. Vases, pots, containers for house plants can be made from everything you find at hand.

Used items

Everyone probably has used aluminum cans, cans of paint and other liquids, etc. appearance leaves much to be desired, but the right decor will help you create unique and interesting things. For example, quite tall banks from canned pineapples or other fruits, soups, canned pet food and decorative paints you can simply wash it, carefully remove the labels and use it as flower pots. Their silvery surface looks interesting in a high-tech or minimalist style.

If the jars become bent during use or look unsightly, you can further decorate them with fabric, fur, pebbles or walnut shells. Directly about decorating flower pots we will talk a little lower. Or you can just paint it.

Everyone definitely has plastic bottles. modern man. You shouldn’t throw them away right away, because you can create a lot of useful things from them. For example, by leaving the necks of bottles, you can make beautiful flowerpots for climbing plants. To use the base of the bottle as a flower pot, you need to give it strength and decorate it in an interesting way.

fashionable in Lately began to use old shoes as flower pots. These can be rubber boots or summer rubber slippers. Most often they are used in gardens and dachas, in modern apartments they are not so appropriate.

An old leaky bucket makes a great place for a large fern or other massive plant. To do this, the handles of the bucket are removed, the base is decorated and turned into a designer masterpiece.

The design of a flower pot and the process of creating it from old records seems interesting. Vinyl record heats up and easily changes its shape. If you give it the shape of a pot or bowl, you get very stylish decorative items.

You can glue wooden or plastic clothespins together to form a plant pot, or use broken children's toys. Pots are also woven from rolled newspapers or magazine pages. It all depends only on your imagination, free time and desire.

From old bags, lampshades, boxes, plastic packaging, watering cans or other equipment, you can also create unique pots, vases or containers for indoor plants. Even from used rubber tires you can create an interesting flower pot, however, you cannot do this without brute male power.

Construction materials

Boards, cardboard, leftover decorative tiles, broken bricks, chicken wire or various barrels can also be used to make excellent stands or pots for plants.

From thick or corrugated cardboard you can create completely different pots or flowerpots for indoor and garden plants. These can be regular round versions of the pots, or they can be elongated rectangular or diamond-shaped models. You can find a design for such a model from folk craftsmen, or you can come up with it yourself, remembering technology or creativity lessons at school.

It is quite simple to design a flower pot from boards or wooden blocks. Having cut out the base, you can easily use nails or glue to create a real flowerpot for large indoor plants. Moreover, products made from rough, untreated boards are more suitable for streets, while processed wood looks great in an apartment. It can be additionally decorated with burlap, ribbons and other decorative details.

Remains of decorative ceramic tiles can be used to create a small square flower pot by simply gluing the pieces together. Mirror tiles and mosaic options look interesting.

Wire mesh can be used as planters, large production barrels are suitable for installations with large garden plants, and they don’t even need to be particularly decorated: rough stands with delicate garden plants look harmonious.

Made from natural material

The most common method for making flower pots is considered to be natural material. This could be a pebble, a stump, shells from various nuts, pine cones, etc.

From pebbles - flat pebbles of a streamlined shape - you can easily glue together an entire decorative composition, in which there is room for a houseplant. You can also use cones or nut shells.

From ordinary hemp or logs, which are often used as seating in the garden, you can cut inner part and plant a plant there. It looks very stylish in the garden.

You can also create an interesting pot for indoor plants from vines or various twigs, but products made from vines are not so easy to make.

It’s interesting to decorate a flower pot with your own hands from half a coconut shell. They make excellent flowerpots for small plants that will fit perfectly into an eco-style interior.

Decorating the ordinary

Now let's consider the question of how to decorate a flower pot, what techniques can be used and what materials to use. Moreover, you can use the most ordinary store-bought plastic or clay pots, or you can decorate what was obtained as a result of the skillful use of used things.

One of the common ways to decorate a flower pot is to paste the product. various materials. These could be shells, beautiful pebbles, glass shards, birch bark, coffee beans, cereals, nut shells or cones, buttons or beads. With their help, you can create a certain picture on the surface of the pot using different textures or colors.

A special decoration is considered to be eggshells, which are applied to the surface using the crackle technique. shell from boiled eggs pre-cleaned, degreased in a baking soda solution, and then dried. Then PVA glue is applied to the surface of the pot, and the shell is placed on top with the convex side up. Cover the top of the shell with a napkin or paper and press to form cracks. To keep the shell parts further apart, you can push them apart with a toothpick. The pattern is covered with ink on top, and after it penetrates into the cracks, it is washed off from the shell itself with a damp cloth. Ink remains inside the cracks, and the shell has its original appearance. All this splendor can be varnished on top.

Also, decorating flower pots involves painting them, and the colors are selected to match the interior. Drawings can be abstract or realistic, and you can also use the decoupage technique to apply various images that repeat patterns on walls or textiles. You can also put some inscriptions on the surface of the pot.

You can also use polymer clay for decoration, creating bas-reliefs using toothpicks on the surface of the pot.

Wrapping pots in fabric or fur is also considered an excellent decorative technique. To ensure that the fabric or burlap holds well, you can tie it with strings, or you can glue it tightly. Using knitted material, such as the sleeves of an old sweater, you can create winter “clothes” for pots that can easily be stretched over small containers.

You can also wrap a flowerpot with twine or thick rope, then decorate it for contrast satin ribbon. Decorate the surfaces of flower pots with coconut fiber, dry grass, and acorns.

An interesting idea on how to decorate a flower pot is to cover it with pencils or dry sticks. The first option is perfect for a creative workshop, and the second - for an eco-style interior. To do this, you need to take pencils or dry twigs of the same length and, tightly gluing or tying them to each other, as if wrapping them in a pot.

Creating and decorating flower pots will be a real treat for lovers of such entertainment. With constant practice, you can create truly interesting, unique and original things, which will give the interior of your home or the appearance of your garden spontaneity and individuality.

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Gardeners and indoor plant lovers should definitely know how to make flower pots with their own hands. Tubs and pots will transform the interior and add a “zest” to each plant. In addition, homemade pots will help you save money and get rid of unnecessary items and materials.

Decorative pots give great opportunities for creativity. They can be painted, decorated with decoupage, ribbons, fabric, accessories, made from different materials and give it the most unusual shape.

We do it ourselves

It’s not hard to think of what you can make pots out of.

Any material is suitable for flower pots, including waste material, which does not allow moisture to pass through and holds its shape well.

Undoubtedly, the most beautiful and comfortable pots are ceramic. If it is possible to make a pot on potter's wheel, then you should confidently use it. Clay - optimal material for planting domestic and ornamental plants. It retains moisture and allows air to pass through, does not overheat and holds its shape well.

If it is not possible to make a pot yourself, then you can purchase a ready-made one and figure out what and how to decorate it. There are many ideas for decorating pots. It is not necessary to paint the pot with paints; you can use your imagination and come up with the most unusual “outfits” for it.

Thrifty gardeners can save money on a ceramic pot and make it from scrap materials. The simplest pots and tubs are made from plastic bottles. Just cut it off top part, fill up the soil and start planting the plant. However, you can get a little creative and make elegant flower pots from such an unattractive material as plastic.

For making two versions of pots You will need the following materials and tools:

• 1.5-2 liter bottle;
• CD;
• glue gun;
• stationery knife;
• marker;
• hole puncher;
• spray paint.

Progress:

1. Draw a wavy line in a circle approximately in the middle of the bottle (you can have a straight line) and carefully cut the bottle into two parts along it (you get two blanks for pots);

1. Glue the part with the neck to the middle of the disk (before screwing the lid tightly);

1. When the glue sets, turn the workpiece over and drip a little glue along the edges for stability;

1. Use a hole punch to make holes along the wavy edges;

1. Spray paint the resulting pots and wait until completely dry.

The pots are ready! You can plant plants.

To ensure that the edges of the cut bottle are even and smooth, they can be trimmed with a soldering iron. You can also use a soldering iron to give the edges an original shape.

Hanging pots are also easy to make from bottles. The simplest model is suspended from both sides - by the bottom and neck. One side of the bottle must be cut lengthwise, and two through holes must be made on the sides with an awl or soldering iron so that the pot-bottle can be hung.

Plants can be planted directly in such pots, or they can be used as flowerpots. If desired, paint the outside of the bottles with acrylic paint.

More interesting models are cats. To make them you will need:

• bottles with embossed bottom;
• marker;
• spray paint;
• stationery knife;
• soldering iron or awl;
• ropes or pieces of strong fishing line (4 pcs.);
• sample.

1. Cut off the bottom of the bottle;

1. Draw ears by hand or using a template and cut them out;

1. Paint the workpiece from a spray can and wait until it dries completely;

1. Make a muzzle with a marker: draw eyes, ears, mustache, nose;

1. To hang the pot, you need to make holes on four sides and thread ropes or fishing lines into them.

Ready! You can plant a plant.

Instead of cats, you can make other animals, for example, a bunny or a bear.

Original pots are easily made using tin cans and clothespins. To do this you need to do the following:

1. Peel off the label and wash tin can, dry;

1. Attach ordinary wooden clothespins tightly to each other to the wall of the jar.

The result was a small pot, reminiscent of a traditional tub. If desired, you can paint the clothespins with acrylic paints, and so that they retain their original appearance longer, coat them with varnish.

Eco-friendly pots and vases can be made from wood. They will decorate both the apartment and Vacation home. Tree - cheap material, easy to process. However, it is worth remembering that when making a wooden pot, the hygroscopicity of wood should be taken into account. To prevent the tub from starting to rot or deteriorate from moisture, it must be treated in a special way - soaked in moisture-protective agents, covered with stain, varnish or other means.

The easiest way is to assemble a pot from ready-made wooden beams, securing them with glue or nails.

Unusual outdoor wooden tubs and flowerpots for summer cottage can be made directly from a piece of log. To do this you need:

• a log or stump of sufficiently large diameter;
• drill with a drill length of up to 25 cm and a diameter of 20 mm;
• chisel;
• file and sandpaper for smoothing the walls of the pot;
• impregnation for wood against moisture and decay;
• polyethylene.

What to do:

1. Cut the selected log, making it the desired height (usually ground flowerpots are made from 40 cm);

1. Using a drill, destroy the core of the log: make several holes in a circle at equal distances from the walls, and then make holes in the middle;

1. Using a chisel, remove the middle of the log and level the walls;

1. Impregnate the wood from the inside with moisture-proofing agents, lay down polyethylene and begin planting plants.

You can also use a log pot as a flowerpot: place a plastic or ceramic pot with a plant in it.

You can see a few ideas of what else can be used for a flower pot in the photo:

Video on the topic of the article

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The idea of ​​​​creating a flower pot from plastic bottle can't be called new. However, I have not yet seen this craft in this version. In fact, the container was originally intended for planting onions, which in the spring, while still in the refrigerator, begin to actively germinate.
Ordinary cups or boxes do little to decorate the windowsill, if not to say that they completely spoil its appearance. Last year, my household successfully planted onions in pots where flowers grew. The plants turned out to be quite friendly neighbors. The flowers did not react in any way to the appearance of the onions, and the uninvited guest, in turn, pleased the hostess with lush greenery.
This year, in order not to embarrass indoor flowers, I decided to make several flower pots from plastic bottles. Here is the result of one of the works.

For used:
- brown and white plastic bottle
- ready-made eyes for toys
- scissors
- pliers
- fire
- pink nail polish
- glue for plastic, glass or wooden parts.

First, cut the brown bottle in half to get a glass of the required height. Further from the top part with the neck, we cut out the lion cub's head in the form of an irregular oval. Initially, the shape of the bottle makes our head convex.
We cut the edges of the oval into thin strips up to 1 cm long. This is how we imitate animal fur. We bring the ends of the strips to the flame gas burner, matches or candles for a few seconds. The plastic melts and takes on slight bends. The base for the head of the craft is ready.

We return again to the top of the bottle with the neck and cut out the lion cub’s face in the form of a figure eight. This part also turns out to be convex. Traditionally, melt the edges of the muzzle over the flame of the burner.

We cut out rings from white plastic and make two strips from them. Then, using scissors, we thickly cut strips along the length, leaving approximately 0.5 cm intact from the opposite edge. We melt the parts over the fire and get a fluffy mustache.

Then we cut out a drop from the remains of white plastic and paint it in pink color. This is the language of an animal.

All that remains is to decorate the lion cub’s tail. To do this, we bend half or even 2/3 of a brown ring cut from a plastic bottle in several places, and burn the tops of the bends with fire. Due to the deformation of the plastic, we get the curved line we need.

To decorate the tail tassel, you need to cut one side of the rectangular plastic into thin strips, then roll the rectangle into a tube and burn both ends of the “tassel” over the fire. The stripes will curl and become curly. Next, we will attach the tail itself to the rounded base of the brush.

At the last stage we put the parts together. First we glue the head of the lion cub, then the muzzle, and attach the mustache, nose and mouth to the muzzle. We glue the eyes above the cheeks, and the tail from the back.

Decorating your home interior or garden with an original flower pot made from plastic bottles is very easy! You don't have to apply special efforts, besides this option It's also quite economical. The only thing you need here is your imagination, non-standard solutions and an ordinary plastic bottle!

This master class describes in detail the process of making an original flowerpot in the shape of a cute owlet.

To do this you need:
- plastic bottle;
- scissors;
- marker;
- an owl template, you can find it on the Internet or draw it yourself;
- acrylic paints;
— synthetic or kolinsky brush;
- a piece of foam sponge;
- rope;
— acrylic paint For facade works(water emulsion),
— transparent acrylic varnish (required).
So, let's get started...

A plastic bottle can be taken in any shade and size. For the master class, I took a two-liter bottle. Next, I cut the bottle in half. The lower part of the bottle will be the main one; if desired, it can be made higher. This is what happened.

We put the pre-prepared template inside the flowerpot and transfer its outline onto the plastic using an ordinary black marker.

The picture should look like this.

You can use other animal patterns to make flowerpots.

We determine how far below the owlet’s face the rim of the product will go, while marking the place of the cut.

After this, carefully cut off the excess material.

If the flowerpot is hanging, then leave small loops; if not, cut off exactly part of the rim. This is what the workpiece looks like.

We make holes in the loops for the rope. Since this is a flowerpot, special holes in the bottom are not required.

Before painting, the craft should be coated with white water-based emulsion so that the colored paints adhere well to the plastic.

I use a foam sponge for a dense, uniform coating, since when applied with a brush the surface will be bald.

I carefully cover the entire outer part of the product, without touching the contour lines of the face.

You will get a surface like this, it is a little textured due to the thick consistency of the paint.

The result is something like this.

After applying the layer, the surface of the pots should be completely dry. If desired, the procedure can be repeated.

Gradually drawing wings, eyes, feathers, etc.

Experiment with texture.

For better contrast of some details, you can use a marker.

This is what happened in the end.

After the painting has dried, we apply acrylic facade varnish to the entire surface of the outer walls of the flowerpot.

Such products have different effects after drying (matte, silky-matte or glossy), you can choose at your discretion. This procedure is mandatory, because when spraying or watering, water will often get on the pots, and water is the main destroyer of these paints. The product should be coated with it in several layers, I cover it in two. Every next layer It will take longer to dry, keep this nuance in mind!

Once the cover of the plant pot has completely dried, it is time to thread the rope through the loops.

WITH inside It is necessary to make large knots so that the rope does not slip back.

This is what the craft will look like without a flowerpot.

We insert a small flowerpot with flowers into the flowerpot.

That's all, the original flower pot made from plastic bottles is ready!

The final look of the craft. Photo 1.

The final look of the craft. Photo 2.

The final look of the craft. Photo 3.