You can easily decorate your site with original crafts from plastic bottles! Such material is quite durable and easy to process, due to which a wide variety of products are created.
For example, you can create a wonderful palm tree from plastic bottles with your own hands! Such an evergreen palm tree will decorate your site or, for example, a playground all year round.
This master class will help you to make such a craft!
You will need materials and tools such as:
- plastic bottles of brown shade and green;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- thick wire for the frame.
To begin with, it is worth deciding how high the palm tree will be. In this case, the palm tree will be approximately 1.5 meters high, and the second one - 50 cm. This requires about 23-25 bottles of brown for the trunk and 15 bottles of green for the crown!
To create the barrel, the brown bottles need to be cut in half as in the photo below.
We need bottles of different sizes, those that are larger to use at the base, and smaller ones at the top of the barrel. The bottle caps must be removed. You will need both the top of the bottle and the bottom.
Then, the edges of the blanks are cut out in the form of petals, you should get about 6 "petals".
After, they must be bent.
You should get such a blank.
In the future, they will fold into each other. Since there is no hole for the wire at the bottom of the bottle, it must be made with a hot nail, a knife, or drilled. By folding the blanks, you get a rather fluffy palm trunk.
After all the details for the palm trunk are ready, you need to start creating the palm leaves!
The bottles can be used in different shades of green. You can also experiment with the volume of containers, for example, use two-liter containers at the base, and arrange smaller ones at the top. To do this, on green bottles, you need to cut off the neck and bottom.
Then, cut the bottle into thirds.
If you want wider leaves, you can only cut it in two. You will get such a blank.
After that, the strips need to be straightened in different directions.
This will give a certain splendor to the crown!
Now, the simplest and final stage in creating a palm tree from a plastic container remains!
After all the parts are ready, you need to securely install a wire frame or other suitable material in the desired location on the site. And then, string all the received details of the palm tree onto the frame.
Using a large stopper from a five-liter bottle, make a retainer on top to securely fix the leaves. To do this, in the center of the plug, you need to make a hole slightly smaller in diameter than the frame.
Then, after the crown is completely assembled, put it on the wire!
That's all, it turned out to be a very original palm tree that can be installed on the site or on the playground!
The final view of the craft. Photo 1.
The final view of the craft. Photo 2.
Such a craft, of course, will decorate the area, as well as give a positive mood to the kids, including a plastic basket made by hand!
Instructions for making a palm tree from plastic bottles.
At the moment, there are many ways to decorate your summer cottage. For this, plastic bottles, tires and flower pots are used. If you wish and have a good imagination, you can independently come up with a new version of creating an exotic tree.
The main materials for making palm trees for the country:
- Plastic bottles
- Flower pots
Below are interesting and non-standard options for making a palm tree for a summer cottage.
It all depends on the size of the tree. If you have a large summer cottage, then you can make a fairly tall palm tree with a lush crown. It is enough to take 10-15 brown plastic bottles for the barrel. The approximate volume of bottles is 2.5 liters. The larger the bottle, the larger the barrel diameter will be. You will need 10-30 green plastic containers for the crown. This spread in quantity is explained by the fact that the shape of the leaves can differ significantly.
How to make a palm tree out of plastic bottles with your own hands in stages: step by step instructions
There are many ways to make an exotic tree. Methods of cutting bottles differ from each other. It depends on the availability of free time and imagination.
Palm making materials:
- 12 bottles of 2.5 l brown
- 20 green bottles with a volume of 1.5-2 liters
- Cable, 1-1.5 cm thick
- Metal tube for stem
Instructions:
- Take brown containers and cut off the bottom along the contour of the grooves, as a result, the bottom of the bottle should resemble an asterisk
- Cut the container 10 cm before the neck of the bottle, you should get 6 petals
- On a steel tube, previously dug into the ground, string the prepared structures from the bottles. You should have a raised trunk.
- Start making leaves. Cut the green containers in half and cut the top into strips. The width of the strip should be 2-3 mm. The thinner the stripes, the fluffier the crown.
- Now string 4 plastic blanks on the cable. The cable must be rigid enough. It should bend well, but also keep its shape.
- On top of the rod with the trunk, attach a sheet of wood with 5 holes in a circle. Insert prepared leaves into these holes. Adjust the bottles if necessary
The barrel can be made by cutting a pipe from a plastic bottle. But there is also an option that will allow you to use the bottoms. In this case, much more raw materials will be needed.
Instructions:
- As a basis for making the trunk, you can use a flat wooden log of the required height
- Cut off the bottom of the brown plastic bottle. Using the screws, screw the bottoms into the barrel
- Do this in a circle, simulating the relief of the trunk of a palm tree.
- Continue screwing the bottoms to the very top of the log.
- But you can make the trunk of a palm tree from the cylindrical part of the bottle.
- To do this, the lower part is cut off, and the bottle itself is only half cut into 6 petals
- After that, the bottles are connected to each other.
The crown can be crafted using green plastic bottles. The density of the palm branches depends on the number of plastic bottles.
Instructions:
- To do this, you need to take green bottles and cut them into thin strips, after cutting off the bottom.
- Thus, a branch is formed and several bottles, which are then fastened together, by stringing one on top of the other
- If there are not so many bottles, then branches can be made in a different way. For this, the green container is cut into 5 parts, not to the end of the bottle. There is a distance in the neck area
- With the help of scissors, a kind of fringe is made along the edges of the cut petals. It is necessary to make it stick out in different directions.
- The resulting leaves must be connected to each other, forming a crown
How to make a crown for a palm tree from plastic bottles?
To do this, you need a base, and the leaves themselves.
Instructions:
- Take a copper cable cut it into small pieces
- String the workpieces onto the wire and secure the edges
- Bend the cable if necessary
- Next, you need to insert the leaves into the base for the crown, it can be a metal ring or a blank made of wood with holes
How to collect a palm tree from plastic bottles
The palm is going from bottom to top. To do this, you need the following components:
- Barrel blanks
- Metal pipe
- Crown
- Scotch
Instructions:
- Starting at the bottom, assemble the barrel by stringing one bottle after the other. You can fasten them using tape or a hole punch.
- Collect the crown by staggering the leaves. Spread the branches and bend them using a cable.
- You can add relief and fluffiness to the leaves with the help of scissors. Heat is also used to curl the petals. This can be done with a gas burner or a regular fire.
- It is necessary to connect with tape, when it remains 30 cm to the top, it is worth collecting the crown.
- Attach the crown to the trunk. You can fix the top of the palm tree with the trunk using a construction stapler, liquid nails or tape.
Making a palm tree from plastic bottles is not at all difficult. It is enough to be patient and show imagination.
VIDEO: Palm from bottles
Do you want to decorate your personal plot with an interesting hand-made craft? Create a work of art on your own from scrap materials? A palm tree made from plastic bottles is what you need, it will turn the territory into an amazing exotic garden and will delight the eye for many years. Our master class is devoted to how to make a palm tree from plastic bottles with your own hands in stages from used PET containers.
If you have a desire and a creative impulse, let's get to work.
Materials and tools
First of all, let's decide on the quantity and quality of materials. What container is suitable for our craft? Of course, every home has used plastic bottles, but are all of them suitable for our work? Of course not. We choose strictly only brown and green bottles for the trunk and crown. For a larger plastic beauty, a container with a volume of 2 liters is best suited; for a smaller tree, a one and a half liter container will do.
We need:
- 15-20 brown bottles for the trunk of a large tree and 15-10 for a small one;
- 6-8 green bottles to create the 1st palm leaf;
- utility knife or scissors;
- a metal rod or wooden handle for attaching the trunk;
- wire and rope;
- Scotch.
Below is a detailed instruction on how to make a palm tree with diagrams and photos.
Getting Started
Algorithm of actions:
- Create a crown for the trees;
- We make the trunk;
- We combine structural elements;
Let's start creating the leaves. To do this, take a green bottle and, using a clerical knife or scissors, cut off the bottom, as shown in the photo.
Then, on the resulting workpiece, stepping back from the throat 3-4 cm, we make frequent longitudinal stripes.
Note! The more often the stripes go, the more fluffy our leaves turn out.
In the same way, we prepare 5 more blanks. We insert the resulting blanks on top of each other. In order to fasten them together, we use a wire or rope: we pass it through the neck and fix it. The first sheet is ready.
We bring to your attention the second method of making palm branches. To do this, take a green bottle, remove the bottom with a clerical knife. We visually divide the bottle into four parts and cut it. It turns out a blank, as shown below in the photo:
Then we decorate the resulting sheets, for this we make sharp cloves around the perimeter of the leaves, unbend the resulting fluffy leaves outward, fix.
Repeating points 1-3, we prepare the remaining parts of the crown. We remind you that one palm tree requires at least 6-7 leaves.
The procedure for creating leaves can be represented schematically:
We start making the barrel. As we know, in nature, the trunk of a palm tree is covered with scales. To make our exotic plastic beauty as similar as possible to its natural counterpart, we will try to recreate the natural relief of its base. This will require almost the entire brown bottle.
Cut off the bottom carefully.
Cut the bottle into 6 equal scales. It turns out such a wonderful "chamomile".
Create similar daisies for two palm tree trunks. We put them together and fasten them in the same way as the leaves. The trunks are ready.
The number of blanks depends on how high the trees you are going to make.
The resulting bases should hold the crown tightly, for this it is necessary to strengthen them with reinforcement or a wooden handle as shown in the diagram.
Fast assembly
Now that all the structural elements are ready, we proceed to the assembly. There are several options for the layout of the ready-made elements. Let's dwell on a simpler one. Prepare the top of the trunk, cut off the throat from the brown bottle. Almost at the very bottom, we make several cruciform incisions. This is where we will insert our crown. The assembly process is presented more clearly in the diagrams below.
Important! For the resulting masterpieces, it is necessary to make a foundation so that they hold well in the ground and do not sway.
If you have the opportunity, you can prepare a welded structure for its subsequent concreting.
What wonderful and unique trees we have turned out, so you can create a whole exotic evergreen alley in your garden to the envy of your neighbors. Imagine and create interesting crafts for your site, involve children in work.
Connect your imagination and decorate your tropical beauties with the help of smaller diameter colorful bottles: add fruits in the form of bananas and coconuts to the palms.
Pay attention to the creations of your colleagues, take notes and use the techniques and elements you like in your work. Some options for work are presented in the photo below:
Related videos
We suggest considering video tutorials from experienced craftsmen:
Instead of throwing them away (thereby polluting the environment), you can make a lot of crafts out of them.
Crafts can be made with children or on their own. Them and you can decorate a house, garden or cottage.
One of these original handicrafts is a palm tree. Having created such a palm tree from plastic bottles, you can decorate any garden or cottage with it. She looks pretty,and you don't need to be a great specialist to make it.
Plastic bottle palm tree for beginners
You will need:
Plastic bottles (preferably green and brown)
Scissors
Drill or awl
A metal rod, a straight branch, or a thin plastic tube.
* First, wash all bottles and remove the labels from them.
1. Cut the brown plastic bottles in half, then zig zag the bottom half.
2. Cut the green bottles lengthwise to make several halves. Cut a fringe on both sides of each half.
3. Make a hole (with a drill or awl) in the bottom of each of the brown halves. The hole should be exactly the thickness of the bar.
4. Take a rod (metal, wood or plastic) and place the brown bottle halves on top of it.
5. Green bottles (palm branches) can be attached to the top of the trunk using a thin wire, which is inserted into each branch and into the trunk, and its ends are twisted.
How to make a palm tree from plastic bottles
You will need:
2 liter plastic bottles
Scissors or utility knife
Wire
Plastic or wooden rod
Glue or tape.
Making a crown
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half (across). Leaves will be created from the top.
2. Cut the half of the bottle into strips up to the neck.
* You can also cut the bottle into 4 petals, and score each petal several times.
3. Take a wire and start stringing blanks from green bottles (palm leaves) on it. It is worth noting that you need to screw the lid on the very first blank, so you can fix the green leaf petiole with a knot. The same should be done with the last part of the bottle.
* The palm tree with about 6-7 leaves looks beautiful.
* The base of the leaves should have a long stalk to make it easier to attach the leaves to the palm tree.
Making the trunk of a palm tree
1. Cut the bottom off the brown bottle, leaving almost the entire bottle intact.
2. Cut the bottle from bottom to top into 5 wide strips (see image).
3. Begin stringing the brown pieces onto a sturdy metal, plastic, or wood rod to create these palm trunks.
We collect all the details
Use glue or tape to attach the leaves to the trunk of the palm tree. It is advisable to distribute the leaves evenly in order to obtain a symmetrical crown.
Together with my son, we agreed to make a palm tree from plastic bottles for the garden. It turned out that there are many ways to implement the idea. Wanting to get the best specimen, we tried several schemes for assembling an exotic plant, which we will tell you about.
Starting to assemble a palm tree from plastic bottles, we fully felt the main problem: a huge amount of packaging is needed! It must be borne in mind that all this abundance of bottles must be washed, cut up and collected with our own hands. The scissors gave his son blisters. In the process of work, three ways of solving the issue were discovered:
- make a small tree;
- use technology with less material;
- paint transparent bottles.
As a result, we decided to make a medium-sized tree. We painted only three bottles. We have achieved the use of containers almost without scraps, that is, by 90%. 35 brown and the same green plastic bottles were spent on the entire product. We give a description of the creation of what you see in the photo, as well as diagrams for assembling a small and large tree with your own hands. We made a man under a tree from plastic bottles earlier.
Man-made palm and "local" created earlier Assembling the trunk for a medium-sized palm tree
Let's start assembling the tree from the trunk. It requires a metal tube that easily fits into the neck of the bottle. The tube should be 50cm longer than the palm tree: this part will be in the ground.
We used a whole 150cm tube to assemble the barrel. For installation on the ground, they hammered into the ground 50 cm long reinforcement 1 m long, on which they put a tube of the supporting structure of the palm tree. Below is a step-by-step instruction and a diagram for assembling crafts for a garden and a vegetable garden. The step numbers here and below correspond to the numbers in the pictures:
The result is the trunk of a palm tree. The diameter of the tree is not the same due to the use of different bottles, but in nature it happens.
Small palm trunk
We know that on the surface of the palm there are jagged protrusions of the remnants of branches. At a short distance, they are clearly visible, so a trunk of a different design is better for a small tree.
A small palm tree may have a different trunk design A small palm tree can be installed in the country house right next to the wall of the house. In this case, you need to step by step perform the following operations:
Manufacturing technology of the trunk for a large palm tree
There is also a third way to make a palm trunk. If we want to make a large tree for a summer cottage, close in size to natural, the examples already considered will not work due to the disproportionately small trunk diameter and the fragility of the structure. In this case, you will have to cut off the lowest parts of the plastic bottles, and then drill and fasten them with screws or nails to the log. Of course, a lot of containers will be required.
The option of making a barrel of natural sizes Master class for making a crown for a medium-sized palm tree
Now we will deal with the crown of an exotic tree. For its assembly, we also chose a design with full use of plastic bottles. Bottles are different, and we divided them into five groups for five tree branches in advance, trying to keep all the sets approximately the same. To assemble the crown, you need to follow these steps step by step:
Like the trunk, the crown of a palm tree can be done in a variety of ways. It is very convenient to choose the required option based on the size of the tree. Going back to the medium size sample, you can make a fluffier crown. However, in this case, you will have to cut the bottles in 5mm increments, that is, do three times more work with your own hands. In addition, in this case only the upper third of the bottle is used, which would require three times the starting material.
Making a crown for a small tree
Now we will give a master class for making a crown for a small palm tree. This craft is well suited for beginners. In this case, it takes noticeably more time to work with each detail, but noticeably fewer bottles will be required, and the crown of the tree will have a more natural look with a small distance to a small tree.
This crown will only require a few bottles. The step-by-step instructions will be as follows:
Other options for making an artificial tree crown
Variants of palm tree crowns with different leaves Note that palm leaves can be cut using a different pattern. If you wake up your imagination, you can come up with something new and make your own palm tree from a plastic container on your own.
Please note that the crown shown in the photo below is a good fit for making a large tree.
Already having some experience, we understand that this option will require a large amount of source material. As you can see, only the lower parts of exactly the same bottles, strung on a wire, are used here.
To prevent the individual links from entering each other, the top of each workpiece is cut and folded inward.
We hope you have the best plastic bottle palm. The video below will help you clarify the missing details.