Step-by-step instructions for making a piglet from a plastic bottle
During the summer months, you can find used plastic containers in every home, which can be an excellent material for original home crafts... One of them is a piglet from a plastic bottle, the step-by-step instructions for the manufacture of which will allow you to easily make a decoration for a garden or a basis for a small summer cottage without much difficulty flower beds.
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Materials for making a pig from a plastic bottle
In addition to the plastic bottle itself, for the piglet you need to prepare:
- a sharp stationery knife and scissors;
- aerosol paint canister or regular enamel paint in a can;
- brush;
- pencil and writing paper;
- glue for plastic;
- black marker with permanent ink;
- wire for making a ponytail.
The larger the plastic bottle, the more plump the pig will be.
At the same time, do not forget that a garden animal needs legs. For their manufacture, they are stocked with four more vessels of a smaller volume. For example, for a piglet from a five-liter bottle, 4 vessels of a half-liter capacity may be suitable. To make the ears, you need a one and a half liter bottle.
But how to make a pig from a plastic bottle if you don't have some of the materials necessary for work at hand?
Fantasy in the service of a home master
It is impossible to keep in the house everything that can be useful to a home craftsman doing crafts for a summer cottage or a personal plot. If some structural element is missing, there is no need to get upset or run to the store for the missing parts of the pig. Self-made things are so good that they are not guided by strict canons and rules when creating them. All auxiliary details can be made from what is currently in the house.
If you want to make a piggy out of plastic bottles with your own hands, and there was no suitable piece of wire in the house, this material will successfully replace the plastic piece from the bottle from which the pig's legs will be made.
Eyes for the future garden decoration can be drawn using a permanent permanent marker, but there are other ways. Beautiful eyes are obtained from convex buttons matched to the size with an air loop that is glued into the slot on the bottle.
Another way is to cut and glue the eyes from pieces of self-adhesive film of a suitable color. In this case, using different shades, you can make an imitation of volume, create a funny facial expression on the pig's face, give it some character.
Step-by-step instructions for a piglet from plastic bottle - not a dogma, but a way to awaken imagination and give things that have served their time a second interesting life.
When there are not enough bottles for the legs of the craft in the house, they can be replaced with glasses or bottles of yogurt and other fermented milk drinks.Even plastic pipe cuttings are suitable, which the gardener and gardeners use to lay communications, build supports for trellises and frames for greenhouses.
You can paint a figurine made with your own hands from plastic bottles of a piglet not only with aerosol, but also with enamel paint of a suitable shade.
Here, the masters can remember that pigs are not only pink, but also black, light beige and spotted.
Step-by-step instructions for making a piglet from a plastic bottle
When all the materials and tools necessary for the work have been collected, it's time to get to work:
- Previously, symmetrical, pointed upward ears of a pig from a plastic bottle are drawn on a sheet of paper.
- From half-liter bottles, the throat is cut off at an angle so that blanks for the pig's legs are obtained. They must be the same length.
- From the neck of a 1.5 liter plastic bottle, blanks are made for two ears. To do this, the neck, together with the screw part, is cut in half lengthwise, and the details of the ears are cut out of the formed parts according to a pattern drawn on paper.
- Now it's time to move on to creating the calf of the future garden hero. To do this, in a five-liter container with a clerical knife, they carefully make one incision for attaching the tail, two for the ears, and four more for the legs of a plastic animal.
- When all the parts are ready, they start assembling. For greater reliability, the legs, ears and tail can be glued.
- After drying, the craft is painted in the background color using an aerosol product or a brush.
- The paint is given time to dry well, after which you can paint the nostrils, fix or paint the eyes.
A piglet collected from a plastic bottle according to step-by-step instructions will be an original decoration in the garden or in the garden. But if you wish, it can be turned into an item that brings much more benefit.
How to make a flowerbed pig and a watering pig out of a bottle?
To do this, an oval or square hole is cut out in the back of the new resident of the personal plot so that the plastic animal turns into a small flower bed.
So that excess moisture can drain freely and the roots of the planted flowers do not rot, it is useful to provide several small punctures on the stomach.
At the bottom of the resulting container, small expanded clay is poured, and after it a nutritious soil. A unique, miniature flower bed ready for planting flowers or other plants.
Such garden decoration can be done with firmly glued legs, or without them at all. Next to a large pig, it's easy to find a place for a whole brood of self-made piglets, as in the photo, from plastic bottles.
If the house has a container for concentrated juice or household chemicals with a handle, then such a plastic bottle will make an excellent watering can-pig. She will undoubtedly appeal to little gardeners and gardeners. To make water flow from the spout of the piglet, several holes are pre-made in the bottle cap. For such work, it is convenient to use an awl heated over a fire.