Do you have a lot of unnecessary plastic bottles at home? Believe me, they can also find use. After all, the country plot or the courtyard of a private house is an immense expanse for imagination and imagination! Here you can make everything with your own hands to please your eyes, make your home more beautiful and cozy. And how about a palm tree right at home? In this article, we present to you how to make a cute evergreen palm from ordinary plastic bottles that is not afraid of rain or frost.
Such beauty can be done in any variations you like, it all depends on the available materials and your idea.
Decorative-palm from plastic bottles
Materials:
- So, first of all, to carry out palm from bottles for this master class you will need brown and green plastic bottles (10 to 15 pieces for the trunk and 3-4 for the crown). Their volume can be from one and a half to two liters. Before use, they must be washed, otherwise the kind of crafts will not be very attractive. If desired, you can apply and five-liter bottles, then for such a height they need less. From all bottles it is necessary to remove the labels and safety rings from the covers.
- As a tool, you need to prepare a drill to create holes in bottles. Also, you can use the awl for this purpose. In addition, you will need a sharp scissors or a knife that can easily cut plastic.
- To create a barrel will need a thick metal rod. If you can not find one, you can use, for example, a willow twig. The main thing is that it should be strong and thick enough. Then the palm will be strong and reliable.
When everything is at hand, you can start designing palms from bottles with your own hands.
- To begin, we prepare the leaves of the palm from the prepared green plastic bottles. It is necessary to cut the bottom of each bottle, and as low as possible, which will make the leaves longer and lush.
- Cut the bottle along three approximately equal parts up to the neck.
- We cut the obtained leaves along the perimeter by fringe. The closer to each other are the incisions, the fake will turn out more beautiful. In the center of the leaf should remain about 1-2 centimeters. To give the leaves a realistic look, you can also hold their outer central part above the candle, but not too close, so as not to form soot. Thus, the leaves twist a little and get an interesting shape.
- To create a trunk of a palm tree at brown bottles the bottom on height of ten - fifteen centimeters is cut off.
- The edges of the obtained parts are cut in a zigzag, forming denticles. Then bend them to the outside. Such a technique will make the trunk of the palm a rough, like a natural tree.
- In the center of each brown billet, we make a hole, the size of which will depend on the diameter of the selected metal rod. The same hole will be made in one lid, which will become the crown fastener. Such holes can be made with a drill or a red-hot awl.
- Now that all the details are ready, we collect the palm. First secure the metal rod in the ground. On it one after another we put brown preparations.
- Green leaves are fixed as follows: on the last green bottle there is a neck with a lid, in which a hole was previously made. This element is planted in the last turn, thus pressing all the underlying leaves.
Palma for the garden of bottles is ready! This tree does not need care and can create a summer mood even in the cold season. You can continue and make a pond with water lilies from plastic bottles and decorate the garden with flower beds of them.
