Piglets from plastic bottles

For sure, in any house there are empty plastic bottles from under drinking water. Many of them simply throw out or use for domestic needs. However, you can find them quite an unusual application. In particular, products made of plastic bottles can be an excellent element of the decor of your infield, flowerbed or entertain kids in the playground.

We suggest you, with the help of simple adaptations, make a Piglet from a plastic bottle. Its implementation will not take you much time, but the result will please the eye. If you decide to use the product in the garden, you will not only decorate the lawn with it. Thus, you will have an unusual flower bed for plants. Therefore, if the proposed idea inspired you to create a funny little creature, it remains only to learn how to make a pig from a bottle.

Piglet from the bottle with your own hands: materials

To create such an original craft, you will need the following materials:

1. Plastic bottle. It is best to use a container with a capacity of 5 liters, so that the future little animal has a sufficient size for planting flowers.
2. Scissors.
3. Paint any color you like.
4. Acrylic lacquer.
5. Knife.
6. Sponge for washing dishes.
7. Felt-tip pen or marker.

Piglet from a plastic bottle: a master class

So, to create such a cute pig, you need to stock up on all the necessary materials and perform the following actions:

1. At the very beginning of the work, the selected plastic bottle should be freed from unnecessary parts - handles and rim to tighten the lid.
2. Since our artwork will be on the ground, for better stability on the bottle draw a marker strip width of 2-3 cm from the bottom and almost to the top.
3. On the made markings we cut out a rectangular hole with the help of a knife.
4. Against the cut already made, we need to outline another rectangular shape. We make a hole of the same length as the first cut, only much wider.
5. By the way, do not rush to get rid of the pieces that are left from the plastic bottle. Of these, you must make the required attributes of our crafts from plastic bottles - a pig, namely the ears and tail. So, for example, if you fold a plastic rectangle in half and mark with a marker a diamond-shaped outline, you will get the ear of our pig. The tail of the animal is cut in such a way that one of its ends is thinned. The lower ends and ears and tail should be made in the form of an arrow. And then, having made the connection of the "trunk" with these parts a puncture with the help of a knife, they will be attached very simply and reliably.
6. When all the details of the "pig" are collected, you can do it painting. For the application of the chosen paint, it is very convenient to use a dishwashing sponge. Paint the artwork in one layer, wait until it dries, and then apply the second, so that the piglet from the bottle does not look transparent by the hands.
7. Now the paint must be applied with acrylic lacquer, also in two layers, so that the paint does not get washed away from the rain.
8. After complete drying, the product can be installed in the garden or on the playground. To do this, you need 3-4 wooden pegs 20-25 cm long. They are driven along the length of a narrow incision in the "trunk" of the pig so that 5-7 cm remains above the ground.
9. After fixing our piglet it's time to pour the land and plant a decorative or vegetable garden plant.

And if you are not too lazy and make a few such pigs from plastic bottles, you will get a picturesque and amusing lawn.

By the way, little animals can be painted in different colors to make it more fun.