DIY crafts from plastic bottles. Ladybugs for the garden with your own hands: we make original decor step by step How to make a ladybug from a bottle

In order to decorate your garden, make it original and different from others, it is not at all necessary to spend huge sums. You can very easily make a lot of garden crafts with your own hands from a variety of available materials. And one of the simplest and at the same time cutest crafts is a ladybug. Today we will look at a master class on how to make a ladybug from stones, paper, concrete, plastic bottles and spoons, from plasticine and beads, and also sew, knit or mold it.

How to make a ladybug for the garden with your own hands photo

How to make a ladybug from stones and pebbles

In order to introduce bright and cheerful ladybugs into your garden, you can use ordinary round stones - sea pebbles or whatever you can find will do just fine. This craft is done in an elementary way - the stone is painted red, with black paint - you draw wings, dots, eyes and antennae. Then you can place the resulting insects in the grass, plant them on stumps, glue them to tree branches, or decorate a flower bed. Another option is to paint ladybugs on a large rock.

DIY ladybugs made of stones and jackdaws photo

Concrete ladybug: DIY mosaic

A similar way to make a ladybug, but this time we will use artificial stone and multi-colored tiles. Making a ladybug out of concrete is very simple. We will need cement, which can be bought at any hardware store, an old basin or bowl - a mold for crafts, polyethylene and red and black tiles or something from which we can make a mosaic. This is what we get:

Mosaic: concrete ladybug master class

We put a plastic bag in the basin so that the cement does not stick to the sides, pour the cement, wait until it hardens and dries. We take it out and sand it with sandpaper. Next, we glue a mosaic on top of pieces of red and black tiles. The cement ladybug is ready, all that remains is to place it in a prominent place in your garden.

Making ladybugs from clay

If you haven’t found any suitable stones and it’s difficult for you to make a mosaic, you can simply make a ladybug out of clay with your own hands and paint it with paint.

How to make a ladybug from clay photo

Plastic crafts

Craft for the garden: ladybug made from a construction helmet

If you have an old construction helmet lying around somewhere, preferably red or orange, then there is another simple way to make a ladybug from a helmet. The only thing you need here is black paint. As a last resort, use a regular black marker. We just draw spots, eyes and wings - the figurine for the garden is ready.

How to make a ladybug from a helmet photo

How to make a ladybug from plastic bottles

You will find more ideas for crafts made from plastic bottles in our previous article. Today we’ll see how to make a ladybug from plastic bottles with your own hands. The most popular idea is a flower bed in the shape of this insect. For such a flower bed, the bottles will first need to be painted black and red (not entirely, but only the bottoms + 5-10 cm). Here is a diagram for such a flower bed:

Scheme of a ladybug flower bed made from bottles photo

Another way is to string cut bottles on a fishing line to create a three-dimensional ladybug that can be used to decorate the garden. This figure can then be trimmed with scissors. And this is what we can get:

DIY ladybug made from plastic spoons

You can also use plastic spoons for garden crafts. It's very easy to make a funny ladybug from plastic spoons with unfolded wings. For each craft you will need three spoons. We paint two red and draw dots - these will be the wings, one - black (this will be the body). Glue all three spoons together. Add a head - made of buttons, clay or something suitable. The craft is ready:

How to make a ladybug from plastic spoons photo
DIY ladybug made from spoons

How to make a ladybug from corks

For garden crafts, you can use any available materials, and a ladybug can be made from any round or oval object. For example, you can use caps from beer or plastic bottles. You just need to paint them with red paint and black - draw dots, eyes and antennae.

Cute ladybugs made from corks for garden decoration

Handicrafts: sewing, weaving and knitting

Beaded ladybug

Needlewomen can also use the ladybug symbol for their crafts. For example, you can weave it from beads. Of course, you won’t get a large figurine, but even such miniature beaded ladybugs can be used to decorate the garden, for example, you can hang or glue them on trees.

How to make a ladybug from beads photo

ladybug pillow

Sewing a pillow in the shape of a ladybug is also not difficult. All you need is red and black fabric. If you want a fluffy pillow, just sew it from fur. It's time for details: the dots can be made from beads if you are sewing a small pillow, or not round, but in the shape of hearts.

Making a ladybug pillow with your own hands

Knitted ladybugs

If you like to knit, then why not knit a ladybug that can be used to decorate both your garden and your home. It could be a round knitted pillow, a figurine that can be hung on a tree or on a fence, placed on a fireplace or on a shelf, a toy, a funny pot holder or something else.

How to knit a ladybug photo

Crafts with children

How to make a ladybug out of paper

You can also make ladybugs out of paper - a great idea for crafts with children. As an option, you can simply fold red paper using the origami technique and draw eyes with dots. You can also glue a ladybug from several parts. You can simply place such crafts on the grass or make a garland and decorate the veranda or trees in the country with it.

Decorating the garden with paper ladybugs photo

Ladybug using quilling technique

A more complex way to make a ladybug out of paper is to use the quilling technique. We have already written about spring quilling. There is a simpler option - you will get a flat ladybug or a small round one - if you wind strips of red paper in a circle with a slight shift. Or you can make this gorgeous volumetric quilling - a ladybug:

DIY quilling ladybug photo

How to make a ladybug from plasticine

Also, together with your children, you can make a ladybug from plasticine. There is nothing difficult about it; even the smallest child can handle it. Great idea for kids.

Plasticine craft: ladybug photo

Edible figurines

Ladybugs made from salt dough

The idea is the same - you just need to mold a ladybug, as you already did from clay or plasticine, and then paint it in the desired colors and use it as a garden figurine.

How to make a ladybug from dough photo

How to make ladybug sandwiches from tomatoes

A delicious and original idea for sandwiches is to decorate them with a ladybug made of tomatoes and olives. For the body, you can take either regular or cherry tomatoes (in the second case, the figures will simply be smaller), we make the head from black olives, and the dots and tendrils are made from the same. The sandwiches themselves can be anything.

Sandwiches in the shape of a ladybug photo

Cake or salad in the shape of a ladybug

Another delicious idea is to make a sala or cake in the shape of a ladybug. A cake in the shape of this funny insect is a great idea for a children’s party; you can easily bake one for your child’s birthday. A salad in the shape of a ladybug can decorate any holiday table. This is what it looks like:

Ladybug cake for children's party

Sushi Ladybug

And the last one for today is ladybug sushi. For me personally, this is an unattainable ideal, but if you have extensive experience in making sushi and rolls yourself, you can try this interesting idea:

DIY ladybug sushi

Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!

What to do with a child? Get creative with him, make a ladybug craft with your own hands together with him. This will help develop fantasy, imagination and hard work. Your child will have a lot of fun making something with you with their own hands.

What craft to do with your child in kindergarten? You can make a family of hedgehogs from plasticine and seeds, mushrooms from bottles, and in this lesson we will look at how to make a craft - a cheerful family of ladybugs from plastic bottles. You can do a craft in kindergarten with a group of children. It is very exciting. Allows you to study colors by painting insects, improve arithmetic by drawing dots on the back. Author of the master class ladybug made from a plastic bottle “Video channel on Youtube Crafts Homemade”.

DIY “Ladybug” craft from a bottle

To make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, we will need the bottoms of bottles of different sizes; how many bottoms you cut, the number of ladybugs you will get.

We paint the bottoms of the bottles with paints on the inside in different colors.

Red, ginger, blue - choose any one for yourself!

We dry it and wait for the pieces for the kindergarten craft to dry.

We take foam plastic balls, form the head of a ladybug from them, make a recess where the head will be attached to the bottle.

We string the head onto a toothpick and paint it black.

We form antennae from a plastic fork.

We glue the heads to the body of our Ladybug.

We glue the beads, or better yet, artificial eyes, with hot glue. Using sharp scissors, we make holes on the head for the antennae,

Fill them with hot glue and stick in the antennae.

Draw black dots on ladybugs. Do you know what the number of dots on a Ladybug means? Age? But no! Do not mislead children, explain right away that the dots on the back of ladybugs mean that they belong to a certain species, because there are more than 1000 different species of ladybugs (lat. Coccinellidae) in the world. And, by the way, not only red ones! ;)

Our craft for kindergarten is ready. Create with children, keep children busy, teach, develop! Who, if not you, will make a fun bottle craft with them?

Also watch the video on how to make jumping frogs from a plastic bottle.

How to make a craft “Frogs” video:

Text prepared by: Veronica

An increasing number of domestic craftsmen are thinking about how a ladybug from plastic bottles can be made on their own. Most

A simple way to make it is from a lid. Even a five-year-old child can do it. But the next two options are more complicated, require more thorough preparation, and at least a teenager can complete them.

From the cover

The easiest way to make a ladybug from plastic bottles is from the cap. You need to immediately prepare red, black and white paints. We take a lid from such a container of any size (from 0.5 to 5 liters - everything will do). Cover it with red and let it dry. At the next stage we make a black central line, a muzzle and dots

Black paint. After it dries, decorate the eyes with a brush and white paint. When all this is dry, the plastic bottle ladybug is ready. Now it can be used both as a toy and as a home decoration, in general, at your discretion.

Capacity 5 liters

To create such a figurine, you will need a large container with a capacity of 5 liters. We lay it on one of the side faces. On the bottom side of the neck, draw a line with a marker, parallel to the bottom edge along the entire perimeter. That is, starting from the neck, then along the cone, side edge, bottom, next side, on the other side of the cone and return to the starting point. We cut the resulting workpiece along this line. This product is designed similarly to the previously described method, with the only difference being that there the ladybug made from plastic bottles was small, but here there will be a large figurine that will become a worthy decoration for your collection of plastic crafts. In this case, the lid and neck are used as the head.

Large flower bed

For such a flower bed we will need a set of red, white and black containers. They can be made by coating any container with paint of the appropriate color. It is better to make calculations first and decide on an approximate

quantity of starting materials. It is recommended to prepare them 10 percent more so that there is a certain reserve. Next, on the site of the future flowerbed, a round hill is made, the height of which gradually increases from the edge to the center. Black containers are buried around the entire perimeter of the circle with the lids down and the bottom up. Then (strictly in the middle) you need to make a straight line of the same color in the same way. Using similarly buried white bottles we make eyes. We fill the rest of the muzzle with containers with black color. We decorate the remaining part with red paint, not forgetting about the stains. They are made from single black bottles. After which a ladybug is made from bottles. This craft will be an excellent addition to any garden plot.

Conclusion

Such photos, which are often found, are not such a rarity, confirm this. In the first case, everything is very simple, and even a preschooler can do such modest work. But the last two crafts already require more thorough preparation. Such figures are recommended to be made by experienced craftsmen who have become skilled in this matter.

If you want to make a small ladybug that can be conveniently attached to the railings, veranda boards or “planted” on a decorative fence, you will need:

two plastic bottles of any color;
acrylic paints or spray paints (black, red and white);
wire for antennae;
reliable glue or a construction stapler.

1. Cut three semicircles from plastic bottles - two smaller and one larger. You need to keep the cork on the last one (i.e. it will be the top part of the bottle, capturing the neck).
2. Paint them with paints - the larger one is black (together with the cork), and the two small ones are red. On the red ones, which will play the role of wings, draw black spots. You can also make a ladybug of a “reverse” color - with black wings and red spots; such insects are also found in nature.
Draw two eyes on the cork with white paint.
3. Unscrew the cap, put two pieces of wire inside and tighten the cap, making sure that the “antennae” remain in one specific place (it is better if it is the bottom part of the cork, close to the base - this way they will not prick anyone, even by accident).
4. Attach the wings to the body with glue or a stapler. The wings should start at the head itself, i.e. traffic jams. They can be made closed, but a ladybug that looks like it's about to take off will look more impressive, so place them at an angle to each other with the connecting point near the plug.

A little ladybug made from a plastic bottle is ready! Now attach it with glue or wire (the second part of the antennae, which are now inside the body) wherever you want.

Many items that we consider unnecessary in everyday life can be useful for creativity. The most ordinary plastic vessels will be a suitable basis for bright products. With the help of simple manipulations you can create toys, pictures, garden figures for landscape design, flower pots and crafts in the shape of animals.

Crafts from plastic bottles for the garden

You can easily decorate your garden using crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden. Designing such figures is not difficult, you just need to use your imagination. With them, the site will acquire originality and brightness. You can involve children in the work: they will enjoy creating beautiful, interesting figures from simple materials that are stored in every home.

How to make a palm tree

To form a craft from plastic bottles with your own hands in the form of a palm tree, you will need:

brown containers – 10-15 pcs.;
awl or drill;
green plastic vessels - 3-4 pcs.;
sharp scissors;
a rod made of metal or willow.

Bottles with a capacity of one and a half liters or more must be washed, stickers and cap rings removed from them.
Use green containers to form tree leaves. To make them fluffy and long, cut the bottom as low as possible.
Cut the bottle lengthwise into 3 equal parts up to the neck. Make a fringe on the sides of each resulting leaf. Form the cuts closer to each other, then the crown of the palm tree will be more beautiful.
Leave 1-2 cm in the center of the leaf. To make the vegetation look realistic, place their central part under a candle, but not too close, so that the green part does not become smoky.
Proceed to creating the trunk. It must be formed from brown containers. Cut the bottom at a height of 10-15 cm.
Cut each part along the edge with cloves, bend them to the outside.
Create holes in the central part of the blanks for the barrel using a drill or a hot awl.
Start assembling the palm tree. To do this, stick a metal or wood rod into the ground. On it, assemble a barrel structure from brown parts, inserting them inside each other.
The crown of the tree is fixed as follows:
leave the lid in the last green preparation;
make a hole in it;
Place the resulting part on top; it will press the lower sheet plates.

Flowers

You can make products from plastic bottles shaped like flowers using the following materials:

plastic containers;
marker;
scissors;
lighters.

How to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands:

Using a marker, draw outlines of flowers on the surface of the bottles. To make them voluminous, do it from the bottom. Cut out the flower blanks along the lines.
Bend each petal in one direction. Shape using a lighter.
Connect the blanks by placing them inside each other. To fasten, you can use wire, glue, or heat the plastic.
Decorate the core with beads or a ready-made plastic flower.
Using this idea, you can create different flowers: lilies of the valley, daisies, razy. Make a whole flowerbed in your backyard by fencing artificial plants with a car tire.

Swan for the cottage

Crafts made from plastic bottles for the playground are suitable for installation in your garden. Make a beautiful swan using materials:

plastic bottle (five liter);
wire based hose;
white half-liter bottles;
wire;
paint;
scissors;
candle;
marker.

Instructions on how to form a craft:

Take a five-liter container and mark the shape of the bird's body on it with a marker. The contours should look like a boat, and the neck of the base should not be cut off. Cut the plastic along the line.
A swan's neck is formed when a hose is placed in the neck.
Form bird feathers from milk containers. Remove the necks and bottoms, and cut the remaining material into pieces to get plumage, give each part a fringe, and melt it with a candle. Take 2 feathers, tying them together with wire. Attach to the body using glue.
Leave the remaining small bottles to form the neck. Cut off the bottom of them and start stringing them onto the hose. Create the bird's head using the top of a white vessel. Create holes in the container and hose on both sides. Connect the 2 parts with wire and screw on the lid.
Caps from bath products are suitable for the beak. Cut in half and glue to the lid. Color the beak and draw the eyes.

You can prepare Christmas tree decorations from the following set:

glue “Moment Crystal”;
liter plastic bottle;
ribbons;
scissors;
plastic beads on a string.

Instructions:

Divide the bottle into 4 rings 5 mm wide. Coat each with glue and let dry a little.
Place the pieces of beads on the adhesive surface so that there are gaps at the top and bottom of the ring for assembly.
After drying, connect the rings by inserting one into the other.
Tie a thin ribbon to the top of the resulting ball to create a loop. Hide the ugly knot by decorating it with a bow made from a thicker ribbon.

Crafts from plastic bottles for kindergarten

Children in kindergarten are given a lot of scope for creativity. The products turn out to be unusual and bright, and the process of working together will captivate children and adults. However, sometimes parents have to rack their brains about what craft to make with their child for kindergarten. A simple solution would be plastic bottles. This material is easy to find and use because it can easily take any shape.

Butterflies

To make a butterfly, your child will need:

marker;
plastic bottle;
paints;
scissors.

Step-by-step instructions for creating crafts from plastic bottles:

Find a flat part of the container and cut out a cylinder. Cut the resulting shape in half.
Draw a butterfly on the resulting part and cut it along the contour.
To add naturalness, make bends on the wings.
You can color and decorate the butterfly as desired.
They can be used to decorate an apartment or street decor elements, for example, a weather vane, railings, or flower bed.

Ladybug

Required materials:

small plastic containers;
chestnuts or beads;
glue;
scissors;
marker;
acrylic paints;
wire.

How to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands:

First make the body of the ladybug. It will work if you cut off the bottom of the bottle and take it as a base.
To make it look similar, paint the part with paint and draw black circles with a marker.
Glue a chestnut or a large bead to the body to make a head. Draw eyes on it.
Make the antennae from wire by gluing or sticking them into the head blank.
Using this pattern, you can make other insects, for example, a bee.

DIY plastic vase

Materials that will help you design an original vase:

vessel of the required volume;
scissors;
stationery knife;
glue;
magazine.

How to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands:

Cut the container to the height you need. Roll the bright pages of the magazine into tubes with a diameter of 0.1 cm. Attach them to the base of the future vase, cut just above the neck.
Wrap the cut bottle in paper and glue it together.
Glue tubes around the perimeter of the future vase so that each one is tightly glued to the next one.

Crafts from bottle caps

Alphabet magnets for the refrigerator can be obtained using lids and other materials. Take:

traffic jams;
small magnets;
double-sided tape (glue);
medical alcohol;
colored paper;
markers.

How to do:

Degrease the surface of the plugs with alcohol.
Glue the magnet with glue or tape to its surface.
Cut out paper circles that match the size of the bottle cap.
Write a letter on each circle with a felt-tip pen. Glue the resulting blank inside the lid.

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If you have a lot of unnecessary packaging, think about what you can make from plastic bottles with your own hands. All kinds of crafts will help decorate your home, garden, and Christmas tree. Creating products using the material is convenient and exciting for adults and children. The formation process develops imagination and fine motor skills. In addition, you can put your unnecessary plastic to good use.