Do-it-yourself tire swan will decorate any yard

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Old car tires are a valuable material for creating original decor elements for a garden, yard or playground. In the past, tires were used only as improvised flower pots or to fencing sports complexes and playgrounds.

Now craftsmen have learned how to create incredibly beautiful figures of birds, animals, insects from the most ordinary car tires. Such decorations bring joy and comfort to any exterior. In this article, we would like to share with you a master class on making a garden "swan" figure from a tire. With your own hands, you can create a miracle bird without spending a lot of money and effort. All that is required of you is to show a little imagination and patience. And then in your summer cottage, next to an artificial reservoir or in the courtyard of the house, it will take a specialplace of honor proud and beautiful white tire swan.

Instructions for making crafts "swan"

To make this lovely decorative figure, you will need the following materials:

• car tire;
• paints (white, red and black) and brush;
• chalk for marking;
• self-tapping screws;
• metal plate;
• grinder with discs for metal;
• drill.

So, how to cut a swan out of a tire correctly? In fact, there is nothing difficult in this, but the work does not tolerate haste and requires accuracy. We wash the old tire thoroughly and dry it. We make markings on it on both sides: draw a head, tail, wings, beak and neck. The length of the neck, as a rule, is about 90-95 cm, the beak is 9 cm, the head is 10 cm. Now we proceed to sawing the tire along the marked lines with a grinder. It is necessary to do this procedure with movements away from you. Also remember to wear a respirator and protect your hands with long sleeves. Now the workpiece should be turned inside out. Doing this work alone is quite difficult, so you can ask for help. After turning - bend the wings. After this procedure, a do-it-yourself swan from a tire is almost ready. Now you need to make the neck more beautiful, give it a rounded shape. Let's do this with a flexible metal plate.

Bulgarian cut out a strip from a metal sheet (a littlelonger than the neck) of the desired length and drill holes in it, at a distance of about 10 cm from each other. Now we attach a strip of metal from the inside of the neck, carefully forming the necessary bend. Thus, the do-it-yourself swan craft from a tire acquires naturalistic and beautiful forms. It remains to fix the strip by attaching it to the bird's chest. We install the figures of the bird on a board or other tire and fix them with self-tapping screws in order to give the swan stability. The final stage of work involves painting the craft. To do this, it is more convenient to use paint in a spray can, which allows you to evenly color the bird. We decorate the beak with a red color, and make the eyes out of self-tapping screws and give them a black color.

That's all, your original garden decor element "swan" from a tire with your own hands is ready! Now this original decorative element can be placed by the pond, in the flower garden or in the courtyard of the house, it will please the eye and will appeal to both children and adults. By the same principle, you can make other birds - tits, flamingos, parrots and even penguins!