Useful crafts - do-it-yourself plastic bottle broom

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How can ordinary plastic bottles be used? They serve not only to store liquid drinks in them, sometimes we make crafts from plastic bottles that are useful in everyday life. Needlewomen and needlewomen never miss a chance to turn some unnecessary item into a practical and necessary thing in the household. One of these useful products is a DIY plastic bottle broom.

Useful homemade in everyday life

What do you need such a homemade broom for? Naturally, such a broom will not be useful for cleaning rooms, since it will not be able to collect fine dust or crumbs with high quality. But it will be very useful in the garage, in the country, in the yard. This broom is most often used for cleaning large debris. It is convenient to sweep dry leaves in autumn.

What do you need to make a broom out of plasticbottles

First of all, let's prepare everything that can be useful to us in our work.

The main material is about 6 plastic bottles. Depending on how lush you plan to make the panicle, you can take more or less. Some are satisfied with a broom of four bottles, while others need eight. Usually two-liter or one-and-a-half-liter plastic containers are used: the larger the volume, the longer the broom will have rods.

To make a pen, you can take a smooth wooden stick or use a plastic tube. Determine the length of the holder at your discretion, but it is better to make its thickness such that it matches the diameter of the bottle neck.

Strong rope, such as twine or twine, may also come in handy.

You should take care of the tools that may be needed in the work. They are easy to find in any home. These are sharp big scissors, an awl, nails and a hammer.

How is a plastic bottle broom made?

It's easy to make such a thing with your own hands. It seems that even a child can cope with this task. So, we have already prepared everything you need, now let's find out how to make a broom from a plastic bottle with your own hands.

1. Use sharp scissors to cut off the bottom of each prepared container.
2. Cut the entire side surface to the narrowing point into strips 1-2 cm wide. The rigidity and elasticity of the broom will depend on their thickness.
3. Now it's time to cut off the necks of all but two of the bottles.
4. We take one blank with a neck and put all the other plastic "skirts" on it. Last we attach the second bottle with a neck.
5. The next step is to crush our broom to make it flat.
6. With an awl we make several holes and pull the rope through them so that the broom does not fall apart. Flexible wire can be used instead of twine.
7. We got an almost finished panicle. But now there is nothing to take it for. The two necks from the inner and outer bottle are what the handle will be attached to.
8. Thread the handle and secure it with a few nails. Try to fix it as securely as possible so that the broom does not dangle during operation.

As a result, we got a wonderful broom from a plastic bottle. You can make this necessary thing with your own hands in 20-30 minutes.

The disadvantage of such a product is its short service life. With intensive use, the broom quickly softens and becomes ineffective. But this is not so scary, given the ease of its manufacture and the availability of materials.

Other useful plastic bottle crafts

You can just throw away a plastic bottle, many do, but you just have to want, and this unnecessary contraption turns into a useful thing.

Most often, plastic containers of various sizes are used in gardening. Flower growers use them as flowerpots for plants. Vegetable growers grow seedlings in half-liter bottles cut in half. They can save the trunk of youngtrees from attacks by wild animals and cover cuttings to root growth. It is easy and simple to make a kind of lampshade that protects light bulbs from the rain outside the room. If you pierce a plastic bottle in several places with an awl, and put it on a watering hose, it will serve as an excellent spray when watering.

Using imagination and ingenuity, you can definitely find an original use for a plastic bottle.