Hedgehog from plastic bottles - a worthy decoration of the garden

How nice it is to walk past lawns, lawns and just small front gardens, decorated with bizarre and funny faces of different animals! Original products from plastic bottles will make any area lively and unusual. Here a hedgehog peeps out from under a leaf, or a swan gracefully arched its neck in a small lake. Or maybe hares or pink pigs managed to settle in your garden? It all depends on imagination and skillful hands. Well, if you still have mountains of plastic bottles on your balcony and a lot of free time, then there’s nothing to think about - you have to do it!

Creative ideas

Let's start, perhaps, with a simple one: a hedgehog made of plastic bottles fits perfectly into the landscape of any site. To make a hedgehog, you need a plastic bottle (the larger the area, the larger the bottle is chosen) with an elongated neck - this will be the muzzle. You can make a rectangular cut along the bottle, fill it all up with earth and plant ordinary lawn grass or flowers, which will play the role of thorns. You can glue the hedgehog with cones, from which good spines will also come out. muzzlethe hedgehog can be decorated in any way: two halves of a pea are quite suitable for the eyes, if they are painted with black varnish, instead of a spout, you can take a dark cover (brown or black).

Quick Guide

A hedgehog made of plastic bottles will look more attractive if its muzzle is painted with acrylic paint or covered with burlap. Only in such cases the main thing is caution. The work must be done very carefully, otherwise the appearance of the craft will be spoiled. And to make our plastic bottle hedgehog more lively and original, you can decorate its needles with various fruits, which are just as easy to make from the same bottles. For example, to make an apple, it is enough to take two bottle bottoms and insert one into the other, after sticking a juice stick or an ordinary twig into one of them. After that, you need to paint the apple with red varnish or acrylic paint, make a green leaf from plastic of the same color, glue it to the stick. We fix the apple on the back of the hedgehog either with glue, if we have cones instead of needles, or simply put it on the grass if our needles are "live". The plastic bottle hedgehog is ready! Now it can become a worthy decoration of your garden or summer cottage. It is worth noting that such a souvenir is also an excellent gift for a loved one.

Forest of garden ideas

Any other plastic bottle figurines are just as easy to make. Take, for example, a pig. The main points are the same as in the manufacture of a hedgehog - we take a bottle (a milk bottle is well suited), cut it outa rectangular hole in which you can plant flowers, we make out a face. Two holes in the lid, eyes - black beads or peas, cut out the ears from the bottle, glue them to the head. Cute pig is ready! If you have artistic skills, you can completely draw a face, giving it vivid emotions.

Be imaginative

Another unusual garden decoration option is plastic bees. For one bee, we need a small bottle of about 0.5 liters, yellow and black paints. We paint the bottle yellow, then draw black stripes, the nose of the bee should also be black. From another bottle we cut out two oval parts - these will be the wings, we attach them to the body. The bee is almost ready. It remains to draw or cut out the eyes from the remaining bottle, color them and attach the antennae, which can be made from wire, after wrapping it with yellow threads or a patch. Now we attach a rope to the bee's back and hang it on your favorite tree or shrub. If you make a lot of such bees, you get a whole hive that will organically fit into any site.

Conclusion

Crafts from plastic bottles - animals or insects - will not only decorate your garden, garden or cottage, but also give you a great mood for the whole day.