What can be made of plastic bottle caps?

Many people wonder what can be made of plastic bottle caps to just not throw them away. Various products from this material have now become quite popular among those who want to create different crafts in an original and simple way. This “trash” can be found in almost every home. Do not rush to throw them away, he will be able to help you decorate your home.

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Crafts for children

All children have wonderful imagination. They are happy to create and create using any things that are available to them. In kindergarten and school, children are instilled with a love of crafts to develop their skills.

Plastic corks are great for children's creativity. They can be glued anywhere, which makes it possible to make a figure or picture out of this material, possibly an application. All the craftsmen like these crafts very much, they are happy to make them.

Basically, three types of crafts can be made from traffic jams:

• Toys
• figurines;
• applications.

Applications:

• The easiest option is the caterpillar. You can make it in many different sizes and different colors. Also choose a background color and add details to make it even better. You can make a flower or the sun as a background.
• Another good application that can be made from caps from plastic bottles is birds. Take 2 caps and make a head and body out of them. To make plumage, use real feathers, fabric or cardboard.
• You can make crafts from corks from plastic bottles to a wide variety, trusting your imagination or displaying in stages in pictures.
• Try also to make an application, for example, in the form of a rabbit. This is done similarly with a bird - take two caps of different diameters, make paper ears and a small tail, you can use cotton wool for it.

Important! In this simple way, you can make a variety of applications in the form of different animals that your child wants to make.

Try also to make voluminous crafts, perhaps they will seem more interesting to you than applications.

Application “Aquarium”

This is another craft that can be made from caps from plastic bottles. The child himself can do it, almost without your help.

You will need:

• plastic plugs;
• colored paper;
• glue;
• blue cardboard;
• plastic eyes.

Instruction:

1. Make fish tails by cutting triangles.
2. Glue them randomly on the cardboard, which will be the background.
3. Glue the corks to the tails - they will be the bodies of fish.
4. If you use double-sided tape, you need to carefully cut it to the shape of the lid.
5. Glue the eyes of the fish on the lids. You need them to look colorful - you can use a felt-tip pen.
6. Garnish the composition with paper algae or draw them. You can draw bubbles or other details - they will revive the composition.
7. Draw treasures or a castle at the bottom, let your child fantasize.

Mosaic

There are several options for how to make a mosaic of bottle caps from your own hands. Each of them has certain difficulties, and each requires its own tools.

In any case, you will need a lot of caps in different colors. Select a pattern and execute it according to the gamut. The manufacturing method depends on the surface on which you will put the mosaic.

In case you will not use any basis, then:

• Corks must be glued with plastic glue.
• Draw an image on the cardboard, better make it relatively simple.
• Use a sketch to glue the cork. This is more complicated than doing the same on the facade of a building, for example.

You can also fix corks on the basis of wood - this is another way to make this craft:

• Use plywood, chipboard or mount on the surface of the house if you decide to decorate your cottage.
• In general, the method is similar to the previous one, draw a picture on plywood or on the wall using paints.
• To fix everything, you need nails that will correspond to the diameter of the covers and the thickness of the wood.

Important! Choose which side you will fasten the corks, if you fix them with the inner side outward, it will be necessary to clean them with a certain frequency, otherwise the mosaic will lose its appearance.

There is a third method with which you can make a mosaic of bottle caps with your own hands:

• You can take a concrete or brick wall as a basis. To do this, mix a special composition to stick the cork. It can be bought at a hardware store. In fact, this is an ordinary paste, this is often used in construction. You can use plaster or cement.

Important! The composition must be done correctly, so that it is not too liquid, not too thick.

• Carefully glue the plugs, guided by a sketch made in advance.
• You can make your work of any size - it all depends on how much you want to spend time. However, the question is how much traffic you can collect.

Figurines

They can also be made from covers. Use a wire or fishing line - putting on corks on them, you can make a man or a snake.

For example, you can make a turtle. For this:

1. Take a large cover - you can make a shell out of it.
2. Of cotton buds - paws.
3. To make a tortoise body, grab an ice cream stick.
4. Paint the turtle green or whatever you want, glue the lid on the body and make the limbs out of cotton buds.
5. Draw her eyes or face.

The turtle is ready!

Other variations that can be made from caps from plastic bottles:

• Similarly, you can make a spider, but for the limbs use a wire.
• The child will easily make a bee or a ladybug. It is enough to paint the covers with suitable colors. Glue cardboard wings, wire antenna, and you're done.
• Mosaic compositions made using bottle caps are quite in demand. For such a picture, you will need covers of various colors, and there should be a lot of them. To make this craft, glue them together.

Important! You need to use a fairly strong glue or glue gun.

Attach details to the base. You can use screws to attach them to the back. Use plywood as a base - open it, make a marking of the drawing, and then glue it.

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Other products

If you have many plastic yellow bottle caps, you can make an application of the sun out of them. Take covers of different radii and fold them into one another, it may turn out interesting.

From multi-colored traffic jams you can make a cock. But this is a little more complicated, you will need significantly more time, but you will get a very interesting craft that will be a great decoration.

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Cork Magnets

If you do not yet have experience in making crafts, start with the simplest one - try making fridge magnets. They will not only allow you to hang notes on the refrigerator and decorate it, but also hide various defects that appear on its surface. You can make them without spending too much time.

You will need to make magnets:

• colored markers or pencils;
• magnets
• glue;
• paints;
• alcohol;
• multi-colored covers;
• colored paper.

Magnets are the simplest crafts from this material:

1. To begin, completely clean the cork using alcohol.
2. Next, glue the magnet inside.
3. Using colored paper, cut out circles of radius corresponding to the diameter of the cover itself.
4. You can write a letter on each piece of paper - so you get the alphabet on the refrigerator.
5. Hang bows or any other jewelry on magnets.

Important! Similarly, you can complete the whole picture using paper in different shades. You can learn more about the manufacture of these crafts by contacting the mater classes, which are many posted on the Internet.

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Cork Mat

Most often, everyone is trying to make a rug of corks from plastic bottles to use it to massage the feet. To make it out, great effort is not needed, while it is quite original and beautiful, especially if made from corks of different colors.

Important! This product, among other things, is very useful. Doctors recommend using it to improve health. Massage relaxes the foot. It works in such a way that when you step on it, the nerve endings located on the feet that correspond to certain organs work. This massage becomes exercise for you.

To make a rug from caps from plastic bottles you need:

• covers;
• wire;
• awl.

Instruction:

1. On one side of a hexagonal rug you need 15 traffic jams. To calculate everything correctly, multiply the number of traffic jams on one side by the number of sides, then subtract the repeated traffic jams.
2. After collecting the desired amount, make 6 holes in each using an awl.
3. All plugs located on the edge must be threaded with one fishing line.
4. Then firmly braid them with wire, making a hexagon in this way.
5. For beauty, take multi-colored covers - you can make a picture of them.

Important! You can first decompose the image, and only then fasten it with wire.

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Corridor Mat

Doormat in the corridor can be made from corks from plastic bottles with your own hands. To make it, glue the corks with a glue gun. You can make any pattern using multi-colored covers to make the product more beautiful.

Important! This material for the mat is good in that it is able to quickly and easily clean any dirt.

But it is better not to put it in the room where the linoleum lies, which can be damaged by the edges of the lids, which can scratch the coating. Better put your crafts on the tiles, for example, in the bathroom.

Plastic has qualities such as wear resistance. It can be used at any temperature and humidity level. The only problem is that the product may discolor. Correct this in a simple way, coloring it again, or making a new one, because it is made of the cheapest material possible.

For this reason, a variety of crafts in large quantities can be made from caps from plastic bottles, trying different colors and shapes.

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Curtains for summer cottages

With the help of plastic plugs you can do a huge number of different things - show your imagination. The most outstanding and useful idea is thread curtains, which will be very useful for those who have a summer residence.

Important! This approach will help you save money - you will not spend a lot of effort and money on manufacturing, but you will get original filament curtains.

Materials

Take many caps, one color or different shades, in case you want to make a drawing. Take a better outline of an elongated shape.

You will also need: nails, fishing line, awl, hammer and needle.

Instruction:

1. Awl the plugs on both sides with an awl.
2. Lay them out as shown. Keep an eye on him as you string.
3. Pass the line through two rows, starting from the first and moving to the second.
4. Fasten the entire structure by tying knots at the ends. Better burn the ends.
5. Similarly, do the rest of the rows in the quantity that is needed.
6. To make the curtain easier, leave marks, moving on to the next row.
7. Take the fastened first and second rows.Find the row mark.
8. When attaching to a tree, you can nail the curtain with nails, taking individual corks for fixing.
9. Before nailing, make a marking, making the same distance between the fasteners.
10. Nail a few covers, then hang a thread on them, on which the first rows are planted.

Important! The design is quite dense and suitable for any purpose, experiment with colors.

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garden path

This material can be used not only for various crafts - you can also decorate your cottage with them. Often they make garden paths. They have only a drawback - they become slippery in the winter season.

Important! A garden path, which can be made from bottle caps, will decorate your garden. Use it in summer cottages near the beds, where you rarely go in winter.

Materials

Take covers, cement, sand, special glue, wood, from which you will make the formwork for making the track.

Instruction manual

Go to the process carefully, be patient, and do the following:

1. Decide what your path will be, where you will place it. Mark her position.
2. If you will place it on grass, then remove the topsoil, make a groove 10 cm deep. Put the formwork in it along the entire length and fill in the sand.
3. Make a solution to fill your track. Dissolve sand and cement in the ratio 1: 4, also put glue there.
4. Pour the solution and place the plugs in it according to the selected pattern.
5. Lay the covers carefully so that they create an even coating. It is necessary to close the sides of the covers with cement, without touching only the very top.
6. When the cement hardens, clean the surface of excess dirt with a brush. Clear the entire track.
7. At the end, remove the formwork.

Important! A multi-colored garden path will decorate your site, it can easily be done with your own hands from bottle caps. Make it even better by decorating it with original borders, so the work will look finished.

If we talk about what can be done from bottle caps, then you can assemble the construction from the boards, some kind of figure and attach the assembled caps to it.

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Stock footage

Put your structure on the garden. Ask the children to help you do it - let them fantasize!