Making crafts for a summer cottage is very common due to the fact that people want to see beauty around them. If there are a lot of flower beds on the site, then you can reproduce plastic ladybugs near them, which will attract insects that pollinate flowers with their bright color.
You can make a ladybug from the simplest material - a plastic bottle, and if you involve a child in the process, then doing the craft will be not only exciting, but also developing for the baby. How to make just such products will tell the article.
Ladybug from a plastic bottle can be made in a variety of ways. For example, you can make a large flower bed in the form of this insect, several figurines in the garden, or other crafts. In this article, we will consider the most popular ways to make this craft.
To make an overall bright flower bed, you will need plastic bottles with the same volume, which is selected individually depending on what size the flower bed is planned to be made. You will also need acrylic red black and red. To decorate the finished flower bed, you will need sand and stones. It is also worth having a clerical knife, scissors and paint brushes available.
Before you make a flower bed, you need to cut blanks from prepared bottles. These should be halves or thirds of the containers. They are painted in a certain color depending on the location in the flower bed.
While the blanks are drying, the base of the flower bed is being made: a slightly elongated circle is outlined on the ground and lined with stones. Sand is poured inside, forming a kind of pillow. It marks the back of the insect, which will determine the location of the wings and head. In accordance with the marked pattern, already dried plastic blanks are laid out in compliance with the color finding.
Important! The sand cushion should be poured with plenty of water before laying out the blanks.
Thus, if the drawing is laid out carefully, you will get a mosaic of painted bottle bottoms.
If there is not enough space on the site or there is no desire to make a flower bed, you can decorate the trees or the veranda with hanging insects.
You can make these from ordinary bottles or from rounded containers that can be found on the market. For the manufacture, in addition to containers of 1 and 2 liters, you will also need glue, acrylic paints and scissors.
A small bottle will be the body of a ladybug, it should be painted black. You can also make a torso by cutting out the middle from a one and a half liter bottle and connecting the remaining parts together. In order to fix them, the bottom with a neck at the junction is wound with tape or electrical tape. Two wings are cut out of a large bottle and painted bright red. After drying, black dots are added to the wings. Ready-made wings are glued to the body with a thermal gun. Eyes on the finished craft are applied with paint.
Advice! If there is no glue at hand, then you can attach the wings with a furniture stapler.
Wings can also be made with two large plastic spoons, which are also painted red with specks. Such a performance will look the most advantageous.
Do-it-yourself ladybugs for the garden are a real decoration of any estate. Every experienced gardener strives to make his garden especially cozy and beautiful. To diversify the summer cottage, it is necessary to decorate it with original crafts, which, with their brightness, will cheer you up every time. One of the easiest and cutest crafts is a ladybug. After all, it is not for nothing that these insects are called "God's", according to legend, they bring happiness and great joy to the house. In addition, this wonderful creation can be made from almost any material. Ladybugs can be made from ribbons, plastic spoons, felt, and even salt dough!
These wonderful workshops for beginners will tell you how to make ladybugs for the garden.
The easiest option for crafts is a cow made of paper or cardboard. To do this, you just need to fold the red paper using the origami technique and draw eyes with spots. You can also glue a ladybug out of several parts of different colors.
With such crafts you can decorate trees and bushes in the country:
Delicious and original snack in the garden can be arranged thanks to cherry tomato and olive sandwiches. Tomatoes will fit for the body, heads, points and antennae can be made from black olives. The filling for the sandwich can be anything.
These cute beaded ladybugs that you can make in this master class will impress avid needlework lovers. A large figurine will not work, but even with such very small cows you can decorate the garden by gluing them to the leaves of trees. The weaving pattern looks like this:
Photo of finished beaded cows:
Such a cow can be crocheted, knitted, and also find cross-stitch. Anything you want!
Such a wonderful craft from plastic spoons can be made with children. For each such cow you will need three spoons. Paint two red and draw black dots on them; they will be wings. And one spoon, which will become the body, is painted black. Glue all three spoons. It remains to add a head - from buttons, clay or buttons.
The finished piece looks like this:
Ladybugs made of helmets can decorate a flower alley in the garden or courtyard. The helmet is the main material in the work on the product. A black marker is useful for drawing dots and faces. Draw spots, eyes and wings on the helmet - that's it, the figure for the garden is ready!
Polymer clay cows are very easy to make. It is enough to mold figures in the shape of an oval and paint them with paints.
Ladybugs made from stones and sea pebbles will make the garden look like home. The craft is done in an elementary way - the stone is painted red, the wings are painted with black paint, not forgetting the antennae and eyes. Such ladybugs can also be drawn on a large stone.
Such a kanzashi cow can not only be placed in the garden, it can also be placed on the nightstand in the bedroom or in the kitchen.
Many items that we consider unnecessary in everyday life can be useful for creativity. The most common plastic vessels will be a suitable basis for bright products. With simple manipulations, you can create toys, pictures, garden figures for landscape design, flower pots and crafts in the shape of animals.
You can easily decorate your backyard with plastic bottle crafts 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 connect children to work: they will like to create beautiful, interesting figures from simple materials that are stored in every home.
To form a craft from plastic bottles with your own hands in the form of a palm tree, you will need:
You can make products from plastic bottles shaped like flowers using the following materials:
How to make crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands:
Crafts from plastic bottles for the playground are suitable for installation in your garden. Make a beautiful swan using materials:
Instructions on how to create a craft:
You can prepare Christmas decorations from the following set:
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Kids in kindergarten are given a lot of room for creativity. Products are unusual and bright, and the process of joint work will captivate children and adults. However, sometimes parents have to puzzle over what crafts to do with a child in kindergarten. A simple solution would be plastic bottles. This material is easy to find and use because it freely takes on any shape.
To make a butterfly, a child will need:
Step-by-step instructions for creating crafts from plastic bottles:
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Fridge Alphabet Magnets can be obtained using caps and other materials. Take:
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If you have accumulated a lot of unnecessary containers, think about what you can do with plastic bottles with your own hands. All kinds of crafts will help decorate the house, garden, Christmas tree. Creating products using the material is convenient and exciting for adults and children. The formation process develops imagination, fine motor skills. In addition, you can usefully use the plastic you do not need.
In order to decorate your garden, make it original, unlike others, it is not at all necessary to spend huge sums. A lot of crafts for the garden can be very easily done with your own hands from a variety of improvised materials. And one of the easiest and at the same time the 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, as well as sew, knit or mold.
How to make a ladybug for the garden with your own hands photo
In order to plant bright and cheerful ladybugs in your garden, you can use ordinary round stones - sea pebbles or whatever you can find will do. 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 settle the resulting insects in the grass, plant them on stumps, stick them on tree branches or decorate a flower bed. Another option is to draw ladybugs on a large stone.
DIY ladybugs made of stones and jackdaws photo
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 easy. 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 that can be made into a mosaic. Here's what we get:
Mosaic: ladybug made of concrete 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 out and grind with sandpaper. Next, on top of the pieces of red and black tiles, glue the mosaic. The cement ladybug is ready, it remains to place it in a conspicuous place in your garden.
If you haven’t found suitable stones and it’s difficult for you to make a mosaic, you can simply mold a ladybug out of clay with your own hands and paint it with paint.
How to make a ladybug out of clay photo
If you have an old construction helmet lying around somewhere, red or orange is best, then there is another elementary way to make a ladybug out of a helmet. The only thing you need here is black paint. In the most extreme case - a regular black marker. We just draw spots, eyes and wings - this is the figurine for the garden and it's ready.
How to make a ladybug out of a helmet photo
For more plastic bottle craft ideas, see our previous article. And today we'll see how to make a ladybug out of plastic bottles with our own hands. The most popular idea is a flower bed in the form 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 flower bed of a ladybug from bottles photo
Another way is to string cut bottles on a fishing line to make a voluminous ladybug that can be used to decorate the garden. This figure can then be trimmed with scissors. And this is what we can get:
You can also use plastic spoons for country crafts. It is very easy to make a funny ladybug out of plastic spoons with unfolded wings. For each craft you will need three spoons. We paint two in red and draw dots - these will be the wings, one - in black (this will be the torso). We glue all three spoons. Add a head - from buttons, clay or something suitable. Craft is ready:
How to make a ladybug out of plastic spoons
DIY ladybug from spoons
For garden crafts, you can use any materials at hand, and even a ladybug can be made from any round or oval object. For example, you can use corks from beer or plastic bottles. They will just need to be painted with red paint and black - draw dots, eyes and antennae.
Cute ladybugs made of cork for garden decor
The needlewoman can also use the ladybug symbol for her crafts. For example, you can weave it from beads. Of course, you will not get a big 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
Sewing a pillow in the form 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: dots can be made from beads if you are sewing a small pillow, or not round, but in the form of hearts.
Making a ladybug pillow with your own hands
If you like knitting, then why not knit a ladybug, which can be used to decorate both the garden and at home. It can be a round knitted pillow, a figurine that can be hung on a tree or on a fence, put on a fireplace or on a shelf, a toy, a funny pot holder, or something else.
How to tie a ladybug photo
You can also make ladybugs out of paper - a great idea for crafts with the kids. Alternatively, you can simply fold red paper using the origami technique and draw dotted eyes. You can also glue a ladybug from several parts. You can simply put such crafts on the grass or make a garland and decorate the veranda or trees in the country with it.
We decorate the garden with paper ladybugs photo
A more difficult way to make a paper ladybug is to use the quilling technique. We have already written about spring quilling. There is an easier 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 such a chic voluminous quilling - a ladybug:
DIY quilling ladybug photo
Also, together with the children, you can make a plasticine ladybug. There is nothing difficult in this, even the smallest child can handle it. Great idea for kids.
Plasticine craft: ladybug photo
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 right colors and use it as a garden figurine.
How to make a ladybug out of dough photo
A delicious and original idea for sandwiches is to decorate them with a tomato and olive ladybug. Tomatoes for the body can be taken either ordinary or cherry tomatoes (in the second case, the figures will simply be smaller), we make the head from black olives, dots and antennae from them. The sandwiches themselves can be anything.
Sandwiches in the shape of a ladybug photo
Another delicious idea is to make a sala or ladybug cake. A cake in the form of this funny insect is a great idea for a children's party, you may well bake one for your child's birthday. A salad in the form of a ladybug can be a decoration of any festive table. Here's what it looks like:
Ladybug cake for children's party
And the last one for today - ladybug sushi. For me personally, this is an unattainable ideal, but if you have rich experience in making sushi and rolls with your own hands, 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 handmade ladybug with your own hands with him. This will help the development of fantasy, imagination and diligence. It will be very fun for the child to do something with you with their own hands.
What crafts to do with a 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 fun family of ladybugs from plastic bottles. You can do crafts in the kindergarten with a group of children. It is very exciting. It will allow you to study colors by painting insects, improve arithmetic by drawing dots on the back. The author of the master class ladybug from a plastic bottle "Video channel on Youtube Crafts Homemade".
For crafts from plastic bottles with our own hands, we will need the bottoms of bottles of different sizes, how many bottoms you cut off, so many ladybugs you get.
We paint the bottoms of the bottles with paints on the inside in different colors.
Red, red, blue - take your pick!
We dry, we wait until the blanks for crafts in the garden dry.
We take foam balls, form the head of a ladybug out of them, make a recess where the head will be attached to the bottle.
We string the head on a toothpick, paint it black.
We form antennae from a plastic fork.
Glue the heads to the body of our Ladybug.
We glue the beads, and preferably artificial eyes with hot glue. With sharp scissors we make holes on the head for the antennae,
We fill them with hot glue, stick the antennae.
We 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, entertain children, 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.
Text prepared by: Veronica