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Bright garden crafts made from plastic bottles are an easy and affordable way to decorate your favorite yard. The original sculpture of a stork made of durable material will update the familiar landscape and create a joyful mood. A do-it-yourself bird figure will make the garden unique and become a family symbol of kindness and happiness.

How to make a stork from plastic containers

To make such a craft, you need to stock up on free time and be creative.

My patio is adorned with a stork figurine based on a 5 liter plastic bottle covered with polyurethane foam and painted with acrylic façade dyes.

Here is such a wonderful stork obtained from a plastic bottle and polyurethane foam

What materials and tools will be needed

Creating your own bird design, you can assemble it entirely from plastic containers, fastening them with glue or staples. And you can make the sculpture more expressive by adding wood details to the plastic structure.

The frame of this bird is wooden, covered with plumage from plastic bottles.

Or make individual elements of foam.

You can create such an exotic collection using ordinary plastic bottles and a piece of foam.

For our crafts of impressive size, you will need:

• Canister plastic 5-liter - the basis of the body.

  The 5 l canister forms the basis of the torso

• Milk plastic bottles of 1 l and 1.5 l, from which white plumage is cut. You can get by with a transparent container, but first it should be painted with white paint for outdoor use.
• Dark plastic bottles of different capacities: 3 half-liter will be needed for the manufacture of paws and beak, one and a half liter - for dark feathers.

  Dark plastic containers will be needed for feathers, paws and beak

• Styrofoam 10 cm thick, from which the head of a stork with a beak is cut.

  A bird's head is made from a piece of foam

• Sandpaper.
• Scissors.
• Corrugated tube for the neck.

  A long bird's neck is made from a corrugated tube

• Metal mesh as a base for the wings.
• Furniture stapler.
• Metal rod 6–10 mm thick for the legs.
• Wire thin for fixing the wings.

  With the help of wire, the wings are firmly attached to the model of the body.

• Self-tapping screws.
• Glue gun or universal glue.

  Glue universal quickly glues plastic and other materials

• Acrylic facade paints, brushes.

Stages of making a stork

Having acquired tools and materials, they first prepare all the details of the bird, then assemble it.

Head

A head with a beak is cut out of the foam plastic with a sharp knife.

A bird's head is cut out of a piece of foam

Then grind the rough surface with sandpaper. You can cover the workpiece with white facade paint.

The workpiece is sanded with sandpaper to make the surface smooth.

To strengthen the beak, 2 triangular plates are used, which are made from a dark bottle of 0.5 liters. Having cut off the neck and bottom, cut along the resulting cylinder and cut out triangles. The plates are bent in half and attached to the beak with self-tapping screws.

The beak is made out of plastic, attaching it to self-tapping screws

Paws

They are made from the top of brown bottles of 0.5 liters. Containers with a cut off bottom are cut to the neck lengthwise into 4 parts, sharpened at the ends and bent outward.

Paws with fingers are cut out of dark bottles

Plumage

The most time-consuming and lengthy stage of preparatory work is the preparation of feathers. They will need a large number, of different lengths, shapes and colors: for the design of the wings and tail - long, dark and white, for the body - light smaller ones.

For crafts use light and dark feathers

The neck and bottom of the bottle are cut off, the remaining middle part is cut along and strips are cut out of the resulting rectangle. One edge of the strip is rounded. 6 large feathers are made from a liter bottle.

1 liter white bottle is divided into 6 parts

For plumage of the neck, small feathers are cut out and the ends are made in the form of teeth or fringe. You can decorate a long neck with large plates from halves of milk bottles, which are finely chopped around the edges.

figure frame

The body is made from a canister with a cut off handle.

A canister with a cut off handle is the body of our bird

As the basis of the wings, a fine-mesh metal mesh is used, which is fixed to the canister with wire or staples. The mesh along the edges is cut in the shape of a wing and bent down.

A fine-meshed mesh is fixed on the canister - the basis of the wings

A wire is inserted into the neck of the canister and bent, forming the frame of a long neck. Fasten the wire to the metal bar of the legs and put on it a corrugated tube or hose from the vacuum cleaner.

Strengthen the wire for the neck and put a hose on it

A hole is made in the lower part of the container and a bent rod is threaded into it - these will be the legs.

The legs are made of wire by bending it and threading it through the hole at the bottom of the canister

Or they pierce the canister from below and insert curved rods, on the ends of which they put the paws upside down.

Assembly of parts

After preparing all the details, the structure is assembled.

1. The head is put on a wire and additionally attached to the corrugated pipe with glue.
2. Cover the body with plumage starting from the bottom. Light feathers are fixed on the canister with brackets.

   Begin to screw feathers from the lower part of the body

3. They form a tail of feathers, placing them in rows and fixing them on the body with a stapler.
4. Feathers are screwed with wire to the edge of the mesh wing. To make the plumage of a stork with black edging along the edges of the white wings, the first two rows are made from dark feathers.

   The wings begin to be decorated with feathers from the edge, using dark-colored blanks

5. Subsequent rows are formed from white feathers, overlapping them.

   The third and subsequent rows on the wing are made of white feathers.

6. A number of feathers are screwed at the base of the neck with self-tapping screws.

   It is not difficult to make a stork with sweeping wings

   In this case, the feathers are screwed onto the entire canister, and the mesh base of the wing is covered with plumage on both sides.

   On spread wings, feathers are attached on both sides.

   Decoration of garden sculpture

   With the help of decoration, plastic crafts can be made brighter, especially if only transparent bottles were used in its manufacture. For this, acrylic dyes for outdoor use are suitable. Previously, the plastic container is wiped with an alcohol-based solution and painted over with white or black paint until the feathers are cut out.

   Acrylic facade paint is moisture resistant and does not fade under the sun

   The beak and paws are painted red or wrapped with red tape.

   The beak and legs are painted red

   Eyes are made from beads, decorative blanks for toys or small buttons that are put on glue. You can just paint them with black paint.

   Acrylic paints become brighter after varnishing.

   Master class on making a stork

   There are many options for making a stork from plastic containers using elements made of wood, polyurethane foam, and polystyrene.

   Such an original composition of the stork family in the nest is also made of plastic

   Even a beginner will be able to make such a garden sculpture, guided by a video with step-by-step instructions for the workflow.

   Video: how to make a stork from plastic bottles

   Storks from plastic bottles are an original decorative decoration of a personal plot and an object of universal admiration. After all, they are made from ordinary garbage, turned by skillful hands into works of art. Made of durable plastic, they are not afraid of rain and snow. Over the years, the figures will not swell, the paint will not fade or peel off.

An old legend says that God gathered all the reptiles from the Garden of Eden into one bag and ordered the man to throw him into the sea with his own hands. And the curious Homo sapiens wanted to look at the creatures, untied the bag, and, of course, missed everyone. Vladyka became angry and turned this man into a stork so that he would protect other people from all kinds of toads and snakes. Since then, storks have always settled near a person, feed on reptiles and bring us happiness.

Many old pictures depict a stork with a baby. Among the Slavic peoples, it is customary to believe that this particular bird is responsible for childbearing and well-being. If storks settled on the roof, the house will be full of happiness and children's laughter. And if you haven’t settled, then a wonderful stork with a baby can be made with your own hands from improvised material and installed on a skate or on an apple tree in the center of the garden.

bottled happiness

It will take

To make a stork from plastic bottles for the garden, we need to prepare the following materials:

• empty bottles;
• thick wide board for the base;
• a rod or thick wire for legs;
• a piece of foam 10 cm thick;
• corrugated hose from a vacuum cleaner;
• 2 plastic canisters with a volume of 5 l;
• metal mesh for wings;
• stapler.

Master class on making happiness

It only takes a few hours of passionate DIY work to make almost real storks appear on the paths of your garden.

• Cut out a head with a beak from a piece of foam, draw eyes or glue black beads with your own hands.

• Cut out a two-piece beak from a dark bottle and glue it in place.

• We begin the master class on making the torso by cutting off the handle in the canister. Then you need to bend the mesh in the shape of a canister with your own hands and cut off the excess.

• To make the legs, bend the bar and fasten its ends to the board.

• We are holding a master class on the preparation of plastic feathers.

• We attach the feathers to the canister, starting with the tail.

• The master class on fitting the neck begins with attaching the reinforcement wire. Then a hose is put on it.

• Attach small "feathers" on the neck with tape.

• Fix the feathers on the grid.

• The stork for our garden will stand with its wings folded, so we simply fasten all the feathers with a stapler with our own hands, overlapping each previous row by a third.

• We finish the master class by connecting all the details and decorative tinting of the eyes, beak and legs. This bird can be installed with your own hands in the depths of the garden for the whole summer. It will not deteriorate from the rain and will not fly away.

Today's fashionable toys are hand-sewn from ordinary fabric according to simple patterns. We will not fully describe the master class for their manufacture.

• Cut out the details of the craft from the fabric, sew and stuff with any filler.

• Separately, you need to make a beak (can be made of cardboard) and attach to the head. It remains to make clothes, glue eyes, wrap the baby and hand it to the stork.

Of course, you cannot place such a wet bird on the branches of the garden, but it can decorate a flower pot on the windowsill.

Another way to make your home rich and happy is to make a stork on a nest. As a basis, you can take patterns of a tilde bird. Cut feathers out of plastic white milk bottles, fasten them together and make wings, decorating the ends with real feathers. Place a few white feathers on top of your head. Form a tail out of real feathers, sew or glue eyes and a tie, and plant the bird in the nest.

It can be made from ordinary rods, fastened with wire. To get a stork with a baby, put any doll in his wings. The master class on making a lucky amulet is over.

These two rag birds cannot be left on the paths of the garden, and the master class for making the first stork requires a lot of time and materials. Do not be upset and just make a nest and cut a flat bird out of textolite or plywood. Color it in, give it a string bag with a baby doll in its beak and that's it, the stork with the baby has already settled on your roof.

Have you thought, dear readers, that it can be used as ... a material for the manufacture of art objects. Although it may not be art, as such, in its literal sense, but a decoration for the garden - a small sculpture, it is quite possible to do. Indeed, polyurethane foam is unusually plastic, quickly hardens and is easily processed - why not material for creativity?

Today I will tell you how to make a sculpture of a stork out of polyurethane foam to decorate your garden or summer cottage. There are very few materials needed, and they are very cheap. If you pay attention to how much garden sculptures cost in hardware stores, you will realize that the price of a pair of foam cans is incommensurate with their cost. In addition, the stork will work out much better for us. So let's get started.

stork frame

To begin with, we will select a suitable body for the stork - a frame on which foam will be sprayed. A plastic canister from under water with a capacity of 5 liters will do just fine. We make the neck of the stork from wire, and to add volume, you can wrap strips of foam plastic on the wire. The legs of the stork can also be made from wire, and the nose and head can be cut out either from foam or from wood - whichever is more convenient and preferable.

Sculpture making

After making a simple frame, we proceed to spray foam on our sculpture - we do it carefully, presenting the contours of the finished stork. To make it easier, print out a large bird. If the foam does not fall as you intended, no problem - after drying, the excess is easily removed with a knife. By the way, if you wish, you can use real bird feathers for the tail - who knows, maybe you can do it instead of a peacock stork. After the foam has dried and finished with a knife, we paint the sculpture with ordinary acrylic paint, fix it in place in the garden, and invite friends to appreciate your creative genius. Good luck!

A beautiful well-kept garden is always pleasing to the eye. Garden sculptures that can be made independently, for example or, will help to make it more comfortable. One of the most popular is the stork. In this article we will look at what a stork can be made of.

How to make a stork with your own hands from plastic bottles?

To work, it is necessary to cut a template from a sheet of plywood. This is the body of a bird and wings on the sides. Also prepare white and black plastic opaque bottles, self-tapping screws and red electrical tape.

1. We fasten the templates together with self-tapping screws.
2. For feathers, we use plastic milk bottles. We cut them into strips of the same width and make a fringe along the edges.
3. Next, using a glue gun, we attach the feathers to the body of the bird.
4. For the tail and lower body we use black shampoo bottles.
5. We wrap the beak with red tape.
6. Legs can be made of wire. And toy eyes can be purchased at a needlework store.
7. Do-it-yourself stork for the garden is ready!

We make a stork from polyurethane foam with our own hands

Now consider another option, how you can make a stork with your own hands. In this case, we use a five-liter container, adhesive tape with polystyrene and polyurethane foam.

1. Using adhesive tape, we attach body parts to a plastic container. The neck consists of wire lined with foam pieces.
2. For the hips, we also use pieces of foam.
3. To make a beak, a large nail will do.
4. This is how it looks like at this stage.
5. The author of the lesson proposes to make legs from used electrodes. You can pick up similar material: it can be metal rods or thick wire in several turns.
6. Before proceeding to the next manufacturing step, check the reliability of the support.
7. Next, simply apply mounting foam on top of the layout.
8. We cut off the excess.
9. We paint the finished sculpture with acrylic paints.
10. We finish the nose from a piece of wood and fasten it to a nail.
11. To make the stork look like a real one, we insert real feathers into the tail and wings.
12. Here is such a wonderful stork turned out.

Making a stork with your own hands from a canister

For work you will need the following materials:

• five-liter canister;
• strong thick wire and plastic tubes;
• net;
• Styrofoam;
• white and dark plastic bottles;
• corrugation.

Now let's look at all the manufacturing steps step by step.

1. We cut blanks from sheet foam.
2. Next, with a knife, we give them the outlines of the head.
3. We give the beak a flatter shape and cut out the eye sockets.
4. With the help of a sandpaper we make the surface smooth. We insert toy eyes into the eye sockets.
5. Cut out a beak from a plastic bottle and attach it to Titan glue.
6. We make a body for a stork with our own hands from a plastic canister.
7. Cut off the handle.
8. Cut out a piece from the mesh so that you can wrap it around the canister.
9. Round the mesh a little to make it look more like wings.
10. We bend a thick rod and make legs.
11. We cut feathers from white bottles.
12. Now you can start assembling all the components together.
13. We start work from the tail.
14. To make a neck, we put a corrugated hose from a vacuum cleaner or a similar part on the wire.
15. We fasten all feathers to self-tapping screws.
16. Since the stork's wings are folded, it is enough to attach the feathers to the stomach and a little on the sides.
17. We cut the white bottles in half and make cuts in the form of a fringe. We fasten them to the neck with adhesive tape.
18. We start making wings from the edge of the grid.
19. The next row covers the previous one by a third.
20. Starting from the third row, we use white plastic.
21. To make paws, cut blanks from half-liter bottles.
22. At the end, we paint the beak and legs of the bird in red.
23. Do-it-yourself stork for the garden is ready.

A beautiful and bright figure of a stork will bring a touch of grace to the backyard landscape, especially if it is made by hand. It may seem that making a stork is difficult and requires many years of practice in needlework, but the method of making it is simple and the materials are inexpensive. Such a sculpture will be an excellent addition to the local area and decoration for a flower bed, lawn and garden plot, symbolizing the prosperity, well-being and family comfort of its owners.

How to make a stork for a summer residence with your own hands: a master class

A do-it-yourself garden stork is one of the favorite crafts of summer residents and gardeners, and there are a lot of variations of its execution on the Internet, but the manufacturing principle is approximately the same in all cases, regardless of the materials used and the richness of the decor. Read how to make beautiful wooden signs for your home.

First of all, the head, neck, torso, wing frame and legs are made, which are connected with fastening tools.

All the remaining time is devoted to a rather painstaking procedure for cutting, fringing and decorating feathers - they will make up the plumage of the body, neck and tail of the bird. There are homemade options without the use of plastic bottles, but they are less common. Let's take a closer look at the different options for making a stork in this article.

Materials and tools for a garden figure

The figure of a stork is made up of a head, beak, neck, torso, paws, wings and white plumage with layers of black feathers. All parts are fastened together with a furniture stapler and seated on universal glue.

The body of a stork can be cut out of a wooden block of the desired size, polystyrene foam or a 5-liter plastic canister.

• plastic bottles 1.5 and 1 l from milk;
• plastic bottles of 1.5 and 0.5 liters from kvass or beer;
• canister 5 l;
• scissors;
• glue;
• self-tapping screws;
• a piece of foam;
• corrugated tube;
• steel bars;
• frame mesh;
• thin wire;
• sandpaper;
• furniture stapler;
• red acrylic paint.

The plumage of the stork is also made from transparent bottles, but then the plastic under the feathers should first be painted with white and black acrylic paints.

Production steps from plastic bottles

Having prepared the necessary materials and tools, you can begin to manufacture the components of the craft. Learn about beautiful wooden fences with your own hands.

It is important that all parts of the stork's body are proportionate to each other.

Head

With a sharp knife, the contour of the head with the beak is cut out of the foam, after which the surface is polished, and the edges of the beak are leveled with sandpaper. If desired, the head can be painted with white paint - the coating will give the future product a rich white color and create an additional barrier from the sun, wind and rain.

The beak consists of 2 plates that are attached to the head with self-tapping screws. For a beak, the neck and bottom are cut off from a dark plastic bottle, and the rest is cut into rectangular plates. Triangles are cut from the resulting blanks, which will subsequently be the upper and lower parts of the beak.

The plates are bent in the middle and screwed to the junction of the head and beak.

Paws

The paws are cut out of 2 half-liter bottles with dark walls, after cutting off their bottom. The fingers of the future bird are cut off from the very edge to the neck of the bottle - you should get 3 in front and 1 in the back, and bend outward.

Each finger is shaped into a long, sharp triangle with scissors.

Plumage

Processing blanks for feathers to give them a beautiful natural shape with feather veins is the most labor-intensive and long part of the work.

To cut feathers, the bottom and neck of the bottle are cut off, and the cylinder of the bottle is cut into 6 equal parts - 6 feathers. They will be of different sizes: for plumage of the body - small, for the tail - longer. Each feather needs to be given airiness by creating a fringed fringe around the edges. He will tell you about metal forged gazebos for giving.

Plumage on the neck can be done in 3 ways:

• cutting even smaller plates than for the stomach, decorating them with a fringe and curling them with scissors;
• cutting off large plates to the length of the neck and serrating their edges;
• cutting off half of the bottle and making deep sharp cuts in the resulting plates.

Each pen is a rectangular plate made of a plastic bottle with a rounded or embossed edge.

frame

The body of a stork is conveniently made from a 5-liter canister, from which the handle is first cut off. Then a mesh is attached to the container, to which future feathers will be attached - it is bent and cut in the shape of a wing.

Next, you can proceed to assemble the main part of the product - a neck tube is inserted into the neck of the canister, and 2 holes are cut in the lower part, through which a long piece of a thick rod bent in half is threaded - these are paws.

The nets are fixed with wire or steel brackets on the canister.

Assembly and decoration

The stork is assembled starting from the head - it is connected with a wire to a corrugated tube and additionally fixed with hot glue.

Feathers are fixed with a stapler, starting from the bottom of the canister and then upward in layers. The tail is attached to the back of the figure. The plumage is also applied to the mesh in layers, starting from the outer edge, and fixed with wire. In this case, black feathers are located on the outer edge. You will get only about 6-7 layers of feathers. The extreme row connecting to the tube is screwed with self-tapping screws.

Prepared plates with pointed edges from half bottles are wrapped around the neck.

The number of feathers depends on the location of the wings: the option under consideration is designed for folded wings, but when flapping, the wing mesh is covered with feathers from 2 sides and the back of the stork is also made.

After assembling the bird, you can proceed to the creative design of the craft.

Eyes can be bought ready-made in stores that sell parts for knitted and sewn toys, and glued with hot glue. For plug-in eyes choose large black beads or balls. You can also draw eyes - with simple black or colored paints to your taste.

It is necessary to paint feathers, if transparent bottles were used during work, before cutting them, after wiping the surface of the coating with an alcohol solution.

The beak and legs of the product also need to be painted with red paint. Alternatively, you can wrap them with red tape.

What else can you make a stork from

Craftsmen manage to create masterpieces from everything that was lying around in the garage, including, and also use the remnants of building materials after repairs. Several of these variations of garden storks can be safely taken into account - it will not be more difficult to make them than the previous version.

From polyurethane foam

In this way, you can create a garden sculpture by turning and giving the figure of a stork a realistic image. The “skeleton” of the product will be a steel frame - steel bars are welded to each other, and then other elements of the stork's body are mounted on them.

To make a stork you will need:

• 5 liter plastic bottle;
• mounting foam;
• steel bars;
• Styrofoam;
• dye;
• ground solution;
• scotch;
• rasp.

You need to put on the body-bottle on the frame, and attach the sharpened pieces of polystyrene to each other with adhesive tape to the neck rod. Figured foam hips are fixed in the same way.

Even with the use of waterproof plywood, the possibility of the sculpture getting wet during the cold season increases, so it is recommended to store it indoors before the onset of heat.

To make a stork you will need:

• plywood;
• plastic bottles with white and dark walls;
• hot glue gun;
• rods;
• jigsaw;
• self-tapping screws;
• scissors;
• screwdriver;
• furniture stapler;
• red acrylic paint.

It is advisable to apply the elements of the body and wings first on paper, creating a “pattern” of the details before cutting them out on a sheet of plywood. The wings are screwed to the body with self-tapping screws. The paws are made of steel rods and are attached with brackets to plywood sheets that act as a torso. Plywood sheets are also used for or.

Feathers are created from bottles, and each plate, in turn, is processed along the edges with scissors to obtain an airy fringe. The plumage is applied to the entire surface of the stork, starting from the back: first, black feathers are laid out, and then white, from which the tail of the bird is also created.

Each blank is sanded along the edges and the surface is primed.

• a layer of red paint is applied to the plywood beak;
• eyes can be drawn independently.

The bars of the legs can be sharpened from the bottom edge so that they easily fix the product in the soil.

Styrofoam

Styrofoam stork is a monolithic structure, lightweight and easy to manufacture.

For work you will need:

• foam sheets;
• steel bars;
• glue universal;
• scissors;
• saw;
• furniture stapler;
• sandpaper;
• Acrylic paint in black and red.

First of all, paws are made - the lower edges of 2 steel rods are sharpened, and the upper ones are bent for subsequent fixation in the foam body.

The main creative work on such a stork is to create the right foam blanks, because the finished bird will consist entirely of it. The body, head and neck are drawn in foam and cut with a saw. He will tell you about plastic barrels for watering at the dacha.

Iron rods are fixed in the stork's body with brackets, its surface is sheathed with a layer of foam for volume, and wing blanks are glued on top. The neck and head are mounted on a rod.

The stork's beak is painted red, and it is better to make false eyes, from beads or balls - this way the figure will turn out more expressive.

Next, the final modeling of the figure is performed, giving it smooth and beautiful features with sandpaper and a knife. This is the case when you do not need to make feathers for a bird - the relief plumage can be cut directly on the body of the product, simply by accentuating the edges of the wings with black paint.

How to make a garden stork nest

The classical composition with storks in the nest traditionally symbolized a cozy house with a large family among the East Slavic peoples, indicating the fertility and hospitality of the owners. Installing storks in a nest on your own plot, in a flower bed, on the roof of a house or on a recreation area with children will help not only decorate the territory, but also show guests that the owners are jacks of all trades. He will tell about street country washbasins.

Old wheels from a bicycle, cart, trailer or wheelbarrow will fit under the nest frame. You can weave a nest from a bush and live or dry branches, securing the entire structure with steel wire and installing it on a special platform consisting of X-shaped linings.

Video

How to make a stork from plastic bottles, see this video:

Conclusion

1. The most time-consuming and laborious work on a garden stork is to create its plumage - each feather must be worked on manually, giving the edges a jagged or fringed shape so that they look like natural bird feathers.
2. Feathers from transparent bottles should be dyed white and black to mimic the natural plumage of a stork.
3. Before painting the feathers, they must be wiped of dust and wiped with an alcohol solution so that the paint lies evenly.
4. The easiest way to make a stork is to make it completely out of Styrofoam and sharpen it with a knife and rasp to the desired shape; the simplest wing without a frame is made from a piece of plywood, which is screwed to the homemade body with self-tapping screws.
5. The body with the neck can be made from a plastic 5-liter canister with a cut off handle and neck, into which a corrugated tube is then inserted.
6. It is also possible to make a garden sculpture from the remnants of building materials lying around after repairs, and it will cost almost free. Additionally, you will need to buy only acrylic paints in order to draw eyes and paint feathers.