Handicraft garden. DIY garden crafts: all the new items for original garden design

Nowadays, many residents of country houses strive to decorate a clearing or flowerbed with an unusual composition that will attract the attention of passers-by and delight the owners and guests. Today you will be inspired to make crafts from various waste materials.

Plastic bottles are empty containers no one needs. Many people simply mercilessly throw them into the trash can or bin. But, experienced needlewomen carefully collect plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes. For what? For making incredibly beautiful and original crafts for the garden and dacha. You can make different birds and animals that will become a real decoration for your garden plot.

This article is dedicated specifically to DIY crafts for the garden and dacha. You will learn about the secrets of making deer, sheep, cats, horses, etc. These funny and graceful animals, made with your own hands, also look great in the garden.

To make a brown deer, you need to take a five-liter plastic bottle and cut off the neck of it. A one and a half liter bottle is attached to the cutting site using self-tapping screws, bottom down. A liter bottle is attached to the neck of this container.

You just need to cut a circle in the center and insert the plug of the previous workpiece into it. The result is a head on a long neck and the body of a deer.

Then 4 holes are made in the five-liter bottle (bottom) and long wooden slats are inserted into them. These will be the legs of the animal.

The tail and ears are cut out of plastic containers and placed in the appropriate places on the craft.
All that remains is to paint the deer with brown and white paint, draw his eyes and attach antlers from ordinary intricately shaped twigs. The brown deer is ready!

Yellow fawn - DIY garden craft

The yellow fawn is made using the same principle, but there are a couple of nuances. The five-liter bottle is attached entirely, and the neck is the tail. The neck is made of a short wooden strip.

Cat made of plastic bottles

This animal is made in a completely different way. First you need to collect a lot of plastic bottles with a volume of 2 or 1.5 liters, approximately 100 pieces.

How to make a garden craft in the shape of a cat step by step:

1. From each container you need to cut off the bottom; this is the part of the bottle that is needed for work.
2. Then you need to make two balls from a metal mesh: a large one for the body, a small one for the head. They are easily and securely connected with wire.
3. Then you need to attach the bottoms of the bottles to the mesh. This can be done using thin wire or liquid nails.
4. The hat, tie, tongue and eyes are made from pieces of old linoleum.
5. All that remains is to paint the cat white (you can use any other color).
6. Draw his eyes, nose and mustache with black paint. But decorate the tongue, headdress and tie in bright shades of red.
7. To ensure that the structure stands firmly, it can be secured to a metal rod dug into the ground.

DIY sheep

The big sheep was made using the same technology as the cat. You prepare the bottoms of the bottles and fix them on a ball formed from a metal mesh. The legs are made of wooden slats. The ears and face of the animal are carved from a five-liter bottle. But the small lamb is formed from polyurethane foam.

DIY horse for the garden

It requires a large plastic bottle. In our example, we replaced it with a plastic flower pot. This will be the basis for the body of the animal. Wooden slats are attached to four sides of the pot with self-tapping screws. The neck and tail are also sections of a wooden stick.

The horse's head is made from a paint can, and its hooves are made from plastic flower pot trays. The animal's mane and tail are an old blue wig. Instead of artificial hair, you can attach hay or threads.

The finished figure is covered with brown paint, and a favorite plant is planted in a pot. It turns out to be both a flowerbed and an interesting character!

Pigs are the most common crafts for the garden and dacha

Large water bottles can be used as original flower beds in the shape of a pig. To do this, the side of the bottle is cut off - flowers will grow there. Then the ears are cut out from the remaining sidewall.

Take four one and a half liter bottles and cut out the necks, they will be the legs of the pig. The resulting legs are attached to the body using wire. The piglet turns white or pink.

Then you need to fill the internal space with soil, after making several holes in the belly. Now you can plant the seedlings. Such a pig will look great in combination with any other flower bed.

DIY craft - peacock for a dacha garden

Peacocks are incredibly beautiful birds. You can admire their tail for ages. It's a pity that not every yard can see such beauty. Although, the situation can be fixed! You can make a magnificent peacock with a long tail from ordinary plastic containers.

The following materials are suitable for work:

• Styrofoam;
• stationery knife;
• metal rod;
• stand (log);
• old canister;
• metal grid;
• wire (thick and thin);
• awl;
• plastic bottles of all sizes;
• scissors;
• enamel paint of different shades.

First, take a stand (it can be a board or a wooden log) and fix pieces of a metal rod on it, making two legs for the future bird. Then you need to make a body from an old canister. To do this, the container should be given the correct shape by cutting off excess parts. You can secure the canister to your feet using wire.

The neck and head are cut out of foam plastic and secured with wire to the canister (torso).
And all that remains is to form the tail. To do this, you need to take a metal mesh, cut it to size and lower it along the length to the floor. In order for it to hold, it must be attached to the canister with screws or wire. That's it, the base of the future bird is ready!

Now the most painstaking stage of the work is making feathers from plastic bottles. Wings require long feathers. To do this, the bottle is cut into strips, and oval oblong blanks are cut out of them. You will also need short oval parts to decorate the body and neck of the bird.

You can attach the feathers to the canister and foam using self-tapping screws or pieces of thin wire. In this case, you need to move exclusively from the bottom up, so that each subsequent layer hides the fastening of the previous parts.

For tail feathers, it is better to use 2-liter green plastic bottles. One bottle will yield 4 feathers. You need about 70-80 pieces. The tail feather has an oblong oval shape with fringe along the edges. It is better to immediately draw a pattern on each workpiece. When attaching feathers to the tail, you can use wire or nylon thread. You should move from bottom to top, closing the previous row.

The crest, beak and fingers are also cut out from plastic containers. The final stage of work is painting the feathers with enamel paint. Colors should be bright and saturated.

Our peacock made from plastic bottles is ready!

Unusual crafts for the garden with your own hands

To decorate a flower bed, you can use a wide variety of ideas, you just have to use your imagination. For example, you can give a second life to an old non-working TV.

To do this, open the back panel, throw everything out, leaving only the body. The panel needs to be put back. We fill the soil inside and outside the TV so that it looks like the earth is pouring out of the screen. Now we plant small flowers. The illusion is that a stream of color flows directly from the screen.

You can build an unusual flower bed using the most original items. This could be a wheel from an old cart, a rubber tire, old suitcases, dishes, umbrellas, basins and even old shoes.

Crafts can look organic not only at home, but also in the garden. They will serve as spectacular decorations for your summer cottage and will add unusual notes to it.

Gardeners often prefer purchased figurines and other similar paraphernalia, believing that all methods of creating accessories are old. Designers and craftsmen are constantly coming up with something new, so there are many ideas for decorating a dacha that cannot be called banal.

Homemade flowerbed - a bright accent

Creating a flower bed may involve not only the arrangement of flowers, but also the creation of an effective frame. Check out this simple flower arrangement.

To make it, you only need an old garden wheelbarrow, as well as seedlings or seeds of selected low-growing flowers. Place the item in the selected area, fill the container with soil and plant flowers - that’s all the instructions!

A stone flowerbed-basket is something that seems complicated to make, but is easy to do. Instructions in front of you:

1. Find boulders of different shades and sizes.
2. Determine the location for the flower bed. Mark the boundaries of the round flower bed.
3. Make a concrete mixture. Mix cement with construction sand in a ratio of 1:4 and add a little water to make the mixture thick.
4. Lay out the first row of stones.
5. Lay out further rows of stones, securing them with concrete mixture, until the base of the flowerbed is ready.
6. Remove excess cement.
7. Measure the diameter of the resulting base.
8. Lay out an arc on the ground from stones. The distance between its ends should be equal to the diameter of the base of the flowerbed. The stones must be connected using concrete.
9. Once the arc is strong, attach it to the top of the base using concrete and stones.

After all the concrete has hardened, you can pour soil into the inside of the “basket” and plant the seeds. Here is a photo of the finished flower beds.

A flower bed made of twigs looks natural and impressive. It fits very harmoniously into any garden. You can do it this way:

1. Draw a circle on the ground that will form the outline of the flower bed.
2. Place several rods on its borders. They need to be inserted into the ground at a distance from each other.
3. Take a thin twig and weave it between the vertical rods. Wrap the end and glue it to the back of the flower bed with wood glue.
4. Weave the remaining rods. Once you notice that the basket is tall enough, cut off the tops of the vertical bases.
5. Pour soil into the flowerbed and plant flowers.
6. Take several rods and form an arc from them. Insert their edges between the bars of the top of the basket.

Are you looking for the most natural and simple option? Take a closer look at the flowering stump! You just need to find a part of a tree trunk, make a cylindrical hole inside it, install it on the site, pour soil into the cut hole and, of course, plant flowers in it.

Do you have an old iron bed you don't need? Turn it into a huge flowerbed! Using five pieces of plywood (one base and four sides) and nails, make a box, place it on the bed and plant flowers in it.

DIY fauna figurines

Unfortunately, many animals are extremely difficult to keep in the countryside. There is a good alternative - hand-made figurines of fauna representatives.

Perhaps one of the simplest options is large ladybugs. To make them you will need stones and paint, which can be purchased at any store that sells construction supplies.

To prevent the drawing from being smeared, first paint the entire boulder with red paint and then dry it. Next, you need to apply black dye, and after it dries, you should add accents with white and yellow.

Using the blade (bottom) of a shovel and a few other similar items, you can decorate your garden with a cute black bird.

To make one bird you will need black paint, a shovel blade, glue, thick wire and play dough. The last ingredient can be purchased at craft stores. Instructions in front of you:

1. Cover the blade of the shovel with black paint and wait for it to dry.
2. We wrap two pieces of thick wire to the surface where the “birds” will sit.
3. Place yellow play dough on pieces of wire to create bird legs. We make a thickening in the upper part. The top should be flat.
4. Glue the blade of the shovel to the tops.
5. We paint the thickenings on the top of the “legs” with black paint.
6. We make eyes from white modeling dough, and a beak from yellow dough. Try to sculpt so that the bases of the beak and eyes are flat.
7. We attach the parts with glue to the top of the shovel blade.
8. On the “eyes” we make black dots with black paint.

Are there a lot of flowers in the garden? Then it’s worth decorating the area with large decorative butterflies!

A bottle, varnish and glue are the main materials required. Everything else depends on your imagination. The manufacturing technique is not complicated:

1. Draw a butterfly on a plastic bottle.
2. We cut it out and bend the middle so that the figure looks natural.
3. Coloring the butterfly.
4. We protect the image with a varnish coating.
5. We glue sequins or rhinestones into the middle of the figure, imitating the body of a butterfly.
6. Glue the resulting product to the surface.

If you find it difficult to call yourself a good artist, use the attached stencil.

You can paint the wings of a decorative butterfly in a variety of ways. The table shows the possible effects and required materials.

DIY decorative interior items

It is pleasant to spend time in the garden not only during the daytime. The aroma of flowers that did not have time to close, moths, the starry sky - all this creates a special atmosphere. In order to make it more magical, you will need unusual lanterns.

To make an original decorative lantern you need a garland, threads, construction glue and a balloon. The manufacturing technique consists of several points:

1. Inflate the ball. It should be round.
2. Apply glue to the ball and immediately wrap it with thread. Try to leave a hole at the bottom.
3. After the glue has completely dried, deflate the balloon. Cover it with varnish.
4. Place a garland in the hole of the ball of thread.

This is what the finished product will look like, which can be placed on a table in the gazebo.

Using stumps and firewood, it is not difficult to make a table with chairs. You can make both ordinary garden furniture and small decorative ones.

This is not to say that when creating such wooden furniture, special subtleties need to be taken into account. It is enough just to saw off most of the tree trunk and make its top and bottom even. The base of the chairs is made using the same technology, only in the area of ​​the top you should leave a small rectangle, which will play the role of a backrest. Nail two small bars to it with nails so that they are in a vertical position, and attach the horizontal half of the bar to them.

An iridescent vase is a bright accent for a summer cottage. It can be used not only for placing fruits from the garden and orchard on it, but also as a bird drinker.

1. We shred old discs.
2. Glue the pieces onto the vase. Attach them with the wrong side up. It is desirable that they are located as close to each other as possible.
3. We install the finished product.

Mushroom figurines for the garden

Mushrooms look especially impressive if you have a vacant lot with grass on your site. To make them you need white paint or putty buckets, old large plates, glue and dyes.

First you need to paint the upside down plate. To make a fly agaric, apply scarlet paint, wait for it to dry, and then make white dots. After the dyes have hardened, glue the plate to the upside down bucket.

Original crafts from unusual materials

Do you have a lot of damaged or unnecessary green hoses in your garden? It's easy to turn them into a spectacular cactus! In addition to hoses, you should stock up on silver metal wire. You can also use plastic fastening clamps instead of wire.

The technology of creation does not imply any difficulties. First, roll the hoses so that they form a circle. The joints need to be fastened with pieces of wire and the tails imitating spines should be left outside. Between the top row and the previous one you need to insert pieces of hoses with multi-colored taps. They will look like flowers.

It was once fashionable to make swans out of wheel tires, but this idea is already considered banal. If you are looking for an unusual but simple option, try making a snail. You only need two tires. You just need to paint one, and cut out the snail’s body from the other. An example of the product is presented to your attention.

Video - Royal dove made from plastic bottles

People who have a plot of land in the countryside and their own garden are lucky, nothing less, because even on a small plot of land you can work hard and profitably and have a wonderful rest in the company of friends.

A summer cottage allows you to work in the fresh air and admire the surrounding landscape during moments of relaxation.

There is an opinion that the most important thing at a dacha is the beds, but the design of the site also plays an important role. A dacha should bring not only benefits, but also aesthetic pleasure.

Advantages and feasibility of country crafts

Outside the city, you can grow vegetables and fruits and work on decorating your plot. The earth is an ideal place for the realization of creative ideas.