New Year's crafts from plastic bottles do it yourself

The new year is a special holiday that children love most. To decorate the house and the Christmas tree with preschoolers and students of younger classes, you can make beautiful festive crafts from the most common things. For example, plastic bottles can be fit perfectly for the crafts: one most often make different Christmas toys. If you are looking for new ideas for creativity in conjunction with children, in this article you will find several step-by-step instructions for creating New Year's souvenirs.

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Plastic bottle figures

Bottles usually have an oblong shape, resembling a body of a person or an animal. So that the bottle is a beautiful handicraft, it only needs to be painted with gouache or acrylic paints. In the lid of the bottle, it is recommended to make two holes with a thin sharp needle - you can sell threads in them and hang the resulting toy on the Christmas tree. You can draw almost any characters on the bottle. Here are the most popular options:

• Often, the children make Santa Claus from the bottle. It is absolutely not difficult. Basically, you will use red or blue paint in this craft - depending on how the color of Tulup want to do. First, Tulup needs to draw the desired paint along the contour, and only then carefully paint everything inside. However, even if the child cannot paint everything neatly, you can apply the second layer of Guachi and correct the shortcomings. After Tuluup, it was tedious to draw a face of beige paint, as well as a white beard. When the basis is ready, you can draw small details: shoes, hands, cap, buttons and patterns on clothes.
• The symbol of this year is a dog. It can also be depicted on a plastic bottle. If you want the dog to stand on four paws, the bottle should be turned horizontally, and, if on two, turn it vertically. The ears, the paws and the tail should be pre-cut out of the paper, and then stick to the bottle - PVA glue may not be suitable for bonding two different materials, so it is necessary to have a "moment" glue or its analogues at hand. After the bottle acquires the shape of the dog, all your figure can begin to paint. To the toy does not get monotonous in one color, try to decorate it - for example, draw a bright boots or a scarf. Further work will depend only on your imagination - if something fails the first time, the drawing can always be corrected.
• Very often from the bottle make penguins figurines, because the plastic bottle is really exactly reminding the shape of their body. Starting stands with white paint, denoting the belly of the penguin. Then black or dark blue paint color back and head. When such a basis is ready, you can depict the bright colors of the beak, paws and eyes, as well as draw the bird wings.
• Not necessarily to depict on a bottle of animated character. You can simply make a beautiful new year decoration, embodying an easy ornament. Let the child show fantasy - on the bottle you can draw longitudinal, transverse or curved lines, circles and snowflakes of different colors. Especially good, such abstract patterns will look if you buy paints with sparkles, decorate the craft with ribbons, foil or rhinestones.

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New Year's bells of plastic bottles

This is a very simple handicraft, which you can try even with the smallest children. This will require paint, knife or scissors, beautiful ribbon, foil or rhinestones - everything you want to use for decoration. You can make a New Year's bell in a few simple steps:

• Gently with a knife Cut the upper half of the neck of the neck. If there is no knife, you can try to pry plastic and scissors. It is better to cut a sufficiently long part of the bottle so that then you could calmly fill the edges. If you work well with scissors, the edges of the bell can be made in the form of curly patterns.
• Color the bell with paints. You can make it a monophonic or paint patterns or integer images on it - for example, the Christmas tree, Santa Claus or some animals.
• Open the bottle and thread through the neck tape inside. Then close the bottle - if necessary, secure the lid with glue.
• Tie the end of the tape, which has been done inside the bell, in the knot. Another end of the ribbon wrap the bell near the bottle neck. You can tie a tape into a bow.
• If you wish, you will additionally decorate the bell - cover the foil pieces on it, draw patterns with glue with glitter or stir beads and rhinestones on the surface.

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Plastic Bottles Snowflakes

Another simple handicraft for the smallest - snowflakes of plastic bottles. If you made bells and you have dons from bottles, they can also be turned into interesting crafts. Make snowflakes very simple:

• Cut the bottom of the bottle with a knife or scissors. You can do it on a flat line or make interesting carved patterns.
• If you wish, you can make a few curly slots on the surface of the bottom or leave it untouched. Usually the bottom of the bottle in itself has an interesting relief that will resemble a snowflake.
• Now just take the paint and draw white or blue snowflakes on plastic. When you make patterns, proceed from the bottle relief. The most beautiful snowflakes will turn out if you emphasize the shape lines.

From simple bottles that you probably have at home, you can make interesting New Year's crafts with children. You will be able to decorate the house for the holiday to the holiday. In addition, you will get great pleasure from the creative process together with the child.