Hedgehog from a plastic bottle with your own hands: two ways of making crafts

Conventional plastic bottles providehuge scope for creative expression. The use of this cheap and easily accessible material as a secondary raw material will save the environment from excessive pollution and will allow to produce unique decorative products capable of decorating any garden plot, dacha or apartment with its interesting appearance. In this article, we will tell you a few ways to make the original artifact "hedgehog" from a plastic bottle. With your hands make a beautiful, unique thing that will become your favorite garden decoration is really nice! So the charge of optimism and joy from creative work is assured to you. So, let's get to work.

Hedgehog from a plastic bottle. With our own hands we make a wonderful decoration

If you want a cute and funny hedgehogsettled under a bush or in a flower garden on your summer cottage - make it out of plastic. This craft is made quickly and easily. For her you will need:

• any plastic bottle;
• scissors;
• glue;
• buttons for nose and peephole;
• gray dense fabric (burlap or durable tights);
• markers.

Manufacturing techniques from plasticbottles of "hedgehog": take a transparent container and on one side cut a rectangular hole. Next, we make a blank with a gray cloth so that the animal has a natural color. Now take the buttons and sew them to the face, thereby denoting the eyes and nose of a hedgehog. Tip: Plastic eyes and nozzles for decorating toys are sold in stores, they can be purchased and used to decorate their crafts. If desired, the hedgehog can be sewn from black material by stuffing it with cotton or foam rubber. Your product is almost ready. It remains to fill the inside of the bottle with garden soil and plant lawn grass or any other plants that can at least slightly resemble needles. Interestingly enough, urchin spines symbolize cacti. After some time, the crop will germinate, and your hedgehog will get chic green needles. Such a craft from a plastic bottle “hedgehog” looks very nice and funny! It will bring a little coziness and warmth to any exterior.

Hedgehog from a plastic bottle with his own hands. Another manufacturing method

You can make hedgehogs and this scheme. For work you need the following materials:

• plastic bottles of 5 and 1.5 liters;
• PVA glue;
• newspapers;
• toothpicks;
• buttons (eyes for toys);
• gypsum plaster;
• paints;
• gypsum bandage;
• egg trays.

First we make the frame.To do this, take a bottle of 1.5 liters and cut the neck. Then gently insert it into the big egg-box. Thus, we form the face of our hedgehog. Now we glue up the blank with newspapers (papier-mâché technique) and fix the paper with a plaster bandage. This technique will give the hedgehog volume and naturalism. Now we cover the figure with a special mass, which must be prepared in advance. To make it, you need to soak the trays from under the eggs for a few hours, then squeeze them well and grind using a food processor. In the resulting mass, add putty, PVA glue and mix well. You should have an elastic mixture, which you need to stick around the whole figure. After that, you need to leave the hedgehog "rest" - dry well. After drying, cover the workpiece with gypsum filler. Before it dries, we put toothpicks in the back of a hedgehog. Our hedgehog from a plastic bottle, handmade with our own hands, is almost ready. It remains only to cover it with paint. At the end of the work, decorate the animal's face - stick cute eyes and a black nose.