How to make a parrot bus or a toucan?

Today the shops sell a lot of accessories for the garden, but they have a rather high cost, and in order to fully equip your summer cottage, you will have to pay a fairly large sum.

But there is a great alternative - to do everything.with their own hands from improvised and already useless materials. Plastic canisters and bottles, lids of them, already damaged dishes and some old things are successfully used. And the most interesting crafts are obtained from ordinary tires, since they play not only a decorative role. They can be used as pots or swings. They make children's sandboxes and entire sports towns. Consider one of the examples - parrot pots. How to make a parrot tire? Yes, such that it can grow flowers and use it as a swing.

This will require the following things:old shabby tire, iron band or yoke. Two washers, a nut with a bolt, wrenches and a drill with a drill. And, of course, a sharp knife, preferably for cutting rubber and any remaining paint for exterior work. Now the process itself, how to make a parrot out of tires.

The first thing you need to mark the tire with chalk.For this, it is visually divided into three parts. A curved rectangle is drawn on one of these parts. With a sharp knife (preferably constantly wetted with water) on the tires on both sides, symmetrical cuts are made along the side ring by 2/3.

The side and tread are cut todistance 1/3. In the larger side, a triangular cut is made and the side section is separated. It turns out that the drawn rectangle on each side is completely cut out. It turns out the blank, which is turned inside out, and as a result the body of the bird appears before you, from which you can make both a parrot and a toucan. We consider further how to make a parrot tire.

Take a piece of the side and cut out of itbeak. On your blank, the smaller side should be cut along the middle. The length of the cut should be slightly larger than the height of the beak. Now we insert the beak into this cut and press the halves to it with the help of a clamp. We take a drill, make a hole where there will be a parrot's eye, insert a suitable bolt and with the help of washers and nuts, halves the head and beak.

It remains to give the head the desired shape.For this, part of the tire is cut off from both sides, the head becomes narrower and the appearance of a parrot emerges. What else do you need to answer the question of how to make a parrot out of a tire?

And left on the opposite big sidedecide on the tail. Rather, with how it will look. Here is how your fantasy works. You can cut a single tail. And you can cut the strips and make them of different lengths, you get a magnificent tail. Now the inner round strips-handles between themselves are tightened with a yoke, which can be replaced with a rope or wire. And for these handles a parrot from a tire is hung in any convenient place. We take paints, paint the product, draw the eyes, beak and feathers of the bird. And when the paint dries, you can move the parrot to a permanent place, and put a pot of flowers inside it. And you can just pour in the land and plant ampelous flowers. Although any plants look great there, fern is especially good in parrots.

That process is over.Now you know how to make a parrot out of a tire and you can place these birds all over your section. By the way, to get a toucan, you only need to cut out the corresponding beak and make the tail of the required shape.