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For a garden with your own hands from improvised materials. Interesting solutions for crafts and decoration of a garden or cottage with your own hands. Do-it-yourself figurines of representatives of the fauna

Vacation home with a plot for most people - this is not only a place where you can have a good rest, relax and relieve accumulated fatigue, but also room for creative inspiration. Each owner wants to transform and decorate his personal plot in any way possible for this. Some plant beautiful ones, others try to come up with an original one, others begin to make crafts or, fourth ones make crafts for the garden with their own hands. We will focus on the latter in detail in this article. We learn the latest news, novelties and the main trends of the summer season.

DIY garden crafts (photo)

To create an original art object for your garden, it is not necessary to run to the store to buy material. You can make your new creations without them. Take a look around. After all, for sure in your household there is something that you have not used for a long time for one reason or another.

It can be a broken bike, an old, leaky bucket, worn out tires and tires accumulated, leftovers, basins, barrels of unnecessary shoes and much more. Give new life all these used things are very simple, the main thing is not to be afraid of experiments.

A visual diagram of how to make a decorative well for a summer residence with your own hands

First you need to decide for yourself in what style you want to see the design of your garden. In Provence style, or Art Nouveau, or whatever you prefer. With considering characteristic features each direction, as well as your own preferences, and you should proceed to its design and decoration.

DIY crafts for the garden can be not only an aesthetic addition to your garden, but also carry a functional component that can be useful in the household.

Materials will also help decorate your garden natural origin. Field boulders, river stones, tree trunks and their stumps, clay, glass, etc. All this will bring beauty and improve the habitat on your site.

The most important thing is the pursuit of perfection, it will help create a unique and beautiful decor for your site.

Stones for garden decor

flat stones- a real find, especially if they are large. You can draw anything on them. And most importantly, making crafts for the garden with your own hands from stones is exciting and fun, especially with children.

Large stones may just decorate the garden, and medium-sized stones will serve as excellent helpers in the garden. It is necessary to take pebbles in the shape of a certain fruit or vegetable, draw it on it and put it in the garden in accordance with the drawn one. The garden and garden will immediately be filled with bright colors.

Stone Ladybugs - Design Crafts by Amanda



Do-it-yourself figurines for the garden (photo)

If you decide to decorate your garden yourself, remember that here you need to feel the fine line between the stylistic direction of the garden and a sense of proportion. Since when decorating a garden, going too far with the number of figurines or choosing the wrong image of decorative figurines can easily spoil the aesthetic appearance of your site.

After all, you must admit that the figures of a red riding hood, a baba-yaga, a bun or other fairy-tale character in Japanese garden. A green lawn decorated with a large number of artificial palm trees will look even more strange, under each of which there will be a gnome figurine.

Based on the requirements of landscape design, try to choose images of figurines in unison with the main direction of the style of your site.



Crafts for the garden from tires and tires (photo)

Use old car tires as crafting material garden decor has long been a common practice for many people. For this, absolutely all tires of any diameter are suitable.

Having a number of fresh and practical ideas in my head, as well as certain skills in stabbing and cutting tools and fixtures, you can turn a boring piece of rubber into a beautiful art object, thereby decorating your garden in an unusual way.

There is nothing complicated in this work, and as practice shows, it takes less than one hour to make crafts for a garden with your own hands from car tires, even for a novice master.

A little imagination and old tire found a new life in the form of a children's swing "overweight"



Tire products are just the case when you don’t need to spend too much time on DIY garden crafts and invest a lot of money to purchase expensive materials.

The scope of old car tires, where they can be used as a material for making crafts, is huge. Starting from the design of ordinary flower beds and flower beds, ending with full-fledged playgrounds for your children. Garden Tire Crafts- these are simple, cheap, well-proven products, the constructive forms of which know no boundaries.

Crafts for the garden from improvised materials (photo)

In order for the garden crafts you created with your own hands to retain their original appearance for as long as possible, try to choose the right source material for them. Also important is the thorough application of paints and varnishes.

For open air, modern synthetic acrylic paints are ideal, which are distinguished by reliable resistance to constant changes in air temperature and ultraviolet radiation.

In such a responsible matter as decorating a garden with your own hands, absolutely any little thing that has been gathering dust on your site for more than one year can come in handy. As experienced gardeners say, in the country there is nothing unnecessary and nothing superfluous!

To give a special chic to your creations, experienced designers recommend using various sequins, beads, beads, colored glass, etc. as a decor. With their help, you can create an original image. fairy tale characters, gnomes, small figurines of animals or insects. Well, if you add a little magic to the surface of the products, in the form of fluorescent paint, you can enjoy the beauty of your garden not only during the day, but also at night.

New ideas for the garden that will inspire you (photo)

Everyone wants their yard to look nice and cozy. It's so nice to admire this beauty during warm summer evenings. To do this, you need to spend a lot of time and money, because often purchased decor items are quite expensive and, unfortunately, not everyone can afford it. And yet, even from this situation, there is an excellent budget way out - to make crafts for the garden with your own hands.

First of all, of course, it is worth taking care of the improvement of the site:

  1. Pay due attention to paths, paths, trees, flower beds and flower beds;
  2. Also, do not forget about the recreation areas ( , ), where you often like to relax on warm summer evenings. They must look perfect.

Speaking of more interesting projects, then you can aim to create decorative mini-garden or other decoration. Best of all, the miniature will look surrounded by small figurines and various figurines.

A pond decorated with artificial lilies or swans will look no less beautiful. If doing waterproof DIY garden crafts difficult for you, then you can easily buy them in specialized stores. There you will surely be able to find suitable products that will harmoniously fit into landscaping your garden.

It is important to remember that some products (especially those made of cheap plastic) are afraid of strong temperature changes. Therefore, if necessary, winter period, the whole can be moved from the street to a more secluded place where it will not be threatened by the cold.

DIY master class - everything for the garden (photo)

Many decorate their garden using classic techniques for this - beautiful figurines of little gnomes, unusual birds, as well as funny and funny little animals. This style of design for the site is very popular, especially for those who have small children. It has been proven that the fabulous atmosphere created in this way in the garden has a beneficial effect on the development of the child.

If you supplement the garden with a drinker or bird feeder, then in addition to improving the aesthetic beauty of the site, you will make a significant contribution to saving starving birds in winter. Thus, you will teach your kids to love all life on earth from a very early age.



Garden decor - photos of the best DIY crafts

If recently there was a construction or repair on the site, then some building materials, such as cement, probably remained. You can create great DIY garden decor.

  1. To do this, you need to find the largest leaf, a leaf of burdock or water lily is perfect;
  2. Then a layer of cement should be applied to this sheet, not very thick, but not thin either. In order for the sheet to stand later, it must be even and smooth on top, otherwise the sheet will have to be dug into the ground;
  3. After that, you need to wait about 5-6 hours, until the solution is completely dry, turn over, remove the sheet from the cement and now the decor is ready.

To manufactured DIY concrete crafts hands did not look too gloomy, you can glue colored pebbles in the middle or just paint the sheet in any color.

Wall decor with flower pots (photo)

Flowers are beautiful decor idea. If there is an empty boring wall on the site that needs to be decorated with something, then hanging flowers and photo frames will be a great option.

  1. To do this, you need to find empty tin cans or unnecessary flower pots, preferably the same size;
  2. Holes are made on the sides through which you need to pass a rope or chain. It will be a latch to hold crafts on a vertical wall;
  3. If the wall is wooden, then you can simply drive a nail into it, if we are dealing with a brick or block wall, then we cannot do without a puncher and anchor dowels;
  4. Around the pots, which can be painted as desired, you can hang frames with photos or children's drawings.

Also, clay products will look very beautiful and impressive on the wall, which will give an image reminiscent of a structure from old Russian fairy tales.

Beautiful garden- this is not a dream, because today you can make any dreams come true. By decorating your site with original and beautiful crafts, you will not only transform it appearance, but also make it different from the rest.

In creating decor items, the main thing is fantasy and some skills that come with time. A little perseverance, and everything will definitely work out. Faithful helpers in this exciting process will be your own made crafts for the garden with your own hands.

Helpful Hints

From plastic bottles, stones, old tires and other seemingly unnecessary items, you can do a huge number of things.

DIY crafts can be used for home or garden decoration, and also in order to give a neighbor person.

Kids will love it too participate in the manufacture of colorful and original crafts, especially if these are crafts for themselves.


Children's crafts from plastic bottles



Summer on the street or winter, cute toy animals will always delight the kids.

In this master class, you can learn how to make penguin crafts using plastic bottles.



You will need:

Clean plastic bottles (any size)

Acrylic paints

Scissors.

Below is a diagram that you should follow to make penguins:



Kindergarten DIY crafts. Living stones.



It can get very creative and useful decor any garden or orchard. You just need to find a few simple stones and with the help of paint and fantasy start work.



It will be easier if you use smooth stones. But, in the end, it all depends on the pattern and pattern that you are going to apply.

Here are some simple examples - animals, bugs, fish.

Children will not only be interested in coloring, but also play with such pebbles in the garden.

In addition, such painted stones can be used to decorate the interior and exterior.

You will need:

Pebble

Acrylic paints

Colorless varnish

simple pencil

1. Prepare the stone, wash it and let it dry.

2. Draw the desired drawing on the stone with a pencil.

3. Start painting with gouache.



* Well, if the color of the stone matches your drawing. Drawings with a black outline are very good.



* When the paint dries, you need to anoint the stone with a colorless varnish, thereby the paint will not be erased.

You can do something more complicated, such as a snake and a turtle.



An even more complex version is the image of a rabbit.



Children's paper crafts. An entire paper space.



It is very easy to make such a craft.

You will need:

colored paper

Scissors

Glue (glue stick)



You need to cut out strips, squares, etc. from colored paper. and make swings, slides, ladders, tables, walkways and much more.



Everything is limited by fantasy - do what you want and build the site you dream of.

Crafts for the playground. Giraffe from a tire and a log.



A very cute giraffe can be made for a playground or kindergarten.

You will need:

old tire

2 logs (short and long)

Plastic bottle.

Eyes from an old toy

Watering can (for the tail)

1. Drip the tire halfway.

2. From a short log, make a muzzle and connect it in the form of the letter G with a long log using nails. The body of the giraffe in the image is about 1 meter long, and the head is 25-30 cm.

3. Dig in a long log next to the tire (see picture).

4. Prepare a plastic bottle and make giraffe ears out of it. Next, attach these ears with glue or nails to the muzzle.



5. The eyes of an animal can be made from covers from under plastic bottles. Glue eyes from an old toy on each cap (or you can draw them with a marker).

6. You will need a watering can spout to make a giraffe tail.

7. It remains only to paint the craft so that it looks like a giraffe.

Crafts for kindergarten. Zebra from a tire and a log.



Just like a giraffe, you can make a zebra, and the African savannah will be filled with another animal.

You will need:

1 tire

2 logs

Eyes from an old toy

Plastic bottle

1. First, dig in the tire halfway.

2. Make a muzzle and neck out of logs. The torso of the craft in the image is about 70 cm long, and the head is 25-30 cm.

3. Dig in a log next to the tire.

4. Make ears out of a plastic bottle and attach them to the muzzle.



5. You can make eyes from plastic bottle caps or use parts from an old toy.

6. Make a tail from the spout of the watering can, and insert a brush made from an old tire inside.

7. The nose can be made using thick rubber.

8. It remains to color the craft.

Children's craft from a plastic bottle



Using plastic bottles, you can make a lot of beautiful, and sometimes even useful crafts.

Take, for example, this socket for every little thing. It is not difficult to make it, but it will come in handy for a little fashionista who can store jewelry, brushes and pencils in it.

Also, this craft can be used as a vase for flowers.



1. Prepare the bottle and use a clerical knife to cut off its top.

2. Using scissors, cut the bottle (to the middle) into thin strips of the same width.

3. Now the strips need to be bent. Make it so that they are perpendicular to the bottle.




5. It remains only to arrange the outlet.



Children's crafts from bottles



A lot of interesting crafts for the home, garden and vegetable garden can be found in our articles.

Original ideas garden decorations with their own hands they will help to emphasize the natural charm and bring to life the hidden talents of the designer (and everyone has them). Before embarking on a responsible mission, inspect your supplies ... and go!

Advice! Remember sacred rule the real owner of the dacha: you can’t throw anything away!

To create extraordinary things, you will need things that are completely unnecessary at first glance: dilapidated furniture, old crockery, car tires, plastic bottles, firewood and scraps of building materials, tubs, barrels, holey shoes, etc. Use of stones, wood and plastic for decoration garden and cottages are the most effective ways.

Do-it-yourself garden decorations: dedication to design country art

The most important condition in the creation of decorative jewelry is a sense of style. First, outline a style direction for yourself (taking into account the size of the territory, the style of the garden and your own preferences). All ideas for decorating a garden plot can be divided into two groups:

  • functional;
  • non-functional.

DIY garden figures: functional ideas

This includes elements that harmoniously combine aesthetics and useful functionality.

Magic Ponds. If you have old metal/plastic bathtubs or other containers, use them to create peaceful pools. Plant in your ponds aquatic plants. You can even get unpretentious fish. Flowerbed decoration and reservoirs on suburban area you can trust boulders, pebbles or tiles.

Crafts for a garden from bottles and garden decoration with flowers (photo)

Flower world. Original flower beds from plastic bottles, old tires, unnecessary shoes, iron buckets. Here you can beat even an old bed, chairs, a bicycle or a chest of drawers. If large stumps remain on your site, do not rush to uproot them. From them you can make magnificent ones with your own hands. flowerpots for the garden and plant flowers there.

Advice! For flowerpots from stumps, additionally use clay pots (to plant flowers). Directly planting flowers in a tree is not worth it - it will rot from the water.

Romantic buildings. Plastic bottles can go into action (you can build a whole gazebo from them). And how do you like cozy benches with a canopy in the spirit of French villages? For this, raw logs of various sizes are used. From old armchairs or chairs you can build cozy swing or unusual crafts to decorate the garden with your own hands.

Wooden crafts for the garden and a decorative birdhouse for the garden with your own hands

Favorite birds. Our magic garden just can not do without bird overflows. To make the birds feel comfortable, you can come up with original wooden birdhouses for them. Decorate them decoupage, painting, decorative details. For the birdhouses themselves, you can use the remains of boards and wooden furniture. Birdhouses from old large boots look great. You can awaken your imagination and create a real miracle of starling thought from corks or large porcelain teapots.

Advice! Hanging birdhouses is best on deciduous trees, with a slight slope. And make the roof removable to make it easier to clean them.

DIY garden sculptures: decor

A world of pure aesthetics reigns here, which pleases the eye and gives a special charm to the whole appearance of the garden. Various souvenirs, funny animal figurines, garden crafts - such a garden decoration with your own hands from improvised materials will become a real "highlight" courtyard design.

Crafts from stones for the garden

  • Fantasy made of stone or wood. Wonderful little things can be made from stones or the remains of boards. Acrylic paints, beads, fragments of multi-colored glass will help you. You can create funny gnomes, little men, or just wonderful little animals or insects. And if you color fluorescent paint surfaces of stumps or boulders, you will get magical night lanterns.

Advice! Involve your kids in the exciting work with paints and applications. You will have a wonderful time with them!

  • The revival of plastic. Using plastic bottles of different sizes in design is the most economical way to decorate a garden. What decoration for a summer residence from plastic bottles do you want?

Crafts can look organic not only at home, but also in the garden. They will serve as spectacular decorations of the summer cottage and bring unusual notes into 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 summer house that cannot be called banal.

Creating a flower bed may involve not only the arrangement of flowers, but also the manufacture of a spectacular 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 undersized flowers. Install the object on the selected site, fill the container with earth and plant flowers - that's the whole instruction!

A stone flower bed-basket is something that seems difficult to perform, but is done simply. Instructions for you:

  1. Find boulders different shades and sizes.
  2. Decide on a location for the flower bed. Mark the borders of the round flower bed.
  3. Prepare concrete mix. Mix cement with building 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 the next rows of stones, fastening them concrete mix until the base of the flower bed is ready.
  6. Remove excess cement.
  7. Measure the base diameter.
  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 flower bed. Stones must be connected with concrete.
  9. When the arc is strong, attach it to the top of the base with concrete and stones.

After all the concrete has hardened, you can fill the earth inside the "basket" and plant the seeds. Here is a photo of the finished flower beds.

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

  1. Draw a circle on the ground to 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 tip and glue it to the back of the flower bed with wood glue.
  4. Weave the rest of the rods. Once you notice that the basket is tall enough, cut off the tops of the vertical bases.
  5. Pour soil inside the flower bed and plant flowers.
  6. Take a few rods and form an arc out of them. Insert their edges between the bars of the top of the basket.

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

Is there an old iron unnecessary bed? Turn it into a huge flower bed! Using five pieces of plywood (one base and four sides) and nails, make a box, put it on the bed and plant flowers in it.

Do-it-yourself figurines of representatives of the fauna

Unfortunately, many animals are extremely difficult to keep in the country. There is a good alternative - do-it-yourself figurines of representatives of the fauna.

Perhaps one of the most simple options- these are large ladybugs. To make them, you will need stones and paint, which can be purchased at any store with goods for construction.

To prevent the drawing from being smudged, 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 place accents in white and yellow.

With the help of the canvas (bottom) of a shovel and a few other similar items, you can decorate the garden with a cute black bird.

To make one bird, you will need black paint, a shovel cloth, glue, thick wire and modeling dough. The last ingredient can be purchased at craft stores. Instructions for you:

  1. We cover the canvas of the shovel with black paint and wait for it to dry.
  2. We attach two pieces of thick wire to the surface where the "birds" will sit.
  3. We put yellow dough for modeling on pieces of wire so that we get bird legs. We make a thickening in the upper part. The top should be flat.
  4. Glue the shovel cloth to the tops.
  5. We paint thickenings on the upper part of the “legs” with black paint.
  6. We make eyes from white dough for modeling, and a beak from yellow. 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 many flowers in the garden? Then it is worth decorating the site with large decorative butterflies!

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. We color the butterfly.
  4. We protect the image with varnish.
  5. In the middle of the figure we glue sequins or rhinestones, imitating the body of a butterfly.
  6. We 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 with the most different ways. The table shows the possible effects and required materials.

DIY decorative items

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

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

  1. We inflate the ball. It must be round.
  2. We smear the ball with glue and immediately wrap it with threads. Try to leave a hole at the bottom.
  3. After the glue is completely dry, deflate the balloon. Coat it with varnish.
  4. Place a garland in the hole of the ball of thread.

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

With the help of stumps and firewood, it is easy to make a table with chairs. You can also make a regular garden furniture, and a small decorative one.

It cannot be said that when creating such wooden furniture particularities must 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 a small rectangle should be left in the top area, which will play the role of the back. 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.

Iridescent vase - bright accent for a suburban area. It can be used not only for placing fruits from the garden and garden on it, but also as a drinking bowl for birds.

For manufacturing, you will need old discs, a vase made of thin plastic or other material, and glue.

The technique for creating a sparkling vase is in front of you:

  1. Shredding old discs.
  2. Glue the pieces to the vase. Attach them upside down. It is desirable that they are located as close to each other as possible.
  3. We install the finished product.

Figurines of mushrooms for giving

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

First you need to paint an inverted plate. To make a fly agaric, apply scarlet paint, wait for it to dry, and then make white dots. After the dyes have set, 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 summer cottage? They are easy to turn into a spectacular cactus! In addition to hoses, you should stock up on silver metal wire. And also instead of wire, you can use fixing plastic clamps.

The technology of creation does not imply difficulties. First, fold the hoses so that they form a circle. The joints must be fastened with pieces of wire and left outside the ponytails imitating thorns. Between the topmost 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 tires for wheels, 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. One just needs to be painted, and the body of a snail should be cut out of the other. Here is an example of a product.

Video - Royal pigeon from plastic bottles


With the help of simple decorative elements you can make from your garden or backyard territory not only a cozy corner for rest and relaxation, but also a playground for children's games and active pastime. To do this, it is enough to make original crafts for the garden with your own hands from available materials or hang a rope swing in the garden. A flowerbed made by one's own hands also looks spectacular. Exist a large number of ideas for the garden, with which you can transform your home garden. Let's consider some of them.


A hand-made flower bed will become an original decoration of any backyard territory. Looks beautiful flower garden with sides lined with natural stones . For these purposes, you can take cobblestones of different sizes, shapes and colors. It is enough to lay them out around the perimeter of the future flower bed in several layers. Of such natural materials you can also create a real masterpiece. For example, to build a composition of stones of different shapes and sizes, decorated with flowers. In this way, you can build a basket, a huge bowl or a flowerpot with a wide neck.


Another one interesting idea for the garden - these are flower beds, decorated wooden elements. This option decorative design suitable in the case when the flower garden has long been broken, and there is no way to change its location. You can update its appearance with the help of a built fence made of wooden planks or sticks. Alternatively, you can weave a basket of any shape from elastic thin stems or make a compact hut from wooden log cabins from which flowers will grow.

A simple flowerbed from an old tire

Another material from which they are made beautiful crafts do-it-yourself for the garden is old car tires . You can also make a large pot for plants from them. For these purposes, one side of it must be cut in such a way that cloves are obtained. For such a flowerpot, you can dig a small hole or lay it on a flat surface. Next, fill the interior with earth and plant flowers. To give a decorative effect, the tire can be painted on the outside in any color. Before painting, the tire must be thoroughly washed and degreased. For these purposes, gasoline is suitable.

DIY flowerbed-palette

You can decorate the territory of the cottage and the garden with your own hands not only with the help of beautiful flower beds or structures, but also with original accents. For example, you can build an unusual flower-palette. To make such an ornament is within the power of any owner.

The idea of ​​a flower bed for a garden with your own hands. A photo

In order to create such a flower bed, you need 8 flowerpots. For these flowerpots, it is necessary to prepare 8 planters into which flowerpots will be inserted. For landscaping, you can use any flowers. In our case, multi-colored petunias. We will also need a shovel and a rake, which will act as "brushes". As a basis for the palette, you need to prepare a sheet plywood or styrofoam. In our case, polystyrene foam will be used.

The procedure for making a flower bed-palette

On a sheet of expanded polystyrene, using a marker or pencil, we draw the borders of the palette and mark the places for the holes for the pots. We got 9 pieces. The diameter of the hole depends on the diameter of the pot itself.

With the help of a hand cutter, we cut out the part along the previously drawn contour.

We strengthen the middle of the palette from the front and back sides with the help of round spacers made of plywood. You can fix them with glue or screws. First, we attach the gasket from the wrong side, on which we attach the stand-leg. Then fixes the face pad.

We paint the surface of the workpiece with wood-like paint in 2 layers. For these purposes, we took two shades of paint - dark and light.

After the workpiece has dried, it is covered with a layer of varnish on top.

DIY garden figurines

Do unique crafts with your own hands for a garden from available materials is not at all difficult, especially if you have special skills. You can make such figurines with the whole family. Thus, you can not only decorate the backyard territory, but also leave pleasant memories of his childhood in the child’s memory. Handmade garden figurines will be a great gift for loved ones.

Chicken step by step instructions

In order to make a funny chicken, you need to prepare the following materials:

  • pear-shaped pumpkin or gypsum;
  • multi-colored paints;
  • polymer clay. Instead, you can use salt dough or gypsum;
  • hot glue;
  • Matt lacquer.

Thoroughly washed and dried pumpkin cover with the first coat of paint. After the layer has dried, two or three more layers are applied on top. In this way, a uniform coating can be obtained.

Can be used instead of pumpkin gypsum. For these purposes, they take a package, pour gypsum into it and, with the help of ropes, give the necessary shape. The ropes must be securely fixed until the plaster dries.

After the last layer of paint has dried, it is necessary to draw the contours of the future ornament with a simple pencil.

In order to form the head of a chicken, apply polymer clay. You can also use gypsum or salt dough for these purposes. We fashion a scallop, a beak and a beard. We fix the resulting parts with hot glue to the head of the chicken.

Using black and white acrylic paint draws eyes. To do this, you must first put a black dot, and then add a dot of white paint to it.

To fix the painting, the garden figurine of a chicken must be varnished. For these purposes, it is better to choose poppy varnish.

Making figurines of hedgehogs

To decorate the backyard territory, you can use original figurines of hedgehogs made from improvised materials. Hedgehogs made of plastic bottles wrapped with hemp ropes look spectacular. In order for the ropes to hold, they must be fixed with glue or staples. Eyes and nose can be drawn in black acrylic paint. Also, the spout can be made from a cork from a bottle or polymer clay. I plant grass as "thorns".


A hedgehog figurine can be made from plaster. The manufacturing process is the same as for the chicken. For manufacturing, you can also use cones, mountain ash, plastic bottles, corks, Christmas tree branches and various flowers.

Do-it-yourself peacock from plastic bottles

No less effective personal plot looks like a peacock made of plastic bottles.

To make a peacock, you will need the following materials:

  • a large number of plastic multi-colored bottles;
  • scissors;
  • multi-colored electrical tape;
  • wide tape;
  • synthetic foam;
  • plastic;
  • glue gun;
  • abrasive mesh;
  • plastic pipes.

Step by step instructions for making a peacock

We cut out parts of different sizes from plastic bottles, which will later be feathers. The resulting parts must be cut along the edges to make a fringe. Thus, an imitation of feathers will be obtained.

The body is cut out synthetic foam. We seal the joints with a transparent wide adhesive tape.

We attach two plastic pipes, which will be legs.

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Cut out a triangular piece from a red bottle and fold it into a cone shape. This will be the peacock's beak. We fix it on the head.

We glue the torso of the figurine with pre-cut feathers from multi-colored plastic bottles. For fastening we use glue gun with silicone rod. There should be short "feathers" on the breast, and longer "feathers" on the back.

For the crest, we need thin strips cut out of plastic that are attached to the top of the head.

For the plumage of the head, you will need oval-shaped blanks.

Draw eyes acrylic paint.

Cut out the "feathers" for the tail. The length of one “feather” should be approximately 20-30 cm on average. To do this, a long oval is cut out, smoothed in the middle with a fringe upwards.

The frame for the tail will be abrasive mesh, on which the "feathers" will be attached. It is recommended to fasten them in a scaly order from the bottom up.

To decorate the tail of multi-colored electrical tape ovals of different sizes are cut out, which are glued on top of each other, imitating the color of a peacock. Glue such an ornament to the edge of the feather.

We cut out the paws from the top of the bottle and “put on” their pipes, which are the “legs” of the craft.

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Beautiful paths in the garden with your own hands

Garden paths play an important role in landscape design. They perform not only a practical role, but also a decorative one. Making such beautiful paths in the garden with your own hands is not difficult. Consider several design options:

The garden path can be bordered discount or mixborder. For rabatka, he plants annuals in a tight fit. Plants of different heights and configurations are suitable for mixborders. Perennials are considered more suitable for these purposes.

Regardless of the type of garden path chosen, it must be protected from Wastewater . For these purposes, it is recommended to build them above ground level or a nearby flower garden. Paths with a solid base are laid on a bed of gravel or sand.

Look spectacular flowers, which are located not only along the edges of the path, but also along it itself. To bring such an idea to life, it is necessary to make the path not continuous, but with stepping plates or stones sunk into the ground. When making a path of such a plan, it is necessary to consider the order of flowering of plants located around it. It is advisable to plant such plants that will be combined with each other not only colors, but also by the order of flowering throughout the warm period.

Garden paths should also perform zoning of the site on functional areas . When designing paths, it is necessary to correctly calculate their width and think over the stylistic design with the help of flowers.

Garden paths also look good among the plants. The main thing is that the plants have a beautiful configuration or have an unusual leaf shape. Paths decorated with plants of the same species, but which differ in color, look no less impressive.

Tire swing in the garden

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Before fixing the fasteners, the tire wash thoroughly outside and inside with a cleaning agent.

After the tire has dried, it can be painted in any color and left to dry.

For attaching a rope or chain, you can take U-bolts. Three pieces of medium diameter will be enough.

Using a drill, drill 6 holes for fixing (2 each at the same distance from each other).

For fixing it is necessary to place the bolts in drilled holes and fix them from the inside with washers.

Attach a rope or chain to each bolt on the tire.

You can attach the swing to a metal crossbar or to a tree branch using one or two fasteners.

Rope swing in the garden

Garden swing can also be done with planks and strong ropes. The thickness of the board should be on average 15-20 mm. Such a swing can be hung both on a tree and on a frame specially made for this purpose. To make such a swing, you will need the following materials and tools:

  • board;
  • strong rope;
  • jigsaw, saw or hacksaw;
  • paint or varnish.


Step-by-step instructions for making a rope swing

We make a seat for a swing. To do this, cut out a rectangle from the board. You can also knock down a seat from several boards.

On four sides, drill four holes with a diameter of about 22 mm at a distance of 30 cm from the edge.

Coat the board with a layer paints or varnish.

Attach the rope to a branch or to a special structure.

Pull a strong rope through the drilled holes on the board.

In order to fix the board, it is necessary to tie all the ends of the rope under it into a knot.

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