Bees from plastic bottles

Virtually every house has plastic bottles that are not of interest for home use. However, they can be used as an improvised material for making crafts from plastic bottles "bee".

How to make a bee from a plastic bottle?

Bees made of plastic bottles are easy to make, you only need to prepare materials in advance:

• a bottle of plastic with a volume of 0.33 liters;
• scissors;
• glass 0.5 liters;
• glue;
• acrylic paints;
• brushes;
• black electrical tape;
• wire;
• stationery knife.

It is worth remembering that in order to color a bee made of plastic, you should use only acrylic paints, since the oil will dry very long and fall worse on the painted surface.

In order for you to get a bee from a plastic bottle, you must follow the instructions clearly:

1. Take a half-liter glass, cut out wings for a bee.
2. In a plastic bottle, using a stationery knife, cut through small holes on the sides for the wings.
3. We insert our wings into the resulting holes.
4. There are two options for painting the bee: paint the bottle first with black paint, then use acrylic paints to paint the yellow stripes. Or, first we paint the bee in yellow, and then draw the black stripes. It is important to use acrylic paints, because they are more harmless.
5. Next, we draw on the cap of the bottle the muzzle of the bee with acrylic paints: white eye color, red -rot.
6. On the wings draw a contour.

You can make not just one bee, but a whole beehive. This will require:

• plastic bottles of different capacity: 5 liters (1 piece, 1 liter bottles by the number of bees);
• yellow paint or enamel;
• black insulating tape;
• Wash brushes - four pieces;
• glue gun;
• decorative elements: eyes, beads for the nose;
• twine;
• synthetic thread.

1. We take plastic bottles and paint them in yellow with paint or enamel.
2. Isolate on the bottles of strips like a bee.
3. We paste the eyes and nose on the cap using a glue gun.
4. We take another plastic bottle and cut out its wings. Immediately attach the thread, for which the bee can be hung on a tree.
5. Also, with the help of a glue-gun, we glue to the painted bottle wings with a thread.
6. We make a beehive. In a large plastic bottle (you can use a 5-liter), cut through a square hole. Color the bottle in three layers with yellow paint.
7. Now proceed to make the roof of the hive. To do this, you need to take the piercing brushes and tie them with twine.
8. Apply a thick layer of glue to the bottle cap, glue the paint brushes. If necessary, we straighten them for giving beauty. If the paintbrush has peeled off in places, then with the help of a glue-gun it is possible to apply one more layer. Give the handicraft time to dry.
9. The bees with the hive are ready. It remains to hang them for the threads on the site.

Similarly, you can make a large number of bees. Hanging them on a tree, your site will be transformed and will look like a real center of beekeeping.

The creation of bees from bottles does not require special skills. It is not difficult to make such an article. Even a preschooler can create it with her own hands. A bee from a plastic bottle, made by the child on its own, can be used as a gift to a grandmother or grandfather, so that they decorate her home garden with it. It will effectively look among the abundance of greenery and shrubs in the country. Also from plastic bottles you can make unusual butterflies , and on the eve of winter you can make cute penguins from plastic bottles