A child at any age likes to make crafts. For the development of creativity of thinking and creative abilities, parents can offer to make an article not from the standard set (clay, colored paper, dough), but from ordinary plastic bottles. For example, you can make a tulip from a plastic bottle.
How to make crafts tulips from plastic bottles: a master class
To create tulips, you need to prepare the following materials:
- scissors;
- two plastic bottles (one brown and the second - green);
- candle;
- lighter;
- aluminum wire in insulation;
- nail;
- pliers;
- glue.
To make a beautiful tulip, you must follow the steps of creating colors:
- Take a plastic bottle of brown and cut off her top. We only need the bottom of the bottle. The rest can be thrown out.
- Scissors cut out 5 petals of the future tulip as illustrated in the photo below.
- But the flowers of the tulip turned out straight. We need to bend them. To do this, you need to take a candle and over its flame a little to melt the ends of the petals to such a state that they turn out to be curved.
- Now we take a plastic bottle of green color and make petals out of it. To your tulip was like a real one, it is advisable to keep a picture with its image in front of you in order to exactly repeat the bending of the leaves.
- Next, make a leg of the wire. To ensure that the tulip does not roll down, you need to remove the insulation at the base of the flower.
- We spread a nail over the candle and make a hole in the tulip below. Instead of a nail, you can use a drill if you know how to handle it.
- We put on the wire the resulting flower, twirl with the help of pliers the remaining piece of wire inside the tulip. For reliability, you can drop the glue onto a piece of wire inside.
- We fix the leaves to the stem of the tulip. The flower is ready.
The handmade tulip made by the child with his own hands will be especially valuable. And if you make several other colors from plastic bottles , then such a bouquet can be presented for the holiday to mom or grandmother.