In many countries, the peacock was considered a royal bird; it was also popular in Rus'. The peacock entered the proverbs, sayings and fairy tales, it was mentioned in many myths and legends, and until now the beauty of this bird delights adults and children. Today, every owner of a personal plot seeks to decorate the territory near the house or reservoirs. In this article, you will learn how to make a peacock plastic bottles , which will emphasize the beauty of your site and give it a noble appearance. Crafts from plastic bottles can also be used to decorate the interior.
Materials:
- scissors;
- plastic bottles of different colors;
- synthetic foam;
- glue gun;
- wooden pole;
- abrasive mesh;
- metal rod.
You will need blanks for feathers of different sizes and colors. To make it convenient to work, make yourself a blank from cardboard. You should have semi-circular whole feathers, the same size, but with small incisions, as well as long ones with incisions. The blanks for the tail should be long, they can be made by cutting the bottle lengthwise and cutting a strip of the required width.
To make it convenient to work with a large number of feathers, sort them by size into different bags. Now you can start making a peacock model and, if necessary, then cut the plastic feathers.
Take a piece of synthetic foam that is comfortable enough to work with. Cut out the pieces and glue the peacock's body, neck and head together with a glue gun. To make the layout as close as possible to the original, download a picture of a peacock from the Internet.
The body of the peacock must be fixed to a metal rod, which we recommend first inserting into a wooden post. Take a red bottle and cut a circle out of it. After that, make one cut, from the edge to the center and twist into a cone. You should get a peacock's beak, which needs to be fixed on the foam.
After that, you can glue pre-prepared feathers. Start from the bottom, while keeping in mind that the feathers are longer below, and should be short towards the top. The feathers are glued on. When you're done with the breast, move on to the back. To make a tuft, you need to cut strips from bottles and glue colored feathers on them.
Do-it-yourself peacock from plastic bottles photo
Cut out the wings from the abrasive mesh and attach feathers to them. Make the tail the same way. Do not forget about the bright shades that must be on the peacock's tail. Attach the tail and remaining details. Craft from plastic bottles is ready.
Also watch the video: Do-it-yourself peacock from plastic bottles. Master Class
will decorate your site for a long time, because it is not afraid of the sun, rain or wind.
Funny figurines, sculptures, flowerpots of an unusual shape, original fences and other bright details help to focus on the most beautiful corners of the garden. Some of these elements of garden decor can be made independently using various improvised materials.
If it has already appeared on your site, it's time to supplement the composition with other equally interesting crafts. Today we will talk about how to make a peacock from plastic bottles with your own hands.
To make a fabulous bird, you will need patience and various materials:
- Plastic bottles. The larger the peacock, the more they will need.
- Styrofoam for the manufacture of the body and head.
- A piece of linoleum for the base of the tail.
- Stapler, awl and copper wire, adhesive tape, nails or glue to connect parts.
- Foil and acrylic paints for decoration.
If you plan to house your peacock outdoors, choose weather-resistant materials.
All elements ( , , , , and ) are made separately, and then assembled into one common design.
Torso.
The body is the main part on which the rest of the details are fixed. It can be made from various materials:
- Styrofoam.
- Plastic canister.
- Or the same bottles.
Video master class, peacock made of plastic bottles.
Four parts are cut out of the foam plastic (head, neck and two halves of the body) and glued together with liquid nails or any special glue.
With the right skills and enough physical strength, you can make a torso out of a plastic canister. Although it is rather difficult to fix other parts on such a basis, in the end the structure will turn out to be more stable and durable.
The third way is to make a base from two plastic bottles with a volume of 5 and 1.5 liters. The neck of a large bottle is cut at an acute angle, in the lower part of a small one they make the same cut, but in a mirror image. The sections are combined so that the design resembles the body and neck of a peacock, and fastened with adhesive tape. The head can be made from scraps (the bottom of a bottle and a cone) or from foam.
Paws.
You can make peacock legs from strong wire, metal-plastic pipes, or bottles. The latter are the easiest to make: cut off the top of two bottles and attach them to the body with their necks down. Insert metal tubes inside, with which you can easily install the peacock anywhere.
Tail.
Having prepared the basis of the future bird, proceed to the manufacture of the tail. The more time and bottles you spend on this work, the more magnificent the tail will be. It can be made in two versions.
1 option. Cut a base 100 to 170 cm long from a piece of linoleum. Attach the prepared feathers to it. Place the first row at the lower end of the tail, the next row on top of it so that the feathers of the next row cover the attachment points of the feathers from the previous one. Attach the finished tail with a narrow end to the upper back with nails (liquid or regular).
Option 2. Cut out a semi-circular piece from a large plastic bottle. Having fixed several rows of feathers on it, glue it to the back of the body. At the same time, make sure that the peacock looks good from all sides.
Wings.
The wings are in two parts. Lower, with long feathers, do this: cut out the middle part of the bottle, divide the resulting cylinder in half. Cut the resulting rectangles from the bottom so as to give them the shape of wings. Attach the pieces to the body. Collect the upper part of the wing from small feathers cut from the bottoms (they also cover the surface of the neck).
Plumage.
Making feathers is the most time-consuming process that will require perseverance, patience and a large number plastic bottles, one or more colors. Transparent plastic can be painted any color acrylic paints for facade work. Moreover, some craftsmen paint the blanks, others paint the finished bird.
Since ancient times, the peacock in many nationalities has been considered the bird of kings. He personifies nobility, glory, beauty and joy. or a balcony with an artificial peacock, you will fill the atmosphere with positive energy.
Bright and colorful appearance This bird attracts admiring glances and causes delight. If you want to diversify the familiar environment, it will be useful for you to learn how to make a peacock from a plastic bottle with your own hands.
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How to get started?
Feathers can be made from plastic bottles, they will need quite a lot. To make their shape and dimensions different, make blanks of different sizes. How fluffy the feathers will turn out depends on the width of the stripes into which you will cut the parts. Feathers should be of different sizes, for convenience they can be sorted into packages.
The body can be made from synthetic foam. It is easy to use and does not break. In advance, select a beautiful column on which the bird will be attached.
for the beak Use a red plastic bottle. With a thin black marker, draw the contours of the beak so as not to spoil the material.
In order for the breast to be colorful and bright, it must be sheathed with plastic of all colors, and then the feathers should be attached step by step. A glue gun, which is equipped with silicone rods, will do the job perfectly. When attaching feathers, you need to swap parts of different colors and sizes.
Back of a peacock should be covered with longer and more voluminous feathers. To get a crest, the material must be cut into very thin strips. The peacock should be completely covered with feathers, so you need to carefully ensure that there are no uncovered places in the foam.
Glue the blanks on the neck, going to the head. If earlier you did not know how to make a bird out of a plastic bottle, then at this stage of work you will begin to understand the intricacies of this process. Now the peacock is starting to take on a beautiful appearance.
Details
Next step - eye design. Their production depends on your imagination. You can use any materials at hand - beads, rhinestones, beads, buttons.
Do you want to decorate your country cottage area or a garden? Then collect a few dozen plastic bottles and start making original crafts for the garden. One of the ideas could be a DIY peacock made from used PET bottles. Maybe you think it's insanely difficult? By no means! Especially if you have a photo master class with step-by-step instructions at hand. And if you already have a certain amount of plastic containers, then you can start making crafts while you do it, for sure, the remaining batch of bottles will arrive 🙂
How to make a peacock from plastic bottles with your own hands
So, let's together, step by step, we will do a craft for the garden called "Peacock".
For work, you will need the following unnecessary materials:
- Plastic transparent bottles (or any other color), 5 l, 2 l, 1.5 l, 1 piece.
- Green plastic bottles, 1.5 - 2 liters. - 9-10 pieces.
- Blue plastic trash bag (or regular shopping bags) of blue color) - 3-4 pieces.
- Baking foil or shiny candy wrappers.
- Blue wrapper for flowers or blue candy wrappers (not paper).
To fasten the structure:
- Adhesive tape transparent or colored (blue and green).
- Strong rope - 50-100 cm.
- stapler.
- Scissors.
Do not upset others with a bunch of garbage, but please them with a beautiful and original craft. In the implementation of this environmentally very right decision our detailed master class plastic peacock will help you.
Wash and dry all plastic bottles well before use.
For a 5-liter bottle, cut off the neck, and for a 2-liter bottle, cut the bottom asymmetrically. Attach the resulting fragments to each other with adhesive tape so that you get the body (5 l) of a peacock with an outstretched neck (2 l).
Form the head of a peacock from the bottom and top of the bottle, after inserting two plastic plates for the beak. Fix the entire structure well with tape.
Tape your head to your neck.
Pierce the bottom of a 5-liter bottle in several places around the perimeter to further connect the peacock's body with its tail.
Cut blue plastic garbage bags into strips 10-15 cm wide. Cut the edges with a fringe to give them the shape of small feathers.
Now carefully fold the blue stripes lengthwise so that you get two layers of feathers and glue them to the body of the bird with transparent or blue tape.
Leave a free space at the bottom for cutting a small hole.
At the top of the head, attach the base of the "crown" of the peacock. To do this, cut a strip with three tops 4-5 cm high from the remaining plastic and attach it with tape to the head.
When you have finished wrapping the body of the bird with blue plastic tape, decorate the head of the peacock in random order. Just try to keep the surface of the head smooth.
We will make a peacock tail from green bottles. To do this, cut off the neck and bottom of each, and cut the resulting cylinder lengthwise into three plates about 7-8 cm wide. Round each plate on one side.
On both sides, cut the green plastic feather blanks into thin strips, leaving the central 1-2 cm whole (uncut).
In addition, you will need small squares of blue paper for flowers and foil for baking (candy wrappers can be used).
From the remaining parts of the plastic, cut 27 circles, 2-3 cm in diameter. Wrap them with foil.
Put a blue oval and a circle of foil on top of the green feather and pin with a stapler.
In the same way, complete all 27 bird feathers.
Now let's start forming the tail of our peacock. To do this, cut a green semicircle from a green plastic bottle, the radius of which is 15-20 cm. (If there is no green one, you can take a bottle of a different color and glue it with green tape). We will attach three layers of feathers to such a tail blank.
Attach 12 feathers around the perimeter of the semicircle with a stapler.
In the second layer, attach 9 feathers, attaching them with a stapler not only to the tail blank, but also to the feathers of the first layer, and to each other. Try to arrange subsequent feathers so that the staples are covered at the attachment points.
In the third layer, attach 6 feathers to the base of the tail and to the feathers of the previous rows. Thus, a beautiful fan of feathers is obtained.
Now you need to connect two structures: the peacock's body and its tail. To do this, carefully cut out the "hatch" from the underside of the peacock's body and stretch several ropes through the holes in the bottom. Having attached the body of the bird to the tail, we outline the attachment points on the tail and make punctures in the tail with sharp scissors. We stretch ropes through them
Tie on the back side. Cut off excess ends.
The final touch is the design of the peacock's head. Wrap the beak with tape and paint with dark acrylic varnish or paint. Draw the eyes and decorate the "crown". To do this, attach plastic circles wrapped in foil with a stapler.
For a stronger fixation of the peacock in the soil, we pour sand into its body through the “hatch”. "Hatch" close and fix with tape. Now the design is a little heavier and it can be placed on a flower bed, in a personal plot or on a playground.
Give joy to children and everyone around!
Master class on making a peacock from bottles prepared by: Elena Khorolskaya
Crafts for the garden have gained immense popularity, because they allow you to transform the garden, make it special, unlike any other. And one of these crafts is a peacock bird. It is quite complicated to manufacture and even professionals can not cope with the first time, and even more so beginners. But one thing is for sure - the peacock will become the main character in your garden collection. In principle, there is nothing difficult in its manufacture, but perseverance and patience will be required. If you think you have these qualities, feel free to get down to business. So that you have no doubt that you will get a peacock from plastic bottles, we will conduct a master class in detail and in detail.
Take a 10-liter canister, it will be the body of a peacock, thick wire, plastic tubes (we will make legs out of them), a metal mesh 45x150 cm, polystyrene foam (a head is cut out of it), and many plastic bottles (the shape and size can be very diverse).
Cut a strip from the top and side of the canister and secure it with a self-tapping screw, shifting it slightly back.
Bend the wire that serves as the frame, put on the tubes of the future legs and place it all on the stand. When bending the wire, keep in mind that this will be the back of the bird (the top of the canister).
Now let's start shaping the body. Using a wire, attach our container - a canister to the frame. Connect the legs to the body and give the position in which the bird will stand. Attach the legs with wire.
Cut a two-liter bottle into long and short feathers. Long should be 8 pcs., Short - 6 pcs. Short feathers are best cut from the bottom.
Now attach the feathers to the body row by row. For the upper part of the legs, take milk bottles, cut off the smooth part from them and roll them into a bag. Attach to the body.
The lower and lateral parts of the body are covered with feathers.
This is what our bird should look like from the front.
Now we are working with the grid. These are future wings. Round it in front, giving the shape of a wing. At the same stage, we work with the tail. Cut it into a triangle shape, the length is up to you, but remember that the peacock has quite a long one.
This is what the bird looks like from the side.
Now let's start making feathers. Their width should be 5-7 cm, so we take a large thirty-liter bottle. But if you didn’t find one, then you can get by with a large number of two-liter ones.
Screw each feather in turn along the edge of the frame grid, while shifting each feather in relation to the previous one.
For the next row, 1.5 liter bottles are needed. Cut out 6 of them. feathers. Three or four bottles will suffice.
Screw these feathers in a semicircle.
Feathers for the remaining rows are cut from bottles of 0.5 liters. One bottle should make four feathers. In total, you will need about 30 bottles.
We continue to lay out the rows of feathers, closing the previous one with each new row.
This is what the finished wing looks like.
The formation of the peacock's head begins. Cut it out of a piece of dense foam with a knife. Glue your eyes. Buttons or eyes from some toy can serve as eyes.
Sand with sandpaper.
As you remember, on the head of a peacock is a crest of feathers. Here we are going to make them. Feathers can be cut from the stripes left from the bottles. Bend them to give shape.
Make a few holes on the top of the head, pour glue into it and insert the tuft feathers.
Glue on the eyelids. Also glue a plastic triangle cut out of a bottle onto the beak. Instead of glue, you can fix it with self-tapping screws, they will look like nostrils.
The neck consists of two five-liter bottles. Roll the bottles into balls and connect.
Moving in a circle, screw the feathers.
This is how you need to cut a foot with fingers from half a liter bottles.
Now our bird is taking shape. No matter how difficult the crafts from plastic bottles are, the peacock is one of the most ingenious.
The last rows of feathers are carefully glued to the head.
It's time to color our bird. It is better to do this with enamel paint, it does not leak and gives a uniform color. From above, you can walk with spray paint, it will give the surface a velvety texture.
In principle, it is not necessary to copy in detail our instructions on how to make a peacock from plastic bottles. Take it as a basis, and then your peacock will be individual and unlike anyone else.
Now let's take a look at the tail. Feathers will be green, so we take the appropriate bottles. First, cut out a semicircular template, then fold it along the middle and cut the edges with a fringe. From one bottle you should get two small feathers and one larger one. To make the tail lush and beautiful, you need at least 60 feathers. Draw eyes on the tips of the feathers with enamel.
Screw the tail feathers to the metal mesh frame, moving in a semicircle from the very bottom. The principle of laying out feathers is the same as on the wings - each row overlaps the previous one.
Not bad if you have a bottle of salad color, this color will refresh the peacock tail.
Photo of a peacock in the natural environment.
This is the whole master class. If you succeeded and everything worked out, we can congratulate you. If not everything was clear to you, try to find a video master class. To do this, in the search engine line, type the phrase "mk peacock from plastic bottles with your own hands" and select the options you need from the proposed options. He will certainly answer many questions.
By the way, did you know that there is a breed of peacocks absolutely white? 
According to the proposed instructions, you can do just that. A white peacock will stand out beautifully against the backdrop of a blooming garden, and you will save on paint.
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