An old legend says that God collected from Garden of Eden all the reptiles into one bag and ordered the man to throw it into the sea with his own hands. And the curious Homo sapiens wanted to look at the creatures, untied the bag, and, of course, let them all go. The Lord became angry and turned this man into a stork so that he would protect other people from all kinds of toads and snakes. Since then, storks always settle near humans, feed on reptiles and bring us happiness.

Many ancient pictures depict a stork with a baby. U Slavic peoples It is generally accepted that this bird is responsible for childbirth and well-being. If storks have settled on the roof, the house will be full of happiness and children's laughter. And if you haven’t settled yet, then a wonderful stork with a baby can be made with your own hands from scrap material and installed on a ridge or on an apple tree in the center of the garden.

Happiness from bottles

Will need

To make a stork from plastic bottles for the garden, we need to prepare the following materials:

• empty bottles;
• thick wide board for the base;
• rod or thick wire for legs;
• a piece of foam plastic 10 cm thick;
• corrugated hose from a vacuum cleaner;
• 2 plastic canisters with a volume of 5 l;
• metal mesh for wings;
• stapler

Master class on making happiness

In order for almost real storks to appear on the paths of your garden, you will only need a few hours of passionate DIY work.

• Cut out a head with a beak from a piece of foam plastic, draw eyes or glue in black beads with your own hands.

• Cut a beak out of a dark bottle in two parts and glue it in place.

• We begin the master class on making a body by cutting off the handle in the canister. Then you need to bend the mesh with your own hands to the shape of the canister and trim off the excess.

• To make the legs, bend the rod and secure its ends to the board.

• We are conducting a master class on making plastic feathers.

• Attach the feathers to the canister, starting from the tail.

• The master class on attaching a neck begins with attaching the reinforcement wire. Then a hose is put on it.

• Attach small “feathers” to the neck with tape.

• Secure the feathers to the mesh.

• The stork for our garden will stand with its wings folded, so we simply attach all the feathers with a stapler with our own hands, overlapping each previous row by a third.

• We finish the master class by connecting all the details and decorative tinting of the eyes, beak and legs. You can install this bird with your own hands in the depths of the garden for the whole summer. It will not be damaged by rain and will not fly away.

Fashionable toys today, hand-sewn from ordinary fabric using simple patterns. We will not fully describe the master class on their manufacture.

• Cut out the details of the craft from fabric, sew and stuff with any filling.

• Separately, you need to make a beak (can be made of cardboard) and attach it to the head. All that remains is to make the clothes, glue the eyes, wrap the baby and hand it to the stork.

Of course, such a wet bird cannot be placed on the branches of a garden, but flower pot She can decorate the windowsill.

Another way to make your home rich and happy is to make a stork on the nest. You can use tilde bird patterns as a basis. Cut feathers from white plastic milk bottles, staple them together and make wings, decorating the ends with real feathers. Place a few white feathers on the top of your head. Form a tail out of real feathers, sew or glue on eyes and a tie, and place the bird in the nest.

It can be made from ordinary rods, fastened with wire. To make a stork with a baby, put any doll in its wings. The master class on making a lucky amulet is over.

These two rag birds cannot be left on the garden paths, and a master class on making the first stork requires a lot of time and materials. Don’t be upset and just build a nest and cut out a flat bird from PCB or plywood. Color it, put a string bag with a baby in its beak and that’s it, the stork and the baby have already settled on your roof.

And your bird can become the founder of a whole bird family in the country. For example, a stork can open a bird gallery, but a homemade flamingo, peacock, heron will continue it... Fantasy is limitless! Some craftsmen simply paint the plywood blank and cover it with varnish. The result is a unique painting on wood, where fantasy images are combined with your own creative abilities.

Your garden will truly become a place of miracles.

What else can you make a stork from?

We list only the most popular options:

• car tires(perhaps the most popular option);
• forged parts;
• plastic caps(but this is jewelry work);
• tree;
• shells;
• disks.

The simplest option is a plywood stork. You simply make a template with your own hands, according to which you cut out the future sculpture. Paint your bird of happiness on both sides with acrylic paints. Or with the ones you have, covering the top of the pattern with construction varnish.

DIY garden decor (video)

A stork in the country can be just the beginning of your creative experiments. As practice shows, appetite comes with eating: even far from artistic work people get a taste for it, and over time other interesting characters appear on the site. And this is great, they delight not only the owners, but also the guests, who are becoming more and more numerous in connection with such dacha art.

Reviews and comments

Oksana Vladimirovna 20.12.2015

Interesting idea. But is there enough talent? And I’m also worried that the structure won’t be stable. If you make a body from a plastic bottle, then you will probably need to weigh it down with something. So that the wind doesn't blow it away.

Artem 03/03/2016

I made a pig using a 5-liter plastic bottle, although they are mostly just made from bottles, cutting out the necessary shape, but I still had polyurethane foam and covered the bottle with it. The pig came out fat and looked natural. Only to smooth out the foam in the form of leather, I used gloves and lubricated it with oil, so the foam practically did not stick. Painted the top and it was done.

Sergey 06/14/2016

I do too garden sculptures using plastic bottles, but I prefer to cover them with plaster and give them any necessary shape. Quite easy and the costs are minimal. Then I simply paint it with any paint and the figure is ready.

Igor 02/01/2017

I also want to make a couple of storks :) (I have two adults, but the price is exorbitant) There are pieces of hard foam, but it’s scary to cut - I’m not an artist - I’m an electrician :) 😮 . But I think I’ll decide anyway... I’ll try to provide the result. By the way, the cart wheel was already sculpted from foam plastic...

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Bright garden crafts made from plastic bottles - simple and affordable way decorate your favorite area. Original sculpture of a stork from durable material will update the familiar landscape and create a joyful mood. A hand-made bird figure will make the garden unique and become a family symbol of goodness and happiness.

How to make a stork from plastic containers

To make such a craft, you need to have some free time and be creative.

My patio is decorated with a stork figure, the basis of which is a plastic 5-liter bottle, covered with polyurethane foam and painted with acrylic facade dyes.

This wonderful stork comes out of a plastic bottle and polyurethane foam

What materials and tools will be needed

Creating own design birds, you can assemble it entirely from plastic containers, fastening them with glue or staples. Or you can make the sculpture more expressive by adding plastic construction wood parts.

The frame of this bird is made of wood, covered with plumage made from plastic bottles.

Or execute individual elements made of polystyrene foam.

You can create such an exotic collection using ordinary plastic bottles and a piece of polystyrene foam.

For our impressive size craft you will need:

• A 5-liter plastic canister is the base of the body.

  A 5 liter canister forms the base of the body

• Milk plastic bottles of 1 liter and 1.5 liters, from which white plumage is cut out. You can get by with transparent containers, but first paint them with white paint for exterior use.
• Dark plastic bottles of different capacities: 3 half-liter bottles will be needed for making legs and beak, one and a half liter bottles - for dark feathers.

  Plastic containers dark color needed for feathers, legs and beak

• Polystyrene foam 10 cm thick, from which a stork’s head with beak is cut out.

  A bird's head is made from a piece of foam plastic

• Sandpaper.
• Scissors.
• Corrugated tube for the neck.

  A long bird's neck is made from a corrugated tube

• Metal mesh as a base for the wings.
• Furniture stapler.
• Metal rod 6–10 mm thick for paws.
• Thin wire for fixing the wings.

  Using wire, the wings are firmly attached to the body model

• Self-tapping screws.
• Glue gun or universal glue.

  Universal glue quickly glues plastic and other materials

• Acrylic facade paints, brushes.

Stages of making a stork

Having purchased tools and materials, first prepare all the parts of the bird, then assemble it.

Head

From foam plastic sharp knife cut out the head with the beak.

A bird's head is cut out of a piece of foam plastic

Then the rough surface is sanded sandpaper. You can coat the workpiece with white facade paint.

The workpiece is sanded with sandpaper to make the surface smooth

To strengthen the beak, use 2 triangular plates, which are made from a dark 0.5 liter bottle. Having cut off the neck and bottom, cut the resulting cylinder lengthwise and cut out triangles. The plates are bent in half and attached to the beak with self-tapping screws.

The beak is decorated with plastic, fastening it with self-tapping screws

Paws

They are made from the top of brown 0.5 liter bottles. Containers with the bottom cut off are cut lengthwise into 4 parts up to the necks, pointed at the ends and bent outward.

Paws with toes are cut out of dark bottles

Plumage

The most labor-intensive and time-consuming stage preparatory work- feather blanks. They will be needed large number, different lengths, shapes and colors: for the design of the wings and tail - long, dark and white, for the body - light, smaller ones.

Light and dark feathers are used for crafts.

The neck and bottom of the bottle are cut off, the remaining middle part is cut lengthwise and strips are cut out of the resulting rectangle. One edge of the strip is made rounded. From liter bottle 6 large feathers are made.

A white bottle with a volume of 1 liter is divided into 6 parts

To feather the neck, small feathers are cut out and the ends are decorated in the form of teeth or fringes. You can decorate the long neck with large plates of milk bottle halves, which are finely chopped along the edges.

Figure frame

The body is made from a canister with a cut off handle.

A canister with a cut off handle is the body of our bird

Fine mesh is used as the base of the wings. metal mesh, which is secured to the canister with wire or staples. The mesh is cut at the edges in the shape of a wing and bent down.

A fine mesh mesh is attached to the canister - the basis of the wings

A wire is inserted into the neck of the canister and bent, forming the frame of a long neck. Fasten the wire to metal rod legs and put a corrugated tube or hose from a vacuum cleaner on it.

Strengthen the wire for the neck and put a hose on it

A hole is made in the lower part of the container and a bent rod is threaded into it - these will be the legs.

The legs are made from wire by bending it and threading it through the hole at the bottom of the canister.

Or they pierce the canister from below and insert curved rods, onto the ends of which they put the legs upside down.

Assembly of parts

After preparing all the parts, the structure is assembled.

1. The head is placed on a wire and additionally attached to corrugated pipe glue.
2. The body is covered with plumage starting from the bottom. Light feathers are secured to the canister with staples.

   They begin to screw feathers from the lower part of the body

3. A tail is formed from feathers, arranging them in rows and securing them to the body using a stapler.
4. Screw the feathers onto the edge of the mesh wing with wire. To make a stork's plumage with black edging along the edges of the white wings, the first two rows are made of dark-colored feathers.

   The wings begin to be decorated with feathers from the edge, using dark-colored blanks

5. Subsequent rows are formed from white feathers, overlapping them.

   The third and subsequent rows on the wing are made of white feathers

6. A row of feathers is screwed at the base of the neck with self-tapping screws.

   It's not difficult to make a stork with spreading wings

   In this case, the feathers are screwed onto the entire canister, and the mesh base of the wing is covered with feathers on both sides.

   On spread wings, feathers are attached on both sides

   Decorating a garden sculpture

   Using decoration plastic craft can be made brighter, especially if only transparent bottles were used in its manufacture. Acrylic paints for exterior use are suitable for this. Previously plastic container wipe with an alcohol-based solution and paint over with white or black paint before cutting out the feathers.

   Acrylic facade paint moisture resistant and does not fade under the sun

   The beak and paws are painted red or wrapped with red tape.

   The beak and legs are painted red

   Eyes are made from beads, decorative blanks for toys or small buttons, which are placed on glue. You can simply paint them with black paint.

   Acrylic paints become brighter after varnishing.

   Master class on making a stork

   There are many options for making a stork from plastic containers using elements made of wood, polyurethane foam, and polystyrene foam.

   Such original composition The stork family in the nest is also made of plastic

   Even a beginner can make such a garden sculpture, guided by video material from step by step instructions workflow.

   Video: how to make a stork from plastic bottles

   Storks made from plastic bottles - original decorative decoration personal plot and a subject of universal admiration. After all, they are made from ordinary garbage, transformed with skillful hands into works of art. Made of durable plastic, they are not afraid of rain and snow. Over the years, the figures will not swell, the paint will not fade or peel off.

A decorative stork made of plywood with your own hands will decorate any local area. Children's playgrounds and summer cottages look a bit boring without any kind of decoration. A well-groomed flowerbed will attract attention and please the eye even more if you complement it with a fake bird, shown in the photo. There are a lot of variations in making artificial birds, made from all sorts of available materials, which sometimes you can’t even imagine in the form of a craft.

Some animals require special skills and abilities and take a lot of precious time, so it is better to take on work that will certainly be effective without painstaking efforts. One of these creations is a stork made from plywood by hand.

Why the stork? The answer is quite reasoned. Even small child It is known that this noble bird personifies peace, tranquility, family well-being, fidelity, and constancy. Many beliefs and signs are associated with the location of the stork’s nest, their annual return and offspring.

Where to start making decor

It has been proven and tested in practice that all ingenious inventions are simple and accessible to everyone. This simple composition is acceptable in terms of material costs and complexity for people seeking to embellish and ennoble not only their territory, but also the surrounding space.

You will have to work with plywood. Quite suitable material for those who are trying to master carpentry lessons. The material is easy to cut, although quite strong and dense. It can be processed without grinder, using sandpaper. After covering with several layers of drying oil or varnish, it is not at all subject to swelling, delamination, cracking due to external influence precipitation and temperature changes.

Garden plywood storks are made from medium grades and thickness wood board. It is impossible to exclude the influence of environmental factors, but look for the most expensive and quality plywood for outdoor exposure - an unwise decision. Therefore, it is pointless to describe the characteristics of the material in detail. Whatever they get, a superb creature from the feathered family will be created.

You need to start by roughly imagining actual size birds to know the specific parameters of consumables. There are plywood sheets different sizes, but there is no need to cut out a two-meter bird. If a stork settles in the front garden, then a small bird will fit into this space, perhaps more than one. And if you attach it to the gable of the house, clear example in the photo, it is advisable to make a larger-scale decor so that it is visible from afar and does not get lost.

How can such beauty be lost, even if the color scheme is simple and at the same time bright? Looking ahead a little, we will have to stipulate that the color of the finished stork, cut and assembled with your own hands, includes only three colors: gray, red, black.

Based on the description of the stork for the dacha or garden, you can already make an estimate of materials for its production:

• plywood sheet;
• paper or finished sketch;
• pencil, scissors;
• jigsaw;
• paint with brush;
• ship varnish.

Work sequence

You can cut a stork from plywood in a matter of hours. Sleight of hand and imagination will speed up the process without hindrance. The first step is to draw it. Everyone imagines what a stork looks like, but not everyone will be able to portray it.

The plywood stork drawings in the photo make the first step easier. All that remains is to project them onto a large paper format. As can be seen in the proposed sketch, a pattern, compass and other technical tools are not useful. Anyone can draw two ovals and connect them with smooth lines. Try to depict a bird with a long neck, beak and wings in such a way that the silhouette resembles a representative of the stork order. The better the proportions are maintained relative to the template, the greater the chances of getting something similar to the source.

Next, the drawn silhouette must be cut out. The plywood stork stencil is ready. Even a schoolchild can do all the stages of creating a symbol of devotion and good luck, so the participation of children will not hurt. The paper stork must be placed on a plywood sheet and lightly attached with buttons, a stapler, or tape, whatever comes handy. Trace the outlines with a pencil. The lines must be clear so that when cutting, all the smooth curves of the body and the sharp angles of the beak, tail and wings are preserved. Now you can start cutting. At this stage, there is no need to rush and put strong pressure on the jigsaw. You need to work slowly.

The plywood stork template will be completely ready after careful sanding on all sides. The first sanding is done with coarse sandpaper, after which it is necessary to go through fine-grained sandpaper a couple of times, including cuts. When the surface becomes smooth, without burrs, the most beautiful stage creating a creation with your own hands: assembling all the parts into a single product.

Screwing the legs and gluing the wings is quick and easy. If the stork takes up residence in the garden, it must be placed on a base. Take a small one wooden block, drill holes in it, generously coat them with wood glue and insert the legs. It will take a little time for the wings and support to dry. It is advisable to press it with a clamp and fix the wings with the body.

After which it’s time to paint the bird. The most popular and suitable paint is acrylic. The color pattern is shown in the photo: the beak and legs are red (can be dark orange), the body is light gray, the plumage of the tips of the wings and tail is black, the eyes are marked with small black circles. Apply varnish when the paint is dry.

That's the whole procedure! A video with a lesson on how to make a magic bird is attached.

Arrangement of crafts

It’s not enough to make a stork out of plywood. Regardless of the location of the plywood stork, you still need to make a nest for it. It will even resemble the real thing, because it will have to be built from thin branches. On a horizontal surface, the nest should become like a stork's. Just as wide and deep. On the roof gable, the nest can also be imitated. Make it voluminous so that the composition looks complete.

If desired, the stork is given a pair. Then he is not alone. “Producing” miracle birds is inexpensive, so after several training sculptures, you can take on more complex and labor-intensive designs.

Have you ever imagined, dear readers, that it could be used as...a material for making art objects. Although it may not be art as such, in its literal meaning, it is quite possible to make a decoration for the garden - a small sculpture. In fact, polyurethane foam is unusually plastic, hardens quickly and is easy to process - why not a material for creativity?

Today I will tell you how to make a stork sculpture from polyurethane foam to decorate your garden or summer cottage. You need very few materials, and they are very cheap. If you pay attention to how much garden sculptures cost in construction stores, then you will understand that the price of a pair of foam cylinders is not commensurate with their cost. Besides, our stork will turn out much better. So let's get started.

Stork frame

To begin with, we will select a suitable body for the stork - a frame on which the foam will be sprayed. Plastic canister from under water with a capacity of 5 liters is perfect. We make the stork’s neck from wire, and to add volume, you can attach strips of foam plastic to the wire. The stork's legs can also be made from wire, and the nose and head can be cut out either from foam plastic or wood - whichever is more convenient and preferable.

Making a sculpture

After making a simple frame, we begin to spray foam on our sculpture - we do this carefully, imagining the contours of the finished stork. To make it easier, print big bird. If the foam does not lie as you intended, no problem - after drying, the excess can be easily removed with a knife. By the way, if you wish, you can use real bird feathers for the tail - who knows, maybe you will make a peacock instead of a stork. After the foam has dried and finished with a knife, we paint the sculpture with regular paint. acrylic paint, strengthen it in place in the garden, and invite friends to appreciate your creative genius. Good luck!