Crafts for a garden of mayonnaise buckets

Landscape design is now popular not only among professionals. Many amateur gardeners are happy to decorate the adjacent territory. Used for this, any improvised means and materials. Learn and you create unusual crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets. If you consume this product in large quantities, perhaps somewhere on the shelf dust collects a couple of copies of empty containers. Use it for business - create spectacular decorations. By the way, you can organize a joint creative process with children, nephews, grandchildren.

Crafts for garden from mayonnaise buckets

The photos in the article clearly illustrate how diverse decorations made of such simple and available, it is possible to say, waste material can be. If you summarize all the ideas, then the list is as follows:

• Pots;
• Decorations with elements of flowerpots;
• Decorative containers (not for flowers);
• Figurines of animals and fairy-tale characters;
• Bells or lanterns;
• Curbs for flower beds and paths;
• Complex compositions of several parts;
• Combined objects from buckets and covers.

As you can see, the field for the manifestation of fantasy is great. The most important thing is that all these things are done only from plastic containers.

Crafts for a garden of mayonnaise buckets with your own hands: decorating methods

Since the products will be designed mainly for the street, any decor should be resistant to weather conditions (do not get wet, do not spread, do not burn out, etc.). In this regard, the surface is usually decorated with paints and other details, after which everything is covered with waterproof varnish. If the product is on a veranda, in a gazebo, in a word, where there is no rain, you can use any decor: threads, fabric, paper elements.

Particular attention should be given to the reliability of fastening buckets. When you do not pots, in which there will be land and flowers, empty pails are very light, and if they are empty, then they can easily be carried away by the wind. Accordingly, if you put the decorated buckets on any plane (porch, stone, ground), they should be filled with something, for example, stones, shells, beads. If possible, attach the bucket with glue or a screw to the base. When the border for the flower bed is executed, the bottom of the buckets, or rather the top (they are put upside down) are simply buried. This is an important point, because only with a secure attachment your decor will retain a pristine beautiful appearance.

Materials and Tools

To make crafts from mayonnaise buckets with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Buckets themselves;
• acrylic paints;
• Brush or sponge (sponge);
• Napkins for decoupage (when decorating in this technique);
• glue;
• Stencils;
• clear nail polish;
• Decor (shells, pebbles, beads, beads, colored glass, purchased jewelry - ladybugs, butterflies, artificial flowers).

Kashpo from the bucket

Very beautiful and functional handicrafts from mayonnaise buckets for cottages can be made in the form of flower pots. The most common way of decorating a surface is decoupage.

It allows you to get not just painted colored elegant buckets, but real picturesque masterpieces, even if you can not draw. The meaning of this technology is as follows:

1. Take a bucket and degrease the surface, for example, with alcohol.
2. Apply white acrylic paint with a sponge (sponge). The surface should be as flat as possible.
3. After drying one layer, you can put another one.
4. Cut the napkins with themed pictures into parts with certain details of the image, for example, with flowers. Be sure to separate the top layer with the pattern. Edges, by the way, it is better to pull out carefully, and not cut. With an even line, then it will be noticeable that on the surface of the bucket is not a drawing, but a sticker.
5. Apply PVA to the surface of the bucket, gently unfold the pictures on top.
6. After drying, paint additional details with a brush.
7. Cover everything with a clear varnish.

Do not forget to make a drainage hole in the product, because it should turn out not only beautiful, but also comfortable for plants, if they are planted directly into it. If you put the pot in the pot, then the hole is not executed.

Another option is the braided form of a bucket. To do this, first perform vertical incisions on the surface of the workpiece, and then braid any material.

Kashpo or decoration of the half bucket

Crafts from mayonnaise bakers for the garden can be made using only half of the container. In this case, you will receive two pots from one package. Decoration of the object you can do in any way, the same decoupage, for example. It is important here to perform a solid construction of the product frame itself. To do this, do the following:

1. Cut the bucket in half.
2. Glue with a quick fixation glue or a thermo-pistol billet to a vertical base (portable or stationary) made of wood, plastic or other material. You can create a whole composition from several elements on one vertical wall.
3. Try to make a smooth transition between the boundaries of surfaces with the help of glued fabric, mounting foam, sealant, gypsum - what is at hand. This will complete the adhesive bonding and give a more accurate appearance and convenient configuration for decoration.
4. Decorate the flowerpots in one piece with the base in the same style in the decoupage technique described earlier, or by any other method. The decor can be as one (the bucket and the back of the base, for example, the image cut out of the napkin, moves partially from the background to the pot), or an independent, contrasting (background - stylized lawn, and a pot under a pebble or decorated flower bed).

Bells or lanterns

Unusual handicrafts for a garden of mayonnaise buckets can be done by turning the product upside down. Attach a beautiful suspension and a tongue or imitation light bulbs, and if you can, then a real lamp. The surface of the bucket, both external and internal, can be painted or decorated with decoupage, supplemented with sequins or other interesting effects (perform a cut-out silhouette pattern). Decorate the upper part with a bow, made, for example, in the form of a flat shape on a stencil made of plastic or veneer. If the bells-lanterns hang in the gazebo or on the veranda and will not be exposed to rain, the satin ribbon for the bow, of course, will do.

Animals and fairy-tale characters

Unusual funny crafts from mayonnaise buckets for a garden can easily be made with children. In this there is nothing complicated, and the kids will be pleased to participate in the process. The easiest way is to perform animal figures from inverted upside-down blanks. If there are enough tare, create a whole farm. You can put characters in a flowerbed, on a lawn or even on a fence (a cat or a bird). For work you will need, besides buckets, paints, brushes and additional details (eyes, noses, beaks, paws, wings, tails). All the elements of the corresponding shape can be easily cut from the lids of buckets or plastic bottles. Fasten the parts with waterproof glue or with the help of the slits made in the base of the inserted part.

Sculptural compositions

If you eat a lot of mayonnaise and at the cottage and you have accumulated enough tare from under it, then you can perform complex, but beautiful crafts for the garden of mayonnaise buckets. Here everything depends only on your imagination and the amount of material available. Decor objects can be formed both in one plane, and in the form of three-dimensional constructions. As the first option, you can give an example of a border for a flower garden. Color the buckets in any color, just in bright, under the imitation of wood, stone or draw on the surface of the continuation of the elements of the flower bed (flower leaves with butterflies or ladybirds). To do something simple will not be difficult even for children. Let them paint the billets in different colors and arrange them in a certain sequence along the perimeter of the flower bed, slightly drowning in the ground.

By the same principle it is easy to create a caterpillar, a decorative path in a flower garden. If you fix the buckets with bottoms on the vertical wall, you get pockets (children always think of what to hide there), and if you mount the fastener on the top plane of the bucket (by thickness), it's easy to get an imitation of logs. Volumetric sculptures can come up with anything - from little animals to cottages.

Use the lids of the buckets

If you do crafts from mayonnaise buckets for the garden, then, of course, you still have covers. They are easy to use for the same purpose alone or in combination with buckets. You can apply them as follows:

• As a stand for pots, decorated in the same style;
• As elements of a decorative path in a flower garden;
• Border flowerbeds (if put vertically);
• Details of the same caterpillar, only flat, fixed on a vertical surface;
• Blanks for the sun, apples, berries, flowers, which can be hung in a gazebo, on a verandah, on a tree or, fixing on a stick, to stuck in a flower bed.

The design of the lids and all the additional decor, which is suitable for the street, use the same as for the buckets themselves.

So, you saw what unusual crafts for a garden of mayonnaise buckets can be made easily and quickly at home. Choose ideas, supplement. Take up a new useful and interesting business.