Craft With Plastic Bottles
When children are on holiday and are at home, for example during the Christmas or summer holidays, they have many free hours every day. Something that can entertain them is crafting with plastic bottles, something that also develops their creativity and imagination.
As always, we try to present crafts that only require simple materials that you probably already have at home. For this activity, the base material is ordinary plastic bottles.
Nowadays, it is important to teach children to use plastic materials as little as possible. It is therefore a good idea to give these plastic bottles a new life by reusing them in crafts.
It is also important that you are with your children at all times when you do this activity. You will need to cut and cut the bottles and it can be difficult for children to do it safely.
Craft with plastic bottles
Craft with plastic bottles: Animals
Children love animals. Therefore, crafts that involve creating animals are something they will always enjoy. In addition, they have the ability to create different animals from a single starting material.
For this you need:
- A plastic bottle
- Different colored papers
- Scissor
- Paint
- Brushes
The first step is to mark the lower part of the bottle because you only need the lower half for this craft. Once you have cut it, the next step is to decorate and paint it, depending on which animal you have chosen.
If you have several water bottles, you can take the opportunity to create different animals, such as a pig, a zebra or a cow. There are hundreds of possibilities – you just need your imagination.
A piggy bank
Children will love making their own piggy bank that they can save all the money they get in. You have two options with this hobby: to just save banknotes or save both coins and banknotes.
If you choose the first option, it is not necessary to cut the bottle as you can use the opening to put the banknotes in your piggy bank. But if you also want to be able to save coins, you have to make a notch on the top of the pig to be able to put them in.
To decorate the piggy bank, you also have two options: cover it with paper or paint it with paint.
A space rocket to explore the universe through your child’s imagination
If the craft you do together can later be used as a toy, it will be even more fun to do it. That is very likely what will happen if they are allowed to make their own space rocket.
To do this you need the following materials:
- A plastic bottle
- Paint (the color you like best)
- Cardboard
- Aluminum foil
- Scissor
- Glue
- Stickers
The first step is to paint the plastic bottle in the desired color. After that you can paste on all the stickers you want to add to give the rocket more character.
The next step is to create the rocket’s wings and the front nose cone. To do this, use the box:
- Create the front part by making a cone of aluminum foil.
- For the wings, cut out the correct shape in the box and cover with foil before attaching them with glue to the rocket.
Grodspel
Some games are so classic that they never lose their charm. Do you remember the game with a frog with an open mouth that you would put buttons in your mouth on?
The same frog game is what we are going to do now with the following materials:
- A large water bottle (5 liters or more)
- Paper in different colors
- Glue
- Scissor
The first step is to create the frog’s mouth. To do this, make a hole in the front of the bottle, about halfway up. It must be large enough to be able to enter the game buttons correctly.
When you are done, use the colored papers to create eyes, mouth pores and the frog’s hands. Now you are ready to play the game!
