What people come up with from old unnecessary tires (wheels) in order to somehow improve their area. And it all started with an ordinary swan made of tires. Now many different ideas for the garden have already been invented, these are giraffes, crocodiles and other fairy-tale characters, all of them are made from old unnecessary tires (wheels). A section has been created on the website called CRAFTS FROM TIRES, in which you can find many interesting and original crafts for your site or playground.
So I had to do my bit and create a giraffe from a wheel. My friend asked me to do something simple for the children near the house. For some reason I wanted to make a giraffe out of wheels, although a lot came to mind different ideas. Okay, closer to the point, let's look at a master class on making a giraffe from a wheel and place it near the sow on the site.
In order to make a giraffe from a wheel (tires) we need:
1. Car tire.
2. Log.
3. Traffic jams plastic bottle 2 pcs.
4. Screw 2 pcs. nails.
5. Plastic bottle.
6. According to your wishes, I had the paint in spray cans.
Method for making a giraffe from a wheel:
So let's get to work, take the wheel and bury it in the ground. You can fill it with concrete, then it will hold better and more firmly. We take a log and a small piece of wood and nail it together. We got a body and head in the shape of the letter G. We also bury it next to the wheel.
Now we’ll make eyes on the muzzle from plastic bottle caps and nail them with small nails. The giraffe's body is ready, now we take paint and paint it in the color we need.
When the paint dries, we make ears from a plastic bottle and attach them to the body with nails or screws. The horns will be made of two large bolts; we screw them to the head. All the base is ready, all you have to do is color it as you like. First we draw the spots on the giraffe, then we color the ears and horns, draw the eyes and mouth...
Well, our tire giraffe is ready. I hope you found my lesson useful...
It took approximately two hours to complete.
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Useful tips
Made from plastic bottles, stones, old tires and other seemingly unnecessary items can be made great amount of things.
DIY crafts can be used for home or garden decorations, and also to give as a gift to a loved one.
Kids will love it too participate in the making of colorful and original crafts, especially if they are crafts for themselves.
Children's crafts from plastic bottles
Whether it's summer or winter, cute toy animals will always delight children.
In this master class you can learn how to make penguin crafts using plastic bottles.
You will need:
Clean plastic bottles (any size)
Acrylic paints
Scissors.
Below is a diagram to follow to make penguins:
Kindergarten DIY crafts. Living stones.
This can be a very creative and useful decoration for any garden or vegetable garden. You just need to find a few simple stones and, with the help of paint and imagination, get started.
It will be easier if you use smooth stones. But at the end of the day, it all depends on the design and pattern you are going to apply.
Here are a few simple examples- animals, bugs, fish.
Children will not only find it interesting to color, but also to play with such pebbles in the garden.
In addition, such painted stones can be used to decorate the interior and exterior.
You will need:
Pebble
Acrylic paints
Clear varnish
Simple pencil
1. Prepare the stone, wash it and let it dry.
2. Using a pencil, draw the desired design on the stone.
3. Start coloring with gouache.
* It’s good if the color of the stone matches your drawing. Drawings with a black outline turn out very well.
* When the paint dries, you need to coat the stone with colorless varnish, thereby the paint will not be erased.
You can make something more complicated, for example a snake and a turtle.
Even more difficult option this is a picture of a rabbit.
Children's paper crafts. A whole paper platform.
This kind of craft is very easy to make.
You will need:
Colored paper
Scissors
Glue (glue stick)
You need to cut out strips, squares, etc. from colored paper. and make swings, slides, ladders, tables, paths and much more.
Everything is limited by your imagination - create what you want and build the site you dream about.
Crafts for the playground. Giraffe made from a tire and a log.
A very cute giraffe can be made for a playground or kindergarten.
You will need:
Old tire
2 logs (short and long)
Plastic bottle.
Eyes from old toy
Watering can (for tail)
1. Bury the tire halfway.
2. Make a muzzle from a short log and connect it in the shape of the letter L with a long log using nails. The body of the giraffe in the image is about 1 meter long, and the head is 25-30 cm.
3. Dig in a long log next to the tire (see picture).
4. Prepare a plastic bottle and use it to make ears for the giraffe. Next, attach these ears with glue or nails to the muzzle.
5. Animal eyes can be made from plastic bottle caps. Glue eyes from an old toy onto each lid (or you can draw them with a marker).
6. You will need the spout of a watering can to make a giraffe's tail.
7. All that remains is to paint the craft so that it looks like a giraffe.
Crafts for kindergarten. Zebra made of tires and logs.
Just like a giraffe, you can make a zebra, and the African savannah will be filled with another animal.
You will need:
1 tire
2 logs
Eyes from an old toy
Plastic bottle
1. First dig the tire in halfway.
2. Make a muzzle and neck from logs. The body of the craft in the image is about 70 cm long, and the head is 25-30 cm.
3. Dig in a log next to the tire.
4. Make ears from a plastic bottle and attach them to the face.
5. You can make eyes from plastic bottle caps or use parts from an old toy.
6. Make a tail from the spout of the watering can, and insert a brush made of old tire.
7. The nose can be made using thick rubber.
8. All that remains is to color the craft.
Children's craft from a plastic bottle
Using plastic bottles you can make many beautiful and sometimes even useful crafts.
Take, for example, this outlet for every little thing. It’s not difficult to make, but it will be useful for a little fashionista who can store jewelry, brushes and pencils in it.
This craft can also be used as a flower vase.
1. Prepare a bottle and use a utility knife to cut off its top part.
2. Using scissors, cut thin strips of the same width on the bottle (to the middle).
3. Now the strips need to be folded. Do this so that they are perpendicular to the bottle.
5. All that remains is to design the outlet.
Children's crafts from bottles
So many interesting crafts for home, garden and vegetable garden can be found in our articles.
You can decorate your summer cottage or just a courtyard near your house with ordinary old wheels, and many craftsmen make real masterpieces with their own hands! Indeed, in our country the recycling of used tires is not highest level, and we can see a lot of tires thrown right onto the street. But you can combine business with pleasure and create crafts - decorations for summer cottage, garden, vegetable garden with your own hands. Let's look at a selection of photos of crafts made from tires:
We use tires in the garden
With the help of paint and imagination, you can create your own real work of art. There can be a lot of options for making flower girls; we will look at the master classes themselves in the following articles, but now let's look at the southern exotic - the palm tree:
DIY tire tree tree
Crafts on the theme of southern holidays are very popular with us; we have already published an article that described its production in detail. Except exotic plants You can also create African predators:
Tire crocodiles
Decorate your garden with tire crocodiles
Such animals can not only inspire admiration, but also scare away unwanted guests... They are really made very beautifully and believably.
Elephant made from an old tire and inner tube in the garden
Colorful blue elephant, all from the same southern African countries, will look very good on the playground. Here are a couple more examples of these wonderful inhabitants of Africa:
By painting a tire correctly, you can create your own zoo from a wide variety of animals from all over the world. And all you need is desire, a few tires and a little imagination. Here at someone’s house a tire was turned into snails and a black and white zebra:
Snails and Zebra: crafts from tires for the garden
You can come up with fancy birds to decorate your garden; for example, a parrot can be a good home for flowers:
Parrot and swans: homemade products from an old tire
For bird lovers, you can make these fun crafts:
Birds - crafts made from tires for the country garden
The pet birds turned out very wonderful, they don’t even look so impressive!
Turtles from a tire
“Auto” turtle from a used car tire
Car tire turtles
How about a cup good tea?? You can also make a “tea set” to decorate a flower garden; such a cup will be difficult to pick up, but it looks great!
Tire crafts for the patio
For a complete tea set, these cups need a good garden furniture, here are just suitable samples from a tire:
Old tire as furniture
The furniture turned out to be truly original, although it cannot support the weight of a person on its own, so the frame must be made of a metal structure.
Playground decorations using a tire
Fairy-tale animals can decorate both your playground and the area near your home. Few people will be able to pass them without smiling, and children will be most interested in such figures.
Funny horses
Horses made from car tires
These garden helpers will help you transport something, or simply transport a tire or flower garden with your carts.
Garden Crafts
basket - flower garden for the garden
Well, at the end of our photo selection, let’s watch a video in which I also use tires for needlework and which will be a good addition:
DIY tire crafts
That's all, we hope you liked the photo selection of crafts made from tires and tires with your own hands, see you on our pages!
Used car tires do not need to be thrown away. After using them for their intended purpose, you can use the tires to decorate the yard or garden plot. More interesting ideas you can see it in others, but why not try to do the same near your home? After all, the process of making many crafts is very simple.
Giraffe
For this interesting figure, you need to dig one large tire into the ground, up to the middle of the circle. Secure the high part with self-tapping screws in front round log. You need to attach a muzzle to it - a small frame of a tree. Eyes and ears can be cut out from a plastic bottle or a piece of linoleum. All that remains is to paint everything yellow and make brown spots.
Zebra
This figure is made in exactly the same way as the giraffe, only the paint needed is white and black.
Elephant
To make this you need 2 tires of the same size. Fix them together with self-tapping screws and attach them to the board (base). The elephant's head is a 10 liter plastic canister, ears are ovals from the same canister. The trunk is a piece of old corrugated pipe, the eyes are lids from canisters. Eyelashes can be cut from a plastic bottle. It's better to paint the elephant grey colour, or you can turn him into a cartoon orange hero.
bear
This figure is made from two tires different sizes, connected to each other. The large tire is the body, and the small one is the head. To make the structure more stable than a tire, you can put it on a thin metal rod. You cut out the ears from plastic or linoleum. To cover the circles in the middle of the tires, you can use hardboard. If desired, the figurine can also have paws cut out of linoleum. After painting the bear becomes attractive decorative decoration garden
Matryoshka
An original Russian toy – matryoshka. It can also be made from used tires. A total of 7 tires will be required. Five of them are attached to one another in a horizontal position - this is the torso. For greater fixation, you can place a tall log buried in the ground inside. A tire is attached vertically to the edge of this log - this is the head, the hollow holes are closed with circles of hardboard. On the sides you can place hands from a tire cut in half. Afterwards everything needs to be painted bright colors and draw a face. It turns out to be an interesting lady-madam.
Mickey Mouse
You can make two cartoon characters: a boy and a girl. Each character requires 4 tires. Two bearings are placed on the ground in a horizontal position, and two figure-eight tires are attached to them. The entire structure is supported by wood. Mickey Mouse's ears are made from plastic bucket lids, and his arms are made from pieces of plastic pipes. The bows, skirt, palms and faces must be cut out of linoleum. The lower tires are filled with fertile soil and can be used as mini-flower beds.
After painting, the characters look simply gorgeous and attractive!
It’s always nice to make something useful out of a junk item, and if the craft turns out to be beautiful, it’s double the pleasure. One example is crafts made from tires. They are used to make decorations for a dacha or garden plot, various flowerpots and flowerpots, build children's attractions and even make country furniture- tables and chairs.
Flower beds and flower beds made from tires
Let's start with, perhaps, the simplest flower beds and flower beds. Do you think it’s difficult to make a multi-tiered one? Maybe, but not from tires. Take several pieces of different sizes, paint in bright colors and stack them in a heap - one on top of the other. To prevent your slide from falling apart, fasten the tires from the inside using a screwdriver and self-tapping screws. Two per connection will be enough. You fill the soil inside and plant the plants. To prevent the soil from spilling out, you can cover the inside of the tire with a piece of . It will remove excess water, but will not allow the soil to spill out. A beautiful tiered flower garden is ready.
If you like flower beds correct form, you can do something like this. For example, making a flower bed in the shape of a chamomile out of tires. First, the tires in the lower tier are laid out and fastened together. Fill the middle of the tires with soil, and also free space inside the circle. There for better drainage can be laid broken brick or other construction garbage, sprinkle a little earth on top and tamp down. On the prepared surface, stepping back from the edge by more than half the diameter of the tire, lay out the second tier. They are also fastened together, the middle is covered with soil, and the core is placed on top. You can plant tall flowers at the very top, and border or low-growing flowers on the lower tiers.
Another option for a flowerbed made of tires in the shape of a chamomile - in one tier. To do this you will have to cut the tires.
How to cut tires
In general, when making crafts from tires, they often need to be cut. This is far from easy. It is more or less easy to cut off the side surface of the tread. People with strong hands and with good knives they do it manually. By the way, a good workout for the hands and the entire shoulder girdle. If you are going to cut with a knife, lubricate the blade with grease: the rubber constantly “jams” the metal, and the blade covered with grease slides out well.
You can also cut off the sidewall with a jigsaw or grinder. Cutting with a grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, with a grinder, even if there is one, only the first cut is made so that the jigsaw file can be inserted. Then they work with this tool. To cut rubber, take a blade with a reverse tooth made of good steel.
If you have to cut the tread, doing it with a jigsaw or, especially, with a knife is useless. Anyway with a regular knife. Blades made of special steel can even cut iron cord, but it’s unlikely that anyone would want to disfigure such a tool. old tire. That’s why they most often work with an angle grinder. To avoid any troubles, the protector is secured: always think about safety. If the sidewalls have already been cut off, the tread tape is quite elastic and can be compressed with a clamp. Once cut, it will not spring back.
Flowerpot from a wheel: turning the tires out
If you have a tire with an old rim, you can use it to make a flowerpot with a leg.
To do this, cut one sidewall along the tread. And they turn it inside out. This is not an easy task: considerable physical strength and perseverance are required. The rubber is elastic and it is impossible to turn it out the first time. If absolutely not, then outside make notches across the tread. They should be quite deep, but not through. It will also help if you make cuts along the edge with a depth of at least 5-7 centimeters. They will look like fringe on an inverted tire.
Why do they turn it inside out? The inner surface is smoother, and the shape can be more interesting, especially if the edge is made not linear, but jagged. The result will be a gracefully bent decoration.
For details on how to turn out a tire, watch the video.
In a similar way, you can turn out a tire without rim. The sequence of actions is the same. First, cut off one of the sidewalls - straight or zigzag. To ensure that the “petals” are even, it is advisable to mark them. It is convenient to do this with chalk. The mark is then cut with a jigsaw or knife (if the cord is synthetic).
They turn it out like this: they step on the inside of the tire, grab the edge with their hands and pull it up and towards themselves. It is important to achieve the first result: when at least some part is bent. If the tire looks like the photo below, it's already a success. It is developed by successively turning the edge inside out and standing on the already turned part so that it does not turn back.
Watch the process again in the video. This time they turn out the tire without the wheel (they cut it, by the way, with a knife).
Even by itself, such a tire turned inside out looks good. If you paint it, it becomes even better. If desired, they can be combined - different colors, sizes, installed differently: on the bus or on the legs.
A tall flower bed always looks beautiful. Especially with hanging plants. It can also be made from tires, and there are several possibilities. The photo below shows two ways to secure cut tires to different levels. The first is to use stumps for this, to which flowerpots are attached with nails or screws. The second is to use reinforcement - three or four rods on which to put rubber. Having set the tier at the desired level, it needs to be secured; on metal this can only be done with the help of clamps.
It is not always possible to place a flowerpot on the ground: some areas are so developed that even one square meter it is problematic to single out. For this occasion, people came up with various hanging flowerpots, also made from old tires. Only a small part of the whole tire remains, so you have to cut a lot... be patient. For example, you can do hanging planters in the form of a dolphin, parrot, rooster and other strange birds. For some ideas, see the photos.
Tire planter - parrot, rooster and dolphin
All these crafts made from tires. Only a small part of them - the heads - are often made of dense foam. Having cut and sanded the part of the desired shape, it is attached using self-tapping screws coated with glue (this is a secret, remember), and then painted. Watch the video to see how to make a parrot from a tire.
Below are posted step by step photos, which depict the main stages of creating a table or ottoman from a tire. You will need two more circles of plywood or fiberboard of a suitable diameter; hemp rope is used for finishing. From available materials you will need glue and a glue gun, as well as varnish and a brush for applying it. To connect the circles to the tire you will also need self-tapping screws - 8-10 pieces on each side.
Next we take glue gun and after heating the glue, apply it to the sidewall. If you don’t have such a luxury on your household, take the glue that’s in the tube bigger size, like " liquid nails" It's easier for them to work with mounting gun. Apply a stripe to the side and glue the hemp rope. So - all the way to the top.
Using the same technology, we decorate the lid of the table (ottoman). You need to start laying from the middle: apply glue, lay the rope.
Finishing the work - applying varnish. We do it slowly, soaking it well. This is what should happen as a result. If you made a table, you can put glass on top - a rope, even coated with varnish, is not the best best coverage for the table, although beautiful...
Variety can be achieved through the cover. It can be sewn from the dense material you like.
Cute ottoman...
You can knit it - large knitting looks interesting.
Large knitted cover - looks interesting
If you don’t want to sew or knit, you can use old knitted items cut into strips. They are cut into long strips 3-5 cm thick, rolled into balls and then wrapped around the ottoman. It turns out interesting, especially if several colors are combined.
If you need a taller ottoman, screw the two tires together with self-tapping screws and continue working with them in this form.
Another option, see the video