Crafts made from tires and tires are widely used to decorate the site of a kindergarten or dacha.
It is difficult to find cheaper material for decorating a playground, old car wheels. After looking at the photos and reading the instructions and master classes in our thematic section, you will notice that the tires are in capable hands can turn into not only original homemade garden decorations and decorative sculptures, but also often perform special functional tasks. You can make excellent vases, flower beds and flower beds from tires with your own hands. Tires dug into the ground are used as zoning of the territory or design of a children's playground. Wheels can be used as a sandbox, pond or pool.
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Do you have a garden or vegetable garden and old unnecessary tires? Then you simply must make a cute craft. It will become the pride of your site if you do everything diligently and carefully. Nothing special financial costs this is not required, but the time needed is from a couple of hours to a couple of days.
Complex tire products
Now let's move on to considering more labor-intensive options for crafts made from tires. In fact, they are only slightly more complex than the previous ones. You will see this for yourself when you take a look at the master classes.
Making a swan
Manufacturing involves cutting, so it is better to take very worn rubber with a longitudinal pattern. The first stage of work is marking. Draw a swan's neck on the tire as shown in the photo. It should take up approximately half the length of the tire. Next, draw the outlines of the head (length about 10 cm) and beak (slightly shorter). The tail will begin where the beak originates, and therefore will have a forked end. Make it the same width as the neck, and let the length be about 30 cm.
Now it's time to move on to cutting. Depending on the condition and thickness of the rubber, perform the work using a shoe knife, grinder or jigsaw. It is better to cut on both sides of the tire in parallel. Having finished cutting, we begin to turn the workpiece inside out.
Tire swan - master class The next stage is strengthening the neck and tail. To do this, make two holes along these parts every 15 cm. You will thread metal staples into them that will hold the rigid rod. After this, the neck and tail need to be given a beautiful bend.
The final stage is painting. You can make yourself either a white or a black swan. Let the beak be red. That's all.
Glamorous flowerpot
Previously, we looked at simple flowerpots made from tires for the garden plot. Now turn your attention to a more complex and attractive option. Draw a gigzag line on the tire and cut along it. When finished, turn the tire inside out. The cut piece usually serves as a stand. Now take some paint outdoor works any color and decorate your flowerpot to completion.
Flowerpot made from tires for the garden - master class quiet lake
It's always nice to make something beautiful and useful out of a junk item. A good example such creativity - beautiful flower beds from tires. They are not difficult to build, but their benefits are enormous. But that's just a fantasy country craftsmen not limited. From old wheels, which often just lie on the road and pollute environment, they make street furniture, sculptures for the garden, and even build small children's towns.
Such a simple and unsightly material at first glance, like old car tires, in fact, seems to be specially created so that every summer resident can feel like a real artist and decorate his plot with real designer flower beds and original author’s sculptures. Without exaggeration, you can cut anything out of tires. Such crafts are on par with those made from plastic bottles all year round will delight the eyes of the owners and guests of the dacha, and most importantly, will not require special financial investments.
It’s also nice that the benefit of the idea of making crafts with your own hands from tires is double: on the one hand, we recycle a wheel that polluted the environment, and on the other, we get an original one. garden decoration or a flower bed.
Crafts made from used rubber tires amaze with their variety and the richness of the imagination of their authors. Here are the most common ones:
In the photo - flower beds made from tires A small flower bed. The easiest way to make flower beds from tires is to leave the tire as is, just decorate it brightly and fill it with soil. Nothing complicated. Even this can be done weak woman or a child, but such a flower garden will look wonderful.
This photo shows cups made from old wheels. Flower beds from old tires in the form of various objects. Make them more difficult. The tire is cut into two unequal parts and the larger one is turned inside out. It is worth noting that the edges of tires can be made various shapes, it's all just a matter of imagination and sleight of hand. Using this technique, flower beds are made in the form of a mug, flower, or vase. A huge rubber cup made from tires looks very funny. And some craftsmen thus build an entire tea set on their site.
Turtle made from old wheels Flower beds and sculptures in the form of animals and fairy-tale heroes. A funny frog made of tires, a kind gnome, a mysterious unicorn, beautiful swans, a three-headed dragon, a turtle, a luxurious carriage, a huge telephone - it’s easier to list what they don’t do from this available material. The only condition is to think through the composition from the very beginning, so that there are no unpleasant surprises later.
In the photo - multi-tiered flower beds for flowers or berries Multi-tiered flower beds made from several tires. The simplest one to make is a three-tier one, but the number of parts can be greater. Several tires of the same or different sizes are placed on top of each other or in a checkerboard pattern. A tire well looks impressive, stylized to look like a real one and equipped with all its inherent attributes: a chain, a shaft with a visor, a bucket. This flower bed can also be used as a vertical bed for growing berries and vegetables.
Tire beds for strawberries A strawberry bed made from tires will take up minimal space and give a rich harvest. It is also perfect for growing seedlings, herbs, and peppers. From such a flower bed you can make a fence for a raspberry or currant bush, or make several of them and use them to delimit the garden into cultural zones. It is also worth mentioning that a well made from tires is often made not only decorative, but is also used to disguise it. drainage hole or septic tank.
Experienced craftsmen and craftswomen know many secrets that help them create garden sculptures and flower beds made from tires with your own hands. They understand better than anyone how to make unique and inimitable handicrafts from old, useless trash. Here are just a few of these secrets:
- Imported tires are best suited for the job, as the rubber on them is softer and easy to cut. But in their absence, domestic products will do. In principle, they are quite easy to process and allow you to make crafts from them different shapes.
- Tires intended for use on winter roads are more pliable, easier to cut and easier to process than those used in summer.
- The longer the tire has been used and the more it is worn, the thinner, softer it is and the easier it will be to work with: cutting and turning.
- Before you start creating a craft, the material needs to be prepared: thoroughly cleaned of dirt, and degreased before painting.
- For cutting car tires use a sharp knife with a thin spine. You can check how well it is sharpened by running the blade along a notebook sheet, holding it suspended. If the knife does not cut or tears the paper, it is not sharp enough.
- Cutting a car tire for garden crafts It’s more convenient if you periodically lubricate the knife with machine oil. This will make it easier to fit into the rubber. Used oil will also work.
- When you need to cut out some shaped elements, markings are applied to the tire. It will help achieve more accurate and exact result. It is most convenient to apply it with ordinary white chalk, or, in extreme cases, with a marker.
- The durability of the craft depends on what paint you use to paint the rubber. For old people wheel tires fit as car paints, as well as any paints for street work.
- Before painting the tire, it is recommended to prime its surface. A primer with the addition of a small amount of PVA will increase the strength of the coating and reduce paint consumption.
- Paints in aerosol cans speed up the painting process to 20-30 minutes, and make the painted layer more uniform.
- Decorative finishing can be made from scrap materials. For example, cover the surface with pebbles, bottle shards, or lay out pictures from colored plastic bottle caps.
It is better to paint a flower bed from a tire not only from the outside, but also from inside. This way they will look more aesthetically pleasing, and the black rubber will not be visible from the inside.
Of course, every master has his own secrets, and it is impossible to list them all. And when you take up this fascinating business - tire sculpture, you will certainly have them too.
Several master classes on making crafts from old tires
As mentioned above, crafts made from tires are varied. Their appearance and purpose are limited only by the imagination of the master. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the basic models. After reading them, you will learn how to make a flower bed from tires with your own hands and you will be able to create original, unique and useful garden accessories yourself.
A simple flower bed in the shape of a flower
A small flower bed made like a daisy from one tire is the simplest basic model. You can make several such flower beds, arrange them sparingly and decorate the approach to the house. Sometimes they are placed on asphalt or tiled areas.
We will need:
- One old tire.
- Sharp knife.
- Marker or chalk.
Mark the cut location with a marker. We will cut the tire along them, from thickening to thickening.
Before cutting tires, make sure that they do not have metal cords that could damage the knife. They are usually inserted into truck tires.
We cut the tire along the entire circumference with even zigzag petals of any shape of your choice (triangular, oval, semicircular).
We turn the tire over and work with its reverse side. Moving the knife along the thickening, we cut out a circle from the back of the tire.
Then, along the entire circumference inside the tire, approximately every 20-25 cm, we make transverse cuts from the cut edge to the bend (end of the tread).
After this, the tire needs to be turned out. The flowerbed is ready. All that remains is to paint it, giving it a more attractive look, fill it with soil and plant plants.
For greater clarity, watch the following video:
Garden flowerpot from an old wheel
From the old wheel a short time you can make a beautiful garden vase.
Such flowerpots look better in pairs in front of the house, on opposite sides of the door or porch. Let's look at a step-by-step master class on how to make them.
We will need:
- Tire with disk.
- Sharp knife.
- Chalk or marker.
Using chalk or a marker, mark a zigzag line along the entire frontal circumference of the tire, along which we will begin cutting. Thanks to her, the flowerpot will look like large flower with many petals.
Cut the tire along the marked line with a sharp knife. To facilitate the process, the knife is periodically dipped in machine oil (used oil will also work).
After the wheel is cut, we check whether there are any uncut sections left and proceed to turning it out. It is better to do this together with an assistant, slowly, in parts.
After we managed to turn out the tire for the future flower bed, it turned out that there was a tube in the wheel. It needs to be cut out and thrown away.
The flowerpot is ready. Its bowl was made from the main part of the wheel. There is no need to remove the disk from the tire. It serves as a raised platform and stand for the vase, and the remains of the tire at its base provide additional support.
All we have to do is clean, degrease and decide how to beautifully paint our new garden vase. When you pour the earth into the bowl, do not forget to put a gasket on its bottom so that the earth does not spill out and make several holes in it to drain the water.
Video instructions for making a flowerpot:
Swan from an old tire
The most popular garden sculptures made from tires are swans. They are usually placed near an artificial pond, which gives the area a stunning look. You can plant grass in the bird itself, then it will seem that it is peeking out from behind the vegetation. Detailed information will help you make it step-by-step instruction with photo.
We will need:
- Sharp knife.
- An electric drill for making holes for a knife to fit into the rubber.
- Sander or file.
- Jigsaw.
- Chalk or marker (preferably a marker).
- Wire 5-6 mm in diameter (rigid, to give the shape of a “swan” neck).
- Plastic clamps (to shape the head).
- Roulette.
- Gloves.
According to the diagram, we mark the contours of the future swan on the surface of the tire using the following video, in which the author uses dimensions in inches, calling them inch in the international measurement system. Inch (1 inch) = 2.54 cm.
How beautiful and neat our sculpture will turn out depends on the accuracy of the markings.
Let's start cutting. At the initial section, we drill 3-4 holes at a distance of 3-5 cm with a drill and cut the tire between them with a knife. We insert a jigsaw into the resulting cut and begin to cut out the swan.
After all the contours are cut out, turn the tire inside out. We try to do this carefully, since careless movements in the thinnest places can tear it.
To make the bird’s figure look more neat, we smooth all the cuts along the contour with a sander.
To shape the swan's neck, we insert a wire into it. To do this, drill holes in the center of the neck and to the end of the body every 20 cm. We apply the wire and secure it in the holes with soft staples.
Forming the head. We make longitudinal cuts and holes, as shown in the photo and using the same wire or plastic clamps give the swan's head a shape.
Our tire swan is ready. All that remains is to paint it and make a stand.
The swan can be painted in White color or not paint at all, leaving it black. We make the beak red. Swans look very beautiful in a pair: black and white.
Without a stand, soft rubber swans will not stand. You can simply take any tire and paint it, for example, blue. Thus, it will symbolize the pond. Or you can take the time to make it curly.
We make the figured stand in the same way. We mark the outline on the tire along which we will cut, cut the tire along it, turn it inside out and paint it.
IN similar technique You can make any shapes from tires: animals, birds, fairy-tale creatures.
But, if you don’t want to bother with complex markings and cutting, you can do it simpler. For example, assemble a cute frog from whole tires.
In the photo - a flowerbed in the shape of a frog Making a frog from tires is very simple. The body and head are assembled from one or several larger tires, eyes are assembled from small wheels, for example from a baby stroller, and paws are assembled from rubber scraps.
Flowerbed chamomile
It’s hard to come up with a decoration that’s easier to make than this flowerbed. Despite the fact that it requires several car tires, it can be assembled in literally 15-20 minutes, it looks nice, neat and will never be out of place.
We will need:
- Three old tires of the same size.
- A sharp knife or grinder.
We cut all the tires in half, having previously marked the cut locations. Before cutting, find out if there are metal cords in the rubber. A knife won’t take them, so use a grinder.
To give the future flower bed an aesthetic appearance, you can paint the tires. It is better to do this in advance, immediately after cutting.
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 the country house or garden plot, various flowerpots and flower beds, 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 a few pieces 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
Human imagination is inexhaustible. Craftsmen from among the people create real miracles with what pragmatic consumers throw away. Almost everything is used: broken pots, seashells, pebbles, old technology and other utensils that are no longer used for their intended purpose, but acquire a second life when the hands of a master touch them. And, of course, a list of “raw materials” for practical decor cannot do without outdated car tires.
Previously, they were used exclusively for economy-class playgrounds; today they have come up with many more creative uses: photo crafts from car tires, accompanying our article is a clear confirmation of this.
Crafts from tires for the garden: garden furniture
The simplest thing, in our opinion, is tire product – lunch or coffee table . Glue two or three pre-cleaned and painted tires (depending on what height you want to get), secure any alternative tabletop on top: wood, plastic, glass, or simply cover the tire with twine. Movable wheels attached to the bottom add mobility to the product.
Will complement unusual table Another tire product – ottoman or armchair. Cut a circle from chipboard or thick plywood to fill the cavity inside the tire, put a couple of layers of foam on top - the pouf should be comfortable. The upholstery for such a “chair” can be knitted or sewn from any fabric or an old blanket in a spectacular Scottish check. Make the legs from blocks, and the back from another tire, cut in half.
How to make an ottoman from a tire: master class
Crafts from wheels for children
Tire crafts for They will not let your child get bored, providing him with productive and exciting leisure time. Cover the old wheel with colored twine and cut a “cover” to size for it - you’ll get a comfortable one box for children's street toys.
A massive truck tire easily turns into, and a pair of tires suspended from a tree will simultaneously become swing and an equilibristic projectile. The main thing is that the tree is strong, and the ropes and fastenings are reliable - appropriate for the age and weight of the child.
DIY tire swing: video
Crafts made from tires for the garden
A hollow tire is an excellent alternative. And it’s not at all necessary to cut swans or other intricate designs out of it. tire figures , as they did back in Soviet times. Just a few wheels, painted in bright colors and laid out in a certain sequence, look much more impressive and stylish.
Show creativity- do not put it flowerbed tires on the ground, and hang them from the ceiling on ropes or chains. A climbing, beautifully flowing flower, for example, an ampelous petunia or begonia, planted in such a “pot” will delight you with abundant and long-lasting flowering.
If you want to zone your space personal plot, make it low h abor from tires , placing garden lanterns next to it. When there are differences in elevation or access to water on the site, old tires will become alternative steps, the main thing is to reliably “mount” them into the ground.
