Crafts from bottle caps. Crafts from corks from plastic bottles (48 photos): bright and original decor

With help wine corks, a sharp penknife and a marker, you can make "signature" prints. To do this, you must first draw the desired figure and then cut it on the cork. Such prints can be used on postcards, in letters, or simply for playing with children.

Volumetric letters and pictures


Do you want to confess your love in an original way or just surprise your loved ones? Then stock up on wine corks. After all, you can make a beautiful three-dimensional picture from them (for example, in the form of a heart), as well as letters for composing various phrases (for example, I love you). And they, in turn, can be used to decorate the interior and photo shoots. Detailed tutorials on how to make them can be found at the links below.


If the handle of a cabinet or chest of drawers is broken, do not rush to knock on the doorsteps of furniture stores in search of a replacement. You can go the other way and make unusual handles from wine corks. To do this, they need to be sharpened a little, and then attached with screws to the door or drawer. For some, this will become a temporary measure, and for someone - an original detail in the interior.


An old fan grill, a bunch of wine corks, twine... At first glance, this is unnecessary trash, which should be in a landfill. But in capable hands, this garbage turns into designer chandelier. You need to attach a cartridge to the grill from the fan, and tie plugs to the twine at different levels. Detailed instructions at the link below.


These original frames for pictures and photographs are obtained from wine corks. At the same time, you can safely experiment: glue the corks along, across or in a herringbone pattern, use them as a whole or cut them into pieces. It all depends on the interior where these unusual frames will hang. By the way, you should not limit yourself to photographs and paintings only - corks can border a mirror, a chalkboard, and much more.

cat toy


If you tie a case on a wine cork, you will get an unusual toy for your pet. You can drive it around the apartment, sharpen your claws about it, and gnaw it. In a word, wine corks can save your shoes and furniture, so take yarn, felt and make a toy for your cat as soon as possible.


Wine corks can make elegant holders. There are two options here: you can screw a wire into the cork and insert photos, notes and other little things, or you can glue or tie several corks together and cut a strip for attaching cards. Such holders can serve as seating cards at a wedding or simply stand on your desk.


A warm and romantic atmosphere can be created with wine corks, two glass jars and a scented candle. Place the vessels one inside the other (the first should be 2-3 times smaller in diameter), fill the space between them with stoppers, insert a candle into the smaller vessel. Voila! The original candlestick is ready.


A plank and a few wine corks - this is the "recipe" for a convenient hanger. Anyone who knows how to handle a screwdriver can do it. Such a hanger will perfectly complement the interior of a summer house or a country house.


Looking at this graceful giraffe, which serves as an interior decoration, it seems as if several experienced engineers worked on it. In fact, it is done in an elementary way: the wire frame is pasted over with paper, and then wine corks are “planted” on it. The main thing is not to feel sorry for the glue, so that the design turns out not only beautiful, but also durable.


With the help of wine corks, you can make a convenient and beautiful panel - something like an "interactive whiteboard". You can attach shopping lists, phone numbers, notes for loved ones or photos to it. In this case, it is better to use small needles or pins, and not glue and adhesive tape - then the panel will serve you for many years.


What goes around comes around. But sometimes it is very difficult to remember what and where you have sown. In order not to get confused in the future harvest, use labels from wine corks. To do this, you need to drill a hole in the cork, insert a stick into it and write "Tomatoes", "Parsley", "Peppers", etc. Stick these tags in seedling containers, and you will always know where and what you are growing.

Wreath


These beautiful wreaths can be made using wine corks. The technology is quite simple: we make a frame and glue it with corks. At the same time, the type and “mood” of the wreath will depend on how you arrange them. These wreaths can decorate the house on New Year and other holidays. You will find one of the master classes on making wreaths from wine corks

Canape skewers


Canape is a great holiday appetizer. Especially when you consider that you can not buy skewers for them, but make them from improvised materials. This will require wine corks (they need to be cut into circles), toothpicks and some kind of decor (ribbons, stickers, beads, etc. will do). Drill into the resulting wooden mugs holes for toothpicks, decorate them, and the original canapé skewers are ready.


By sawing the cork in half and gluing a magnetic strip to it, you will get an original fridge magnet. With it, you can attach photos, notes, shopping lists and other important little things.


To save furniture, we use special coasters for hot pots and plates. Of course, such a thing can be bought, but it is more interesting to make it yourself. Take a few dozen wine corks (the number depends on the diameter of the stand), a glue gun, a knife and a satin ribbon for decoration. Cut the corks in half (if this is not done, the stand will just turn out a little higher), sand the edges and glue the corks together in the form of a circle or octahedron. Run a ribbon along the edge or decorate with other decorative elements. The stand is ready.

bird house


These are such chic “apartments” that can be made for birds using wine corks. First you need to make a frame from thick cardboard, and then glue it with corks. It turns out a real cobbled teremok. This is a great idea for children's creativity, because the child will learn not only to "build", but also to take care of nature.


Earrings, pendants, necklaces, brooches and rings can all be made from ordinary wine corks. You just need to be a little creative and get the right accessories. Corks can be used whole (for example, for pendants), cut into circles or sawn in half (for earrings and necklaces). They can be decorated and decorated with beads. In a word, the flight of fancy is not limited.

Jewelry storage organizer


From wine corks, you can make not only jewelry, but also an organizer for storing them. Any girl knows how difficult it is to place jewelry so that it is not lost, visible and at hand. Dear ladies, take a picture frame of the right size and stick wine corks inside. Make several hooks to make it convenient to hang beads and bracelets. And earrings can be stuck between corks or directly into them (if the wood is soft enough).


There was a pompous blue-red table, but it became a stylish black-brown one. But its main highlight is the countertop. It is made of wine corks: the corks are “planted” on liquid nails and varnished on top. It may not be very practical, but it's definitely impressive. It is unlikely that any of your friends have such an original bar counter.


To keep your keys from getting lost, make a keychain out of wine corks. It's very simple. You need to buy accessories (sold in stores for goods for creativity) and dream up a little. You can leave the cork as it is, or you can decorate it: paint it, write your name or the “purpose” of the key (for example, “office”, “home”, “mailbox”), hang beads, etc. As a result, you will get an exclusive keychain that is unlikely to get lost.

miniature flower pots


If you think a wine cork is too small to grow plants in, you are wrong. From it you can make a very cute flower pot on a magnet. To do this, you need to take a wooden (necessarily not plastic) cork, gouge a small hole inside, fill it with earth and plant small sprouts there. After that, you can stick a magnet to the cork, and there will be a nice little “flower bed” on your refrigerator.


A Christmas tree, toys for it, Santa's reindeer, gift wrapping and much more can be made for the New Year with the help of wine corks. For example, to make the main character new year holidays- herringbone, - you will need a base in the form of a cone, paper, glue and, of course, corks. Drape the cone with colored paper and stick corks on it - they will play the role of needles. Such a Christmas tree looks very nice, and may well replace a traditional (live or artificial) tree. Who doesn't love sailing boats? As children, we made them from newspapers, but the voyage of the paper ship was, alas, short-lived. Another thing is a vessel made of wine corks. Glue a couple of corks, attach a sail and you can go on a "sea" trip. Such a boat will delight your child and remind you of your own childhood.


Now it is fashionable to decorate houses with various decorative balls. They are made from paper, thread and other materials. Wine corks also work well for this task. To make a decorative ball out of them, you will need: the actual corks (a lot), a foam ball, a glue gun, brown acrylic paint and a brush. We paint the foam base and the “bottoms” of the corks, and then glue the ball over them. Such a decorative ball of wine corks looks great on a bookshelf, as it harmonizes with books. And if you want to hang it somewhere, do not forget to attach a ribbon.


Wine corks are most often made from wood. Therefore, a wine cork is a durable and reliable material from which you can make practical rugs for the bathroom and hallway. To do this, the corks need to be cut lengthwise and stick them on a rubberized base. You can also use whole corks and glue them together vertically (it is better to use metal carcass). The last option is more suitable for the front door.


If you drill a hole in several wine corks and insert ink paste into it, then you will get an unusual pen. So that it does not hang out and does not bend, the corks should be glued together. You will not only save on buying stationery, but also surprise your friends.


Many people remember such an attribute of Soviet life as “pendants” made of postcards and paper clips instead of doors. After the collapse of the USSR filament curtains seemed to be a thing of the past. But fashion, as you know, develops in a spiral - a new round of popularity of filament curtains is coming. True, now they are more used for zoning rooms. One thing is invariable - you can make such a curtain with your own hands. For example, from wine corks. Looks very creative.


This lampshade, made of wine corks, will bring warmth and comfort to your home, and the light streaming through the cracks will create a special, somewhat mysterious atmosphere. But the main thing is that it will not be difficult to make it. You need to take a regular plastic cover and glue it with wine corks. Do not do it too tightly - the more gaps, the more light.

No one is surprised when people knit clothes with their hands. Although everyone knows that it is easier to buy. Stoppers from plastic bottles- same! It is difficult to resist the desire to decorate a cottage or garden with bright crafts. Moreover, crafts from caps can be useful. The following is a description of various products for the garden and vegetable garden made from plastic bottle caps.

Bright pictures of traffic jams on the barn and fence

The swan is made of corks in 4 colors, which are fastened with fishing line and nails.

A wide variety of colors of caps from plastic bottles allows you to make almost any pattern. You can implement the ideas below, or use simple diagrams for cross stitching. It is especially interesting to make a new picture with your own hands. Here is a short master class for making jewelry. First, a grid is applied to the drawing on paper or a computer screen with a step corresponding to the size of the covers. Then each square is selected cork most suitable color.



Here you can clearly see the placement of fishing line and nails.

Fasten the cover elements to wooden wall convenient with nails and fishing line. Previously, in the side surfaces of the plugs, two holes are pierced with an awl opposite each other, for fishing line. Assembly is carried out in rows, starting from the bottom row. Nails are hammered on the sides of the pattern so that they protrude 1 cm above the mounting surface.



And a flower, and a cockerel, and even a cow - everything is possible to depict with the help of traffic jams

The distance between the nails in height corresponds to the diameter of the covers. Count the number of rows of the pattern and cut the fishing line of the required length with a margin. We tie a fishing line to one of the lowest nails and melt its end with a match to prevent untying. Sequentially we put the corks of the bottom row on the fishing line.



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Then stretch the fishing line with caps and tie to the nail on the opposite side with two knots. Pass the line under the plugs of the first row and tie to the nail on the opposite side with two knots. Now you can recruit and fasten the second row and so on.

After assembling the entire pattern, the last knot should be protected from untying by melting the end of the fishing line with a match. Nails can not be hammered all at once, but only those whose location is already clear. If you hammer nails with a slope away from the pattern, the fishing line will press the plugs to the base when pulled.



Cork cat and dog will always be friends

Of course, plastic bottle caps can be fixed with nails. In this case, it will be more difficult to ensure the geometrically correct placement of plugs.

It is more difficult to drive nails into plywood than into boards.

Show your imagination and create your own drawing. Your works of traffic jams will be able to revive old fence and bring a smile when you visit the shower or toilet.

Funny figurines from lids in the country and in the garden



These flowers don't wither.

It is no less exciting to decorate figurines in the garden with corks from plastic bottles. They can be quite simple and require a small amount of material.

Painted plywood is a good base for fabulous flowers and animals. Covers can also be placed with the flat side to the base of the pattern. This gives a peculiar texture to the surface of the craft, but driving nails into a small cork is not easy.



Flowers will be bright in any weather

It is very convenient to use a screwdriver and small screws. Please note that uneven surfaces of the pattern will be more difficult to clean from contamination.



Bottle caps can decorate everything

Lids can be put on the wire and formed into a ring. We attach the ring to the disk with a wire and get "Martian" sunflowers. An ordinary stump decorated with corks takes on a charming look and can be used as a seat.

Useful and original fences for plants



Useful and fun plant fence

The border for the flower bed can be decorated with corks from plastic bottles. To do this, they are simply pressed into the mass cement mortar from which the border is made.

Cork can arrange a fence that supports the branches of the plant. It is enough to pierce the covers with an awl in the center and string them on the wire. A colored hoop can be fixed to wooden supports with nails.

Do-it-yourself curtains from corks from plastic bottles



Colorful cork curtains will decorate any cottage

Original and bright curtains for summer cottages are another option for using corks from plastic bottles. Agree, it is better to purchase a large amount of material at a wholesale base or order via the Internet.

It is convenient to fasten corks in two rows on one fishing line. To begin with, in all the covers you need to make two holes on opposite sides for the fishing line. The end of the fishing line is tied with two knots and melted with a match to prevent untying.

Covers are strung on the fishing line in the right order. After a set of covers of one row, make a mark and put on the covers of the second row in reverse order. The end of the fishing line is tied and melted. Two rows of the curtain will be attached to the middle of the fishing line, which we previously marked. Thus preparing required amount rows.



Option for curtains light and with fantasy

On the box of the doorway, markings are made and (not completely) nails with covers for attaching curtains are hammered. After hanging paired rows on each nail, the latter are hammered to the end for reliable fastening of the fishing line.

Of course, the curtains can be made translucent and spend noticeably less material. In this case, a double row of corks must be hung on two adjacent nails hammered in with the required pitch.

Cork furniture can also be made



Cork furniture in the country - a worthy decoration

Furniture made of plastic corks in the country looks great. The photo shows four technologies for decorating tables and chairs at once:

    1. In the photo in front of you, the whole room in the country house is decorated with corks and plastic bottles. How to make curtains, we already know. We consider crafts for giving from plastic bottles in a separate article. Capes from the covers on the chairs are collected on a fishing line, almost like curtains. In this case, the line passes through the caps in two perpendicular directions. To do this, four holes are made in their sides. You can learn more about this technology by watching the video.

  1. The wooden chair shown in the photo is decorated with plastic bottle caps using small self-tapping screws. It is convenient to perform the work with a screwdriver.
  2. The plywood cover of the table must first be protected with paint from moisture. It is convenient to mount covers on it using “liquid nails” building glue. The chairs from this set are soft and mounted in much the same way as a rug: through four holes in the side walls. In this case, a thin fishing line will not withstand the weight of a person. Up to 10 kg of load will fall on one line of caps. So choose a fishing line for "fish" weighing more than 10 kg.

Colored paths in the country from plastic corks



Not a single king can pass along such a path, and you will have

The technology of decorating the track with corks from plastic bottles is quite simple. First, formwork is installed, and a path is poured from a mixture of cement and sand in a ratio of 1 to 4. The work is performed sequentially, in small segments.



There can be many options for drawing from small traffic jams.

After careful alignment of the track section with a length of not more than 0.5 m, plugs are pressed into the surface of the solution. In a too thick and frozen composition, it will not work to mount the caps.



Paths made of plastic corks in the country are appropriate everywhere

On a group of corks of three rows, you can put a flat board and lightly tap on it, trimming the previously neatly set caps. It is impossible to level already drying areas. After the solution has completely solidified, the formwork is removed and the surface of the track is washed.

A fence made of plastic corks in the country - useful and beautiful



Your neighbors don’t have a fence from traffic jams for sure

The fence made of caps from plastic bottles impresses with its scale. Such an amount of material must be bought exactly. Although a simple gate on the site can be easily decorated by nailing the caps. When decorating a huge fence canvas, I would choose “liquid nails” building glue for attaching traffic jams.

The canvas of the fence can be completely made of caps. The technology is still the same: four holes in the sidewalls of the plugs and lines threaded perpendicularly. A frame is required for mounting. metal pipe section not less than 25x25mm.

Colorful panel makes an impression



Such species claim to be called a work

Probably, the panels are at the same time the most large-scale and brightest works made of corks for plastic bottles. How much work and patience you need to show to make such jewelry! It can be an imitation of a famous painting, a colorful mosaic of intricate patterns, a stylized image in the form of a mosaic, a still life of individual paintings. For those who decide to do a project of this kind, it makes no sense to suggest a plot. Installation of corks can be done with nails, fishing line, glue and self-tapping screws.



The love of the owners of these houses for their home inspires respect

We conducted a small experiment and typed a simple pattern from the caps in 15 minutes. The following conclusion followed: creating from traffic jams is easy and simple!

Every family has parties where they open bottles of wine. Corks are thrown away by many, some keep the ones with the name of the wine written on them or famous brand as a souvenir. And only the most practical know how to use them to make exclusive household items or souvenirs.

Corks are made from the bark of the cork tree. The plant itself does not suffer at all after the bark is removed from it, as it is restored. Each new layer has more valuable properties to apply.

From the bark of the cork tree, floor and wall coverings, furniture, shoes and even hats are made. And we offer a master class on crafts from corks.


Practical use of traffic jams

Most wine corks are cylindrical in shape. But there are also those that have the shape of a mushroom. They make great pens for drawers table. To do this, you need a self-tapping screw, the length of which exceeds the length of the cork. It is screwed into the "hat" until it stops, and then screwed to the table drawer.

From cylindrical plugs, you can build a rug for the hallway of any shape. As a base, you can use a rubber mat, leaving its original shape or cut out the one that you like best. Glue the corks around the perimeter of the rug with a glue gun, and then fill the space inside with it.

You can cut the corks into circles of equal thickness and also create a rug out of them. If the cylinders are of different thickness, the mat will be an excellent foot massager.

By the same principle as the rug, you can make a stand for hot dishes. As a base, a candy box or a shallow wooden box is suitable. One of the options for the stand: cut the corks into circles of the same thickness, place them on the table in any shape and fasten them with fragments of a spring for a notebook or a common notebook.

In spring, hardware stores sell peat tablets for growing seedlings. They can be successfully replaced by plugs. It is enough to cut them in half, cut out the middle and fill the ground. Seedlings that have grown stronger can be easily transplanted into larger containers.

Paste over any box or box with corks and line inner part cloth. You get a basket for storing small things, a candy box, a box.

Pins and buttons are easily stuck into the cork. Why not make an organizer out of them? Glue corks into the photo frame, for example, with a herringbone, like parquet. Now you can attach family notes, memos, cooking recipes, children's drawings and other papers.


In a cork in the shape of a mushroom, the hat can be painted under a fly agaric and used as a needle holder.

Wine cork decor

Very interesting crafts wine corks can be made as interior decor. The main thing is to accumulate more of them, trying to have corks of different shades, shapes, sizes in the collection.

Detailed instructions for making crafts will help to make them even for those who have not previously had experience in this kind of creativity.

When decorating a banquet hall, corks are useful for making letters, numbers, holiday inscriptions, heart-shaped panels for a wedding celebration. Each cork is cut in half lengthwise into two half-cylinders and glued with its flat side to a base made of thick cardboard, plywood, plastic and other materials.

By the same principle as letters or panels can be made kitchen apron. The plugs can be placed in any order. A 2x2 chess pattern looks especially interesting: two corks vertically, two horizontally, etc.

To make a bottle of wine on the table look elegant, you can make decorative pendants for them. Cut the corks into circles and glue them in the shape of a grape brush. Decorate it with artificial leaves, tie a beautiful ribbon and hang it on the bottle.

Cork can be taken as a basis for Christmas decorations. For example, to make a deer, it is enough to attach ears, eyes and a nose made of felt, horns made of decorative wire and a ring with a bead at the bottom to the cylinder. Attach wooden beads to the cork, drawing eyes and a smile on them, make wings out of bows, and you will get butterflies or bees if you paint the base in black and yellow stripes.

By the way, the cork lends itself well to staining. acrylic paints or spray paint. If you put multi-colored knitted or felt caps on corks and draw faces, you will get funny gnomes. Glue a snowflake from identical circles and decorate it with sequins, rhinestones or a ribbon.


Kids toys

What can be done from wine corks with children? For example, an ancient Russian fortress. Since corks resemble the texture of a log, they can be glued together for huts, fences, towers, bridges, passages, gates and other elements of the ancient city. Get a real designer for the development of the creative abilities of the child.

From cork circles, you can come up with various volumetric applications. For example, imitate the end of logs for a hut on chicken legs.

String mugs on a long thread, and from one cork make a head with eyes and a protruding tongue. Get a snake toy.

If you connect several plugs with wooden toothpicks and equip them with a sail, you get a raft. The child can play with it, swimming in the bath or flopping in the summer in the children's inflatable pool. You can even arrange a competition, whose raft will sail faster if you blow on it.

How to make crafts from wine corks with your own hands depends on the number of blanks. You can accumulate enough of them that is enough for flooring or Wall panels. Photos of crafts from wine corks can give a lot of new ideas for their use in everyday life.

Photo of crafts from wine corks

Nobody knows exactly when wine was invented. It couldn't be that one fine day - rrraz, and it appeared!

Around 8000 years ago, in the region of present-day Georgia and Turkey, people began to grow cultivated (not wild) grapes. He was so cultured that he was never late, wore a bow tie and was called Vitis vinifera. Since then, little has changed fundamentally. Unless there are more than 9,000 grape varieties, and winemaking and drinking wine has not lost its relevance for centuries.

And now about traffic jams. Once upon a time, wine was stored in clay amphorae and corked with a piece of wood wrapped in a rag. Or just a sliver of soft wood. Such “protocorks” swelled from moisture and could easily break the neck of a wine jug from the inside. Then there were wooden cone-shaped plugs with a long handle that protruded from the neck. To open it was possible by hand. Then, by experience, it turned out that cork oak bark has ideal qualities for making wine corks. Maybe that's why they called him that? It is this material that helps the wine to retain its original properties for as long as possible. Corks made from such bark are light, allow the right amount of oxygen to pass through, allowing the wine to breathe, and are less prone to rotting.

In the 21st century, you can find 3 types of traffic jams that look like natural ones. From all of them you can do something interesting. And here are the types:


  • whole cork
  • agglomerated, i.e. glued from natural cork waste. The cork crumb is pressed and cylinders are cut out of it. This is the most common option today.
  • plastic or synthetic stoppers

Crafts from wine corks

Hot stand



You can make a lot of interesting things out of wine corks. For example, these are hot pads. We collect corks in a friendly "crowd" and tie them with a collar, wire or rope. For strength, you can fasten them with glue. Or lay the corks horizontally and glue them together. The main thing here is that the glue is heat-resistant ("Super Moment» , for example), and the plugs are approximately the same size and length.

Tray



An original tray made of wine corks will unequivocally hint to guests that you approach the choice of gastronomic pleasure with all responsibility. And you certainly know a lot about wine. And visiting.

Table


A cork table definitely requires arms from the shoulders and a suitable glass to protect the surface. But the result can exceed all expectations - such an accessory will definitely not be left without attention. You can use the old coffee table and glue it on top with corks. Or put together a "base» himself from the boards from the hardware store.

kitchen apron


Cork kitchen apron is very easy to make. You will only need: a flat surface on which the corks will stick well, 100500 of these same corks and a protective glass on top so that it is convenient to take care of the apron. Glass according to individual sizes to order can be easily purchased in any city.

Rug in the bathroom


A bath mat is also easy to make with your own hands. You will need a thin, ready-made mat for bedding, waterproof glue, and corks. They can be cut lengthwise with a clerical knife for greater adhesion or glued whole. As we remember, the cork is moisture resistant and does not rot, and this is a definite plus for an accessory in the bathroom.

Chandelier


A cute and “cozy” wine cork chandelier can be made on the frame of an old chandelier (left) or on the base of a fan grille (right). For the second option, you will need small anchor hooks that you can buy at a hardware store and a lot of rope. Simple and original.


(anchor hook / circular screw and linen rope aka jute twine)

Candlesticks


Perhaps the easiest way to use wine corks in the interior is to decorate candlesticks. Pour corks into a transparent vessel, put a candle inside, and a beautiful accessory is ready.

Boards and panels




IN working area or as a decoration, wine cork boards will look good. You can hang stickers and postcards on them, or just admire the texture and different seals. Before gluing the corks, arrange them inside the frame as they will be fixed in the end. Because all traffic jams different size and something in the end may not look very nice. In general, we remember Tetris.



You can also paint wine corks and lay out interesting shapes and patterns from them.

Figurines and other decor

Just check out our selection of cool wine cork stuff. Sometimes they even create real art objects for exhibitions! And some crafts can take their rightful place at a family celebration.













An obvious but time-consuming way to get a lot of wine corks is to drink wine and store trophies for future crafts. This is if you are a true and patient gourmet. And if you don’t feel like waiting at all, and your hands are already itching to create something like that, you can buy corks on Avito or in an online store.

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Like many owners of suburban areas. If you look at their work from the outside, it may seem that there is an unspoken competition for the most original idea. Masters from the people create amazing things, but they complain that the material, although cheap, takes a long time to collect. But when there are enough traffic jams, real masterpieces come out from under the hands of craftsmen.

Vernissage of crafts from corks from plastic bottles

We will also go through the dachas and see what our neighbors have done there.

Another popular product is cork summer curtains. They can be plain and colored, with floral or geometric patterns.

White corks can be assembled for a lamp on the veranda, and colored corks are suitable for decorating a garden table.

In the theme and crafts in the form of animals and flowers. Butterflies, dragonflies, caterpillars inhabit benches and trees, daisies and seven-flowers complement compositions of fresh flowers and decorate playgrounds.

Cork mosaics are used to decorate the garden and the interior of the house. Spread out of them and garden paths.

As you can see, in most cases, corks are used as a finishing material, but their possibilities do not end there. Armed with a fishing line and an awl, people sew door and massage rugs from them. Let's try and make such a rug.

Mastery Lessons

Realizing that right now you don’t have 2-3 bags of corks stocked at home, we will only tell you how and what crafts for the garden from bottle caps you can do with your own hands. You just have to choose the idea you like and start collecting material.

Massage Mat

At the cottage, we not only relax, but also work hard. By the end of the day, the legs are tired and require rest. To help them get back to normal faster, we will make a massage mat from corks from plastic bottles for giving, and consider two options.

Scheme for the manufacture of a small massage mat.
Take 19 caps (colors optional), burn 6 holes in each and fasten with four steps of fishing line (shown with lines of 4 colors)

To create more robust design you need to take:

  • traffic jams
  • fishing line
  • awl (you can use a nail or knitting needle)

Let's start weaving:

  1. In each lid, we make 6 holes with a heated awl or nail, placing them evenly around the entire circumference.
  2. The shape of the rug is a hexagon. The length of one side is equal to 10 caps. This means that the extreme side of our rug will consist of 54 covers.
  3. We assemble from the edge to the center of the rug, passing the fishing line, as shown in the figure.
  4. The weaving pattern is shown on a small fragment, but it is not difficult to transfer it to full size products. For clarity, each stage of weaving is shown with colored parts of the fishing line, it is clear that there is only one fishing line in the work.
  5. Having finished weaving, we fix the end of the fishing line by melting it.
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