Paper palms are great for budget decoration of terraces, verandas, gazebos and patios, all kinds of parties, as well as school and kindergarten holidays. These palms are easy to make, and even a child can handle it. But even better, for all their cheapness and elementary nature, these palms look really very realistic.
You will need:
- Long cardboard rolls from paper towels or decorative wrapping paper (for the trunk of a palm tree, which can be made from a wooden, metal or plastic pole / stick, and from other analogs);
- Brown paper, a lot - can be wrinkled, can be used paper bags, in which at least 1 side is monophonic - in general, everything that fits the definition;
- Dense green colored paper (you can glue the usual color in 2 layers for greater rigidity);
- Brown thin elastic bands or thin brown twine / rope;
- Stapler;
- Scissors;
- Duct tape;
- A stable decorative container in which you will "plant" your palm;
- Decorative stones or small shells;
- Sand.
1. If you use cardboard rolls as the trunk of a palm tree, you will have to glue several pieces in length to get the palm tree of the required height. Glue as securely as possible so that the palm does not suddenly bend at an inopportune moment. You can even stuff the rolls inside with something hard and long at the junction. If you already have a long stem base, skip this step.
2. Use your hands to tear the brown paper into pieces with deliberately jagged edges, but wide and long enough to wrap around the base of the palm trunk in a spiral with good overlap. Before wrapping the trunk, remember the paper with your hands for a more realistic palm look in the end.
3. Secure the wrapped paper to the barrel with rubber bands or a thin brown rope. Place the rope and elastic bands with large distances between the turns so that the paper holds firmly, but its uneven edges can be folded to the sides. Wrap the entire trunk - fold the horizontal edges of the paper away from the trunk - it will look more like the bark of a palm tree.
4. Cut large leaves of the most usual slightly elongated and pointed shape from thick double-sided green paper - 8 pcs. Don't try to make them look like long rectangles with rounded cornerslike living palms - this is not necessary. When you attach the finished leaves to the palm tree, they will look right. Fold the cut leaves in half along their entire length.
6. Take 4 of 8 ready-made leaves, fold them together (in a stack) with the lower tips, but direct the sheets themselves in different directions - unevenly, naturally. Fasten the folded ends with a stapler 2-3 times. Repeat with the remaining 4 sheets.
7. Crumple a good brown paper ball if you made the base of the palm tree from cardboard rolls. Stick the bonded lower ends of the two "bundles" of palm leaves deep enough into the upper roll of the trunk, opposite each other, after applying glue to both the tips and the inner surface of the roll. Slide a ball of paper tightly on top so that the leaves don't fall out, and also to close the hole in the trunk from above. Spread the leaves and, if necessary, correct their position a little.
If the trunk does not have a hole, simply use glue on the top and bottom of the bonded tips of the leaves, then wrap them tightly with a thin brown rope around the top of the palm trunk. You should also drop glue under the rope everywhere.
Supplements:
Try to put 2-3 palms in one large - wide and deep - container different heights and leaf size;
To make this project even more sustainable, glue newspaper leaves and paint them green with tempera, and then cut out palm leaves from the resulting project.
Do you want to decorate your garden plot with an interesting hand-made craft? Create a work of art on your own from scrap materials? Palm from plastic bottles - what you need, it will turn the territory into an amazing exotic garden and will delight the eye for many years. Our master class is devoted to how to make a palm tree from plastic bottles with your own hands in stages from used PET containers.
If you have a desire and a creative impulse, let's get to work.
Materials and tools
First of all, let's decide on the quantity and quality of materials. What container is suitable for our craft? Of course, every home has used plastic bottles, but are all of them suitable for our work? Of course not. We strictly choose only brown and green bottles for the trunk and crown. For a larger plastic beauty, a container with a volume of 2 liters is best suited; for a smaller tree, a one and a half liter container will do.
We need:
- 15-20 brown barrel bottles big tree and 15-10 for small;
- 6-8 bottles of green to create the 1st palm leaf;
- stationery knife or scissors;
- a metal rod or wooden handle for attaching the trunk;
- wire and rope;
- scotch.
Below is the detailed instructions for the manufacture of palm trees with diagrams and photos.
Getting started
Algorithm of actions:
- Create a crown for the trees;
- We make the trunk;
- We combine structural elements;
Let's start creating the leaves. To do this, take a green bottle and, using a clerical knife or scissors, cut off the bottom, as shown in the photo.
Then on the resulting workpiece, stepping back from the throat 3-4 cm, we make frequent longitudinal stripes.
Note! The more often the stripes go, the more fluffy our leaves turn out.
In the same way, we prepare 5 more blanks. We insert the resulting blanks on top of each other. In order to fasten them together, we use a wire or rope: we pass it through the neck and fix it. The first sheet is ready.
We bring to your attention the second method of making palm branches. To do this, take a green bottle, remove the bottom with a clerical knife. We visually divide the bottle into four parts and cut it. It turns out a blank, as shown below in the photo:
Then we decorate the resulting sheets, for this we make sharp cloves around the perimeter of the leaves, unbend the resulting fluffy leaves outward, fix.
Repeating points 1-3, prepare the remaining parts of the crown. We remind you that one palm tree requires at least 6-7 leaves.
The procedure for creating leaves can be represented schematically:
We start making the barrel. As we know, in nature, the trunk of a palm tree is covered with scales. To make our exotic plastic beauty as similar as possible to its natural counterpart, we will try to recreate the natural relief of its base. This will require almost the entire bottle. brown.
Cut off the bottom carefully.
Cut the bottle into 6 equal scales. It turns out such a wonderful "chamomile".
Create similar daisies for two palm tree trunks. We collect them together and fasten them in the same way as the leaves. The trunks are ready.
The number of blanks depends on how high the trees you are going to make.
The resulting bases must hold the crown tightly, for this it is necessary to strengthen them with reinforcement or a wooden handle as shown in the diagram.
Fast assembly
Now that all the structural elements are ready, we proceed to the assembly. There are several options for the layout of ready-made elements. Let's dwell on a simpler one. Prepare the top of the trunk, cut off the throat from the brown bottle. Almost at the very bottom, we make several cross-shaped cuts. This is where we will insert our crown. The assembly process is presented more clearly in the diagrams below.
Important! For the resulting masterpieces, it is necessary to make a foundation so that they hold well in the ground and do not swing.
If you have the opportunity, you can prepare a welded structure for its subsequent concreting.
What wonderful and unique trees we got, so you can create a whole exotic evergreen alley in your garden to the envy of your neighbors. Imagine and create interesting crafts for your site, involve children in work.
Connect your imagination and decorate your tropical beauties with the help of smaller colorful bottles: add fruits in the form of bananas and coconuts to your palms.
Pay attention to the creations of your colleagues, take notes and use in your work the techniques and elements you like. Some options for work are presented in the photo below:
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Summer residents who spend the summer in personal plots face the problem of recycling by autumn plastic containers from under all kinds of soft drinks. A plastic bottle palm tree can be an unexpected way of turning garbage into a garden decoration.
How is this possible? It is very simple, if you carefully study the instructions that tell about the manufacture of a palm tree from bottles, prepare everything necessary tools, consumables, and be sure to stock up on a good mood.
Bottled palm tree: possible benefits and uses
As you know, the plastic used for the production of food packaging does not decompose when it enters the soil for hundreds of years. The centralized removal of this kind of garbage is not established everywhere, and no one wants to litter nearby territories with plastic waste. What should a summer resident do in such a situation? Do you really have to take plastic bottles that have served their time to the city?
Take your time! If you carefully collect bottles from brown and green plastic, in the off-season the whole family can turn this container into an unusual evergreen tree in the evening.
A palm tree from bottles will perfectly decorate:
- adjoining territory;
- unsightly corner of the garden;
- plot next to outbuildings;
- playground;
- edge of the earth near the open.
A palm tree made from plastic bottles, according to the instructions below, can become a spectacular decoration at any party, wedding, themed evening or children's party.
Making an original decor item will not cause difficulties even for people far from this kind of creativity. The main thing is, before making a palm tree out of plastic bottles, prepare everything you need.
What is required for a palm tree from plastic bottles?
What should you stock up on before starting work? Primarily, home master you will need green and brown plastic bottles. The green ones are blanks for the foliage of the tree, and the brown ones are the future trunks of the evergreen beauty. At the same time, the height of the plant and the splendor of the crown directly depend on the amount of collected containers.
Scroll necessary materials and tools for creating a palm tree from bottles includes:
- plastic containers;
- sharp stationery knife and scissors;
- durable adhesive tape;
- metal bar or plastic tube for the barrel;
- thick rope or braided wire for the base of the leaves.
When choosing plastic bottles for a palm tree, you need to take into account that trunks and leaves made from containers of the same diameter look better. If you have smaller green bottles in stock, you can use them for the leaves in the middle of the crown, but brown small vessels will have to be used for the trunks of trees of a different type or size. Different shades of plastic are not a hindrance. They will only give liveliness and brightness to the man-made plant.
Palm tree from bottles: instructions for making
A step-by-step description of all the intricacies of creation plastic wood will help quickly, literally over the evening, step by step a palm tree from plastic bottles of the intended height.
The process consists of three steps:
- leaf assemblies;
- creating the trunk of a plastic plant;
- joining all parts and assembling the finished wood.
Before making a palm tree out of plastic bottles, the container must be washed and all paper and film labels removed from it.
Although there are many options for creating a plastic tree, the most lush long leaves in any chosen method, they are obtained from large, for example, two-liter bottles.
Making a palm crown from bottles
Prepared green bottles with a clerical knife or scissors cut off the bottom. It is no longer needed, and the upper half will become a blank for the sheet.
It is carefully cut into thin longitudinal strips towards the neck. The larger the diameter of the plastic bottle, the thicker and more luxuriant the green leaves of the palm tree will be.
These are not the only options for creating leaves. If upper part cut a plastic bottle, as in the photo, into four "petals", and then cut each of them several times, you get beautiful feathery foliage.
The resulting leaf fragments are successively strung on a strong rope or strong electrical cable... The lid must be screwed onto the first blank in order to fix the "petiole" of the sheet at the top with a knot. The last part of the bottle is twisted in the same way.
A palm tree made from plastic bottles can have a top of any volume, but trees with a crown of at least 5-7 leaves look better.
There should be a long stalk at the base of the finished palm leaves in order to then assemble and securely fasten the entire structure.
Assembling the trunk of a palm tree from bottles
To obtain a tree trunk similar to a natural tree, you will need almost the entire bottle, except for the bottom itself.
From the bottom almost to the very neck, longitudinal cuts are made on brown bottles, dividing the container into equal petals.
Only a small fragment of the bottom goes to waste
This is how the finished part of the future bottle palm trunk looks like.
The assembly is carried out in the same way as the green leaves of the tree were collected. To keep the palm upright, the trunk will need a strong, tough core. It can be made from a metal bar of suitable length and diameter or a tube.
Assembling a palm tree from plastic bottles
Finished palm leaves are attached with glue or tape to the top of the tree so that they form a uniform crown spreading on all sides.
This is what the finished treetop looks like.
The construction is quite heavy. Therefore, it is advisable to fix it with such a heavy base. If it is not possible to make a welded platform or suitable material, hard plastic or metal base the stem is buried at least half a meter. Such a kind of "root" in the pit strengthens brick chips and after filling with soil, they are compacted. Large trees are best concreted.
Video on how to make a palm tree from plastic bottles for personal plot, will explain all the nuances of the creative process, help you turn a yard or a corner of the garden into a real oasis with your own hands.
One of the options for making a palm tree from bottles - video
The palm tree is considered a symbol of summer and relaxation. But for most people, it is not enough to visit a living palm tree money... Therefore, you can combine business with pleasure and make such a decoration for your garden, like a palm tree from plastic bottles with your own hands.
Original decor
For this we need:
- Plastic bottles 15 pieces of brown color, with a capacity of 2.5 liters - for the barrel;
- Plastic bottles of 10 pieces green, with a capacity of 2 liters - for leaves;
- Any wires with a diameter of 12 mm for fastening;
- Metal sheet 0.5 cm thick;
- Two iron rods 25 cm long;
- Metal tubes 20 mm thick.
How to make a palm tree from plastic bottles, we will tell you step by step in an easy master class.
Cut the leaves for the palm tree. Take a plastic green bottle and cut it into two equal parts. We need the top one.
Cut the upper part of the bottle lengthwise into strips 3 mm thick.
Note that the shape of the bottle itself is not that important when making a palm tree.
Thus, we make all the green bottles that are available. We fix the prepared parts on the wire and connect them together. There should be more than one such blank.
We start making the barrel. For this we take the brown bottles. We make cuts along the bottles. Most importantly, they should be wide. And cut out the bottom, as shown in the photo.
Then we carry out welding works. For this we take a metal sheet and weld two iron rods to it as follows: the first rod is at an angle of ninety degrees, and the second is at an angle of about 60-70 degrees.
Metal tubes must be placed on the welded rods. The height you want the palm to be.
We weld metal bushings at the end of the rod. They are necessary in order to fix the leaves made there.
We attach the leaves to the metal pipe. It is better to bend them so that it looks more like a palm tree.
The leaves were collected, now we turn to the trunk itself.
Highlights when making palm leaves:
- If you want your palm to have wide leaves, then you must first cut off the bottoms of the bottle. Next, we cut it into three parts. You can use and yellow bottles, or both colors. So the palm will be more expressive and bright. The most important thing is to cut almost to the end of the bottle, you can literally leave half a centimeter;
- Using scissors, round the leaves to the base;
- Next, we make a fringe on the cut strips. Thus, we do on both sides of the sheet. The middle of the sheet should be about one and a half centimeters. To make your palm more lush, you need to bend the fringe with scissors in the following order: one incision up and the second down.
Highlights when making a palm trunk:
- Cut off the bottom of the bottles;
- We retreat half a centimeter from the lid and cut out eight petals;
- We turn each of them in the opposite direction;
- To save material, you can use the cut part. Just to fix it, you have to make a hole in it.
Key points to consider when assembling a palm tree:
It is best to use a metal-plastic pipe as a trunk. And the most the best choice diameter is 20 mm. You choose the height you want.
Collecting the palm itself is best from the bottom. The higher the palm, the less detail the trunk should be, that is, for the bottom it is best to use the largest blanks. The method is the simplest and most difficult - glass to glass. It will be better if their arrangement is staggered.
The bottom itself is best fixed on glue "Moment" , so it will be most reliable. About 30 cm before the top of the stem, you need to finish assembling the stem and continue to fix the leaves. It is also recommended to use a checkerboard pattern.
Once you have collected the whole palm tree, it is necessary to bury the welded fittings in the ground to a depth of thirty centimeters. Then we put on the finished palm tree on the armature.
Table palm
To make it we need:
- Bottles with a capacity of 1.0 l brown - 3 pieces;
- A green bottle with a capacity of 0.6 liters - 1 piece;
- Stationery scissors;
- Glue "Moment".
Let's get started, here are the step-by-step instructions:
- We cut each of the brown bottles into four parts, it is desirable that they are the same. In each of the parts we make cuts in the form of triangles. The size of which will be approximately one centimeter;
- Gently bend the resulting triangles;
- Take a green bottle and divide it into three parts. We cut each part in the form of triangles. The necked part will be the largest of all;
- We assemble the palm tree. We collect the trunk: first the bottom itself, then all the other parts. During assembly, all parts must be glued. We make the leaves as follows, first insert the most most of with the throat, then the middle part, and attach the bottom to the very top.
The palm is ready!
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Making crafts from ordinary plastic bottles can be a simple and inexpensive way to update the area near your home or on the playground. It takes a little time and imagination, and you can create from this universal material all that is enough imagination. You can, for example, make a banana tree. And so that you understand how to do this, we created a master class on a palm tree from plastic bottles unnecessary in the household quickly and simply with our own hands, it contains a detailed step-by-step instruction and photo and video lessons.
Such a tree will serve wonderful decoration a holiday for children or a theme party. The more plastic bottles you take to create one palm tree, the taller and more lush it will turn out.
We make a palm tree from plastic bottles with our own hands in stages
To create a palm tree, we need the following materials:
- Plastic bottles different sizes and flowers
- Scissors
- Scotch
- The basis for the future palm tree. Usually they take a metal rod.
- Frame for the future palm tree thick wire or metal pipe.
- Styrofoam or artificial bananas
- Yellow paint
- Wire
1) In order to make the trunk of a palm tree, you need to take brown bottles of 1.5 liters 2 and 2.5. First you need to cut the bottle from the neck by about a third. You will need the upper part, but do not rush to throw out the lower part - you can also make a barrel from it by analogy.
2) Cut the bottom of each bottle with a heated knife. To this cut we will attach the frame of our palm tree.
it is necessary to cut into 8 equal parts that part of the bottle, which is with a neck. It is necessary to cut from a wide edge to a narrow one.
Now we need to make these parts of a pointed shape so that it looks like a petal.
3) Bend the resulting petals onto outside - will look like a blossoming flower.
Palm foliage:1) So that our banana tree leaves appeared, you need to take green bottles (preferably different shades), white and yellow. The more colors you use, the brighter the palm will look.
2) Cut off the edge of the neck and the base from the bottle. Cut the resulting blank from the bottom of the bottle towards the narrow part into 3 approximately equal parts, but not completely. Until the end of the bottle, about 3 cm should remain. We give the edges of each part the shape of a narrowed semicircular petal. we begin to gently bend these petals outward in the same way as did the trunk of the palm tree. The result is something vaguely reminiscent of a three-blade fan. Now we cut each resulting sheet from the edge to the middle. In the middle, you need to leave a little uncut space - about 2 cm.It looks like a fringe. The narrower the strips in width you make, the more magnificent the fringe will turn out, and therefore the foliage of our palm tree.
3) Now the fringe strips need to be bent in different directions. 1-bend up, 2- leave as it is, 3 - down. So the sheet becomes voluminous.
4) There are 2 ways to decorate the leaves. In the first case, we leave our blanks as they are, and in the second, the blanks need to be strung on a flexible wire to get long voluminous branches. In the second case, more bottles will be needed, but the palm tree will also acquire a luxurious crown.
We take a bottle of dark brown color and cut it like a blank onto leaves - from top to bottom into thin strips. We collect the segments and wrap them inward.
Palm tree decoration.We cut out blanks for bananas from foam plastic and paint them with yellow paint and carefully pass a thin wire through the upper part.
We collect a palm tree:1) We take the palm tree frame prepared in advance. It can be a thick wire or a metal pipe. And we begin to put the finished barrel blanks on the frame with the neck down. We first put on larger blanks and begin to make up the parts as a designer. We compose until about 30 cm remains to the edge.Try to arrange the petals of each part in a checkerboard pattern. We fix the parts at the base with glue or tape.
2) Depending on which leaves you prefer to make, there are 2 ways of attaching 1-On the remaining empty upper part of the trunk, we begin to attach the branches of the palm tree. This is done in the same way as collecting the trunk. Don't forget to use details different colors and arrange the leaves in a checkerboard pattern. 2 - we attach the cable with the leaves strung on it to the frame of the palm tree at the very top and fix each sheet with tape.
3) Install the crown - glue the blank to the edge of the frame with the neck down.
4) We tie artificial bananas to the branches of a palm tree
To secure our palm tree, we stick a metal pin about 30 cm deeper into the ground for stability (if you wish, you can fill it with concrete), but so that at least 40 sticks out of the ground - to string the trunk and put our palm tree on top.
Now our plastic bottle palm is ready.
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