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 anything that you can imagine out of this versatile material. 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 detailed step-by-step instructions and photo and video lessons.

Such a tree will serve as a wonderful decoration for 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:

1. Plastic bottles of different sizes and colors
2. Scissors
3. Scotch
4. The basis for the future palm tree. Usually they take a metal rod.
5. The frame for the future palm tree is a thick wire or metal pipe.
6. Styrofoam or artificial bananas
7. Yellow paint
8. 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 side 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 section 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 to the outside - it will look like a blossoming flower.

1) In order for our banana tree to have leaves, you need to take bottles of green (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. About 3 cm should remain until the end of the bottle. We give the edges of each part a shape like 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 it 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 volumetric 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.

Cut out blanks for bananas from polystyrene and paint them with yellow paint and carefully pass a thin wire through the upper part.

1) We take the palm tree frame prepared in advance. It can be thick wire or 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. Do not forget to use details of 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 want, 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.

Related videos

For clarity, we also suggest that you watch detailed video tutorials on how to create a banana tree yourself.

What gardener doesn't want an exotic palm tree to grace his backyard?

The first stage is preparatory. In order for the design of such an original decoration item to be successful, you should have everything you need at hand for this. The main material from which the wood will be made is plastic bottles in green and brown colors. We will use the green bottles to create the leaves of the evergreen, the brown ones for the trunk. The number of plastic containers determines the size of your tree, i.e. the more bottles, the taller and more luxuriant the tree, the most luxuriant leaves you will get using a 2-liter container. Before proceeding with the craft, all bottles must be cleaned of paper stickers and labels.

As an auxiliary tool for mastery, you need to prepare:

• stationery knife
• sharp scissors
• wide tape for fixing
• metal base with rods, which in the future will play the role of a trunk
• a rope with which you will tie the bases of the leaves on the palm tree.

The next step is making the product itself.

Remember that in order for the tree to look aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, all bottles must be the same size and diameter. During production we will use two colors - brown and green, so if your green bottles are “different-sized”, then smaller containers can be attached to the base of the crown, but as for brown ones, vessels of the same size are needed here.

Making an exotic wood involves three main steps:

- creating leaves;

- barrel assembly;

- collecting all parts and shaping the tree itself.

With a sharp clerical knife, the bottle is cut into two parts, where the upper half will act as foliage, and we do not need the lower one. In the upward direction towards the neck, with scissors or a knife, the bottle is cut into small longitudinal strips, and this is done with each green bottle. Then such a kind of foliage from half bottles is strung on top of each other, connecting them with a strong bundle or rope. A cork is screwed on the last and first bottle, through which a tourniquet is threaded and tied to a knot so that the container fits snugly together. The top of the palm tree should consist of 5-6-7 leaves, therefore, depending on the number of containers available, you create your own tree, controlling the size and splendor.

After the foliage is ready in full, we move on to the trunk. We make the trunk, as we said earlier, from brown bottles of a similar diameter, cut off the lower base with a knife, and then make wide longitudinal cuts towards the neck, there should be 6 such longitudinal fragments. After a similar action has been done with each brown bottle, they are fixed to each other, like green vessels, only the plastic barrel must now be put on a metal rod in an upright position.

At the upper base of the trunk, foliage is fixed, evenly distributing it on all sides. With the help of scotch tape and a tourniquet, the leaves are attached to the trunk. Our tree is ready, all that remains is to find a place for it in your garden.

Let's move on to the installation. Ideally, it is a welded metal platform, in the absence of this, it is immersed in the ground by 40-50 cm. For the durability of your skill, it would be good to compact the tree installation site with soil or concrete.

Such an evergreen tree of the African savannah will turn your garden into a real oasis!

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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.

To you will be required:
- 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 - you can wrinkle it, you can use paper bags with at least 1 side of one color - in general, everything that fits the definition;
- Thick green colored paper (you can glue the usual colored paper 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 pebbles or small seashells;
- 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 tree 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 tree 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 from thick double-sided green paper large leaves of the most common slightly elongated and pointed shape - 8 pcs. Do not try to make them look like long rectangles with rounded corners now, like living palms - this is not necessary. When you attach the finished leaves to the palm tree, they will look just 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 smearing both the tips and the inner surface of the roll with glue. 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 out 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 fastened tips of the leaves, then wrap them tightly with a thin brown rope around the top of the trunk of the palm tree. It is also worth dropping glue under the rope everywhere.

Supplements:

- Try to put 2-3 palms of different heights and leaf sizes in one large - wide and deep - container;

- To make this project even more sustainable, glue newspaper leaves and paint them with tempera green, and then cut out the resulting palm leaves.

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 anything that you can imagine out of this versatile material. 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 detailed step-by-step instructions and photo and video lessons.

Such a tree will serve as a wonderful decoration for 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:

1. Plastic bottles of different sizes and colors
2. Scissors
3. Scotch
4. The basis for the future palm tree. Usually they take a metal rod.
5. The frame for the future palm tree is a thick wire or metal pipe.
6. Styrofoam or artificial bananas
7. Yellow paint
8. 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 side 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 section 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 to the outside - it will look like a blossoming flower.

1) In order for our banana tree to have leaves, you need to take bottles of green (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. About 3 cm should remain until the end of the bottle. We give the edges of each part a shape like 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 it 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 volumetric 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.

Cut out blanks for bananas from polystyrene and paint them with yellow paint and carefully pass a thin wire through the upper part.

1) We take the palm tree frame prepared in advance. It can be thick wire or 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. Do not forget to use details of 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 want, 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.

Related videos

For clarity, we also suggest that you watch detailed video tutorials on how to create a banana tree yourself.

The following method of forming a palm tree from plastic bottles with a step-by-step algorithm of actions is distinguished by its originality.

The work begins with the laborious process of assembling the barrel:

• You will need a third part of the plastic container, cut off from the side of the neck.
• All blanks are cut into 8 pieces, leaving a small area intact near the base.
• To make the trunk of a palm tree have a scaly surface, each segment is bent outward.
• Using the bottom of the container in the work will help reduce waste of plastic bottles. To do this, at the bottom with the help of a red-hot knife, it is necessary to make a hole of a suitable diameter. Otherwise, the process of forming blanks is identical to the algorithm described above.

Palm leaves can also be made in other shapes. The crown will be presented in the form of wide foliage resembling a fan. You can use green and yellow plastic containers for it.

Comment! The splendor of the crown directly depends on the number of leaves from the bottles, and their width depends on the size of the containers.

It is better to make the crown of a tall palm tree from a container with a volume of 5 liters; for a medium-sized plant, containers of 1.5 liters will be enough. Cutting fan leaves is easy enough:

• the bottom is removed on the plastic container;
• the bottle is cut lengthwise into 3 parts;
• each segment is rounded at the end;
• the petals are cut with a fringe on both sides, in the middle there is a narrow untouched strip about 1.5 cm wide;
• splendor is achieved by folding the fringe in different directions.

Finally, the elements strung on the cable and fittings are fastened together.

The third option

Another method involves creating a palm tree using the bottoms of plastic bottles. It should be noted that for such a copy of the container, much more is required.

Making the crown in stages:

• On each bottom, it is necessary to make a hole that corresponds in diameter to the prepared base. The work is performed with a red-hot knife or drill.
• She string blanks from green bottles on a rigid cable.
• The ends of the wire are secured with caps to keep the parts in place.

For the trunk of a palm tree, you will need a log with an appropriate diameter. The bottoms of brown bottles are stuffed with overlapping nails. The result is this wonderful palm tree:

The video tutorial will present another way to make an attractive specimen of an exotic plant to decorate the site.