You can decorate your summer cottage with a bird of paradise (peacock) made from plastic bottles. This miracle bird will take its rightful place on your site. It’s not very difficult to make it, at no cost, the main thing is your desire.

I offer a master class on making a firebird.

You will need: a 10 liter canister for the body, strong wire and plastic tubes for the legs, a welded metal mesh 45 by 150 cm, thick foam for the head, plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes.

I cut off a strip of the canister and, moving it back, secure it with self-tapping screws.
I bend the wire for the frame, put on the tubes and place it on the stand.
I attach the canister to the base with wire, pulling it through the punctures with an awl to the legs
I cut bottles.

I cut out the feathers for the tail from green bottles. To do this, I bend the middle part lengthwise, round it and cut it into a fringe. Usually one large feather or two small ones come out of one bottle. For a beautiful tail you will need at least 60 pieces.

I screw the finished colored feathers from the bottom in a semicircle, each next row overlaps the previous one by half.

A few feathers from light green bottles will revive the bird

Bird crafts have always been very popular among lovers of home crafts. Figures of feathered creatures are especially relevant on Bird Day, which is celebrated in the spring on April 1 in kindergartens and schools. The holiday is dedicated to the return of migratory birds and marks the onset of spring and the renewal of awakened nature. On this day, children of all ages make bird crafts, and older schoolchildren make birdhouses and hang them on trees.

Bird crafts can be made from a wide variety of materials: cotton pads, colored paper, plastic bottles, salt dough, natural and any available materials. There are many options for creating birds - from simple ones for small children to complex ones that schoolchildren can easily master with the help of adults.

We bring to your attention several lessons on creating birds with your own hands with step-by-step instructions, diagrams and tips. We hope that they will help you learn all the intricacies of this fascinating process and be filled with new bright ideas.

Peacock for a summer cottage made of plastic bottles - master class

We will need: plastic bottles of various colors, polystyrene foam, a wooden block as a stand, a metal rod, foil and thin colored plastic, a glue gun.

Step one: Cut out the peacock's body and head from foam plastic, not forgetting to make small indentations in place of the eyes. We attach it to a wooden block using a metal rod, which plays the role of legs.

Step two. We make enough peacock feathers from plastic bottles of different colors. We will need three types of feathers: long for the tail, short for the neck and a little longer for the body. To do this, cut off the bottom and neck of the bottle and cut it lengthwise into 3 parts.

We round one end of each strip with scissors and cut its edges into thin strips so that it looks like a bird's feather. We decorate the rounded end of the feathers intended for the tail with two or three multi-colored ovals made of foil and plastic. You can attach them using a stapler.

Step three. We cut out a beak from a red plastic bottle and fasten it in place. Next, using a glue gun, we gradually glue the feathers onto the body of the bird, starting from the tail and ending with the neck. Attach the feathers slightly overlapping, as shown in the photo. Do not forget that medium-length feathers are intended for the body, and meek ones for the neck.

Step four. We cut out a tuft of any shape that our imagination dictates from colored plastic and glue it onto the head. Using acrylic paints, draw the peacock's eyes. You can glue eyelashes cut from a transparent plastic bottle to them.

Step five. Let's start making the tail using an abrasive mesh. We make holes at the base of the feathers and attach them to the mesh using thin wire.

We start making the tail from the end, gradually layering feathers on top of each other in rows until the bird’s luxurious long tail is completely formed. After that, we attach it to the body and place the peacock, made with our own hands from plastic bottles, in an area among flowers and greenery.

DIY firebird made from salt dough - master class

For Bird Day, you and your children can make a three-dimensional firebird from salt dough. The work will take little time, require very few materials and will provide the children with a fun and festive mood.

We will need: salt dough, gouache or watercolor paints, colorless varnish.

Step one. Making salt dough. To do this, mix a glass of flour with a glass of salt and knead the dough by pouring 100 ml of brewed starch into it. We prepare it as follows: dilute a tablespoon of starch in 100 ml of cold water and pour a glass of boiling water into this mixture.

Step two. Divide the salt dough into 5 pieces and paint them in different colors. To do this, add gouache or watercolor paints to each piece and lightly knead it again. Next, we draw a sketch of the firebird and sculpt the bird’s details on it: wings and body. Dry them in the oven at low temperature.

Step three. We make the tail of a fairytale bird. We draw stencils of feathers and use them to sculpt them from pink and blue salt dough. Dry the feathers in the oven. Next, we paint all the parts of the bird with paints, cover them with colorless varnish, and connect them. We decorate a colorful festive panel with crafts. The salt dough firebird is ready!

Birds made from cotton pads - master class

Another very cute craft that is perfect for decorating a kindergarten on the wonderful holiday Bird Day. It's easy, fun and very fast. Young children can be introduced to making birds from cotton pads.

For creativity we will need: cotton pads, wooden skewers, colored paper, narrow colored ribbons, plastic eyes, glue and scissors.

Operating procedure:

1. To create one bird we take 5 cotton pads. We cut one disk into two halves, and leave four whole.
2. We fix two pairs of cotton pads on a skewer with glue so that it is inside. One pair of disks plays the role of the bird's head, and the other - the body.
3. We glue the halves of the cut cotton pad to the body on both sides - these will be our wings.
4. Glue the eyes and beak, cut out from a piece of colored paper, to the head and decorate the bird with a ribbon. A cute chick made from cotton pads for Bird Day is ready!

Owl made of colored paper - master class

You can make cute owls for celebrating Bird Day at school with your own hands from colored paper. We will need the colored paper itself, scissors, double-sided tape and glue.

Operating procedure:

1. We make a cylinder from a sheet of colored paper, glue its edges on one side, as shown in the photo, and press down the middle so that we get ears.
2. Cut out a heart from paper and glue it to the bottom of the cylinder - these are the owl's feet.
3. We cut circles of equal size and glue them onto the central part of the cylinder as feathers. In order for the circles to give volume to the craft, it is better to stick them with double-sided tape.
4. We cut out a triangle of the same color as the legs and glue it to the top of the plumage - this is the beak.
5. Lastly, glue on the eyes by cutting out circles for them from black and white paper. Your handmade owl is ready!

DIY bird of paradise made of polymer clay - master class

These adorable birds of paradise are made from air-hardening polymer clay. This modern material is also familiar to us under the names “self-hardening plasticine”, “modeling mass” and “velvet plastic”. To make charming feathered creatures, we will need aluminum wire with a diameter of 1 mm, polymer clay, foil, scissors, pliers, a stack, a glass for rolling out clay, a little patience and diligence.

Operating procedure:

1. We create three birds at once - while we are sculpting one, the rest are drying out. We cut the wire twice as long as the planned tail. We wrap half the wire with foil, crumpling it and forming the body of the bird.
2. We make legs from wire, as shown in the photo, and insert them into the body. We take a piece of clay, shape it into a sausage shape, then roll it out and flatten it. Carefully remove the wire from the bird, place it inside the clay sausage, rolling it up using a glass. We insert the finished colored tail back into the body. In the same way we prepare the remaining two birds.
3. We take a piece of blue, yellow and red clay, roll them out and gradually, smearing them with our fingers, stick them around the birds until the entire foil is covered. We will get three blanks of bright birds.
4. Starting from the center, we stick around the paws. Then we take a piece of clay of the appropriate color and make the cheeks, crown and beak. We sculpt eyes from balls of black clay, not forgetting to squeeze out the upper and lower eyelids around them.
5. Create a tail and crest. To do this, we cut off several wires of the length we need and roll them into clay. When it dries, we round off the ends using pliers and insert the tail parts into the bird’s body. We make shorter feathers from thin clay sausages by twisting the ends.
6. We create the plumage effect by placing pieces of clay rolled out in the form of droplets on the body and working with a needle in the direction of feather growth. Using a needle, we create featheriness throughout the bird’s body. To make the eyes shine, you can coat them with varnish. A wonderful hand-made bird of paradise is ready!

More ideas and patterns for bird crafts made from various materials

For needlewomen familiar with the isothread technique, it will not be difficult to create paintings with beautiful white swans with their own hands and decorate with them a holiday dedicated to Bird Day. For creativity, it is better to use floss or iris. On the wrong side of the cardboard we draw a swan and draw waves. We divide the drawing into details, drawing figures of different sizes, and embroider using the isothread technique.

Woolen threads make a very charming feathered creature. You can easily create it with your own hands according to a simple and understandable scheme.

And according to this scheme, by introducing children to creativity, you can make a bird of happiness from a beautiful bright fabric.

Even small children can create such a colorful bird from circles of colored paper.

You can even make a charming bird from a strip of colored paper and a clothespin.

A bird you made yourself for Bird Day can be placed in a nest made from paper plates.

Simple clothespins in the hands of a craftswoman can turn into an extraordinary fairy-tale bird.

And finally, ideas for bird crafts made from natural and improvised materials: cedar or pine cones, painted feathers, cardboard and plasticine.

You can make an incredible number of different crafts.

In this collection of master classes you can learn how to make various birds from plastic bottles.

Here you will find simple ways to make beautiful birds that you can use to decorate your home, cottage and/or garden.

You can involve children in the process of creating birds from plastic bottles - they will definitely enjoy doing something new and interesting, and you will be glad that you took them away from the computer, tablet or phone.

DIY chicken from plastic bottles

There are several ways to create a chicken from a plastic bottle. It all depends on the size of the bottle itself and its shape.

If you turn on your imagination and involve children in this creative work, then there are a lot of options.

Here, for example, is chicken, the base of which requires a 5-6 liter bottle.

1. Paint the bottle yellow (on the inside). You can use regular paint.

2. You can cut out a beak and a comb from other bottles.

3. Use a knife to make holes in the bottle and insert everything you did.

4. Take toy plastic eyes or just plasticine and make eyes. You can also color the chicken's eyes.

How to make chicken from plastic bottles

To make this chicken you will need:

Plastic bottle

Scissors.

DIY peacock made from plastic bottles

You will need:

Scissors;

Plastic bottles;

Synthetic foam;

Glue gun;

Wooden post;

Abrasive mesh;

Metal rod.

At the end of the text instructions you will find video instructions.

1. We make blanks for feathers.

First you need to make a blank from cardboard;

The feathers should be made semicircular, solid, with cuts of different lengths.

2. We make blanks for the tail. They should be long.

Cut the bottle lengthwise and cut out a strip of the width you need.

* It is advisable to sort feathers by size. Prepare bags and place feathers of the same size in each bag.

* If at the end of creating a peacock there are not enough feathers, just finish it some more.

3. Create a peacock model.

Prepare synthetic foam and cut out several necessary parts from it (torso, neck and head);

Use a glue gun to connect all these parts;

Take a wooden post and insert a metal rod into it;

Secure your bird's body to a metal rod;

Cut a circle from a new plastic bottle (in this case it is a red bottle);

In this circle, make one cut going from the edge to the center, then twist the part into a cone - you will get a peacock’s beak;

Use a glue gun to secure the beak to the foam.

4. Glue the feathers.

It is worth starting at the bottom, where the longest feathers are glued, and the higher you go, the shorter the feathers.

* Glue the feathers overlapping.

* After the breast, go to the back.

5. To make a crest, cut strips from plastic bottles onto which feathers are glued.

6. To create eyes, you can use plastic bottles of a different color, as well as plasticine, paint or toy plastic eyes.

7. To make the wings, use an abrasive mesh. Feathers are glued onto the wings cut from it. The tail is made in the same way.

8. Attach all the remaining parts and you're done!

Video instruction

DIY bird made from plastic bottles: swan

This swan will not only decorate your garden, but will also become a beautiful flower bed for one or more flowers.

You will need:

Plastic bottle with a volume of 5 l;

300 ml milk bottles;

Wire;

Scissors;

Black marker;

Lighter;

1. Making the torso.

Take a 5-liter bottle and draw lines on it with a marker as shown in the image;

Cut holes along the lines

Insert a wire into the hose, and insert the hose itself into the bottle through the neck - you will get a neck frame

2. Making the plumage.

Take a white bottle (milk) and cut off the bottom and neck;

Now cut feathers of any shape and size from this bottle;

Small cuts can be made on the edges of the feathers;

Each feather should be carefully treated with a lighter (from the outside);

Now start stringing two feathers onto the wire.

3. Putting everything together.

For the neck, white bottles with the bottom cut off are used (in this example there were 16 of them);

For the head, use the top of a large bottle with the neck cut off;

At the place where the hose ends and the beak begins, make two holes on opposite sides (in the plastic bottle and in the hose), then use wire to secure the entire structure;

Make a beak from a plastic bottle painted with red paint or use a bottle of a matching color;

Start attaching the feathers from top to bottom and in a circle.

How to make a dove with your own hands from plastic bottles

You will need:

Plastic bottles;

Styrofoam;

Scissors;

Wire;

Toy plastic eyes or plasticine.

1. Cut off the neck of the plastic bottle (see image). This blank will serve as the body of the dove. Make the breast.

2. Make cuts on the bottle as shown in the image. Press the cut part inward to form the body of the dove, then tighten the workpiece with wire.

3. Cut out the head of a dove from foam plastic.

4. To make feathers, you should cut the middle part of a plastic bottle. The strips should be of different lengths, and their ends should be rounded.

5. Make 2 holes at the base of each feather.

6. Using wire, screw the feathers to the mesh.

7. Attach the pigeon’s tail to the pigeon’s body.

8. All that remains is to color the dove’s head and make the eyes (glue plastic ones, draw with a marker or use plasticine).

DIY children's crafts from plastic bottles: rooster

You will need:

Plastic bottles

Plastic plates

Plastic glasses

Plastic spoons.

1. Cut off the top of the plastic bottles and secure them with tape as shown in the image.

2. Cut the plastic cups into fringes and place them on the bottle one by one.

*You can use cups of different colors and alternate them.

3. The rooster's tail can be made from plastic plates. After this, attach the tail to the plate.

4. Wings can be made from leftover plastic plates.

5. You can make a rooster's head from a plastic ball. It is attached to a cut cup glued to the bottom of the previous cup.

6. You can cut out a beak and scallop from colored paper. They are attached with tape or hot glue. Eyes can also be made from colored paper, plasticine, or use toy plastic eyes.

1. Weld a frame of rods; if you make a smaller bird, you can tightly twist the rods with wire.

2. The body is made from a 10 liter canister, I cut out a strip on the top part and move it back - I attach it with self-tapping screws. I cut out feathers from 2 liter bottles and close the resulting hole.

3. I put “fingers” cut off from pipes and nails from bottles onto the wire.

4. The leg itself is a hose from a vacuum cleaner. I fasten it with self-tapping screws.

5. This is what the leg looks like.

6. I attach a bag from a bottle to the top of my leg, forming a thickening. I then attach long feathers to it, creating the necessary shaggy legs.

7. This is what it looks like up close.

8. For the head, I glue together two pieces of construction foam with Titan glue.

9. I remove excess with a hacksaw.

10. I highlight the beak.

11. Shaping.

12 Using sandpaper I sand until smooth, deepening the eye sockets.

13. I insert eyes - (For soft toys.)

14. I strengthen the beak with a part from a bottle, and glue the eyelids to the eye.

15. I make the neck from a 5 liter bottle.

16. Neck front view.

17. I fasten the feathers to the neck with wires through punctures with an awl. I glue it to my head with Titan glue. In the recesses of the head I additionally tighten it with self-tapping screws.

18. I cut flight feathers from 3-liter bottles. The width of the feather is 6-7 cm. I attach it to a metal mesh using wire through punctures with an awl.

19. The second and subsequent rows are feathers from 2 liter bottles. 8 pcs. from one bottle.

20. Another row of feathers.

21. Finished wing from above.

22. I turn the wing over to attach the feathers from below.

23. At the bottom of the wing, the feathers should be straight; for this I use only the middle of the bottles (without roundings.)

24. This is what the lower part of the wing looks like.

25. I attach the wings to the base,

I will then close the connection with feathers,

attached to the front side and bent to the lower part of the wing.

Alena we wish you good luck and creative success. Don't forget to share your new works with us.

Crane

1. For the head I use construction foam 10 cm thick. I use a hacksaw to saw off the required piece (about 30 cm on the long side).

2. I cut off unnecessary parts.

3. I round all the edges.

4. I divide the head into approximately three parts, where the lower two-thirds of the cheeks are.

5. I round out all the details, highlight the beak, cutting it off quite thinly. I cut out holes for the eyes.

6. I enlarge the eye sockets, narrowing the head towards the beak.

7. I sand the head with sandpaper, highlighting the details. I cut out the eyelids from thin foam plastic. The eyes are from a soft toy.

8. Everything is the same, but from the front.

9. I glue a strip from a bottle onto the beak until the glue dries, securing it with electrical tape.

10. Everything is the same, but from the front.

11. This is how I pierce and connect the feathers.

12. From the middle of a large bottle, cut out flight feathers (5 cm wide), 9-10 per wing.

13. A couple more rows of cover feathers.

14. We also cut the secondary flight feathers from a bottle, but shorter, screw them in a semicircle, slightly covering the first ones (the wing is slightly folded).

15. Wing.

16. For the tail, I cut the 30L bottle crosswise into strips of 5-7 cm and connect them with a fan.

17. I slightly lift the edge of the mesh from behind and screw on the tail. The next row is again made of 1.5 liter bottles.

18. Side view.

19. I cover my back with feathers from 0.5 liter bottles.

20. I will cover the bottom of the wings with feathers cut from the middle part of the bottles (they should not bend).

21. You will get two rows, the joints will be closed with feathers bent on the front side.

22. Finished wing.

23. Wings, bottom view.

24. I make the body. In this case, the frame is welded, but you can twist all the parts with wire.

25. On the neck is a hose from a vacuum cleaner, and on the body is a canister of machine oil.

26. I put plastic tubes on my legs and cut out paws from a 0.5 liter bottle.

27. I screw the hose to the head with a long self-tapping screw (lubricate it with glue).

28. I cut off the handle from the canister, remove the part on top (needed for work), and thicken the legs (“legs”) from the tops of 2 liter bottles.

29. Feathers for the body are also from 2 liter bottles. One will make six pieces. You need both short and long ones.

30. I cover my torso completely.

31. At the bottom of the neck there is a fringe made from halves of 2l bottles, covering the connection of the feathers.

32. It remains to connect the parts.

33. I painted this crane with aerosol paints, I was pleased with the result.

Stork

To make storks we will need:

1. Two 5 l canisters
2. Metal mesh for wings
3. Strong wire
4. Plastic tubes for legs and neck
5. Foam for the head
6. White milk bottles
7. Dark beer 1.5 l
8. Hose from a vacuum cleaner (can be replaced with corrugated material)

1. For the head I use construction foam 10 cm wide
2. I cut out the blank, highlight the eye sockets, and make a flat beak.
3. I sand it smooth with sandpaper, insert eyes (or beads)
4. I glue the eyelids, strengthen the beak with a part from a plastic bottle, gluing it onto the “Titan”. I make the second stork’s beak open.
5. For the body I take a 5 liter canister.
6. I cut off the handle.
7. I bend the mesh to the shape of a canister - this STORK will have folded wings.
8. I round off the “wings”.
9. I bend the wire for the legs.
10. A liter milk bottle is cut into 6 feathers.
11. I cut feathers.
12. I begin to screw the feathers from the lower part of the body.
13. I strengthen the wire for the neck and put a hose on it.
14. I screw a number of feathers to the hose with self-tapping screws.
15. Side view.
16. I cut the halves of milk bottles into fringes and secure them around the neck with tape.
17. I start with the flight feathers at the edge of the wing.
18. The second row overlaps the first by one third.
19. The third and subsequent rows of white bottles.
20. Paws from 0.5 liter bottles.
21. Making the body for the second stork.
22. Like the first one, I cut off part of the canister from the top - it is needed for screwing on the feathers.
23. I cover the body with feathers, but, unlike the first one, I screw the feathers onto the entire canister.
24. This stork’s wings are slightly open. The first row of feathers is from 1.5 liter bottles (6 pieces from one)
25. I screw the second row only to round the wing.
26. Third - for the entire wing.
27. I make the tail - it is short, the feathers are slightly apart.
28. I turn the wings over to screw the feathers onto the underside.
29. I make the last row, covering the edge of the wing, from feathers bent in half, rounded on both sides.
30. This is approximately what it looks like.
31. Each of the subsequent feathers covers the junction of the previous one.
32. We screw the wings with self-tapping screws and paint the birds.

To make such a handsome peacockAlena Zinovieva (Lipetsk, Russia)it only took 10 days! Alena describes in detail what materials will be needed and the manufacturing process itself.

Master class by Alena Zinovieva "How to make a peacock from plastic bottles".

Photo 1. For the PEACOCK you will need: polystyrene foam for the head, welded metal mesh, strong wire and plastic tubes for the legs, two 5 liter bottles (preferably round), brown and green plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes (more details below), a bottle of - with draft beer.

Photo 2. Bend the wire so that the back of the bird lies on the bend (top of the canister).

Photo 3. The canister is cut from the top and back, the cut strip is slightly shifted and secured with self-tapping screws or wire, forming the body.

Photo 4. By connecting the legs and body, we give the necessary position to the future bird. We fix the legs on the canister in several places with strong wire.

Photo 5. A dark 2 liter bottle is cut into 8 long feathers, and from the bottom - another 6 short feathers. In total you will need about 60 bottles.

Photo 6. We begin to screw the feathers row by row. For the tops of the legs, cut off the smooth part of the milk bottles, roll them into a ball and screw them to the body.

Photo 7. We cover the chest, belly, and a little side with feathers.

Photo 8. Front view

Photo 9. We bend the mesh to the shape of a canister, using wire cutters we make wings and a tail (narrow near the body, gradually widening towards the bottom).

Photo 10. Tail length as desired.

Photo 11. Cut out the middle part of the bottle, cut it into feathers 5-7 cm wide, 7 pieces each. on each wing.

Photo 12. We screw it to the mesh, shifting each next feather relative to the previous one, trimming as necessary.

Photo 13. The second row of the wing is made from 1.5 liter dark bottles, which are cut into 6 feathers. You need 3-4 bottles.

Photo 14. We also arrange the feathers in a semicircle.

Photo 15. All subsequent rows of the wing are laid out with feathers from 0.5 liter bottles (4 feathers from 1 bottle). About 30 bottles will be required.

Photo 16. We place the feathers close to each other.

Photo 17. Finished wing.

Photo 18. Head made of foam plastic, eyes from an old soft toy or bead.

Photo 19. The shape and position of the head depends only on your desire and imagination.

Photo 20. Tuft from a bottle strip.

Photo 21. Fill the hole in the head with glue and insert feathers.

Photo 22. The beak needs to be strengthened. Cut a triangle out of the bottle, bend it in the center and glue it onto the beak. Self-tapping screws until the glue dries.

Photo 23. A neck made from two 5L bottles. We roll them up into little balls and connect them together.

Photo 24. Screw the feathers in a circle.

Photo 25. We cut out the paws from a 0.5 liter bottle (for example, from an energy drink)