Where do ideas for crafts come from?
For those who like to create something interesting with their own hands, special handicraft sites will offer a wide variety of photos of crafts made from tires.
It is not at all difficult to choose for your dacha exactly those figures that best suit your needs and fantasies. Competently following the diagrams, recommendations and instructions will allow you to create unique jewelry.
Simple crafts from old tires will allow you to create creativity, and all areas of your summer cottage will acquire their own bright individual style over time. Joy and benefit for both adults and children.
Original swing
It would seem that what a variety of crafts one can talk about with such limited material.
But craftsmen create real masterpieces from it:
It’s easy to create an original swing for kids in the shape of an airplane, a dragon, a horse, or even a motorcycle. The kids will be incredibly happy with them. All you need to do is cut out the chosen figure, leaving the rim untouched.
To make the design more comfortable, the area on the seat should not be too narrow. To make the work go faster, move the cut sections to the sides. In this case, the edge of the cut will also be more even. To make the swings more attractive, they should be decorated with bright colors.
Parents who care about the health of their children will find time to make a minion and a swing that can tear their kids away from TVs and computers. They will prefer to walk in the fresh air, play with friends, and be able to sit in front of fashionable gadgets.
Video: DIY children's tire swing
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What you need to have on hand
Crafts for the garden from unusable tires will require certain skills, attentiveness and creativity. In general, this is a simple and quite entertaining entertainment for those who are used to relaxing, making something for everyday use and having fun at the same time. Crafts made from tires for the garden will allow you to create entire compositions. What will it take?
Firstly, a certain number of car tires and paint that is resistant to external influences. It is advisable to choose bright and saturated colors, and white and black are needed for the main tone.
Secondly, comfortable, sharp knives and a paint brush (one or more).
Thirdly, perseverance and accuracy in cutting out the shapes of the figure.
Beaded woven minion
An option for girls is a beaded minion. This job is suitable for those who are diligent and, as they say, good-eyed. To create a classic minion from beads, it is better to take Czech beads No. 10. Colors: yellow, blue, white, black and a little brown. Then you need a thread of a suitable color, a crochet hook, a needle, and you can use an orange cap from a Kinder surprise as a base. A minion knitting pattern is easy to find on the Internet. You can first knit a base from knitting threads and cover them with beads, or immediately weave a minion from beads. By the way, remember, at one time keychains made of beads were popular, but a modern version could be just a keychain made of beads in the form of a minion.
be careful
Few people think about the fact that crafts made from tires can cause pollution of a pond or reservoir. The harmless and beautiful swan and the kind crocodile, without even wanting to drown, turn into an ordinary and unattractive piece of rubber.
If you do not detect the loss in a timely manner and do not get it from the bottom, then over time it will begin to rot. This certainly leads to disruption of the ecological system of the water space.
That is why the owners of the territory always need to be aware of whether all decorative crafts are in their place. If not, then take appropriate action for your own good.
Making an ottoman for indoor use
To make this simple ottoman model, you will need a few materials, their list includes:
- an old tire with a diameter of 500 mm, which must first be washed with soapy water and dried;
- plywood for cutting out the base and seat, 10 mm thick;
- cord for decorating a tire;
Tools and materials for making the simplest ottoman from one tire
- polymer glue or silicone for a special gun - the adhesive is needed to fix the cord on the surface of the product;
- scissors for cutting cord;
- a brush and paint for painting the cord when it is attached to the tire;
- self-tapping screws for fixing plywood parts to the tire;
- if you plan to paint only part of the product, then you need to prepare the electrical tape necessary to separate the area that needs to be painted;
- if you want to make the ottoman soft, you will need foam rubber and fabric to cover it.
Table No. 1. The sequence of actions when creating an ottoman from a tire.
Steps, photo | Description of actions |
Step 1 | The first step to accurately determine the diameter of the plywood parts of the structure is to measure the flat surface of the tire. This procedure must be carried out, since different tires may have different diameters of the flat surface before rounding. |
Step 2 | To determine the ideal circle of the required diameter on plywood, you will need a string ruler, a simple pencil and a ruler. Use a ruler to find the center of the circle. |
Step 3 | Then, focusing on the found radius, take a piece of cord, tie a pencil to one end of it, and its second edge is pressed tightly to the center of the circle. Holding the end of the cord in the center, use a pencil to outline the diameter of the circle. |
Step 4 | In this case, the radius of the circle is 250 mm. You will need two of these plywood circles - for the seat and for the bottom. |
Step 5 | Now all that remains is to cut out the plywood parts. This process is carried out using an electric jigsaw. It is recommended to sand the edges of the plywood circles to remove burrs. If you plan to install roller wheels on the bottom part, which need to be secured with bolts, then this must be done before installing the bottom on the tire. There may be three or four wheels. Before fixing them, it is necessary to mark their location. |
Step 6 | Next, polymer glue is applied to one side of the tire, onto which the bottom plywood part is glued. |
Step 7 | After this, the plywood circle is rigidly fixed to the tire using self-tapping screws no less than 50 mm long. Fastening is carried out in four to five places. The top one is glued and screwed in the same way. |
Step 8 | The next step is to glue the cord first to the plywood surface, then to the side parts of the tire. The cord will reliably hide the unesthetic technical appearance of the tire, giving it a cozy design. The decorative cord can be fixed with high-quality polymer glue or with molten silicone. |
Step 9 | When choosing an adhesive composition, you should take into account that polymer glue takes time to dry, and silicone melted using a special gun hardens almost immediately. Therefore, when using a polymer composition, you will have to wait some time before moving on to the next stage of work. |
Step 10 | So, starting from the center of the plywood seat, glue is applied to the surface using several turns of cord. The end of the rope must be securely fastened to the center point of the seat. Then the coils begin to spiral around this point. When the area to which the glue is applied is completely covered with the cord, the adhesive mass is applied to the next section of plywood. |
Step 11 | When the entire seat is covered with decorative material, begin to apply glue or silicone to the side of the ottoman and also stick the cord on them until it runs out. |
Step 12 | To prevent it from fraying, the end of the cord must be treated with glue and securely fixed to the surface. The beginning of the next section of rope is joined to the glued end of the previous section and pressed against the glued base. |
Step 13 | Thus, the entire product is decorated with cord to the very bottom. |
Step 14 | If you plan to attach legs or wheels to the ottoman, which are attached to the plywood not through, but with external fastening, that is, with self-tapping screws, then they can be installed after finishing decorating the product. |
Step 15 | When the glue has completely dried, you can proceed to painting the cord, if planned. To separate the part of the product that needs to be painted, use any adhesive tape - it can be electrical tape or masking tape. |
Step 16 | Painting can be done with acrylic paint, which needs to be diluted slightly so that it can be absorbed into the surface of the rope. The color of the paint is chosen according to the taste of the master. |
Step 17 | Upon completion of painting, the adhesive tape is removed. After this, you can evaluate the result of the work done. |
Step 18 | This ottoman model is intended for use in closed spaces, protected from moisture. If the product is constantly exposed to the open sky, moisture can seriously damage its decorative finish, as well as plywood parts. |
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Additionally, I would like to add information regarding two nuances:
- the ottoman will be quite heavy, so moving it around the room will require some effort. Rotating wheels for such a product are simply necessary;
- You can expand the functional qualities of such an ottoman by making the plywood seat removable, but in this case, only the tire itself will have to be covered with decorative cord, and foam rubber will need to be glued to the plywood and the seat will need to be covered with a fabric of a suitable color and quality.
The space inside the tire ottoman can be used to store various useful things
Furniture made from tires
It is useful, not bad and financially profitable to “create” furniture with your own labor. Instead of searching and buying, making to order, or bringing in a set, you can use a sufficient number of worn-out tires and get furniture that looks great in the garden.
The most affordable option is offered. Each tire must first be thoroughly washed and dried. There are special products for washing tires. Then they are painted in the bright color that the owners of the dacha like.
Acrylic paints are ideal for the side parts. To complete the feeling, tires can be covered with covers, the fabric of which is dense and has waterproof properties.
Edible egg minion - idea for Easter
You can also make a minion from eggs. There is an option - this is a dyed egg. You will need: food coloring, boiled egg, vinegar. Boil the egg and paint it as usual with food coloring: half the egg is blue, the other half is yellow. Using a brush we draw the eyes. Dip in vinegar to seal the result. Or take a raw egg, carefully make holes with a needle, and allow the egg to flow out. Then we carefully draw a minion on the fragile shell. It is also advisable to open such a craft with varnish. More photos of Easter decor.
Unusual waste bin
In any area of the site around the dacha, you can place a trash can made of tires. It looks good as a craft for the garden, not to mention its benefits for summer residents. It’s not difficult to do it in your free time.
Three worn tires are stacked on top of each other. As easy as pie. You can freshen them up with paint and even draw something fun. Both will look great among beds with vegetables and herbs. There must be a special bag inside the tank. Ready. You can use it.
Minion made from plastic bottles for the garden
From the same series of trash art you can make a minion from plastic bottles. The most basic option: take a regular plastic bottle of the size you need and paint it with paints; acrylic or gouache will do. A slightly more complicated option is to play with the convex parts of his cute yellow body. For example, cut out eyes from a plastic bottle and stick them on the bottle, and also cut out plastic handles. You can put a film from a cassette tape into the hole of the bottle - there will be something like hair. These minions can be displayed in the courtyard of your house, used to decorate a flower bed, or make a kind of fence in your country house.
More ideas for garden crafts made from plastic bottles. And here’s another way - you no longer need to cut off the top of the bottle, let it remain the “cap” of your country figurine:
Glass bottle minions
One of the options for this craft is a minion made from glass rather than plastic bottles. In this case, you can not only paint it yellow and blue, but also use beads or any other small free-flowing objects to fill the transparent glass bottle from the inside. By the way, you can take pieces of multi-colored paper to fill. If you use cereals, they will be perfect for kitchen decor:
Pond at the dacha
An artificial pond for a summer cottage is the dream of most owners. You can save a lot of money by creating a small pond using ordinary tires.
A hole is dug into which tires are placed, covered with a very strong film of sufficient density. A hose is lowered into the middle - a source of water supply.
It is better to disguise the top of the tire rims with pebbles of different sizes. Pebbles are perfect. Plants that “adore” moisture are planted next to the resulting reservoir. Use your imagination to decorate your pond and put it into practice. Finally, the pond is filled with water.
Minion pillow - simple and bright
A decorative minion pillow would be a cool and useful gift. The simplest option is to buy a small pillow with a white base, take fabric paints and simply decorate the pillow as a yellow man. You can sew a pillow yourself, take a yellow pillowcase as a basis, fill it with a special filler, and then do as your imagination pleases. Play with the shape of the pillow, its design and quality. There will probably be a minion applique in the store; it can also be used as a basis for creating a decorative pillow.
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Children's zone
Who will be most pleased with a cheerful children's playground with animals, birds, cars, swings and much more? Of course everyone. Children play, parents quietly go about their business or join them.
Anyone who has already gained enough experience can build swans, palm trees and a lot of everything bright, comfortable and colorful.
Steps equipped with tires
The side parts of car tires with a relief pattern are perfect for arranging slippery steps of stairs.
Metal steps covered with embossed rubber
First you should measure the width and depth of the surface of the step. Based on this value, the tire size is selected. If large tires cannot be found, then the rubber can only be attached to the edge of the step.
The rims are cut off the tires so that a side part with a relief remains. After this, it is cut and straightened into one line.
You can place something heavy on top of the rubber strip to straighten it, or you can immediately glue it onto the molten silicone to the step. In this case, there is no need to skimp on the adhesive; it is especially important to properly secure the front edge of the rubber pad.
Additionally, the rubber to the steps should be secured with self-tapping screws onto which a washer is placed.
So, in addition to the products mentioned above, you can make a lot more from tires - these can be flower arrangements, various animals, insects and even mollusks. Painted in bright colors, such crafts will delight the eye not only in summer, but also in black and white winter.
Beasts from tires
A bright tiger with black stripes on an orange background is an excellent craft for a children's garden. It is not difficult to install the tires in such a way that a strange beast appears.
You will need desire, free time and a small amount of spray paint. The first tire is installed horizontally. This is the installation location for the remaining parts of the sculptural improvisation. The second tire is cut in half. Using a knife, the cut points are processed. You get two paws. The third tire is turned out and the torso is threaded through.
The structure is screwed on with self-tapping screws. A relief muzzle is cut out of the remaining rubber. The eyes are replaced with bolts or glass. The entire structure is painted. The ears are inserted into the slots on the top of the head after dyeing.
Balloon minion
Perhaps one of the simplest craft options is to make a minion out of balloons. Yes, yes, from ordinary balloons. You can, for example, take a yellow balloon, inflate it to medium size and simply decorate it while looking at the portrait of the minion. It’s enough to even stick an eye on the yellow ball and it will be clear who you wanted to portray. A slightly more complicated option is a minion made up of several groups of balloons. You will need four black balls for shoes, 7-8 blue balls for pants, 10-12 balls for the yellow body and several long narrow balls for arms and eyes. All that remains is to connect the balls correctly and your favorite character is ready. This air minion will look original at a children's party or in a children's room.
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Bear and hare
These animals are made according to the same pattern. They turn out funny and touching. To make them, in addition to the above materials, you will need two pieces of plywood and leftover rubber.
The process of making these animals is very simple:
- We take two tires. It is desirable that one is slightly smaller in diameter than the other. connect them together using screws . The result was the body and head of the future craft.
- We cut out circles from plywood and use a stapler to close the inner holes in the tires.
- We cut out the hands and ears from pieces of rubber . The bear's ears are small in the shape of a semicircle, while the hare's are long with rounded tips.
- The most interesting stage is coloring . We select paint to match the real color of the animals: brown for the bear, and gray for the hare. We paint all parts of the resulting figure completely, including parts made of plywood and rubber. Be sure to draw the animal’s face on the top circle, and on the bottom circle you can depict clothes or simply use a lighter color to indicate the belly. To ensure that all parts are painted evenly, without gaps or gaps, we recommend painting them before the process of assembling the animal begins.
- To breathe more life into the resulting figure, you can accessorize it. For example, give a bear a barrel with the inscription “Honey” in its paw , and a styrofoam carrot for .
- To ensure the stability of the resulting bear or hare, we recommend placing it on one more tire or two tires. By the way, they can act as flower beds.