A cute pink piglet made from a plastic bottle will decorate your garden or yard, and will take your time on New Year's Eve 2019. place of honor on a brightly decorated Christmas tree.

And since making a pig from a plastic bottle is not difficult even for a child, you can take part in the traditional winter competition of New Year’s tree decorations with it.

By using your imagination, you can turn your piglet into a fashionable pig or an elegant, stylish boar. Everything will depend on what details will be used to create the image.

So, how to make a pig from a plastic bottle?

First, you need to arm yourself with:

• scissors
• brush
• black marker
• white and pink acrylic paint (you can take a spray bottle)
• white and pink cardboard

Cover the entire surface of the bottle with pink paint.

We leave the bottle to dry, in the meantime we draw ears with a long base on the cardboard, which will help us attach them to the bottle base.

Carefully cut out the ears.

And we insert them into narrow slots in the bottle. The easiest way to make such slits is with a sharp stationery knife or even a regular table knife.

Cut out cute oval eyes from white cardboard or foamiran and draw pupils on them with a black marker.

Glue the eyes to the bottle. We glue two black circles onto the cork - we get a patch.

Now we cut out four rectangles from pink cardboard, twist them into tubes, and fix them with a stapler.

We get four legs for the pig.

One caveat: for a pig that will live in the garden, it is better to make its paws not from cardboard, but from bottle caps. The same applies to the ears and eyes - it is better to cut them out of bottle plastic, and cover the finished figurine with decorative varnish to protect the paint from moisture. You can use special paints intended for exterior finishing work.

Ready! The pig was made by hand! If you plan to use it in the future, you can immediately attach a loop of wire or strong thread to the back. If the pig will decorate the house or garden, you can leave it in this form.

You can make a pig out of a bottle using a slightly different technique. In this embodiment, the plastic bottle is not painted, but is wrapped in pink paper.

Plastic bottles are an invention of civilization. The invention is convenient, but at the same time, these bottles accumulate a lot and quickly. Craftsmen have learned to make various interesting, useful and beautiful things from them. For example, five- and six-liter bottles have won primacy as a material for garden decor. They create real masterpieces from them, they even build gazebos and utility rooms, as well as various animals that will decorate any area. This master class will tell you how to turn an unnecessary six-liter bottle into a cute pig.

In addition, our pig will not only be a decoration, but also a mini-flower bed or flower pot.

To make a pig you will need:

- five or six liter plastic bottle;
- liter, one and a half or two liter plastic bottle;
— 4 plastic boxes or half-liter plastic bottles;
- paint for street work;
- black marker;
- scissors;
- paper knife;
- “Moment” glue or any similar one.

So let's get started.
1. Take a six-liter bottle, remove the stickers and holder from it.

Now let's cut it out. Plastic cuts well with scissors, but first make a cut with a paper knife - this will simplify the work. Here the preparation for the pig is ready.

2. The next stage is to cut out additional parts. On the body of a two-liter bottle we draw an ear, then mark a centimeter somewhere to secure it.

Let's cut it out. Then we trace the finished ear on the bottle with a marker so that the second one turns out the same. Let's cut that out too.

The ears are ready. Cut out a strip - this will be the tail. To make it look twisted, we roll it into a ring and secure it with an elastic band, and leave it for a while.

3. You can paint the ears, tail and snout separately, or on the product itself. Based on experience, it is better to paint small parts separately, but the legs - on the product. If your pig will “live” on the street, then it is better to use paint for street work. I used the enamel that was used to paint the swings on the playground. Small parts painted. We leave them to dry.

4. In principle, you don’t have to make legs for the pig, but put it on wooden supports in the flowerbed. If you decide to attach the pig’s hooves, then first mark the place where they will be located.

In this case, instead of legs, I used unnecessary jars of gouache paints. We glue them with Moment glue, press them down, and leave them to dry.

The legs can also be made from half-liter necks plastic bottles, simply cutting them off with a margin, and about a centimeter - cut into fringe so that it sticks better. Tall plastic lids, like those from fabric softener or liquid laundry detergent, are also suitable.

5. When the legs are glued, put the pig on them and mark the places where the ears will be. To do this, place the ear vertically and draw a cut line.

We cut it carefully and insert the ear into the slot. The plastic will hold the workpiece tightly, so no additional fixation is required.

In the same way we attach the tail to the back of the pig.

6. One of the most important stages is painting. If you have a can or spray paint, use it. If not, the plastic can be painted well with a regular brush. It’s better to paint the bottom and legs first, and then top part. It is very convenient to hold the pig by the nose, so it is better not to screw the snout in ahead of time. Now the pink pig is ready to go dry.

7. When our pig has dried, it’s time to start decorating. We screw the “patch” on, and then draw nostrils on it with a marker. You can also draw eyes, or you can glue ready-made ones, which are sold in any craft store. We finish drawing the eyelashes and mouth - our pig is ready.

Of course, at this stage you don’t have to stop the decor, but for example, attach a funny bow to the pig, draw rosy cheeks on it, and spots or flowers on its sides. Here you can give free rein to your imagination.

7. Now let's transform funny toy into a functional piece of garden decor. We pierce several holes in the bottom. It is very convenient to do this with a screwdriver or other hot metal object heated over a fire. Now we pour drainage on the bottom, earth on top - and plant the plants. The piggy flowerbed is ready.

The final look of the craft. Photo 1.

The final look of the craft. Photo 2.

The final look of the craft. Photo 3.

For now she will live on the balcony, and over time she will move to permanent residence in the country.

We hope that the master class will help you easily get such a cute resident on your property.

Most necessary set materials:

• 5 liter bottle;
• 4 bottles of 0.5 liters;
• 1 bottle of 1.5 liters;
• scissors and knife;
• a can of pink paint;
• wire;
• brush;
• two black buttons or beads;
• a sheet of paper and a pencil;
• glue;
• black marker.

This is the most minimum set to create a simple piglet.

Most materials are easily replaced with others suitable in size or purpose.

If you don't have 4 0.5 liter bottles for your feet, you can replace them with yogurt cups or straws.

If you have a can of pink paint, you don't have to buy a can of paint; you can paint the figure directly from the can.

A piece of wire can easily be replaced with a thin ribbon cut from a bottle.

If there are no buttons, you can draw eyes with a black marker, etc.

Find out how to make flower beds from plastic bottles yourself.

You need to do the following:

1. Take a large bottle (5 liters) and cut a large hole in one of the side parts in the form of an oval, circle or rectangle of your choice.
2. Next, do everything the same as was described for a simple pig from a plastic bottle.
3. As soon as the craft is ready, pour layers of expanded clay and soil inside, and you can safely plant the flower.

Since assembling a piglet does not take much time, you can create a whole family of pigs that will decorate the garden.

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The symbol of the coming 2019 is a yellow pig. In this article we will look at several simple step-by-step master classes on how to make a piglet with your own hands.

We will show in detail how you can independently make from materials that can easily be found in every home, such DIY crafts for the year of the pig as a piggy bank, we will make piglets from dough, we will make simple crafts for kindergarten, we will learn how to sew a pig from children's tights and socks, make a ball pig from threads, make a coffee toy, and also learn how to sew a tilde pig from fabric. And at the end of the article you will find a video bonus: making a pig from pompoms as a gift for New Year. So, if you're ready, let's get started!

Papier-mâché: piggy bank

First of all, you need to inflate the balloon. Then we apply prepared scraps of newspaper soaked in PVA glue and water onto the inflated ball in several layers - so that our piggy bank is not soft, but strong enough, and let it dry.

In a plastic bucket we will prepare the papier-mâché mixture: tear toilet paper or napkins into small pieces and add PVA glue. Mix everything properly! We coat the future pig with the resulting “chewed paper”.

When the papier-mâché frame dries well, the ball must be carefully burst and pulled out. Now we need to close the hole through which we pulled the ball out: to do this, we will seal it crosswise masking tape and apply papier-mâché, leaving a small rectangular hole - this will be a slot where money is thrown.

We divide the foil reel into four equal parts - it will serve as legs for our pig. Glue the legs to the pig with masking tape. Then we apply papier-mâché. The inside of the legs must be filled with something heavy - this will make our pig more stable. Sand or some small sand will do metal object– for example, a nut or screws.

We make a snout for the pig from foil, under it we need to form a mouth (upper and lower lip).

Now we need to sculpt eyes and ears for our pig - they can be made either from the remains of papier-mâché or sculpted from clay.

The flexible wire will serve as a tail for the pig: twist it, covering the tail with the remains of papier-mâché. After our pig has completely dried, it must be properly treated several times with acrylic putty and then wiped with a cloth dampened in water - this will level the barrel of the pig.

Our piggy is ready for painting!

First you need to apply dark paint, you can use several different shades. Then red paint is applied to the craft with a sponge.

Then - pink, and as the final stage - pink and white paints are applied. Last step– apply to protruding surfaces white paint. Our piggy bank is ready!

We offer you another piggy bank option, step by step execution which you can watch in the video:

Pig pendants made from salt dough

Simple DIY crafts for kindergarten

Paper craft

The body of our pig should be voluminous; For this we will need colored paper - pink or red. We cut out an even rectangle from paper, connect the edges with glue or a stapler so that we get the base body for our craft - a tall and wide tube.

Next, we make the base for the pig’s muzzle: we take paper of two different colors, from one we cut out a larger circle - the head of our piglet, and two small triangles-ears, from the second - a smaller oval-patch. You can take pre-prepared plastic eyes for the pig, or you can cut them out yourself from other colored paper.

Now we need to connect all the parts we cut out: bend them and glue the ears and snout to the head in sequence. On the patch we will add nostrils and a smiling mouth underneath. We draw eyelashes on the eyes.

Now you need to cut out the remaining details from multi-colored paper - for the pig’s belly we’ll take a silver color, and red for the front legs and tail. We glue the prepared parts: we glue the long legs on the sides of the pig's body, the tail - to the back of the craft, the tummy - in the front.

We tie a thin ribbon around the pig's neck and tie a smart bow. Our pig is ready!

The finished paper pig craft can be presented as a New Year's present, and it will also look good on a decorated Christmas tree as a toy.

You can also make the following craft from cardboard:

Costume: mask and pig ears

For a costume consisting of a pig's snout, ears and tail, we will need:

• felt or fleece in pink and white colors,
• scissors,
• glue,
• stapler,
• paper cup,
• elastic pink ribbon,
• thin elastic band,
• white thin plastic hair hoop.

Then we take an elastic band, fold it like a belt, attach the tail we prepared in the middle and fasten it with a stapler or glue. Curl the tail like a pig. One piece of the costume is ready!

Now let's start making the patch. To do this, take a cardboard cup of small diameter, apply a piece of pink felt to it, trace and cut out the resulting circle - this will be our patch. Cut off the top of the glass so that the height of the glass is one and a half to two centimeters.

We cut a rectangular strip of the same width from the felt so that we can wrap our cup. Now we glue our cut out parts to the cup: a circle to the bottom, a rectangular strip along the entire cup. It turns out to be a cute pink patch!

We cut out two small oval parts from white felt - nostrils. Glue it onto the patch exactly in the middle.

We make two small holes on the sides of the cup into which we insert a thin elastic band. We tie an elastic band inside the cup-patch on each side into a large knot. We try our nose on our head; it should hold tightly enough so that it does not fall off, but also does not press too much. Our nose for the pig costume is ready!

Let's start making ears. To do this, we need to cut two large pieces in the shape of pig ears from the pink felt. Then we take our hairband, gather our ear, clamp it and wrap it around the headband, secure it well with glue.

Our costume for the holiday is ready!

Pig in the pen

• empty bottle made of plastic with a volume of 0.5 liters,
• plastic eyes,
• 4 plastic lids,
• a piece of light felt or felt material,
• a small piece of flexible wire
• a piece of padding polyester,
• nylon white stocking,
• colorful paper,
• several wooden skewers,
• skein of twine,
• shoe cover cardboard box,
• gouache red and white,
• clear varnish,
• hot glue,
• a few pebbles, acorns and twigs.

We glue the box with inside Using green paper, we weave a fence from twine around glued skewers. We put acorns and pebbles in the pen, put a plastic jar - a feeder for our pig, and arrange tree branches. Our pen is ready!

Now we make a pig from a plastic bottle: we cut the bottle into several parts - the bottom, the middle and the neck. Connect the neck to the bottom and glue it using hot glue.

Using scissors, carefully cut out the mouth under the neck of the bottle. We cover the bottle with padding polyester and also make a mouth hole using scissors.

We tighten the stocking around the body of our workpiece, cut out a hole-mouth and secure it with hot glue.

Our stocking knot on the neck of the bottle must be closed with a snout: to do this, cut out a circle from white cardboard, cover it with nylon, tie it with thread - our snout is ready.

The knot on the bottom of the bottle must also be closed with a wire tail, which we first cover in the area of ​​the butt with nylon.

Cut out the pig's ears from light felt and glue them to the head.

Preparing the legs: take plastic stoppers, we cover them with padding polyester and nylon, tighten them with thread, fasten them and glue them to the pig’s body with glue.

Prepare gouache: mix red and white colors so that it turns out pink. We paint our pig evenly. Apply clear varnish on top. After the craft has dried, glue on the pig’s eyes and nostrils. Our piggy craft in the pen is ready!

We sew a pig from children's tights

Socks also make good piglets:

Pig ball made of threads

• pink threads/yarn,
• colored paper,
• scissors,
• inflatable ball, round or oval shape,
• PVA glue,
• a plastic cup,
• needle.

We wrap our inflated ball in a chaotic manner with a thread dipped in glue to create as many weaves as possible. The larger the layer of wound thread, the stronger the craft will be. You can stop gluing the ball when it is almost hidden under a layer of thread.

It is necessary to remember that the glue takes a long time to dry, about a day, so such a craft must be prepared in advance before the holiday.

The legs of a piglet are made in the same way: a sausage ball is inflated, wrapped with thread, then after the glue has dried, the ball must be carefully burst and removed from the legs.

Now you need to glue the legs to the body; While the glue dries, we can start making the pig's face. To do this, on colored paper we first need to draw all the necessary details - a snout, eyes and ears, then cut them out and glue them onto the pig’s body.

Then you need to stretch a long thread and secure it with a loop knot - it will come in handy if we want to hang our craft on the Christmas tree.

Coffee toy

The technique for making such a souvenir is quite simple, and to make naf-naf we will need: light calico, light threads, stuffing material - padding polyester or foam rubber, vanillin or vanilla sugar, cocoa, instant coffee, cinnamon, scissors, PVA glue, needle, old toothbrush, gel pen, small capacity for diluting fragrance, brushes, acrylic paints.

The toy can also be cut out to any size; to do this, just click on the picture and its size will increase. It is also advisable to transfer the cut out pattern to thin cardboard - it is more practical and convenient.

Now we will need our pen - we will use it to trace the resulting pattern; This should be done on fabric that is folded in half; if you plan to sew more than one toy, then you need to leave a space on the fabric between the patterns for a seam allowance of about 0.5 cm, while the seam itself is best done not along the drawn line itself, but nearby: the mark from the handle will not be noticeable if the fabric gets wet.

It is necessary to sew two layers of fabric along the line at the same time; the seam begins and ends between the hind limbs of our craft, leaving about 2 centimeters unsewn - this hole is necessary to make it more convenient to stuff the pig. Also, you can’t cut the seam threads so that it doesn’t come apart when we turn and stuff our pig.

We also cut out triangular teeth at the seam allowances, leaving a distance to the seam itself of about 0.2 cm - this will allow the seam on the toy to remain smooth and not bulge in different directions.

Now we turn it inside out and stuff the stitched pig; For particularly narrow spaces, the ends of folded scissors are suitable. We fill the toy with padding polyester using the unsewn holes: the more padding polyester there is inside, the more “plump” and “pot-bellied” our pig will be. It is necessary to carefully sew up the holes through which we stuffed our pig and thread it - this will help us easily hang our pig to dry.

Now let’s prepare the flavoring for our craft: dilute 40 ml of boiling water in a prepared container and add a teaspoon of coffee. Then the remaining ingredients - vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa - add about a quarter of a teaspoon to the resulting mixture.

Stir everything thoroughly and cool. Then you need to add about half a teaspoon of PVA glue to the mixture and mix thoroughly.

Now we need to dry our toy; To do this, hang it on a rack in the oven, turned on at low heat, for a quarter of an hour.
If, after drying, there are still wet spots on the toy, you need to turn off the oven and dry our workpiece in this way.

Let's start coloring - first with a simple pencil to outline the details, and then use acrylic paints. After the paints have dried, you can attach a loop or magnet to the coffee toy - then you can hang it on christmas tree or on the refrigerator.

It is advisable to avoid getting the toy wet. Our wonderful DIY coffee pig is ready!

Sew a tilde pig

The pattern itself consists of several parts - the pig's body, ears and legs.

Be sure to leave holes for filling the craft with stuffing and in order to sew on the pig's tail. Next, we need to sew the resulting parts together and turn them inside out. We fill the craft with filler, for example, padding polyester, holofiber, padding polyester; You can also put a flavor sachet into the pig.

In order to make the last detail of our pig doll - the perky tail - we will need to cut out a rectangular piece of fabric that is suitable in size, and sew a piece of flexible wire into it.

See below for a few more options for textile piglets:

Video bonus: pompom pig

All the step-by-step instructions presented in the article for making homemade pig souvenir toys - the symbol of the coming 2019 - are very simple; to repeat them, you need simple materials, which can be found in every home. With a little patience, skill and care, you can make any of these toys yourself.

You can arm yourself with threads and nails and make paintings in the style of pig string art:

A pig souvenir is a gift that will not leave anyone indifferent; it will give joyful emotions to everyone! Dare and create with our master classes!

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Plastic bottles are an ideal material for making jewelry for personal plot or local area. They are cheap, accessible, easy to process, and easy to paint. With a little patience, plastic containers you can make various figures, including cute piglets with funny faces that will not leave your guests or just passers-by indifferent.

Materials and tools needed to make a pig figurine

Making a pig figurine from plastic bottles is not difficult; the craft does not require large material and time costs. To make a figurine you need to have:

• plastic 5-liter bottle;
• 4 plastic half-liter bottles or the same number of small plastic cups;
• 1 one and a half liter plastic bottle;
• cutting tool (knife or scissors);
• a jar or can of water-repellent paint;
• wire or a piece of twine for the tail. If they are missing, you can cut a thin strip from the remaining plastic;
• pencil;
• brush;
• glue gun;
• paper;
• material for eye decoration. These can be buttons, beads, self-adhesive film;
• black marker.

Plastic bottles must be cleared of labels, handles and rims must be removed to screw on the caps.

Step-by-step instructions for making a pig figurine

The shape of a lying plastic bottle resembles the body of a well-fed pig. For an exact resemblance, all that is missing is lop-eared ears, plump legs, a shaped snout and a hooked tail.

Preparation of parts

First, let's prepare the missing parts:

1. Legs. From half-liter bottles, cut off the top part with the lid at an angle. When using small plastic cups, their tops should also be cut at an angle so that they fit more tightly to the piglet's body. Make sure that the pieces are the same length.
2. Ears. On a piece of paper, draw a piglet's ear of any shape. We cut it out of a one and a half liter bottle. To do this, the bottle is cut into two halves along the neck and screw part. Then, according to the drawn pattern, the ear blank is cut out so that its base is at the beginning of the neck (up to the first rib). The ear cut from the middle part of the bottle turns out to be a larger, lop-eared one.
3. Tail. It can be bent from a small piece of wire, cut into a thin strip from the remains of plastic bottles.

Lack of any additional elements for decorative finishing the piglet is not an obstacle to creating a plastic figure

Before assembly, you need to make several holes in a five-liter container:

1. Not far from the lid we cut 2 holes for the ears.
2. Just above the center of the top of the bottom of the bottle we make a small round hole for the tail.

Plastic bottles are easily cut with a regular stationery knife or scissors.

Assembling the figure

The figurine is assembled as follows:

If the lower ends of the ears and tail are shaped like arrows, they will be easier to insert into the holes made.

Decoration

The assembled finished craft needs to be painted. Most often, paint is used for this. pink shades, because it is with this color that a cheerful pig is associated. Piglets of other colors (spotted, light beige) also look interesting. Or perhaps you would prefer a fairytale pig whose coloring will be fantastic: polka dots, flowers or frills.

If the craft is to be used outdoors, the paint must have water-repellent properties. After painting the pig (with a brush or by spraying it from a spray can), let the figurine dry thoroughly. Drying time will depend on the properties of the paint you purchased.

For durability, after the paint has dried, you can apply a layer of acrylic varnish on top of it.

The last step is gluing the eyes and drawing on the patch. There are different options for designating eyes:

• voluminous buttons with eyelets. In this case, a small slot is made at the location of the eyes, a button loop is pressed into it and glued;
• beads;
• self-adhesive film of a suitable color.

Using a marker, draw a patch (two small black circles) on the bottle cap. If desired, you can add eyelashes, outline the contours of the ears, and create funny facial expressions on the pig’s face.

You can decorate the plastic pig however you like.

The presented step-by-step instructions are not dogma. Its task is to awaken imagination, to use non-standard materials at hand, so that your figurine turns out to be unique, inimitable, and special.

Since plastic piglets are most often installed outdoors, care should be taken to ensure their stability. To do this, even before painting, a weighting agent, for example, small pebbles, is poured inside.

Features of making a pig flowerpot

Almost the same scenario is used to make a figurine of a pig, in which you can plant garden flowers. The following steps will be distinctive:

To prevent the piglet with flowers from turning over, you can first make a hole at the bottom and secure the craft with a wooden peg.

Photo gallery: ideas for design and placement of plastic pig figurines

The piglets can be painted in different colors to make it more fun. The piglet figures can be placed on a small hill or the area around them can be cleared a little. If you are not lazy and make a few piglets from plastic bottles, you will get a picturesque and funny lawn Additional items next to the figures of piglets will add originality to the composition Plastic pigs- an additional touch in the design of the flower bed. Pig-flower bed made from plastic bottles - not only original, but also practical. Features of making a pig figurine are the absence of costs and a minimum amount of time, independent choice shapes and colors of crafts Most often, plastic piglets are painted in pink color Next to the pig from plastic bottles you can “plant” flowers from the same material

Video: making a pig from plastic bottles

There are many options for decorating a site using plastic bottles. You can make a funny pig from these containers. A little creativity - and the waste material will turn into original crafts with a decorative and practical slant.