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Plastic bottles left over from carbonated drinks are good to use for. If you plan to decorate the local area, then you need to collect a sufficiently large amount of this waste material. And if the craft is intended to participate in a competition or decorate a room, then two or three bottles will be enough.

We came up with the idea of ​​creating aquarium from plastic bottles . Of course, you can’t pour water into a container with a volume of 1.5 - 2 liters and you can’t plant live fish. However, as a souvenir or toy, such an aquarium definitely deserves attention. We present to your attention a master class with a photo.

Craft "Aquarium" from plastic bottles

So, for crafts in without fail will need:

• plastic bottles of several colors,
• glue for plastic, wood or glass,
• scissors.

Additionally useful:

• pliers,
• matches, candles or gas burner fire,
• any other decorative elements that can be used to decorate the aquarium.

First, cut the white bottle into two parts. We need to adjust the height of the aquarium, and therefore we cut off a few centimeters from these two parts. Reducing the size of the bottle will fill the bottom of the plastic cup with vegetation and pebbles.

Next, we grind the brown and blue bottles into squares, triangles or trapezoids with a side size within 1 cm. The number of geometric shapes is at the discretion of the master. We imitate pebbles and glass with which we will cover the bottom of the aquarium. The plastic crushed in this way must be melted over the fire. Need pliers. Each piece will have to be captured with a tool and brought to the flame. As a result, the plastic gets the appearance of glass with curved edges.

At the same time, we cut out vegetation for the aquarium from the green bottle. It's impossible to recommend anything here. We act without templates and preparation. We process finished plants with the help of match, candle or burner fire, that is, we traditionally melt the edges of the blanks.

Now, with the help of glue, we fix the greens at the bottom of the glass. Pour brown pebbles on top, followed by blue pebbles. Glue part of the blue plastic on the walls of the aquarium. So we will designate the water level in the tank. Additionally, to decorate the craft, we used a real shell.

Decorate the neck of the aquarium lid with a blue flower. It is cut out of plastic and decorated with a fine mesh made with a red-hot sewing needle. The edges of the flower are melted.

Our aquarium is ready to meet its little residents.


If desired, the fish can also be cut from. However, our dad loves to go fishing in his spare time, and therefore he has silicone fish.

We tied three fish to a fishing line. The line was passed through the neck of the bottle, brought out and screwed on with a lid.

We demonstrate the aquarium from all sides. It turned out to be a very unusual piece. silicone fish cheerfully waving their tails at the slightest movement of the aquarium. Our craft will definitely take first place in children's works.

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Dear friends, I am glad to welcome you all!

Today I want to present to your attention a new work by Tatyana Dovganyuk. This is a fish made from ordinary plastic bottles. This fabulous decoration is perfect for any patio. Tatyana shared with us the secret of its manufacture.

In order to make such a fish you will need:

1. hot glue gun.
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2. scissors.

4. screwdriver.

5. wire.

6. plastic bottles.

7. self-tapping screws.

Preparation method:

So, let's start making our inhabitant of the underwater kingdom. Let's make a shape first. Torso. We make it from a plastic bottle of 1.5 or 2 liters. Cut with scissors so that it looks like in the photo.

We also cut out the details for the head from plastic bottles; two halves of a plastic ball can become the basis for the eyes. Cut out lips from a small bottle and cover with varnish. All parts of the head are carefully glued with a hot gun. Then we outline the fins and tail, we will fasten them with self-tapping screws to the body. Next, we put the head on the body and it turns out something like this.

A bottle from Lenora and bright bottles will serve as scales for our charming little fish.

To make it easier to attach the scales, you can temporarily detach the fins and tail. We fix the scales in the traditional way, with the help of wire and an awl. Attach the scales to start with the tail. After our fish is completely covered with bright scales, we screw our fins and tail back. We will correct and tighten up all the bumps and roughness, if any, of course. Well, our fish from plastic bottles is ready.

Having settled on your site, she will be a bright piece of a children's fairy tale.

Elena Timofeeva

We made such wonderful fish with the children of the second younger group in an integrated lesson (sculpting + manual labor)

For the manufacture of you need fish:

big scissors

empty plastic shampoo bottle

Sequins of any color or flat buttons resembling fish scales

- Plasticine

Stages of work:

1) Cut out bottle silhouette fish

2) Smudge the Piece plasticine on the surface leaving fins and tail

3) Decorate over plasticine sequins(try not to leave places not covered with sequins)

My students enjoyed making their own crafts at the lesson with pleasure did their own crafts in class some of them are very original. The children showed a clear interest in lesson: get to know the parts of the body fish, habits. I often use in the manufacture crafts, non-traditional materials, which makes the lesson interesting and memorable for children

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The shores of our reservoirs are not distinguished by ideal cleanliness. There are still many people who relax in nature, forget to clean up after themselves various garbage. Savvy anglers have learned to benefit from plastic bottles. With their help, you can make inexpensive, but very catchy gear. Pike bottle fishing is already very popular. But besides toothy, you can successfully catch pike perch and catfish, carp and carp. What is the secret of catchability of tackle, and how does bottle fishing differ from circles?

The principle of fishing for a bottle is in many ways similar to the fishing of a predator for mugs. However, there are also a number of differences.

• To catch fish on a bottle, you only need to buy a fishing line, a hook and a sinker. Therefore, the tackle has a low manufacturing cost.
• You can complete tackle with any plastic bottles of 1, 1.5 or 2 liters. You can find them right on the shore of the reservoir.
• In the event of a loss of gear (whether the fish will drag it away or blow it away by the wind), a similar product can be made right on the fishing trip in a few minutes.
• The bottle can simultaneously play the role of a reel for storing a supply of fishing line and a float. When the fish gets on the hook, thanks to the plastic container, it is possible to tire big booty and make it easier to retrieve.
• Fishing for circles is carried out with the help of a watercraft, but tackle based on PET bottles can also be cast from the shore.
• Bottle fishing allows you to catch not only pike, perch and zander, but also carp or carp.

Equipment options

For successful bottle fishing, you can use different variants equipment. Each angler can make tackle taking into account the characteristics of the reservoir, the type of fish that you want to catch. Consider the two most popular equipment options.

boat fishing bottle

"Bottle tackle" for fishing from a boat resembles the equipment of a circle. But due to some features of the plastic container, anglers have to go for certain tricks.

• An empty undamaged PET bottle with a capacity of 1 to 2 liters is suitable for completing the tackle.
• A piece of fishing line 8-15 m long is attached in the cork area. The thickness of the monofilament should be in the range of 0.3-0.4 mm.
• A sliding sinker weighing up to 100 g is mounted on the fishing line.

The moment of bite can be determined in different ways. Some anglers paint longitudinal stripes with paint. Others mount flags that apply on winter girders. The leaf spring is tied to the bottom of the bottle, and the flag itself is bent towards the neck and fixed with several turns of fishing line. When a bite occurs, the fish will begin to reel in the fishing line, the spring will straighten out, and the flag will soar above the surface of the water.

Advice! To place the bottle upside down, it is filled 2/3 with water and lowered with the neck down.

Tackle for coastal fishing

Fishing for a bottle from the shore is carried out on a more primitive tackle.

On a note! When catching catfish on a bottle, the rope is connected to the main fishing line, and attached to the container in such a way that the bottle can be unhooked when biting.

The equipment can be mounted rigidly to the plastic using adhesive tape or electrical tape. In this case, the bite will be determined by the movement of the bottle, which will act as a float.

Coastal fishing allows you to throw a few tackles in promising places. Each of them can be fixed to tree branches or bushes and left overnight. And in the morning it remains to get tackle and enjoy the catch.

Features of fishing from the boat and the shore

The technique of catching fish on plastic bottles depends on whether fishing will take place on the shore or on a watercraft. In each option, success largely depends on the right location. Promising areas are the borders clean water and algae, junctions of the river with the oxbow lake, bays, entrances and exits from the pits, channel edges, bark areas.

Shore fishing technique

When fishing from the shore, the angler must not only think about the casting distance of the rig, but also about the likelihood of a successful fight. Since there is no rod in the tackle, the coastal zone should be clean. In this case, it will be possible to extract the fish from the water without any problems.

1. Before throwing the equipment into the water, it is important to carefully prepare. First you need to unwind the tackle.
2. The nylon cord is neatly laid in rings on a clean shore. Its end is tied to a driven peg or bush.
3. The rig is fixed on the bottle. The container is filled with water.
4. A live bait or other bait is attached to the hook.
5. The bottle goes into the water.

The fisherman has to wait for a bite.

Photo 3. A bottle in a combat position.

Features of fishing from a boat

The watercraft provides the angler with more opportunities for fishing on the “bottle tackle”. You should start by choosing an interesting site. Bottles can be installed along the coast or in a checkerboard pattern. In any case, you should choose some landmarks so as not to lose your gear.

The boat must be placed into the wind. After installing the first gear, you can start equipping the second bottle. During this time, the boat will be carried to the required distance of 10-15 m. The installation of the entire "squadron" will require a minimum physical strength and time.

After biting, it is important to approach the triggered gear as quietly as possible. Otherwise, the fish will get scared and make another jerk. To extract big trophy landing net is required from the water.

Bottle fishing for different types of fish

Most often plastic containers with equipment are used for catching large species of fish. Each of them requires an individual approach.

• You can catch pike on the most different types tackle, including snacks, mugs, bottles. characteristic feature biting toothy is a two-stage process. First, she grabs the live bait across the body. At this moment, the fish bleeds the line, which triggers the flag. Then the predator begins to turn the victim in his mouth and swallow the fish. It is at this time that you need to cut.
• The zander usually immediately grabs the live bait fish in its mouth and starts to swallow it. Therefore, you can cut immediately

These beautiful fish can be made independently from plastic bottles. They can be used as a great decoration for a room or outside, hung in a swimming pool or sauna, in the kitchen or in the children's room.

Necessary materials

In order to make fish from plastic bottles you need bottles different size. As a basis, they take a larger bottle and another smaller one for the lower fin.

The bottles are pre-prepared - they are washed, the stickers are torn off and dried.

In addition to plastic bottles for fish, you will also need the following materials. Medium section line, but strong. Insulating tape of any color. Newsprint (newspapers). PVA glue or similar. Marker, scissors or knife, brushes and paint.

Stage one: cut out the body of the fish

As a basis for a fish from a plastic bottle, take a larger bottle. Focusing on the photo cut out the tail. To do this, you need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, its bottom and give the bottle the desired shape.

Of course, there is no need to repeat everything exactly. anatomical features fish, it is enough to make a stylized tail, since a plastic bottle fish is a decorative, stylized craft that should look more like a cartoon character than an illustration for a biology textbook.

Before cutting out the tail, it may make sense to first mark with a marker to get a good idea of ​​​​the final result. However, if nothing works out the first time, it doesn’t matter - plastic bottles are a very cheap consumable, which today can be found in every home in large quantities. At least two or three bottles can always be prepared in reserve, just in case, so that there are spare ones for this craft.

Stage two: cut out the fin for the fish

In order to make a fin from below, you need to cut off the upper and lower parts (neck and bottom) from a small bottle, then flatten the middle part and cut out the fin of the shape you need from the resulting part.

As in the previous case, there is no need to achieve a great resemblance to representatives of the water kingdom, but it is better to draw the shape with a marker in advance so that you do not have to redo anything once again.

Stage three: fishing line for hanging crafts

First, the neck of a plastic bottle is unscrewed, and then a sufficiently large piece of fishing line is passed through it. It is better to take a fishing line of medium thickness or the thinnest, so that it is as less noticeable as possible. For this fishing line, fish from plastic bottles are subsequently hung where necessary. After the fishing line is skipped, the cap is tightly twisted back.

E tap fourth: pasting the fish with newsprint

The papier-mache technique is very common and known to almost everyone, so there is no need to describe it in detail here. In short, they take newspapers and tear them to shreds into small pieces. Then, the craft is coated with PVA glue and the pieces are glued, trying, where necessary, to exactly repeat the shape of the craft, and where necessary, modify it a little by sticking more paper.