Human imagination is inexhaustible. Craftsmen from among the people create real miracles with what pragmatic consumers throw away. Almost everything is used: broken pots, seashells, pebbles, old equipment and other utensils that are no longer used direct purpose, but acquires a second life when the hands of a master touch it. And, of course, the list of “raw materials” for practical decor is not complete without outdated car tires.
Previously, they were used exclusively for economy class playgrounds, today they have come up with much more creative applications: photo crafts from car tires, accompanying our article is a clear confirmation of this.
Crafts from tires for the garden: garden furniture
The simplest thing, in our opinion, is tire product – lunch or coffee table . Glue two or three pre-cleaned and painted tires (depending on what height you want to get), secure any alternative tabletop on top: wood, plastic, glass, or simply cover the tire with twine. Movable wheels attached to the bottom add mobility to the product.
Will complement unusual table Another tire product – ottoman or armchair. Cut a circle from chipboard or thick plywood to fill the cavity inside the tire, put a couple of layers of foam on top - the pouf should be comfortable. The upholstery for such a “chair” can be knitted or sewn from any fabric or an old blanket in a spectacular Scottish check. Make the legs from blocks, and the back from another tire, cut in half.
How to make an ottoman from a tire: master class
Crafts from wheels for children
Tire crafts for They will not let your child get bored, providing him with productive and exciting leisure time. Cover the old wheel with colored twine and cut a “cover” to size for it - you’ll get a comfortable one box for children's street toys.
A massive truck tire easily turns into, and a pair of tires suspended from a tree will simultaneously become swing and an equilibristic projectile. The main thing is that the tree is strong, and the ropes and fastenings are reliable - appropriate for the age and weight of the child.
DIY tire swing: video
Crafts made from tires for the garden
A hollow tire is an excellent alternative. And it’s not at all necessary to cut swans or other intricate designs out of it. tire figures , as they did back in Soviet times. Just some wheels painted in bright colors and laid out in a certain sequence, they look much more impressive and stylish.
Show creativity- do not put it flowerbed tires on the ground, and hang them from the ceiling on ropes or chains. A climbing, beautifully flowing flower, for example, an ampelous petunia or begonia, planted in such a “pot” will delight you with abundant and long-lasting flowering.
If you want to zone your space personal plot, make it low h abor from tires , placing garden lanterns next to it. When there are differences in elevation or access to water on the site, old tires will become alternative steps, the main thing is to reliably “mount” them into the ground.
Decorating a summer cottage is a creative and exciting task. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive sculptures or other ready-made works of art. It is enough to show ingenuity, imagination and perseverance to get beautiful figures from scrap materials. In this article we will look at how to make garden crafts from tires.
Ideas for decorating your garden
Using old tires allows you to decorate the interior of your garden with virtually no investment. The price of the finished product will be negligible, and family budget could be spent, for example, on improving living conditions. So, what can be created from the mentioned material?
Example #1: swan
For all crafts you will need approximately the same list of materials:
And tools:
Instructions for creating a swan:
- Draw chalk lines along which the tire should be cut. Do it as shown in the photo or find suitable patterns on the Internet.
- Carefully cut the rubber.
- Using a grinder, we cut the part that does not yield to the knife.
- We turn the product inside out, bending the cut edges.
Advice: if the craft is made for the children's part of the garden, then it is necessary to carefully handle the sharp edges of the cut elements, otherwise the child may be injured by them.
- We paint the swan in the desired colors.
Using various patterns, you can get not only swans, but also a wide variety of other garden crafts from car tires.
Example #2: caterpillar
In this option, you don’t even have to cut anything, but you will need a little more materials:
We proceed as follows:
- We partially bury the tires in the ground, connecting them with self-tapping screws.
- We attach a bar bent in the shape of a mustache on top.
- We screw empty cans to the front.
- We paint the figure and get a slightly surprised, but quite attractive insect.
Example No. 3: teddy bear
To get a clubfooted beast you will need:
Work progress:
- We make holes in the large and small tires using a grinder so that they can be connected with a pipe.
- We close the tire holes with pieces of plywood, which we fix with self-tapping screws.
- We glue linoleum onto the plywood.
- We cut out ears and paws from thick rubber, and then fasten them in the right places.
- We place the resulting figure on two small wheels, which will play the role of original legs.
- We paint the craft in two layers.
Example #4: giraffe
Not enough exoticism at your dacha? Build a giraffe! For this you will need:
You won't have to work too hard:
- Bury the tire halfway into the ground.
- We knock down a log and a block of wood with nails into a semblance of a neck and head.
- We bury the resulting structure next to the tire.
- We cut out the ears from plastic and attach them to the head using nails or glue.
- Glue the eyes from the toy onto the face of the resulting animal.
- At the back we fix a piece of watering can as a tail.
- We use paint to give the craft the appearance of a giraffe.
Example #5: crocodile
A toothy predator will also be able to perfectly decorate your area. For this we use:
Some carpentry skills will be required here:
- We cut out the tire, cutting out the body of the crocodile.
- We cut out the shapes of the back and abdomen from the boards, fix the slats as spacers as shown in the following photo:
- We insert the resulting frame inside the back and secure it with screws.
- From below, we fix the belly of the future crocodile in the same way.
- We screw plastic teeth into the “mouth”.
- Glue the scales.
- We insert table tennis balls into the eye sockets.
- We paint the craft in a green color.
Practical use of tires
Products made from tires for the garden can, in addition to having a decorative value, also have a practical value.
Here are some options for using them:
- Vases for flowers. The tire is cut and turned inside out, after which it is filled with soil and plants.
- Swing . Here you can experiment from the banal hanging of a whole product to cutting fancy shapes. (See also article.)
- Arrangement sewer wells . Tightness and moisture resistance make tires an excellent cheap material for creating the walls of septic tanks or other similar structures.
- Children's sandboxes. To do this, just dig the tire and fill it with sand. The costs are minimal, and the child will already have a place to play.
- Steps. If the terrain on your site has a slope, then it can be equipped with tires, which will greatly simplify overcoming it.
- Bicycle racks. Bury the tires halfway into the ground next to each other, and you can easily stack your bikes between them.
- Fencing. You can easily fence with tires required area, break up its zones.
- Sports and game equipment. This could be an obstacle course or just a product dug into the playground that children will happily climb on.
Conclusion
As you can see, you shouldn’t rush to throw away old car tires. With their help, a summer cottage can be turned into a real amusement park. It could be like decorative crafts in the form of various animals, and completely functional objects.
The main thing is to use your imagination correctly and put some effort into arranging your garden. Below are some solutions to this problem.
The video in this article will provide you with Additional information, which is directly related to the materials presented. Creative thinking and old wheels will allow you to improve your own dacha almost free of charge.
Used car tires do not need to be thrown away. After using them for their intended purpose, you can use the tires to decorate the yard or garden plot. More interesting ideas you can see it in others, but why not try to do the same near your home? After all, the process of making many crafts is very simple.
Giraffe
For this interesting figure, you need to dig one large tire into the ground, up to the middle of the circle. Secure the high part with self-tapping screws in front round log. You need to attach a muzzle to it - a small frame of a tree. Eyes and ears can be cut out from plastic bottle or a piece of linoleum. All that remains is to paint everything yellow and make brown spots.
Zebra
This figure is made in exactly the same way as the giraffe, only the paint needed is white and black.
Elephant
To make this you need 2 tires same size. Fix them together with self-tapping screws and attach them to the board (base). The elephant's head is a 10 liter plastic canister, ears are ovals from the same canister. The trunk is a piece of old corrugated pipe, eyes - lids from canisters. Eyelashes can be cut from a plastic bottle. It's better to paint the elephant grey colour, or you can turn him into a cartoon orange hero.
bear
This figure is made from two tires different sizes, connected to each other. The large tire is the body, and the small one is the head. To make the structure more stable than a tire, you can put it on a thin metal rod. You cut out the ears from plastic or linoleum. To cover the circles in the middle of the tires, you can use hardboard. If desired, the figurine can also have paws cut out of linoleum. After painting the bear becomes attractive decorative decoration garden
Matryoshka
An original Russian toy – matryoshka. It can also be made from used tires. A total of 7 tires will be required. Five of them are attached to one another in a horizontal position - this is the torso. For greater fixation, you can place it inside tall log, dug into the ground. A tire is attached vertically to the edge of this log - this is the head, the hollow holes are closed with circles of hardboard. On the sides you can place hands from a tire cut in half. Afterwards everything needs to be painted bright colors and draw a face. It turns out to be an interesting lady-madam.
Mickey Mouse
You can make two cartoon characters: a boy and a girl. Each character requires 4 tires. Two bearings are placed on the ground in a horizontal position, and two figure-eight tires are attached to them. The entire structure is supported by wood. Mickey Mouse ears are made from bottle caps plastic buckets, and the hands are made of segments plastic pipes. The bows, skirt, palms and faces must be cut out of linoleum. The lower tires are filled with fertile soil and can be used as mini-flower beds.
After painting, the characters look simply gorgeous and attractive!
Having a little free time and unnecessary tires, you can easily create crafts from car tires for the playground with your own hands. We will provide you with ready-made ideas, photos and diagrams that clearly show how to cut and make toys and products for children. Typically, in post-Soviet countries, tires are used to fence school and kindergarten areas and courtyard flower beds. We offer several fun craft options that will decorate the play area and delight the kids!
Options for children's crafts using old car tires.
Sandboxes
One of the most common and easy to make crafts is a children's sandbox. To create it, you can use either one large tractor tire (convenient for one child under 5 years old) or several tires from a passenger car.
To make a sandbox you will need the following materials:
- Tires (one or more).
- Insulating material.
- Spray cans with waterproof paints desired shades.
- Washed sand.
- Shovel.
It is convenient to make a sandbox for one child from one large tire. To protect from the sun, you can install an umbrella in the center.
Step by step process:
- You need to dig a hole along the diameter of the future sandbox. This will help secure the tire and reduce its height if you are using big tire from the tractor.
- At the bottom of the recess you need to lay insulating material. Its use will allow the sand not to mix with the ground, prevent weeds from sprouting and insects from getting into the sand from the ground.
- The tire must be washed and coated with paints for exterior use.
- Next, all that remains is to install the tire in the recess and fill it with sand.
If several small tires are used to create a sandbox, they will first need to be cut with a jigsaw and laid in the chosen shape.
In such a large sandbox-flower it will be convenient for several kids to play.
Sandbox in the shape of a flower made of several tires - convenient option for several children.
Swing
Another popular craft, so loved by all kids, is a swing. There are several options for how to do them.
Option 1
For the manufacture of hanging swing this type will require reliable support in the form of a structure made of wooden beams or metal frame. The tires must be cut into two parts, painted and tied with a strong cable to the support by two edges.
Hanging swing on a metal support.
Option 2
The next version of a hanging swing is more suitable for older children. They are made as simply as possible - a strong rope is attached to the tires, placed horizontally or vertically, using a metal hook and suspended from a support. Usually a strong tree branch acts as a support.
To make a swing, it is important to choose undamaged, durable tires that can easily withstand the load of riding.
Hanging swing made from whole tires.
Rocking balancer
Another favorite type of swing for children is the balance swing. And the tires are perfect for making them. Typically, balancers are created in the shape of horses, but you should not be limited to any shape or color.
A bright balance beam with jumpers for two kids to ride.
A similar balancing horse is suitable as a toy and decoration for a children's playground, but if you remove wooden base, the horse can be used for riding.
Balance beam in the shape of a horse.
If you attach a handlebar from an unnecessary bicycle to the balancer, you will get an excellent toy for a child, which will be comfortable to hold on to while riding.
Balancer, stylized as a bicycle.
Vehicles
Crafts made in the form of cars, tractors and trucks for the playground will delight the children! Products can be of varying complexity depending on the skills of the craftsman.
A car made of wheels and a plastic seat.
Animal and character figurines
Making animal figures and characters is another original idea using tires on the playground. Obviously, children will not be able to play with such products, but they will organically fit into the exterior of the play area and will definitely cheer up both children and adults.
Snowman made from car tires.
Arrangement of a sports and playground
Children's sports playground can be made entirely from tires. In addition to the elements already listed (regular swings and balance beams, sandboxes, figurines), various obstacle courses, transitions, and climbing elements can be made from unnecessary car tires.
- The snail train can serve as a bench or climbing machine for the little ones.
- The walker in the photo below is more complex in design, so it can be used by children school age. Manufacturing is as simple as possible: you need to attach the tire halves to the vertical supports using screws.
- For many elements of the children's playground, the tires do not even have to be cut. It will be enough to securely attach them to metal or wooden supports.
- The next climbing element is created very simply from painted wheels, metal supports and planks.
- You can build a type of exercise machine out of car tires by attaching them one after another using ropes (metal chains) to a wooden support.
A simple snail-shaped walker for little ones.
walker more complex design in the form of steps to the slide.
The climbing element of their tires and pipes.
Option for manufacturing a climbing element.
Tire walking and balance trainer.
Thus, if you have several old tires lying around, do not rush to get rid of them - you can make tires with your own hands in just a couple of hours original crafts for the playground, and according to our diagrams and photos you will easily understand how to cut and assemble original products for the play area.
You can find more ideas for crafts made from old car tires in the following video:
