In this tutorial I teach you to create one birdhouse with readily available materials and recycling Plastic bottles. It can also serve as feeder for birds and even simple decor for a terrace, a garden or your own home.
Materials
To make the birdhouse you will need the following materials:
- Plastic bottle
- Cutter
- Painting
- Brush
- Lija
- Wood base
- Wooden stick
- Polo sticks
- Rope
- Glue gun
- Dried leaves and artificial flowers
Step by step
In the following video tutorial you can see the steps to create the birdhouse so that you can make it yourself.
It is great because each one will give it its personal touch with the different colors that you can apply or the decorative touch of the flowers and leaves. It will change a lot with the details that you add to the birdhouse.
Let's briefly review the followed to follow so you can do it yourself:
- Cut the plastic bottle in half.
- Draw a circle and cut it as an entrance to the birdhouse.
- Sand and cover the cut parts with silicone to smooth them.
- Glue the house to the wooden base.
- Make a hole under the entrance to insert the stick.
- Stick the stick in the hole you just made by applying silicone to the end that will be glued to the inside of the house.
- Make a hole in the bottle cap.
- Insert the rope through the hole and tie a knot inside to be able to hang the bottle with the screwed cap on.
- Paint the birdhouse as you like.
- Cut the tip of the popsicle sticks with scissors so that they are flat at one end.
- Join the sticks by gluing the crossed ends.
- Glue the two parts of the roof on the bottle.
- Paint the roof.
- Glue the dried leaves and artificial flowers.
And the result it would be this.
