Old car tires are excellent materials for useful crafts. Home craftsmen are able to create many wonderful things out of them that will decorate a personal plot, a flower bed near the house or a playground.
Children's rocking bench
This comfortable rocking chair for a child can be quickly and easily made from a car tire. Cut it in half with a wide, sharp knife or jigsaw. Select the board so that its length is equal to the diameter of the resulting base, and its width is slightly larger than the width of the tire. Round the corners and sand the board.
Using a drill and self-tapping screws, attach the board along the cut lines to the tire. Paint the entire structure with bright paint, you can attach various decorative items for decoration.
Tire Elephant Figurine
To make an elephant, you will need not only tires, but also an old canister, a corrugated tube from a sink drain set, wire and a sharp knife.
To make the craft stable and you can sit on it, install two tires close to each other, digging them into the ground. This will be the body of your elephant. Turn the canister upside down and fix it in the center of the two tires. The elephant has a head.
Make the trunk out of a corrugated tube, bending it slightly for believability. Two large ears can be cut from a piece of rubber or a large plastic water bottle. Paint the entire craft with blue or gray acrylic paint. Draw the eyes and mouth for the elephant.
To make it comfortable to sit on the elephant, attach a piece of board to size or a seat from an old stool on top of the tires.
Sandbox or tire bed
Create a cozy corner for a child or for adults by making a sandbox or flower bed from tires. Cut some tires in half. Paint each detail with multi-colored paints. You can use alkyd enamel, spray paint, or acrylic paints.
Make a flower shape from the individual halves of the tires. Fasten them together with wire. Fill the center of the flower with fertile soil for plants or sand for children.
Tires can be fastened together with bolts and nuts.
Bicycle parking from tires
Such a useful craft will come in handy both in the country and in the city. With a little effort and some old tires, cyclists will have a convenient parking space. To do this, dig several tires in a row into the ground at a short distance from each other so that the front wheel of the bicycle can be placed between them.
Tire giraffe
The figure of this animal can be used to decorate both a summer cottage and a playground. Dig the tire into the ground, submerging it halfway. Dig in a long piece of plastic pipe next to it. Fix a small piece of the same pipe on it with the letter "G". You have the neck and head of a giraffe.
Cut out the ears for the animal from the pieces of rubber and attach them. Paint the entire craft with yellow paint and paint black spots on it to make the color look like the real one. Eyes can be drawn, or ready-made plastic ones can be glued.
