A horse for interior decoration or children's play can be made from plastic bottles. All elements of the craft can be fastened together with a wire or with a needle and thread. The surface of the bottle can be pasted over with toilet paper treated with PVA glue.
If you make a horse from plastic, then it can become an interior decoration or a toy for children. Use plastic bottles as a base.
Required tools and materials
For the process of making a horse, you will need: plastic bottles, scissors, wire, acrylic paints, toilet paper, newspapers, medical non-gauze bandage, brushes, 2 buttons, PVA, woolen threads of 3 colors (black, gray, white), pliers and needle.
Horse manufacturing technology
Initially, you have to tear the newspapers into strips, and then into small squares. Next comes the turn of the plastic bottle, which has to cut off the bottom and neck. Then the bottle must be cut lengthwise so that it can be rolled into a cone with an overlap. In order for such a structure to keep its shape, it must be fixed along the joints with threads or wire, having previously made holes for them.
Next, you can begin to glue the bottle with prepared pieces of newspaper. To do this, the surface of the bottle will have to be coated with PVA glue, which can be replaced with wallpaper glue.
From the remains of plastic, you can cut out identical strips, which should be twisted in the shape of a cone and glued to the main cone using Moment glue. These additional cones will become the legs of the horse. Now you can glue the pieces of newspaper over the entire body and legs of the craft. After the entire body and legs are covered with newspaper, you should leave the craft to dry for 24 hours until the paper hardens.
In order to make a horse's head, you should use a neck and bottom cut from another bottle. The neck will become the nose and the bottom will become the top of the head. These two elements can be reinforced with each other with wire or threads. The finished head must also be covered with glue and pasted over with newspaper. After that, it can be strengthened to the main cone - the horse's body, with the help of wire.
You can then use a pencil to mark the location of the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. Using a utility knife, you can cut holes for these parts of the head. Next, you need to prepare the nostrils, eyes and mouth for strengthening in the prepared holes. To do this, bend the wire in the shape of the holes, wrapping it with a bandage. With the help of threads, all elements should be sewn into the corresponding holes. The additional volume of the bandage should be laid where the gaps have formed. After that, the bandage can be painted with paint, and buttons should be glued to the place of the eyes, where the bandage with wire is fixed. The mane will be the threads passed through the holes. Finally, the horse should be dyed and left to dry.
