Looking for some easy plastic bottle crafts? Check out this cool and easy to make airplane craft.
On holidays (specially when plane trips are involved) you typically don’t carry bags full of toys and crafts materials. So if your kids are in a crafty mood, you have to do with whatever you find on the spot. But with a bit of creativity one can go a long way. Let me tel you how we ended up doing some plastic bottle crafts.
Some weeks ago on our holiday trip, the kids had been drawing and cutting planes out of paper- they kind of love making planes 🙂 . So I got involved into their play and challenged myself to make a plane using the materials we had at hand.
I found an empty plastic bottle and a big piece of carton from a 24-pack of beer and that was enough for my plastic bottle crafts idea. The rest, color pencils and a knife, make part of our standard travel equipment.
The cardboard was meant for the wings. And the beer bottle marks on it gave it kind of a funky look after coloring it with pencils.
The plastic bottle served as the body of the plane and pretty much the hardest part of this kids’ crafts activity was to cut two openings in the bottle so we could fit the wings through. This is one of the easiest plastic bottle crafts you can do.
And after sliding the colored piece of carton through the bottle, the plane was ready (from my point of view). The kids however, found some fun crafts paper tape
And after the tape-decorating task was done they concluded that they did enough plastic bottle crafts for the day and it was time to play. They played with the plane for the rest of the morning.
So I ended up having some happy kids with a new toy, and got experienced in doing plastic bottle crafts.
I hope you like our plane, and if you do something similar with your kids do share with us. This is our first to do plastic bottles crafts so we’re looking for some inspiration. Drop us a comment of post a picture of your project on our Facebook page.
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