An original craft for New Year's decoration of the courtyard or the interior of an apartment can be made from the most ordinary plastic bottles. Cute colorful penguins will perfectly fit into any festive decorations for your home and garden.
It is also important that by using bottles that have become unnecessary for crafts, you can make a feasible contribution to preserving the environment.
To make a penguin, you will need two plastic bottles with a capacity of 1, 5 or 2 liters, peeled from labels and traces of glue.
Crafts are best made from those bottles that have a slight narrowing in the middle - this shape gives the most realistic penguin figurine.
The bottles are cut in half, leaving the bottoms to work. Both parts are connected to each other with glue for additional fixation.
To make the penguin figurine as stable as possible, you can attach a piece of plasticine to the bottom of one workpiece, pour small pebbles, sand, put a few pine cones.
The workpiece is covered with a layer of primer or, in its absence, with a base coat of white paint. It is most convenient to use spray paints, because brushing takes a little longer.
After the base layer has dried with a marker or a thin brush, the contours of the main parts are applied - the abdomen and cap of the penguin.
The penguin's body is covered with black paint, after it dries, they begin to draw everything else: the tummy is painted with bright white paint - acrylic, gouache or with a metallic sheen.
The hat and scarf are painted with any bright paint, which gives the craft a festive look. To make the hat look the most impressive, you can attach a small pompom made of threads to it.
The eyes and beak of the penguin are drawn with a thin brush, if desired, the finished craft can be varnished. If you have unnecessary rags at hand, then the scarf can not be drawn, but made from fabric.
