Plastic Bottle Flowers

With California in a severe drought and the water companies enforcing strict water usage rules, recycling is a great way to both help the environment and decorate a backyard. In this tutorial you will learn how to make flowers out of plastic bottles.

You will need the following materials:

Plastic Bottles

Scissors

Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

String Lights (solar or plug in)

Pen

Cut along the ridge that's right above the water label. Cutting along the ridge will allow you to cut in a straight line.

Cut 5 equally spaced vertical lines. The vertical cuts should be approximately 1 1/2 inches in length.

Make curved edges between each vertical cut that was made in step 3.

Pull the petals back toward the bottle cap.

Choose your favorite colors and paint your flowers with acrylic paint. Allow the paint to dry and paint a second coat.

Using a pen, make a hole on the bottle cap

Carefully insert a light into the hole that you made using the pen.

Wrap the string of lights around a tree. Whether there's sunlight or moonlight, your backyard will have a beautiful display of reused plastic flowers.