In today’s world, plastic is one of the most widely used materials. Since
the beginning of conventional plastics mass production in the 1950s
when petroleum became inexpensive and was believed to be bountiful,
plastics have been produced in abundance around the world for a large
variety of uses. Plastics are extremely present in our everyday lives,
and a few uses include single use food and shipping packaging, shopping
bags, car parts and even home construction.
Plastics have been used so often over the past several decades because
of their assorted benefits. They are flexible and durable, while also
being considered the most cost efficient option for many years. Despite
the many benefits that plastics offer, the negative impact of plastics
has become a global problem that is affecting many aspects of human life
and our local and global environments. Plastics entering the waste
stream are dealt with in one of three ways: incineration, burial or
recycling, but none of these three options are very favourable because of
the lasting effects they create.
The reality is that the only way this problem can be addressed is by
individuals and companies around the world agreeing to implement
practices that reduce waste on every level. Instead of celebrating a specific day as Earth Day let's do good for earth every day.
With such thought, today I have brought before you all, a piece of art work which can indeed help us to reuse the plastic bottle in a different way. These days several art and craft ideas are available on web, but this one is my baby. Hope you will have fun reading the blog and following the making procedure this summer with your kids.
Take an empty pet bottle, could be of any size. Peel the cover.
Rinse it with water, remove the lid and cut the bottle into two equal parts such as you get a head and a bottom portion.
Use Iron to curl the sharp portions of the bottom part. the surface after ironing under slow heat will make the surface smooth and this will reduce the probability of injury.
Now use tissue paper or newspaper to cover the bottom part of the pet bottle which is going to be our pen stand. Use diluted fevicol to stick the paper around the bottle. This will give a proper structure to our pen stand as most of the pet bottles are steeper.
Once dry take a chart paper of your choice, measure the size of chart you need to stick on to the bottle. Cut two such sheets of chart, as one will serve the purpose of covering the bottle from external surface and the other will be utilized to cover it from the inside.
To make it more attractive, use yellow chart for the emoji's. Take a strip of yellow chart and as per the number of emoji's to be pasted on it, start sketching and keep them ready for the next step. I made a total of 24 emoji's i.e. 8 columns * 3 rows.
To give a bouncy look to the emoji's foam sheet can be used. You can very well use thermocol sheets for this purpose. See to it that the size of the sheet you cut as circles are equal or somewhat smaller than the circles you are going to use for the emoji's. I used the lid of the pet bottle for accurately scissoring the circles for emoji's and the foam sheet as well. Once done now start sticking the foam sheet circles or the thermocol sheet circles, on to the pet bottle. Once all the art material is ready, start sticking the emoji's.
Hurrah!!! There you are.... Your pen stand is ready.... The same piece of art can be applied for larger plastic bottles as
well. You can keep many things inside it and use it in your kitchen as
well. Try this wonderful piece of art.... kids will enjoy doing this in their summer vacation.
Please post your queries and share your experience.... will be happy to help.
