Crafts from tires: flower beds, flower beds, figures, garden furniture

It's always nice to make something useful out of a junk thing, and if the craft is also beautiful, it's a double pleasure. One example is tire crafts. They are used to make decorations for a summer cottage or garden plot, various flowerpots and flower beds, build children's attractions, and even make country furniture - tables and armchairs.

Beds and flower beds made of tires

Let's start with the most, perhaps, simple flower beds and flower beds. Do you think to do a tiered flower bed complicated? Maybe, but not from tires. Take several pieces of different sizes, paint in bright colors and fold them in a slide - one on top of the other. To prevent your slide from falling apart, fasten the tires from the inside with a screwdriver and self-tapping screws. Two for one connection will suffice. You fill up the soil inside, plant the plants. To prevent the soil from spilling out, you can cover the tire inside with a piece geotextile... It will remove excess water, but will not allow the earth to get enough sleep. A beautiful tiered flower garden is ready.

Tiered tire bed

If you like flower beds of the correct shape, you can make these. For example, by folding a flower bed in the shape of a chamomile from tires. First, the tires are laid out and fastened together in the lower tier. Fill the middle of the tires with earth, as well as the free space inside the circle. For better drainage, you can lay broken brick or other construction waste there, sprinkle it with a little earth on top and tamp it. The second tier is laid out on the prepared surface, stepping back from the edge by more than half the tire diameter. They are also fastened together, the middle is covered with soil, and the core is placed on top. At the very top, tall flowers can be planted, and on the lower tiers - curb or undersized.

Another way to make a tiered flower bed from tires

Another option for a flower bed made of tires in the form of chamomile is in one tier. To complete it, you will have to cut the tires.

Flowerbed-chamomile from tires

How to cut tires

In general, when making crafts from tires, they often need to be cut. This is far from easy. It is more or less easy to cut the side surface from the tread. People with strong hands and good knives do it by hand. A good workout, by the way, for the hands and the entire shoulder girdle. If you are going to cut with a knife, lubricate the blade with grease: rubber constantly "wedges" the metal, and the blade covered with grease slips well.

You can also cut off the sidewall with a jigsaw or grinder. Cutting with a grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, with a grinder, even if there is one, only the first cut is made so that you can insert the jigsaw file. Then they work with this tool. For cutting rubber, take a reverse tooth blade made of good steel.

Tires with cut edges can be used to make a tall strawberry bed

If you have to cut the protector, doing it with a jigsaw or even more so with a knife is useless. In any case, with an ordinary knife. Blades made of special steel can cut even an iron cord, but hardly anyone wants to disfigure such a tool on an old tire. Therefore, they work most often with a grinder. To avoid trouble, the protector is fixed: always think about safety. If the sidewalls have already been cut off, the tread band is quite elastic and can be squeezed with a clamp. When cut, it will not spring back.

About, how to make a small reservoir out of a tire, read here.

Flowerpot from the wheel: turn out the tires

If you have a tire with an old rim, you can make a flowerpot with a leg out of it.

Flowerpot from an old car wheel

To do this, cut one sidewall along the tread. And they turn it out.This is not an easy matter: it requires considerable physical strength and perseverance. The rubber is elastic and you can't turn it out the first time. If not at all, notches are made on the outside across the tread. They should be quite deep, but not cross-cutting. It will also help if you make cuts along the edge with a depth of at least 5-7 centimeters. They will look like fringe on an inverted tire.

Why do they turn it out? The inner surface is smoother, and the shape can turn out to be more interesting, especially if the edge is not linear, but jagged. You will get a gracefully bent decoration.

Another option for a flowerpot from a tire

For details on how to turn the tire out, see the video.

Likewise, you can turn out a tire without a rim. The sequence of actions is the same. First, cut off one of the sidewalls - straight or zigzag. To make the "petals" even, it is advisable to mark them. It is convenient to do this with chalk. At the mark, they are then cut with a jigsaw or a knife (if the cord is synthetic).

The process of turning an old tire into a flower garden

They turn it out like this: they step on the inside of the tire, grab the edge with their hands and pull up and towards themselves. It is important to achieve the first result: when at least some part bends. If the tire looks like the photo below, it is already a success. It is developed by sequentially turning the edge out and standing on the already turned out part - so that it does not turn out back.

Turning out a tire without a rim

Watch the process again in the video. This time, the tire is turned inside out without a wheel (cut, by the way, with a knife).

Even such an inside-out tire looks good on its own. If you paint it, it gets even better. If desired, they can be combined - different colors, sizes, differently set: on the bus or on the legs.

Installation options

A high flower bed always looks beautiful. Especially with ampelous plants. It can also be made from tires, and there are several possibilities. In the photo below, there are two ways to secure the trimmed tires at different levels. The first is to use hemp for this, to which the flowerpots are fastened with nails or screws. The second is to use reinforcement - three four rods, on which to put on rubber. Having set the tier at the desired level, it must be fixed, on metal this can only be done with the help of clamps.

Multi-tiered high tire beds

It is not always possible to put a flowerpot on the ground: some areas are so developed that it is problematic to single out one square meter. For this case, the people came up with various hanging flowerpots, and also - from old tires. Only a small part of the entire tire remains, so you have to cut a lot ... be patient. For example, you can make hanging pots in the shape of a dolphin, parrot, rooster, and other outlandish birds. See not a photo for a few ideas.

Tire cache-pot - parrot, rooster and dolphin

All these crafts are made from tires. Only a small part of them - the heads - are often made of dense foam. After cutting and polishing a part of the desired shape, it is fastened with self-tapping screws, greased with glue (this is a secret, remember), and then paint. How to make a parrot out of a tire, see the video.

From cut tires can make a path for the garden, which will serve for many years.

Garden Tire Crafts

The imagination of people is limitless and they make amazing decorations from old car tires. The most common crafts are figures of birds and animals. And perhaps the most beloved character is the swan. It turns out to be graceful and similar, especially if you know some tricks.

Tire swans

The main task when making figures for a garden from tires is the correct marking. For example, those swans in the photo above do not have their heads cut out quite correctly. It can be made more believable by making a sharp beak. An example of a tire cut is shown in the photo below. Cutting such lines is certainly harder, but the result is impressive.

How to carve a swan out of an old tire

Along the lines drawn, the tire is cut, then the wings are turned outward. In this case, the neck bends rather steeply. So that this bend can be changed, a metal plate can be screwed to it with self-tapping screws. When everything is covered with paint, nothing will be visible, and the tilt of the head can be changed, which is also quite relevant. Often a swan is "put" in a nest from another tire. Then it must be attached with self-tapping screws: the figure must hold well and be stable.

There is one more improvement - the wings. They can be left as they are, you can cut feathers out of rubber, or you can make feathers from white plastic bottles (one liter bottle makes 6 feathers), attach them to the net. Then such a bird will turn out ...

The body of these decorative swans is made of tires, and all parts are made of scrap materials

How to make a swan out of a tire - from cutting to final finishing - see the video.

Using a similar technology, numerous figures can be made to decorate a plot or garden. The easiest way is to make a frog: the body is one or two tires painted green, the legs can be made from scraps of sidewalls or some other materials, the eyes - who will come up with what - someone even made from plastic cups or small tires, apparently from a baby carriage ...

Tire frog

They also make bears, flamingos, dragons, crocodiles, giraffes, zebras, donkeys ... it's easier to say who they don't. See some of the tire crafts in the photo gallery.

You can make rides from tires for playground... Especially a lot of fascinating crafts are obtained for boys: self-propelled gun, cannon, cars, tractors ... they will definitely like it.

Garden and country furniture made of tires

It's hard to believe, but even furniture is made of tires: ottomans, tables, armchairs. all this can be done from an old tire. The easiest way is to make ottomans: put several tires of the same diameter (or not) one on top of the other, fasten them from the inside with self-tapping screws. Fill the top with dense furniture foam rubber, sew and put on a cover. If you wish, you can attach the legs: at least screw the furniture wheels. It is easier to move on wheels and does not stain the floor, the second way is to fix the felt from below (on the staples from stapler).

Below are laid out step-by-step photos, which capture the main stages of creating a table or ottoman from a tire. You will need two more circles of plywood or fiberboard of a suitable diameter; hemp rope is used for finishing. From the materials at hand, you will need glue and a glue gun, as well as varnish and a brush for applying it. To connect the circles with the tire you need screwdriver and self-tapping screws - 8-10 pieces on each side.

An ottoman or table from an old tire

Next, we take a glue gun and heat up the glue, apply it to the sidewall. If there is no such luxury in the household, take glue, which is in a larger tube, such as "liquid nails". It is easier for them to work with an assembly gun. Apply a strip to the sidewall, glue the hemp rope. So - to the very top.

We glue the sides with hemp rope

Using the same technology, we decorate the table cover (ottoman). You need to start laying from the middle: apply glue, lay the rope.

Decorating the table cover

Completion of work - varnish application. We do it slowly, soaking well. This is what should be the result. If you made a table, you can put glass on top - a rope, even varnished, is not the best covering for a table, although it is beautiful ...

Such an ottoman-table turned out to be both an old tire and a hemp rope

Variety can be achieved with the cover. It can be sewn from a dense material you like.

Nice ottoman ...

Can be knitted - large knitting looks interesting.

Large knit knitted cover - looks interesting

If you don't want to sew and knit, you can use old knitwear cut into strips. They are cut into long strips 3-5 cm thick, wound into balls and then wrapped around an ottoman. It turns out interesting, especially if several colors are combined.

Cut the old knitwear into stripes, roll it into balls, wrap the ottoman with the top. The result is in front of you

The same technique in different colors

If you need a taller ottoman, twist the two tires together with self-tapping screws, and work with them in this form.

How to make a high ottoman

This is the result of labor

See another option in the video