How to make crafts from tires
Old car tires are excellent materials for useful crafts.
Sandbox or flower bed of tires
Create a cozy corner for a child or for adults by making a sandbox or flower bed from tires. Cut some tires in half. Paint each detail with multi-colored paints. You can use alkyd enamel, spray paint, or acrylic paints.
Make a flower shape from separate halves of the tires. Fasten them together with wire. Fill the center of the flower with fertile soil for plants or sand for children.
Children’s rocking bench
This comfortable rocking chair for a child can be quickly and easily made from a car tire. Cut it in half with a wide, sharp knife or jigsaw. Select the board so that its length is equal to the diameter of the resulting base, and its width is slightly larger than the width of the tire. Round the corners and sand the board.
Using a drill and self-tapping screws, attach the board along the cut lines to the tire. Paint the entire structure with bright paint, you can attach various decorative items for decoration.
Tire Elephant Figurine
To make an elephant, you will need not only tires, but also an old canister, a corrugated tube from a sink drain set, wire and a sharp knife.
To make the craft stable and sit on it, place two tires close to each other, digging them into the ground. This will be the body of your elephant. Turn the canister upside down and fix it in the center of the two tires. The elephant has a head.
Make the trunk out of a corrugated tube, bending it slightly for plausibility. Two large ears can be cut from a piece of rubber or a large plastic water bottle. Paint the entire craft with blue or gray acrylic paint. Draw the eyes and mouth for the elephant.
Beds and flowerbeds made of tires
Let’s start with the most, perhaps, simple flower beds and flower beds. Do you think making a multi-tiered flower bed is difficult? 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 of geotextile. It will remove excess water, but will not let the earth 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. On the prepared surface, stepping back from the edge by more than half the diameter of the tire, lay out the second tier. 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
Crafts from tires: flower beds, flower beds, figures, garden furniture
It is 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.
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, grease 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 an angle grinder. Cutting an angle grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, the angle grinder, even if there is one, only makes the first cut so that the jigsaw file can be inserted. 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, most often an angle grinder works. 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.
Crafts from tires for the garden
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 in 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 mowing lines is certainly harder, but the result is impressive.
How to carve a swan out of an old tire
The tire is cut along the applied lines, 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 – 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 from a tire – from cutting to finishing – see in.
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
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 for a playground out of tires. Especially a lot of fascinating crafts are obtained for boys: self-propelled gun, cannon, cars, tractors They will definitely like it.
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, grease 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 an angle grinder. Cutting an angle grinder is relatively quick, but the stench is wild. Therefore, the angle grinder, even if there is one, only makes the first cut so that the jigsaw file can be inserted. 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, most often an angle grinder works. 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.
Crafts from tires: flower beds, flower beds, figures, garden furniture
It is 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.