Recommended for lower elementary school students! A collection of plastic bottle craft ideas made with everyday materials.

Unicorn

[Cute Craft] How to Make a Colorful Unicorn (Mini Plastic Bottle) [Upcycled Play] Summer Project

Let’s make a colorful and cute unicorn using small plastic bottles from a lactic acid bacteria drink.

Prepare two bottles: use one for the unicorn’s face and the other for its body, and join them together.

For the neck, use a plastic bottle cap, but not from the lactic acid drink—use a regular plastic bottle cap instead.

Create the unicorn’s tail with colorful pipe cleaners, represent the mane with decorative pom-poms, and finish by adding eyes and a nose with round stickers.

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kaleidoscope

How to Make a Kaleidoscope: A Summer Vacation Craft with a Plastic Bottle ♪ [Voice Commentary] ◇ DIY “Kaleidoscope” Pet Bottle Easy Tutorial [Balalaika Origami]

Since there’s a lot to do, this is a craft project suited for a long vacation.

You look through a triangular tube made of foil at original beads created by dismantling plastic bottles—that’s the basic blueprint for a handmade kaleidoscope.

It’s very eco-friendly because it’s made mainly from plastic bottles.

It would be great if you could also present some thoughts about the environment along with the project!

Mini violin made of clay

It was pretty tough when I tried making a mini violin out of clay.

There are many kinds of musical instruments with different shapes, and those differences heighten our expectations about what kinds of sounds they can produce.

Focusing on the shapes of instruments, this activity has you use paper clay to make a violin shape.

A real violin has a unique form made by combining pieces of wood, so let’s carefully reproduce the details, such as the indented areas.

Once the overall shape is refined, paint it and attach separate parts like the strings to finish it as a realistic-looking violin.

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How to Make an Easy Guitar

[Instrument Craft] How to Make a Simple Guitar (Rubber Bands, Paper Cups) [Handmade Instrument, Playable Toy, Playable Craft] Upcycling Play – For Preschoolers and Lower Elementary Students

A simple guitar you can make with paper cups lets you easily live out the dream of strumming a ringing guitar.

First, glue the bottoms of two paper cups together.

Then stack another paper cup on each side with slits cut into them, and attach rubber bands into those slits—done.

The key here is the length of the rubber bands.

By choosing which slit to anchor them in and lining up rubber bands of different lengths, you can create differences in sound just like a real guitar.

Think about what kind of sound will make it feel cool, and fine-tune it into your ideal guitar.

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Chopstick grabber

[Craft] Chopstick Grabber (Magic Hand)

Let me introduce a chopstick grabber that’s fun to make and fun to play with.

Prepare eight wooden chopsticks, double-sided tape, plastic bottle caps, and rubber bands.

Stack four chopsticks in a crisscross pattern and secure the center with a rubber band.

Make another set the same way.

Combine the two finished sets and bind them with rubber bands where the chopsticks overlap to hold them together.

Finally, attach two plastic bottle caps to the tip, and it’s done.

Try moving the handle and have fun playing with it!

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