Upcycling

 Upcycling

Ingredients

• Empty recycled plastic bottle.

• Acrylic paints (white, and 2 or 3 colors of your choice)

• Paintbrushes

• Box knife

• Pencil

• Vivid marker

• Paper

Method

First, pick the recycled bottle that you want to make into a planter. Second, choose how you are going to cut it. Next, use a vivid marker to mark out where to cut the bottle. Then, cut the bottle using scissors or a box knife. Next, sandpaper the bottle to make the edges less sharp and so that the paint stays. After that, paint the bottle white and let it dry. On your piece of paper, draw your tessellation. A tessellation is a shape that fits together with another of itself. Then, apply a second coat of paint and let it dry. Draw your design on your bottle VERY LIGHTLY in pencil. Next, paint your design and let it dry. Then, paint the last coat. When the last coat dries, paint it over with PVA glue. Let it dry. Do a second coat of PVA glue. 

I really liked the part when we planted the flowers.