DIY Caterpillar Pencil Holder From Plastic Bottles

Searching for a artistic method to maintain your pencils? Or perhaps you simply need to add a bit of enjoyable to your child’s desk. Both means, this caterpillar pencil holder is ideal! Made out of upcycled plastic bottles, this pencil holder is each eco-friendly and enjoyable. This undertaking is ideal for anybody who likes to be artistic. And it’s a good way to recycle these plastic bottles!

Caterpillar Pencil Holder

This undertaking is ideal for anybody who loves recycling and needs to learn to make one thing enjoyable and helpful from recycled supplies. You should use any colour or kinds of plastic bottle you need, so your caterpillar pencil holder can be completely distinctive.

When you’ve completed making this, will probably be the proper place to retailer your whole pencils, pens, and different workplace provides. Not solely is that this undertaking enjoyable and simple, but it surely additionally helps the surroundings by recycling previous plastic bottles into one thing new and helpful.

And, if you’d like one thing else that’s completely distinctive to carry your pencils, you would possibly like this plastic bottle pencil holder or this cute shampoo bottle monster pencil holder. After all, I favor the tin can owl pencil holder myself.

How Many Holders Ought to I Add to My Caterpillar?

This caterpillar could be as large or as small as you need. Since you may select what number of plastic bottles so as to add, you get to decide on what number of areas you have got. It’s a easy method to customise your caterpillar pencil holder to be precisely what you want.

You can too use no matter measurement bottle you want. This may change the scale of the caterpillar too. That is nice as a result of you should utilize it to carry greater or small issues relying on the bottle measurement.

I feel 4 holders is right, but when your desk has room, add as many as you need to give the caterpillar a ton of additional areas for storage.

How Can I Make the Caterpillar Face?

The face of the caterpillar is very easy to make. You need to type the construction. I like to make use of cardboard as a result of it’s a recycled materials and is sturdy sufficient to face up. Then it will get coated with the identical felt I’m utilizing on the remainder of the caterpillar. To make the main points of the face, you should utilize extra felt in numerous colours, use crafting foam and even paper. You can too simply draw or paint it within the caterpillar pencil holder. Googly eyes could be enjoyable and so would stickers.

Use your creativeness, or take a look at a guide of cartoon photographs of caterpillars to make yours look extra like the favored characters. Or, you may at all times make it look distinctive and extra sensible with some earth tones as a substitute of vivid colours.

What All Can I Use This Plastic Bottle Craft For?

I initially deliberate this as a pencil holder however it may be a lot extra. Under are just a few extra concepts that work nice with this undertaking.

• Use it to carry flowers like a vase or use it to carry small potted vegetation.
• It may be used to carry crafting provides like paint brushes and sculpting knives.
• Use it within the kitchen to carry spoons and different cutlery.
• Placed on a toilet counter within the child’s rest room and use it for toothbrushes, toothpaste, hair ties, or comparable objects.

No matter you need to retailer within the totally different sections will work. If you wish to retailer greater issues, you should utilize bigger plastic bottles and if you wish to retailer issues like jewellery you should utilize smaller ones.

Simple Methods to Customise My Pencil Holder

One simple method to customise your pencil holder is to make use of totally different colours to cowl the plastic bottles. You can too enhance the caterpillar with paint, markers, googly eyes, and anything you may consider. If you wish to get actually artistic, you may even add a bit of pipe cleaner antennae!

Have enjoyable utilizing your creativeness so as to add little bits and baubles to make your caterpillar sparkle and shine. Or, you may go extra easy and canopy every holder with some pipe cleaners in earth tones to make it fuzzy like an actual caterpillar.

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Find out how to Make a Caterpillar Pencil Holder

Begin by eradicating labels from the bottles you’re utilizing, and cleansing them. Allow them to dry fully, then lower the highest 1/3 of every bottle off and discard it, conserving the underside half.

Now, lower a bit of yellow felt lengthy sufficient to wrap round a bottle, however about 3″ taller.

Wrap this felt piece across the bottle, and glue it into place, then tuck the additional on prime contained in the bottle and glue it into place.

Repeat this course of making a complete of two yellow and a pair of inexperienced wrapped bottles.

Now, place these onto a bit of cardboard and hint round them, then add about 1″ additional on both sides on the surface and about 6″ longer on one finish.

Lower this cardboard piece out, having one piece flat and one finish curved.

Then, wrap this longer piece of cardboard in inexperienced felt and glue it into place.

Now, glue the wrapped bottles, alternating colours, and place them on the flat finish of the green-covered board with the curved finish open on the opposite finish.

Set this apart, then on a bigger piece of cardboard, draw a circle that’s 5″ extensive. This would be the caterpillar head.

Slightly below that circle, hint an oval form on its facet to offer the caterpillar physique form.

Cowl this piece in yellow felt and glue it into place.

Now, lower a small inexperienced glitter foam piece that may be a bit bigger than a half-moon form, and glue it to the entrance fringe of the physique of the caterpillar.

On a bit of white foam paper, lower out two 1″ extensive circles.

Use two smaller black foam circles and glue them on prime of the white ones to create the caterpillar eyes.

Glue these on the highest half of the spherical caterpillar head.

Lower out one other piece of black paper right into a half-moon form to offer it a mouth and glue this slightly below the eyes.

Fold the pipe cleaner in half, then twist the ends in order that they type spirals. Glue this on the prime again of the pinnacle.

Now, glue the caterpillar physique to the again of the cardboard strip holding the bottles. Connect this to the curved finish, so the physique exhibits previous the bottles.

Now, glue two beads on the entrance backside of every of the bottles.

Extra Upcycled Bottle Crafts

Empty plastic water and soda bottles are so versatile. You’ll love the concepts under that take trash and switch it into treasure. Just remember to bookmark these concepts, print out the tutorials, or pin them to a crafting board on Pinterest to make quickly.

Completed Challenge Gallery

Flip your caterpillar right into a butterfly by including giant paper wings to the again!