Bottle Recycling and How to Make a Pencil Holder

I like to make crafts. One of the material that I usually use is used bottles. I want to do bottle recycling. Now, I want to share the creative idea of ​​making a unique pencil holder from the used bottle and how to make a pencil holder. These pencil holders are shaped rabbits made from used bottles and felt fabric.

Make Your Own Pencil Holder

The pencil holder is a object that often used. The students usually need this thing to put down their stationery. The shape of the pencil holder is very diverse and widely sold in the market. Some are made from zink, plastic, up to used goods are modified into unique handmade creations and has a sale value.

To have a funny and unique pencil place actually very easy, it does not have to buy. We can make a pencil holder from the material that is no longer used or from the garbage as I have made. The pencil holders like the picture below are made from mineral water bottles.

How? These are funny, aren't it? In addition to reducing the amount of waste, making a pencil holder like this can also save costs because it does not require expensive materials. Materials are needed to make the pencil holder we often encounter in our homes are used bottles and felt fabric that are familiar to craft lovers.

Making a unique and funny pencil holder from used materials may be able to your reference. Currently used bottles are often used by elementary school students as craft materials. Making handicrafts from used materials is used for learning so that the children know the benefits of used or waste goods and how to manage them into something more useful.

How to Make Unique Cute Pencil Holder

Here are the tools and materials to make a pencil holder from the used bottle:
1. Mineral water bottle
2. Felt fabric
3. Dacron
4. Doll Eyes
5. Needle and thread
6. Scissors / Cutter
7. Glue gun

Once materials and equipment are available, here are the steps.

1. Prepare plastic bottles of mineral water that have been cleaned. Release the mineral water label from the bottle. After that, draw the rabbit pattern to the bottle using a marker

2. Next, cut the bottle according to the pattern made. When cutting the bottle, you should use a cutter first. Cut just a little to pierce the bottle. After that, cut with scissors.

Next, prepare a piece of felt fabric. After that, place the bottle on the felt and make a pattern using a pencil according to the pattern on the bottle.

4. Cut felt fabric according to the bottle pattern. Give wide of the felt fabric approximately 1 cm for the lower and upper folds.

5. Next, wrap the bottle with the felt. Give glue to the edges and then stick it.

6. Cut out a flannel piece of the fold section precisely on both sides. For more details, please see the picture.

7. The next step, fold the felt fabric. Fold the felt fabric on the mouth, give glue and paste. Fold also on the bottom / bottle bottom.

8. Next, cut the felt fabric for the base of the pencil holder or for the rabbit's legs part. Give variety with different colored felt fabrics to make it more interesting.

9. After that, give glue gun and then put the base on the bottom of the pencil holder.

10. Cut the felt fabric to shape the ears and hands of the rabbit. Give variety with different color felt.

11. Next, put the ears of the rabbit on the stationery holder as in the picture.

12. Create a circle for the rabbit's nose. Cut the felt fabric to be a circle shape. Sew with sewing baste stitch and insert the dacron. Cut out a white felt fabric to make a rabbit's teeth and draw a line with a pen. For rabbit's mustache can use folded woolen yarn. After that, attach the mustache, teeth, and nose of the rabbit. Use glue gun, paste the pair of the puppet eyes. Done.

That's Bottle Recycling and How to Make a Pencil Holder. Hopefully this article is useful and workable.