Plastic Bottle Recycling – DIY Lanterns

A very creative plastic bottle recycling idea to make beautiful DIY lanterns for home décor or party decorations. Making art and craft from recyclables, especially plastic bottles craft is a really amazing and fun way to minimize waste around us. So, in this post we have shared a very interesting DIY lanterns making craft tutorial which is one of the easiest plastic bottle crafts for adults and kids (but with proper supervision). This recycled lantern is a great way to use up empty soda bottles lying around the house and can be used as colorful light decorations during festivals like Christmas, Diwali and for certain theme-based parties as well. Making this plastic bottle lamp is really easy and requires just a few simple craft materials as listed below.

So, let’s get started.

Materials required:

• Plastic Bottle
• Glitter Foam Sheet
• Holographic paper / Tape
• Rhinestones
• Ruler
• Pen
• Scissors/ Cutter
• Synthetic glue

Instructions:

Watch a video tutorial for DIY lanterns made by plastic bottle recycling.

1. Cut out 3 long strips of about 1 cm width from a glitter foam sheet.
2. Similarly, cut out 8 to 10 strips from holographic sheets of different colors.
3. Paste the glitter foam sheet strip around the plastic bottle to mark the top and bottom of the DIY lanterns.
4. Now, stick the holographic strips around the plastic bottle, in between the glitter foam strips, in a pattern as shown in the picture.
5. Using ruler and marker pen, draw equidistant vertical lines around the bottle.
6. Now with help of a cutter, cut through these lines as shown.
7. Press the plastic bottle from top and bottom so that these strips curve outwards to make a spherical shape.
8. Again, using the cutter trim out the excess part of the bottle as marked using glitter foam sheet.
9. Cut out a circular base using craft foam sheet for the DIY lantern and stick it at the bottom.
10. To add a little more detailing, make small cuts all around the top edge of the lantern and fold them outwards.
11. Stick the rhinestones on the neck portion of the lantern as shown in the picture.
12. Also, stick some rhinestones on the top edge of the recycled lantern as well and you are done.

Isn’t this a beautiful art and craft idea with waste plastic bottle, which you would have probably thrown out?  This amazing DIY craft can be used as a DIY lantern by placing LED light inside or you can also use it as a plastic bottle flower vase. In any way, this plastic bottle recycling idea is a must try. In this DIY project we have used holographic sheets and glitter foam sheets but you can use any craft material you have at hand. You can use decorative lace, holographic tape, washi tape or even color paper strips to make this plastic bottle DIY. And for more such amazing craft video tutorials check out the Little Crafties Youtube Channel.