Stork for a garden with your own hands made of plywood is very simple. To do this, you do not need to look for a place in the garage or rent a storage room: a spacious kitchen and mother-in-law, a big lover of crafts, are enough.
To make the process go quickly, purchase a six-millimeter sheet of plywood and paint from the building materials market, which are used to update the facade of the house. The tool, if not enough, ask a neighbor or rent it. Do-it-yourself stork for the garden is an interesting craft, but a little capricious. Patience is the main condition when doing work, otherwise you can drag out the work so much that close relatives would rather buy metal figures than wait for inspiration to find you.
To make a stork for the garden with your own hands in a matter of days, follow the tips:
- The piece of plywood should be rectangular, with sides of 850 and 580 millimeters.
- Paint is better to take white. Buy black and red dye for it. With proper dilution, you will get exceptionally long-lasting color.
- Don't skip waterproof varnish: it will help protect your product from precipitation.
- Sandpaper is enough for half a meter.
- It is better to use an electric jigsaw.
- Brushes - up to you.
Using carbon paper, transfer the outline of the stork to plywood, if the drawing is already applied to a thin newspaper sheet, plug in the power cord of the jigsaw and carefully cut out the body of your stork. In order to “put the bird on its feet”, you can also cut out a stand from the remnants of plywood.
Sand the edges with pieces of sandpaper, cover with the first layer of varnish, let dry. Now you can take on the paint. Cook 3 types - red, white, black. The first tone is on the nose, the second on the torso and up to the middle of the wing, the third is allowed to empty places. Leave for 8 hours. Check the strength of the paint and apply another layer of varnish on top.
You can put steel wire or thin reinforcement on your feet. Fasten it to the body and stand, cover it with red, deepen the places for the eyes with a few blows with a hammer, fill the potholes with black furniture varnish and leave for a day. If there is no reinforcement, then old ski poles can be used. A stork for the garden with his own hands and on the ridge of the roof is bridged if desired, if you screw the body to the mop, the wide part of which goes under the rafters, where it is nailed.
What else can you do for your garden with your own hands? Fly agaric from hemp and basin, animal figurines from cans, a unique bed in pink tones.
But the stork is somehow closer to the heart of a Russian person. This noble bird can also be molded from gypsum and clay, and one plastic bottle, 500 grams of gypsum, gauze bandages and metal rods that bend well, 3 cans of polyurethane foam go to it.
Do-it-yourself gazebos for the garden are also not difficult to make. If you have a picture or a layout of a wire gazebo in front of your eyes, then, having the skills of a welder, you can “bundle up” a Chinese structure in 5-6 days.
While you are wasting electrodes, ask your beloved mother-in-law to sew sidewalls and a roof from canvas, and your wife to stretch the material on an iron frame. Buy cheap furniture and enjoy conversations under the cheerful hum of a boiling samovar.
