How pleasant it is to stroll through your own garden, enjoying the enchanting nature and the stunning fresh air. Thinking over the design of a suburban area, each owner tries to make it special, adding color and creating a positive mood. Garden figurines made of plywood are able to successfully complement plant compositions and wonderfully transform the site, making it a nice and cozy corner, conducive to a pleasant rest. Anyone can make such funny figures from plywood. To create such an ornament it is not at all necessary to possess the artist’s skills, it is enough to show imagination and make a minimum of effort.
Such figures are designed to accent certain places on the site, making them more elegant and attractive. Due to the naturalness of the decoration made of wood and plywood most harmoniously fit into the landscape design.
Figures cut out from plywood on garden plots look unusually
From plywood, you can make many interesting functional decorations for the garden. It can be:
- Funny figures;
- Containers for flowers;
- Mailboxes;
- Bird feeders;
- Decorative fences.
There are a great many variants of plywood figures, and each of them is original and expressive.
Miniature toy houses, animal figures, fabulous fairy-tale sculptures and cartoon characters today adorn many suburban areas
How to choose the right material?
Plywood is one of the easiest and most convenient material for creating crafts. It is so simple to work that the figures from it are obtained quite quickly, and most importantly - interesting.
Plywood is a sheet of wood veneer, bonded together in several layers with glue or a synthetic compound. The strength and thickness of the material directly depends on the number of these layers. The thickness range of plywood sheets ranges from 3 to 30 mm. The material can have a completely different texture, which can affect the color and structure of the finished craft. For example: due to its beautiful structure and warm shades, birch plywood looks very aesthetically pleasing, while coniferous plywood is more suitable for coloring.
To create garden decorations sheets of plywood perfectly resemble the material for the manufacture of which were: poplar, alder, aspen, pine, birch, spruce
The main advantages of plywood:
- Environmental friendliness;
- Strength and durability;
- Water resistant;
- Good flexibility;
- Compatibility with other materials;
- Ease of processing.
But since plywood is still a tree, which by its nature is subject to environmental influences, a number of points should be taken into account when choosing a material:
- Moisture resistant. For the design of outdoor spaces and decoration of a personal garden area, you can use plywood sheets marked with FCM and FSF. In their manufacture, melamine and phenolic resins with a water-repellent effect are used.
- Ground processing. On sale you can find sheets polished on one side (Ш1), processed on both sides (Ш2) and completely unpolished (NS). This moment is very important only if you do not have time for additional processing.
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Oil and acrylic paints are ideal for creating expressive and colorful garden decorations. They perfectly fit on a wooden surface, creating rich color combinations. Paints are resistant to ultraviolet rays, while maintaining attractiveness for several years.
When choosing materials for the manufacture of jewelry, it is important not only to competently pay attention to the quality characteristics of plywood. Also important is the moment of choosing paints for decoration that will preserve color saturation for several seasons.
We create figures with our own hands
Most often, cottages are decorated with flat figures carved from moisture-resistant plywood sheets. To create an original decoration, we need:
- Moisture resistant plywood 2 cm thick;
- Stencil;
- Jigsaw;
- A simple pencil;
- Fine sandpaper;
- Screwdriver and screws;
- Acrylic paints, brushes and varnish.
If you plan to install a figure without leaning it on any support in the garden, it is also necessary to provide for the production of pegs for its foundation. Their size depends on the dimensions of the figure itself. But, in any case, rely on the fact that the pegs should go deeper into the ground by at least 50 cm.
We invite you to recall the forgotten type of creativity - sawing with a jigsaw, making an unusual decoration for the garden with your own hands
You can decorate any corner in the garden with a plywood figurine, hanging it on a rope, fixing it to the support with nails and installing it on supports
A stencil for making a figure can be made independently. To do this, you need to draw your favorite drawing on a piece of paper, designing it in the form of a drawing or silhouette, and then simply cut it out.
Master class # 1 - a curious snail
A cute plywood figure is so easy to make that anyone can make it. Little helpers will be happy to respond to the offer of adults to participate in an exciting process.
The charming snail will surely appeal not only to small fidgets, but to adult guests of the site, becoming an elegant decoration for the playground and a favorite character in exciting games
On a sheet of paper we make a sketch of a future figure, the image of which is subsequently transferred to the basis of plywood
If you are confident in your abilities, you can do without a paper template by drawing a snail right on a plywood sheet. For security reasons, you will have to do your own jigsaw cutting. But drawing contours and decorating a snail can be safely entrusted to impatient little helpers.
Using a felt-tip pen or a burner, we draw the contours of the cochlea so that even after coating with paint they remain bright and expressive
We paint the blank with acrylic paints, choosing spectacular contrast combinations. To get saturated colors, acrylic paints are best applied in 2 layers
The snail is ready. Let the colors dry a little, and you can safely plant a pretty character on any place you like in the garden.
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Master Class # 2 - Charming Scarecrow
Allocating just a couple of hours of free time to make the Scarecrow, you can personally make a funny figure that will bring a touch of soulfulness and warmth to the site.
Here is such an incredibly cute and charming fairy-tale character Scarecrow from the tale "The Wizard of the Emerald City", can also live on your site
We will make the figures in several stages. First, we take a sheet of plywood, on which we use the stencil to draw the outline of the future character. The finished drawing can be transferred to plywood using an ordinary tracing-paper.
If we make a figure that will rest on the pegs, we immediately attach them. To do this, in the body of the figure we drill paired holes, the diameter of which corresponds to the size of the pegs.
On the intended contour with a jigsaw we cut out the figure. We carefully polish its edges with sandpaper, giving them smoothness.
We make out the figure: on the blank with a simple pencil we draw the character's elements and paint them with acrylic paints
Having painted the front part of the workpiece, we paint the end faces. When the paints have dried, varnish the figure.
To decorate the figure, we used dried grass, which was decorated with scarecrow hair, a button and a satin ribbon, from which the collar of the character was laid out
Our cute fairytale character is ready. It remains only to stretch the wire through the holes in the hat and fix it on a tree branch or fence.
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A little secret: if a plywood sheet begins to delaminate during sawing with a jigsaw, it is necessary to impregnate it with a solution prepared from PVA glue and water taken in a ratio of 1: 1. The plywood is impregnated 2-3 times, applying each subsequent layer after complete drying of the previous one.
Since such crafts are quite lightweight, finished products should be firmly fixed, partially buried in the ground, covered with sand or glued to the base.
The same principle can be used to make thematic plywood designs, for example: a miniature fairytale forest lost in a flower garden with bizarre trees or a pretty clearing near a pond filled with funny figures of animals. DIY plywood constructions will decorate your site, making it attractive and unique.
