DIY Homemade Recycled Plastic Windmill
How to make small windmills with plastic bottles for your bike or garden for the summer.
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Materials – Plastic bottle, 2 corks, 8mm beads, 1,4 x 40mm nails, cable clip 1,4 x 3.6mm
Tools – Knife, rotary hole punch, bradawl, scissors
Make a card template 10cm squared, marking 4cm into the centre on each corner
- Cut flat section out of the bottle
- Cut a square of plastic, fold diagonally both ways to find the centre
- Cut 4cm into the centre on each corner
- Make a hole in the centre and holes in the left hand corner of each segment
- Cut the cork in half with the knife
- Make a hole through, near one end.
- Slide the cable tie through the hole
- Slide a bead onto a nail, thread through all four corner holes in turn, then through the centre hole.
- Add another bead, push into the cork.
- Adjust to make sure it spins
- Attach with the cable tie