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A green summer floating project from plastic pop bottles

February 11th, 2009

If old useless plastic bottles take too much space in your house, you definitely need a good green solution to get rid of them.

Before recycling the tons of bottles piled up on top of each other, you can give them a great chance to prove themselves to be useful for not just keeping your favorite drinks from being all over your basement, but for cool water fun activities too!

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your green summer floating project

This idea becomes especially useful when you’re stuck in your boiling hot backyard with your awesome friends, and a refreshing lake near by.
Later on, you can present this green project to your school or community as a good example of re-using and saving the Earth from unnecessary garbage.
If you are going to a summer camp, you can introduce this idea to the camp staff in advance, become a green project leader and make it there with your buddies.

OK, let’s start!

You need:

  • 120 plastic 2L bottles,
  • duct tape,
  • scissors
  • any hard light cover (plastic, plywood, etc, for instance, your old table cover)
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Put 10 bottles on the floor in a row, side to side and stick them together with duct tape. Make 11 more rows - twelve in total.

Preparation: Make sure all the bottles are empty and caps are put on tightly.

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Make the first 'level' from 6 rows and stick them together with duct tape. Make the second 'level' the same way. Stick both 'levels' together by duck tape

Step 1.

Put 10 plastic bottles on the floor in a row, side to side and stick them together with duct tape. Make 11 more rows – twelve in total.

Step 2.

Make the first ‘level’ from 6 rows and stick them together with duct tape. Make the second ‘level’ the same way.

Step 3.

Stick both ‘levels’ together by duck tape.

Step 4.

Put the hard light cover (plastic, plywood, etc, for instance, your old table cover) on top and tape it on with duct tape to two levels of plastic bottles.

The construction is ready!

It can hold up to 2 grown up people and will most likely become your best water friend.

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Put the hard light cover (plastic, plywood, etc, for instance, your old table cover) on top and tape it on with duct tape to two levels of plastic bottles.

livegreenstyle.com green craft project plastic bottles

The construction is ready! It can become your best water friend.

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  1. amandat
    February 11th, 2009 at 23:09 | #1

    i love the idea! i’ll show it to my kids- they might want to make it in the summer time.

  2. top5
    February 18th, 2009 at 12:04 | #2

    Looks like you guys are interested in craft projects made out of old stuff. Any idea for old auto tires or other auto part?

  3. docgreen
    February 18th, 2009 at 12:35 | #3

    People used to make lots of things out of old auto tires somewhere in Africa. I don’t think they do it for fun there.

  4. top5
    February 18th, 2009 at 12:54 | #4

    I have a couple ideas what can be done with old auto tires, if i go with it, promise to post a picture here.

  5. SamK
    February 22nd, 2009 at 18:51 | #5

    easy and smart idea. same some money on inflatable water stuff and keep kids busy. thanks, site’s bookmarked.