Suncatcher 

Re-use a 2 litre bottle as a fun suncatcher.

You will need:

2 litre soft drinks bottle
Good pair of scissors
Foil scraps (e.g. sweet wrappers) and glitter
PVA glue and spreader

Instructions:

1. Cut a short length of the plastic bottle (ask an adult to help with this as the plastic can be quite tough)
2. Make a series of cuts about 2 cm apart.
3. Curl each piece of plastic back on itself.
4. Decorate the suncatcher by gluing on scraps of foil, glitter etc.
5. When it’s dry, attach a piece of string and hang the suncatcher in a sunny spot indoors.

(Why not use the rest of the bottle as a mini greenhouse to help seedlings to grow, as a pot for pens or as a mini composter or wormery?)

Plastic bottle pan pipes

Make your own muscial instrument out of old plastic bottles.

You will need:

• Empty plastic bottles (600 ml size or smaller)
• Water
• Tape (optional)

Instructions:

1. Line up your plastic bottles and add varying amounts of water to each one. The more water in the bottle the lower the pitch will be.

2. You can tape the bottles together in a line so you can pick your pan pipes up or you can leave them on the table.

3. You make the sound by blowing across the top of the bottles; alter the amount of water in the bottles to get the sound you want.