Colourful Bottle

Decorate your room with this beautiful plastic bottle that looks like a colourful crystal.
It's very easy, cheap, beautiful and fast to make it.

Step 1 Materials

It's very easy, cheap, beautiful and fast to make it.
You will need this materials:
-1 Plastic Bottle.
-Paints that colors water.
*If you havn't this paints you can take the ink by a pen or a marker or you can use tube with colour.

Comments

[Applejuice11]

Great job, espesially for a first instructable!

[HappyChud]

instead of cooking a plastic bottle, just pour boiling water in, that should make it easier to shape it while its heated.

[1thadeaus1]

you dont need boiling water, i just pushed it down and then filled it with water and food coloring and it just stayed that way...

[CrustyCrayon]

But if you start pushing down on a bottle that was just filled with boiling water, the water can push out and onto your hands.

[1thadeaus1]

i just made mine!

[junits15]

that is a great idea I am going to make this ,only I am going to wire an LED inside the cap witch I'll paint black.

[amakerguy]

Thats very neat looking i think i'll make one.

[Jason Ray]

That is very cool. I made one of these and it was fast, easy, and people could not even tell if it was a bottle from a distance. Nice job.

[firegardeneve]

I really liked your bottle crushing idea and extended it to make this mood lighting with LEDs -
http://www.instructables.com/id/Mood-lighting-using-recycleables

thanks for a wonderful instructable. If you like what I did, please vote for it for the Let It Glow contest.

[006andahalf]

Hey gr8 idea .... Have u thought of inverting the bottle and fit the upside down neck and cap into a pre-drilled hole in the base .... ( to look its best the bottle must be completely full of liquid .... Thanks 4 a great starter idea : - }

[joeny1980]

Before reading it and just looking at the pics I thought you melted the bottles. Probably could achieve similar or cooler looking effectt (that would hold shape) by GENTLY cooking the plastic bottles. Plastic fumes are dangerous so dont do it without knowing the risk. But if I were to do it - I'd wrap it loosely in aluminum foil and bake it maybe outside in a barbeque at a real low setting. Maybe even bake while filled with water (but not in the house!). All of this has some danger to it - so dont take this as advice, and the young ones shouldnt try it. Personally I dont like the bottle cap on the top. Drill some two inch holes in a long board or box and mount a bunch upside down with some LED lighting underneath.

[joeny1980]

Oh yeah - I would imagine if the your heat source is preheated it would take about one minute.

[jtobako]

since the bottles are blow-molded (basicaly a frozen balloon) when you heat them they shrink. some will shrink in the dishwasher (some more noticably than others) and some need more heat (like trying to dry paper mache pulp in the oven). it goes very quickly over a bonfire (leave the cap off).

[wingman246]

u could also make the bottle have several colors by adding color to a cup of water and pouring it into the crushed bottle, then adding another color to the bottle, only some of it will mix, according to my experience

[Dieffsta]

sweet, im gonna try this out

[Spedy]

This is pretty neat. I'm gonna try it the next time I have some time to burn. good instructable.

[foamyguy]

I really love the way LED's look when you put them under a bottle of liquid. if stuck a throwie minus the magnet underneath it it'd look pretty cool, just keep a piece of plastic or paper to slide in to turn it off. And also if you don't have the ink / paint you could consider brightly colored drinks(gatoraid or poweraid work well) and in the unfortunate event that it should spill it won't be as likely to stain. And if you for some reason want to switch colors but reuse the bottle these won't stain the inside of the bottle.

[TheCheese9921]

nice maby someone should incorporate some LED's (hint hint) cough cough very kool

[Murf]

I was actually looking for a neat container for a liquid + LED project. This should do perfectly. Now I just have to have some free time to do the project. I'll post it whenever I have the time ot actually do the project :P

[tyeo098]

I dont know, my last couple of projects with elec+water didnt exactly turn out well... otherwrise, great project!

[austin]

thats pretty cool id like to do this with like epoxy resin or something to make it harden. and give it a feeling of mass