DIY Recycled Pokemon Planters

Collect a coke bottle, wash,clean and dry the bottle. I'm using a Pepsi bottle for Chikorita planter. The bottom curved ends of the bottle are going to be the legs of Chikorita (as well as for the rest of the planters). Determine the size (height) for Chikorita and use a marker to trace the top end pattern of it on the bottle, at the determined height. For Chikorita you'll need to trace an arch shaped head on the top, which was about halfway from the bottom of a 250 ML bottle. After drawing the arch shaped head, draw a straight line from one end of the arch to its other end, around the bottle.

Use an x-acto knife to cutout the traced pattern from the plastic bottle. Place the bottle on a flat surface and hold it tightly with one hand, while pressing the pointy edge of the knife against any point of the traced line with the other hand. Carefully and neatly cut out the whole pattern. We'll be working with the bottom side of the bottle, meanwhile store the top end (I'm sure we can use it for another project later). Prepare acrylic color and paint brush. Paint the outer surface of the cutout bottle pattern. For me, only 1 coat of acrylic color worked, but apply another coat after the 1st coat dries (if necessary). Instead of painting the eyes and other features directly on the bottle, I painted them on regular white paper and then cut them out. I'm not very good at painting on curvy surface, hence this technique! Paint the eyes of Chikorita on a paper, cut them out and stick them on the painted bottle using craft glue. To draw easy patterns you can use sharpie. Done!