I am participating in a swap where we have to use 5 things to do on Keri Smith list 100 ideas.
Now i wondered if I could think of a 100 uses.
Here we go:
1. container for jam
2. Pot plant
3. Candle holder
4. Toy - Telephone (I made this when I was a child - googled for a pattern click here)
5. Money box
6. Pencil holder
7. Glass to drink water
8. Bin
9. Tie them at the back of wedding cars
10. Recycle it
11.From the DIY network
| Edge out your garden with recycled cans. |
13. Gift box.
14 Store Biscuits etc...
15. Soap container
16. Use as skittles
17. Use food cans as free weights f0r exercise
18. Small stilts
19. Make a utility belt.
20. Christmas tree ornaments
21. Trick or Treat cup: batman treat cup, cat cup
22. Wishing well
23.Gift Bag (Christmas Snowman Recycled Tin Can Gift Bag Containers)
24. Tin Can People (instructions)
25. Lantern (instructions) (How to Make a Tin Can Luminary )
26. Picture frame
Follow ideas from (Clever Tin Can Uses)
27. Tomato juice cans covered in pretty fabric or ribbon make great wine holders for gifts
28. Make a picnic holder from two coffee cans and four soup cans. Spray paint them in fun colors and hot glue them together. Place paper plates and napkins in the large cans and flatware in the small ones. The wind won't blow them away.
29. Make a decorative umbrella holder from four coffee cans. Open both ends, hot glue them together end-to-end, and cover them with adhesive-backed paper. Leave the end on the bottom can for a base.
30. Use a large coffee can to make "round" bread. Remove both ends and lay on the side while baking.
31. Olive can electric lamp.
32. Use as sand pit toys.
33. Nuttoes - cook-in-a-can.
34. Make a musical instrument - shakers
35. Make a musical instrument- drums
36. Fill them with little rocks and use them as maracas.
Form a pyramid like figure with a bunch of cans to throw balls at them and win teddy bears
37. Target practice for BB guns or sling shots.
38. Body of a rocket.
39. Hot Air Balloon
40. Body of a toy car
41. Fill with sand and use as a door stopper.
42. Use to make christmas pudding or bake bread.
43. Time capsule
44. Incense Stick holder.
45.
Any more ideas???????
HELP
Thanks
2 comments:
OooOOO! You could try filling a tin with ripped out pages (usually first pages) of books. I'd say to use about ten books and fill it up with other reading goodies! :)
Greetings from Swap-Bot!
-AyricaEnigma
I hope this long list will help. I use a lot of tins for my mixed media art, for crafts,kitchen stuff and I use to work at a children's school many years ago.
Good luck.
Stephanie (solarts at Swap-bot)
1.Fill the tin up with herbal or any sorts of teas.
2. Received postcards and letters from pen pals, friends, swap-bot friends. Or postcards and swap items to be sent. Label the tin can the name of your swap or etc.
3. yarn, ribbons, scraps of tissue paper, decorative paper for art collages.
4. rubber stamps and ink pads.
5. used or unused postage stamps.
6. clear glass broken pieces,or colored glass pieces for making glass art tiles.
7. broken mosiac tiles of different colors for mosiac art.
8. wine corks of all different kinds.
9. bottle caps of all different kinds.
10. Small finger puppets of all different kinds so it's easier to find and not lose them. Label the tin the name of the child or etc.
11. buttons of all different colors, sizes and designs.
12. Left over fabric pieces to use to make art colleges or quilts etc.
13. sugar, or flour or any sort of baking goods. Mark each individual tin can with the name the baking ingridient.
14. spools of thread of all different colors and sizes for sewing.
15. pens, pencils or any writing tools.
16. beads of all different colors and sizes.
17. different colors of wire for art projects.
18. tiny earrings of all different colors and sizes.
19. junk mail.
20. A hanging chime to hang outside of ones home. Poke a hole into the bottom of the can thread wire through the hole. Add bells of different sizes, colors through the wire. Tie a knot at the bottom and top of the wire. Add a loop at the top of the can and then pull the wire through the hole of the can. Then twist the wire and then add the bells. Whichever way is the easiest. Attach a small or medium sized hook to hang.
21. coupons for supermarket.
23. film from the camera that needs to be developed.
24. New or used batteries for anything that needs batteries.
25. Punch holes all over the whole entire can for children to catch bugs.
Add food for the bug and the child can view through the holes and see the bug.
The holes adds breathing area for the bug.
26. Small sticky notes of all different colors and sizes.
27. Play dough that children love to play with.
28. magnets of all different colors and sizes.
29. game pieces such as dice, playing cards, etc.
30. ATC making materials and an instruction card "how to make ATC.s' that goes with it.
31. Dog or cat treats or food.
32. Freshly cut garden herbs from the garden.
33. packets of seeds of all different kinds.
34. photographs of " "
35. Business cards of various areas.
36. Mix paint and label what the mixed paint that you created on the can.
37. A piggy bank. With a sharp tool mark on the top of the can a slit long and thick enough to insert coins inside of it. Optional- Decorate the tin can into a pig/
38. Paint brushes.
39. A traveling kit for children or adults when traveling or for a sleep over etc.
Add in the tin can: (everything small)- For children: toothbrush, toothpaste, brush, comb,mouthwash,soap, or bottle of liquid soap,face cloth to clean dirty faces and hands,bandaids. and favorite toy. Label the can the child's name.
Adults: (everything small) Toothbrush, toothpaste, mouth wash, floss, soap or liquid soup,wash cloth, brush, comb, eye patch for sleeping.
40. Men's traveling shaving kit. Small shaving cream, shaver, wash cloth, band aids etc.
41. Traveling or at home first aid kit: band aids of all different sizes, thermometer, gauze, tape, small scissors, rubbing alchol pads, tampons for girls, bee or bug sting oinment, sunblock lotion, aspirin or tylenol packets,
etc. is needed for E.R.
42. Found junk from a junk yard or alley way such as , knots, bolts, screws,skeleton keys, key holes, wire, flat tins, small door knobs, etc.
To use items for an art project or etc.
43. Different colored and designs of tape for sending letters.
44. Kawaii stickers and charms.
Label or add a sticker of kawaii on the tin can.
45. Lists of fun things that children like to do on small pieces of paper of the fun event and their name. Add as many in the tin. Children can learn how to take turns who gets to pick "Their fun event." Adult shakes the tin with the lid closed then opens the tin and someone else who did not add something in the tin hand picks one piece of paper from the tin without looking.
46. Lists of different games that groups of kids like to do. See instructions in number #45.
47. Broken computer parts: chips,key board letters, wires, etc.
48. Junk Food tin for the movies: bag of popcorn,chocolate, chips, movie ticket stubs, movie free cards,etc. Label the person's name on the tin and decorate it with favorite ticket stubs or college the whole tin with movie free cards of their favorite film or films.
49. For kids or adults on studying for a school test or exam. Add on different pieces of paper the question from a test and answer on the back.
Each person takes a turn picking one piece of paper from the tin. That person asks the other person the question from that piece of paper and tries to answer it.
50. Origami ornaments or other small ornaments to store for the next season. Label or decorate the tin with college of that season.
51. Healthy organic snack pack tin for those who have to rush out the door. Label or decorate that tin with healthy snack pictures onto the tin.
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