Plastic and glass bottles are easy to reuse in some many different ways. But, what about the bottle caps? Reduce your waste and find frugal alternatives. Here are some ideas on new uses for bottle caps.
You can use bottle caps to add height to planters, allowing more sun to reach your houseplants.
Bottle caps are also great to use as temporary shims. A shim is normally a piece of wood that you buy to make something level. I’ve stuck bottle caps under wobbly appliances, chairs, tables and more, over the years. I also used one to replace a leg on a toy, after the original leg broke off. For additional height, the bottle caps can be stacked and glued.
And while we are on the subject of chairs and tables, you can use the caps to cap off furniture legs, preventing scratch marks on your floor and making the furniture easier to move.
Children’s arts and crafts are another great use for bottle caps. Kids can turn the caps into working car wheels (with the addition of a dowel or other rod to use as an axle), as eyes and noses for faces, as building blocks. etc. Just make sure that the children are over the age of three, since very small bottle caps can be a choking hazard.
Have an adult drill a hole in each cap. Then kids can string them together for bottle cap jewelry. Encourage the kids to decorate the caps. Trace the bottle caps on paper, decorate the circles, cut out the circles and glue them to the caps.
And speaking of children’s art, the bottle caps can be used as paint wells for different color paints, or to mix paints. Adults will find the wells useful to hold fabric or other craft paint, small beads, glitter, etc.
Mary Ann Romans also writes for the Computing Blog here at Families.com where she shares everything from the latest news on technology to cool downloads and fun websites.
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