What to make with empty peanut butter containers?

Discussion in 'Fashion and Crafts' started by cerridwen, Mar 12, 2008.

  1. cerridwen

    cerridwen in stitches

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    I've 5 empty peanut butter containers - soon to have 6 - that I would love to turn into something crafty, but I don't know what to do with them.

    Something other than just regular ol' storage containers.

    Any ideas?
     
  2. TangerineSoul

    TangerineSoul Member

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    I don't know about turning them into something else, but what about decoupage? I do that with vases. Color themes, magazine pictures, I even have one in my room done with pieces of sheet music.
     
  3. nynysuts

    nynysuts No Gods, No Masters

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    Presuming they're clear you could make a variation on snow scapes with them. I have a jar with sand, some gravelly pebbles and sea shealls filled with slightly blue water, it's my ocean jar.
     
  4. PeaceItOut

    PeaceItOut Member

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    do what i did....hot glue some sticks and stuff on there and put some soil on the inside and you have a great, nature ashtray. I even found a stick that could hold a cigarette perfectly so you can rest it in one of the twigs if you have to go somewhere.
     
  5. WaitingForTheSun

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    This isn't a crafty suggestion, but I've started saving jars and such and reusing them as tupperware. It's a good way to recycle old containers. Store extra food in them, drink out of them, or whatever.
     
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  7. dancing bear92

    dancing bear92 Member

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    Thats an awesome idea. Real recycling for once.
     
  8. mamabear

    mamabear Member

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    Birdfeeder. Or squirrelfeeder, whichever gets to it first.


    Cut holes in the bottom, but not right to the bottom...so there's a little dish of seed. Hot glue some sticks or something for the birds to sit on, put a staple and twine in the lid and hang it on a strong branch. The screw top will make it easy to refill.

    You could fill it with dried corn for squirrels and leave it on a table or bench somewhere outside, too.
     
  9. Song Breeze

    Song Breeze Member

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    Nyny that's a great idea, I might have to try that, I was going to use the next jar as more bead storage, but that sounds more fun.
     
  10. shinta

    shinta Member

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  11. ArtLoveMusic

    ArtLoveMusic Senior Member

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    a friend of mine used glass paint and makes little cnalde lantersn with them:)
     
  12. ZippyMischief

    ZippyMischief Member

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    Get some PVC
    And build potato cannons
     
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    Id stack them on top of eachother and then make a stripper pole and invite a stripper over..:p
     
  14. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    christmas tree orinaments
     
  15. marysoul

    marysoul Member

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    fishbowl,bird feeder,money holder.....
     
  16. Jedite83

    Jedite83 Van Dweller

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    how about filling them with home made peanut butter?
     

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