Did you know with empty tuna cans you can make a thousand original and unique creations?
Tin cans in which tuna and other foods come can become very versatile, creative materials for DIY projects. These aluminum containers, in fact, are quite malleable and have a shape that lends itself to being exploited in many different ways. So, instead of them ending up in the trash, those looking for ideas to try their hand at creatively recycling waste, can consider using exactly this round and shallow tin cans.
With a little inventiveness you can make pots for plants, (especially with the larger cans), but also jewelry boxes, candle holders, containers for tidying up the drawers and desks, and more. Check out the ideas below:
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By gluing them to a panel, and perhaps even painting everything to create a kind of picture with which to decorate the wall, you will have truly unique, vertical plant holders.
They can also become individual pots for plants, especially succulents, that don't grow too fast and don't need too much soil or water. You could paint them with metallic paints, also adding feet to raise them off the surface, perhaps made with wooden sticks like those that come with ice creams.
If you want to use them as pots for plants you can clad them with many different materials, such as twine and rope for example. The important thing is to be careful to water sparingly, especially if you don't make drainage holes in the bottom.
The larger ones can become wall-mounted flower pots to be placed flat against the wall - perfect for plants like tillandsiae that don't need a lot of soil.
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They are also perfect serving as a pincushion!
You could stack them all on a connecting rod, so that each becomes a kind of rotating drawer - and when they are all closed, they create a compact column.
This unique tin-can shelf unit can accommodate jewelry and also small stationery items to be used at the office desk.
And they can also be useful for tidying up the drawers of a desk to separate, divide and hold the various smaller items (like paperclips, for example). The important thing is always to be extremely careful to bend or blunt all the sharp edges so that you can handle these objects without any risk of getting cut.
You also could hang them outside as bird feeders.
And if you have lots of cans to recycle, why not make an original sculpture out of them?
Even the lids can become part of creative item, like a little tin rose.
Have you ever recycled tuna cans for DIY projects like these?
