Crafts from cans, as well as their decor, painting, decoupage (100 photos and MK)

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Handicrafts from tin and aluminum cans
Crafts from glass jars

In order not to turn into Gogol Plyushkin, junk and improvised materials can and should be turned into useful and beautiful decor items for the kitchen and not only with their own hands. Let's find out what use you can find tin cans, cans of coffee, beer and paint, bottles of honey, jam and baby food. In this material, we have collected the best ideas of crafts from cans for your inspiration. Most photos can be flipped to the right.

Handicrafts from tin and aluminum cans

Let's start with handicrafts made from tin cans. What can be made of them?

1. Pots and Vases

If tin and aluminum cans are properly decorated, they can not only grow seedlings, but also contain indoor plants and flowers.

So, you can paint cans with unusual paint, for example, in pastel shades or in gold, silver, copper color as in the photo below.

Tips:

Before dyeing, the jars must be degreased with any alcohol-containing agent;
Acrylic paints with a nylon brush or paint in a spray can will be suitable for painting;
Do not forget to make drainage holes at the bottom of the can with a hammer and nail.

Using the scotch as a stencil, you can draw even stripes, zigzags, rhombuses and other geometric shapes on the tin. For example, the pots in the photo below were first painted with gold spray paint, waited for it to completely dry, and then using colored masking tape and painted color strips with acrylic paints.

For large indoor plants are perfect aluminum cans of paint.

And from small tin cans you get very cute pots for succulents and cacti. Due to their small size, they can be wrapped in birch bark, and then you will have a decor in eco style.

What other natural materials will be useful for decorating cans with your own hands? You can make just such a beautiful vase from dry twigs cut to the same length and tied with a string.

And here is a master class on its production.

Master class on decorating cans branches

Another natural material that can decorate a jar is leather. The photo below shows vases wrapped with a metallized leather braid, set on a glue gun.

Master class on the decor is very simple. The main thing here is not to get burned and not to squeeze out too much glue so that its excess does not get on the skin.

You can also give banks a second life with cloth, paper, ribbons, lace and appliqués.

You can make vases from tin cans and decorate a wedding with them.

2. Organizers for storage of cans

In addition to vases and pots, with your own hands you can make a functional organizer for storing trifles, stationery, cutlery, etc.

Here in this jar of cookies you can store tea bags.

How to make such a box with your own hands you can see in the next photo workshop (scroll to the right).

But a master class on the alteration of aluminum cans of paint.

3. Candlesticks and lanterns

Master class on turning banks into candlestick with your own hands See the next video.

But a selection of ideas for decoration with applications, decoupage and holes.

It is possible to make holes with a drill with a small drill or a nail with a hammer, having previously marked the places of drilling as shown in the photo below.

4. Molds for cutting figures from cookies, vegetables and fruits

You can make various forms for cutting figurines from dough, cheese, vegetables and fruits from aluminum cans from beer or Coca-Cola, as well as from tin cans. To do this, you need to cut the banks into even stripes, then form a figurine according to a template prepared in advance. At this stage you may need pens, markers or knitting needles for rounding dies and round pliers for creating corners. The ends with a small overlap need to glue the super-glue.

How to make molds for cutting from cans of Coca-Cola

Crafts from glass jars

What crafts from glass cans can be made by hand?

Small-sized glass jars (for example, from baby food) can make excellent jars for storing spices, coffee, soda, sugar and other bulk products.

To do this, you need to remove all labels, repaint and decorate the covers and, if you wish, make beautiful labels for signatures.

Covers can be decorated using decoupage technique, pasted over with cloth, wrapping paper, painted with slate, magnetic or colored acrylic paint.

You can make such an organizer for storing small things out of small cans of baby food.

Banks of larger volume can be used to store the same bulk products, pasta, sweets, as well as various gizmos and small things like bath salts or skeins of thread.

Covers of large cans can be decorated with figures of animals.

Or beautiful furniture handles.

Of course, you can decorate not only the covers, but also the glass jars themselves. For example, these are the shiny cups for storing cosmetic brushes covered in glitter from the inside (glued to transparent PVA glue).

Decor of glass jars painted in a dotted or stained glass technique will transform the simplest flask into an elegant vase or candlestick. In the photo below, homemade candlesticks are painted with contour colors.