Thread: Recycled crafts

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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what to do with Enfamil tubs. I'm collecting a good quantity of the 25oz plastic tubs since my baby goes through them so often and I'd like to use them for some sort of Halloween craft, even if it's not extreme. Just something to do with them since I have so many.

I know that if I used those glass gerber jars I'd use those as apothecary jars...just an idea incase other moms or dads on the board use those. I handmake all of my baby's food...so I don't have any jars.

Any Ideas are welcome!

Maybe wrap them in orange tissue paper and cut JOL faces out of them. Then cut holes in the necks of the bottles to run a set of lights through them. Or make them into candy corn lights. They're actually very similar in shape

The JOL face is an idea....though this is the tubs I'm talking about:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qw6SQ55PL.jpg
No neck to them...I've got like three of them right now...cuz I kept buying the tubs instead of the refills like a ree-ree.

Ohhh I was thinking of the bottles! Well, can still made JOL out of them. And just put a flickering tea light in em

use them as planters? for baby man eating plants, or, using the grow your own zombie project, you can use it to grow smaller things like creepy fairies, or ugly mean gnomes, or even to plant brains, or several tiny brains.

if you paper mache use them as a base.

if you have enough decorate and use them as containers for special halloween prizes.

use them as pedestals for displaying things. cover them in black paper or drape them with cloth to hide them.

use them as display cases for small things like small dragons or fairies or something, turn them on their sides and just cover with seran wrap to allow to see inside, find a way to light them for easier viewing.

turn on sides, stack and make spider hotel (cobweb hotel cartoon comes to mind..lol), rat hotel, etc.

cover the top with red transparent tape and light them from within and hide them in the dark to look like huge red eyes peering out.

label them as witch's ingredients...dry kind...or even dried bugs or something or other that can be used in witch's spells.

of course tea lights are always a given.

think my brain is starting to overheat now..lol. Maybe this will give you a few ideas.

Very helpful thank you. I've got a while before I start construction. I want my own place first....staying with my parents for now and they're not Halloween celebraters

glue them together to make a tall "tube". then poke some metal hangers (wire) thru in random spots and paper mache them to make a haunted tree. use the snot rag method on final mache layer to resemble the bark.
then make faces on the tree like in this link.........http://www.stolloween.com/?page_id=74

and the end result will hopefully be like this.......

oh yea and mabye glue some moss on the tree too

oooo I like that idea thanks!