Most of things that seem unnecessary to you can be reused or repurposed and given a new life, for example, bottle caps. Don’t throw them away, you can easily turn them into totally new things and enjoy them a lot! Interested? Let’s have a look what you can DIY of ordinary bottle caps.
A bottle cap can be a great base for a floating candle! Attach the wicks, then melt the wax and pour it into the caps. Add various scents or colorings and let it cool. Voila, you’ve got a bunch of cool floating candles for cheap.
DIY floating candles from bottle caps (via morenascorner)
DIY bottle cap tea lights (via francoisetmoi)
Bottle caps can be used as magnets. Just attach magnets to the bottle caps with some good glue and that’s it. You can either attach them to the inner side of the caps or to the outer side and decorate the inner part somehow – painting or adding an image or a photo.
DIY simple bottle cap magnets (via morningcreativity)
DIY bottle cap scrap magnets (via simplykellydesigns)
DIY chalkboard bottle cap magnets (via viewfromthefridge)
DIY colorful bottle cap magnets (via thepinjunkie)
DIY photo bottle cap magnets (via craftandcreativity)
Bottle caps can be used for artwork of various kinds. For example, making a framed artwork in any shape is pretty easy, just glue the bottle caps to some canvas or cardboard in the shape you want. Make a bottle cap flower for decorating your garden – just fold the caps to form the petals and attach them to the center.
DIY 7th heaven bottle caps (via elhadadepapel)
DIY bottle cap framed art (via livelaughrowe)
DIY bottle cap flower for outdoors (via craftsbyamanda)
Bottle caps are an indispensable source of various crafts for your kids. You can make reindeer from bottle caps – just attach some google eyes and a button nose inside the cap and then some antlers from twigs. Do you kids love playing checkers? Then make some for them using bottle caps! Just paint one part of the caps with one color, and the second part with another colors and voila!
DIY bottle cap reindeer (via thecountrychiccottage)
DIY bottle cap checkers (via woodsofbelltrees)
DIY fun bottle caps (via treasureinanearthenvessel)
Covering surfaces with bottle caps may be a fun and bold idea. A usual IKEA Lack table can be turned into a cool piece with just cladding the top with bottle caps. Here the main point is to grout carefully, otherwise the clad tabletop won’t be smooth.
DIY bottle cap table (via mysocalledcraftylife)