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Craft Ideas for Used Medicine or Pill Bottles?

I really hate seeing the medicine bottles from Target go to waste and would like to know what they can be used for other than keeping screws or such in them. What have others done or might think to do with these? It's such a waste and I figure since the holidays are coming up that it would be fun to create some kind of project with them.

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August 1, 201121 found this helpful

I have put rice or small things like that in them, sealed them shut with hot (or regular) craft glue. You can put a pom-pom on the cover and Poof! An inexpensive cat toy. I've also seen them decorated to look like angels, etc. with the wooden ball glue on the top of the bottle for the head, etc. (Angels, Nativity figures, etc. come to mind as do Santa, elves and reindeer).
Once I got to thinking about this, I did a quick search and found a lot of ideas. I saved some of my favorites. I'll share with anyone that wants them. Now my mind is running to the craft store to get supplies...lol.

 
December 5, 20161 found this helpful

I would love to hear your ideas for pill bottles. My house is being overrun with them, ehhh!

 
December 5, 20160 found this helpful

I would love to hear your ideas for pill bottles. My house is being overrun with them, ehhh!

 
January 9, 20181 found this helpful

I am Recreation Director at a nursing home now. Previously I worked at a pharmacy and could still have access to a lot of empty medicine bottles. I will appreciate it if you would share your ideas with me. Thanks, Meena.

 
July 2, 20180 found this helpful

I am interested in crafting with pill bottles. If you have any thoughts, I could use any crafting ideas for children to do at the after school program I work at. Thanks.

 
January 24, 20190 found this helpful

I am trying to figure out how to use pill bottles to make outdoor wind chime. Any help will be fabulous

 
November 30, 20191 found this helpful

i would love to see your ideas for pill bottles

 
August 7, 20212 found this helpful

Theyre wonderful for keeping things in your purse or lunch box. Sewing kits, first aid kits, toothpicks, lotion, q-tips, ear buds, buttons. As a teacher, we used them to store earbuds for the students.

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They also make a wonderful carrier for a list tooth until its prepared for the Tooth Fairy!

 
August 7, 20212 found this helpful

Theyre wonderful for keeping things in your purse or lunch box. Sewing kits, first aid kits, toothpicks, lotion, q-tips, ear buds, buttons. As a teacher, we used them to store earbuds for the students. They also make a wonderful carrier for a list tooth until its prepared for the Tooth Fairy!

 
September 19, 20210 found this helpful

Thank you for your reply. Sorry this is a little late.

 
November 16, 20210 found this helpful

My mother is in memory care but we use to do crafts together. She has arthritis in her hands and she has dementia so I want to be able to do small crafts with pill bottles etc some ideas that I can do weekly with her is greatly appreciated.

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She is 97 and a retired farmer so this is hard on her. If anyone has any suggestions please help me. Thankyou so much. Barbara

 

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June 5, 20230 found this helpful

For awhile missions were asking for them...they were using them in other countries for same we do...what ever works, works!

 
June 10, 20230 found this helpful

I have been looking for craft s with medicine bottles. Thanks

 
September 5, 20230 found this helpful

Do you still have those craft ideas for pill bottles and decorating them?
Thanks
Cheryl N

 
August 2, 20118 found this helpful

As far as crafts, I'm not quite sure. But I re use them all the time for when I travel with my vitamins and such, so I don't have to take the whole freaking bottle. I suppose you could hot glue some type of fabric around them to decorate them? :p

 
September 8, 20172 found this helpful

Be aware that some states make carrying medication without the prescripthion labeled bottle a FELONY! Better to put them in a drawstring tote bag. Ii keep the dispenser as well as the labeled bottles so if I ever get stopped and the Officer asks to search I have the. Bottles labeled with the easy dispenser for the Officer to see that there is nothing illegal for him/her to be concerned about.

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I always consent to their search request, don't use that junk so no reason to say no.

 
November 10, 20191 found this helpful

I would also appreciate your pill bottle ideas as I take numerous prescriptions per day! I am bombarded with the silly things! And you cannot recycle them. I am not aware of the laws in any of the States' being from Ontario Canada. But I find alot of them quite irrational I hate to say. Or rather I'm sorry to say. Our world is getting more messed up, literally by the second. Any small thing each of us can do no matter how insignificant it may seem, if we ALL banded together & upcycled...Ah well it's nice to dream, isn't it?

 
July 31, 20211 found this helpful

Aah yes my friend but putting pills in unmarked PILL bottles can get you into trouble . Unmarked bottles containing pill's can and has been an illegal act. Just an FYI

 
September 19, 20211 found this helpful

I live in Florida now but am from WI and MN and the law was that if you get pulled over and searched and dont have a prescription well your in trouble.

 
August 2, 20110 found this helpful

I saw something in one of my magazines once a couple years ago. I believe it was ReadyMade, but could have been Martha Stewart, too. They gathered a whole bunch of the bottles, and attached them together to make a red wreath. You know where the labels are stuck on the bottles? They were attached together label to label. Because they're wedge-shaped they made a wreath very nicely.

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I'm going to do a quick search . . .

. . . it was ReadyMade! I found where a few people mentioned it, but no images. This person wrote up some instructions. Wish I had a pic to share, but this is the best I can do:
phoenix.momslikeme.com/.../JournalActions.aspx?g=247093&m=2883150...

 

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September 3, 20170 found this helpful

Your link took me to the front page of the newspaper. I guess you have to subscribe to get to the activities page, or to go directly to any specific page.

What is ReadyMade? Is it a magazine, a website, or what?

 
August 3, 201111 found this helpful

I keep one in each vehicle for giving change at the bank or pharmacy windows. It holds quarters quite nice. One in my purse for loose change, so I never have to hunt. A couple are used for sewing needles and small craft items. One is a toy for the cats, partially filled with beans. I have stuffed plastic shopping bags in the larger ones (you can fit three in a medium bottle) so you always have a plastic bag.

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Try it. I have the washcloths in one that you can buy that are dyed, and look like a big tums tablet until you wet it so we have washcloths we can wet with bottled water. The list can be endless.

 
September 8, 20171 found this helpful

I carry extra poopie bags for my dog as I buy zip lock bag for our cleanup duty. I prefer to be able to zip it closed. I take the sandwich size and fold it lengthwise then roll it from the zip to the bottom. Works great.

 
February 16, 20190 found this helpful

Yes I use a pill bottle to put my broken machine needle into and plied stick pins. And broken thumb tacks

 
May 30, 20190 found this helpful

Great idea's.
I am hooked on claw machines. Your idea of quarters made me think..hey i should put $1 bill in there & leave in car for when we grocery shop I will have money for the claw machine .

 
August 11, 20191 found this helpful

I use them to keep my flower and veggie seeds .

 
June 10, 20220 found this helpful

When traveling, I fill one with all the things I like to have ICE (in case of emergency). Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, Liquid dish soap, White vinegar, q-tips, cotton balls, bandaids, even shampoo and conditioner although I would place them in a ziploc tor protection against spilling. When deconstructing furniture, shelf, anything else that may have small items such as nuts, bolts, screws, nails I like to place all the items from that piece in a bottle and put a label on it regarding what it goes with. Something I read somewhere once, was to have a list of all the prescription meds you are on folded and placed in a bottle (labeled) and put in the refrigerator for emergencies. This list would also include allergies.

 

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August 3, 20117 found this helpful

If you have the proper tool to punch a small hole in assorted types of plastic you could make some nice wind chimes by punching a hole in the bottom of the bottle and stringing them chime style. The different sizes and types of plastics of the bottles would make a nice delicate melody in the wind and you could decorate them with paint made for plastics :-)

 
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April 7, 20163 found this helpful

You don't need a special too. Just heat up a pin tip and apply to the plastic. You will probably have to do this a couple times, but the plastic meltls. You can also heat up a small metal screwdriver if you need a bigger hole.

 
September 5, 20167 found this helpful

I collect empty pill bottles and make bubble blowing containers out of them. I make a blower out of plastic canvas and hot glue the blower to the inside of the lid.

 
September 8, 20170 found this helpful

This one went into my make soon pile. Will go with the dolls I am making for Christmas.

 

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January 21, 20180 found this helpful

I have an Ice pick dedicated to craft projects. Just heat it and then use to make the hole. If you have a gas stove that works best. Just stick in the fire a but. My pick has a wooden handle.

 
August 8, 20190 found this helpful

Have you got pictures and any other ideas jenny

 
July 24, 20210 found this helpful

Doesn't it defeat the purpose of recycling if you're going out and buying new stuff in order to reuse the bottles? Maybe (like a lot of people have) the trick and the challenge is to reuse them with things already in the home. :-)

 

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October 3, 20220 found this helpful

Once a month I refill 30 - 31 of them with the vitamins / supplements I take each day. Opening just one container instead of seven saves a bit of time each morning.

My lunch typially includes a mug of broth (made from homemade bullion, in powder form: just add boiling water) and a tablespoon of that - with seasonings - in a pill bottle easily fits in my lunch bag. I keep a spare in there as well for a sometimes late-afternoon pick-me-up (instead of coffee).

Loose tea leaves (I buy them in large containers) also fit nicely in those little pill bottles and are very portable / lightweight.

A few nuts / seeds for snacking? Again, just enough to fill a craving or provide an energy boost.

 

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October 4, 20220 found this helpful

How do you make powdered bouillon? When I make stock, it stays liquid or at least sticky. I usually just freeze quarts of the stock directly but that takes up room. I'd love to see your recipe. :)

 

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