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Craft Uses For Metal Bottle Caps

March 7, 2008

Craft Ideas Using Metal Bottle CapsPress air drying clay into bottle caps and smooth with a blunt knife or tool. The clay will shrink as it dries (may take a few days, especially in wet weather) and should easily fall out of the bottle cap mold when dry (you can coax it out with a toothpick if needed)

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You can lightly sand the molded clay, drill a hole into it, paint it, etc. Use for beads and other crafts.

By Laura from Long Beach, CA

 
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January 4, 2017

This is a page about making beaded bottlecap magnets. Any small beads will work to make a set of these pretty magnets.

Bottle Cap Magnets

March 2, 2020

Transform a plastic bottle cap into a beautiful mini flower basket. The flowers are handmade using paper scraps. They are perfect to use as favors for an upcoming party. Give it a try using the project detailed below.

Bottle Cap Mini Flower Basket - finished basket

February 27, 2020

Transform a plain plastic bottle cap into a pretty, useful pincushion. You will need fabric scraps, Polyfil or other stuffing material, and glue as the basic supplies.

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Decorate as you like or follow the instructions provided below.

Bottlecap Pincushion - looking down on pincushion

November 26, 2019

Transform metal bottle caps into decorative oysters, each with a pearl inside. They are fun to make and more fun to gift or use as the basis for other crafts, such as magnets.

Metal Bottle Cap Oysters with Pearls

February 14, 2017

There are so many ways you can decorate metal bottle caps and make them into magnets. This is a page about bottle cap magnets.

Several magnets made from bottlecaps.

January 20, 2017

Collect up a few supplies and you are ready to start making these cute magnets. Change the image and they can be made for any holiday or season. This is a page about snowman bottle cap magnet.

Snowman Refrigerator Magnet - finished magnet sitting on a countertop

January 4, 2017

This is a page about making a bottle cap Christmas tree. Decorating the underside of bottle caps with holiday paper is the first step in making a cute Christmas tree that can also serve as a fridge magnet.

A Christmas tree made from bottle caps.

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October 21, 2008

My brother-in-law has collected a bucketful of bottle tops. Has anyone any ideas what he can do with them?

Sue from Perth, WA

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By Nelda (Guest Post)
October 21, 20080 found this helpful

Stepping Stones.

This seemed to be the one thing my sons could collect for me to work with...go figure. Get medium size pizza boxes and line with saran wrap. Pour quickcrete in and place your bottlecaps in whatever design you'd like displayed.

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One of my boys collected some unique ones while in Japan and those I've used for decorative inside displays.

 

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October 21, 20080 found this helpful

Get some plaster of paris, make your own lawn stepping stones. We use marbles and rocks, but caps should work just as well.

 
October 22, 20080 found this helpful

www.johntunger.com/.../index.html
reciclagem-artesanato.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html

Look at these url's, alot of ideas.

 
October 22, 20080 found this helpful

If he wants to show off the beercap names, he could make a fun "wreath" to hang up on a bar room wall or door. I did this a long time ago, using a round wreath form from the $ store & a hot glue gun. Above the wreath, I used a small pine, painted placard & stamped a fun saying on it.

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I attached it all together with metal wire,(also $ store) that I kind of looped around in circles & formed an upside down V w/ the point hanging from the wall to the two ends of the plaque, then to the wreath. Good Luck!

 
By )(Will)( (Guest Post)
December 5, 20080 found this helpful

Well, you can take them and hot glue them or superglue them around the edge of a pair of old shoes. It'll make look new and cool. "BEER SHOES", and you could wear them when your drinking.

 
By Coen H. (Guest Post)
February 26, 20090 found this helpful

I want to make a wall too, but how to attach them? Can I simply use super glue, or are there other easy ways? Thanks!

 
By Big Timko (Guest Post)
March 1, 20090 found this helpful

Nothing like a good beer pong table! Friends of mine did this! Took the first year of college to get enough caps, but the next 3 the table was well used! O-H-I-O.

 
 
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May 19, 2013

Can you please show me how to make the coasters out of beer bottle lids?

By Shelia G.

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