How to Make a Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase

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Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase - vase with a bamboo stalk and several stalks taped to the back

Medicine bottles can be used to create this decorative bamboo vase. The bottles are drilled through the bottom and glued together to resemble a bamboo stalk. Artificial bamboo is used here, but if the assembly is water tight it can be filled with water and live bamboo added.

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Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase

By attosa [1,228 Posts, 5,310 Comments]

September 9, 2018

My dad saves all his medicine bottles in a big bag, just waiting to make new use of them. He is, after all, the one who taught me to be a thrifty upcycler. Here, I've made him a bamboo vase from 4 of his bottles. Depending on the type of medicine bottle, it is possible for them to interlock, creating a vacuum seal. If yours do not, you can use some strong glue like Loctite and hot glue to create a tight lock. Adding water is optional, and should only be done if you do achieve that tight seal. Have fun!

Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 1 bamboo vase

Supplies:

4 medicine bottles
handheld drill
Loctite and hot glue (if bottles don't interlock)
water (optional)
decorative bamboo leaves (or similar)

Steps:

Drill a hole the size of your bamboo stems in 3 of the bottles bottoms, leaving 1 untouched.

Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase - drilling a hole in bottle of 3 bottles

Place the undrilled bottle on the bottom as the base of the vase. Lock on or glue on a drilled bottle above it.

Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase - use the undrilled bottle as the base and either lock on or glue a drilled bottle to its top

Continue to add on the other two.

Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase - add the other 2

If you've done the glue version, you can use a blade to trim some of the glue, or leave it as is.

Medicine Bottle Bamboo Vase- if using glue remove excess with the blade

Pour some water in if you're using living bamboo stalks. It's nice watching the water slowly trickle down! Then, add the bamboo leaves. I taped a couple shorter stalks around the back of the vase to make it look more dramatic. :)

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