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Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light


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Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - with lights litI save caps from my water bottles because they're always the same brand, making them completely uniform, therefore nice for crafts. This is a light I made from trash, basically. It's just a bunch of bottle caps and a plastic container from a miniature baking set. I put it together then stuffed it with a string of mini LED lights, as they don't get hot. Give this a try. It's practically free! If you don't have LED lights, you can stuff it with a vibrant scarf to make a cute contemporary art piece.

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Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1 light

Supplies:

Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - supplies
 

Steps:

  1. Without gluing anything down, set the bottle caps on one side of the plastic container to get an idea of how they fit.
  2. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - lay out caps on the container to check fit
     
  3. Add small dabs of hot glue to the edges of a cap.
  4. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - add dabs of glue to edges of the daps
     
  5. Press onto the container. Continue gluing them on.
  6. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - press down and continue
     
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  7. Continue gluing them onto other sides, and the top portion.
  8. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - do sides and top
     
  9. Take some tweezers and remove any stringy dried hot glue hairs.
  10. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - use tweezers to remove glue stings
     
  11. Place the LED lights inside and turn it on. Alternatively, (or during the daytime) fill it with a nice coloured scarf. Looks cool!
  12. Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Light - add lights or scarf
     

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

Marvellous idea...sci-fi minimalist functional art!

 

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

Ah! I like how you describe it! Thank you!

 

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

What a cool idea!

 

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

Thanks Benetta!!

 

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

Very nice! Makes a nice center piece for summer nights too!

 

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August 9, 20180 found this helpful

Aw, thank you! Good idea... I shall put it on the table outside for dinner! <3

 
October 3, 20210 found this helpful

Nice use of plastic that would otherwise be trashed.
If the top were to be left open, you could put a solar light inside.

 
Anonymous
December 21, 20220 found this helpful

epic

 

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