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plastic containers that baby food come in (nice small ones with
lids). Any suggestions for using them? I know I can use them for
I can do with them.
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I hope this helps you out with the baby food jars.
If you’re like me, you hate to throw out anything that might be even
remotely useful (thank you mom!). Here a few ideas to get you started
cupboard full!
-Fill with dried herbs or potpourri. Cover the top with mesh and hold
closets!
-Great for storing buttons, nails, screws or beads.
-Fill halfway with water with a few drops of food colouring, fill the
rest of the way with baby oil and add a few sparkles if you want.
-Good for storing spices, herbs, teas.
-Paint them and make a candle holder! Paint them, or glue beads and
-Punch holes in the top. Instant house for a bug or other critter!
Kids can look at them and learn, without hurting their new friends.
bum.
-Use for storing homemade baby food or leftovers.
-Or touch up paint for your walls and furniture.
-Small mitten or sock drier. Just place the mitten or sock over the
-Make a small sewing kit to keep in your car, diaper bag, purse, or
in a drawer at the office.
or “first haircut” on it. Makes a great keep sake.
-Fill with shampoo, face cream, body wash, etc for use when
-Paint for the holidays! You can make a Santa, Jack-o’-lantern or
Easter basket!
-Keep on your desk to hold excess paper clips, push pins and
elastics.
in them. Glue the lid on!
-Layer different colours of sand for a really cute decoration or
Have fun and be creative!
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Things you can do with baby food jarsrecycle or re-use them.
Christmas Tree Centerpiece
hanging candle holders w/ copper wire
starch & tissue paper
fill with a tea light or candle wax and wic. wrap a raffia/other bow
around the rim. give as gifts or use as place setting decorations.
fish in a jar – paint one half of the jar blue so that if you were
looking at the front of the jar all you would see is the blue from
poke a hole in the top of the lid and through the back of the top of
the fish. put a piece of fishing line through the fish and back up to
line to the top and you have an adorable fish in a jar.
envelope and stamp licker – take a baby food jar. cover with
of lid, fill with water. cover lid with material to match and go
around the edges with ribbon. works great. makes a great kids gift to
silly christmas gifts
homemade gel air fresheners (platinum craft)
2×4. Nail the 2×4 to the bottom of a shelf over your craft bench.
Fill the jars with nails, pins, bitty things you have lying around
Use for paints and powders – Especially nice when mixing unique
colors.
will become his belly, so keep the arms, legs and head intact. Glue
the parts on the jar and fill with M&M’s.
label the jars!
Sewing storage – Separate buttons by color or size and store each in
straight pins, snaps, etc.
Snow globes – Glue a small object to the inside of the lid – a
Fill the jar with equal parts water and corn syrup, add food coloring
if desired. Seal the lid onto the jar using a watertight sealant –
section of your hardware store. Put a bead of sealant on the threads
of the jar and on the inside threads of the lid. Close it up, leave
Seed storage – Good way to save seeds from the fs in your garden. Add
a label (with a picture of the f).
paints, cover with fabric, attach wooden shapes to the lids, make
clay decorations for the lids. Fill with gift items: bath salts,
.
My dad would use these in his garage for screws, nails, washers, etc.Many small items could be sorted this way and he could always see
jar accordingly. He would secure the cover onto a piece of board, and
screw the bottle on and off of the cover. I am sure this could be
items. We have used them for making “sand paint”. It’s easy to shake
up the ingredients, and then it can be immediately stored after use.
like baby food jars. They sometimes use them to make projects to send
home, like planters for Mothers Day etc. Also baby food jars are
are very useful for potting herbs.
She could donate half of her un-needed jars to a local girl scout
crafts. Or offer them at church. Homeschoolers use them for art,
science and crafts.
wood. A frimnd nailed the lids to a brick-sized block of wood
(inside of lids face out so you can attach the jar!), and then
that it could be rotated (looks like wooden paper towel holder). He
then filled the jars with various nuts n’ bolts and securely twisted
jar he needed to open was on the bottom.. unscrew the jar, use what
you need, and replace the jar on the rotating organizer. You can also
down like “space saver” appliances. I use them for storing beads and
other small craft supplies, but they also make good containers for
jewelry, paperclips, whatever! You can’t open a drawer in my house
without finding something being stored in a baby food jar
just past their use life? Well I have made plenty of home-made
candles in these little jars, and its easy!! You can buy wick at any
dept) to tie them to for weight, and you’ll need toothpicks.
Melt your old candles down (remove any excess wicking or debris from
crayons. I add a drop or three of aroma therapy scented oils that
appeal, while the wax is melting. Set the jars up before hand on a
twice the height of the jar. Tie one end to a washer ring, and
measure how long it will need to be to reach the top of the jar. Tie
using the toothpick to keep it from falling in completely (like a
bridge over the top of the jar). Ladle or pour the melted wax SLOWLY
it will hang good anyway because of the weight. Fill to where the
jar just starts to crest inward toward the top. Allow to sit and
mind more than one melting session or have a good supply of wax
melting pans (I have one dedicated to this and other non-food uses).
first color, and when its set, fill with the next one. Cut the
toothpick off, leaving about 2 inch wick above the wax.
another minute, and cut a circle of fabric, about 1ΒΈ inches larger in
diameter than the lid for the jar. I cut it out with pinking shears
Elmer’s will do) on the center of the piece, and set the top of the
jar upside-down on it centered. Allow to dry some. To finish off,
the sides of the lid, securing the fabric around the top of the lid.
I have gone as far as to make little stickers that fir the round lid
minute gifts, thank-you gifts, decorations at a less formal wedding
or other gathering, or they’re just nice to put on the edge of the
do this (and still have neighbors saving their jars for me), so I
make maybe 25-30 at a time. The grocery store has boxes (that the
have.
Here is an idea for those baby food jars. A friend of mine recently
decorated several baby food jars as honey combs using construction
paper, glue, and markers. She also put gold chocolate kisses inside
passed out to all the kids at the party in place of a candy bag.
I have a suggestion, my mom makes Christmas trees out of them. One
jars, and any other decorations you may want. Hot glue the jars
together in a triangle shape. Beats throwing them away!
becomes the bottom and glue to it any seasonal item (little pumpkins
for fall, little flag for 4th of July, etc). Add some glitter and
becomes the base. You can even hot glue it closed to ensure no
leaking. Trim the bottom with ribbons or lace if desired. Makes a
Put a spice label on each one and put your spices in the jars. Nail
the lids in a row up underneath a cupboard and then screw the jars
use a spice, just unscrew the jar, take out what you want, and screw
the jar back up. Try to put the jars under a cupboard that isn’t hit
Invest in some potpourri oil and soak some cotton balls in the oil.
Place the balls (some soaked in oil and a couple that have not been)
hide behind things in your home. A nice way to fragrance any room and
can the scent can keep being added as it diminishes.
spool of thread in the jar and fed the thread out through the hole.
I was then able to pull as much thread as needed from the jar. This
convenient.
Kelly in IL
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