15 Ways to Repurpose Soda Cans Into New Decorative Things
15 Ways to Repurpose Soda Cans
Soda cans or aluminium cans are one common waste that we have especially right after a party. One could recycle them to help the environment or create something new out of it. We will be looking into the latter with some great ideas we have compiled here today. Aluminium cans can last a very long time hence, it is a very nice DIY material to have. You can use it to make colorful decoration such as Chinese lanterns and Christmas ornaments. Other than for decorative purposes, you also can repurpose it into things like cookie cutters and planters.
Here’s one useful link you might need: How to Turn a Soda Can into a Flat Sheet of Aluminum
1. Mirror Frame Decor
Add some color into the plain walls of your toilet mirror with this cool idea. Take advantage of the different colored cans that various manufacturer produced.
2. Christmas Ornament
Make a star out of these cans! You have to use a knife or anything solid to help guide the shape of the star. So, be cautious!
3. Metallic Vase
This is a pretty simple idea that looks amazing! You just need to cut out the opening of the can and paint it with metallic spray.
4. Chinese Lanterns
Make simple Chinese lantern luminary for your garden! It’s so simple to make. You also can put in votives inside to light up your abode.
5. Soda Can Wreath
They’re cut into leaf shape and sprayed. These are really beautiful metallic leaves!
6. Succulent Planters
Use a combination of different colored cans to make your succulents stand out!
7. Lamp Pendant
Create a romantic atmosphere with this lamp pendant! The creator actually glued the can tabs onto a plastic lamp shade.
8. Cork-covered Stationery Holder
Give the can a new appearance by applying a layer of cork with customized decorative images. After this modification, nobody would suspect that it is made of soda can!
9. Metal Flower Wall Art
These unique looking wall flowers were hand cut, using a freehand flower pattern, shaped with added pieces of coat hangers and soda cans for leaves and stems, all shaped into lovely flowers and painted using acrylic and chalk paints.
10. Vertical Garden
Grow your garden vertically to save space!
11. Soda Can Lily
Cut and glue each strips of can to form a flower piece. It may take some time to assemble them together but the result as you can see is quite impressive!
12. Cookie Cutter
Cut out a strip of can and bend it into an ideal shape that you want for your cookies. The creator uses super glue to tape it together. That is fine as long as it doesn’t come into contact with your dough. Alternatively, you can tape the upper end of the cookie cutter to keep the shape together.
13. Flower Plate
A simple flower plate made with carefully cut can strips. If you attach some styrofoam strips under it, I bet it would float on water! That’s gonna make a nice floating decor along with your tea light candle.
14. Train Sculpture
There are lots of sculptures you can make with soda can. This is just one of them. It takes time to assemble them like a puzzle. But, it’s a fun activity to have with kids.
15. Rose
Here’s a more complicated flower piece that you can make with cans – a rose can! You have to stack each piece together forming a rose. Checkout the tutorial link below for a guide.
