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Upcycled Baby Food Jar Potted Gardens DIY Kid Craft

Hello friends! I have the absolute cutest DIY kid craft for you. It’s also perfect and just in time for Spring.

I hosted a Beech-NutⓇ Naturals™ get together in my home, and it was so much fun! Beech-NutⓇ Naturals™ sent us a ton of complementary product, coupons, recipe cards, baby food jar koozies, and more!

I have personally used Beech-NutⓇ Naturals™ for my own children, and wanted to share that with other parents, as well as just enjoy some adult time while our kids played.

As a food allergy mom, I love that the ingredients are simple, inspired by homemade, and the website has great allergy information. It’s made with real fruits and vegetables, just like you would use at home. Only ingredients a baby could pronounce. Organic options are available and it’s 100% natural, nothing artificial.

We played BINGO, tasted the different varieties of flavors, had lots of goodies for the mom’s to stuff in their goodie bags, and we even upcycled the baby food jars from the taste testing, and potted baby food jar gardens!

The upcycled baby food jar potted gardens were the hit of the party. Even the littlest of babies there, with moms assistance, pushed their little seeds into the soil. It was absolutely adorable!

We watered our seeds and in just a week, we had the cucumber sprouting, followed by the carrots, and then the cilantro. We are still waiting for the daisy’s to sprout. My kids love coming into our laundry room where the jars are set on a shelf near the window, and seeing the progress and growth of their garden each day.

Upcycled Baby Food Jar Potted Gardens DIY Kid Craft

SUPPLIES:

Baby food jars, rinsed and dried

Soil or dirt from the store or your yard

Seeds from packets or rinsed and dried out from fruit and veggies in your home

Popsicle sticks & markers (optional) to mark your gardens

INSTRUCTIONS:

After our taste testing, we rinsed the baby food jars and dried them out. They don’t need to be perfectly dry, as you will be adding water to your gardens once the seeds are planted anyways.

Next, we used spoons to fill the baby food jars with gardening soil. You can use your hands just as well.

Finally, you have a couple options for seeds. You can save seeds from the very fruits and veggies you are currently eating in your home. For example, just pull the seeds from bell peppers, watermelons, or other produce. Rinse them in your sink and set them out to dry. Then you can use those! Alternately, you can use any seeds from store bought packets. This time of year you can find seeds at WalMart, Home Depot, Lowes, and even The Dollar Tree!

I set the seeds out on the table and let the children pick them up and gently push them into the soil. You don’t want them to go more than about 1/4″ into the soil, so they don’t need to push to hard. Then just make sure any uncovered seeds are covered with a little soil.

Now, add just enough water to soak into the soil. You can check your garden daily to see if it needs more water. A little trick to see if you need to water or not, is to gently touch the top of the soil with your finger. If the soil does NOT stick to your finger, you need to water it. If the soil does stick, you can hold off on watering and check again the next day.

Be sure to set your garden near a window that has good sunlight.

An optional activity, is to allow your children to decorate popsicle sticks to label your gardens. This can be as simple as writing the name of the seed on the stick as you can see in our jars. If you have some older children, or children that would enjoy it, you could let them really get into decorating their popsicle sticks.

Once your plants have shown that they have outgrown the jars, you can transfer them to an outdoor plant pot, or an in-ground garden.

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Use these adorable glass containers to organize and decorate your entire home.

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Stash Spices

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Gift a Cupcake

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Remove Nail Polish

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Grow Herbs

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Dinner tastes more delicious when you've a hand in growing some of the ingredients. To create a herb garden for your kitchen, plant your flavor of choice in a baby food jar, then sit it on your windowsill in the sun to help it grow.

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Make a Candle

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Serve Dessert

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Hang Planters

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Deliver Drinks

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10 Cool Ideas for Using Baby Food Jars in the Home

Families with small children must have a bunch of baby food jars and/or purees. Many of them are simply thrown out as unnecessary. However, if you show creativity and imagination, these jars can be very profitable and useful to use in everyday life. Let's consider some options.

Contents

  1. Christmas decorations
  2. Planters
  3. Garden candle holders
  4. Pencil of
  5. Cup for combs
  6. for towels
  7. Organizer for men
  8. fireflies
  9. Fixing capacities
  10. for hygiene accessories

New Year's decorations

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alternatives to snowball. Fill a glass jar with small beads, sparkles, mashed styrofoam - this is artificial snow. Then pour water and add 1 tbsp. l. glycerin. This will allow the "snowflakes" to spin as the can moves. As an interior decoration, glue some small New Year's toy to the lid from the inside.

glycerine

Seedling pots

Baby food jars are great for growing all kinds of seeds and seedlings. Pour black earth, fertilizers into containers and build a mini-version of the botanical garden.

seedling soil

Garden candlesticks

The options here are only limited by your imagination. For a candlestick on the table in the gazebo (or on the terrace), decorate the jar with decoupage, pour some sand, seashells or river pebbles inside. And then install a candle in an aluminum sleeve.

candle

Pencil holder

To make a beautiful container for children's table for pencils, pens, felt-tip pens, you will need a tin (or several) from baby food. To decorate it, use gift wrapping paper or colored cotton fabric. Wrap the jar and glue the edges. You can also wrap a piece of twine (ribbon) and tie a beautiful bow.

colored paper

Comb cup

Take a glass or tin jar. Glue it completely with non-standard buttons of various shapes and sizes. Then cover with gold spray paint. It is advisable to apply 2-3 coats of paint.

spray paint

For towels

Iron cans are painted with acrylic paints. For decorative decoupage, use napkins, decoupage cards, fabric. Glue paper or fabric edging tape around the top and bottom of the jar. Attach the finished containers with screws to a piece of plywood or chipboard and hang on the wall in the bathroom.

decoupage wipes

Organizer for men

A great option if there are a lot of little things in the garage (nails, screws, bolts, nuts, screws, washers, engravers), which are constantly scattered. Screw the bottom shelves of the lids from glass jars and sort all the little things. Screw the jar into the lid. Everything will be visible and always at hand.

screw

Fireflies

You will need a luminous paint prepared on the basis of a phosphor, which has the property of accumulating light energy during the day and releasing it at night. Inside the glass jar, make tiny dots with this paint (the more, the more beautiful it will be). Another option: cut a neon stick, pour the contents into a jar, then add sparkles. To start the firefly, just shake the jar, after closing the lid.

Glow Paint

Seasoning Storage Containers

Sort spices into baby food jars/puree, stick on nice labels with their name or image to avoid confusion. Additionally, decorate with pieces of twine, sequins, beads.

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For hygiene items

It is extremely inconvenient to keep cotton pads, ear swabs and other small things for daily hygiene in bags. By decorating baby food jars, you will get quite nice containers for these things.

decorative tape

How do I use empty baby food jars?

Are you a new mother? Then, probably, glass baby food jars appeared in your life, which the hand does not raise to throw away. There are already a lot of them in my house, so I propose to discuss how they can be useful to us.

I conducted a small survey of colleagues and friends on this topic. The results are as follows:

Lena keeps her branded adjika in jars - it is convenient to take it in such a container for a picnic, for example.

Stores dried berries for tea.

He also arranges small tasty gifts for his friends - homemade jam. Arranges in jars, decorates them and gives them.

The last idea caught my attention - I like to make homemade jam. I took note of such a sincere gift option.

Zhenya keeps medicinal ointments in jars. Also a great option, given the odor of such drugs, as well as their small volumes.

Anya uses the jars as a sugar bowl and salt shaker on long journeys. Or for a picnic. She also keeps beads for needlework in them.

I tried to use jars for leftover canned cod liver. And this, I tell you, is extremely convenient. Open canned food should not be stored for longer than a day, and it is imperative to transfer food to a container, preferably glass. And the baby food jars are perfect! Small, hermetically sealed (which is especially important in the case of products with the smell of fish), and then it is not a pity to throw them away.

I also put paper clips in one jar. There was an open package at home, now the paper clips are neatly stored in a jar.

Inspired by the opening horizons for the second life of jars, I began to look for other ways to use them. I searched websites and social networks. I confess, I am delighted with the fantasy of young mothers, and dads too!

How to use baby food jars

Use jar lids in children's educational games:

- stick pieces of colored paper on them and arrange them in containers by color,

- stick drawings with letters on them and add syllables and words,

- make a slot in the lid of the milk formula jar (or in a box of chips, for example) and put the lids into it, like in a piggy bank,

- make a fishing rod out of a pencil, string and magnet and arrange "fishing", collecting caps.

Use cans:

- for dipping the brush while painting with watercolors,

- for seedlings of flowers or greenery,

- as small vases for small wildflowers,

- for storing spices,

- as a home air fragrance: put a piece of cotton wool into a jar and moisten the cotton wool with a drop of perfume or essential oil. If you decorate a jar - it’s not a shame to replace the sachet and put it in a prominent place in the house,

- for needlewomen - to store small items such as buttons, beads, etc. in jars,

- use as a portion dish in candy bars that are so popular now at children's parties,

- colorize and turn the jar into a candlestick by putting a pill candle into it,

I found candle-tablets. It's a sin not to try, I decided. I’m not friends with paints yet, I found a satin ribbon. Half a minute to tie it, and voila! Modest, but also an option.

But finally I was subdued by such decor of the can.

Using a jar as a photo frame is original, isn't it?

And also, I think, even not the search for the use of jars or lids, but the process of decorating itself may be interesting. Space for imagination, yours and your child!

How to decorate jars

• Spray paint or decorate with acrylic or stained glass paint,

• Paste over the jar with double-sided tape and roll in sequins or beads,

• Use the decoupage technique (stick a beautiful napkin with a pattern on the jar), since there is an abundance of materials for needlework on sale now,

• Stick lace, ribbons, fabric on the jar,

• Paste clippings from magazines or newspapers - looks very interesting.

• Wrap the jar with threads or decorative straws.

And then, together with the child, figure out what to put in a beautiful jar.

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