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Story and Photos by Kate Burke

Summer nights mean staying out late, bonfires in the backyard, and getting together with friends to savor the heat that is sure to disappear come fall. Lighting is a great way to set summer mood, but ditch those electric lights and bust out more eco-friendly candles to brighten the night. These simple and cheap Moroccan-inspired miniature lanterns should do the trick.

Estimated cost: About $15 dollars (for multiple candles)

Time to complete: About 45 minutes

You will need:

• Glass paint (found at any craft store for 5 dollars or less) in turquoise and magenta

• 3 Baby food jars (any grocery store will have these – only 50 cents each!)

• Gold wire (found at any craft or hardware store for about 2 dollars)

• Pliers

• Gold paint pen or gold puff paint (I prefer the look of puff paint, but I already had the pen, so I used that here)

• Paintbrush

• 3 tea lights

Get started!

1. Soak the baby food jars in hot water and remove the labels. Make sure that all the sticky white glue comes off.

2. Paint the inside of your jar with the glass paint. Allow the inside to dry while you paint the remaining jars. The tops of the jars are difficult to paint, but don’t worry about leaving them bare- they will be covered in the next step.

3. Use the gold puff paint or pen to outline the top and bottom of your jars. Then, create any design in the middle. You can make these jars as simple or as detailed as you please.

4. Put one tea light in each jar.

5. Cut one wire strip for each jar that is about 6 inches long. With the pliers, bend the ends of the wire up so a little loop is created at each end.

6. Slightly bend the wire in half so that it fits inside the top of the jar. Then, let it expand so that it catches the sides of the jar and becomes a handle.

7. Light with a match and enjoy the glow!

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50+ Fantastic Ways to Re-Use Baby Food Jars

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50+ baby food jar crafts and creative ways to re-use baby food jars so you don’t have to put throw them in the trash.

If you’ve had a baby in recent years, there’s a good chance you’ve acquired quite a collection of baby food jars. Baby food jars ares so cute and chubby, and such a great size. If you’re like me, you find it hard to thrown them away. If that’s the case, your baby food jar collection could be growing at an alarming rate, and you’re probably looking for things to make with all of those jars.

Well, you’re in luck! One of my Facebook followers recently asked for ways that she could re-purpose her baby food jars, and the HH community responded with dozens of great crafts made with baby food jars along with practical ways to use baby food jars in and around the home.

I’ve gathered up their best suggestions and added a few of my own favourite uses for baby food jars, and I’ve come up with this long list of ideas for you.

From the craft room to the classroom to the bathroom and beyond, here are over 50 ways for you to use leftover baby food jars so you don’t have to toss them out.

50+ Baby Food Jar Crafts

Click on the links below to see project details.

Ways to use baby food jars in the classroom or craft room:

  • Crayon Caddy: Paint several baby food jars and store co-ordinating, coloured crayons in them.
  • Fill baby food jars  with water, and set on the art table to rinse paint brushes in.
  • Give each student in the class a baby food jar filled with cream, and make homemade butter together.
  • Make a mini “ocean in a jar” in a baby food jar. Pretty on classroom window sill or fun to play with.
  • Soak dried out markers in baby food jars to make liquid watercolour paint.
  • Make and store homemade finger paint in baby food jars.
  • Baby food jars make great paint and glue pots at the easel. Lids keep them from drying out between uses.
  • Punch holes in the lids (with a nail) and use jars to store and dispense glitter.
  • Make I-Spy Jars in baby food jars.
  • Make  collection jars for the preschool classroom.
  • Fill with small amounts of water for syringe transfer work trays in preschool or kindergarten
  • Paint tall baby food jars with  food coloring, water and glue for a frosted look. Store pens, pencils and paintbrushes in them.

Things to make for kids with baby food jars:

  • Play dough jars:  fill several baby food jars with different colours of homemade play dough for a kids’  gift basket.
  • Set some baby food jars out in the rain and make this scented rain paint.
  • In the play kitchen: fill baby food jars with flour, rice, lentils etc. Glue the lids on, and kids can pretend-cook with them.
  • Bug Jars – wrap a pipe cleaner handle around the top, and go exploring in the yard.
  • Make these cute and quirky emoji jars for a kid’s dresser or desk.
  • Glue painted toy animals on baby food jar lids, use as party favours.
  • Fill with homemade slime or silly putty to put in loot bags.
  • Make a tooth fairy jar.
  • Teach kids how to manage their allowance with 3 tall baby food jars labeled SPEND, SAVE, BANK.
  • Make an advent or countdown calendar.
  • Fill baby food jars with layers of “coloured sand” (ground sidewalk chalk mixed with salt).
  • Use baby food jars to make mini lava-lamps.

Ways to re-use baby food jars in the kitchen:

  • Make magnetic spice jars to store on the refrigerator door
  • Organize your spice drawer with baby food jars.
  • Make Smore’s treats in baby food jars. Hand them out around the campfire or at a party.
  • Make a window-sill herb garden with baby food jars.
  • Fill baby food jars with condiments for camping or a bbq.
  • Sterilize jars and lids, and reuse baby food jars for homemade baby food. The serving sizes are perfect.

Gifts and party favours to make with baby food jars:

  • Baby food jars make great wedding favours. Decorate and place at each table setting.
  • These baby food jar lanterns were hung in a tree at an outdoor wedding.
  • Make Lego Head Jars as party favours for a Lego party.
  • Make mini calming jars for kids or co-workers
  • Make a wish jars or dream jars for your family and friends.
  • Give a gift of homemade bath salts or sugar scrub in a baby food jar.
  • Make these cupcakes in a jar to give to teachers, neighbours and friends.
  • Make a craft kit for a child by filling jars with pom poms, sequins, foam stickers, and beads.
  • Hot Cocoa in a baby food jar: layer hot chocolate, shaved chocolate and mini marshmallows in a jar. Cover the lid with a swatch of fabric tied with a ribbon.

Other ways to use baby food jars around the home and garden:

  • Store pony tail holders, Q-tips, and hair clips in baby food jars on the bathroom counter.
  • Make a spill proof nail-polish remover kit with a baby food jar.
  • Plant succulents in baby food jars to display on a porch or patio.
  • Hang these colourful baby food luminaries from a tree in your yard.
  • Baby food jars are great for storing seeds for the garden.
  • Make Photo Globes by placing your child’s photo inside a baby food jar.
  • Organize your spare change: each jar holds a different type of coin.
  • Use baby food jars to hold paper clips, thumb tacks etc. on a desk or in a drawer in an office.
  • Travel jewelry keeper for earrings and rings.
  • A Mini sewing kit in a baby food jar is great for travel or the office.
  • Fill baby food jars with Puffs, fishy crackers, Cheerios, nuts etc. Keep in the diaper bag for the kids.
  • Nail the lids of baby food jars to the underside of a shelf to store screws, nails and craft supplies.
  •  Store several baby wipes in a baby food jar and keep in your purse or diaper bag.

Baby food jar Christmas crafts:

  • Turn a baby food jar into a snowman Christmas tree ornament.
  • Make festive holiday votive candle holders.
  • Make sparkly tea light luminaries in baby food jars.
  • Baby food jars make great miniature  snow globes.
  • Make Reindeer food for Christmas Eve.

What if you STILL have leftover baby food jars?

If you have more baby food jars than you could possibly ever use, even after reviewing all of the ideas, please consider giving your collection to a teacher, a crafter or a daycare provider. Most will be happy to put your little glass jars to good use.

Looking for more crafts to make with your recyclables? Check out:

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Re-purposed Denim Bibs

25 Creative Ways to Re-use your Keurig’s K-Cups

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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.

 

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1 Paint the lids with slate paint

9002 type of seasoning, you can change the signatures, since the letters on the slate paint are easy to erase and write with chalk again.

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For example, baby food jars are used here

2 Store spices in "tubes"

The original method of storage, like in an old pharmacy. Lovers of non-standard solutions and retro ideas will definitely like it. Ideal for Scandinavian style and hand-made interiors.

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Idea for unusual spice storage

3 Attach jars to top kitchen drawers

Place them on a magnet under the frame of the cabinet or remove the bottom of the frame and make it a lattice so that the jars have something to hook on. But the first option, of course, is preferable - removing the cans from the magnet and attaching them back is easier and faster.

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Magnetic spice jars

4 Use cabinet door for storage

Another magnetic option, this time on cabinet door. Convenient and practically does not take up space in the kitchen, while so many jars would definitely need a separate shelf.

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Jars for spices on the cabinet door

5 Place the jars on top of each other and label them

A versatile idea that you can't help but love. Looks simple and stylish. To make the jars the same metallic color, you can use spray paint.

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Storage like this is a perfectionist's dream

6 Make spice racks

For those who know how to work with wood and are not afraid of saws and hammers, this idea will do. Make a shelf out of wooden beams where your jars of spices would fit. And store them with the lid forward so it will be easy to find the seasoning you need.

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Simple yet stylish spice storage idea

7 Label the bottom of the jars

We usually see the opposite: label the lids. But there is another solution - to sign the bottom of the can. You can stick a special sticker-sticker for this - now similar ones are sold in small shops and home decor.

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Signatures can also be made on the bottom of the jar

8 Use the drawer liners

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9 Buy regular rails

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10 Arrange spice jars and bags in box

Or any suitable basket. It is necessary that its size accommodates everything and there are fewer voids - otherwise the contents of the packages will crumble, and the cans will move and, sooner or later, will be damaged. Here they are fixed securely and will definitely remain intact.

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11 Get creative

If you can afford a separate cupboard for spices, consider yourself lucky. Choose beautiful jars, sign them, buy fragrant condiments and arrange them nicely and evenly on the shelves. Shelves can even be open - you must admit, such a composition will only decorate the interior of the kitchen.

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