Yogurt Container Project
Children's art projects have a long tradition of taking ordinary household objects and creatively finding new uses for them. Yogurt containers offer unlimited possibilities. With paint, glue and creative embellishments, what might have been trash becomes someone's new treasure.
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Seed Pots
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Fill the yogurt cups with seedlings from a nursery. Paint the outside of the yogurt containers with acrylic paints suitable for covering plastics. Adorn with rhinestones, sequins, buttons, ribbon, lace or bead embellishments. Fill with potting soil and plant with small seedlings. Stick a Popsicle stick in the soil to label the plant.
Halloween Pumpkin
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Paint the containers and lids orange inside and out using acrylic paints. Draw jack-o-lantern faces on the containers using a permanent marker. Paint caps from plastic soda bottles brown and glue them to the middle top of the lids to make a pumpkin stem nub.
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Silk Flower Petal Vase
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Glue petals cut from a silk flower to the yogurt container. Stuff with floral foam and add artificial flowers to form a bouquet. Tie a ribbon around the top of the vase and glue in place.
Piggy Bank
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Paint the yogurt container and lid pink or other pig color. Turn it on its side and glue four soda bottle caps appropriately placed to serve as feet. Draw pig face on the bottom with permanent marker. Glue on felt pieces for ears and tail. Cut a coin slot on top with a craft knife.
Easter Basket
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Paint the outside of the yogurt cups and glue on embellishments. Create holes at top of the container at opposite sides with a paper punch. Tie stiff ribbon to each side to form a basket handle. Bead the ribbon first to adorn the basket further. Stuff with Easter grass and fill with small candy eggs.
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- Photo Credit neurtured seedling image by leafy from Fotolia.com
