How to Make a Plastic Milk Jug Purse
There's no more place more appropriate to keep your milk money than in a milk jug. By recycling an empty plastic milk jug, you can easily create a purse to hold anything from coins to odds and ends. Besides the recycled milk jug, all you'll need to complete the project are some simple, inexpensive items. Not only is this purse economical, but it's an environmentally friendly craft project that promotes creative recycling to find new uses for old things.
Things You'll Need
- Two matching empty plastic milk jugs
- Permanent marker
- Knife
- Scissors
- Thick sharp needle
- Sewing needle and thread
- Zipper
- Decorative materials (optional)
Instructions
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Cut the bottoms off both of the plastic milk jugs. Mark a line going around the jugs about one quarter of the way up from the bottom with a permanent marker. Start the cut on the line with a knife, and continue cutting with the scissors until the bottoms are completely removed.
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Poke holes all around the brims of the milk jug bottoms with the thick needle. These will make it easier for you to sew in the zippered portion.
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Open the zipper and sew the first half into one of the milk jug bottoms with a sewing needle and thread. Repeat this process with the other half of the zipper and the other milk jug bottom. Zip up the zipper to close the purse.
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Tips & Warnings
Add personalized touches to the milk jug purse, such as using acrylic paints to create colorful designs on the purse, or hot glue embellishments like beads or rhinestones. Make the purse into a handbag or shoulder bag by attaching straps or handles.
References
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