How to Make Soda Can Earrings

Now your favorite beverage can adorn your ears.

Making jewelry out of objects that you would normally throw out or recycle allows your craft to reach a more rewarding level. With recycled materials, you don't have to spend a lot of money on expensive beads or charms. Instead, your pieces have an inherently distinctive and innovative appearance. This also enables you to showcase a beloved beverage. You can use soda cans to make a variety of jewelry, including earrings.

Things You'll Need

• Dish towel
• Sharp scissors
• Round-nose pliers
• Safety pin
• 2 fishhook earrings bases

Instructions

1. Rinse your empty soda can thoroughly with water. Place it upside down on a dish towel to dry.

2. Pierce your soda can carefully with your scissors and cut a slit up the side of the can. Cut away the top and bottom parts of the can. You now have a sheet of aluminum.

3. Cut four ovals out of the aluminum. Make them a variety of sizes: they just have to be a size that you are comfortable with dangling from your ears.

4. Pick up one oval with your round-nose pliers. Twist the oval around the pliers so that it becomes a cone or cylinder shape. Repeat with your remaining ovals.

5. Pierce the top of each cone with a safety pin.

6. Open the loop at the bottom of each fishhook earring base with your pliers. Push it through the hole in each cone or cylinder.

7. Place two cones on each opened loop. Squeeze the loop shut with your pliers.

References

• Cut Out and Keep: Soda Can Earrings

Resources

• Nature Moms: Soda Can Earrings
• Artists Helping Children: Soda Can Jewelry