How to Make Crafts With Can Tabs
Save the tabs from your soda cans to make crafts. There are a variety of crafts that you can make with a surplus of can tabs. Re-purposing the metal is not only good for the environment, but it makes for an interesting, creative gift that will be conversation piece for your gift recipients.
Things You'll Need
- Can tabs
- Floral foam
- Hot glue gun
- Hot glue sticks
- Leather cording
- Scissors
Instructions
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Can Tab Wreath
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Purchase a bare floral foam wreath.
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Plug in your hot glue gun with a glue stick loaded in the gun. Allow the glue to heat up for a few minutes.
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Unroll your leather cording. Squeeze a dot of glue on the back of the foam, and press the end of the leather cording into the glue.
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Allow the glue to harden.
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Slip your can tabs down the other end of the cording. Thread as many tabs as possible onto your leather cording.
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Wrap the cording with tabs around the floral foam wreath until it is completely covered in can tabs. To do this, pull the leather cording around the side of the wreath and through the hole of the wreath. Continue wrapping the cord from behind the wreath and then back to the front. Do this until you have wrapped the entire length of cording around the wreath. Secure the end of the cord with a dot of hot glue.
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Cut plain leather cording -- 20 to 30 inches in length -- in different colors to fill in any empty spaces. Secure the end of the cording to the wreath with hot glue and wrap the length of the cord around the wreath in the same manner as you wrapped the cording with the tabs. Once your reach the end of your cord, secure it to the wreath with a dot of hot glue.
Can Tab Bracelets
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Cut two 10-inch lengths of leather cording in a color of your choice.
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Run one cord through the top opening of the can tab. Run the second cord through the bottom opening of the can tab. Fill the cords with tabs until the cording and tabs form a bracelet that fits all the way around your wrist.
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Tie the cords in a bow. Snip off the excess cording with a pair of scissors.
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References
- Photo Credit soda citron image by jergA from Fotolia.com
