Ideas for Crafts With Milk Jugs
Create crafts the "green" way using old milk jugs. Prior to crafting with the plastic gallon milk containers, clean them thoroughly and allow them to dry completely to avoid putrid smells and unsanitary conditions. You can use items you may already have around the house to utilize any additional unneeded items. Create usable or decorative crafts and recycle your throwaway items through interactive projects.
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Kids' Milk Jug Crafts
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Create a toy for your child from an old plastic milk jug. Ensure that the container is clean and dry before attempting to craft with it. Cut holes into the container to create a door and windows to replicate a house for small dolls. Spray paint the jug and transform it into a child's airplane toy with cardboard wings and propellers. Another option is to create a backyard game with two gallon jugs, cutting the bottom and one side out on each to make a ball-catching game.
Gardening Crafts
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Transform a gallon milk jug into a greenhouse to grow seedlings for your garden. Remove the bottom of the jug with a pair of sharp scissors and place it over a planting pot. You can remove the cap for air circulation or to control the temperature around the seedling. Decorate the miniature greenhouse with a pale wash of paint to allow the light to seep through. Additionally, you can cut one side and the bottom off a milk jug and use it as a garden shovel to plant bulbs, seeds or seedlings that you have grown in your milk jug greenhouse.
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Milk Jug Decor
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Stack milk jugs to create a tall totem pole. Affix the jugs with a hot-glue gun and paint with colors safe for plastics. Glue foam shapes to adorn the totem pole with beaks, noses and wings as desired. Alternatively, you can cut a plastic milk jug as a jack-o-lantern, a sock monster, an animal or a well-known movie character. With imagination and paint, you can transform an ordinary milk jug into a festive decoration for your home.
Household Milk Jug Crafts
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Cut an empty milk jug to form a scoop to use in gathering spilled nails in the garage, transferring water from a clogged toilet or spreading rock salt onto the sidewalk to prevent pedestrians from slipping on the ice. Cut the bottom from the milk jug to use as a funnel for fuel or to transform small items into larger containers. Using a milk jug for dirty jobs means that you can throw it away without sacrificing money.
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