Crafts for Round Coke Bottles
Instead of throwing your empty 20-oz or 2-liter Coke bottle in the trash or recycle bin, give it a new life with crafts you make at home. Turn your empty bottle into a musical instrument, a mini-greenhouse, a home decoration, or a gift basket for Easter.
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Musical Instruments
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Eight plastic or glass Coke bottles become a musical instrument with just a little water. Use a different amount of liquid in each bottle to create different notes in a harmonic scale when blown. To make the bottles easier to play for younger children, label them 1 through 8 using stickers or markers. Alternatively, fill empty Coke bottles with dried beans or rice. Place the lid on the bottles and shake them to create a maraca.
Terrariums
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A terrarium is a small environment in which to grow plants and sometimes small animals. A clean 2-liter Coke bottle is the right size to make a small terrarium for plant growing purposes. Cut the top two-thirds of the bottle away from the bottom third. Fill the bottom of the bottle with small pebbles, to allow for water drainage, and potting soil to plant several seeds or a small seedling. Do not cut holes in the bottle. Put the top back on the bottle and water as needed.
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Fish
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The shape of a plastic 2-liter or 20-ounce plastic Coke bottle lends itself to the creation of soda bottle fish. Remove the bottom third of the bottle (width-wise) using scissors to create the fish's tail fin and staple it in place. Use acrylic paints to decorate the fish, as desired. Add plastic googly eyes on the head to finish the fish. The stapled end is the tail and the bottle mouth is the fish's mouth.
Easter Baskets
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The bottom of the plastic Coke bottle is the right shape to create a small Easter basket. Use either a 2-liter or a 20-oz bottle depending on the size basket you want. Use the bottom third of a plastic bottle and attach a pipe cleaner into two punched holes to make a handle. Decorate the outside of the bottle using acrylic paints, glitter or ribbon, as desired. Fill the inside of the bottle with plastic Easter grass in small Easter candy.
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