Creative Uses for Empty Coffee Cans

Coffee cans are great for many other uses other than just toting coffee. This article will go over several different craft ideas and creative ways to reuse them.

If you have pets empty coffee cans make great scoops for dishing out their pet food. It works great for horses and chickens and indoor pets too. The smaller cans work great for the smaller pets who don't eat as much and the larger ones work best for the larger animals who eat more food.

Empty coffee cans make great arts and crafts for the kids. For Valentine's Day a coffee can makes a great Valentine's Day card holder. The kids can decorate the can with paper and glue. With parents supervision they can spray paint them cool colors. Valentine's stickers make great embellishments for the cans.

Okay, now this next idea may not work for you, because it is a noise maker, but empty coffee cans make great drums for toddlers. If you don't want to use the tin coffee cans the plastic ones work great. If you don't want them used as drums they also make great toys for the kids to play with. They can take toys in and out of the cans or stack them. This is a great way to reuse empty coffee cans.

Empty coffee cans make great accessories for your kitchen. You can decorate them to match the theme in your kitchen. You can spray paint them, use rub ons or stickers. You can use the empty can to put recipe cards, snacks, or use as an extra cannister.

Another great use for an empty coffee can is a desk organizer. It is a great holder for your pens, pencils, scissors, rulers, etc. The coffee can is great for this because it is a few sizes smaller than your average pencil holder. It can hold a lot more. You can decorate and embellish it anyway you like. This same idea would work great for your sewing or scrapbooking accessories too. This would be great in a garage or workshop.

A great gift idea would be to make an empty coffee can a flower pot. It is so easy to do! Spray paint or decorate the can as you like and then add some potting soil and a pretty flower or plant. Looks great! This would make a great Mother's Day gift or gift for any occasion.

Empty coffee cans make great caddies for the bathroom. They are great to contain all of your hairbrushes, combs, picks, and other hair accessories. You can decorate the can as previously mentioned in the other ideas. It is also great for holding hair scrunchies, ponytail holders, hairbands, and barrettes.

A very creative idea to use an empty coffee can is to make a time capsule. You can make it for however long you wish. Add a newspaper, stamp, and other items you would like. You can plant in your yard to be dug up at a later date. Very fun!

As you can see, there are a lot of different creative ways you can reuse empty coffee cans. I have only touched on a few. With some imagination and thought you can come up with a lot more ideas on reusing empty coffee cans.