How can I reuse or recycle coconut shells?
For reasons that seemed fun at the time, a few of years ago we halved and scooped out some coconuts. We clip-clopped up and down the street and around the house Monty Python style for a bit then the shells went in the cellar. There they stayed for a year or so then we found them, clip-clopped some more and then cellared them again.
Now, after a third bout of clip-clopping for the amusement of local children, the empty shells are now living in the garden and are really begging to be reused to save them from involvement in more repeat attempts at “humour”.
Any suggestions of things to do with them?
(Wonderful picture by minmax, c/o sxc.hu – because ours were too soggy to photograph well)
I seem to remember, back int he day, they used them to make bird feeders on Blue Peter. I can’t quite remember how they did it but think they used fat to hold the seeds, then hung it from a tree.
SaraR
yeah, that’s all I could think of, but, Like you, I dunno how to make ‘em :O(
There is a minimalist recipe and method here – http://www.budget101.com/Pets/pp21.htm
But this – http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/birds/thingstodo/birdfeeder.shtml – is a far niftier (albeit ugler) way to combine bird feeding and recycling.
I heart the internet :)
-louisa
You can use them as interesting wall-mounted or hanging plant pots. Drill a hole or two in the bottom for drainage and then eitgher screw to a wall/fence/tree or drill some more holes at the top so you can thread twine through or something then you can hang them like little mini hanging baskets. If you wanted to get advanced, you could bolt three ofr four half-shells together and then hang them up – giving you three/four separate pots to plant in – great for plants that would take over if they were all in the same hanging basket. I haven’t tried this yet but next time I have a coconut in the house, I will – it sounds like it could me quite useful and interesting.
Another gardening response – I think I must come off as a gardening obsessive on here! LOL!
Coconut bra? :)
Especially for a luau or halloween…
You could sell them to me (very cheap) so that I can make them into bird houses?
They make good bongs. Also known as a chalice. There are a few guides out there on the internet. Ours works perfectly!
you could melt wax into them and make them into candle holders(not forgetting the wick also. Quite a topic of chat at the bbq
If you still have them, we are looking for coconut halves to make bird feeders at a brownie pack holiday? would pay postage!
Our kids came up with these ideas:
http://sustainableecho.com/reusing-coconut-shells/
Cheers