How can I reuse or recycle sardine tins?

Wed 30 Jan 2008

Sardine can We’ve had an email from Carla, saying:

I’ve recently developed an obsession with sardines and my green bin is now full of cans! Is there anything I can do with them?

We’ve already covered standard food cans but most of the ideas take advantage of those cans’ cylindrical nature and height.

The shallow nature of sardine cans might make them useful for under small plant pots (but watch out for rust) or for candles - both to catch drips of tall ones or a mould/dish for making new ones.

Any other suggestions?

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My great-grandmother used to make beautiful dollhouse furniture from all types of metal cans.

http://cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com/cathy_of_california/2007/03/tin_can_doll_fu.html

Try doing a search on “tin can doll furniture” and you’ll get lots of links to pretty curled can furniture.

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I’m not sure if they’re magnetic or not, but you could clean them out and use the bottoms for gifts involving magnets. (Cute magnets you make, magnetic poetry, etc.)

If they aren’t magnetic (and even if they are), you could make little shadowboxes out of the bottoms and maybe even fill them with clear resin for effect. I’m envisioning maybe some cute fake fish and rocks for a mini-aquarium! :o)

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