Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle beer bottle caps?

By: frangipan

frangipan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:33:18 +0000

Hi if you would like to get rid of your beer bottle caps then please feel free to send them to the address below. I recently become unwell and so I am trying to fill my time with craft ideas by using recycled / reused items, it might be rubbish but it is suppose to be therapy ha

thanks up front

F.DANIELS
TYNI
LLANGOEDMOR ROAD
PENPARC
CARDIGAN
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WALES
UK

By: karen

karen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:48:30 +0000

i’ve recently made a beer bottle wind chime with a bottle of beer…empty duh than strung on loads of beer tops, i think it sounds great :)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:10:41 +0000

Play the drinking game caps. Save up a bunch of them and set two cups on either end of a room. Get teams of two and and alternate taking shots at the other’s cup. Each cap made the other team drinks. First one to ten wins.

By: Shorty

Shorty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:59:54 +0000

I recommend all of those craft projects, but I doubt the teacher would like it if your teenager went into school dressed in beer caps, so I often paint them to make them into fat little ladybugs.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:16:26 +0000

hey (:
I make necklaces with bottle caps.
ex: http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh180/srryaboutyrcouch/get-attachment-2.jpg
so you could always send them to me XD and I would be more than happy to make some for you :]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:14:19 +0000

Flatten them and turn into ornaments.

By: Lager Lad

Lager Lad — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:20:29 +0000

Here in Australia we nail them to a stick to make a lagerphone, which provides a rattling percussion instrument for folk music.
http://www.apex.net.au/~keiths/Lagerphones/examples.htm

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:05:26 +0000

How about using them as poker chips? I have a ton since i collected them as a child, and i’m planing to make drinkcosters out of them.

By: Pet

Pet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:39:57 +0000

I made a cross of two twigs, threaded the bottle caps on several strings and hanged these at the horizontal twig. I put them in my square-foot-gardens to scare the birds.

By: john

john — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:15:35 +0000

can you just buy a crimper and put them back onto bottles such as home brew?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:03:43 +0000

If they are twist tops, then you can glue them on the volume and tone knobs of electric guitars. It looks awesome. I’ve also seen somebody nail them all over a guitar’s front. a bit risky… but if you’re going for an original look it could be wicked cool.

By: Creative Rampage

Creative Rampage — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:28:08 +0000

Hello my crafty Compadres!

I recycle my beer bottle caps into truly unique magnet sets, bottle cap belts, and other accessories!

Feel free to take a look at my shop for ideas or inspiration and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!

Sincerly,

Amanda M. Anspach, Owner

CreativeRampage.etsy.com

By: Leftyfixit

Leftyfixit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:25:08 +0000

they are /Very usefull for scrapbooking. They are painted and used in makeing pages for scrapbooking. and good scrapbooking store will have hundreds of them painted in various colors.

By: adrein

adrein — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:57:10 +0000

Collect enough to get a variety of colors and create a mosaic picture.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:23:30 +0000

Make them into cheeky pins…

http://www.gnarledbranch.com/pins.html

By: neelikescrafts

neelikescrafts — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:45:11 +0000

Use them for plant pokers. It’s also a great way to recycle your popsicle sticks. Just decorate them, and glue them on to a popsicle stick.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:14:15 +0000

If you can collect 20 (this may take many years if you are not ENGLISH) if you are ENGLISH you may have already amassed many hundreds of thousands before you reach the age of 18. You will need for the game 20 bottle caps & one CAT and two of your Earth human beings,take it in turns to place the caps on the cat when the cat shakes them off the player with the least caps wins, the winner can then shave the cat to their liking. Yes a lot like Buckaroo but with the added bonus of shaving..now what to do with all that excess Hair i wonder??

By: chelsea

chelsea — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:41:22 +0000

im currently working on a beer bottle cap lip balm container. to make the homemade lipbalm, taken patrolem jelly, melt it down, then add things like:

vanilla extract and red food coloring. or hot coco powder, or even pixie sticks powder, what ever your heart desires.

and mix it in with the melted jelly.

here is where you use the bottle caps, find a pair of identical logo bottle caps, spoon some of your newly homemade lip balm into it, but don’t overflow it, because it with run into the cap. after i spooned in my three different flavors into three different bottle caps, i left it in the freezer to reharden over night. now this morning ill find the matching logo to each cap, and pick out a cute thin ribbon. i plan on hot glueing the ribbon across the logo part of the bottle caps, so that, when folded, the underneath are facing eachother, with the logo on the outside. then tie the left over ribbon into a bow, to close it. and, viola! your new trendy//cute//!!RECYLED!! lip balm.

By: warren

warren — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:42:49 +0000

I like to put them upside down on the floor so when my hungover roommate gets up in the morning he walks on them and gets all pissed off. They’re also fun to see how far you can fling them with your fingers. Besides that I think they’re useless

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:36:19 +0000

you gave me an idea. windchimes.

if you punch holes in them, and tie them off on strings.

it’s very windy here…

i love windchimes

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:44:27 +0000

I’m up for the “glue them on to stuff” movement. How about sticking them on:
-flower pots
-mail box
-posters for awesome pop-out look
-cyclidrical vases
-metal lunch boxes
-other sturdy stuff that needs spiffing up

By: mike

mike — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:17:08 +0000

punch hole in them, thread string through them, and make rattle, and sell to morris dancers

By: carrie

carrie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:35:50 +0000

i heard of someone using them for a treasure hunt at a birthday party.

By: Jennyb

Jennyb — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:07:58 +0000

i make magnets, keyrings, earrings, brooches, badges, mirrors, buttons….and possibly soon cufflinks

oh and a hair clip is also planned soon.

depends what else i have laying around or a spot in charity shops!

i decorate in various ways, often depends on what people want.

By: 4x4 bingo card

4x4 bingo card — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:08:58 +0000

de, – Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 11:47:29 (PST)

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:54:20 +0000

If you go onto http://www.craftbits.com it shows you how to make them into keyrings. There are some pretty bottle tiops out their and it seems a same not to show them off.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:55:29 +0000

ME too, i would have thought everyone would do that. i’ve got ewnough rubbish on my fridge without sticking garbage on it!

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:03:29 +0000

my cat loves playing with them.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:32:00 +0000

They make excellent foot scratchers.

By: Barbra

Barbra — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:12:33 +0000

Paint them or decoupage small photos on them or glue small items to them and make a checkers set out of them :)