Decorated craft tin - Arts, Crafts and DIY

Turn baby formula tins into craft tins.

Material

several baby formula tin
1 patterned duct tape

Method

Wash and dry empty baby formula tin.
Measure around the tin with string, and then cut duct tape to length.
Start at the bottom of the tin and wrap duct tape around carefully and repeat until tin is covered.

Notes

There are plenty of patterned tapes out there. I chose the duct tape varieties as it was wider and easier to work with. Tins are the perfect size for pencil, textas and just about anything else.

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- 3timesamum
- 25 Jun 2014
  5:58 pm

88 Comments

- - mom336367 said
  - 30 Apr 2024
    3:14 pm
Ok this is a spectacular idea for a pencil/texta container! We never seem to have enough and none are as big as this. Looking at this gave me the instant idea of getting a baby formula tin, then once cleaning it after use, ok maybe everyone doesnt have spray paint in there house but I certainly do from the art projects I enjoy doing myself, you could spray them white on the outside and then your children could paint or draw on them to decorate them. Or you could paint them with brushes and acrylic paint. I’ve also got a tub of chalk board paint I bought ages ago I’ve never used, could do one in that and then children could decorate it with chalk. Never thought once of reusing a formula tin but they are a great size, great idea thank you for sharing!

- - Mum2archer said
  - 31 May 2022
    10:40 pm
Great and handy recycling idea! They would look so colourful stacked up in a craft corner with all the kids textas etc in them!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 18 Oct 2020
    10:28 am
Those tins are so handy to have

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 15 Apr 2020
    12:08 pm
Don’t use formula anymore maybe I can use Nescafé tins .this project looks great

- - Stace said
  - 11 Jan 2020
    2:50 pm
Great project idea, with the amount of formula tins you can accumulate it’s good to find ways to reuse. They are a great size for storage.

- - Mummyofone77 said
  - 11 Jan 2020
    9:23 am
I didn’t know you could get patent duct tape but this sounds like a good invention to decorate things that are broken haha. A nice use with the tins as well. Good to recycle

- - mom81879 said
  - 07 Oct 2019
    12:56 pm
I don’t have baby formula tins, but I do have a few of the big old glass coffee jars, they’ll be just as good for this project

- - mom152736 said
  - 24 Jul 2019
    1:13 pm
Love the tin crafts.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 23 Mar 2019
    9:25 am
Cute and clever way to store baby items too!

- - kjgarner said
  - 17 Jun 2018
    9:54 pm
A great way to store all your art objects neat and tidy.
- kjgarner replied
  
  18 Jun 2018 , 10:50 pm
  Even use them for tools, toys etc.
- - mom62624 said
  - 30 Nov 2017
    8:11 am
A nice idea and great to store things in, thanks!

- - mom160421 said
  - 26 Oct 2017
    2:10 pm
A great idea for storing all those bits and pieces.

- - deannepritchard said
  - 03 Aug 2017
    8:41 pm
great way to upcycle formula tins!

- - mom112217 said
  - 29 Oct 2016
    8:34 am
The tins look amazing and so many uses for them!

- - mom111059 said
  - 13 Aug 2016
    4:23 pm
Teaching your kids to recycle by example is so important. Thank you for sharing a great idea

- - Nas01 said
  - 10 Apr 2016
    2:54 pm
What a great idea. I usually through away empty tins but this is a great recycling idea.
- mom19782016 replied
  
  22 May 2019 , 8:43 am
  We’ve done this to store the kids toys
- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    11:45 am
A brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing!

- - dannsbuild said
  - 12 Sep 2015
    8:33 pm
It looks really great! Thanks so much for sharing!

- - mom152736 said
  - 31 Aug 2015
    9:43 pm
Oh thats a nice one, I have also same one

- - mom152736 said
  - 07 Aug 2015
    9:20 am
i tried this last evening… came out very well…. but i did it with washi tape