Bottle Cap Reindeer Ornaments

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m on a bit of a bottle cap rampage right now and am loving all the different ways you can reuse little metal bottle caps…just more proof to me that just about everything can be recycled! Anyhow…

All you need to make these darling ornament is some brown paint, white and black paint (or googly eyes), and a little red for the nose. Hot glue small twigs on for the antlers and hot glue a ribbon on the back to hang up your darling ornaments and you are done!

I’ll be linking up to Christmas Crafts Link Up, Make it 4 Monday, Motivate Me Monday, Market Yourself Monday, Mad Skills LInk Party, Homemaker Monday, Making Monday Marvelous, Monday Blog Hop and Mommy Monday.

Bottle Cap Turkeys

This isn’t what it looks like…I swear! My husband loves fancy sodas in glass bottles and usually gets some for his birthday each year. I’ve been saving bottle caps for quite a while and am now finally working through the stash :).

These little turkeys would be so cute on goodie plates or thank-you gifts for friends or teachers. They would also look darling on napkin rings at your Thanksgiving table!

The best part about these cute little turkeys is that you can use a variety of materials for the tail feathers, which means just about anyone can make these if they have a few bottle caps lying around. All you need is some paint, hot glue and tail feathers (leaves, feathers, ribbon, construction paper, whatever!). I made these with my 4 year old and it was a fun bonding time while his little brother slept.

I’m linking up to What Are Little Boys Made Of? Thanksgiving Ideas Link Party, Making it With Allie, Get Your Brag On, Crafty Soiree, Show Off Your Stuff, 3 Boys and a Dog, Fun Stuff Fridays, Thanksgiving Traditions, and Strut Your Stuff.

Bottle Cap Spiders

I still have a large collection of bottle caps and am always in search of a fun way to use them…well, my boys approved and loved playing with these spiders until I hung them up on our wall for Halloween décor :).

These are so simple to make that kids can help and it can be a family activity…just take your bottle caps and paint them black-if a little color shows through on your kids’ spiders it just adds character, right?! Use a dab of white paint and more black for the eyes, then hot glue pipe cleaners on for the legs. They look perfect on spider webs your kiddos can make!

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Bottle Cap Snowman Ornaments

Are you ready for an onslaught of Christmas/holiday related crafts and gift ideas? I hope so because it’s already started! Have I mentioned my husband never thought I would turn crafty on him? Apparently I wasn’t crafty before I started blogging. Luckily he still loves me :)

Back to the topic at hand…Bottle Cap Snowman Ornaments! These are simple, cute and cheap (my favorite).
All you need are:

• Bottle caps. 3 to each snowman unless you want to make mutant snowmen for your younger brother or something…
• White paint
• Something to color with. I used a sharpie and orange highlighter
• Glue gun
• Ribbon

Start by making sure your bottle caps are clean and dry.
Give them a few coats of white paint, allowing to dry between each coat especially if you have cheap paint like me.
Fold a little bit of ribbon into a loop and hot glue that to the top of one of your bottle caps on the back. Add another dab of glue at the bottom. Glue the ribbon to two more bottle caps and trim the end. I like having a bit of ribbon show between each cap to add color.
Draw cute snowman faces and button on your ornaments and adorn your tree with cuteness! Sorry, is that too girly? My faces/buttons are a little crooked because I drew them on before gluing…yah, draw them on after the ribbon is glued on.
I’m linking up to Get Your Craft On @ Today’s Creative Blog, Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays @ Coastal Charm, Lucky Linky Tuesday @ Lucky Star Lane, Toot Your Horn Tuesday @ A Silly Little Sparrow, Tip Me Tuesday @ Tip Junkie’s, Polka Dots and Pizza. and Show Me Your Bush.