This DIY installment is for all members of our Purely Inspired family who want to rescue their containers from the recycling bin and put them to good use. With a little creativity, you can make festive decor, handy household items, and storage systems that will make life a little more organized – and who couldn’t use that?
So, give these clever ways to upcycle your Purely Inspired containers into cheap-and-cheerful household goods a try!
4 Creative Ways To Reuse Your Purely Inspired Containers
1. Make Festive Container Crafts
Container crafts are a great way to breathe new life into perfectly good containers otherwise destined for the blue bin, and can also be a lot of fun for the whole family—especially around Halloween and Christmas time.
Here are a few fun and festive ideas for the holidays ahead:
- Make a jack-o’lantern candy dish: Remove the container’s label and paint your empty container pumpkin orange. Draw or paint on a silly or scary jack-o’lantern face using a marker or paint. Once dry, use your container as a dish to hand out candy on Halloween, or at home for all to enjoy.
- Make a mini witch’s cauldron: Remove the label and paint your empty container with matte black paint. Next, paint or stick on metallic full and partial moons and you’re all set to make your first batch of witch’s brew.
- Make a scarecrow, witch, snowman or Santa head. Get crafty painting the festive face of your choice onto the bare container and complete your work of art by placing an actual hat over the lid such as a straw hat, witch hat, black top hat, or Santa’s hat. For inspiration, do a search for “container crafts”.
2. Make Your Own Planters
Calling all proud plant parents. Your Purely Inspired protein container makes the perfect planter that can be designed in so many different stylish ways using paint, fabric, wallpaper, burlap, or beads.
Try these:
- With the label removed, paint ⅓ to half of the white container with a color that suits your home’s decor. Once dry, spray the entire container with stone-textured spray paint (which you can get online or at a craft store). Next, glue on three or four wooden or cork feet (search cork plugs) and you’ve got a gorgeous planter that everyone will think you paid top dollar for at a home goods store.
- If your style is a little more bohemian chic, make a beaded planter. This one requires a little more time and patience, but the end result is absolutely eye-catching. Purchase beads of your choice, string them onto twine, and hot glue them around your empty and bare container. Elevate your planter by gluing on feet (wood or cork work well) and proceed to plant your new plant baby.
Hint: Another benefit of using a Purely Inspired container is the ease of puncturing holes in the bottom of the container if your plant requires drainage. Simply purchase a plant saucer to catch any excess water and paint it to match the planter if you wish.
3. Make Kitchen Storage Containers
Cute enough to display on your countertop, you can turn your used Purely Inspired containers into utensil holders, cookie jars, and coffee, tea, and sugar containers.
This one might be the easiest of all and utilizes both the container and lid. Start by removing the label and simply leave the container white or you can add texture or color to the container by wrapping it in fabric, burlap, wallpaper, or spraying it with spray paint. Check out all the different types of textured spray paints available now—stone and metallic are great choices for trendy decor.
The finishing touch is to add descriptive labels of what’s inside, which you can purchase at a number of places online. Just search “kitchen labels”—et voila—you’ve got gorgeous custom kitchen containers for next to nothing!
4. Organize Your Pantry, Laundry Room, Crafts & More
Using the same beautifying techniques above, you can zhuzh up your Purely Inspired containers to create some useful organizational systems for your home.
Create storage containers for all the pantry staples that you buy in bulk such as nuts, dried fruit, grains, pasta, lentils, beans, oats, and more. Stick on some cute custom labels and your pantry is instantly more organized—and pleasing to look at!
You can also put your containers to use holding your craft supplies, leftover restaurant condiments from take-out orders, laundry sticks and dryer balls, sewing supplies, or use one to collect old batteries while you save them up for recycling.
Or you can even use your containers for freezing big-batch recipes – such as soups and sauces. Just be sure to leave a little room for expansion and label your containers with the date you froze it and what’s inside.
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