Empty coffee cans can be covered with fabric or contact paper to improve their outward appearance. You might want to do this when reusing them as banks. However, in some cases such as using them for planters, you may want to leave them as they are to make an artistic display. Start with this list and add as many other uses as you can think of.
Suggestions for an empty coffee can:
- Use it as a bank
- Make a bird feeder out of it
- Bake bread or a cake in it
- Use smaller cans as pencil or crayon holders
- Use cans such as General Foods International Coffee ones to store screws, nuts, tacks, and hooks.
- Use empty cans to store rice, pasta, dry beans, cookies, and crackers.
- Make a toy for a pet
- Punch holes in the bottom, put the plastic lid on the bottom of the can, fill can with potting soil and a plant, arrange a display of plants using different brands, sizes, and shapes of cans
- Store nails in cans, punch hole on top to hold one nail that indicates what's inside
- Put the can on a shelf in workshop and store small garden tools in it.
Add your own ideas to this list.
