On 08 Aug 2003 12:32:10 GMT, OSPAM (Naomi Pardue)
wrote:

Nah, you don't throw them away, you make craft projects out of them. One
project was to glue different colored tissue paper on them and put a tea
candle in it.

But just how many teacandles can one person make? I mean, we didn't use a
whole lot of babyfood (one kid, only on babyfood for a few months), but I ended
up throwing out [we didn't have curbside recycling yet] zillions of babyfood
jars, even though I reused as many as I could for other things.


Donate them to a preschool near you if you cannot use them.

None of these are my original ideas, they were saved from
other teachers and parents.

Use baby food jars to make Christmas trees as gifts.
It takes 17 of them. Shape them into a tree and glue them together.
Glue the tree to a piece of flat wood for it to stand on. Punch holes
in the lids and paint them green. Inside each jar, put little pieces
of tinsel and sometimes other small goodies, then screw the lids on.
Take a small strand of lights (35 I think it is) and tuck 2 into each
hole. After that, take wide ribbon and glue it around the outside of
the tree.
You can use those decorative strands of small balls that you would use
around your tree, and decorate the front of the glass tree, glueing
them on.You can also take little fuzzy white and silver balls and glue
them into the spaces between the jars. It makes the look like
ornaments.
Be creative with other decorations.

Make a bunnies out of them:
* baby food jar
* construction paper
* markers
* self stick felt for the bottom of chair legs
* Sharpie® marker
* white spray paint
* cotton ball
* hot glue
* jelly beans (optional)
* scissors
* pencil

Directions: An adult should spray paint the lid of the jar the day
before making the bunny. Students should draw two ears on the white
construction paper, cut them out, and color the centers with a pink
marker. The student should bring the ears and the cotton ball to the
adult to hot glue onto the jar. Next, they should stick the three
small round white felt pieces to the jar. Color two blue for eyes and
the third pink for the nose with marker. Use the Sharpie® to draw the
mouth and whiskers on the jar. Fill with candy and enjoy!

Other uses for baby food jars: Holding paint since they are airtight
and are difficult to break. Also great for covering with decorative
napkins..

Use them to put small amounts of applesauce, pudding, etc.
into your children's lunch box for school.

Store handcreams to take with you to work, if you buy large
containers

Nail the lids to a board and use the jars to store nails, bolts,
screws, elastic bands, tacks, ect. in ( you can nail the board

to the under side of a cupboard, or to the wall use brackets
so jars are down.) This way the items are up out of the way
but you can see what is in each jar.

Use to store small things, eyes, buttons, jewelery findings
etc . Easy to see, if you just have a small amount.

Layer colored sand inside the jar. When full close lid and
put a little "hairy" material on top (don't know what else to
call this), two wiggle eyes on side of jar with a small
pompom for noes and a small mouth cut out of felt.

You can use them to make snow globes by gluing small
figurines on the lid, filling with water and glitter and gluing
the lid on.

You can use a glass cutter and cut off the top, decorate
the side with etching or paint and use them for candles.

You could also decorate the jars and fill with bath salts
or bath beads.

You could fill them with plastic beads and something to
string them on.

Use a baby food jar as a shaker to mix homemade salad
dressings, or to blend an herb or spice rub for cooking.

Make a Flower vase
Use larger blossoms of single buds, cutting the stem
to the height of the jar so that the blossom just
clears the top. The taller jars can be used for a
white mum to place on the bathroom vanity.

For Thanksgiving, make little turkeys for each place at
the table by filling the jars with candy corn, covering the
screwed-on lid with brown paper, and gluing on
construction paper cutouts for the turkey head, feet,
and tail.

Bird feeder

Remember when your kindergarten teacher showed you
how to spread peanut butter and sprinkle birdseed into
an old mayonnaise jar lid? Same idea, just use the
smaller baby food jar lids. Hammer a hole in the edge
and hang with twine, or nail the lid directly onto a wooden
birdhouse.


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