Water
Bottle Supply Organizer
Here are some great ideas for crafts made from recycled items. Use these
instructions to make a water bottle supply organizer, an easy way to
organize your crafting supplies with water bottles and other recycled
items!
Materials:
*1 - Plastic lazy susan – mine was 10” at the diameter
*1 – 13-1/2” disc cut from luan wood
*1 – Large coffee can
*9 – One liter plastic bottles (I used seltzer bottles)
*10- ¾” sheet metal screws
*20– ¾” nuts
20- ¾” washers
*Permanent marker
*Ruler
*White craft glue (I used Elmers Glue All, but Tacky Glue would be
good as well)
* ½” Flat paint brush
*Glue stick
*Printed tissue paper – I used several patterns that I liked – or
scrap booking paper
*Cheese Cloth
*Acrylic fabric paint (I used burnt umber)
*X-acto knife with sharp blade
*Sharp scissors
*Electric Drill
*Screwdriver
Instructions:
1. Remove the labels from coffee can and bottles.
2. Wash the can and bottles and allow to dry.
3. Mix some of the paint with enough water to make it the consistency
of stain, about 2 parts paint to 3 parts water, and brush onto the best
side of the luan wood and allow to dry. Two coats will be good. I used
paint to stain the wood only because I don’t like the smell of stain.
4. Decide how tall you would like your bottles to be. I used several
heights (6-1/2”, 5”, 4-1/2” and 2-1/2”) that worked well for storing
paint brushes, pencils, pens and even a very short one for erasers,
rubber bands, etc.
5. Set the bottles on a flat surface and, using a ruler, mark the
height that you want each bottle to be. I made several marks, with a
permanent marker, around each bottle and ‘connected the dots’ for easy
cutting. No alterations will be made to the coffee can.
6. Use the X-acto knife to pierce the bottle and to make a slit above
the line you drew, that you can use to start cutting with your scissors.
7. Cut along the line you drew to remove the top of the bottle and
throw away the excess plastic.
8. Measure your chosen paper from the very bottom of the bottle to ½”
above the cut edge. The extra half inch will be folded over and glued to
the inside for a nice finished look. Add an extra ¼” or so to the width
so the paper will overlap.
9. When you’ve cut your bottles to the desired size, and measured your
paper to fit, coat them, one at a time, with a thick layer of white
glue. I used Elmers, but I think Tacky Glue would be as good. Do the
same with the coffee can.
10. Lay the paper that you’ve cut face down on a flat surface and
position the bottle’s bottom edge at the edge of the paper and roll
until the paper completely covers the bottles and can. Add a stripe of
glue to the edge and press the extra ¼” of the width down to make a neat
seam. Do the same with the coffee can.
11. Press the bottom of the paper into the little indentations around
the bottom of the bottle.
12. When all of the bottles and the can are covered, allow them to dry
completely.
13. When the bottles and the can are all dry, cut pieces of cheese cloth
to fit each bottle, adding ½” to the top and bottom of the height. So
the cheese cloth will be 1” longer than the paper that you cut.
14. Again coat the bottles with glue. You don’t need a very heavy coat
this time, because cheese cloth won’t absorb the glue. Fold the bottom
of the cheese cloth ½” (you may want to use a glue stick to keep the ½”
fold in place) and, again, roll the bottle onto the cheese cloth and
press in on the indentations at the bottom of each bottle. Glue the
inside of the bottle ½” from the top and fold the top ½” of cheese cloth
inside the bottle.
15. Cut cheese cloth 1” longer than the area between the top and bottom
edges and about ¼” wider than needed for overlap. You won’t have to fold
the top ½” over the top edge, but you will want to fold both the top
and bottom edges of the cheese cloth to make a neat edge.
16. Allow the bottles and the can to dry completely. Find and mark the
exact center of the lazy susan, the coffee can and the wooden disc.
Drill through all 3 pieces at the center mark you made on each. Using a
¾” metal screw, and a washer, attach the 3 pieces, turn the project over
and using a nut, tighten it down. Make sure the lazy susan still spins
freely.
17. Position your bottles close to the outer edge of the wooden disc.
Drill a hole through each bottle and another hole through the wooden
disc where each bottle will be placed. Put a washer on each screw and
insert it through the hole in the bottle and the hole in the disc. Turn
the project over and with another washer and a nut, tighten each bottle.
18. When all of the bottles are attached, your supply spinner is ready
to use.
Nama : Ria Andriyani
Kelas : XII RPL 1
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