What can I do with tinfoil?

Penny Steinkey
by Penny Steinkey
  4 answers
  • Cori Widen Cori Widen on Apr 10, 2017

    Tinfoil roses/flowers, with some Mod Podge, are great decor it's for crafts!

  • Sherry Grace Sherry Grace on Apr 11, 2017

    And a wadded up tennis ball sized ball is great in the dryer to fluff your towels. I cannot abide the smell of dryer sheets. They are full of chemicals.

  • Brenda Brenda on Apr 11, 2017

    You can always create a cone shaped hat and place atop your head. I can pick up frequencies from space when I do this.

  • Katherine Anne Katherine Anne on Apr 29, 2017

    You can use torn small pieces of crinkled up foil for upcycling an old wooden box or even a new wooden box you bought from the craft store. Take a bigger piece of aluminum foil and crumple it up... but not so tightly that you can't uncrumple it. Once it's uncrumpled...you will see lots and lots of Kinks and rough edges in your foil.. That's exactly what you want! Using glue, adhere it to wooden box similarly to the way you can do with decoupauge. Do make sure you have gotten all the edges flush with the box, so there are not any pieces that are lifting up & all are glued down firmly, on the box. Once it is completely dry, looks like a shiny crumpled metal box...take it one step further, by using different shades of dark black translucent or brown translucent paint, or combinations of the two... until you get a finish that looks like old tarnished metal by waiting briefly after applying the pain and wiping it off with a paper towel or stamping it with a paper towel so that all the paint does not look lift off of foil. Don't worry about it looking perfect... There's really no wrong way to do this or your next project. In fact, please do get courage up, to use a variety of colors to add some character. It ends up looking beautiful AND looks like aged metal. Let us know what you end up deciding to try with you foil.