How to repurpose Meow Mix cat food containers
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I can't get myself to throw these out because I think there must be a cool project for them.
I know someone that painted them black and used them as fake security orbs. Worked pretty good to.
Make a rain chain.
Donate them to an Elementry school, I am sure they will find a use for them.
I have the large temptations boxes. Been working on a philadendron plant that needs replanting or thinning. Will use the boxes for planters.
and to Lduggins what is a rain chain? New to me.
Toss them just adds more to the garbage we are dumping into our environment every day. Great suggestions here like donating them to an elementary school or after school or day care. They can always find a use for them. I am not crafty enough to suggest something like that but in my city we have a terrific city recycling and we would just put them out with the rest of the tins and glass. NEVER in the garbage.
poke a hole in the bottom and they make good pots for seed starts or cuttings.
Donate them to a school art program! My niece is an art teacher and has a budget of $200 for the entire year. She is always accepting things like this. Or, see if a church's media center or nursing home could use them.
We use plastic containers in the basement under the wood that we stack boxes or items on. We have been known to get water seeping in and flowing across the basement to the floor drain. Wood or cardboard gets wet and smells or grow mold/mildew. If you have enough of them, they will support a lot of weight.
I use mine to hold paint, small parts, paint thinner and whatever else will fit in them.
I like to do my evening meal prep work in the morning, especially when I know I’m going to be gone most of the day, that way all I have to do is add this to the dish when I’m ready to make it. They work great for small amounts of left over food. They come in handy when your neighbor needs to borrow just a little bit of this or that and they don’t have to bring the container back either. If your kitty likes milk serve it in these. Some of these containers fit perfectly in your Cardinal/oriole feeders.
Use in the garden to make a Path or feature filled with concrete or pebbles and sand.
Use them for children's stacking blocks, fill with some elbow macaroni and glue together to make kids maracas, donate them to a daycare, or the old standby-store small crafts supplies in.
I donated mine to the local elementary school, many uses there for both the teachers and students.
If you have children in your neighborhood, get a few of them together to brainstorm ideas.......we'll all be surprised with the out of the box ideas they might think of to have a great time re-imagining them into either something useful or playful.
Use them for crafting projects - to sort pieces while crafting or to mix paint. You could also donate them to a school for projects or a shelter for feeding.
When you find out let me know lol
i to save them. I was thinking of making pumpkin faces and lights in them. I try to recycle thinks into craft holiday ideas. Like packing styrofoam into tombstones
Use as Plant saucers?
I too, have tons of these orange cups left over from huge pallets of this food picked up for the cat santuary I am trying to found. So many orange cups! Lol! I am also looking for the many uses I know they have left in them besides small parts holders and seedlings start containers.. This far the only use I've thought of is to secure into thick stacks and use them as supports for things I store outside, but do not want damaged by touching the ground.. Problem is I have hundreds of them with more coming and not so much to store outside to use them all for that purpose. Any further ideas beyond the few regurgitating ideas listed would be an appreciated suggestion and you can pm me @ tartarianrevenge@gmail.com.
I agree with the notion of it being considered very rude to comment on the OP's question with the suggestion to just throw them out. Some of us do not have the luxury of, nor disrespect for our planet to simply toss everything that does not immediately serve us any longer into the ever-growing problem of poisoning the environment via living in a 'throw away' world. Besides, that wasn't her question or a solicitation for advice adverse to her stated positon.
Thank you in advance.
I saw these used in a puppet it was used for the legs with staws pieces in between to seperate them. Think big bird Marrionette . The body was styrafoam balls and feathers for wings Sprayed yellow.. Also sometimes plastic can be melted, I made some pins from plastic beads and milk bottle tops that came out cute . VENTILATE ! if you try this and put the baking parchment under your item, on top of cookie sheet. I was thinking of taking mine it to a local extruder and paying to make plastic boards for my outdoor bench .( It has metal sides and the wood was replaced once. )Good Luck!