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.

Decoupage Designs USA · Answer

Do they have lids?

Paige Lyman · Answer

Take them to your nearest school. The art teachers love them for paint

Michelle Bradley · Answer

Make some decorative bowls for display using choice tissue paper usually found in specialty crafting stores. Find some beautiful tissue paper (decorative napkins will also work) preferably dark tones with metallic detailing, a bottle of children's white school glue and quick drying matte clear finishing spray. Gently shred or cut medium sized chunks of the tissue paper then set aside.. Using single sheets of the prepared tissue paper lightly brush white school glue on the paper, apply to the cat food bowl, carefully smoothing out any bubbles/wrinkles before brushing glue over the applied tissue. Repeat until the bowl (cat food container) completely covered in tissue, overlapping the edges of the tissues. You will probably need to allow the first layer to dry before repeating the same process all over the container to give the effect of an artistic object one would never have guessed had once been a cat food container. Once completed, allow to thoroughly dry before sealing with the clear, matte finishing spray. Once dry fill the container(s) fill with potpourri, decorative glass/polished stones, tiny wooden or metal objects. Perhaps you might fill these bowls with real or fake cactus(?) or some other artificial greenery purchased from your local dollar store. You might need to glue the fake plants to the bowls with a glue gun as well as placing stones inside to help 'weigh' the bowl down, stabilizing the object to prevent tipping. You also could 'glue gun' using three finished bowls glued together then fill with your selected goodies.

B. Enne · Answer

*planting seedlings, in or out of the ground *as a mould for suet bird feeding cups/cakes *to hold paint *http://www.ecofriend.com/10-stunning-pieces-art-created-disposable-paper-cups.html

Anne · Answer

I had a similar issue with Minute Rice single serving containers. I have since divided them into a couple of 'tasks'. 1) I use them when cooking to get 'ingredients' measured and ready. If a recipe calls for oil or and egg, I can add some contents of the main component to the smaller bowl to help me get ALL of the contents out. 2) Use them to crack your eggs into before putting in a bowl to whip for scrambling or baking. Better to view a 'bad' egg in a toss away container than to toss your entire batch for one spoiled egg. 3) When my Scentsy (and non-Scentsy) wax melts have given all they can give, I pour the spent wax into one of the cups 2/3 filled with sawdust from hubby's garage. They make great fire starter when we need to burn yard waste. The melts 'pop out' easily so they can still be reused for this purpose only. 4) When I become slightly overwhelmed in stock, I take a stack to the local animal shelter and they utilize them for preparing meals for animals.

Carol Beecher · Answer

You could make a garland of bells. Turn them upside down make a hole in the center and string a jingle bell through the top to look like a bell.

Carol Beecher · Answer

You could donate some to a local Girl Scout Troop. I'm sure they could figure a good use for them.

Decoupage Designs USA · Answer

Okay well if you plant flowers in the spring you could use them for seedlings. :-)

Snapoutofit · Answer

Toss. Clear out the clutter.

Kelly S · Answer

I see several sunflowers based on the color. A light orb using string lights.

Jody Wolfgram · Answer

Take a board, like 6'X24', drill some holes in it, just undersized for the cups to sit into. Mount the board just high enough(legs or blocks fixed under it) so the cups clear underneath it. Use it to store screws and other misc stuff. Or use them to dye easter eggs, one side at a time...good luck!

Carol · Answer

I used a string of clear Christmas lights. Drilled a hole in the bottom of the containers, inserted a bulb and made a string of lights for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Then thread it among my fall colored garland on my porch railing. Everyone loves it. Sorry the idea is too late for this year, but while most stores are still holding 75 to 90% off on fall garlands and arrangements, a good time to buy and make for next year.

Dawn Otterwman · Answer

Tossed the clutter.

Lulu · Answer

toss,toss toss.+look up simple feng shui on clutter.

Kristine Keefer · Answer

Most Whole Food stores have bins to recycle #5 plastics like the meow mix containers, yogurt, hummus containers, etc if your curbside recycler doesn't accept

P auline miller · Answer

I use them for water when I'm painting with small brushes.

Mel swiger · Answer

I know someone that painted them black and used them as fake security orbs. Worked pretty good to.

Ldu12138890 · Answer

Make a rain chain.

Kristyn · Answer

Donate them to an Elementry school, I am sure they will find a use for them.

Deanna Nassar · Answer

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.

Kate Baxter · Answer

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.

Mybe · Answer

poke a hole in the bottom and they make good pots for seed starts or cuttings.

Liz Straughn · Answer

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.

Paulette · Answer

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.

K. · Answer

I use mine to hold paint, small parts, paint thinner and whatever else will fit in them.

Sandy Mattes Cerveny · Answer

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.

Johnavallance82 · Answer

Use in the garden to make a Path or feature filled with concrete or pebbles and sand.

Mogie · Answer

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.

Redcatcec · Answer

I donated mine to the local elementary school, many uses there for both the teachers and students.

Janice · Answer

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.

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