Six Projects to Make With Recycled Plastic Bottles and Jugs
Recycle empty plastic bottles and jugs into these fun and useful projects.
TEN-MINUTE BIRD FEEDER
Cut four holes 2″ from the bottom on each side of a half-gallon milk jug. Below each hole, make a small hole and poke dowels or sticks through the feeder. Ask an adult to drill a small hole in the cap.
Attach a string or metal coat hanger, fill with birdseed and hang it up.
SELF-WATERING PLANTER
Cut the top third off a 2-liter plastic bottle. Ask an adult to drill a small hole in the cap. Pass a string through the hole. Fill the bottom of the bottle about half way with water. Place the top upside-down in the bottom and put in your plant. The string will wick up the water into the soil.
BALL TOSS GAME
Cut the bottoms off two 1-gallon milk jugs. Make a ball from rolled-up plastic grocery bags and tape. Enjoy a game of catch.
QUICKER BERRY PICKER
Cut a hand-size hole opposite the handle on a 1-gallon milk jug. Slide the handle onto your belt. You’re ready to pick and hold more berries.
FLYING SAUCERS
Cut the bottom from a milk jug about 3″ high. Cut three or four 3″ circles from the upper part of the jug. Try to sail the disks into the milk-jug bottom.
GARDEN SCOOP OR BOAT BAILER
Cut a 1-gallon milk jug at an angle as shown. This is great for spreading compost or removing water from a boat.
PHOTOS OF COMPLETED PROJECT
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good, i’l use those
i like the first 2 they recycle and help the environment
i like the self watering planter thats awsome
I thought the SELF- WATERING PLANTER was interesting.
What about a fish feeder using half of a empty milk jug. Poke/drill a hole in the cap, crumble the food, put food in top of jug, watch fish eat.
Awsome
card board orange juice cartons r better for bird feeders ’cause if they fall they decompose
cool im in cubscouts i think we should do it
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cool!
We need something kooler like traps
i did the second one today
That is way too simple do something alout cooler!
i really like the second one
awsome i will do all 6
COOL
That self-watering planter was a great idea!
I Love those ideas
really cool i like th idea of the berry picker holder
Do somthing COOLER
TOO SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think all those 6 projects are good to do
You have bright ideas in recycling used plastic jugs into practical use. Regards from the Philippines.
TOO SIMPLE ,DO SOMETHING COOLER.
i thought the bird feeder is a good idea