Alternative use of cans, from pots and crafts, hiking to the alarm system

Hockey puck, storage containers nuts, ashtrays - use as cans of canned invented a long time, the benefit is not necessary even basic alterations. But with all the new "profession" appeared over time in tins. Now the alternative use of cans is becoming a real trend in the various fields of life.

Cottage and home design

Banks now come in many shapes and sizes, which increases the number of use cases. Quite a lot of vessels are opening system equipped with ringlet. The upper internal part of the cans, after removal of the cover is less dangerous in terms of possible receive a random cut. To work with such material can be attracted and child.

Worth trying to do such things:

1. Flower pots. There are several ways to make them. Firstly, the jars can just paste over thick paper and put on top of a suitable pattern. Second, the container can be cleaned and painted. In this case, you need to use a few cans of paint and different colors. To create an additional entourage each of the blanks you need a little trample. In each jar it should be done in different places. A series of three or four of these pots looks very original.
2. Lanterns and candlesticks. Create a designer lamp is not very difficult. First it is necessary to remove the label from the workpiece and the metal grate to shine. Then be cut in the sheet metal patterns or do according to the attached loop holes. Location pattern on the workpiece depends on how you plan to use it. If this is a candlestick, that make holes and slots closer to the open side, if a flashlight - to the bottom, or on the entire surface. Naturally, you need to break and entry to the wire. At the cottage will be interesting to look like a bunch of torches, fixed at different heights.
3. Kitchen and stationery organizers. This is a very convenient device for storing small things and small tools. The kitchen can be wall-mounted organizer. In this case it is better to use deep cans of the same size. To give them a unique look, you can use decoupage technique. To this end, the container simply need to paste over the paper with a pattern (for example, cut to size pieces of colored magazine pages), and the top varnished. For stationery organizer need jars of different sizes. Contents can be different. The latest hit - the container wrapped with twine.

There is nothing easier than to turn a tin can of a small bird feeder. And if you work a little pair of scissors on metal, it is possible to "break" the whole flowerbed metallic colors.

Articles made of sheet metal

Material going to manufacture the majority of cans, plastic, easy to processing. In this case, the use of hand-made articles, even the softest sheet will allow them to make a real "steel" look. This determined the appearance of this type of work, as the creation of "metal" sculptures of people and animals and the whole of their compositions.

Here are some interesting ideas:

1. Tin Woodman. One of the main characters in the books of Alexander Volkov, depending on the amount and type of material, it can be any size. Parts of his body, the limbs can be attached to a single metal rod using weld or wire. Eyes can draw or paint as solder in their place nuts. Woodman can be firmly placed on the ground, and hanging on the tree. In a second embodiment for bonding workpieces wire is used. This character cottage will give 100 points ahead to his friend the Scarecrow as a scarecrow. Roughly the same can be done and the Terminator.
2. Animals. From cans can be cancer, snake, horse, or other fauna. If the capacity is cut almost in half, and then slightly bend and flatten receive claws. Carapace made by successive coupling stacked and folded in half bottles. flexible metal core or wire will need to create a snake. Each horse's leg doing a minimum of two upright jars to indicate knee bend. All this is rather a villa-yard crafts. And here is low and long Taxis can "start" in the apartment. Instead dog paws need to screw the wheels on an old chair or a cot.
3. Drums. To create a simple tool is sufficient to seal the top of the jar thick paper or thin cardboard. For more serious artefacts should take not too thick artificial leather. It can be mounted on the container by means of twine. It is better to try to do several drums of different cans. After checking the sound of each, you can try to collect his amateur team.

Sheet metal blank is used to create and openwork lattices, supports, decorative fences.

Aides tourists and scouts

Cans are an indispensable tool of tourists, travelers, boys scouts, and indeed everyone who spends a lot of time in nature. The liberated vessels, for example, you can store other food, cooking soup, to make tea. If the inside of the articles made of sheet how to wash, will not need any dishes or cups.

There are a few more, the Pioneer scouting secrets:

1. If the jar to attach the handle of a wire, in such a device which is to carry water and other liquids. Serve it for safe transport of hot coals, but then have to punch a few holes in it. So really keep the fire for hours per day and do in a campaign without matches.
2. If you hang out on the ropes cans with pebbles inside of the tent camp perimeter, get a good alarm system. A similar principle is used Timur and his team for their communication lines, feeding sounds.
3. In extreme cases, breaking a few holes in the bottom, any jar can be used as a primitive filter. Fill the vessel need to clean sand, gravel and grass. The last even through a sieve water is safer than simply taken from the river.

Even now, even somewhere basic lighting of cans (with fat and a floating wick in it) are used in field and military conditions. Tin cans together with other "unnecessary" things are even more areas of reuse.