DIY beer cans

Empty cans of beer and other drinks can serve as the starting material for creating a variety of things. Some crafts from beer cans with their own hands are purely decorative in nature, while others can serve as useful accessories for the garden or home. Let's look at several options for how you can make interesting and useful things out of ordinary tin cans.

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Beer can lamp

Tin cans of lemonade or beer can be turned into beautiful, openwork shades for fixtures:

• With a scissors, bottle opener or clerical knife, cut off the top.
• Outline the pattern and make holes with nails of different diameters, screwdrivers or other sharp objects that can leave curly holes.

Important! To prevent the bank from wrinkling during operation, cram paper tightly inside.

• After all the curly holes are made, you can paint the jar in some color, both outside and inside.
• Attach a bulb holder.

The original lamp from cans is ready!

Important! Another option to create a table lamp from beer cans is to use only tabs from aluminum cans for the lampshade, where the can itself will serve as a leg for the lamp. To connect all the tongues into one continuous web, make an incision on top of each tongue, interlace them with each other and bend the incision using pliers. You can also use thread or thin wire.

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garden furniture

A very unusual, but quite functional application for beer cans is the manufacture of garden furniture, for example, a table and armchairs. To do this, it is necessary to connect the cans to each other with glue, giving the product the desired shape.

Important! So that beer cans do not crumple under the weight of a seated person, they can be pre-filled with sand.

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Candlestick flashlight

To make such a craft from beer cans with your own hands, like a candlestick-flashlight:

1. Make even vertical cuts on each empty jar every 3-4 cm using a clerical knife. For convenience, you can use the ruler.
2. Then gently click on the jar from above to get a flashlight.
3. If desired, paint a flashlight in any color with spray paint.

Important! I would like to warn that the manufacture of crafts from such cans with their own hands requires caution. In the process, it is advisable to use household knitted gloves, at least until you get used to working with very sharp edges.

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Decorative butterflies

To beautifully decorate a room, you can use very beautiful butterflies, which were made of aluminum beer cans. To create such a beautiful decor, you must follow this instruction:

1. Cut the beer can and cut the top and bottom from it so that you get a flat plate.
2. Cut out the image of a butterfly from paper, redraw it on a tin plate, pierce with an awl at the conditional points.
3. Cut the butterfly with scissors.
4. Give the resulting figure a little volume with pliers, a screwdriver or a pen.
5. Sell ​​light outlines where necessary, round the edges nicely, bend the wings, and so on.
6. Color the butterfly. To do this, you can use markers or paint in the spray can.

Important! Such butterflies can decorate an empty wall in the room, placing them as you wish.

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If you have accumulated a lot of old aluminum cans of beer and other drinks at home or in the country, do not rush to carry them in the trash. Making crafts from beer cans with your own hands is very easy. With a little imagination and spending a small amount of time, you will get original things that are sure to come in handy for you at home.