Easy And Beautiful Tin Can Craft Ideas For Kids

Soon your balls of energy will have their summer vacation. And you know how difficult it is to keep your kid engaged at home. We have some creative craft ideas which you can enjoy along with your kid this summer. So grab your craft supplies and get ready. Here are some awesome tin can craft ideas for your kids.

Top 10 Easy And Beautiful Tin Can Craft Ideas For Kids

Tin Can Telephones:

• Collect two empty cans and wash them properly. The open end will be the receiver and closed end will carry the wire
• Make holes in the base of the cans with nails and hammer
• Insert a string through one of the cans and tie a knot at the inside of the can. Insert same string to the other can and tie a knot at the inside of the can
• Each open end of tin cans will serve as receiver and mouthpiece

Decorative Tin Can Pencil Holders

• Collect a tin can and wash properly
• Spread the glue all over the outside of tin can
• You can make a pattern of your for decoration. Stick some popsicle sticks and some decorative beads or buttons in a pattern
• Use this as pen/pencil holder

Tin Can Xylophone

• Collect tin cans of various sizes
• Put a big size rubber band around two or three tin cans and add more tin cans to it one by one
• Use the pencil to play music, play with the rubber end of the pencil

Tin Can Wind Chimes

• Collect various sizes tin cans, wash and let dry
• Paint the tin cans with acrylic paint or latex wall paint
• You can make geometric designs with bright color paint on the cans or decorate in your own way
• Tap a hole at the base of the cans, just at the center, and insert a string through it tying the knot at the inside. Do it with all the cans
• Take an embroidery hoop and tie all the cans to the hoop at different heights
• To make a hanger, cut three pieces of twine and tie spaced at even distance at the hoop. Tie these pieces together to make a single knot

Tin Can Lantern

• Gather some tin cans, wash and let dry
• With a marker make several points at the outside of the tin can
• With nail and hammer, make small holes where you made the points
• Paint the tin can with your favorite color
• Place a candle inside the tin can during night

Tin Can Drum

• Wash and let dry the tin can, remove the labels
• Paint the tin cans. Use twinkles for decoration
• Cut a balloon in half. Stretch the balloon and place it at the rim of the tin can. Stretch as much as possible to get a good sound from the drums
• With help of glue, stick a ribbon at the seam of the balloon at each drum
• Use pencils or paint brush as drumsticks

Tin Can Planters

• Collect some big size tin cans, wash and let dry after removing labels
• Poke a hole at the bottom of the tin can for drainage
• Paint the tin can in colors you like
• Your tin can planter is ready

Tin Can Animals

• Gather tin cans of varied sizes. You can make some animals or birds out of these
• Paint the tin cans in varied colors
• On a chart paper, cut the animals legs, ears and color them
• Stick to the tin can. Now draw the eyes, nose of the animals or birds

Tin Can Stilts

• Gather two wide cans of same size
• Make a hole on each side of the can near the bottom. Repeat with other can
• Insert a rope inside the two holes of the can tie a knot inside
• Rope should be long enough for your kid to hold at the waist level

Tin Can Christmas Tree

• Collect a tin can and wash it properly
• Paint it in brown color and let dry. This will make the trunk of the tree
• Draw a triangular Christmas tree on a green color card stock
• Decorate your Christmas tree with whatever festive decoration supplies you have
• Stick the bottom of the tree to the brown tin can trunk with glue

It always feels good to make something out of nothing. Tin Cans are something that you will normally discard however they make for great craft ideas for your creative little one.