From old thingsyou can make some crafts. In today's post we give several ideas for what you can do with old cooking pots. Whether it's a beautiful flower pot, a “basket” for bathroom utensils or a beautiful garden decoration: you can make so many beautiful things out of old cooking pots.
Decorating the garden with old cooking pots: upcycling ideas
Don't throw away the old cooking pots! With color and a lot of creativity you can transform them into true works of art. They can be similar tobeautify a rain barrel. You need the following materials:
- Acrylic brush, flat
- Acrylic crayons
- Acrylic paints
- screwdriver
- two old cooking pots
- Sandpaper with fine grit (600 or 1000 grit)
Rust, dirt stains, scratches: old cooking pots are often unsightly. First, clean them thoroughly and sand off the old scraped paint with sandpaper. Then use the acrylic brush to apply a coat of acrylic paint and let it dry. You can then paint the cooking pots as desired using acrylic paint pens. It looks especially cute when you paint faces.
Plant old pots: make your own garden decorations
Now you can plant the old pots. To do this, first drill several drainage holes in the bottom of the pot with a drill. Then lay a layer of gravel or sand on the bottom and fill the cooking pot with substrate.
Upcycling old cooking pots
You can use the cooking potsPlant as desired. The same rules apply as when planting in a metal pot: direct sunlight heats the metal pot and the water evaporates much more quickly. Therefore, you should place the cooking pot in a partially shaded or sunny location.
Making beautiful things out of old things: decorative ideas for the garden
You can make an extraordinary garden decoration yourself from old cooking pots and kitchen utensils. For example, you can make a frog yourself from a former teapot, a cooking pot and a deep soup plate. You can burn the frog's legs from modeling clay, paint the eyes and mouth and cut out the tongue from foil.
Unusual garden decoration made from old things
Wondering what to do with old cooking pots? Don't throw them away, use them to create creative garden decorations. You will need three pot lids (small, medium and large), a wooden stake and a wooden strip to realize your next decoration idea. Starting with the smallest, hang the three pot lids on the post. For this purpose, you can drive nails into the wood up to the middle. You can put together a hat from a wooden strip and a wooden board detail approx. 15 cm long and 20 cm wide. This creates a cute snowman that won't melt even in summer.
Plant old lard pots
Old lard pots bring a vintage touch into the house or garden. If the old paint has chipped off, you can paint it with acrylic paints. Then place a plastic pot with succulents in the lard pot and hang it up. The planted pot will look good on the terrace and balcony.
Create a music wall in the garden: ideas with old cooking pots and kitchen utensils
Homemade music walls are enjoying increasing popularity. If you have kindergarten age children, then you can complete a music wall. Hang various kitchen items such as old pots, pans and lids on a Euro pallet. Only use metal objects because glass can break easily and children can get injured.
The children only need a stainless steel ladle to create different sounds. And the best thing: you can expand or change the music wall as you wish by replacing certain “musical instruments” with new ones.
Plant old cooking pots: Make your own rustic garden decorations
The cooking pots are only several years old, but the coating is badly damaged or the material has deformed? Then you can use them as an accent in the garden, on the balcony or in the house.
Plant the cooking pots and display them along with buckets and pans. It looks particularly effective if you arrange them on Euro pallets, an old table or a wooden garden bench.
You can plant the following in the pots, watering cans and buckets:
- annual seasonal bulb flowers
- Herbs
- Succulents and cacti
- Ornamental grasses
- Ground cover
What can you do with old cooking pots? Make a sisal basket for the bathroom utensils
You can also make a beautiful basket for the bathroom from an old cooking pot. Simply wrap sisal around the pot, cut out two handles from sisal and glue them in place. The basket is waterproof and is therefore perfect for the bathroom.
You can also make a beautiful wall decoration out of the pot lids. If the lid handles are not broken, then you can use them as wall hooks.
Decorate the garden with old things: water features made from kitchen utensils
The kitchen utensils are waterproof. However, if they are worn out, pollutants can get into the water. Therefore, you should only use them for water features when the water does not drain into the garden. They are unsuitable for the koi pond or the planted pond.
However, you can use them for a vintage garden fountain with a plastic basin. Assemble the fountain from several bowls, cooking pots and sauce pots. You can simply hang these on an old chair.
