Over 29 Awesome and Easy Bottle and Jar Crafts

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Are you looking for bottle and jar crafts? Here are over 29 ways to upcycle jars and bottles to make DIY home decor! Easy, inexpensive, and makes great gift ideas.

You can make so many DIY projects with glass containers, and by reusing you are staying away from plastic jars. Whether you’re using clear glass jars or stylish glass jars, you can put a variety of sizes to work in your home. If you don’t do home canning, you’ll find these are perfect jars for many of these DIYs. It doesn’t always matter if they are regular or wide mouth jars for many of these projects. They are the perfect size for so many items, anything from craft supplies, and dry foods, to oh so much more! You can find many of these for great prices at thrift stores, recycle your own jars, or buy them in bulk. No glass packing is needed, the main goal is to put this great product to work.

Over 29 Awesome and Easy Bottle and Jar Crafts Video

Over 29 Awesome and Easy Bottle and Jar Crafts!

Here are a ton of mason jar craft ideas as well as decor ideas.

Mason Jar Crafts

Farmhouse Painted and Distressed Mason Jars

Painting mason jars is super easy and you can do it with so many kinds of paint – chalk paints, acrylic paints, spray paints. Here I’ve created painted and distressed mason jars. These can be used so many places in my home. You can see here I have placed these in my bathroom for some organization, but they’d be great for decor anywhere in your home.

If you’d like to make these, you can find my step by step tutorial and video on my post How To Paint Mason Jars and Distress Them

How I used them for bathroom storage:

• makeup and toothbrush holder
• cotton balls and q-tips
• soap dispenser
• Vase

Use them as home decor:

• vase
• herb garden
• pen and pencil holder in an office

The result is a charming, rustic DIY mason jar craft that can be customized to suit your personal style and home decor.

DIY Jar Soap Dispenser

I made all 3 of these soap dispensers. In addition to the painting and distressing, you can make a faux stain glass by mixing Mod Podge and food coloring, and you can use pain pouring medium as well.

You can see the step by step instructions with pictures and video at DIY Hand Soap Dispenser

Easy Piggy Bank Jar

Turn a glass jar into a coin jar or kids piggy bank. (Mine is holding pressed pennies, collected souvenir coins, and money from other countries I’ve visited.) 

Materials Needed:

• Glass jar
• Slotted Lid
• Decorative materials (paint, stickers, etc.) Optional

Instructions:

1. Place the slotted lid on the jar
2. Customize the jar with paint, stickers, or other decorative elements to suit your style. (optional)
3. Add your treasures, money, to the jar

Memory Jar Craft

Over time I’ve created a memory jar. I added some sand and shells from beaches, sea glass, leis from our honeymoon in Hawaii, and I’ve included a keychain that was my grandma’s and a fishing lure of my grandpa’s. I know the keychain maybe doesn’t fit, but it was a way to keep my grandma and grandpa together.

Over the years I’ve created more of these keepsake jars and you can see more of them in my blog post Beach Keepsake Displays

DIY Mason Jar Candles

There are many ways you can create candles using jars as well. In the picture above I simply took color changing fall leaves and Mod Podged them onto the jar to create this fall candle. You can see my step by step tutorial on my post Fall Candle with Leaves.

My cousin makes candles as well, she melts wax, adds essential oil to them, places a wick in the jar, pours the wax into the jar and lets it solidify.

Here are more candle holders that I’ve made. One is with Mod Podge and glitter, one is with squares of tissue paper and Mod Podge, one is jars with glitter glue spelling USA, one is with window clings, and one is with ribbon Mod Podged to it. Just add candles or tea lights to it. You can find all of these step by step tutorials at the following posts:

• Upcycle Jars to Candle Holders (2 Options)
• Patriotic Mason Jars – so Many Uses!
• Easy Recycled Jar 4th of July Luminaries and More!

This candle holder is filled with tiki torch fluid. I poked a hole through the mason jar lid, and added a wick to it. Now I can keep those pesky bugs away. You can find my tutorial to make this on my post DIY Summer Projects For the Best Summer Ever!

I added citrus, basil, and water to this jar, added a floating candle and now I have a natural bug repellant candle.

I painted on spring flowers to create a spring time candle holder. You can see my step by step tutorial on my post Delightful Easy Flower Crafts with Video

Mason Jar Drinking Glass

Make some fun drinking glasses from your jars. This first one is so easy, and a lot of people call it the “red neck wine glass”.

Materials:

• Mason jar
• Dollar store candle holder
• E6000 adhesive

Steps:

1. Clean both pieces thoroughly
2. Apply E6000 to rim of candle holder
3. Center and attach to bottom of jar
4. Let cure completely (24 hours recommended)

This second set of glasses I had the best time painting them to become fruit glasses in the summer time. I used acrylic paint on these. I would recommend giving them a top coat of Dishwasher Safe Mod Podge to protect them. You can find my step by step tutorial on my blog post How To Make Mason Jar Fruit Glasses

Using Jars As Flower Vases

This is such an easy craft, just turn your empty jar into a vase. Now, you can decorate the vase with paint, stickers, washi tape, etc. Then you can be creative with your flower decorating.

Jar Picture Frames

Reusing glass jars is great, and you can make a photo frame out of a recycled glass jar.  For this one, I put a picture inside and added leaves from the day we took the pictures in the bottom. You could put the lid on to keep dust from getting in.

Using Jars with Solar Lights

Upcycle old jars into a solar light. I took the top part off a Dollar Tree solar light and fit it into the lid. You can just set them inside, I have done that as well. Fill the jar with marbles, glass rocks from the dollar tree, whatever your heart desires. For this one, I put a bunch of agate rocks I had collected in it. Aren’t upcycled jars great?!!!

I used this jar craft to light up my front sidewalk. I found candle holders at the thrift store, cut the bottom off of a solar light and silicone it to the top of the candle holder. Once that had dried I placed an upside down mason jar over the top to protect it. You can find the step by step tutorial on my post Mason Jar Solar Light Sidewalk

I made some seasonal solar lights out of jars! I simply placed something that reflects the different seasons – acorns and pinecones, flowers, shells and sea glass, etc in the jar and used solar fairy lights to light them up. You can find my full tutorial in my post DIY Solar Mason Jar Lights.

I’m sharing these fun solar lanterns I made for my patio. Can you believe I made them from a broom handle glued to a painted tuna can? Then I placed a jar in the top with some solar fairy lights. You can find my step by step tutorial in my post Dollar Tree Candle Holders DIY

Using Jars for Lanterns and Lighting

Turn a glass jar into a lamp by adding a socket attached to the top of a mason jar. You can see this mason jar light project here

Make DIY lights for your home with old mason jars. You can find this tutorial at Mason Jar DIY Lights Easy and Beautiful

Who loves fireflies (or we called them lightening bugs in Minnesota). I pulled apart a battery operated tealight for this craft. I placed some grass in the bottom, added the light to the lid. You can find the step by step tutorial on my post Firefly in a Jar Swap out the greenery for moss if you prefer.

I made a luminary out of a jar for my daughter with a little frosted glass spray paint. I added a picture inside, and a tealight. You can see my tutorial on my post Easy Personalizable Kid’s Luminary

Seasonal Jar Crafts

 I made this gift for my friends for Christmas. It’s an easy craft. You just cup up oranges and apples and place them in the jar with some cinnamon sticks. Add some water and refrigerate. You can find the tutorial here for my Simmering Pot To Make Your House Smell Wonderful

I love this craft because I can use it for so many holidays. I originally created it for Thanksgiving. I added some stickers to a jar, and added a slot lid like I did for the piggy bank. I cut some slips of paper and everyone can write what they are grateful or thankful for. Later you pull them out and read them together. You can find my tutorial in my blog post thankful jar.

Make easy Halloween decor with a mason jar, some gauze, and google eyes. You can find my tutorial at Repurpose Jars & Bottles for Halloween Fun!

You can make real snowglobes a fake mason jar snow globes, and Christmas ornaments out of mason jars. This is a mason jar salt shaker that I turned into an ornament. You can find my step by step projects in my post Making Ornaments from Seasoning Shakers

I filled a bunch of recycled jars and bottles with water and food coloring, plastic eyeballs and spiders, and several other items. I place them on my mantel for Halloween. You can find these step by step tutorials on my post Halloween Mantel Ideas: Easy DIY Spooky Decor Practically Free!

I painted some jars for spring time to be bunnies and chicks. You can find these tutorials on my blog post Recycled Jars to Bunnies & Chicks

Jar Crafts for Gifts

Upcycle jars into a gift and decorate the jar with fabric, ribbon or lace. Fill the jar with cookies, cakes, soup mixes, candy…Or make a kit – crafters, first aid, mani/Pedi… This one my neighbor made for us – super cute!

Get your craft on by filling jars with different items for gifts. I’ve made body scrub, and filled the others with creative gifts for others. You can find this tutorial on my blog post 5 Dollar Tree Glass Jar Gift Ideas For Any Amazing Celebration

I used Mod Podge to adhere a doily onto a jar. I filled it with treats to give as a gift. You can find the full tutorial on my post Cheap and Easy DIY Dollar Tree Valentine Gifts

Upcycled and Repurposed Jar Crafts

Make a super easy bird feeder with a few thrift store finds. I added a chicken feeder to the bottom of a jar, and then glued on a dish on the top. You can find the tutorial for this mason jar bird feeder at Easy Thrift Store Makeovers

Glass Bottles Crafts

Use a glass bottle as a flower vase.

Clean the label off and use a glass bottle to serve water.

You can also etch an old glass bottle and serve water out of it. You can find that tutorial here

Add some food coloring too upcycle a glass jar, and some cranberries. Put a taper candle on top.

Fill an old coffee syrup glass bottle with marbles and put a taper candle on top.

Add some glass rocks, water, and a USB rechargeable light and you have a bottle lamp. You can find my bottle lamp tutorial here

Fill a glass bottle with sand, rocks, shells, etc. and add a solar light on top.

You might love my recycled bottle into a message in a bottle solar light.

Create fun seasonal decor with a glass bottle makeover. I made these glass bottles pumpkins and added solar lights to them.

You might like learning about this glass bottle cutter to make even more fun bottle projects. 

Find out “What Exactly Does It Mean To Repurpose Or Upcycle“, save money, and create the most amazing things.

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