Elliott still has one formula bottle at night and so we do end up with the odd formula tin, so I thought what a great idea to come up with a list of ways formula tins can be reused. I wish I would have known of these ideas when we were going through a tin almost every week, but I have a couple lying around and can’t wait to create something pretty. I absolutely LOVE all of these, but the blue Tin Can Flowers are my favourite and would look perfect in my garden.
Here’s My Little Angel enjoying putting pom poms in the hole – Pom Pom Play
Plastic Bag Dispenser – Image Source
Noise Making Drums from Indulgy
Tin Can Flowers from Luv, Laughter & Happily Ever After
Pen & Pencil Caddy – Image Source
Decorative Storage Boxes from Design Improvised
Lanterns – Image Source
Shabby Chic Tins from Shabby Chic Inspired
Hanging garden pots – Image Source
Utensil Holder – Image Source
How do you reuse your formula tins?
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ours just went in the recycling but I love those lanterns and the drums!
That’s exactly what I had been doing with mine (apart from using it for Elliott’s play) until I found these other awesome ideas.
OMG! Totally love! I have a baby in the house at the moment and we are going through so many tins. I am definitely going to use some of these ideas.
They’re awesome aren’t they! So glad this will be of use to you :).
I love the drums. We don’t have any formula tins, but I wonder if these would work with a smaller tin? Must try.
The drums are wonderful. I’m pretty sure they’ll work withe any other type of tin Julie.
Wow some of those ideas are awesome!! Love the flower pots and the pencil holders!
They are aren’t they!
Some great ideas here! Love it! We’re usually great at recycling things, and at the moment I’ve gone into hoarding mode and I’m saving all sorts of (hopefully) useful bits and bobs to use for crafting with the {little} Big Girl. I wonder if we’ll be as resourceful as this!?!
Have fun with your crafting!
I never had a chance of re-using our formula tins when the kids were young – my husband would snaffle them for his model-making and terrain-making activities! I do share your love for the blue flower tins, such a great idea!
I did see that a lot of people (or husbands) use the tins for their screws and nails but I can think of much nicer things to use them for!
When I was formula feeding my twins they were on a prescription formula that came in half size tins and we were getting thru a dozen cans a week at one stage so we had empty tins coming out our ears. I ended up donating them en masse to my oldest’s preschool, they used them for all sorts of things.
#teamIBOT
Wow, that’s a lot of empty tins! So great they came into good use though.
I totally needed to see this post, I have about 20 left over formula tins in my garage because I KNEW they would come in handy ONE DAY! And now I have some great ideas! Thanks lovely! Em
Oh Emily, I’m so glad you came across the post!
Love all you ideas. Especially the Lanterns. Might have to do that with some tins and a strand of fairy lights. Most of my tins are in the shed. Great for all sorts of nuts and bolts and pipe fittings.
Aren’t the lanterns gorgeous. I can just picture them in the gardens during summer nights.
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I had so many formula tins – wish I had kept some as I am all inspired now!
That’s exactly how I felt when I started to come across the different ideas!
I will be getting more formula tins now that I do top up feeds with formula. I love all those ideas. Usually I throw the tins n recycling. I love the Pom Pom tin idea and so can’t wait to use it when Magdalene is older. THanks for the great post.
I remember when my son was having a lot more formula, the tins would just go straight into recycling and now I wish I had kept some. The pom pom activity kept Elliott engaged for a record amount of time (he usually doesn’t). Enjoy!
love the bag dispenser, but also love the pretty pencil holders. Never gave it a thought back when I had formula tins, but I also didn’t have pinterest 🙂
Isn’t Pinterest a wonderful thing! Makes it so easy to discover.
What a cool post – so many great ideas. I turned many of ours into planters and they look great. That was years ago, though!! x
Thank you!
I absolutely love all these ideas!! thanks for the list 🙂
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
No problems Ai.
Oh I love those lanterns – soo pretty!! Such clever ideas. Thank goodness for posts like this and pinterest as I’m just not very creative :))
Oh don’t worry Robyn, I’m not that creative either, that’s why I rely on Pinterest, the Internet and being inspired by other peoples blogs!
OMG! You are so clever. I’ve just been throwing mine in the bin. I’m going to get a little creative with Miss Three next week though. Fun. Thanks for the great ideas!
Thanks Renee, but the people on Pinterest are the ones that are clever, I’m just sharing the ideas. 🙂
Awesome ideas! We are past the formula tin stage (thank goodness) but at one point we had piles of them in the shed waiting to be turned into something useful. We ended up giving them all to our kindy. I think they used them for paint! Great post.
Using them for paint is a great idea. I’m also looking forward to no formula, we were using it as a bit of a booster as my son has been quite sick. Pretty sure we’re only about a month off!
What a lot of fantastic ways to recycle tins.
We are past the formula days but the ideas work for other tins as well.
What fantastic ideas! We have a whole stack of formula tins sitting at the top shelf of our pantry. Now I know what to do with them!