This week’s Tuesday Tip, save your tin cans and donate them to teachers. Can’t recycle your tin cans? Hate throwing away excess trash? Instead, rinse them out and donate them to a local school or your kid’s teacher. It’s pretty amazing how many uses a tin can has inside a classroom.
Tip #27: Reuse your tin cans by donating them to schools.
Reusing tin cans means teacher’s spend less money on arts and crafts and canisters of all kinds.
- Pencil holders. Teacher’s either purchase pencil boxes for their students or make them out of cardboard that usually gets torn up by the end of the first semester. Instead, using tin cans that are a more durable and inexpensive alternative.
- Inexpensive art projects. Tin cans can also be used for art projects; gift containers, parts of animal murals, book report canisters, you name it I can probably think of a way to use them.
- Holders of all kinds. Push pins, paper clips, magnets, band-aids, erasers, crayons…I can go on and on. The bottom line is that tin cans make great containers, especially if you have plastic snap tops that fit the opening.
Less waste is less waste.
- Repurposing items means less trash is filling up our landfills. Tin cans last for practically ever! Teacher’s can use them year after year (unless, of course they went home in an art project!).
- I’m pretty sure tin can’t be recycled. So just reuse it! Just be sure you’ve rinsed out the can, cut away any sharp parts, and pulled off the label.
Do you reuse your tin cans around the house or in the garage? Have you donated them to classrooms before?
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We recycle our tin cans.
My favorite pencil holders are from juice concentrate freezer containers. Too bad I’m not crazy about juice from concentrate.
Interesting! I don’t do much with my tin cans… I’ll take that under consideration!
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We recycle ours too. I think you’ve got a GREAT idea here but I wonder how many teachers would actually do it. 🙁
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I recycle my tin cans already, but I didn’t know that teachers would want them! Ithought they only liked chocolate or gift cards. =P (sorry just being cheeky!)
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I’ve kind of always wondered that myself. My husband and I take our recyclables to an actual recycle station. But it does make me wonder about our city recycling program!
@Nicole – Juice containers can make great pencil holders too! Thanks for adding that tip.
@Suba-Schools always need supplies. Ask your local schools and I’ll bet they’ll be someone that needs them. 🙂
@Angela- Thanks for informing me about the tin being recycled. I didn’t know that!
@Mrs. Money – I bet there are a few teachers out there than need small canisters for paper clips, push pins, pencils, erasers, etc. that would be thankful for a small donation of tin cans!
@Young and Thrifty – Yes, teachers like gift cards and chocolate too. Especially Starbucks cards! 😉 Yet, there are lots of things they will take as donations for future art projects or multipurpose uses.