Since we have a large family of 8 people, we go through A LOT of food!  Before we had children, we could not eat a loaf of bread before it would get moldy.  Now, we sometimes buy 10 loaves at a time!  We also try to save money by buying #10 cans of food.  The most common thing we buy in them is Hunts Spaghetti Sauce from Sam’s.  We don’t eat it all at once, but we pour it into a bottle that is in the refrigerator so that we can use it up as needed.  My kids love to eat pizza quesadillas for lunch, so it doesn’t take them long to finish up a can!  It seems like such a waste to throw that big can out, but I hate to just let things lay around, too, junking up the place.  I have plenty of other things doing that, no need to add to it!  But, now, I have a purpose for those cans!

We’ve been trying to get a little more organized in the girls’ playroom.  We have a long ways to go, because I hope to build new shelving soon, but I can always use new containers to sort toys into.  That’s when I decided it was a good time to reuse those cans!  I’m planning to use mine for toy storage, but of course, they could be used in any room of the house.  I think it would be fun try them out in the kitchen, with cute labels on them, too.

Would you like to try your hand at making one (or two or three)?  They’re super easy (my specialty, lol)!

• an empty, washed and dried #10 can
• scissors or straight line cutter for scrapbookers
• Scrapbook paper in whatever pattern you want your can to be decorated in
• Scrapbook Stickers, stencils or a Cricut or Silhouette Machine
• Glue

Cut Scrapbook paper out so it will fit around the can.  I used 2 12×12 sheets, and cut them down to the right size.

Glue paper onto the can.

Cut out the letters (or find the stickers) that you would like to be on it.

Glue the letters on.

As you can see, I also added some flowers to dress it up a little.  I plan to let the girls put their dollhouse people in this one.  They have a large bin full of dollhouse furniture and people, but it seems that we’re always diving for the people in the middle of it.  It will be nice to have them out separate.