Creative recycling of pots and pans: find out how to reuse them to make plant pots, decorations, wall clocks

Plant pots with a vintage charm, decorations to hang on the kitchen or terrace walls, clocks and creative crafts. There are tons of things you can do by creatively recycling pots and pans

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Pots and pans usually last for several years but when the coating becomes damaged, the handles begin to peel off or you notice hard-to-remove burns, it is best to remove them from your kitchen.

Those of steel and aluminum, which are the majority, are completely recyclable and usually, even if the rules may vary from town to town, go to the metal collection bin.

Alternatively, however, you can recycle pots, pans and pans to make decorations for the home and garden. From plant pots to clocks, here are many DIY ideas super original.

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Jars with old pots

Hanging from the kitchen ceiling or on the terrace, the old pots act as original pots for plants and flowers.

Otherwise you can place them on the ground in the garden, alternating them with other recycled items, from teapots to cups.

If you are good at painting, recycle the old pan to make a wall decoration. After having cleaned it well and having removed any impurities and encrustations, apply a coat of primer suitable for the target material and proceed with the coloring, using special enamels.

Flowers, animals, fantastic subjects, landscapes, you can really indulge yourself! And once your masterpiece is ready, all you have to do is hang the pan on the wall using the hole in the handle.

Wall clocks with recycled frying pans

Making a clock with an old pan is possible and it's not even that difficult! You will need to draw the numbers on the back, drill a hole in the center of the pan to be able to insert the clock pin and install everything you need to make it work, hands included.

Here you will find a video tutorial to make the DIY clock with a pan step by step.

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Why not involve the children in some creative work, which you can also use as a decoration for the garden?

In the following example the pots have been fixed on a wooden board arranged vertically and decorated with recycled elements to form faces.

But creativity really has no limits!

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