Craft Ideas on What You Can Do with a Clorox Bottle

Crafts for Kids

Many craft projects use an ordinary, empty Clorox bottle to create playthings for kids, including a baby cradle purse and piggy bank. The cradle purse has the rigid bottom of the bottle as a base, to which a crocheted top is secured. When the purse is opened, the crochet piece can be folded down around the rigid plastic of the bottle, forming a cradle for a small baby doll. The piggy bank uses the entire bottle laid on its side with a coin slot cut in one side, and cork feet glued to the other side provide stability for the bank. Decorative elements such as a pipe cleaner tail, felt ears and or googly eyes complete the design.

Empty Clorox bottles are recycled into craft items for decorating or organizing a home. Colorful yarn and a hot glue gun can be used to turn a bleach bottle into a festive vase. With little bit of fabric to form a headscarf, eyes and a mouth cut out of paper or felt and some glue, an empty bottle becomes a clever container for bathroom items such as hair curlers.

An empty Clorox bleach bottle easily finds a new purpose as a ball catcher in a child's game of catch. Turning the bottle upside down and cutting off its bottom provides a wide mouth for a small rubber ball or tennis ball to land. The game also can be played with water balloons for cool summer entertainment. Tie one end of a string to the ball catcher and the other end to a pompon or ball made from children's modeling clay for a solo game of catch.

Clorox bottles that are empty also are used in holiday decorating. A bottle, some glue and a few other embellishments are all that simple Christmas projects require. For example, felt and yarn can be used to transform the bottle into a free-standing Santa Claus or one that can be displayed on a wall or door. Similarly, some creative bottle cutting, a pattern, pipe cleaners and a few other decorations can be used to transform a Clorox bottle into a decorative Easter basket.