Coconut, in addition to being good and nourishing, hides surprising creative potential. Its shell, in fact, can be reused to create unique and sustainable objects, such as empty -festive practices, desk containers for pens and pencils, up to real craft chandeliers. Here is then 7 DIY ideas truly original to give new life to Coconut shells.
Hand -painted emptyles
The emptyles are always useful in the house and, if well made, they can also become decorative elements. An original idea is to create one using a coconut shell cut in half: just paint the interior with a white base and then decorate it with acrylic, resistant and easy to use colors, depicting a landscape or any other subject to taste.
Candles
Another nice idea of recycling is to transform the coconut shell into a natural candle. You can easily make it at home following one of these do-it-yourself recipes, using the shell instead of the traditional glass container.
Garlic containers
Isn’t this garlic container original? To make it, you need four coconut shells cut in half, the thin iron and string wire. Practice two holes in the upper part of each shell and put the wire, so you can hang them. Then connect the shells together by knotting the string around the wire, so as to create a wall structure with multiple compartments. In each shell you can fix some garlic heads: practical, decorative and completely natural!
Seedlings vase
Do you want to make a vase for small plants? Cut the shell in half, pass it with the stained glass paper both inside and outside, practice three holes on the base and put on three custom -cut sticks (all of the same height), fixing them with a pinch of hot glue. Practice a hole for drainage, pass a hand of protective paint on the external shell, insert the soil and the seedling.
Censer
Why not transform a coconut shell into a natural, practical and fascinating uncensiere? Just remove the base of the shell and practice some holes with a drill on the top. At this point you can place it on a second shell cut in half, which will serve as a support. If you want to give greater stability to the croissant, paste everything on a third mounted shell.
Chandelier
How about daring transforming coconut shells into an artisan chandelier? Provide three and remove the upper part of each with the help of a saw, then eliminate the external fiber and smooth the surface well with the sandpaper. With a drill practiced a series of cigks of various sizes. At this point you just have to insert electric cables and mini-lampoine through the central hole of each shell, combining them with each other to create a suggestive handmade natural lamp.
Desk container
You can also turn the coconut shell into an original desk container! After smoothing it with sandpaper, paint it with acrylic colors to your pleasure. Once dry, glue it on a wide and upside -down cap, which will act as a stable base.
