Wind chimes are fun projects to make with kids and a fun way to decorate your porch or garden.
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This rainbow wind chime is perfect for:
- St. Patrick’s day
- Pride
- Earth Day
- A memorial garden for furry friends who have crossed the rainbow bridge
How to Make a Recycled Tin Can Rainbow Wind Chime Craft
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How to Make a Rainbow Wind Chime:
STEP 1: Prime the cans
Prime the cans using either primer or chalk paint.
STEP 2: Paint
Before painting, use the patterning tape to mark off the sections you’d like to paint.
Once sectioned off, go ahead and paint the cans. I painted mine like this:
- Can 1 (largest): red (top) // orange (bottom)
- Can 2: orange (top) // yellow (bottom)
- Can 3: yellow (top) // green (bottom)
- Can 4: green (top) // blue (bottom)
- Can 5 (smallest): blue (top) // purple (bottom)
Set the cans aside to dry. If needed, add a second coat of paint once the first coat is dry. Removing patterning tape once all paint is dry.
STEP 3: Assemble
Punch holes in the tops of each can by either using a Dremel Micro Rotary Tool
Tie a knot in the bottom of one of your pipe cleaners and thread it through the smallest can so that the inside of the can is resting on the knot.
By the time you get to the fourth can, you will need to connect the second pipe cleaner to the first.
Make the join large and bulky so the can rests on it.
Continue stringing the cans together. For the final can. make a hanging loop with the pipe cleaner.
If you love this tin can windchime craft, be sure to pin it to save it for later!
PRINTABLE RAINBOW WIND CHIME CRAFT DIRECTIONS
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Author: Carissa B for Creative Green Living
Estimated cost: $3
Rainbow Wind Chime from Recycled Cans
This rainbow wind chime is perfect for:
St. Patrick’s day
Pride
Earth Day
A memorial garden for furry friends who have crossed the rainbow bridge
prep time: 10 Mperform time: 27 Mtotal time: 37 M
materials:
- 5 tin cans in different sizes which nest together
- Thin painters tape
- Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan OR a zero VOC white primer
- FOLKART Multi-Surface or Outdoor Paint in rainbow colors:
- Metallic gold pipe cleaners (approx 3)
steps:
- Prime the cans using either primer or chalk paint.
- Before painting, use the patterning tape to mark off the sections you’d like to paint.
- Paint cans as desired.
- Set the cans aside to dry. If needed, add a second coat of paint once the first coat is dry.
- Remove the patterning tape once all paint is dry.
- Punch holes in the tops of each can by either using a Dremel Micro Rotary Tool (my personal preference) or a hammer and a nail.
- Tie a knot in the bottom of one of your pipe cleaners and thread it through the smallest can so that the inside of the can is resting on the knot.
- Figure out where you would like the top of the second can to hang and tie another knot and thread that can onto the pipe cleaner.
- By the time you get to the fourth can, you will need to connect the second pipe cleaner to the first.
- Make the join large and bulky so the can rests on it.
- Continue stringing the cans together. For the final can. make a hanging loop with the pipe cleaner.
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