Tin Can Organiser Craft

I blogged a week or so back about a charity stall my daughter and her friend did at school.  as well as the tin cans tea light holders they made, they also made these Tin Can Organisers.  The are easy, cheap and quick.  The perfect craft.

All you need are 

(washed) tin cans, 

paint

wallpaper or wrapping paper scraps

double sided tape.

contact paper

First crimp the edges with pliers to get rid of sharp edges.  
Paint the inside of the can.  some of ours are while plastic coated inside, so we didn't pain these.
Place contact paper (or sticky backed plastic to those of us from the Blue Peter era), over your chosen paper.  This is optional, but we felt it added a slight quality feel to our creations.

Measure the tin height and circumference (add an inch to the latter) and cut a rectangle this shape from the paper/plastic combo.

Double sided tape on each short edge, et voila....Orla Kiely stylie tins for our charity stall.   A final flourish with homemade gift tags and some twine, and these bad boys are ready for market.

My daughter has really got into the whole shop branding experience.  She designed her own logo  (drew a picture, and I scanned in to the computer). 

Finally to add to our inventory, we made some badges...... 

We threw in some pictures of cute animals in santa hats.  Apparently 8 year old girls are suckers for baby animals!