Once you pull the last wipe from your baby wipe container, do you just toss it in the trash without really thinking about it? If so, you’re missing out on some really useful ways to upcycle baby wipe containers into something else. Whether your baby wipe container is a box, a cylinder, or a plastic pouch, there’s something else you can do with it once the wipes are gone. Check these out!
Why You Should Upcycle Baby Wipe Containers
Even if you don’t have a baby or toddler in the house, you may still keep baby wipes around because they are useful for much more than babies. That means whenever you empty a container, there are still lots of organizational opportunities to use it. Here are just 10 of them.
1 Do you knit or crochet? Instead of letting your yarn roll around on the floor at your feet or get tangled in a basket, put the skein inside a cylindrical baby wipe container. Pull the end through the hold in the lid to use it. The baby wipe container successfully keeps your yarn where you want it, tangle-free!
2. Save that baby wipe pouch, because it makes an inexpensive sensory and developmental play toy for babies. Cut squares of leftover fabric scraps and put them into the baby wipe container. Little hands love to pull out the colorful fabric squares {even more than they love to pull out all the wipes!}.
3. Gardeners can start spring seedlings inside a baby wipe box. All you need to do is add potting soil and seeds and wait for the sprouts. Keep the soil moist and put the box in a sunny window.
4. Don’t go out and buy small storage boxes for crafts or sewing supplies. Just use an empty baby wipes container.
5. Dryer sheets come in boxes that don’t protect them very well. How easy is it to transfer the dryer sheets to the inside of a baby wipes box? Pretty easy! They’ll dispense one at a time, just like the wipes do.
More Ways to Upcycle Baby Wipe Containers
6. There’s a cheap and easy way to organize your saved plastic grocery bags. Stick them in a baby wipes container, and put it under the sink. Then you can easily pull out one or two when you need them.
7. Spray paint your empty baby wipes container and then give it to the kids to store their favorite little treasures.
8. Use an empty baby wipes box to store first aid supplies for the car.
9. Label those boxes and use them to store small snack packs, juice boxes, and other things inside your pantry.
10. Take the lids off to upcycle baby wipes containers as drawer organizers in any room. They work great for makeup and beauty supplies in your bathroom!
And there you have it, 10 useful ways to upcycle baby wipe containers. Let me know which ones work best for you!
