Rachael's Random Ramblings

The gazillion glorious uses for jelly and sauce jars!!

I think I'll type in bold today, see if it's any easier to read.

My husband, Darin, used to wonder why I save and wash up the jars and lids from honey, jellies, jams and sauces...well....he's learned how useful they can be on a homestead! We've caught baby snakes to put in them (after puncturing holes in the lids with nails) for the kids to briefly observe and study up close which they found fascinating! The other day my stepdaughter Elyssa (12), wanted to have some "pets", so she took one of the jars and fetched some water bugs from the pool (our pool is a cattle trough) to keep in her room! LOL! Upon thinking about that, it's been a few days now...guess I'd better run up there and see how they're doing.

Darin needed something to catch a beetle in to take to the exterminators and ask the best way to dispose of the infesting little nuisances, so what did he use to do such a task??? Yup!! A jelly jar! LOL!

Not only that, but they're great for re-using to put cookie and brownie mixes in to give as gifts around the holidays. Also, I found a neat project that the kids can do by painting the jars with a see-thru type paint (like you'd use for stained glass suncatchers), then filling the jars with wax and a wick to make candles! So when the wick is lit it will light up the paint on the side of the jar. Another great gift giving idea!

We have little teeny tree frogs coming around the house, and Isabelle (5) was wanting to catch one the other day and put in a jar so she could see it up close......we couldn't get the one she wanted because it was too high on the house, but we have our jar good and ready for when he decides to come down a little closer...LOL!

There are soooo many uses for jars, the possibilities are ENDLESS! Silly husband.

Yep

{ 09:48 , Saturday, July 7, 2007 } { Posted by Chas }

Yep, jelly jars are a great resource! I took some and put some change in them for each one of the kids and when we work on learning about money they have their own jar to buy things from our store. :) Also I put our extra erasers and other happy little things in them! Have a great day and God Bless!

My Cup Runneth Over...
chas

I keep the old lids too!

{ 09:59 , Saturday, July 7, 2007 } { Posted by Vickie }

My children are always catching one "critter" or another and want to keep them a while to observe. We use some jars for this & the old lids punched just like you said!
We also use them for change, twist ties, candy jars, the possibilities are endless!

Great ideas!

{ 10:50 , Saturday, July 7, 2007 } { Posted by Barefootcountrygirl }

Great ideas!! And Chas, I forgot about the money! I did punch a slit in the lid of one jar for saving extra change in! LOL! I think I need to give the kids their own jar to do that too! Great idea!!!

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{ 09:59 , Sunday, July 8, 2007 } { Posted by sunshines }

HUMMM...Days gone by I remember camp and all the fun!! We always took stuff to make friendship bracelets with the friends we met there.That way when we all went home we still had something to remember our friends by.We took embordiery thread of different colors to make them:)