Empty baby jars, can I make something interesting

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I've got a mountain of baby food glass jars in the kitchen. I can't bear to put them in recycling as I KNOW I can do something creative with them.

I've just turned 4 into a window herb grower-thingy but I still have lots of jars left over. Aside from the obvious storage/herb shakers, does anyone have any nice ideas?

(I'm also looking at pintrest and craft-gawker but thought I'd ask you creative bunch too)

You can decorate them with glass paint and put tea lights in them and put a line of them either side of your garden path in summer (or at halloween). Or put a line of them up the stairs leading your DH to your boudoir.

Make cold porcelain sets as gifts for kids (fancy-schmancy salt dough made with cornflour, school glue, baby oil and lemon juice, coloured with acrylic paints mixed in). Paint the lid of the baby food jar the colour of the dough inside. The dough is finer than salt dough, and air dries. I saw it on Pinterest and Craftgawker.

Glue a tower of 3 of them together (base of one glued to lid of another). Fill with hot chocolate powder, chocolate chips, and marshmallows. Make little snowman hats and snowman stickers for the front of them. You can sell them at Christmas at craft fairs.

How about small portions of home-made jam, home-made yoghurt, apple sauce, or mint sauce?

Dd and I have just used one to make a snow globe. I hot-glued a cake decoration to a foil-covered milk bottle lid and glued that to the inside of the lid. Then did & I filled the jar with cooled boiled water. We added 1/8 teasp. glycerine and some glitter. We screwed on the lid (you could hot glue it shut), inverted and - voilà - snow globe!

Dd, not did.

baloonslayer yes! that would look great on my decking! Also love the idea of landing-lights to the boudoir!

onthebottom (fantastic name btw!) ooo both ideas would make fab pressies for birthdays. I've not heard of that type of dough before, will def try it.

djelibeybi why didn't I think of that?! facepalm. I was so set on doing something creative that I forgot that they were made for food! Doh!

geogrianmumto5 again, a really lovely idea. Do you think fimo shapes would hold up in water?

Thank you all! such great ideas, I'm feeling really inspired now :)

Sounds of so much fun!!! I have ever use plastic bottles to make several scientific containers to load solutions of different density, you know, they are of different colors, and when loaded with shiny objects, they looks very pretty, But guess Jars is not suitable for the idea.
Well, another idea is to load them with soil, and plant small plants in them to build a small green landscape for your room, this works I know (well, guess several holes should be drilled st the bottom). So far, that's all I can thought about.