What should I do with my bottle caps?

Flip ‘em.

Sell them on ebay, Someone will want them for something

I would use them to create a huge painting in a pop- art style. (No pun intended :))

At one time I was planning on making a large outdoor painting like this but using dog tags. (Dog licenses and vaccination tags) I ultimately decided it would be too difficult to get enough tags and gave up.

@Dog Interesting – I actually have considered separating them by color…maybe I can make a “paint-by-number” type of scheme :)

@Dog I love that idea! Are they magnetic? You could have a unique bulletin board at the end of that project!

I collect them too. They’re very pretty all laid out next to each other, so my first thought was the table thing, using a corkboard and some lacquer for smoothing and filling in the gaps. The photo-painting idea has been tossed around, too. But I’ve also been thinking something along the lines of a giant windchime-type dangling art thing. Also, if we put them on picture-frames I think it might look cool, as long as they were wide frames with nondescript or black-and-white pictures or photos in them. There’s also attaching them to belts, but that’s a lot of little projects.

Turn matching pairs into earrings and sell them at local street fairs.

Me and a bunch of skaters all lived together in a house with popcorn textured ceilings. We drank tons of beer. We would press the caps into the ceiling. We almost covered our living room ceiling in beer caps. Some people got mosaic with it. I miss that house the PBR Ranch or Poor Boy Ranch as our house was called.

I collect printer’s blocks of the letter “N”. Most are pretty small, and I like the way they look just piled up in glass jars/vases, too.

I’d do what @Dog suggested. Or you could just turn it into some huge swirly painting then sell it.

Somebody did this, amazing..

@Saturated_Brain That is neat – wish there was a high res image!

@augustlan That’s a nice idea to entertain if I can find the right glass container(s)

Mail them to me, and I will put them to good use.

Quote from second link: Wean Hall has one great claim to fame, and it has to do with the concrete construction. Evidently, whenever a building is made from concrete, it must have holes bored into it at regular intervals. As luck would have it, these holes are identical in size to plastic bottle caps. Consequently, Wean Hall holds the world record for most bottle caps stuck in holes in a building. Although, I’m not sure if that is certified or not.

Surprisingly, there are still plenty of holes to fill. More surprisingly might be the sheer number of spaces already taken. It’s something to behold.

You could digitize an image, turn it into a grid, and use it as a map or template for a mosaic. It looks like that’s what someone did with the portrait linked above.

Keep them somewhere safe for later, just in case. Play Fallout 3 to understand why they might come in handy in the future.

save them for after the nuclear armageddon when they become currency

If you live around ice and snow you can nail them upsidedown for traction on surfaces. Nail them on a stick for a back scratcher. An way nail or tack them to something to make a rough surface. Just don’t sit on them.

@Dog years ago I was going to do that using the different colors of Indian corn. I had a bunch of containers of colored corn kernels, but I got side-tracked on a different project and it all spoiled.

Table project

Thanks for suggestions, though “I don’t want to go the tabletop/furniture route..”

@inkvisitor Oh man! >< I only remembered the main portion of the question from the first time I visited and didn’t reread tonight. So sorry!
Still, the resin process can applicable to artwork or something.

Most definitely – especially since this may be an outside project!