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Craft Tutorials | Adult Crafts | Crafts for Seniors | Bottle Cap Flower
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Bottle Cap Flower

Author by Amanda Davis on April 2, 2024 Updated on April 2, 2024

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Create a rustic bottle cap flower using recycled materials to display in your garden!
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How to Make an adorable and rustic Bottle Cap Flower by Amanda Formaro, Crafts by Amanda
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Turn old bottle caps into a rustic bottle cap flower to display in potted plants or right in your garden. Safe to leave outside too!

Bottle Cap Flower


 

Bottle Cap Flower Craft


This bottle cap flower project was born from one of my craft books, Button Mania: Buttons, Bottlecaps and Beyond!, which is available now on Amazon! I save bottle caps, but I’ve also bought bottle caps to use for fun craft projects like this bottle cap flower that’s in my herb garden. I left my bottle cap flower out all year through snow and rain, so now it has a rusty finish that I love!

As you can see from this photo, the bottle cap flower doesn’t start off rusty. If you prefer it to stay shiny you’ll need to keep it from the elements. But I still can’t guarantee that it won’t rust. Bending bottle caps causes stress on the metal and could cause them to rust. But that’s what I love about it!

Rustic Bottle Cap Flower in garden

What you will need to make this project


As always, a full printable supply list and instructions are at the end of this post.

Bottle Cap Flower
  • 12-inch wooden dowel
  • Canning lid
  • 15 bottle caps
  • Pliers
  • Strong bond glue, such as E6000

You can collect your own bottle caps, or you can buy them. These are the ones I bought but I also used beer bottle caps around the outside of the flower.

How to Make a Bottle Cap Flower


Use a pair of pliers to bend 12 of the bottle caps in half, like a book.

How to make a bottle cap flower for your garden

Just so you know, bottle caps that actually come on soda and beer bottles are sturdier. Quite a bit sturdier. They are harder to bend, but you can definitely do it. The bottle caps that you buy are specifically made for crafting and are not as thick, thus much easier to bend.

How to Make an adorable and rustic Bottle Cap Flower by Amanda Formaro, Crafts by Amanda
  • Glue a bottle cap to the center of the canning lid.
  • Turn two of the “petal” bottle caps so that they are back to back. Do this with all of the petals; you will have 6 pairs.
  • Glue all six pairs of the bent bottle caps to the canning lid, going around the center bottle cap.
  • Glue two bottle caps to the sides of the dowel as leaves.
  • Allow the glue to dry completely before trying to move the flower.

I accidentally broke my dowel in the spring. That’s why my little flower ended up at the front of my herb garden. The dowel is still attached, it’s just a lot shorter now. ;)

I hope you enjoyed this project! Remember to check out my book, Button Mania: Buttons, Bottlecaps and Beyond!, which is available on Amazon.

Button Mania: Buttons, Bottlecaps and Beyond! by Amanda Formaro of Crafts by Amanda

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How to Make an adorable and rustic Bottle Cap Flower by Amanda Formaro, Crafts by Amanda
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4.89 from 9 votes

Bottle Cap Flower

Create a rustic bottle cap flower using recycled materials to display in your garden!
Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

  • 12- inch wooden dowel
  • Canning lid
  • 15 bottle caps
  • Pliers
  • Strong bond glue such as E6000

Instructions

  • Use a pair of pliers to bend 12 of the bottle caps in half, like a book.
  • Glue a bottle cap to the center of the canning lid.
  • Turn two of the “petal” bottle caps so that they are back to back. Do this with all of the petals; you will have 6 pairs.
  • Glue all six pairs of the bent bottle caps to the canning lid, going around the center bottle cap.
  • Glue two bottle caps to the sides of the dowel as leaves.
  • Allow the glue to dry completely before trying to move the flower.

This post was originally published on this blog on July 31, 2015.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Bette says

    April 2, 2024 at 11:24 am

    Love the project! Just checKing that dowel is simply glued to the back of the canning lid bottom including the groove around the center or is it just glued to the raised part of the back, Thanks

    Reply
  2. Bria Lawrence says

    August 5, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    I am doing this craft at the library next week and had bent all my petals, etc. Today I started gluing and it just does not stick. I am having such trouble. Is there a secret? I am using the glue you recommended. And trying to glue the “leaves” on the dowel. Not working.

    Thank you!

    Reply
    • Holly Ingram says

      May 26, 2024 at 11:29 am

      E6000 takes agile to dry and hold use some hot glue in places for immediate hold and the E6000 for longer holding power

      Reply
  3. Amanda says

    June 13, 2020 at 7:02 am

    Thank you so much for telling us what kind of glue you use. So many tutorials leave that out! I see a lot of crafters using hot glue guns, but they never tell you what they are using. I have everything from the cheap “kid” low-heat hot glue all the way up to Gorilla glue sticks. Strength is everything in the crafting world. So, Thank you for a well explained and displayed tutorial! I can’t wait to make some of these for myself.

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      June 16, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      Thanks so much for saying so Amanda! :)

      Reply
  4. Linda aka Crafty Gardener says

    April 10, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    Just found this idea, and have already made one flower from a really old stash of bottle caps. I’m on the hunt for more. I’ll be sure and give credit to your page when I share it on my website. I’d be happy to preview your book for you and do a post about it. I’ve done other crafting idea books in the past.

    Reply
  5. Sue Charlton McEndree says

    April 8, 2019 at 8:36 pm

    Amanda, I hope it’s is ok to share the link to this… I wanted my niece to see them & also for my son to save me some bottle caps. I think this is a cute craft.

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      April 11, 2019 at 8:48 am

      Of course!

      Reply
  6. JANICE PIATT says

    February 3, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Love your garden flower and am looking forward to making some. I’ve been looking for items to make using metal bottle caps. This is great.

    Reply
  7. Joy Calhoon says

    November 13, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Hi Amanda,

    Do you do anything with aluminum pop tabs from soda cans? I have a bunch but don’t know what to do with them!
    Love your site!
    Joy

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      November 16, 2015 at 10:06 am

      I’m afraid I don’t have any of those. I found this Pinterest board that may give you some inspiration though! https://www.pinterest.com/sherron/pop-can-tab-crafts/

      Reply
    • Donna says

      April 12, 2016 at 9:55 am

      give the pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House…

      Reply
  8. Audra @ Renewed Projects says

    October 26, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    Amazing! I have a jar + a bag of bottle caps set aside for a project “someday.” I LOVE the flower and the rag doll horse. You are AMAZINGLY creative! Thanks for the inspiration! I can’t wait to make some bottle cap flowers for my garden. Finally, I flower that I can’t kill and will look better with age (rusty musty!).

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      November 16, 2015 at 10:04 am

      Thanks Audra, I hope you have fun with the projects! The horse is my favorite :)

      Reply
  9. Pam says

    September 17, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    I love this craft. My 9 and 11 yr old grand daughters have shown interest in crafting this summer also and are wanting to make something. I do believe I have found that “something” thank you so very much for sharing!

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      September 25, 2015 at 3:36 pm

      How fun Pam! Hope you guys have a great time! ;)

      Reply
  10. Heidi says

    August 5, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    The bottle cap flowers are adorable! Can’t wait to make some! Thanks for the tutorial.

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 11, 2015 at 9:11 am

      Thank you Heidi!

      Reply
  11. Judith says

    August 3, 2015 at 12:19 am

    You are on pinterest so you know how important it is to pin something interesting, right. Well please explain to me why we can not pin your bottle cap flower?

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 5, 2015 at 11:30 am

      Hi Judith. I’m not sure why you are having trouble pinning the flower. Did you try clicking on the Pinterest icon that is on the top of the post, just below the post title? It works on my end… and I just checked, there are plenty of people that have been able to pin it https://www.pinterest.com/source/craftsbyamanda.com/ Maybe there was a glitch when you visited, perhaps you could try again?

      Reply
  12. trenna says

    July 31, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    I can not see the pictures. I am so sad.

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      July 31, 2015 at 3:21 pm

      Hi Trenna. I’m sorry you had trouble. They seem to be okay right now, maybe try again?

      Reply
    • Graywolf12 says

      July 26, 2016 at 10:42 am

      Refresh the program. I use Yahoo, and often have that problem.

      Reply
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