Easy Funky Drinking Glasses from PET bottles

These are 3 drinking glass designs that dawned upon me after I had cut out the main section of a bottle for Bara1962's instructable. I held the bottom and top of the bottle, and thought about what I could do to these. At first I thought of a funnel, but I already have one of those. I tried putting them together in various ways and finally came up with something that resembled a wine glass. Yay! Thanks for the idea for the twine wrap from Lfndbt's Shower Caddy. Anyone can do this if they have patience and some free time, and don't mind getting their fingers a little burned if this is their first time using a hot glue gun like me. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU COAT 3 OF YOUR FINGERS WITH VERY HOT MOLTEN GLUE THAT DRIES ON THERE LIKE IT HAPPENED TO ME! Sorry, I felt obliged to yell that part.

Key--- Steps=the steps, Number=the steps inside the steps

Step 1 Materials

Materials you will need---

1. Some Empty PET water bottles, preferably the 500mL/1.05 pint kind.
2. Glue sticks for the hot glue gun
3. (Optional) Twine

Tools you will need---

1. A hot glue gun
2. Sharp scissors, you can use an xacto knife if you want to.

Comments

[cowscankill]

oi! I had that idea years ago! I should have posted sooner :P I still haven't posted lol.

[zorro5313]

Great ideas. I am from South Africa and we have nursery and pre-schools which are in very poor remote areas. They depend on donations from the public. I made some of the glasses and gave the idea to the teachers so they could make it for the small children to use. They were most appreciative of the idea. Also to remove the adhesive, by running hot water over the label makes the adhesive soft but difficult to remove. Try removing the label without water, that is dry. Then I use what we call roller wash, which is used by printing companies to clean ink off the machine. It works well in removing any type of adhesive residue left on the bottle and then you can wash the bottle with soap. The roller wash is very similar to paraffin. I have not tried paraffin though.

[KMOM14]

Good way to upcycle. I like the tropical one the best.

[Zippy_Pyromaniac]

Thanks :]

[goeon]

neat