Travel watercolor set

I went to a dollar store looking for tin boxes to create an instructable that I could use. I found a Sucrets Complete tin of 18 lozenges, packed in three tiers of six each, in their own individual plastic wells.

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Step 1:

I removed each of the lozenges from the three trays, and saved them for a future cold. The hardest part was removing all of the foil from the plastic.

mygreenhome says: Nov 2, 2011. 6:12 AM

For a glue, I've heard that rubber cement is the best glue for this sort of project. It's waterproof and easily removable if necessary.

orangefult says: Oct 14, 2011. 12:10 PM

That is genius!

mole1 says: Sep 29, 2009. 10:11 AM

If you have the tin but no tray, it's possible to use bottle caps. Someone was throwing away a bag of 100+ white caps to small laboratory bottles. I scarfed them up as useful for something someday. Perfect for watercolors! About 12 fit in an old (from the age before trays) Sucrets tin. They're deeper than trays, so added water wasn't needed. You can change out color schemes one color at a time. For rougher travel, you might want to glue gun them in.

kariswg1 (author) in reply to mole1Sep 30, 2009. 5:11 AM

I like the idea of bottle caps. You could hot glue them to a stiff sheet (cut to size of of the "tin"), and create custom trays, that would stack, and travel well. Hot glue holds really well, but isn't permanent.

kariswg1 (author) in reply to kariswg1Sep 30, 2009. 11:33 AM

UPDATE!, hot glue melts very thin plastic, epoxy glue may be a better choice in some cases...test your materials.

mole1 in reply to kariswg1Oct 2, 2009. 12:48 PM

Yes! Definitely test your materials!! I used LOW-TEMP hot glue and it was ok on the caps I had, but that doesn't mean much - caps get made out of a lot of different kinds of plastic.

bluefly1215 in reply to mole1Mar 12, 2010. 10:51 PM

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...
If you use your tin out in the cold and you have used hot glue to adhere your bottle caps, the glue will freeze and pop off. Cold Hot glue doesn't work.

mole1 in reply to bluefly1215Mar 13, 2010. 3:53 PM

Thanks for mentioning that. I hadn't tried using them anywhere that cold. Will definitely keep it in mind.
I know Hot hot glue doesn't work... tried to plug garden hose irrigation holes. Worked great on the cool overcast day when I did it...he next sunny day melted them all out.