Are you looking for a craft to entertain your children while developing their creativity? This tutorial shows you how to make a fun organiser with cans and spray paint.
This great upcycling craft project was put together by one of our Spanish bloggers ‘El Taller de Ire’ and is a good way to keep the children entertained after school.
To see just how easy it is to make an organiser with cans and to get an incite into how you can use our spray paints with a brush (!) click on the following video tutorial:
Materials to make an upcycled pineapple style organiser
Pinty Plus Mustard chalk paint
Water-based Pinty Plus aQua spray paint in ‘Yellow Green’ RAL 6018
Pintyplus Basic green
3 tin cans to decorate
Cardboard, pencil, scissors and a brush or marker
Pintyplus - Chalk Spray Paint - 400ml
CHALK PAINT in an aerosol. Gives an ultra matt finish in a choice of superb colours. Perfect on any surface!
£10.99
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Pintyplus - aQua 2017 - Matt - 3 x 150ml
MATT colours. To use inside a house, in reduced spaces or places that have poor ventilation. Do not smell.
£15.99
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Pintyplus - Basic - Gloss - 400ml
Quick dry alkyd enamel Gloss spray paint with a high resistance outdoors and an excellent adherence.
£11.50
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The first essential step is to clean. To do this, we will take the cans and clean them with soap and water to remove any remaining grease or dirt. We wait for them to dry well. Once the cans are dry spray with spray paint. As we always recommend, it is better to give several thin layers than a thick one to prevent the paint from running. Next, we waited 15 minutes for the paint to dry.
The next step is to draw on a piece of cardboard the sheets and the top lid that we can make using the same can. Then we cut them out and painted them with Pintyplus water-based paint, which has a glossy finish.
Next, Pinty Plus Basic green will be used to draw the details of the pineapple. For this, Ire has taken advantage of the concave base of the aerosol to create a puddle of paint to use with the brush. In this way, the cans can be decorated with the markings of the pineapple, as well as some funny details such as eyes and mouth. Finally, the three cans will be stacked and the lid and the sheets will adhere.
After following these steps, the organiser can be used to store jewellery and trinkets
Pintyplus aQua water-based paint
It is important not to confuse Pintyplus aQua 400ml with the new Pintyplus Aqua version of 2017 and 150ml.
The first is a bright enamel type paint, while the second is a lower pressure paint made specifically for painting in a closed or reduced space. For example the new Pinty Plus aQua 2017 is very good for scrapbooking and card making or any craft that requires small details. One of its main advantages is that it does not cause a dust cloud or stain beyond what you want to paint.
If you’d like to learn more about the aQua 2017 range then take a look at this post which shows the paint used for scrapbooking
Pintyplus - Chalk Spray Paint - 400ml
CHALK PAINT in an aerosol. Gives an ultra matt finish in a choice of superb colours. Perfect on any surface!
£10.99
View product
Pintyplus - aQua 2017 - Matt - 3 x 150ml
MATT colours. To use inside a house, in reduced spaces or places that have poor ventilation. Do not smell.
£15.99
View product
Pintyplus - Basic - Gloss - 400ml
Quick dry alkyd enamel Gloss spray paint with a high resistance outdoors and an excellent adherence.
£11.50
View product