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 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!

What you will need to make this project

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

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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