Kopa

Bottle Cap Mosaic

Arts & crafts
  • 4–8 years
  • 20 min
  • at home

The jar of bottle caps everyone keeps collecting finally gets used: first sorting them by colour, then a fish or a letter built out of coloured circles.

What you need

  • Collected bottle caps and lids
  • Thick card or a box lid
  • A pencil
  • Glue or double-sided tape

How to play

  1. Tip out the caps and sort them into piles by colour.
  2. Draw a big, simple outline on the card — a fish, a flower or a letter.
  3. Lay the caps inside the outline without glue until the shape is full.
  4. Glue the caps down one by one, keeping each colour in its own zone.
  5. Fill the background with the leftover pale caps.
  6. Stand the mosaic on a shelf where the light falls on it.

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