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Home » Decorating » How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans

How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans

May 21, 2019 By Vanessa Beaty 1 Comment

One of my favorite ways to decorate is with candles. There is just something so relaxing about the glow of a candle. Recently, I was perusing Pinterest, and I found this amazing idea for turning empty tuna cans into tealight holders.

This little decoration is great. Not only is it an easy craft, but it has such a charming rustic appeal to it.

Hanging wooden hanger with tuna can tealights

Table of Contents

  • What Other Cans Can You Use To Make This Tealight Holder?
  • How Do You Decorate Your Empty Cans?
  • How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans
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  • What Else Can You Make With Empty Cans?

What Other Cans Can You Use To Make This Tealight Holder?

The thing is, you want to be able to see your tealight candles, so smaller cans are better for this craft. If you have any of those canned chicken cans, you can use those as well. I don’t recommend taller cans though, like the ones that you get canned veggies in.

How Do You Decorate Your Empty Cans?

I used Washi tape to decorate my little tuna cans, but you could also use paint or any number of other decorative techniques. Washi tape is a good choice because it is available in so many wonderful colors and designs.

Decorated tuna can tealight holders with lit candles

How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans

If you want some easy and inexpensive DIY rustic décor for your home, this tin can tealight holder is perfect. You can turn those empty tuna cans into a gorgeous decoration for any wall.
Tuna cans turned into candleholders and hanging from a wooden hanger

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How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans

How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans

Repurposed empty tuna cans into a useful and gorgeous wall decoration. The video tutorial shows you how easily turn empty cans into lovely tealight can holders.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost $2

Materials

  • Empty Tuna Cans – You’ll need 5 cans for this project
  • Thread
  • Tealight Candles – You can use battery powered led candles if you want
  • A Wooden Clothes Hanger
  • Washi Tape

Tools

  • Scissors

Instructions

  1. Materials needed to make a DIY tuna can tealight holderTo begin, make sure that your cans are washed and dried. You certainly don't want the smell of tuna coming from your DIY candle holders.
  2. Decorate your cans using Washi tape – or whatever method of covering the cans that you have chosen to do. If you want a really rustic look, you can leave the cans uncovered or paint them a rustic grey.Wrapping an empty tuna can with Washi tape
  3. Make sure to cover the entire can – all 5 of them – with your tape or other decoration.Covering a tuna can with decorative tape
  4. Use thread or twine – twine has a beautiful rustic look to it – to attach your decorated cans to the wooden hanger.Cutting twine to hang tuna cans
  5. Cut a piece of thread or twine and tie one end around one can.
  6. Tie the other end of the thread or twine onto the clothes hanger. You can also add some of those small wooden clothespins to secure it even more – and to give it an even better rustic look.Tying twine onto wooden clothes hanger
  7. Repeat this process until all of your cans are attached to the wooden hanger. You can toggle the length of your thread to make some of the cans hang lower than others. This gives your DIY tealight holder dimension.Hanging tuna cans from a wooden clothes hanger with twine
  8. Add in your tealight candles and hang your new candleholder on the wall. Your finished DIY tealight holder should resemble this one:Hanging tuna can candle holder
© Vanessa Beaty
Project Type: Upcycling / Category: Decorating

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How To Make Decorative Tealight Holders From Tuna Cans - Repurposed empty tuna cans into a useful and gorgeous wall decoration. The video tutorial shows you how easily turn empty cans into lovely tealight can holders.

What Else Can You Make With Empty Cans?

There are so many things that you can do with those empty cans! Besides this gorgeous tealight holder, you can also turn those empty tuna cans into a DIY hot glue gun.

I’ve also shown you a great tutorial on making your own tin can lanterns and let’s not forget these 50 repurposing ideas for tin cans. There are loads of great ideas in here!

Do you have any other ideas for repurposing empty tin cans?

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Comments

  1. Pam Gordon says

    May 21, 2019 at 5:35 pm

    Thank up so much very unique. Will have to try . Do u have to use special paint to paint them?

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