I love to purchase my spices from the bulk section at my grocery store. Over time, my spice cupboard has been overtaken by small plastic bags of spices. It’s become a complete mess! I made these spice jars from only baby food jars, spray paint, and chalkboard contact paper. My cupboard is clean now and I think I may replace all my normal spice bottles with these! I love their look! They may be too cute to hide away in my cupboard. I made the labels out of chalkboard contact paper because sometimes I need to buy only a small amount of spice for a recipe and now I don’t need to commit a jar to a spice that may not stick around for very long.
To make these spice jars, you will need to get some baby food jars. Don’t have a baby to feed the food to? Buy a bunch of banana baby food and make banana bread! Or buy as many jars as you’ll need, take them to a friend that has a baby. Tell her you’ll supply her with free baby food if she gives you the empty jars back. Win-win!
To make, first remove the label and clean out your jars really well. I find soaking the jars in warm water works great to remove the labels. Then, spray paint your lids. They will need at least a couple coats. I used a gold color. I wanted my spices to look like they are ready for a night on the town.
Carefully cut your chalkboard contact paper and attach to the jars. I cut my paper into 1 1/4″ x 7 3/4″ strips. I have more than enough room to write the name of my spice with this size.
Fill up your jars and have fun doodling on the paper! I used a chalk marker on mine. It gives a clean look and will only come off when I use a damp cloth.
Aren’t these great? You could use these for any kind of small storage: buttons, jewelry, etc. I think I may need to put these on display in my kitchen somewhere! They are too cute to hide away.
what a cute idea! my spice cupboard is a mess, too… time to collect jars!
Oh, I love that! I have a mess with my spices and really don’t have much space. This is something I’d totally like to try in the future.
Amanda
Funny thing…I’ve been saving my baby food jars this last month too. The last time I looked for chalkboard contact paper I could not find it. Where did you buy yours?
http://www.dressupnotdown.blogspot.com
I found mine on Amazon! Here’s the kind I purchased:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KKMO90/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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