DIY Pasta Cookie Tins

If you're looking for a fun and creative way to repurpose your old pasta sauce jars, why not turn them into charming cookie tins? Simply clean out the jars thoroughly, remove any labels, and let them dry completely. Next, bake your favorite cookies and once they're cooled, carefully stack them inside the jars. To add a personal touch, you can decorate the lids with colorful washi tape or paint them with festive designs. These DIY pasta cookie tins are not only a great way to recycle jars but also make perfect homemade gifts for friends and family. Get your creativity flowing and have fun transforming ordinary jars into delightful cookie containers!

What you need:

• Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Assorted pasta noodles
• Glue
• Empty cookie tin

How to:

Step 1
Begin by arranging your pasta shells onto your cookie tin. Play around with the design until you’re happy with it – we kept ours symmetrical and repetitive like a mandala but you can make any design you like, especially if you’re making this with little ones. Once you’ve decided on your pattern, snap a picture on your phone for reference later and scoop the pasta to the side so you know how many you need to paint.

Step 2
Time to paint! Arrange all your pasta noodles onto a scrap piece of paper, or a covered work surface and get painting. We used a lighter shade for the pasta and a darker shade for the tin. Let the pasta dry completely.

Step 3
While the painted pasta is drying, paint your cookie tin! If your cookie tin is already a solid color that you like, you can leave it as is if you like. Since ours had a pattern on it though, we gave it a couple quick coats of paint so that we had a nice green tin.

Step 4
And finally, using your photo as a reference, arrange the painted pasta back on the tin. Once it’s all laid out again, use hot glue or strong white glue to attach each of the noodles in place. Let dry completely. If desired, apply a coat of Mod Podge to seal everything in nicely.