Upcycled Nestle Quik Container

Our family drinks A LOT of chocolate milk, and when I say a lot I mean 

at least two glasses per day per person (minus my hub).

That's minimum 6 glasses of choco milk every day...we go through a lot of milk, too.

I've always thought the Quik containers would be great for storage, but they are not the prettiest things to look at. Today I decided to change that.

Need:

1 Quik Container (QC) - we had the oval shaped container

1-2 sheets of scrapbook paper

glue - I used school glue

ribbon

floral wire 

scissors

This is about the easiest project ever and took all of ten minutes max.

Wash the container inside and out to remove any leftover granules.

I just left the label on; I'm covering it, why go through the effort of removing it?

Measure 1 sheet of scrapbook paper against the QC.

I just held the paper up to the QC and cut the bottom of the paper so that

it would wrap slightly around the bottom of the QC (like wrapping a gift).

The paper wasn't long enough to cover the entire front and back of the QC so I made sure the front was covered in one whole piece of the paper and left about 3" of space uncovered in the back. If I have to piece the paper together, I want that to be in the back unseen.

There might be paper out there long enough to cover the front and back with one sheet, but I used what we had here already and it wasn't.

Glue the paper onto the front and sides of the QC.

Wrap the bottom of the paper under the QC as if you're wrapping a gift. Glue this down, too.

I held the leftover paper from my first cut up to the back of the QC and matched the patterns up so the piecing wouldn't be AS noticeable. I had to use 2 extra cuts of paper to cover the back portion that wasn't covered with the front paper.  Glue these on as well.

Now your QC should be completely covered minus the lid. I didn't wrap the lid because I want to be able to see inside and QC and I'm lazy. So I made a bow with ribbon I had and used floral wire to attach it to the lid. You could buy a bow for the top or cover it with the paper.

I made the bow and twisted a piece of floral wire around its base.

I punched a tiny hole in the center of lid with the point of my scissors and pushed

the floral wire through the hole. I twisted the wire around itself on the bottom side

of the lid making a wad that was big enough it wouldn't pass through the hole.

Like I said, you could totally eliminate the bow; your choice. I'm gonna use this QC for my 4yo's hair bows, hence the bow. These QCs would also be cute with chalk labels on the fronts for identification of contents...lots of options. I'm sure I'll be making more!

Have you made one of these or something similar? What do you store in it?