Many months ago I started thinking about how many k-cups I use in a week. It’s a lot. I started saving them instead of throwing them away because I thought that there must be a way I could repurpose them. I found ideas for using the cups for seed starters, stringing them into garland and lots of other things. All of which I will probably try, by the way. But, my first repurposed k-cup project is this DIY Advent Calendar.
Supplies for the Advent Calendar:
1 piece of foam core board, or cardboard, large enough to fit your k-cups
Wrapping paper
24 used k-cups, opened and cleaned
Tissue paper, various patterns
Small pieces of candy, like Hershey Kisses or Starbursts
White glue
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Step 1.
Wrap your foam core board or cardboard with wrapping paper. Just like you’re wrapping a realllllllly flat present.
Step 2.
Arrange your cleaned out k-cups on the board. (kcups are super interesting on the inside if you haven’t ever opened one up!). Use your glue gun to attach the k-cups to the board.
Step 3.
Fill the k-cups with treats. I used candy treats, but you could definitely fill the k-cups with little trinkets if you want to go the non-candy route.
Step 4.
Now you’re going to use the tissue paper to cover the k-cups. I just used a random pattern. To attach the tissue paper, I painted the rim of the k-cups with white glue and then just stuck a piece of the tissue on top and let it dry. There was some excess to trim.
And that’s it! Each day the kids will poke through the tissue paper for a new treat!