Hoarding milk caps is old news- there are so many awesome things to do with them. Most of the ideas I've seen before revolved around cutting holes out of plastic lids. I had saved up a huge collection, but when I did my lid-cutting it came out super awful and a little sharp. In the end, it was not a huge hit.
However, a few weeks later, I finished up a box of pampers wipes. I prefer huggies wipes, so I was going to toss the box but Monkey Boy was fascinated with it. After watching him play, a light bulb clicked and I ran a grabbed our milk caps. What do you know? They fit perfectly into the wipe cap opening.
Mono played with these pretty often. He loved that he could dump them all out and make a mess. Some of the lids were juice lids, and the milk lids were smaller and could be snapped inside the juice lids. He loved that. After a few weeks my hubby had the idea to paint all the lids like coins. So I whipped out my gold and silver spray paint (actually, he did it) and spray painted the lids.
It was like a brand-new toy. Monkey boy thought the lids were SO cool and is playing with them all over again! Amazing what a little spray paint can do. Now all I need to do is grab some brown and we can paint the box like a treasure chest.
