10 Ways to Use Medicine Cups
Stop throwing away your Medicine Cups! I’ve got 10 great ways to use or re-purpose them. We all have seen medicine cups packed with children’s medicine and may have thrown them away when the medicine is over. NOT THIS GIRL! I wash them and save them for all sorts of things.
Those small but sturdy medicine cups can come in handy all over the house. We use them almost daily! I just wish we had another 10-15! I do not wish anyone would get sick, but maybe I can get some more from family and friends.
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1. When you have more than one child they can come in handy when more than one child gets sick but is taking the same medicine. I label them with a sharpie marker so each child has his own medicine cup. Just label the bottom outside with initials or #.
2. Medicine cups make for great miniature scale cups for Math or Science activities. They also help hold or sort a variety of specimens.
3. You can use the cups when measuring out herbs or spices. I actually had a wee bit of melted beeswax and a little bit of homemade deodorant left over that I poured into a set of medicine cups.
4. Medicine cups make a lightweight stacking toy for baby or tots on the go! If you have 10-15 of the same size and kind these would be awesome to pack for your little one to play the popular stacking game.
5. Place to hold a tooth that just fell out until it’s put under a pillow for the tooth fairy.
6. Packed in your camping kitchen box or your Bug-out bag. Check for the measuring cups that have 1/2 teaspoon , 1 teaspoon, and tablespoon markings. They make for a great substitute for measuring out dry ingredients instead of spoons.
7. Might be a good size for your American Girl dolls kitchen or table.
8. They also make a great way to trace two different sized circles!
9. Do you use activity trays with your preschool child. You could use 2-5 medicine cups to sort out pom-poms, spiky balls, or beads.
10. You could also give them to your children so they could play doctor or nurse!
Do you have an everyday item that you save and re-purpose?
I love these ideas! Makes me wish I had been saving them all this time. After all, you get a new one with each new bottle of medicine. While reading this I also realized these medicine cups would be great bead holders when you’re stringing necklaces. 🙂
These Are Great Ideas Thank You!
Those are some awesome Ideas I haven’t ever even thought of reusing the cups for anything before. we have a ton now I know what to do with them thanks
Love all these ideas! I always keep the medicine cups. Never thought about what a perfect take with you stacking game they could make!
I never would have thought to use these as doll accessories! How clever!
I love the medicine cups as well (although we’ve been using them just for medicine a bit too much this week. SIGH). Another use I’ve found is that they hold the perfect amount of water for water color painting with small kids (if they spill, there is not so much water to clean up).
What great ideas. I keep trying to think of what I can use my old medication bottles for. So far I have come up with storage for pins and tacks but I am going to come up with more. Thanks for sharing and thank you for hosting BYB
Kirsten,
That’s a whole different post, lol. Crayons, geocaching, dead insects, soil samples….
Jean,
Yes, they do! I knew I was forgetting some ideas, lol. Thanks for reminding me. This week is gonna be a week filled with art since we are down to one car and house bound.
My little granddaughters are really getting into beads and crafts this year, so this is a great idea to help them keep organized. I gave them a flat cigar box and a handful of these to put their things together with.
I loved using those little cups, although I don’t have any now. I save toilet paper and paper towel rolls, although I don’t use many paper towels. The cardboard rolls are good for storing lace and trims so they don’t have to be folded.
I cannot store anything in our towel tubes because they are fought over to build or invent things, lol.
I have a few extra medicine cups that I keep just in case 1 gets smashed in the sink.
The other thing I keep is the scoops from Baby formula. I have had to use them often when I’ve purchased cocoa and there isn’t a scoop. It’s easier for the kids than just a spoon.
Thanks for the post!
Stopping by from the #BB100 challenge and am so enjoying all the blogs I’ve been visiting. I have always kept the cups to use as little measuring cups but never really put much thought into using them for anything else. You have some great ideas, looks like it’s time to pull them out of the drawer.
Kate,
We don’t use formula but I did snag a few of those scoops from my SIL:) I love those little scoops for bath time fun or in the sandbox as well!
Very creative! I’ve got a stack of these cups, as I can never bring myself to throw them away, yet hadn’t come up with any good uses!
Thanks!
What great ideas for recycling the medicine cups – I have so many! I especially like the building block idea – great for hand/eye coordination! #BB100
I read your post just in time to save the cups. With flu week at our home I have a few that might come handy. Thanks for the ideas.
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