5 Creative Ways to Use Old Ballpoint Pens

Everyone knows that the accumulation of unnecessary things only clutters the apartment and does not allow one to live normally. But almost every person has many things that could have been thrown away a long time ago. A striking example of such items that are no longer needed, but it’s a pity to throw them away, are old ballpoint pens. Usually they are put aside in order to later replace the rod with a new one, but they forget to do this. But few people know that you can make a lot of useful things out of old pens. Let's look at the most popular and attractive options.

Throw it away as unnecessary or use it correctly?

In the last century, no one threw away covered pens. My grandmother carefully collected them all and went to the store to buy new rods to replace them. She didn’t always do this, and as a result, a huge number of empty pens accumulated in our house.

I wondered if it was possible to somehow apply them, and found many interesting options:

• original decoration;
• decor for a table lamp;
• toy for a child;
• DIY style jewelry;
• pencil stand.

Important! It’s better if the home craftsman’s arsenal includes many different pens with no refills. This will give you the opportunity to show creativity and create unique crafts.

In fact, there are quite a lot of options where you can use this simple item. People don’t even think that something as small as the body of an old writing instrument can add variety to our lives.

What can you make from pens for your home?

Crafts lovers will definitely appreciate various crafts made from the bodies of old ballpoint pens. Women needlewomen can experiment by creating unusual and original decorations that are suitable even for festive events if they are made with high quality and with love.

Original decoration

The barrels of old pens can easily be used to create attractive home decorations. For example, decorate a clock mechanism with a dial along the contour with multi-colored pens or felt-tip pens, having first removed the caps.

Another option, more complex, would be to build an unusual night light in the form of chaotically assembled handles with transparent bodies. They are assembled into a single structure using dense fishing line. The form can be any.

An LED strip is pulled through each housing from the rod and connected to the power supply so that they can flicker in the dark. It is better if the night light is assembled from a large number of identical handles with a transparent body.

Decor for table lamp

An original shade for a table lamp can be made from handles matched to each other, which will be fastened together with wire or glued with durable glue. Pens with transparent or translucent bodies look attractive. They create a magical shimmer of light in the room.

Each handle is carefully coated with glue and the next body is glued to it, rounding off the structure. The toga should create a round shade that needs to be attached to the table lamp.You can use a plastic bottle or jar as a template, along the contour of which the handles will be glued. Subsequently, the jar will need to be removed.

The resulting structure must be securely attached to the frame of the table lamp using wire. The light bulb should be inside the structure and flicker through the housings from the handles. This decor looks very original and pleases the eye.

Toy for a child

Little girls will be interested in miniature dolls. To do this, the head of the future doll is formed from a small ball, covered with fabric, and the mouth, eyes and nose are drawn out. Old hands will serve as the body of the doll. Using dense fishing line, the torso, arms and legs are formed, connecting several old handles together. Threads are used to form hair, and small pieces of fabric are used to form dresses or other clothing. The doll is ready.

DIY jewelry

Here you can show maximum imagination. You can simply string multi-colored caps onto a fishing line and create an unusual necklace in a modern style, or cut the bodies of multi-colored plastic pens into large beads and show your creative thinking: the resulting beads can be alternated, strung on a thread, or you can create bright patterns from them.

Important! For lovers of beadwork, working with such beads will become a new original activity, thanks to which you can create extraordinary things and jewelry.

Pencil holder

To make an original stand, you will have to stock up on glue, a thick sheet of cardboard or a small piece of chipboard, as well as a certain number of old ballpoint pens. The bottom is cut out of chipboard or cardboard; it can be round or square, depending on the wishes of the craftsman.

Next, you need to glue the bodies of old pens to it with reliable glue.They are glued vertically, preferably also gluing them together so that the structure is stable. Subsequently, the resulting stand can be varnished or left unchanged.

Each housewife can independently dream up the topic of using old ballpoint pens. But we can definitely say that it’s not worth throwing away material that is so valuable for home crafts.