Yes, you read that right.
Melted shot glasses can be used to make pretty wind chimes!
Or, suncatchers, as one "helpful" commenter wrote. "These are not true CHIMES."
Tomato, tomahto, but I understand the distinction.
Ahem. They're fun and easy to make and look so pretty when they're done.
The look almost like glass and they have a merry plastic clink to them.
And they sure are pretty!
I got the plastic shot glasses at our local Dollar Tree.
I bought all the colors!
Using an old cupcake pan I put two or three glasses in each cupcake hole.
We used the OUTSIDE oven in The Welding Man's shop.
THE MELTING PLASTING OFF GASES SOME SMELLY FUMES. USE AN OUTDOOR
OVEN OR BARBECUE, DO NOT DO THIS IN YOUR KITCHEN111
I set the temp at 250 F and checked them often to assess how the melting progressed.
I think it took less than 10 minutes.
Here is how the glasses looked before and after melting.
Once they were cool I flipped them out on my work table. No, they
did NOT stick to the pan.
We used a small drill bit to make holes in each disc using an electric drill. Then strung them up using chains and rings from other Dollar Tree items. The plastic thingy at the top was in my craft room, I don't know what it was before.
This turned out so pretty and was so easy to do!
I see online that this can be done with the larger thing plastic drink cups too.
I will have to try that and write about it.
