Home and Garden can suggest 35 uses for plastic milk jugs, but a young family in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada, has just come up with another way to recycle milk jugs that beats any we’ve seen so far!
With the aid of a hot glue gun, Scott and Andrea McNeill turned 840 plastic milk jugs into a unique playhouse for their 2-year-old daughter, Karina.
The playhouse, constructed between the posts that support a high deck off the family’s house, is built of milk jugs “bricks” and decorated with flowers made from the colourful caps. Karina calls it her “castle” and obviously just loves it.
I only wish that I had a picture to post here — from the news story on television this evening, it looks like the cutest little house!
[update! we've got pictures!]
To make each “brick” takes two empty plastic milk jugs. Leave the cap on one, to help give it strength. Cut the top off the second jug so that it will slide down over the narrower end of the first jug, and what you have is a remarkably sturdy plastic building block. The possibilities are unlimited!
Scott McNeill says he has no idea whether the little playhouse he built can survive the coming Atlantic Canadian winter but, “if it doesn’t,” he says, “we’ll just have to drink more milk and make another one!”
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Scott McNeill 04.28.06 at 1:19 pm
Hi
My name is Scott McNeill, I am the person that built my daughter Karin’s Milk Jug Castle. I happened to find this article you wrote on the internet.In the article you mention that you would like to have pictures of the castle. If you email me at [link] I will email some to you.
Thanks Scott
Andrea & Scott McNeill 02.10.08 at 8:54 am
Hi There,
Just reading through the article again, and preparing for yet another winter storm (and we’ve had more than our fair share of snow/ice storms this winter…), and I thought I’d let you know that here we are in 2008 and the ‘Milk Castle’ is still standing, and providing lot’s of play time for Karina and her little friends in the warmer months!
Take Care