A pal had a bunch of plant clippings she was wanting to get rid of at a yard sale. With not having any excess planters, she made her own planters with record albums she no longer wanted or needed. She melted the albums into shapes of planters, with the center hole being the bottom drain hole. Clever idea! One idea I'd never thought of before!
By Terri H.
Editor's Note: Here is a link to a ThriftyFun craft project making a vinyl record bowl or planter.
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To turn records into planters, cover an oven safe bowl, or flowerpot with foil. Place it on a cookie sheet upside down with a record on top. Oven at 250 degrees, record will soften and drape down over the bowl. Keep an eye on it.
We just made bowls out of record this Christmas. We used a 200 degree oven and placed a pyrex bowl inverted on top of a cookie sheet. watch carefully and when the record begins to droop, work quickly to get it into the shape you want.
Back in the 40's my older brother made fruit bowls from.melted 78 records. He painted some and added decals.this is one way kids earned money back in the day.
I read that you can melt them in the oven at 200 degrees if you place them on a bowl upside down. You probably would want to put a baking sheet under it that is lined with foil. Hope this helps.
To have a planter with scalloped edges leave the record out in the hot sun. I lost a lot of albums long ago by leaving them in a hot car, and didn't think to use them for this purpose.
Put it in a warm oven (200 deg. should do it) for about 15 minutes. Or, just leave it in the back window of your car while you go shopping on a nice warm day.
I just made a planter, but did not look for directions first. duh. I put it on a bowl in the oven after I baked a cake, so it was 350 degrees. It melted really fast, just a few minutes, and actually started to bubble.
Hi there,
Just stand a terracotta pot upside down in the kitchen sink, place the 'vinyl' on the top and pour boiling water over it, you can then mould it into shape. It doesn't work with the really old albums, has to be vinyl
I tried it in a toaster oven, and it caught on fire, I have cleaned and gotten all of the black stuff out but I can't seem to get rid of the smell, I really cant afford to buy another one, anyone have any help?
I used a heat gun to melt a plastic soda bottle into the shape I needed. I think it would work on an LP
(the kind of heat gun used for embossing powder on home made cards, you can find them at a craft store)
i find these ideas horrifying! As someone who lost a perfectly good record collection to a disaster, it makes me sad to think of all the nice records that have been destroyed this way. I wish I could replace most of my collection, and if people have records they don't want, why not give them to someone who wants them?
I would hope that people would only do this with scratched and warped or otherwise unplayable records. Our thrift stores are full of mass produced records that no one wants and many of them are unplayable due to poor storage or other mishaps.
I recommending using Discogs to verify the value and rarity of the record.
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