Transforming Impractical Items Into Useful Tools #1: Souvenir Popcorn Bucket Yarn Holder

Here is my first in a series of using forgotten items around your house and transforming them into useful needlework tools.

Ever buy that souvenir bucket of popcorn, caramel corn, or whatever your favorite amusement park was hocking? As you can see, I have — a lot.

Though I do actually reuse these to hold the kid’s microwave popcorn, I found another way to use them — yarn holders.

The picture above shows how useful these buckets can be. I have stuffed the bottoms of them to show my balls of yarn for the picture’s sake, but these will easily hold a whole skein of balled, or non-balled up yarn.

The Disneyland buckets also come with reusable tops (not pictured) that snap into place. If you have a drill handy you can punch some holes in the center of those to run your tails through to make managing multiple colors a breeze. Just like the yarntainer below, these buckets will keep your yarn from rolling around your floor and give use to an otherwise forgotten souvenir.

So the next time you’re at Disneyland, put down the mouse ears that you’ll never wear outside of the park again and get something really useful — the souvenir popcorn bucket.

Just remember to wash it before you stick the yarn in it.