Bottle Cap Mosaic Collection: Amazing Colors Are Adding Up!

The bottle caps are adding up! White is the big winner.

Our goal for the mosaic mural on FoodMoxie's Keyhole Garden (built of bottle bricks) is 5000 bottle caps. I suspect we are close, but since we likely will not have a keyhole garden to adorn until late spring 2017, there is time to collect many more bottle caps than that. What is not used can be moved forward to a future project.

Sorting them by color has been the next logical step. Many of the donated caps have writing or embossing on them, so those will be donated to Gimme5.  We are accumulating lots of the desirable completely solid caps. And, we have a few donors who are saving tops from Ensure Nutrient Supplement - they have an aluminum plate on the bottle caps that is relflective and very cool.

Open bins are the most efficient way to toss bottle caps in,
by color.  The color distribution will impact Eurhi's design.

These metalic caps will add sparkle and pop
to the design. The deeper liquor bottle tops are
great, though we're not sure about how varying
depth will work out.

I have collected tubs to store the caps. The most common, after white, are dark blue, yellow and red.  We are also collecting the peel off disk style bottle caps, as backing.

There are many shades of orange plastic caps, many from citrus drinks

There is a bin/tub at Across the Way,
Mt. Airy, for dropping off caps.
Thanks for all your contributions!