1. Candles:

The most difficult part of candle making in your old bottles involves cutting the glass. For best results use a glass scorer, followed by treating the bottle with rapid heat and cold. Once you’ve broken the glass, sand the edges, and you’ll have the perfect container to make a new candle. All you need is a wick, wax, and fragrance oil. 

2. Floral Arrangement:

Wine bottles, beer bottles, or even hard liquor handles can make an adorable vase for flowers. You might consider painting the bottles or tying some ribbon around the neck to create a more finished look.  Add, some pebbles, soil, and seeds and you can even grow your own flowers in the bottle.

3. Lighting:

This option is less of a project and more of a simple display solution. Use your favorite old bottles filled with string lights to create a unique centerpiece. This can be a really pretty outdoor decor option as well. You can use battery-operated fairy lights in a few wine bottles to light up a porch or patio for a nighttime kickback. For a slightly different take, you can also try repurposing an old handle into the base of a lamp.

4. Savings Funds:

An old bottle can be a perfect budget piggy bank. Depending on the size of the bottle, you can choose to save a little or a lot. Throw your loose change in the bottle or maybe even some cash, and when you’re ready to spend it, smash it open. You can get creative by choosing to save for a specific goal and decorating the exterior of the bottle to represent your investment plans. For example, try decoupaging an old handle with photos of your dream vacation destination. Set a little aside each week, and hopefully one day you’ll crack open the bottle to redeem the funds. 

5. Chalkboards:

Cover your old wine bottle in chalk paint, and you’ll have the perfect mini chalkboard for your kitchen or home bar. Use the board to display fun quotes, and incorporate it into your decor scheme. You can also use the chalkboard to show guests what you’re “currently pouring,” and update it based on your current home wine list. This can be an especially cute touch for dinner parties.

There are many more options to reuse caps in addition to alcohol bottles. Get creative and see what you can come up with to repurpose your empties. If you don’t have any yet, then it’s the perfect excuse to get to drinking. You just have to start by cracking one open.

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Game Night

Invite all your friends to a virtual game night. Many rising platforms have been created to serve just this purpose. Play a virtual Cards Against Humanity style game called “Remote Insensitivity” as well as classics like “Crazy Eights” and “Go Fish” by inviting friends to a virtual room on PlayingCards.io. Houseparty offers a hosted video chat with games such as “Heads Up!” and “Quick Draw.” You can also check out Tabletop Simulator for virtual board games, just be warned sore losers have the option of “flipping the table” which ends the game. If you feel like it, you can always play a more traditional drinking game via video chat, or download one of many apps that allow users to play games together.

Trivia 

Host a trivia night for all your friends. Pick out the questions ahead of time and decide on categories. If your group enjoys it, consider rotating hosting duty weekly so everyone gets a chance to participate. You can also invite friends to submit facts about themselves and create a trivia quiz based around your friend group. Or add a drinking element requiring those with wrong answers to take a sip.

Beach Party 

Dig out your favorite Hawaiian shirt, and break out the rum. The nearest beach might be hundreds of miles away but tonight you can pretend the sand is beneath your feet, just out of view of your webcam. Change your Zoom background to a tropical scene, and prepare to party the night away. Try playing the “Hawaiian Name Game” a twist on the traditional movement name game: look up your Hawaiian Name and add an action alongside it, then go in a circle reciting your name and motion, with each person repeating the previous names and gestures as well as their own. This already challenging activity only gets harder and more ridiculous with the addition of alcohol consumption. You can even add rules such as take a drink for every mispronunciation or forgotten movement. 

Movie Night

Grab the remote and settle into bed like you do every other night, except this time with the company of your friends. The extension Netflix party lets you watch a movie with your friends, from the comfort of your respective homes. Consider adding in a fun drinking game to go along with a classic movie. Decide on the rules beforehand, like “drink whenever Allie and Noah kiss” in “The Notebook,” and see if you can make it through the full film.

Cooking Party

Pick a recipe and send out the ingredients list ahead of time. Then, set up your laptop in your kitchen and cook alongside your friends. If you’re the host you might want to consider narrating your actions like on your favorite cooking show. Your friends can attempt to follow along, and you can all enjoy dinner and a drink together. Not exciting enough? Make it a competition. Try baking and decorating cupcakes and seeing whose creation looks like the work of the next baking champ and whose dessert disaster looks more like a scene from “Nailed It.” The loser owes the winner a round of drinks when this is all over.

Try these virtual party themes or create your own, but make the time to keep in touch with your friends. We’re all missing our friends and routines during quarantine, including our wild nights out, but you really can still have fun from the comfort of your own home. Let’s be honest, all you ever really needed to have a good time was some good company and a few drinks.

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Here are two drinking games that are sure to provide a few laughs for you and your quarantine buddies.

The Google Speakeasy

What you’ll need:
– Drink of choice
– Any amount of friends/ family
– Laptop or smart phone with a camera
– Google Hangout/ Meet, Zoom, or FaceTime

How to play:

1.  Each person in the chat will come up with 3 – 5 questions to ask the group. Each question they create should relate to themselves – time to see who knows you best!

Sample Questions: “What sports did I play in high school?” “What’s my favorite food?”

2.  A question will be asked to the group. Everyone must type their answers in the chat! (This will help decide a clear winner and prevent shouting) First person to respond with the correct answer gets to tell one person to take a sip/ shot of their drink!

3.  One question at a time. When you finish asking all of the questions you wrote, move on to someone who hasn’t asked their questions yet.

Think Fast!

What you’ll need:
– Drink of choice
– 1 quarantine buddy
– Index cards, post-its, or paper

This game involves fast paced drinking….
Which is why it’s best to play with only one person chugging at a time!

How to play:

1.  Each of you will take a few minutes to write 10 – 15 simple questions about one topic below. On the opposite side of the paper you must write the answer.

Tip → Try to keep the questions and answers simple so the game moves fast!

Topics:
– Questions about you/ your life
– Simple math problems (add/ subtract/ multiply)
– Guess this line! (Take from: movies, songs, books, poems)
– Create your own category!

2.  One person will start with their own written questions in hand. They will read the question out loud. As soon as they ask the question they will grab their drink from the table, take a sip at a normal pace, then place it back down on the table.

3.  If the person they are asking does not provide the correct answer by the time their drink returns to the table, they will be given the index card/ paper. Each index card/ paper received counts as one second of chugging. After all questions have been asked, that person must drink for the allotted amount of time.

4.  Switch who’s asking questions!

5.  Take a break from the chugging. Choose the next topic and write some new questions for the next round!

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