Toby Keith’s new song “Red Solo Cup” has topped the charts as a popular drinking song. Red Solo Cups have been used since the 1930’s and are “the best receptacle,” but not only for the events listed in the song. Little do listeners know how amazing this Red Solo Cup can be and how the lyrics display those things throughout the song. Here are a five creative ways to use extra Red Solo Cups after the song has stopped playing.
1. Planting
Red Solo Cups are cheap and easy products to start seedlings for your garden, starting in April for cold weather regions. The square bottom of the Red Solo Cup has a great base for holding the seedling nestled in the soil. A cup can hold about 3-5 seeds which will save you from spending money on starter kits at the hardware store.
The gardener must label the cups once they are planted, and the seedling will praise you for “how sharply [their] first name is written, on [the cup] with a Sharpie”. After labeling the seedlings in their cups, they can be watered and “easily stacked” to hold in moisture to create humidity. The humidity from the Red Solo Cups will speed up the growth process for the first few weeks.
2. Soaking Dentures
With baby boomers continuing to age, they are seeing a decrease in income and social security, which means they must find ways to cut costs in their household. One way to save money is by soaking your dentures in Red Solo Cups by the sink. By using the same cup for a week at a time before throwing it away, you will be able to avoid the germs found in reusable denture cases. This will work until they break because “they are easy to crack,” and that would be “quite yucky”.
3. Magic Tricks
Toby Keith was in the right state of mind when he sang “Red Solo Cup you’re more than just plastic.” It has been used for many years with the popular 3 cup shuffle magic trick. Also, the cup can actually be a fun magic illusion for parties by floating in the air between your hands.
The trick is to set the Red Solo Cup on the table and take a loop of tape and place it onto the back of the cup. You then stand behind the cup with thumbs stacked, putting one thumb through the loop. Slowly lift your fingers away from the cup while still maintaining the thumbs in the back. The Red Solo Cup will seem to hover, proving it is “more than amazing…more than fantastic”.
4. Snacks
Most American’s use disposable cups for individualized children snacks, but there are many children in the world that go to bed without food. The Red Cup Project by the World Food Program is an organization that distributes red cups of food and soup to children who are starving around the world Going to the website, you can make a $1 donation to fill 4 red cups with food. Even though Red Solo Cups are “unlike homes and not foreclosable,” they are the lifeline for countries around the world that see a child dying every 6 seconds from hunger.
5. Fence Word Designs
It really is true the Solo Cup can be seen in blue and yellow, which makes it such a great prop to push the bottoms through a chain link fence to create fabulous phrases. The array of colors support different team causes, cheering on high school and college games. These phrases can be easily mapped out on graphing paper and calculated as to where each cup would slip through on the fence.
However the fence design can also promote a great organization. “Only red will do” for supporting the Join(RED) campaign. Using phrases from the Join(RED) campaign on public chain link fences can promote their mission of having no child being born with AIDS by 2015. More than 34 million people in the world have AIDS, so follow up that tailgate by collecting the cups and using them as tools to spread a meaningful message.