Cracked teapots are easily turned into decorative plant holders. Line the bottom with gravel for drainage, fill the pot with soil and add a plant. Place the teapot inside or outside in your garden. Pull part of a vine plant out through the spout for added decoration.
Fill your old teapot with paint and drizzle it on paper or canvas. Paint will pour out of the spout as quickly as you tip it; use the teapot to create a more modern work of art. Rinse the teapot and refill it with different colors to add more layers to your painting.
Teapot stands protect your furniture from being scorched by hot teapots. Create a stand for your teapot out of chopsticks, wooden clothespins or other wooden objects that can be glued together to create a circle or square teapot holder. If you use clothespins, pull them apart and remove the metal pieces. Lay them flat on their sides, connected at one end, to form a circle. Secure them with hot glue.
Use the bottom of an old teapot as a guide for children to trace to make circles. They can also draw and cut teapot shapes out of paper; tie them with a ribbon and hang them on the wall as decorations. Teapots also make ideal holders for their crayons and colored pencils.