Your Questions About Recycling

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Holiday craft ideas, infomation on making crafts with recycled materials, photo craft instructions, and craft gift ideas.http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft

Features a variety of fun, printable children’s crafts, coloring pages, and more including projects for holidays and educational themes.http://www.dltk-kids.com

Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make … Crafts for Kids, the home of fun & creative craft projects for kids 7-12 …http://www.craftsforkids.com

Easy craft projects for kids and everyone in the family, and crafts for every reason and season. … Crafts Gifts to Make Glossary of Craft Terms Product …http://www.familycrafts.about.com/index.htm?once=true

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Recycled clothing crafts – http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf693151.tip.html
Recycle your clothes into new fashions http://diyfashion.about.com/od/recycledprojects/tp/Recycle-Your-Clothes.htm

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How aboooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuut. Dumpster Divers I kinda like it! I’d shop at a store with that name, just outa pure curiosity! Good luck in choosing and happy ‘crafting’!!

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Recycling craft materials is the easiest way to be Eco-friendly while crafting.

For example, a milk carton birdhouse. It’s a craft, that recycles materials, and furthermore helps the earth by helping the birds. These can be decorated in many ways, not just how the one here is shown:
http://www.howcast.com/videos/307-How-To-Make-a-Milk-Carton-Birdhouse

Here’s another one. Make a Solar Lamp. It’s pretty and useful, take a look:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4yH4A1/dornob.com/diy-solar-lamp-make-your-own-eco-friendly-sun-jars/

Here are some great things you can make from recycled paper, like newspapers, magazines, and even toilet paper rolls:
http://cheepideas.com/2010/04/recycled-paper-crafts/

Have any tin cans from soups, coffee, tuna, cat food, etc? Have a restaurant nearby (they often throw out these cans every day, you could ask for them.) Check out what you can make!
Http://cheepideas.com/2010/02/12-tin-can-crafts/

Drink soda? Keep the bottles. Check out what you can make with the bottoms:
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/03/how-to_turn_soda_bottles_into.html
And a slice from the middle can make this fun bracelet:
http://www.craftypod.com/2007/05/08/i-used-to-drink-out-of-my-bracelet/
Or these gorgeous beads that look like glass:
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/recyle_and_make_your_own_beads
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/plastic_bottle_beads_3

Paper mache bowls:
http://thelulubird.blogspot.com/2009/05/paper-mache-bowls.html

A paper star bracelet

YA won’t let me add more links, but there are so many more ideas out there. If you don’t like anything I suggested, here’s my favorite craft website for further inspiration:
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/

Enjoy your crafts, and Happy New Year!:
~Clarkie

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Ask the children to bring in empty packaging from home as a small homework task. Sort through th items brought in with the children talking about what can be recycled and why we should recycle. More importantly what recycling means.
Allow the children to make collages using the varoius types of materials which can be recycled.
You could make this into a display. You could also do junk modelling with the packaging.

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There are a few things that you can do to a recycled glass bottle. You can put green and blue paint inside the bottle and wave the bottle around and let the colors spread and connect with one another. You could also paint the outside of the bottle blue or green and decorate it with stickers; or you could drill a hole in the bottle at the end and add blue, green, or white Christmas lights! I collect glass bottles and I love doing crafts with them.

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How about taking old magazines or newspaper rolling up and cutting down from the top about half way to create strips. Then pull the paper up from the centre. Fix, you have a tree or a pompom (like cheerleaders type) to dance with. Magazine are better because they are more colourful.

Also bottles with patterns on can be used as an instrument if you run a stick along the sides so not just shakers.

You can make a simple puppet from an egg box. Cut off the top and paint as the body. Use some egg cup pieces as feet and another for the head. (the children can just paint them and stick on eyes). You can string them together and fix to lolly sticks. This provides so much for the children’s development. Not only is it an art and craft activity, but also can encourage imagination, language and be used in role play afterwards. It can also fit in with a theme IE for say farm animals the children can make cows, sheep(stick on cotton wool) and pigs etc

Use card board tubes from cling wrap, foil etc as telescope for pretend play.

Roll up magazine pages tightly and glue. When dry cut into small lengths. Then thread on lengths of wool to make bracelets and necklaces. Great for hand eye co-ordination.

Help the children to make colourful envelopes from old magazines to send cards for Christmas.

Hope these help, always love finding new thing to make with the kids 🙂

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Re–Creative
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The Art of the Phoenix
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I can’t think of any place that will buy your old jeans. You can donate to may organizations and it can be tax deductible.

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH THOSE BLUE JEANS….

Why not make some crafts from them and
Sell the crafts you have made .

For example………….

You could cut off the legs and make a pillow out of the the top part. Sew up the leg parts and the waist band and stuff it through the zipper.

Made purses out of old jeans. Cut off just under the crotch of the jeans, and cut in half so that when you sew it together, you have the zipper and button, as well as the back and side pockets. (You can use the side pockets that have the smaller “watch” pocket inside the larger one…Women need space you know) The top was narrower than the bottom but you could always undo the zipper. You can decorate with odd buttons and bells sewn on, and the strap can be an old pair of beads, cut in one spot and the two ends sewn on inside the top lip of the purse. Use any mismatched buttons your grandma collected and the pink beads you got in ’86 that you know you’ll never wear again. Have fun with it.

Take a pair of old jeans that are still not too faded and use them to make Christmas stockings. Just use the legs to cut out the main stocking. Cut an inside lining out of printed fabric of your choice. Sew it together and fold the inside lining down. Put on a jeans pocket and any other decoration you want on the front.

Jean Backpack
Take your jeans and cut them off two inches below the crotch. Turn them inside out and sew. Sew over the first stitches once more for strength. Take a cool bandanna or scarf and thread through belt loops to make a drawstring closure. Cut strips off the unused portion of jean and make straps. Enjoy!
Save old blue jeans. Cut out the bad parts.
Cut the rest into 8 inch squares.
Sew together. Use an old blanket for filling.
Tie together with red yarn.

I bet if you do some research you can find a lot more craft items to make from old bluejeans!