Go from trash to treasure! Using ordinary objects that you might throw away or recycle (like tin cans), you can create great craft projects, gifts, and more. Plus, making gifts and crafts is a fun activity for the whole family.
Turn an egg carton into a bird feeder. Remove (and discard) the flat lid from the carton, poke a hole in the four corners, and run a string through each hole. Gather the eight strings together at the center of the carton, then tie into a knot. Fill each egg cup with birdseed, hang the feeder from a tree branch, and ring the dinner bell for your feathered guests.
Create inventive holiday ornaments from burned-out light bulbs and old holiday cards.
Turn old plastic film canisters upside down and use them as finger puppets. Dress them up by adding features like fabric ears, small googly eyes, and pom-pom noses.
Tired of looking at your old drinking glasses? Give them new life by wrapping decorative paper around them to make instant candle lanterns.
Transform a cardboard tube into a musical instrument. Fill it with beans or pennies, seal the ends with tape, then wrap with festive paper to make a fun and simple percussion instrument.
Wondering what to do with stray puzzle pieces? Before you toss them out, consider this: You can fashion them together into a fun and funky photo frame.
Turn single socks into sock art! Just glue on pom-poms, buttons, and ribbon to make a colorful caterpillar. Then, cut a pipe cleaner in half and push both pieces through the toe of the sock to make antennae. Create the finishing touches by drawing on eyes and a mouth with a felt-tip marker. Voila
Almost any paper product can become gift wrap. Try your hand with newsprint, magazines, calendars, wallpaper, maps, and more!
Recycle an old CD to make a colorful clock. Check out these project designs that are simple to print and apply to a CD.
It's hard to imagine an old tin can as something beautiful and functional, but try this. Print out our artistic wraps and turn that old can into a beautiful holder for pencils, brushes, scissors, or markers.
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