Articles tagged with: recycled crafts
After an elaborate kind of craft, today we have something much simpler, which not only is suitable for kids of all ages, but it is also a lot of fun to make and to use. …
Lately we have developed an addiction for Morello cherry ice cream that comes in particularly sturdy tabs. As you all know I love to turn junk into useful and pretty things so I started collecting …
Each holiday is always font of inspiration for our crafts, before and after. We made a lot of things on the lead to Easter and now that the day has passed we are left with …
It’s been a while since I transformed a cereal box into something useful and pretty to look at. Yesterday morning while I was tidying up after breakfast I suddenly got an idea for an Easter …
Last week I said I will be making all my Easter gift boxes this year so I started with my first one by turning a normal face cream box into a cute Easter bunny box. …
Empty cereal boxes are great to get creative at so many levels. They can be used for storage, as desk organizers or simply to make things to play with. This weekend, we made some cute …
I like making things with old newspapers and magazine pages. They are a great material to make anything you want, so at the weekend we made some pretty flowers using glossy magazine paper, glue, straws …
I have so many empty jars stacked away that a craft using one of them was unavoidable. We made Halloween lanterns back in autumn and now it is the turn of a spring lantern that …
Snakes and ladders is one of our favorite games so this week we made an original version with cardboard, coloured tissue paper, acrylic paint and glue. We took a piece of sturdy cardboard already cut …
Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson is a great book that inspired many crafts and games in our house. In addition to the animals and palm trees we made along the way, we started making masks …
What do you do when your child is off school with the flu? You quickly put your thinking cap on and improvise a range of unexpected crafts. Today we went through daddy’s old stuff such …
In view of Valentine’s Day next week we have made a heart printed desk file and pen holder. The best part of this craft was the printing of plain paper with potato hearts. Before starting …