Recycle Crafts, Green Crafts and Saving Energy Crafts Page 1
How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Recycling and Energy Saving
Soda Can Recycle Art Project
What you will need:
Empty soda cans, acrylic paint, paint brushes, small frames with 1/2" depth, background material such as craft foam or felt for the background, and glue.
How to Crushed Can Art:
1. Wash the cans with soapy water and rinse well. Let them dry over night.
2. Crush the cans using your hands and feet. Decide who you want the crushed can to look. You can crush the top of the can to one side and the bottom to the other or both to the back side so that you have a flat surface to work on.
3. Decide what you would like to paint on the can. Use acrylic paint to paint the design.
4. Prepare the frames by cutting a background to fit in the frame. Glue the background to the card board that comes with the frame. Pice a color that matches your soda can picture. We used craft foam for the background of these pictures. You can also use felt or other material, or paint the card board to match your picture.
5. Glue the finished can to the background and place in the frame.
Check out the Crushed can art of Charles Kaufman! - Charles crushes his can so that top of the can is pulled out and is a little mangled. His images are amazing, bright and comical.
We would love to see your soda can art. Send us a picture in .jpeg format and we will publish it here.
Decorative Clips Made from Binder Clips
Decorate binder clips with fingernail polish and use them to seal opened food packages or keep papers in order.
What you will need:
Binder Clips (Any size of color)
Bright Colors of Fingernail Polish
Very Thin Paint Brushes
How to Make the Clips:
1. Use a tiny brush or toothpicks to dab fingernail polish onto the binder clips.
2. To make the different shapes dab a blob of fingernail polish onto the binder and then use a toothpick to push the paint outward to make the shapes you want.
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Piggy Bank Made from Recycled Plastic Container
What you will need:
Large Plastic Container
Acrylic Paint
Scissors and Knife
Small Cups or Plastic Lids for the Legs
How to Make a Piggy Bank From a Plastic Container:
1. Clean and dry your container and then cut a slit in the one side of the container big enough to insert coins with a knife.
2. Paint the container and legs the color you would like your pig except for where you will glue on the legs. The paint will pull away from the container if you glue the legs onto it.
3. When the paint is dry glue on the legs.
4. Cut ear shapes from fun foam and glue them onto the pig.
5. To finish add a pretty design and glue on eyes.
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Created by Corrin Burner
Boy and Girl Can Caddies
What you will need:
A Small and Large Aluminum Coffee Can, 3/4-inch Screw & Nut, a Hammer and Nail, a Pink Pompom for the Nose, Wiggly Eyes, Felt for the Hair and Arms, Lace (girl), Buttons, Hot Melt Glue Gun and Glue (low temp), and Wooden Craft Spoons
Acrylic Paint - You will need a flesh color for the face and wooden craft spoon, and any color you would like to paint the clothes. You will also need some black dimensional fabric paint or a black permanent marker to draw in the face.
How to make:
1. Paint the smaller can flesh color and the larger can any color you would like for the clothes. You can also cover the larger can with material or felt instead of painting it.
2. Have an adult hammer a hole into the center bottom of the large coffee can and the small coffee can. Place the can bottom to bottom, lining up the holes, and run a screw through both holes and secure with a nut.
3. Cut felt or material 1" x 2" for the arms and them glue over the wooden spoons leaving one end of the spoon showing for the hand as shown in the pictures. Glue the arms to the sides of the large can.
4. Glue buttons to the front of the can and lace around the bottom of the girl can.
5. Cut felt strips for the hair and glue to the top of the small can. Glue on a pink pompom for the nose.
6. Use black dimensional fabric paint or a black permanent marker to draw in the eyebrows and mouth.
Designed by Tracy Piatt
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Plastic Milk Jug Whale Craft
What you will need:
Empty Plastic Milk Mug
Large Wiggle Eyes or Permanent Marker
Sharp Scissors
Valspar Plastic Primer Spray Paint or Krylon Clear Plastic Primer Paint - If you are using the Acrylic Patio Paint
Krylon Fusion for Plastic Paint - Or other spray paint made for plastic
How to Make the Milk Jug Whale Craft:
1. To remove the label fill the jug up with hot water and let it sit for a minute. This will loosen the glue. Carefully pull off the label. Do not get the label wet before trying to remove it or it will just disintegrate and you will have a hard time getting it off. Once the label is removed you can wash and dry the plastic milk jug.
2. Draw the mouth shape as shown around the bottom of the milk jug with a marker (use a marker that will wipe off in case you make a mistake). Poke a whole in the marked line with a knife so that you will be able to insert your scissors. Cut out the mouth in one piece. This piece will be used for the whale's fin.
3. Cut two slits in the screw top so that you will be able to insert the fin.
4. Shape the mouth piece to cut it into a fin shape as shown in the diagram.
5. Insert the fin into the two slits you made on the milk jug and glue it in place.
6. Spray the jug with plastic primer paint and then paint it with the acrylic patio paint or spray paint it with spray paint made for plastic. Spray paint works best because the craft foam sticks better to the spray paint than the acrylic paint.
7. To finish glue on large googly eyes or use a permanent black marker to trace around the mouth, draw in eyes, and lines on the fin.
Other Website with Recycle Crafts
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