Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose Crafts
How to Make Crafts using recycled Items
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, craft foam, googly Eyes, low temp. glue gun, scissors and knife, foam marshmallows, small cups, or plastic lids for the legs. (You can buy foam marshmallows from Oriental Trading Company. Type in 48/7342 in the search box at the top of the Oriental Trading Post's web site to find them.
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.
Created by Corrin Burner
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Wrapping Paper Beads
 Don't throw old Birthday wrapping paper away! You can make beautiful beads with it.
What you will need: Wrapping paper,
scissors, ruler, Elmer's glue, round toothpicks, and clear paint or nail polish.
 How to make:
1. Flatten out the wrapping paper and cut it about 8" long x 8" wide. Cut long wedges 1 - 1.5" inches wide at the bottom to a point at the top and 8" long.
2. Pour some glue into a cup and add some water to make it thin.
 3. Carefully roll the wide end of the paper around a toothpick as shown in the picture.
4. Paint glue on the rest of the paper and roll it up around the toothpick.
5. Gently twist the toothpick the opposite way you rolled the bead and pull it out.
6. Let the beads dry completely and paint them with clear paint or clear fingernail polish.
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I'd Rather Be Golfing - Carved Golf Ball Craft
 What you will need: Golf balls, hand saw, table vice, flat screwdriver, Dremel Tool with carving blades, hand held vice, Fimo clay, toothpick, dry erase marker, Super Glue, and acrylic paint.
How to make:
1. Mark the center of the ball all the way around with a dry erase marker. Place the ball in a vice so that it doesn't move. Use the hand saw to cut all the way around the ball. Cut only through the hard outer shell being careful not to cut through the rubber ball that is inside.
2. Once it has been cut all the way around, use a screwdriver to pry the shell off one side of the ball. Save the side you pried away to use as a stand.
3. Decide what you would like to carve into the ball. Lightly draw the design on the rubber. Decide which areas are going to be the deepest. Place the ball in a hand-held vice and start carving out the deepest areas such as the mouth and eyes. When you are all done carving you can add other features using Fimo clay. Cook the clay and then glue the pieces to the sculpture with Super Glue. Note: It is always a good idea to wear goggle and a dust mask. The rubber is quite fine and you don't want to breath it in.
4. When you have finished assembling the piece add paint to bring your piece to life.
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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 (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.
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Designed by Tracy Piatt
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Tie
Snake Craft
 What
you will need: Old ties, polyfil stuffing, wiggly eyes,
glue, wire (from a hanger)
How to make:
1. If you would like your snake to be bendable, straighten
out a wire hanger or use some other type of wire. Make sure
you fold down the ends of the wire with some needle nose pliers
so that the edges are very smooth. Insert the hanger into the
tie.
2. Stuff the tie with polyfil from each end of the snake.
3. Glue or sew the tail end of the snake closed.
4. Push some stuffing up into the point of the snakes head (the
wider end of the tie). Glue the end closed and glue on
some wiggly eyes to finish.
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Plastic
Milk Jug Whale Craft
 This whale is easy to make. All you
need is a clean plastic milk jug, a knife and scissors, black
permanent marker and some low temp glue or glue that will work
on plastic.
 How to make:
1. 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.
2. Cut two slits in the screw top so that you will be able to
insert the fin.
3. Shape the mouth piece to cut it into a fin shape as shown
in the diagram.
4. Insert the fin into the two slits you made on the milk jug
and glue it in place.
5. Use a permanent black marker to trace around the mouth, draw
in eyes, and lines on the fin.
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Nancie
Gordom sent me these comments after trying this craft with her
class: I used the whales yesterday and they were a
huge success with both the children and adults. I knew the kidos
would like anything that involved "throw" as Jonah
into the whale. I sprayed mine with silver paint which didn't
take long and worked well. Not only did the kid have a terrific
time I feel sure they will never forget the story of Jonah and
the whale. Thanks for your help Nancie.
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L'oreal
Goldfish Craft
These fish cost less than a dollar to make. The L'oreal
Kid's shampoo bottles come in different colors so you can make
some different types of fish.
 What
you will need: L'oreal kid's shampoo bottle, glue
gun with low temp glue, orange Fun Foam, 3/4 inch eye, or a black
marker.
How to make:
1. Cut two pieces of orange fun foam to cover the L'oreal
labels on the bottle. You can leave the eye showing on
the front of the bottle or cover it and glue on your own eyes.
2. Print out the fin patterns (Pattern
1 and Pattern
2) (Printing Problems?) and trace onto the orange fun foam.
Cut them out and cut slits in the foam where indicated on the
pattern. Glue to the body.
3. Glue on a black string to the top to hang.
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Spinning
Space Ship Toys
 How to make: Glue a Slurpy lid to each side of an CD
using a low temp glue Gen. You may want to use two CD's and
glue the word sides together so that both sides of the space
ship are pretty. Spin them on a flat surface like you would
a jack or coin.
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Greeting Card Puzzles
Cut your old greeting cards into smaller pieces and glue them onto card stock to make instant puzzles for your children. Glue them onto magnetic sheets and cut them into pieces to make puzzles you can place on your refrigerator. This is a great way to keep young children busy while you are in the kitchen. Idea sent in by Lana Britt
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