20+ Ways to Upcycle Easter Trash
Don’t toss that Easter trash! Keep it out of the waste stream by upcycling it into something useful or fun.
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Don’t toss that Easter trash! Keep it out of the waste stream by upcycling it into something useful or fun.
20+ Ways to Upcycle Easter Trash Read More 👉
my kids have always had a bounty of Easter eggs for backyard egg hunts and decorating and displaying and hiding tiny treats inside, because I am obsessed with DIY Easter eggs. Every year, I can’t stop myself from making a few more of my favorites, AND finding a couple more new handmade egg projects to try.
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A DIY bookmark is a tiny project with a timespan to match. You can whip up a super cute upcycled cardboard bookmark in minutes, and even a more elaborate quilt-as-you-go stitched bookmark takes less than half an hour to sew up. Want more crafty time? Make them in bulk, because bookmarks make awesome gifts! I tuck my DIY bookmarks into care packages, Easter baskets, the books I put into my Little Free Library, and all my etsy orders.
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This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corrugated cardboard boxes. Cats love it, and it’s a useful donation to your local animal shelter.
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Sure, you can toss that boring bottle bottom into the recycling bin… except there are SO MANY awesome ways to upcycle even glass bottle bottoms! Check out my list of my favorite projects that just happen to do really cool things with the least likely parts of glass bottles.
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Instead of tossing it into the waste stream and feeling bad about yourself because of it, give that broken dish a second life by upcycling it into something fun, beautiful, and useful.
20 Ways to Upcycle Broken Dishes Read More 👉
These decoupaged cardboard trays are some of my favorite things to make.
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Corrugated cardboard, sliced and stacked edges out, has a texture that cats adore, and they really will use them, play with them, and sharpen their claws on them!
How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Cat Scratcher: Two Tutorials! Read More 👉
There’s nothing like a bunting to make a festive occasion just that much more special.
How To Make an Upcycled Playing Card and Upholstery Sample Bunting Read More 👉
Storing your little treasures nicely is as easy as arranging them in a shadow box, and making that shadow box is as easy as cutting and pasting.
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Reclaim the was from jar candles and reuse it to make more crafts!
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So if you, too, buy skull-shaped vodka bottles mostly so that you, too, can do something cool with them after you’ve drunk the vodka, then check out my list of my favorite ways to upcycle that Chrystal Head Vodka skull bottle!
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A wine bottle cloche is a super quick and easy project, if you’ve got the right supplies.
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The best part of reusing empty wine bottles is that you won’t have that big bin of them sitting out on your curb for all of your neighbors to look at on Recycling Day.
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You will no longer be that jerk who has to use lighter fluid to get a good blaze going.
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Seriously, y’all, these are the easiest seed starting pots on the planet.
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Check out these awesome homemade postcard tutes, and then go raid the recycling bin!
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Postcards made from food packaging?
Kind of the easiest thing EVER.
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There is yet another wasteful enemy of Girl Scout Cookie Season: the Girl Scout cookie cases.
8 Cool Ways to Reuse Girl Scout Cookie Cases Read More 👉
CDs, DVDs, and old vinyl records are a great base for constructing mandalas on top of, because they’re already perfectly round, and so sturdy that you can display your finished, upcycled mandala anywhere you’d like.
11 Upcycled Mandalas from CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl Record Albums Read More 👉
Let’s have a very merry upcycled Christmas!
Two Dozen Upcycled Crafts for Christmas Read More 👉
Save some cash and reduce your impact this Thanksgiving with these recycled Thanksgiving crafts!
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Y’all know we LOVE our toilet paper tube crafts here at CAGW!
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So you’ve found a favorite project to upcycle that unplayable vinyl record. You still need ways to reuse that album cover, right? What should you do?
12 Ways to Reuse an Album Cover Read More 👉
There are tons of super cute ways to recycle a vinyl record. Read on to find your next favorite project!
30 Ways to Recycle a Vinyl Record Read More 👉
You’re going to have the coolest school supplies on the planet when you make yourself an upcycled folder from a cardboard record album cover.
How to Make an Upcycled Folder from a Cardboard Record Album Cover Read More 👉
Check out all of the awesome stuff that you can make with plarn, including how to make plastic yarn in the first place.
26 Projects to Make with Plarn Read More 👉
The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic–Sleeping mats! Out of plastic bags!–but the truth is that it’s totally do-able.
Make Plarn Sleeping Mats for the Homeless Read More 👉
Celebrate the change in seasons AND divert some trash from the waste stream with these great recycled crafts for autumn.
20 Recycled Autumn Craft Ideas Read More 👉
Whether you’re making some of your kid’s school supplies from scratch, or you’d just like to personalize them, these DIY school supplies will make going back to school a lot more fun!
20 DIY School Supplies for Back to School Read More 👉
There are LOTS of really cool ways to reuse egg cartons! Here are 36 amazing reasons to save empty egg cartons instead of throwing them away.
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Got some egg cartons taking up ALL the space in your recycling bin?
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This wire-wrapping tutorial is simple and beginner-friendly.
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Don’t know what to do with that dried-out marker or pen? Try some of these awesome upcycled marker crafts!
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