Plastic is one of the most used items in our daily lives, especially the plastic bottles. Take a look around and you will definitely see the amount of Reuse Waste plastic bottles you can make this from water bottles to sodas and shampoos and lotions.
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Looking for some easy inexpensive craft ideas? Right now, we are loving repurposed and recycled DIY projects made with plastic bottles. With so many fabulous ideas for recycling plastic bottles, you'll think twice before throwing them away again! The list of possibilities is endless! I'm sharing just a few of those ideas with you today.
Flowers are seen as works of art, with Mother Nature being given credit as being the artist who created so many species of them. It is true; there is
Brighten up your space with an adorable plastic bottle butterfly. This recycled craft is SO FUN to make! Who knew you could create such a pretty butterfly from a recycled bottle?! Use our free butterfly templates (find the links below!) and some paint markers to breathe new life into an everyday soda bottle. Transform your recycled pop bottle into a colourful butterfly. It's a great spring and summer craft for the whole family! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to
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Make plastic bottle butterflies with this easy recycled art activity and learn about Monarch butterfly migration.
27 easy plastic bottle crafts! Transform old plastic bottles into home decor, fun crafts, and more with our creative DIY ideas.
Try some of these water bottle crafts for kids. These are perfect for keeping the kids busy without breaking the bank. 24 crafts that use what you already have at home.
This project is a great way to reuse those many empty plastic water bottles we all end up with. Having recently explored Pinterest for water bottle crafts, and not really seeing anything I liked, …
Here are 9 uses for plastic bottles you probably haven't heard of. Life just got easier.
How to make turning plastic bottles into colorful flower petal art Pritt Creative Club every week children will find it easy to implement ideas. Headings in line with the signed application and…
Upcycled Plastic Bottles & Bags: Things you can make with plastic bottles and plastic bags.
We love the idea of recycling, but to be honest the only thing that’s even better than recycling is making old waste items into amazing works of art at
Don't throw away your plastic bottles! Try some of these DIY upcycling projects instead to help organize and spruce up your home décor.
Flowers are seen as works of art, with Mother Nature being given credit as being the artist who created so many species of them. It is true; there is
Artist Lisa Be upcycled approximately 25,000 bottle caps to create a stunning public mural in Long Beach, New York.
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
With ideas for kids and grown-ups.
How to make a plastic bottle greenhouse in 6 easy steps! Transform your backyard into a hub of life and energy.
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Sandwich Toaster Plastic Recycling: Reusing household plastic waste to make things using a panini press including a lamp shade, Christmas decorations, and a heart mobile. In this 'ible I'll show a way to process some of your household waste using some pretty basic things to turn them…
Make a plastic water bottle sun catcher by recycling plastic bottles with this great recycled art project for kids perfect for Earth Day!
It used to be that all Remembrance Sunday or Remembrance Day poppies all looked the same. Occasionally you would get a handmade one, but they generally just followed the same uniform design. Then it seems the internet came along. The combination of sites and apps like Pinterest and Instagram seems to have coincided with more …
In case you weren’t aware, tomorrow is the official start to summer (hooray!). Earlier this week I spent one of the warmer days exploring a local beach and I stumbled upon this amazing mural…
I came up with 22 uses for upcycling old pill bottles. How many can you come up with?
With ideas for kids and grown-ups.
Hello! It's Megan from Homemade Ginger again with a kids craft that everyone is sure to love. These little fireflies would be the perfect craft for a campout or a summer birthday party! In the past, most of my kids' craft ideas (such as this fake flower craft) have been geared towards girls because I had three daughters so girls were all I knew. All of my girls are super girly, so our house was full of princesses and pink. Well, this summer we were blessed with a baby boy! It's been so much fun but definitely an adjustment when
In this multi-day activity, students explore environments, ecosystems, energy flow and organism interactions by creating a scale model biodome through applying the engineering design process. The Procedure section provides activity instructions for Biodomes unit, lessons 2-6, as students work through Parts 1-6 to develop their model biodome. Subjects include energy flow and food chains, basic needs of plants and animals, and the importance of decomposers. Students consider why a solid understanding of one's environment and the interdependence of an ecosystem can inform the choices we make and the way we engineer our own communities. This activity can be conducted as either a very structured or open-ended design.
This project is one which has evolved out of my recent experiments with fused plastic. It’s a way of recycling old crayons and plastic bags creatively and I love the finished ‘leaf-like’ feel of these. The finished leaves can be used for a wide range of purposes, or alternatively you could cut the fused plastic sheets up into any shape you like. Materials Plain white plastic bags – or bags with large areas of white that can be used. Roll of Cling film Old wax crayons Metallic Gold Ink Pen Baking parchment Equipment Old kitchen grater Domestic iron Pinking Shears Heat Proof board (I used a toughened glass chopping board) Preparation Cut up your white plastic bags into pieces that will fit onto your ironing board – my pieces were about A5 sheet size. Grate your wax crayons into separate colours, and place in different pots – I used cake cases for the purpose, which worked well. Place the heat proof board onto your ironing surface, and lay a protective sheet of some sort over it (I used an old tea-towel). Cover this in turn with a piece of baking parchment bigger than your plastic. Place your base sheet of plastic on top of this. Method I like to start by ironing the plastic smooth to begin with, so place another sheet of baking parchment on top, and switch the iron onto a medium heat non-steam setting. The actual setting will vary slightly depending upon the thickness of plastic bag you are using. Thicker bags require higher heat to fuse – just experiment. Iron the sheet smooth for a few seconds. Remove the top layer of parchment paper and you are ready to start decorating. I found that the most effective way to do this was to build up the design in layers of different colours one at a time, separating and sealing each layer with cling film. If you don’t do this, and put all the colours on together in a single layer, you are in danger of creating a muddy mess as all the colours mix together. The designs shown here all used about 3 or 4 different layers. Because each was separated from the other, the colours do not physically mix, and each layer acts like a glaze creating beautiful bright and colourful designs. Less is more – you don’t need to sprinkle very much on – as you are not looking to cover the plastic completely with each individual layer. After you have sprinkled on your first layer, place a sheet of cling film a little larger than the base plastic over the top of the sprinkles, and then a sheet of baking parchment over this – again, this should cover all the plastic layers so it doesn’t melt on your iron. Iron the layers together – you will see the wax crayon sprinkles melt very quickly, but you may need to press a little harder and longer to enable the cling film to fuse to the plastic beneath depending on the heat of the iron and the thickness of the plastic bag used – just experiment and you will soon get a feel for it. Repeat this with different colours, sealing each layer of crayon sprinkles with cling film, and fusing them together using the baking parchment to protect the iron. Small air bubbles will become trapped and the plastic will wrinkle, creating an almost leather like marbled surface. You can see each individual stage below. Once cooled, trim the extra cling film away from the sheet and cut it into whatever shapes you like – using pinking shears makes a particularly decorative edge for leaf shapes. You can draw on the fused plastic with sharpies, or other pens – for example I used a metallic gold ink pen to draw decorative stylised veins on the leaves. If you want to make a bookmark like I’ve done here – punch holes in the end of two of the leaves and attach together with ribbon leaving the ends trailing. Alternatively this would also make a decorative gift tag. If you make lots of leaves, you will have enough to make a garland, or simply hang them individually onto twigs and branches placed in a pot. There are plenty of possibilities! If you want to make a bookmark like I’ve done here – punch holes in the end of two of the leaves and attach together with ribbon leaving the ends trailing. Alternatively this would also make a decorative gift tag.
Water Rocket: The combination of water, compressed air, and a plastic soda bottle serves as a great source of propulsion for a backyard rocket (assuming you have a big back yard). Typical versions of these rockets involve taping or gluing on the nose cone…
