Summer crafts with recycled material

Summer has arrived and with it, the school holidays. Crafts are usually an activity that children love and also quite entertaining.

In today’s post we show you some typical summer crafts that are made with recycled material.

Take notes and have fun.

Piñatas with recycled material

There is nothing that children like more than a piñata.

The thrill of being able to open it and collect everything that is inside is something very fun for the little ones.

Also, making a piñata at home is very easy, we will only need:

  • A cardboard box.
  • Paper or fabrics that we have at home. If we don’t have we can buy tissue paper.
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • The sweets or toys that we want to put inside.

How to make our piñata from recycled material?:

  • We choose the shape we want for the piñata: ice cream shape, watermelon slice, beach ball…
  • We cut recycled cardboard.
  • We glue the strips of fabric or paper all over the cardboard.
  • We introduce surprises. We must remember to leave an open space in the box to put the surprises, then we close it.

Fuente: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/140806229600366/

We already have our piñata made of recycled material, now we just have to have fun.

little fish with plastic bottles

This craft is very simple and we need very few materials:

  • Empty plastic bottles.
  • Permanent markers.
  • Gomaeva

To make our fish with recycled material we just have to cut the bottom of the bottle to shape the mouth of the fish.

Then we cut the flaps with foam, although we can also make the flaps with plastic from another empty bottle.

We paint and decorate our fish with the colors that we like the most.

Fuente: https://es.pinterest.com/pin/366480488411823947/

With plastic bottles we can also make a very nice octopus and complete our marine fauna.

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Fuente: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/AS0kHMtKDu8xvRSxo4dtjXqTV2mDCJDuiLnKCf0CmN2RkHVfG8yUPbk/

Mermaids with spoons of recycled material

Summer is the time for barbecues and gatherings with family and friends.

Many of us use disposable utensils to save ourselves from washing up afterwards.

Before the vast majority were made of plastic, now there are other materials that luckily we can reuse again.

But we can also give them another use once used.

With spoons, for example, we can create fun little mermaids.

Fuente: www.pinterest.es

We just need:

  • disposable spoons
  • Cardboard, fabric or any element that we have at home that we can use to make the hair and tail of the mermaids.
  • Felt pens.
  • glitter (optional)
  • Glue

The wide part of the spoon is the mermaid’s head and all we have to do is glue the different elements to make her hair and tail.

We can decorate it with glitter.

Boats with tetrabrik containers

Another thing that is always at home is some food or drink in tetrabrik.

Well, this material can be very useful for us to create beautiful boats with which our children will have a blast.

Need:

  • Tetrabriks
  • Markers or watercolor paints
  • A long toothpick, (like the one used for skewers)
  • Cardstock or fabric to make the candle
  • Glue

Making the boat is very simple:

We put the container horizontally and cut out a part to create the interior of the boat.

On the side we cut out two circles to make the windows.

Then we paint and decorate it as we like.

We make a candle with the toothpick and with the cardboard or the fabric that we have chosen and we stick it on the tetrabrik.

We already have our boat.

There are many crafts that we can do with recycled material and objects that we have at home, so be imaginative and have fun 😉

If you know any summer crafts with recycled material, share it with us!

 

28 June, 2022 Uncategorized Comments Off on Summer crafts with recycled material

Recycle your plastic bottles and make planters for your house

Although we try to reduce the consumption of plastic at home, there is always something that we have to end up buying. If you have plastic bottles at home, you can deposit them in the yellow container for recycling.

And you can also keep some to make some very original planters for your house or your terrace.

We tell you how in today’s article.

The importance of recycling plastic at home

As you know, there are small gestures that we can do on a daily basis to reduce the impact and consumption of plastic at home.

Use cloth bags instead of plastic bags, replace plastic with glass whenever possible or use disposable cardboard cutlery when we have a barbecue with friends, for example.

But it is true that we cannot completely banish plastic from our lives and that is where recycling comes into play.

It is very important that all the plastic that we consume at home and is likely to be recycled, we recycle it.

Either depositing it in the corresponding container, the yellow one in this case, or reusing it at home for some purpose.

Homemade pots made from plastic bottles

In this case we suggest you make some planters for your home or to decorate your terrace from plastic bottles.

Source: Pinterest

If you have a plastic bottle of water or soft drink at home, it will be perfect for this craft.

Take note and we’ll tell you how.

Necessary materials:

  • A plastic bottle (water or soft drink will do).
  • Paint in case we want to paint the bottle of some color, although we can also leave it transparent.
  • A marker.
  • Scissors.
  • Soil for plants.
  • The plants that we want to place in the pot.
  • A piece of string or cloth to decorate.
  • Pebbles to decorate.
  • Four small doorstops to act as legs for our planter.

Steps to make the pot

  • First of all, we measure and mark where we are going to cut the bottle. In this case we are going to cut it horizontally.
  • We cut the bottle.
  • We remove the label from the bottle.
  • We can leave it as it is transparent so that the soil in the pot is visible or we can paint it with a color that we like.

Source: Pinterest

  • We glue the stops at the bottom as legs.
  • To decorate the cap, we tie a piece of string or a piece of fabric that we like.
  • We put the land.
  • We put the plants.
  • We can put some pebbles above the ground as a decoration.

We already have our planter ready! we can make as many as we want and paint them in different colors.

Share with us your crafts with which you recycle plastic at home.

 

 

 

4 May, 2022 Uncategorized Comments Off on Recycle your plastic bottles and make planters for your house
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