Crafty Caps from Quirky
Uncap your imagination!
Crafty Caps are fun, stackable screw-on paintbrush tips that are great for arts and crafts projects. Just grab a 20-oz plastic bottle, fill it with non-toxic water-based paint, screw on a Crafty Cap, and stamp out a masterpiece!
- Crafty Caps paint tips are made from porous felt material, similar to [...]
How to Make a Jewelry Box out of Soda Bottles (by Melissa Howard)
Go Green Projects are a great way to organize your every day stuff.
Recycle your empty soda bottles or water bottles into whimsical, bright containers to give as gifts or to use for organizing the stuff around your home.
Supplies
Two empty, clean soda bottles
Heavy-duty scissors
Hot [...]
Reuse 2-liter Bottles for Fun Outdoor Game
To play, you need 10 empty plastic 2-liter soda bottles and a ball. Before you play you need to set up the game. Fill each bottle with two inches of water. Set the bottles up like bowling pins, with 1 bottle in the first row, 2 in the second [...]
Reuse bottles, collect rain water and mix together a few household items to make your own watercolor [...]
Yogurt Cup Felt Animals
“So, here’s what I did with a few of the yogurt cups we saved! I am saving some of the others for containers for paint, and collage pieces just as you suggested with your comments. But I want to do something that actually used the cup in the art! Aren’t they adorable? [...]
Turn a milk jug into a practical home storage and shoveling device.
Super Scoops
This artistic project helps tame clutter instead of adding to it
by Deborah Way
These decoupaged milk jugs are great for transporting toys, dumping them on the ground, and scooping them up again when playtime is done. Make a waterproof version by cutting drainage holes in [...]
Plastic Caps: (Surfrider Org) Caps are the new Butts!
Plastic bottle caps are quickly eclipsing cigarette butts as the number one item found on the world’s beaches. In New Jersey, Surfrider Foundation volunteers Dave Storch, Derek Riddle, & Joe Mairo saved all the caps found on recent beach sweeps run by Clean Ocean Action. Clean Ocean [...]
From CraftStew:
Woven Plastic Bottle Vase – This is the project that gave me the idea for this list. I had to read the how-to’s before I believed this vase was really made from a plastic bottle.
PopSci Plastic Bottle Lamps – Complete instructions from PopSci.
Terrariums – Use a plastic bottle to make an almost instant terrarium. [...]
Antarctic Auditions: Penguin Craft
by Joy Howard
This far-fetched scene was hatched by Jill Sprankell (who also came up with the idea for “Festive Flop”). In early December she put out a large help-wanted sign, then kept the joke going by adding a few penguins each day. By the end of the month, a crowd of nearly 400 [...]
Ideas and products to reuse before you recycle.
So many things we use and dispose of everyday could have spent a little more time being useful before they became landfill. How do you reuse a plastic bottle? I asked myself this question everytime I had to throw a plastic bottle away. I’d always think about how [...]