Reuse Plastic Bottles to create art with Crafty Caps

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 [...]

15 Awesome Paper Roll Crafts

How to reuse toilet paper rolls.

1. Gardening / Seed Starters: (From: Yougrowgirl.com) Cut the tubes and make small planters out of them for your seedlings, then transfer them to your garden – cardboard tube and all.

2. Scrunchee / Bracelette organizer: Take a cardboard tube and color it with bright shades.Use it to put your [...]

How to reuse plastic yoguart containers

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? [...]

How to Reuse Styrofoam

 

Styrofoam Clamshells from restaurants.

From Ehow.com

Weed Barrier for walkways: Mosaic of clamshells with rocks before covering with fill gravel and dirt.

 

Packing Styrofoam

From Earth911

Crafts abound – Remember those Styrofoam molds that you used to make wreaths as a kid? Well, you could use that leftover Styrofoam that came with [...]

Nice Jugs: Super Scoops

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 [...]

How to reuse plastic bottle caps

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 [...]

Fun Craft ideas to reuse and recycle plastic bottles

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. [...]

Plastic Bottle Penguin Craft

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 [...]

How to reuse plastic bottles

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 [...]