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15 Ways to Make Art By Reusing Your Materials
Are you looking for low-cost arts & crafts? Use recycled materials for art instead of costly supplies. These inventive initiatives transform everyday objects like cardboard boxes and plastic bottles into works of art. It’s time to get inventive and raid the recycling bin!
1. Plastic Bottle Flower Chain
Imagine hanging these strings outside for a party or using them to decorate your classroom! They are simple to build, and there are countless colour and shape options. Find out how to do it here.
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2. Pop Top Bracelet
A woman’s wrist is adorned with a bracelet made of pop-tops and green ribbon.
Fashion is the term for adornable art! Aluminium can pop tops may be reused to make this stylish bracelet. To tie the pop tops together, use ribbon in your favourite colours. Watch the how-to video right here.
3. Plastic Bottle Wind Spinners
Colourful spirals of plastic produced from recycled plastic bottles
These vibrant works of art give repurposed art a new perspective. Spiral-cut plastic bottles with colour added provide stunning yard décor that changes with the breeze. Happy Hooligans contains detailed instructions.
4. Bottle Cap Locket
What are the advantages of bottle cap lockets? No matter what you decide to tuck inside! This project is made personal by photos, flowers, modest trinkets, and other elements. How to create your own is shown here.
5. Paper Flower Garden
Ask children to think of a flower they would want to see in their own garden. Then let them search through old magazines for the pretty petals and cut them out. These blossoms can be transformed into a school bulletin board by adding stems of various lengths. Get the complete lesson plan right here.
6. Plastic Bottle Snowflake Garland
To make snowflakes, cut the bottoms off of plastic bottles and apply puffy paint. They make lovely holiday decorations when strung together on a length of rope and hung. (Try including lights to make the show even more festive.) Here is the DIY video.
7. Recycle Bin Art
Why not adorn the recycle bin itself while you’re rummaging through it to reuse items for art? You could find that turning your trash can into a treasure encourages people to recycle more frequently. View examples of other beautifully decorated recycle containers here for ideas.
8. Paper Heart Mobile
If you want to reuse art supplies, colourful magazine and newspaper pages are wonderful resources. Shapes cut from your favourite pages can be used to create hanging mobiles by adding rope and a few sparkling beads. Red Ted Art has a complete how-to available.
9. Plastic Bottle Planters
Use flowers to your advantage with these soda bottle planters since they frequently resemble live works of art. By suspending chains of planters near the entrance to your school or along a breezeway, you may create a vertical garden of vivid hues. View the DIY tutorial video here.
10. Bottle Cap Animals
To create lovely tiny animal buddies, save your bottle caps and add details with markers, paint, and construction paper. Don’t forget the googly eyes, too! Learn how to create animals out of bottle caps here.
11. Cardboard Recycle Monster
Here’s another technique for turning your recycle can into a centre of attention. Pick up some old CDs, a big cardboard box, plus a few other things. Then construct a hungry recycling monster to hold your trash can. Find out here how to make one.
12. Plastic Bottle Trophy
You feel brave? Make a trophy out of a recycled plastic bottle by pulling out the glitter. (If you’d rather, omit the glitter and use only metallic paint.) Use it as the prize in an exhibition of recycled-material artwork! View the instructional video here.
13. Milk Jug Fairy House
How beautiful is this tiny fairy house? With a gallon milk jug, some common materials, and tonnes of creativity, you can construct your own. Visit Three Kids, Three Cats, and a Husband for more information.
14. Bottle Cap Mosaic
Bottle caps, plastic and metal, come in a broad variety of colors and styles. Collect as many as you can, then use them to construct magnificent mosaics. Create your own designs or use this as a group art project in the classroom to create a giant mural. Learn how to make a complete bottle cap mosaic here.
15. Reused Materials Creature
With the use of recycled materials, children are encouraged to explore their imaginations freely in this activity. Give them a sizable bin of miscellaneous items to select from. (Try using bottles, cans, cardboard, throwaway cups, wood shavings, scraps of yarn and fabric, paper, and whatever else you have on hand.) Then give youngsters free rein to build whatever they can imagine! Visit Tinker Lab for other examples.