With the arrival of winter holidays, spending time at home can become an excellent opportunity to create, play and care for the planet at the same time. Making crafts with recycled materials is not only a form of entertainment, but it is also a great action to reduce waste.
These proposals are ideal for sharing with the boys, stimulating imagination and learning as a family about the importance of reuse. The best thing is that you do not need large materials or have previous knowledge, just want to have fun and let your creativity fly.
The 15 recycled crafts to do as a family
With things that you have at your fingertips at home, you can have fun and create beautiful memories with your children in free days:
Reused cans
Canned cans can be renewed as organizers, vases or pencils. You just need to wash them well and decorate them with paint or paper.
Furniture with vegetable drawers
The wooden drawers that usually bring fruits and vegetables are ideal for putting shelves, tables or shoemakers. Luck them well, match them if you want to color them, and adapt them to the corner you choose from your home.
Newspaper or magazines
If you have magazine or daily batteries, you can use them to line boxes, wrap gifts or even make paper figures.
Plastic bottles or glass
Empty bottles can be transformed into pots, lamps or ornaments. Cut them, decorate them and do not forget to make holes in the base if you are going to use them for plants.
Packages with rain boots
Those boots that your children no longer use can become pots. You just need to fill them with earth and plant flowers or herbs.
Decorative tires
Disuse tires can be painted and become planters for the garden. They also serve as seats if you add a pillow.
CDS
Old CDs can be transformed into countertops. Decora them with adhesive paper, paint or napkins.
Mark with magazines
Rolling magazine leaves you can assemble frames for very original photos. Stick the rolls around a cardboard with a photo and that’s it.
Painted glass jars
Jam bottles or canned can be decorated with paint or cloth. They are perfect such as vases, pencils holder or even to store sweets or candles.
Collages with plastic caps
Junctá bottles of different colors and shapes. With glue and a cardboard, arm figures, animals or mandalas.
Parking with cardboard tubes
Use the rolls of toilet paper or kitchen to assemble a garage for your children’s cars.
Cars or aircraft with boxes
Large boxes can become cars, airplanes or even space rockets. With markers, scissors and tape you can shape them.
Mirrors with brightness
Stick cds of CDs to your mirrors and transform them completely.
Staircase turned into shelf
An old wooden staircase can be reused as an shelf and is great in living rooms, studies or rooms.
Glass bottles as containers
Reuse glass bottles to store oil, vinegar or juice.
These proposals are the perfect excuse for your family to spend time and take care of the environment.
Source: Ambito
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
