CD saucer

Recycled saucers

Nice saucers in your home. It’s not difficult to make by yourself and easy to find all materials around you.  If you would like to know how to make saucers from old CDs, just following step by step below.

1. Cut remnant of cloth to be CD’s size & CD’s shape.
2. Stick remnant of cloth from step 1 and CD together in one side. 
3. For another side, stick thick cloth to make more soft of saucers.

P.S. after using recycled saucers, you should bring them to dry in the sun.

Wrapping paper recycling

Recycling big piece of wrapping paper to be basket

So far, when I got wrapping paper, I have no ideas to eliminate it. Just threw it in the bin many and many times.

One day, my friend came to my home and she told me that she found a good idea on one website about how to recycle big piece of wrapping paper. So I think it is better to share to you guys too.
 
Method
1. falten and saw paper to make many pieces of long rectangle shape.

2. weave and glue them like pictures below until getting proper bottom size of your basket.

3.  weave in vertical way until getting height wanted.

4. roll back of final line to make basket rim.

5. green basket!!

 

ice-cream sticks recycling

Many ideas for ice-cream sticks recycling

What should we do when we see lots of ice-cream sticks?  If you still don't know, come to have a look. You may get some ideas from this page and it may useful for your children to have wonderful hobby at home.

                Recipe holder

          Pen  holder

      Picture  frame

                       Flower  vase

                                basket or container

                    Craft

               Craft

CD dumbbells

CD dumbbells

I found a great recycled idea on yesterday and I would like to share it to you guys. The product is dumbbells. I am sure that you can find materials around your house because it is made from unused CD .  Amount of CDs in each side depend on weight wanted and pile on a threaded rod from the hardware store and then bolts to hold it all together.  No tools needed.  Just thread it all and bolt it tight. Get idea and make dumbbells with your own style.

http://personaltrainerz.com/dumbbells-odd-fitness-equipment/997

Can recycling

Recycled cans

What can we do with a huge of aluminum can or any cans around us. Condensed milk can, food can, olive oil can or whatever cans are able to be recycled as new products in your home. They are not rubbish but you can make many useful things such as container in your kitchen, vase, flowerpot, pen box, mail box and etc. Hopefully, pictures showed below can click your creative ideas.  Just find out! Amazing way by yourselves.

Credit by :  http://www.banidea.com/ideas-to-recycle-tin-cans/

Milk/Juice boxes recycling

Great idea of milk boxes recycling

This is the idea of Edward Chew, the winner of Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition. He creates Tetra Pak lamp by recycling milk or juice boxes. 

Edward Chew cut milk boxes into a thousand of long small pieces.  Then, each piece is folded as triangle and they are assembling together without glue.  By triangle pattern concept, he can make several styles of modern lamps.

Picture: http://www.softbizplus.com 

Idea for recycling old t-shirt

How to recycle your old t-shirt

Old t-shirt can be both reused and recycled. For recycle, it might be cut into small pieces and used for cleaning.  Today, I will show you a great idea for old t-shirt recycling.  It can easily be transformed to be a nice green bag. Here we go!

The pictures below show step by step

1. cut off two sides of shirtsleeves

2. Cut off at the area of collar

3.  Saw shirttail together

4.  We got recycled shopping bag.