Recycled Soda Bottle Crafts

  • Soda Bottle Treat Box Shaped Like An Apple!

    Soda Bottle Treat Box Shaped Like An Apple!

    As  you may know one of my great creative joys is coming up with fun craft projects that use recyclables. I have been know to hoard plastic bottles, tp rolls, techina containers, and milk cartons, for starters, all in the name of making just for example, treat boxes, party decorations, centerpieces and even planters. With…

  • Recycled Bottle Organizer With Art Scraps

    Recycled Bottle Organizer With Art Scraps

    Looking for a fun way to use up some painted paper scraps or unsuccessful art, and get organized? These reycled bottle organizers are just the thing. Of course you could choose to make a paper vase with your artwork, as I did for Passover, but the little scraps? Put those in a pile to make…

  • Woven Recycled Bottle Basket Craft

    Woven Recycled Bottle Basket Craft

    I am so excited to share with you this recycled craft that is made entirely of recycled materials, with the exception of hot glue! Let me introduce a fun craft project for all ages: woven plastic bottle baskets using plastic bags. These little baskets are perfect for Purim or any of your spring celebrations, and…

  • Soda Bottle Organizers With Hand Printed Cherry Blossom Paper

    Soda Bottle Organizers With Hand Printed Cherry Blossom Paper

    Cherry blossom crafts or in our case actually Almond blossom crafts are so much fun and a perfect way to add some color to a dreary winter! With the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat (the New Year for the trees) coming up in another three or so weeks, now is the time to get crafting…

  • The Apple Gift Boxes From Recycled Soda Bottles That Didn’t Quite Happen

    The Apple Gift Boxes From Recycled Soda Bottles That Didn’t Quite Happen

    Yes dear readers, these are not apple gift boxes from recycled soda bottles, but rather the tops for apple gift boxes from recycled soda bottles! I was laughing at myself as the holiday of Rosh HaShana was nearing, that probably no one else on the face of the earth would be trying to craft like…

  • Paper Clip Mini Mobiles That Make Adorable Decorations Anytime!

    Paper Clip Mini Mobiles That Make Adorable Decorations Anytime!

    When we were picking up school supplies last week I just couldn’t resist these colorful paperclips as I was quite sure they could be used for something, but what other than a chain? Well, here you have it, my first paper clip craft, mini mobiles made using just paperclips and recycled plastic bottles! I know,…

  • Passover Craft For Kids: Recycled Soda Bottle Elijah’s Cup!

    Passover Craft For Kids: Recycled Soda Bottle Elijah’s Cup!

    Here’s a super simple recycling craft for Passover that I just whipped up, maybe to inspire my kids to make some more, but certainly to inspire you to do the same at your house! A recycled soda bottle and CD Eliyahu’s cup decorated with washi tape (or a myriad of things that you have on…

  • Recycled Soda Bottle Flowers For Shavuot!

    Recycled Soda Bottle Flowers For Shavuot!

    This week at Crafting A Future, my !st and 2nd grade girls made these gorgeous recycled soda bottle flowers that sure do look like blown glass, don’t they? We’ll be using these flowers for a shavuot wall hanging that the girls have been working on, but I think they’d look great as is strung together…

  • Recycled Plastic Bottle Flower Mobile Tutorial

    A festive recycled plastic bottle cascading flower mobile can be yours with just some simple supplies, lots of recycled soda bottles, a bit of crafting! The flowers are quite simple to make and connecting them is even simpler. Of course if you’d like to cover a whole wall for a photo backdrop, that would be…

  • Recycled Plastic Bottle Lanterns…Glossy And Gorgeous!

    Recycled plastic bottle lanterns are so simple to make and the results are gorgeous. I posted this idea a few days ago, here, but I have an important revision to make, listening? The lanterns are so much more beautiful when one decoupages the tissue paper to the inside of the bottle, which is easy to…

  • Recycled Soda Bottle Flowers For The Sukkah!

    Sukkot starts Wednesday night and I am busy making recycled soda bottle flowers! This year my recycled plastic bottle flowers are blooming in a bunch of bright colors thanks to tissue paper, and I’m planning on hanging them strung vertically in three long strands over the center of our table….of course there’s an outer ring…

  • Recycled Plastic Bottle Flower Bouquet

    Yippee, I do believe I have come up with a fun way to make recycled plastic bottle flowers that look artfully elegant! Just in time for spring, though of course these flowers will last practically forever, and are great to have on hand for a last minute centerpiece. Plus your recycled plastic flower bouquet will…