Crafts: Recycling

  • Plastic Bottle Flower How To

      This year I'm finally going to attempt to make a ton of plastic bottle flowers to use in my Succah, and there are so many creative uses for these flowers I can't wait to see what the outcome will be! I'm imagining a plastic bottle flower garden of sorts, but of course time will…

  • Plastic Bottle Apple For The Teacher

    This morning I sent my kids off to school with these cute plastic bottle apples for the teacher, together with a wish for a happy new year, written by each child. I filled the bottom of the bottle with a circle of round tissue paper, and left the top portion empty to view the red…

  • Crocheted Plastic Bag Doily Clock

    Yes, I crocheted a doily from plastic grocery bags and then I realized that it made a really cute clock! Yesterday I shared with the you the 5 minute paper plate clock, so while this one does take just a bit more effort it's certainly worth it! Wouldn't these make great holiday gifts? Once you…

  • How To Make Yarn From Plastic Bags

    When life gives you plastic bags, so make plarn, namely yarn from plastic bags! I usually walk to and from the grocery store for our weekly food shopping, and as is widely popular here in Israel, I then have the purchase delivered. The store I'm currently shopping at packs the food in plastic bag lined…

  • Wine Bottle Vases Simplified For Your Fall Table

      A while back I shared with you some lovely painted wine bottle vases, but guess what my friends? You really don't have to go through all that trouble of painting the bottles, especially for fall when dark wine bottles look just fine as they are! And let me tell you, painting those bottles was…

  • How To Cut A Recycled Plastic Soda Bottle For Crafting

    With Succot crafting just around the corner, after the Rosh HaShana crafting, it's time to start saving those plastic bottles so you'll have some of the basics on hand for some exciting DIY Recycled Bottle succah decor. I'd recommend starting to cut those bottles as you save them, to be one step ahead of the…

  • Wine Cork Stamp Rosh HaShana Cards

    Wine cork stamps are super simple to make and a great way to make some quick and sweet Rosh HaShana cards. With the Jewish New Year just around the corner in three weeks, now is the perfect time to make cards so that one can even send them to friends and relatives near and far.…

  • Wine Bottle Vases Decoupaged With Tissue Paper

    Remember those wine bottles that I spray painted white and made a bunch of DIY wine bottle vases? Remember that tissue paper that the kids stamped on to make our own DIY wrapping paper? Remember these DIY pom pom flowers? Well, isn't it nice to combine the efforts from several projects and come up with…

  • Coloring Salt With Chalk: Jerusalem Scene For Tisha B’Av

    Crafting with colored salt that you can make yourself is so much fun, especially for kids who are more process oriented than expressive. While home-made colored salt poured in layers into recycled jars is certainly pretty, and there are lots of oohs and ahhs as the layers are built, I wanted to give more meaning…

  • Kid’s Craft: Jars Decoupaged With Printed Tissue Paper

    Aren't these recycled coffee jar vases sweet? (Snowflake and all in the middle of summer?) And they look so great holding wild flowers, cuttings from the garden that you're rooting, or even candles of course. We made these recycled jar vases using the tissue paper that we printed on last week, here, and some mod…

  • Draw Simple Patterns On Painted Bottles

    Here’s a super simple way to turn painted wine bottle vases (namely the ones I wrote about here) into something a little more bold and decorative. With just a permanent black marker, we had fun applying designs and illustrations to our painted bottles. And the results really are so much fun, and perfect for a…

  • Summer Craft: Wine Cork Boats

    The perfect summer craft for boys. Make sailboats and rafts from simple materials including wine corks and popsicle sticks.