Crafts: Recycling
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Oatmeal Can Airport Craft To Hold Paper Airplanes!
Introducing oatmeal can airports! I thought we’d wrap oatmeal cans with the airport art created last week, and make Q-tip airplanes to put inside, only the Q-tip airplanes I tried to make were a flop and didn’t even fly, yikes, so much for that! But the boys didn’t complain and made airplanes that don’t fly,…
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Quick Front Door Decor Craft For Lag B’Omer
If you’ve been paying attention, you may remember the ten plagues Passover cards I made a month plus ago? The art was mounted on gold cardboard that was actually some metallic gold cardbaord dessert platters left at my front door. And of course, after I cut out the flat middle I just had to save…
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Logs Craft Using Recycled Aluminum Foil Boxes!
For the first time ever, I decided to try and make some logs from recycled aluminum foil boxes, and I just LOVE the results, especially after drawing wood grain patterns on a large number of tubes of all sizes. There is something about the square edges that just really lends the boxes to being covered…
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Recycled Cardboard Tube Logs Craft For Lag B’Omer!
The festive holiday of Lag B’Omer, which is the 33 Day of the Omer and a day when we pause the mourning of this period to celebrate the great Sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Since one of the things we do on the holiday is celebrate the great light of Rebbi Shimon with community bonfires,…
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Paper Towel Tube Logs Craft
Pulled this one out of the archives because it is a keeper, and phew I actually saved a bunch of paper towel tubes during Passover. I have a bunch of little cuties coming for the Shabbos leading into L’Ag B’Omer, so I will be making some of these possibly without the colored ends to fit…
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DIY Passover Seder Ten Plagues Cards Craft
Our huge investment in the wonderful holiday of Passover is about to pay off when we sit down together at the Passover Seder table tomorrow night, phew! Almost there with of course lots of cooking left to do, but things are mostly under control with just last minute errands and household organizing to do. And…
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Egg Carton Fox Portraits Craft
So friends, it turns out that egg carton animal portraits are so very very fun to make, I just had to keep going after the leopard egg carton animal portraits craft that I shared with you last week. I went on to make a bunch of lions, like the one here, and then, flipped the…
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Toilet Paper Roll Birdy Gift Topper
Last week I shared with you my toilet paper tube birdy gift tag, and now I’m sharing a few photos to show you how I used it! Truthfully, while I am not a fan of cellophane, that is the gift wrap of choice here in Israel, so sometimes you just gotta go with the flow……of…
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Toilet Paper Tube Birdy Gift Tags Or Party Decor
With Purim coming up on Saturday night, I started making really fun egg carton portrait gift tags, only the later ones came out so well I really can’t give them away, so I was looking for something super cute but just a bit less precious, and these toilet paper roll birdies fit the bill! I’ll…
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Egg Carton Animal Portrait Craft
With Purim in less than a week, now is time to get crafting friends, and I’ve started with making egg carton animal portraits that are mini works of art that will also be gift tags for my mishloach manot! The four here were the first 4 of a group that is now 21 strong, so…
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Jewish Holiday Recycling Crafts For Kids
With Purim in just a week, and Passover to follow, now is the time to start thinking about a top to bottom yearly cleaning and organizing of our homes. While you may be tempted to toss it all, I recommend looking at your “garbage” with a eco-friendly eye on creativity, and as a way of…
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Plastic Bottle Gift Basket With Plastic Bag Yarn!
I have to say, this is truly a fabulous craft, whether you use plastic bag yarn, or regular yarn, with results that are perfect for Purim gift giving or anytime. I think I need to make some! I am reposting this from a few good years back, enjoy! I am so excited to share with…