Recycled Cardboard Crafts

  • Pizza Box Top Robot Craft For Kids

    My seven year old had a great time making these fun pizza box top robots, a great little craft project to have on hand. I did make a little sketch of an old fashioned robot for him to use as a guide in his work, and I think he did a great job! The dots…

  • Winter Tree From Recycled Cardboard

    How about making some recycled corrugated cardboard trees to bring a little playful air to your home this winter? Tu B'Shevat (the New Year for the trees) is the next Jewish holiday on the calender, so I've got trees on my mind! I really love the graphics on the corrugated sleave from our flats of…

  • Price Tag Sticker Snowflake Garland

    Yes, you're reading correctly, these fun crafts were made with price tag stickers! I spotted what I thought was neon tape at my local crafts store, and when I realized it was really price stickers I bought it anyway for the kids. Little did I know that I'd suddenly come up with some ideas to…

  • Stamp Pad Leaf Printing: Make A Wall Hanging!

    Here's a great nature craft with beautiful results. Use stamp pads to make leaf prints on recycled cereal boxes, or of course any cardboard, and you'll have a bunch of simply beautiful tags that you can string together to make a wall hanging, or hang in a row as a bunting banner, or even use…

  • Winter Craft For Kids: Make Snowflakes From Recycled Cardboard and Yarn!

    Yes, a continuation of the snowflake theme! After all, what exactly should a Jewish crafter do this time of year? Winter crafts (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere) sounds good, which means snow, right? How about making some artful snowflakes from cereal boxes and yarn? I like the simplicity of these, but of…

  • A Pizza Box Top Robot!

    Last week as I was cleaning up after my daughter's birthday pizza party, I was about to throw away the pizza boxes since they seemed to be a bit too soiled to salvage, but then my better sense took a hold of me and I realized that the tops of two of the boxes were…

  • An Artful Mount Sinai: A Great Collage Project For Shavuos!

    Here we are…..all 600,000 of us adults…..waiting to receive the Torah from Har Sinai! The holiday of Shavuos celebrates this amazing event that happened 3,700 years ago, which in itself is amazing! For Pesach I created a crossing the Red Sea diorama of sorts, here, and fully intended to do something similar for Shavous, but…

  • Kid’s Crafts For Pesach: Krias Yam Suf (The Splitting Of The Red Sea) Diorama!!

    Yippee! The Red Sea has split and were going through! Phew, that was a close call with those Egyptians right on our tails! But who can think about that now, this is amazing! We're so happy, what a miracle! We're on our way to freedom from slavery in Egypt, that's one of the reasons we're…

  • Another Version Of The Polyhedron Globe: Stenciled!

    Some of you may find these photos a bit familiar, as back in August when I was encouraging everyone to work on Succah decorations, I posted a project showing you how to make solid colored polyhedrons. You can see that post here. I mentioned that I had created a version of the polyhedrons using stencils.…

  • Make A Unique Paper Mache Frame! (For your Succah?)

    Looking for a special project to feature on one of the walls of your Succah? Looking for a unique frame to display a copy of a beautiful old photograph? Paper mache may be your answer! Paper mache has often been used by cultures around the world for creating charming handcrafts. It's sculptural qualities and simple…