Recycled Plastic Bag Crafts

  • Four Stranded Braids Made With Plastic Bags

    Four Stranded Braids Made With Plastic Bags

    Braiding with plastic bags is a great way to make trim for some of your recycled crafting projects, and a great way to keep those plastic bags out of the trash! At least when you braid them, if they do end up in the trash, they’ll do a lot less damage as they’re already broken…

  • Make Yarn From Plastic Bags To Use For Holiday Crafting!

    Make Yarn From Plastic Bags To Use For Holiday Crafting!

    Imagine my delight when my local grocery store temporarily switched from yellow plastic grocery bags to purple plastic grocery bags…….pure heaven as it were for a dedicated recycling crafter like me, right? I was actually swooning I believe, or maybe that was on account of the mesh potato sacks that instead of their standard white…

  • DIY Upcycled Plastic Bag Pom Poms!

    DIY Upcycled Plastic Bag Pom Poms!

    Pom poms made from plastic bags are so very festive and they look so great its very hard to believe that they’re made from plastic bags! So start saving those plastic bags, and put them to great use the next time you need an artistic gift wrapping solution, or some great party decorations. And as…

  • Gift Topper Pom Poms From Plastic Grocery Bags!

    Aren’t these plastic grocery bag gift topper pom poms gorgeous? If you told me they were exotic sea urchins I’d probably find that more believable than plastic grocery bags, really? Yes dear readers, and while I will admit that photographing them on a white table cloth in the low afternoon sun did make them look…

  • 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…

  • Bunting Banner From Recycled Plastic Bag Leftovers

    I walked into my daughter’s room one day and spotted this adorable recycled plastic bag bunting on her armchair. Isn’t it sweet? I must explain how this plastic bag bunting was made, since I think your jaw might just drop when I reveal the secret.  So you know those colored plastic grocery bags, the smaller…

  • 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…

  • Recycle Plastic Bags and Make Unique Gift Bows!

      Wouldn’t you like to receive a gift that looks like this? I would, there’s something so very crafty and cute about it, and when the recipient discovers that your kids have made the wrapping paper (tutorial on that here) and you’ve made the bow from plastic bags, well they’ll be so bowled over they…

  • Crochet Fun Placemats Using Yarn Made From Plastic Bags!

    Make festive crocheted placemats by crocheting with “plarn”, yarn that you’ve assembled from plastic bags. Shopping will never be the same.

  • Fuse Plastic Bags and Make Some Fabulous Coasters!

    Did you know that there is such a thing as trends in the world of crafting? Well, guess what, there is! And at the moment projects involving recycling materials are definately hot. Amongst those are anything using plastic bags, which sit for 1000 years in the trash heap before disintegrating! So to use them again…