Finger Puppets from Odd Glove
If you are like me, you have trouble throwing away those gloves that are bound to lose their mates. The {New New} York Etsy Street Team has some ideas for turning those odd gloves into finger puppets.
recycle
HOW TO – Make Newspaper Bunting
Maya Made shows you how to recycle your own newspapers to make newspaper bunting in this tutorial. [ via Folding Trees ]
HOW TO – Cereal Box Gift Box
Gareth @ MAKE posted about this instructable for turning a plain old cereal box into a classy gift box. I like how it squeeks a little more use out of something before it goes to the trash and looks good doing it.
HOW TO – Make a Retro Bottle Caps Clock
Mylifetime.com has a tutorial on how to make this stylish retro bottle caps clock, a project featured in the book Dazzling Bead & Wire Crafts by Patty Cox. [ via How About Orange ]
Cardboard Tube Chair
Paula at Treehugger wrote about this cool chair made from recycled printing industry cardboard tubes. From the site: Chilean design studio Onceneto teamed up with La Tercera newspaper and has been doing an interesting job recovering waste material from the paper’s print process. The first is produced with cardboard tubes from the newspaper printer paper […]
HOW TO – Handspun Recycled Newspaper Yarn
Green Upgrader has a tutorial for how to recycle newspaper into handspun yarn. Apparently you can make 20 yards of yarn from one sheet of newspaper depending on your method. It surprised me how beautiful the yarn looks. via Whip Up.
HOW TO – Make a Recycled Paper To-Do List Holder
I’ve always loved Patricia of A Little Hut’s recycle paper projects. Now she’s got a new one on how to make a to-do list holder where your recycled paper will have a pretty little compact home.
