Recycled Crafts

• Bottle tops
• Hammer
• Piece of wood
• 2 Corks 
• String
• Large nail
• Pair of scissors
• Glue
• Paint
• Paint brush
• Piece of red felt

• Hammer a nail through the end of a piece of wood.

• Use this wood to help position the nail in the center of the bottle tops.

• Hit the nail on its head with the hammer. This will prevent fingers from being hurt.

• Adult supervision is recommended for this task.

• Make a knot at one end of the piece of string.

• Now start threading the bottle tops through the string. Make sure the tops are all facing the same way.

• You would probably need about 50 - 70 bottle tops to make a long snake.

• Once you have threaded through all the bottle tops make          another knot, so that the tops won't come off.

• Cut the remaining piece of string.

• Paint the corks green or whatever color you would like your snake to be. These corks will be the head and tail of your snake.

• Using the glue, attach one of the corks to the end of the string of bottle tops.

• Glue it onto the last top.

• Now glue the other cork onto the other end. This will be your snakes head.

• Add two spots for the eyes.

• Cut a small piece of felt into the shape of a snake's tongue and press it into the cork with the point of the nail.

• Empty tissue boxes
• Used plastic grocery bags

• Lay the grocery bags flat, folded in half, top to bottom.

• Put a bunch one on top of another.

• Carefully, put them into your tissue box and pull the first one up through the slot.

• Corrugated or stiff cardboard
• White cardboard (similar to what is packaged with shirts)
• Wallpaper scraps
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Narrow ribbon
• Tacky glue
• Crayons or markers

• Cut a piece of ribbon that is double the length of the frame that you will cut. Set aside.

• Cut a piece of cardboard 6x8". (This can be any size, adjust       accordingly.)

• Cut a piece out of the middle measuring 5x7".

• Trace around the outside and inside of the cardboard on the back side of the wallpaper.

• Note: Push the frame at least 1" in from the side of the             wallpaper.

• Draw a line 1" around the outside of the outside line on the        wallpaper.

• On the inside rectangle, draw a straight line from one corner to the next.

• Cut on the outside line.

• Cut on the X.

• Note for this recycled crafts: Do not cut anything out of the inside.

• You may cut off the tips of the triangles if the tabs are too long to fold to the inside.

• Lay the cardboard on the wallpaper in the center.

• Put glue on one flap (inside triangle).

• Fold the flap to the inside and smooth across the cardboard.

• Repeat for other 3 flaps.

• Take one outside corner of the wallpaper and fold over the corner of the cardboard.

• Glue in place.

• Crease the wallpaper flat.

• Repeat for other 3 corners.

• Apply glue to the sides of the wallpaper that is laying flat on the table.

• Take the ribbon and tie the ends together in a knot.

• Place the knot in the middle of one side (wrong side) of the        cardboard.

• Glue the ribbon along the side. It should form a circle to hang the frame.

• Fold the wallpaper onto the cardboard (over the ribbon) and press flat.

• Add clothespins to hold in place, if necessary, or lay flat and add a book for weight.

• Take a piece of white cardboard from a shirt you buy in the store (or other similar cardboard).

• Use the cardboard frame to lightly draw the inside dimension  and outside dimension of the cardboard frame onto the white cardboard.

• Cut the cardboard on the outside dimension.

• Let the child draw a picture of their family and glue to inside of   frame.

• Make sure you tell the child to draw inside the box so it will show through the frame.

• Glue the picture to the inside of the frame.

• By making the white cardboard the size of the frame, it will cover all the cutting and gluing of the wallpaper to the frame.

• Have the child autograph and date the back of the frame.