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5 Top Eco-friendly Crafts of 2011
Posted by: | CommentsWelcome back for part 5 of our 5 part ‘best of 2011’ series which includes our most popular eco-friendly crafts accumulated from our Planet Forward blog readers. To recap, our ‘best of 2011’ series has included our 3 most popular Meatless Monday vegetarian recipes; the 3 top corporate social responsibility initiatives; our 3 most popular green posts and our 3 top green news weekly blogs. Eco-friendly crafts encourage creativity and individual flair and can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. We often call it Green MacGyver eco-friendly crafts because (those who remember) MacGyver always turned ordinary into extraordinary with a little craftiness.
Here are the top 5 eco-friendly crafts of 2011:
Reindeer Antlers Eco-friendly Craft Image Credit: kidspot.com.au
In 1st place was the recent holiday-themed ‘How to make Reindeer Antlers, an eco-friendly craft for kids’. This was a popular eco-friendly craft leading right up until Christmas last week as families enjoyed making cute antlers for the kids in anticipation of Santa’s arrival. This wonderful reindeer antler craft helps families celebrate the spirit of the season and credit goes to Belinda Graham over at kidspot.com.au.
Our 2nd place ‘eco-friendly craft for binder clip picture frames’ was popular because it’s simple to construct. You’d be surprised how easy it is to make a picture frame using a binder clip. In fact, all you need is a simple binder clip, scissors and glue, some leftover wrapping paper, magazine cut-outs or other decoration and suddenly you can create a perfect picture frame that can hold a variety of photo sizes. Heck they can double as a note holder or place card holder if you want to decorate them for a specific event.
3rd place was our ‘Green MacGyver Eco-friendly Crafts – Vinyl Record Album Bowl, Planter and Wall Art’. This one is for the adults to enjoy. Do you have any old vinyl albums kicking around the house that have no value to them (sentimental or otherwise)? This vinyl album project puts those records to good use and can also make cool gifts for the music lovers in your life. Plus, it’s multi-function. It can be used as a bowl, planter or simply a wall art tribute.
4th place was ‘Chinese New Year Lanterns – an Eco-friendly Craft for Kids’. The lantern festival is one of the most prominent parts of Chinese New Year festivities as it officially marks the end of New Year celebrations. The lanterns in this craft are pretty easy to make and the kids can really get creative with decorating them. This craft was courtesy of the folks at kaboose.com.
And finally 5th place goes to ‘Green MacGyver Eco-friendly Crafts – Recycled Gift Tags and Place Cards’. Another holiday-themed craft this time focusing on reusing the holiday cards you received and recycling them into gift tags or place cards. This craft is super-easy too. All you need is holiday cards, scissors and a hole punch and you’re almost done.
And that concludes part 5 of our ‘best of 2011’ eco-friendly crafts. We hope you enjoyed our ‘best of 2011’ series this week. Happy New Year!
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Green MacGyver Eco-friendly Crafts – Recycled Gift Tags and Place Cards
Posted by: | CommentsHave you noticed holiday cards have gotten a lot fancier lately? They are foil lined envelopes, hand crafted cards and even musical cards that sing a complete Christmas carol. So, now that the holidays are over what do you do with these high quality cards? Should you just pack them away into a shoebox? Nope, that will just guarantee that you will be on a future episode of Hoarders. Throwing them away is wrong and wasteful. What does that leave you with?
With eco-friendly crafts, you can repurpose those cards into gift tags for next year or seating cards for Christmas dinner parties. These eco-friendly crafts are fun and practical as everyone needs gift tags to reuse holiday bags or attach to wrapped presents. It is nice to put a great tag on a gift that is wrapped with newspaper as the tag makes it more appropriate for the holidays.
How to make Gift Tags
Materials:
- Scissors
- Single hole punch
- Holiday cards
Instructions:
- Check to make sure nothing is written on the inside cover of the card before you start as you are not using the part of the card that was written on. That part can be recycled.
- Cut the cover off of the card.
- There are a few different ways to make tags: if there is large image card like an ornament or tree you can simply cut it out, and then with a hole punch make a hole where the ribbon will go. Also, if there are a number of large to medium size images you like Santa, a rocking hoarse and a tree you could cut out each image. This is a very chic looking tag as they are an interesting shape and size. You will use a ribbon to fasten it to the bag or to tie it to a wrapped gift. You simply write your to and from message on the under side.
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