Recycled Art

Recycle an old woolly hat into a cute new bear hat.  there really quick and easy to make and they look so cute on. A great recycled art project for the winter season and is suitable for all ages. Bear hats are all the rage at the moment in the UK for winter. I haven’t [...]

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A really simple and useful recycled art project from a toilet roll tube. A simple pen holder to keep your pens safe on a fridge door. I don’t use post-it notes to remind me of things I need to do on my fridge, I use a white board pen it saves on paper and is [...]

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These amazing sheep are the work of artist Jean-Luc Cornec. My mum use to have one of those old phones, they would take ages to dial a number, each number was painfully slow at returning back to the start position before attempting the next number to dial. I’m just glad we never needed the emergency [...]

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I found these two videos on youtube on how to make either a paper tube vase or a paper tube box to put your knickknacks in. There made by using old magazines which most people have in their homes and old empty containers like ice cream tubs, shoe boxes or sweet tins. Fast and simple [...]

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Kulja Kugler from Berlin has created a bass playing robot from junk his recycled art project is the first of a whole band he is hoping to make his next two junk band members will be a keyboard player and a drummer he’s hoping the other recycled art robots won’t take as long to as [...]

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Artist David Kemp designed and made these wonderful dog sculptures from old boots and they can be seen at Redruth in Cornwall there called The Tinners Hounds. I have a pair of old wellies that sadly have holes in them and I stumbled upon David Kemp’s welly dogs while looking for a recycled art project [...]

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I love walking along the beach and trying to find a natural stone with an hole all the way through to make a necklace. There so simple to make all you need is a stone and a shoelace. Each necklace is unique, no one else in the world will have one like it and to [...]

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Some great wind sculptures made by a school from recycled plastic bottles

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Awesome Use for recycling odd bits of wood. Anyone could do this recycled art project, easy enough for kids to do. All you would need is some bits of wood, paint, wood glue and a hook for hanging your recycled wood funny face on your wall. Cool

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Here is a simple Recycling project anyone can do it requires no artistic ability only bravery. Some years ago I took up using empty glass jars to serve my kids soda in. Kids are renown for breaking glass cups the cost to replace them gets ridiculous after a while, I brought some apple sauce and [...]

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