Recycled Art

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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This video might give the artistic amongst us the inspiration to get creative with the contents of their trash can. The video is a walk through of a recycled art exhibit from Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. I’m not lucky enough to live in an area where there is an art gallery, let alone [...]

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I stumbled upon this video totally by accident. Pierre Lota is amazing, I have got to try some of these for my home. Best of all there made mainly from recycled materials. The art is so classy and unique, very modern and tasteful, I love it!

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A fashion student from Leicester College won the Sustainable Design Award 2011 with her crisp packet dress. It took student Rebekah Kirkland, two months, using hundreds of empty crisp packets to make her fantastic creation. She said “it was a tedious job but well worth the effort”, every crisp packet was washed before being machine [...]

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