Recycled Christmas Crafts
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Crafts are the best way of making fabulous festive decorations. Decorating your home at Christmas is a part of the custom and assists in making the festive season a bit special. The high cost of decorations mount up in financial terms as well as the impact on the environment. One way to combat this is to make Christmas decoration from the discarded material. It means, making recycled Christmas crafts is the best idea for this Christmas. Using your imagination, it is possible for you to recycle items into festive decoration. This has the double advantages of keeping rubbish out of landfills and reducing the need to purchase new items. Several items can be recycled and then turned into beautiful Christmas decorations.
Below is given the list of recycled Christmas crafts ideas:
Christmas Chain Garlands: This is one of the best recycled Christmas crafts. Adults as well as children can have fun making Christmas garlands. These are easy to make and need less number of materials.. Garlands are made from cards and paper. So, you need to collect colored pages of magazines and brochures to make into garlands. Materials need to make this craft include
- Glue, stapler or sticky tape
- Scissors
- Leftover paper and cards of different colors
To make garlands, you only need to cut strips of paper first. These can be of any size you want. Now, you need to begin joining the strips into rings. It is done by stapling the ends together and taping with gluing. Now, you need to join two rings together with a third ring and continue the process of making a chain in the way until it reaches the preferred length.
Christmas Angel: Using your imagination, making Christmas angels is possible from soft drink bottles. Several carbonated drink bottles have a curvy shape and these become the base of this craft. Material needed to make this craft include:
- Empty and clean bottles of a suitable shape
- Old ping-pong ball or similar shaped item for head
- Waste cardstock or paper for wings
- Paint and glue or tape
- Wire for halo
In order to make this craft, you first need to paint the bottle to form the body. After this, cut a pair of wings from paper and tie up to the back of the body. These are big or small as you need. Now, paint the head. Finally, you need to create a halo from wire and fasten.
CD Christmas Tree Ornaments: This is one of the best recycled Christmas crafts. You can make Christmas tree ornaments from variety of materials. You can cut old egg boxes and paint them for making bell-shaped ornaments. Cut pieces of cardboard into shapes and decorate with pieces of fabric. Using unwanted CDs, you can even make interesting decorations. Decorations from CDs catch the light efficiently and make extraordinary decorations. Materials require making CD Christmas tree ornaments include:
- Unwanted CDs
- Glue or tape
- Fabric strips, beads, Pieces of ribbon, sequins
- Thread or yarn
In order to make this craft, you need to first glue pieces of fabric over the CDs. After this, you need to decorate with glitter and sequins. Finally, cut thread and knot this via the central hole of CD and then hang it from the Christmas tree.
