DIY Trash-to-Treasure Crafts Department
Reuse! Repurpose! Recycle! Upcycle Ideas!
Here it’s all about eco-friendly, recycled, upcycled, repurposed DIY crafts. It’s good for the environment and at the same time, puts some green back into your wallet.
As a thrifty crafter, one of my favorite, quickest and easiest source of free craft materials suitable for kids crafts as well as adult-oriented projects happens to be right at my fingertips.
Let our Trash to Treasure Craft department show you how to upcycle stuff around the house or heading for the garbage bin and turn them in fantastic crafts – turning trash into treasure. The Trash-to-Treasure Crafts departments motto is to Reuse! Repurpose! Recycle! Upcycle! Give it a try and take a look around.
Recent Videos and Tutorials
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A unique photo frame craft for kids to make for Dad or Grandpa on Father's Day, Christmas or birthday. A Father's Day Frame made with nuts and bolts.
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Labeling Plants is Important! Learn how to make your own plant labels for seed starting of herbs and veggies by recycling milk jugs.
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This DIY Chapstick Holder (Lip Balm Holder) pattern is super cute, super easy and super quick to make.
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This cute holiday wreath is a great way to recycle old Christmas cards.
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Learn how to replace stretched elastic waistband in a garment. This easy elastic waistband repair is done without removing the old stretched out elastic.
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Newspaper is superior to using landscape fabric to prevent weeds in your flower beds and garden. Learn how we use it!
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Learn to make a zipper pouch out of a snack wrapper with this free tutorial. Any cookie, candy, chips, wrappers can be used to make recycled zipper pouches.
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This page and video tutorial will show a completed string quilt and give ideas and tips for making your own. A scrap busting quilt.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Marta DeckerRecycle books into beautiful folded sculptures. This book gives an overview of the art of book folding and includes a detailed instruction chapter that will teach you how to recycle books into folded book sculptures.
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Discover the secret behind glorious gardens! Perennial, meadow, butterfly, herb ? gardens of all kinds. Beautiful color photos, easy-to-follow planting diagrams, helpful how-to gorgeous results!
New Stuff
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Take your old photo Christmas Cards and make them into a photo album.
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Close 2 My Art
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Make small notepads from your old Christmas cards.
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Hope Inc.
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Dress up your gift cards with a gift card holder made from recycled greeting cards.
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Organized 31
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Make a fun Advent Calendar from recycled greeting cards and countdown to Christmas!
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Crafty Nest
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Reuse those old Christmas Cards into festive placemats
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Adventures of Mel
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Fun ideas...
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Wisebread.com
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Use your old Christmas Cards to decorate canning gifts.
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Scrap Reused and Recycled Art Projects
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Make these party crackers from recycled cards for your New Years celebration!
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Ruffles & Rain Boots
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Repurpose your old Christmas cards into ornaments.
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Lil Blue Boo
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Kids will have fun making bookmarks from old Christmas cards.
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Hands on as We Grow