Recycled Butterfly

12 butterfly secure with pipe cleanerWhat you need to make this recycled paper craft butterfly:

  • 2 same size squares of recycled paper (brochures, calender, magazine, etc)
  • Scissors
  • Soft wire to tie the wings together and to form antenna (pipe cleaner, bread ties, etc)

Level of recycled craftiness:

  • Easy

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Recycled Bows, Beads & Bowls, Melbourne

Recycled craft is IN. Green is the new black this Christmas. Recycled is the new, new.

The Junk Wave, in partnership with the divine Miss Erica from Recycled fashion and Recycled Market in Melbourne, and Replas Environmental Centre, offers you an AMAZING opportunity to get three recycled craft tutorials for the price of one! Yep, three for one! [Read more...]

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Christmas recycled craft workshop in Cairns: angels, bows and gift boxes workshop

Live Christmas within your means and give the gift of ongoing life to your environment. Go recycled and home-made for wrappings, decorations and gifts.

Make Angels from aluminium cans, gift bows from old books and magazines and gorgeous gift boxes from milk bottles.

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Alien Skeleton from recycled milk bottles

Meet my Alien Skeleton: an excellent Halloween craft AND a very cool way to rid your rubbish bin of milk bottles.

You need:

  • 3, 1 litre plastic milk bottles (2 litre will work too, your alien will just be a different shape….like the rest of us)
  • Craft knife
  • Marking pen
  • Hot glue gun
  • String/ribbon for hanging

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Our model is simple: People, Planet and Profit. Mass action of individual home based effort through recycled craft makes a HUGE difference.