
Social Distancing: 20 Creative Reuse Activities to Do at Home
If you are staying close to home due to social distancing, you can do these creative reuse activities with items that you likely already have at home so you don’t need to go to the store.
You can listen to my original podcast episode about this from March 2020 in this YouTube video:

Activity #1 – Plastic Milk Jug Suncatchers
- How to make plastic milk jug butterflies (or other shapes)
- Trashmagination Episode 1 about creative reuse of plastic milk jugs
- Trashmagination’s igloo made from plastic milk jugs (the Jugloo)

Activity #2: Wall Hooks from Trophies
- Episode 4 about creative reuse of trophies
- Design Sponge blog showing how to make the wall hooks from trophies

Activity #3: Wine Cork Mat

Activity #4: Sock Doughnuts

Activity #5: Sit-Upon from Flexible Food Packaging

Activity #6: Nail-and-String Art

Activity #7: Secret Messages with White Crayons and Homemade Watercolor Paint

Activity #8: Taking Apart Broken Appliances
- Episode 24 of Trashmagination about organizing take-apart events
- How my family disassembled our broken treadmill

Activity #9: Dollhouse Furniture from Recycled Materials

Activity #10: Monsters from Recycled Materials

Activity #11: Pet Toys from Toilet Paper Rolls

Activity #12: Personal Hygiene with Recycled T-Shirts
- Episode 41 of Trashmagination about creative reuse of t-shirts
- Tapestry weaving with t-shirt yarn
- Rug hooking with t-shirt yarn

Activity #13: Miniature Paintings on Dried Tea Bags

Activity #14: Shrinky Dink Art from Clamshell Packaging

Activity #15: Educational Games with Plastic Bread Tags

Activity #16: Lenticular Photo Display from Recycled Wooden Clementine Boxes

Activity #17: Fidget Quilts or Crocheted Plastic Mats

Activity #18: Orange Peel Roses and Banana Peel Bacon

Activity #19: Painting with Expired Cosmetics

Activity #20: Defunct Tennis Ball Games or Cross-Stitch Tennis Racket

Activity #21: Egg Shell Sidewalk Chalk
Oops! I thought I put in 20 activities in this podcast episode but I actually put in 22! I got the numbering system messed up in my document. So here are your bonus activities.

Activity #22: Tissue Paper Crafts
