Weaving a Spiral Rug from Recycled Plastic Bags
Send me your colorful plastic bags!
Send me your colorful plastic bags!
My first Trashmagination instructional video – how to make people from plastic caps!
I made a kit that teachers would use to get their class to adopt a tree for the school year.
Kids at a local science camp helped improve the TrashAnatomy shark model.
A Kenyan company named Ocean Sole sculpts animals from recycled flip flops at the Smithsonian folk life festival.
Check out the first TrashAnatomy model – an anatomy teaching model made entirely from trash.
One of my childhood toys was made from trash.
Carving into scraps of plastic wood, I made a cool crayon rubbing activity for an upcoming wildlife event.
Trashmagination had a booth at the first Maker Faire in northern Virginia – and we had a GREAT time making plastic cap-erpillars and milk jug butterfly suncatchers with 3000+ people!
I’m getting excited about the Maker Faire this Sunday!
Clean out your plastic milk jugs and send them my way!
She makes the most amazing Trashmagination art, especially with plastic caps.
Keen & kind Makers at the Columbus Maker Faire inspired me and my family.
For my Halloween costume, I made a globe from plastic caps and carried it like Atlas, the Greek Titan.
3 of my favorite Trashmagination-inspired artists from Art on the Avenue in Alexandria
This recycled plastic hockey star will be the craft at my daughter’s 10th birthday party – which has an ice hockey theme.
Our family takes apart our broken treadmill to learn what was inside and to make it easier to recycle.
Plastic applesauce snack containers and old kids socks make a fun recycled craft for summer camp.
See what happens when people work together to tell important stories.
How to sort through your Pinterest boards to make the best recycled crafts
For our plastic animal toys, we wanted them to be strong, so we made them a spinal cord instead of using glue.
I made a giant Pacific octopus kit for my nephew’s birthday – all from recycled plastic caps.
Plastic caps can be a great material for recycled crafts.