Plastic Toys Creative Reuse
Get ideas for ways you can divert plastic toys from landfill – either to more children, to artists or to be made into plastic furniture.
Get ideas for ways you can divert plastic toys from landfill – either to more children, to artists or to be made into plastic furniture.
Making toys from trash. Building homes from trash. Weaving art from trash. Next-level creative reuse in Egypt and Japan. These are the topics of my five favorite TED Talks about creative reuse.
What can you make with jeans that are out-of-style, ripped beyond repair or painted, or with the leftovers when you make a quilt from jeans?
Did you make dollhouse furniture when you were small? Maybe a sleeping bag from a sock? Check out the world of modern dollhouse accessorizing!
What can you do once your children outgrow their stuffed toys other than throw them in the trash?
My daughter designs a version of paper dolls with fabric scraps.
My first Trashmagination instructional video – how to make people from plastic caps!
I handmade some cute cat toys based on the popular cartoon, Pusheen, for my kids for Christmas.
My son and his best friend design a whole world of creative characters.
One of my childhood toys was made from trash.
This recycled plastic hockey star will be the craft at my daughter’s 10th birthday party – which has an ice hockey theme.
The back pockets of my husband’s old jeans become a new home for my daughter’s stuffed toys
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.