Hangers Creative Reuse
Plastic, metal and wooden hangers can all be creatively reused to make furniture, costumes and other art.
Plastic, metal and wooden hangers can all be creatively reused to make furniture, costumes and other art.
Learn about the incredible ways artists work with buttons and get ideas for creatively reusing your own buttons.
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.
When you see furniture curbside, do you wish you knew a way to bring it back to life?
If you want unlimited art supplies, one option is to do an artist residency at a landfill or transfer station.
Would you like to attract people to your town to enjoy nature and art? You could organize a recycled art sculpture trail.
You likely have a pile of broken skateboards if you love skateboarding but the good news is that many artists creatively reuse skateboards to make awesome stuff. And if you are into woodworking, get inspired to source material from the skate park.
Avoid buying more plastic and make spooky decorations from recycled materials this Halloween!
I designed a clementine box craft called a lenticular photo display using the triangular wood shapes from clementine boxes.
Global demand for disposable chopsticks has been increasing so remember to carry your own, and get ideas on creatively reusing your old disposable ones.
The Sixth International Marine Debris Conference is taking place, people are heading out on spring break, and people are figuring out that plastic straws are terrible – it’s time to make art from beach trash!
Let’s make presents for our pets from recycled materials!
A suitcase can be a cat tree and a backpack can be a giant puppet – get creative ideas to make with unwanted or broken luggage.
Did you know you can make Christmas trees from scrap wood, cardboard, plastic, metal and fabric? There are so many more choices than chopping down a tree or buying a plastic one.
Making an Advent or countdown calendars from recycled materials is a perfect project for creative reuse enthusiasts because it involves 24 little containers arranged in a beautiful way.
After natural disasters, there are piles of trash as people clean out their ruined homes and possessions. Some artists transform those discarded items into art.
Wood makes up about 6 percent of the waste stream in the United States – so get inspired to make simple projects from scrap wood.
Many Nova Scotian folk artists are doing creative reuse – from rug hooking, to wood carving and beyond.
My two hobbies – creative reuse of trash and playing taiko – actually have a lot in common. Learn how creative reuse is part of taiko.
There are better options for creative reuse of mattresses and box springs than ever before.
Wood carving artist Isaiah Fraser is my brother-in-law and we love creative reuse of wood scraps!
I love that my family was doing creative recycling in all our various corners of the globe – from recycling yarn, to wood to upholstery samples.
I helped my sister cut up two damaged rowing shells into lengths that can be made into bookshelves, lamps or art pieces for rowing enthusiasts.
Dale Hoffmeyer saves scraps of wood and glues them together into beautiful cutting boards.
Our family takes apart our broken treadmill to learn what was inside and to make it easier to recycle.