Things from recycled materials

Making bird feeders for the back yard and garden is fun and easy craft ideas

Do your bit for the environment—and your wallet—by making your own Christmas crafts from recycled materials instead of going out to buy something new. Sure, it is the season to be jolly, but it’s also the season to be frugal and mindful of all the trash we create!

Best Out Of Waste | Plastic bottle cap craft | bonsai wall hanging idea. How To Make Cool Bonsai Tree Using recycled plastic bottle cap.

I recycled some Coke plastic bottles into a fairy house lamp. Materials used: plastic bottles, tin foil, paint, hot glue and paper clay. Have fun!

DIY projects can be so expensive, but not these recycled item DIYs. Show them off to your friends so they see just how resourceful and creative you are!

Tutorial on how to recycle trash and turn them into a fairy house lamp.

A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures. He makes them by gluing CD shards to wire mesh frames shaped like different animals, and as you can see from his iridescent animal kingdom, there seems to be no limit to the types of creatures he can create.

Our homes are filled with plastic things, and this tendency has become a cause for concern for many people since it can take up to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. 5-Minute Crafts is constantly looking for new ways to reuse bottles, drinking straws, and other plastic objects and hopes that these tricks will help save some things from ending up in a landfill.