10 Clever Crafts Using Recycle Bin Items

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10 Clever Crafts Using Recycle Bin Items - Square feature photo with four photo snippets of items from the recycling bin. In one square there are magazine pages and paper, another has a gallon water jug, another with glass jars and a pop can, the fourth one has plastic bags and cardboard.

Thrifty crafts and easy DIY ideas using recycle bin items!

This blog post is a round-up of fun crafts using items that you probably have in your recycle bin right now. Items like glass jars, junk mail, wine corks, plastic jugs, and pop cans!

These trash-to-treasure crafts are perfect for teens and adults and I hope these ideas inspire you to recycle, repurpose, and reuse!

1. Pop Can Planters

Remove the tops from soda cans with a can opener and make holes in the bottom with a bottle opener to make these fun planters. I was surprised that the edges were not sharp when I removed the tops from these cans and they made beautiful planters on my porch.

Coke and Pepsi soda cans turned planters and placed in a wood holder with sparklers in front.

2. Glass Jar Candle Holders

Add a little sparkle to a glass jar with Dollar Store glass gems. These beautiful candle holders make great gifts for family and friends or make a bunch for wedding or shower favors! Get all the details on this easy recycle craft here –> Glass Gem Votive Candle Holders.

Square closeup of a finished DIY Glass Gem Votive

3. Glass Pumpkin Jar

Cut the top of a foam dollar store pumpkin and glue it to a jar lid to create a fun autumn treat jar! This easy DIY is one of fifteen. Check out the full post here –> 15 Fall Tiered Tray Decor Ideas – Easy DIYs.

Pumpkin candy jar on tiered tray filled with candy corn and caramels.

4. Jar Lid & Wine Cork Planters

Hot glue wine corks to the inside of a lid to make these cute succulent planters. For more thrifty wine cork crafts check out this post –> 12 Easy Must-Try Wine Cork Crafts.

Photo of three succulent planters made from wine corks lining a mason jar lid. A different mini live succulents planted in each on a dark wood table with light streaming in from a window on the left side.

5. Recycled Paper Beads

Turn old magazine pages into pretty paper beads! Get all the details on this easy DIY here –> Make Sparkly Paper Beads From Old Magazine Pages.

Horizontal feature photo of a finished bracelet made with handmade paper beads.

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Feeling Berry Good

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6. Plastic Jug Ghosts

Turn gallon water or milk jugs into plastic ghost decorations for Halloween. Just trace a ghost shape onto your jug with a marker, cut them out with scissors, and hang them up! I added them to a wreath, check out that DIY here–> DIY Spooky Mansion Wreath.

Draw a ghost shape onto a plastic jug. The opaque color of a milk jug is perfect for making Halloween ghost to hang up or use them to make a spooky Mansion Wreath as I did with a hoola hoop and other items from around the house.

7. Plastic Jug Santa Gnome

Or make a cute gnome using a plastic jug as your base. This is an easy 10-minute DIY. Get all the details on this project here –> 10-Minute Santa Doorstop Gnome made with a Plastic Jug.

Square feature photo of a finished Santa Gnome used as a door stop.

8. Paper Seed Cards

Recycle matte paper envelopes and junk mail into wildflower seed cards. These make beautiful gifts. Get more information on this project here and the free envelope template here –> DIY Seed Paper Favors – Free Customizable Envelope.

Photo of handmade seed paper in a finished envelope with a heart shaped cutout that says Let Love Bloom. Customized and free to download and print. Green grass and a pink wildflower in the background.

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5 vintage cameras graphic printed large and framed in a thin black metal frame on a white background. This retro one color graphic is red with a swan graphic and large reverberating heart design in red. The bottom of the graphic says '2 Tickets' in vintage style type. The framed image is large, 16"x20" on a cherry red industrial metal table with a glass next to it with paint brushes and a to the other side is a brown leather bound journal.

Cute Flying Pig

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9. Recycled Plastic Bag Friendship Bracelets

Turn those colorful plastic grocery bags into friendship bracelets! More on how to make them here –> Recycled Plastic Bag Friendship Bracelets.

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10. Cardboard Box Car Wash

Make a fun cardboard box car wash with your kids (or grandchildren)! Get the details on how to make one here –> Cardboard Box Car Wash.

Square feature image of a colorful cardboard car wash to make with kids.

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