I’m on this kick right now. It’s all new to me, but very exciting!
Turning unused items into something useful is fun and rewarding. We do this all the time, but never really considered it art. For example, my husband took unused wooden pallets and made beautiful barn doors for our barn. We take empty milk jugs and use them for water jugs. We use old clay pots for pencil holders. And I love cutting up old denim and using it for new creations such as gift bags, sand bags, and purses. But there is so much more you can do with old things. The old adage, “One’s junk is another’s treasure,” takes on a whole new meaning for me!
I picked up Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts ( Leisure Arts #4802)
But don’t feel like you have to limit yourself to a book. See what ideas you can come up with. I love to use books as my jumping board. It fills me with ideas and then I take what I have on hand and create my own art. My girls like to make homemade paper from construction paper scraps. And if you think about it, using leftovers creatively is recycled art too! I am anxious to hear your ideas too!
These two shots are two different barn doors my hubby has built. I just love them!
I don’t know if it was in your book or not, but if you have a garden you can bury a 2 liter bottle upside down about a third of the way in the ground next to your plants after cutting the bottom of it off and use it to hold water which leaks into the ground slowly instead of washing the dirt around the plant away with a hose or too much water pressure.
Milk jugs work for this too.