Monday 2 September 2013

Recycling Drinks Cans into Flowers!




My daughter had several projects to complete in the school holidays - one of which was to make something out of recycled objects.

Her first thought was to use drinks cans( we have plenty of those to recycle!) and make a windmill. But after checking it out on Google, they seemed quite difficult to make, so we tried flowers instead!

We cut out different sizes of blooms with the spellbinder blossom set and decorated some of the layers with glitter glue and smooch paints.

Then we fasten them together with a brad and sellotaped the flower to some old knitting needles.
Leaves were cut out of green cardboard.

The vase was made out of an empty bottle of Aspalls cyder ( my favourite) with the label covered with a piece of recycled envelope and finished off with an old cerise ribbon 

15 comments:

  1. ooo how very clever ... looks like your daughter had a great time with these ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  2. Brilliant re-cycling Dawn. I have a pile of cans waiting to be used but I never seem to get round to it.
    Anne x

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  3. fab idea,great for your daughters project.
    sue xx

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  4. These look great, do you not get sharp edges when recycling cans?.
    Thanks for the visit too. xxx

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  5. hi have already commented on your daughters lovely projects but just wanted to say thank you for popping by my blog ... have a great weekend ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  6. Great recycling, makes very effective flowers, bet your daughter enjoyed this

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  7. great recycling the flowers look lovely
    Carol x

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  8. Great flowers, haven't tried this technique yet.

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  9. Great idea, do like the affect

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  10. What a lovely project to do together, I'm sure you had great fun and achieved a lovely result. Bet she was very proud to take it to school. Happy Hopping!

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  11. Well what a lovely vase of flowers they have turned it, who would have thought that all the recycled items would look so pretty x

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  12. A really clever project.
    Heike xx

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