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Crafts From Milk Cartons

For craft ideas try stretching your mind by looking at what you normally throw away and thinking how could I use this? For instance - a cardboard milk carton can be made into a:

  1. Puppet
  2. Decorated box
  3. Gift box for popcorn
  4. Scented birdhouse
  5. Birdfeeder
  6. Fire log - to burn

Puppet - is 10cm high but you will have to cut at 17cm so that you can fold over the top and glue it. Glue a 10cm strip of paper round the front and sides and cut through the carton at 2 and a half cm front and sides for the mouth. Colour the paper, stick on eyes and a small bottle cap for a nose, put three holes in the back for your thumb and two fingers to operate the mouth, and sheepskin or something for the hair.

Popcorn Gift Box - Cover with gift-wrap, fill with popcorn, slit top with a snap off blade knife, push ribbon through and tie in a bow.

Birdhouse - 10cm high at centre, 7cm high at walls but need to be cut another 6 cm higher for roof. Roof top is 12cm by 9cm. Cut a few windows with snap off blade knife, paint it and push a twig in below the front entrance for the bird perch, buy or make a bird. The fence has no posts, just sticks hot glued one above the other. Insert Potpourri for nice smell.

Birdfeeder - Cut out a section of the side at the bottom. Glue on a plastic plate, fill with bird food, push hole into the top join, and suspend from a tree.

Fire log - Fill with envelopes, bills, tissues, etc. Good for fire lighting.

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