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Craft Green by Making these Trash to Treasure Crafts
Learn how you can creatively recycle baby food jars, paper bags, orphaned socks, and several other items. Enjoy this ever-growing list of great ideas for using the things you might normally throw away to create great craft projects, games, and more.

Craft Projects Using Wearables
Here are some fun ways you can recycle old items you can't or won't wear anymore. Transforming them into crafts is a perfect way to reuse outgrown clothing or orphaned gloves and socks.

Craft Projects Using Styrofoam Products
Styrofoam is another of those items that should not be thrown out with the regular trash. In some places you can send them out with the recyclables, but other places do not have that option. Instead of throwing these items away, why not turn them into fun and sometimes useful crafts.

Craft Projects Using Reading Material
Whether you purchase the reading material, such as newspaper and magazines, or you receive them unsolicited in the mail, such as catalogs and flyers, you should start saving them for use in a variety of projects.

Craft Projects Using Puzzle and Game Pieces
Whenever you come across an orphaned puzzle or game piece, set it aside because they can make fun embellishment items or even the base of some unique craft projects.

Craft Projects Using Light Bulbs
A trash can is not a good place for burned out light bulbs so why not incorporate them into your crafts?

Craft Projects Using Lids and Caps
Bottle caps, jar lids, frozen-juice can covers, and plastic tub lids can all be used to make crafts. You can make everything from simple matching games to fancy jewelry and useful refrigerator magnets.

Craft Projects Using Laundry Room Finds
Here are some inspiring ideas for using the little plastic scoops that come along with powdered laundry soap.

Craft Projects Using Kitchen Items and Tableware
There are many ways you can recycle old paper, plastic, styrofoam, and other tableware along with a few other kitchen items. Check tou my ideas and I bet you can think of several of your own.

Craft Projects Using Jars and Bottles
While you will want to be careful while working with glass jars, you will enjoy the variety of projects you can make. You can also recycle plastic containers using creative techniques.

Craft Projects Using Greeting Cards
Who can stand to toss out beautiful greeting cards after an occasion has passed? Not me! Instead, you can transform them using craft techniques and your imagination.

Craft Projects Using Film Containers and Pill Bottles
As the popularity of digital cameras is growing, most people's stock-pile of empty film containers is shrinking; however, you can usually substitute prescription pill bottles for use in crafts in place of film containers.

Craft Projects Using Compact Disks and Cases
Some of us have large collections of these crafting gems, although they don't seem to send as many in the mail as they used to - at least to some of us! Don't throw them away, save the CDs and the cases they come in and you can make some beautiful crafts.[

Craft Projects Using Cardboard Tubes
While you might think this listing should be included in the cardboard listing because, well, they are cardboard, the popularity of crafting with empty toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, and even wrapping paper rolls is so popular I thought it deserved it's own listing!

Craft Projects Using Cardboard and Boxes
I think boxes have been a craft staple since they were invented - the creative possibilities for re-using shoe boxes and large, corrugated boxes are almost endless. Cardboard pieces cut from either thin, household boxes or corrugated boxes can also be very useful in your crafts.

Craft Projects Using Cans
Cans are not only available in a variety of shapes and sizes, but also in a variety of materials. You can craft using sturdy tin cans, flexible aluminum cans, and also round cardboard cans like those that hold juice, oatmeal, and even potato chips.[

Craft Projects Using Bags
There are some wonderful crafts you can make using unwanted paper or plastic bags. All shapes and sizes of bags can be used. Of course, you can always recycle them the traditional way, but why not get creative!?