Start collecting those egg cartons, bathroom tissue rolls, paper grocery bags, plus lots more! Most of all, put your imagination to work. It's amazing what interesting creations you can come up with when you use a pile of egg cartons and simple art supplies. It can keep you busy for hours! These books will give you plenty of inspiration to start crafting green.
1. Eco Crafts: Recycle Recraft Restyle
This book contains 30 beautiful home decor projects that can help you recycle household items you may throw away. Every project features at least one beauty shot in a modern home setting, easy-to-follow instructions, and step-by-step color photos, while handy icons spotlight the key techniques, materials, and the estimated time to complete each project.
2. Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items
I have always loved Kathy Ross' books and this one is no different. This book shows you how to make crafts out of old playing cards, marker caps, toy cars, neckties, hairbrushes, and more.
3. Craftcycle: 100+ Earth-Friendly Projects and Ideas for Everyday Living
In this book you will find a mix of over 100 ideas for crafts, recipes, sustainable living ideas and construction projects. They are all organized by season to offer year-round green living.
4. Rubbish!: Reuse Your Refuse
This fun, easy-to-follow craft guide shows you how to create several fun, earth-friendly projects. You can make jewelry out of credit cards, clocks out of board games, unique frames, and so much more.
5. Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts
Each project in this book uses one or more items that would ordinarily end up in a landfill. Whether you want to reinvent a lamp, create artwork from household discards, organize your photos, or get more mileage out of an old sweater, you ll find ideas and inspiration in these pages.
6. Clever Crafting With Flea Market Finds
Inexpensive "treasures" can be transformed into unique accents for the home with this collection of easy decorating ideas! Clever Crafting With Flea Market Finds is the latest edition in the Clever Crafter series, which features fun and thrifty ideas for the home. The reader will enjoy over 75 exciting new projects that make the most of items found at flea market and garage sales.
7. Creating by Recycling
This book includes such projects as juggling balls, a "FotoFish" picture frame, and a "letter-perfect pencil holder."
8. Earth-Friendly Crafts for Kids
From easy toys and great gifts to wonderful things to decorate a room, these 50 projects give children a terrific way to recycle and feel creative at the same time. Everything is arranged in order of material—plastic, metal, paper, fabric, glass, and miscellaneous goods.
