Recycled Craft Supplies

On a budget? (Who's not?) Here's a list/links of common household items that can easily be turned from trash in a landfill, to artful craftings for all!

-Catalogs, newspaper and old comic books
-Clear plastic soda bottles & caps
-Paper bags: lunch size & grocery size
-Baby food,and other glass jars
-Cardboard: cereal boxes, moving boxes, etc.
-Old cookie cutters
-Sand paper scraps
-Paper cups (foam or paper)
-Styrofoam trays
-Old household linen

-Ice Cream Cartons
-Newspaper
-Milk cartons
-Large & small boxes and lids (shoe boxes)
-Wrapping paper & wallpaper scraps
-Yarn, ribbon or string scraps
-Clean sponges
-Plastic containers (margarine cups, etc.)
-Frozen juice cans & lids
-Old sheets or old pillowcases
-Throw-away paper (junk mail that one side is clean for printing)

-Yogurt lids
-Empty match boxes
-Aluminum foil scraps
-Some large glass jars & jar lids
-Corks
-Old file folders
-Old pasta-assorted
-Tissue paper boxes and gift boxes
-Felt/fabric remnant pieces

-Broken China

-Aluminum/Tin cans

-Old clothing/scarves/jeans

-Old CD's

Beautiful natural crafting supplies are just outside your back door:

-Smooth stones or pebbles
-Driftwood
-Fresh or dry leaves
-Dried grasses
-Pine cones
-Twigs

-Dried Flowers/Clover/Leaves
-Sea shells

-Interesting sticks and branches
-Nuts
-Sand
-Dried beans
-Wood shavings
-Pop corn
-Egg shells
-Dried flowers
-Bird seed and other seed
-Dried Beans, split peas

-Wild berries (also can be dried/powdered for use as pigmentation!)

If you have midgets like me, and are crafty like me, you are always looking for ways to introduce them to the joyous world of art. Here is a link to a great site for finding kidding craft projects on the cheap: Artists Helping Children

One last creata-dinky-link for all my crafters in blogland before Annie's bones snuggle up to this handsome man I call my husband: All Free Crafts