Load of old rubbish?

Do you get fed up with the mountains of packaging, some of which cannot be recycled? Here are are a few ideas for things to make with it. 

How about using a polystyrene pizza base to make, well, pizza! Here are a couple of slices of pepperoni made by my daughter.

Slice of pizza, anyone?

Cardboard boxes are always good to keep. Large ones can become cars or spaceships, smaller ones, such as cereal boxes, can be made into houses for toys or dolls, or beds for soft toys. We used some to make a robot, along with kitchen roll tubes and the end of a roll of gift wrap.

Pink robot

We used some tiny boxes to make an advent village at Christmas, complete with fake snow! It doesn't really matter what size or shape they are, as all the buildings can be different. We used white labels for the windows and doors.

Advent village

The Shredded paper and packaging chips you get with fragile items can also be used. How about shredded paper straw for your soft toy pet bed? Or in hay a farmyard picture? Packaging chips can be stuck onto paper too. The ones made from maize will stick with just water.

Our Christmas sweet wrappers came in handy making this picture. Coloured cellophane is a great collage material and kids love looking through the colours to make everything change colour. How about some blue cardboard glasses?

Sweets galore!

See what you can come up with :)

All craft activities are undertaken at your own risk, please supervise children adequately. Take particular care with small objects, heat and sharp items.