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Green Christmas Craft Ideas - Recycle Your Old Christmas Cards
If you are wondering what to do with the tons of Christmas cards you receive every year
, here are some cool Christmas craft ideas you can consider.These craft ideas are great family activity and you can save money and save the earth when you use recycled Christmas cards.
1) Cute Card Crackers
Surprise your kids with these cool card crackers. All you need to do is make a tube out of the card and fill them with confetti, little gifts, chocolates, candy and tie both ends with bright ribbons leaving a little bit of the tube sticking out.
You can even jazz up the cracker by adding glitter and wrapping it in strips of aluminium foil. You can add these crackers in your Christmas gift with a special message inside. Your friends and family will adore pulling the two ends of their crackers to get their special messages or mini-gifts.
2) Christmas Recipe Cards
Christmas season is the best time to share your best Christmas recipes. What is the better way then using these recycled cards to write your recipes on and distribute them to your families and friends? Use cards that are blank on the inside front and fill them up with your most beloved holiday recipes. Add them to any package, letter or present for a special, thoughtful touch.
3) Christmas Mobile
Why not make a cheerful mobile out of all your cards? All you need to make a mobile is a little string or a strong piece of wire. Cut out shapes in the cards like hearts or circles or squares. If your are feeling ambitious cut out trees or Santa's or reindeers out of each card and glue the front and back together. You can laminate them for a professional look or use them just as they are. Punch holes in your shapes and string them or balance them out on the wire in any shape you like. That's it! You have a beautiful Christmas mobile or string decoration you can add to ever year with more cards. It makes a very festive and unique decoration.
4) Crazy Christmas Puzzles
If your family enjoy puzzles, recycled Christmas cards can be made into great puzzles! What you need to do is get together several Christmas cards that feature similar pictures or similar themes. Basically you want to choose cards that have a very similar look and feel to make your puzzles difficult.
You can cut up these cards into long strips just as they are or use craft sticks as a base. If you are going the latter route you can lay out a number of craft sticks and stick your card on top. Cut them up along the lines of the craft sticks and mix up all the sticks together. These make fun exciting puzzles that your family will enjoy putting together. You can put these puzzles in a little tin as a gift too!
5) Christmas Stacking Cards
Cut up all the Christmas cards so that they are uniformly of the same size and shape. Use them as stacking cards to build all kinds of structures like houses or skyscrapers. Alternatively you can stick them on the back of playing cards to make your very own Christmas playing cards set.
These are just a few ways you can use recycled Christmas cards. These cards are so versatile that you can basically make them into anything you want, such as ornaments, coaster, place mats etc. All you need is a little imagination.
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