Recycled Art: Candy Wrappers and Egg Carton
Candy wrappers often become litter and are otherwise garbage to be discarded, but there are ways to even use these overlooked scraps to create fun recycled crafts:
Candy Wrapper Crafts features tips on making candy wrapper purses (via Art for Housewives) and so does The Purse Project
Shelly Hedges sews dresses out of empty sugar packets and Mary Jane candy wrappers. Read Eye Candy for more info
Since 2002, Ruby Re-Usable has been reusing the candy wrappers saved by her sons from bar mitzvahs, Hanukkah, Halloween, and any other time when candy happens. More HERE
Egg cartons are now recyclable in some communities; Ruby saves her cartons for Marita, who raises chickens and gives her extra eggs to friends. Some clever crafters have found new uses for egg cartons, like a recycled sewing kit on Recycled Craft Gossip and a tutorial on how to make an egg carton sewing basket via Whip Up
Enno de Kroon uses egg cartons as his canvas and calls it eggcubism. Egg carton arts and crafts for kids HERE
check it out, a prom dress made from Skittles candy wrappers on Craftster
Enno de Kroon’s eggcubist paintings are quite attractive.
Enno’s room sized eggcubist installation is what impresses me, the more I look at it, the more I enjoy it!
The candy wrapper people are great and I love the dress.
wonderfully creative examples of re-use!
glad that you all are enjoying these posts about the remarkable Re-artists that are out there, hope to continue to inspire everyone, thanks for checking us out!