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Upcycle Projects
Infuse creativity into your home with these fun upcycle projects.
Wind Chime
What you need:
• fishing line
• empty essential oil bottles
• beads
• hot glue
• twine
Directions:
1. Wrap twine around both ends of a stick to use as
your hanger.
2. Assemble the items you want on your
wind chime.
Note: We chose to use empty essential oil bottles
and beads that were lying around.
3. Using fishing line, hang the objects from
the stick.
Tip: Make sure your objects are made from glass or
metal so they will make sound in the wind.
4. Use your imagination!
Flower Pot
Pot
What you need:
• empty supplement bottle
• twine
Directions:
1. Spray paint your supplement bottle.
Note: Get creative; it doesn’t have to be plain white.
Paint a design or write some words.
2. Wrap twine around the top of the bottle.
Note: The twine will hide the fact that it’s a
supplement bottle.
Flowers
What you need:
• paper
• scissors
• glue stick
Directions:
1. Draw a 6 mm line down your paper and cut. This
will be the centre of your flower.
2. From another colour, draw a 25 mm line down
your paper and cut.
3. Take the 25 mm strip and cut 18 mm lines down
the length of the strip, making it resemble fringe.
4. Glue the two strips together, overlapping by
about 12 mm.
5. Place glue all the way down the two strips that
are now glued together and roll.
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6. Once dry, push your thumb down to the centre, spread-
ing the fringe to look like a flower.
Note: You can cut more strips of paper to use as stems
and leaves.
Beehive
What you need:
• empty supplement bottle
• 1.5 m of rope or twine
• hot glue
Directions:
1. Take your supplement bottle and drill a 25 mm hole,
25 mm from the bottom of the bottle.
Note: This step is optional.
2. Glue a loop of rope at the top in the centre of
your bottle.
Tip: Keep the cap on your supplement bottle.
3. Take your rope and start wrapping it around the loop
and down, cutting around the hole.
4. Once your first layer is done, start wrapping again
about 50 mm below your starting point.
5. Once you finish your second layer, start another layer
25 mm below your second layer.
6. Repeat step 5 for your other layers until you get your
desired look.
7. Take a 50-75 mm strip of rope, depending on how big
you want your hole, and glue the ends together to
make a circle. Then glue it around the hole.
Bunny
What you need:
• spray paint
• cotton ball
• 21 empty essential oil bottles
• painters tape
• hot glue
Directions:
Tip: Arrange your bottles how you would like your
bunny to look before spray painting.
1. Wrap the essential oil bottles with tape, allowing
only the bottom to show, and spray paint.
2. Arrange the bottles in rows and hot glue them
together. Stack the rows on top of each other, hot
gluing them as you go.
3. Take a cotton ball and glue it on to resemble a tail.