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- Becky Striepe
- August 16, 2011
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15. Give them away to a friend.
16. Donate to doctor’s offices or anywhere else that has a waiting room.
17. Cut out the images and text for collages. Collage is always a fun craft to do with kids!
18. Donate them to a school or library.
19. Save them up until the holidays get here, and create these adorable upcycled Christmas trees.
20. Cut out perfect squares, and use your old magazines to make fun pinwheels. The covers work best, or you can double up pages).
21. Use cut out images and words to make your own custom marble magnets.
22. Use them to make papier mache projects.
Have you guys gotten crafty with old magazines? I’d love to keep the reuse inspiration going in the comments!
Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by Greencolander
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9 Awesome Uses for Junk Mail
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Becky Striepe
Becky Striepe is a freelance writer and vegan crafter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her life’s mission is to make green crafting and vegan food accessible to everyone! Like this article? You can follow Becky on Twitter or find her on Facebook!
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+ add your ownI needed a small piece of wrapping paper, so I have used a page out of a magazine before.
I want to try to make the beads for a necklace or a braclet. Those looked easy, time consuming, but easy!!
thanks
Great ideas, thank you..
I wish I had the time to try my hand at all these ideas. Thanks for the inspiration, though!
Will absolutely be crafting with the many, many mags I have saved over the years. I always found them hard to get rid of them except for the collages I would make with Victorian mag pictures. Thanks for the article and many more ideas!
oh, heck the easy thing to do is put them in the recycling....think I'll just do that.
cool thanks!
Cool ideas - thanks!
I do use old magazines etc for craft work. Thanks for all the ideas.
I have every intent on doing these.
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