The famous egg cartons and boxes can be very well reused in a sophisticated and creative way to create a new useful and decorative item. Discover in these few lines the many ideas for recycling egg cartons.
Don’t throw away the egg cartons, recycle them like this: you won’t believe your eyes!
Everyone has egg cartons at home. In fact, this food is one of the most consumed foods and that is why you probably have a stack of egg cartons lying around at home.
To carry out egg carton recycling , follow the following steps carefully:
- Disassemble each compartment of the box.
- Place in a container and pour boiling water into it;
- Once the cardboard is soft, place it in the blender and blend.
- Then filter with a sieve to remove excess water and squeeze well.
- Put it back in the container and add some glue before mixing it with a spoon.
- Add three tablespoons lemon juice and oil;
- Mix and add cornstarch until a homogeneous paste is obtained;
- Let stand in a bag for one hour;
- Gather a map and some twigs;
- Cut out the branches and hot glue them to the piece of cardboard.
- Cut out and draw oval figures;
- Cut and glue;
- Cover all pieces with aluminum foil and form a rectangle using the same procedure;
- Paint the branch with brown acrylic paint;
- Paint the oval parts with gray paint.
- Make cute owls by gluing eyes, beaks and legs on them.
- Connect the rectangles to the branch so the owls stick to the branch.
- Finally, stick a few orange paws on the branch and decorate them with cardboard flowers.