Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
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To make this chicken door stop I used the template kindly offered by Bake and Sew. I adjusted the sizes in mine to make it a little larger by adding 4 cm on each …

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Monday crafts: magazine geometrical coasters

Submitted by on January 31, 2011 – 5:00 am5 Comments

This weekend we played with geometrical shapes, which inspired today’s craft. As we pride ourselves for being keen upcyclers we made something out of what would normally hit the recycle bin. Recently I got really creative with newspaper and magazine pages, they are a great source for making anything you wish and all you need is lots of them and vinyl glue. We made a set of geometrical shaped coasters: a square, a triangle and a circle for now. For best results it is a good idea to use a mix of pages with different colours and alternate them with white pages.

1. Cut the pages of the same size and start folding into strips making sure the width is the same

2. To start building the coaster use a smaller strip and shape it into a circle, triangle or square according to the shape you wish to build

3. Glue the strips one by one building the shape with your hands

4. Once you achieve the intended size paint the whole thing with a generous amount of vinyl glue to seal it and make it solid

Happily shared with Kids Get Crafty and the Play Academy.

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