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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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Recycled crafts: juice carton pencil organiser

Submitted by on June 6, 2011 – 2:12 am2 Comments

 I am crazy about new ideas on how to reuse before recycling and as much as I often come up with some clever ideas of my own I am regularly inspired by the brilliant works I see online by other amazing crafters. Last week I have come across to a fantastic pencil organizer made out of an orange juice carton on Inhabitots. It was so unique that I could not resist making one too by following a few easy steps. The good thing about juice cartons is that they are sturdy and look good so you don’t even need to decorate them.

To make this desk organizer is very simple:

1. Wash the carton and leave to dry.

2. Cut one vertical section and lift the small flap; punch a hole in the flap and insert a string if you wish to hang it.

3. Remove the plastic cap at the top and use the large hole for glue sticks or similar

4. Punch as many holes as you wish and insert pencils.

 After making the first one I used the same principle to make a pencil tower standing upright rather than horizontally. For the second organizer I used a milk carton, but it turned out to be less strong than the juice container so I will stick to juice for the next one.

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  • mermaid says:

    Oh, I love this!!!!
    Will make one too. It`s so cool :)

  • Do you ever stop coming up with new ideas!??!?!? Love this. Love the idea of the pens having a little hole each and a great place to put scissors etc. Perfect!

    Thank you for linking up to Kids Get Crafty!!! Always a pleasure to have you stop by!

    Maggy

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