Upcycle - a Great Repurpose of Toilet and Paper Towel Tubes

After recycling light bulbs, you can enrich your Christmas decorations collection with these nice, eco-friendly cardboard tube stars.

Extra tip: There are numerous ways to decorate each star - paint it, use glitter or beads and buttons. Your imagination surely has no limits! We would appreciate you posting a picture of your work in comment section!

Upcycle cardboard tubes - make funky bracelets!

We've already shown two examples of making recycled bracelets - the one with pop tabs and the one with the plastic bottle. Here's a simple and cool solution for reusage of cardboard tubes.

Extra tip: Variations are endless. You can use all sorts of old fabrics and you can decorate the bracelet with some buttons or beads...

DIY: a simple cosmetic & art assistant

Upcycle pringles - like can and make a brush holder!

Extra tip: you can use a carboard tube as an alternative for this little project, but only for cosmetic brushes!

Upcycle a toilet paper roll and create an original gift box!

Toilet paper rolls are very popular in DIY / upcycle / recycle culture, because they have many different faces!  In this article you'll find out how can they be used as a gift box, combined with a little wrapping paper.

If you are looking for more toilet paper rolls ideas, check out this wall art and an Easter bunnies project.

Extra tip: play with different wrapping papers, ribbons & shapes and post a photo in the comment section!

A cute DIY Easter project with recycled toilet tubes

I believe you've noticed by yourself and don't need me to point it out, but - the bunny craziness has arrived! Not only has it arrived, it's been with us for quite some time.

For all of those bunny lovers and those if-you-can't-win-them-join-them-ers, here's a cute little DIY project! Upcycle your toilet rolls and make a giant Easter bunny family and perhaps share it with your family and friends!

You can find this spring tutorial at this place.

Extra tip: the more (colors) the merrier (the bunny)! Enjoy!

Cardboard tubes & wall art

Cardboard tubes (toilet paper rolls, toilet tubes) probably fill up a significant part of anybody’s trash can. There are infinite possibilities for repurposing that unsightly part of our bathroom inventory.

Here's one of them: you can flatten the tubes and cut them into smaller pieces. These can then be used as petals which you glue together to make different shapes.

Take a look at these examples:

1) a simple,  abstract shape - tutorial available at Growing up creative

2) a chubby flowery shape - by myrtle&eunice

3) square shaped decorations:

by Just me and t :

by uknown author:

4) an enriched form: petals glued to a colored paper or cardboard. Branches are optional!

By Revolutionaries blog :

5) the same technique can be used to decorate smaller surfaces such as a photo frame, as seen on spoonful.com

Extra tip: if you want to color bigger areas in one color, it would be easier to use spray paint than a brush.