12 March

We recycle at our house and I'm always looking at the things we throw in the bin with my crafty eye.

There are so many things you can do with empty jars and boxes so I thought I'd see if I could come up with some Easter decorations with recycled items.

Recycled Crafts for Easter

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I went through my stash of crafty things to see what I could use and found a bag of colorful vintage Styrofoam Easter egg shapes that I've had for some time, I found them at an estate sale.

Someone had shaved off the top so they had a flat area and stuck some flowers in them. I'm not sure exactly what they had in mind but my original thought was to pull out the flowers and use them and discard the eggs.

But when I started to do that, all of a sudden I saw little wheeled Easter egg carts!

I rummaged around my stash some more and gathered up some more things to use. I've linked to some similar items below if you'd like to create some of your own.

Supplies Needed to Make Your Own:

Get creative! Some ideas:

vintage buttons for wheels and rear bumpers on the carts!
vintage candle holders in the shape of a little yellow chick inside the cart
vintage candle holders in the shape of flowers for tailpipes
fuzzy Easter chicks and ceramic blue birds to pull the carts!

This one is created on a recycled baby food jar and a CD!

I put some colorful crinkled Easter grass inside the jar along with a couple of eggs.

For this chick and cart, I used a wooden plaque. I painted the sides and covered the top with pretty paper.

Inside each cart, along with the yellow chick are vintage millinery flowers (actually the flowers that someone had originally stuck in the eggs!), crepe paper, and pink spun cotton mushrooms!

Colorful baker's twine forms the cart "reins"!

For this little cart, I used a soap box for the stand... so it smells pretty too 😊

I found a pink pipe cleaner spiral in my stash and added that to the rear end of this one!

Here is a top view.

I hope you enjoyed this post and got some inspiration for using recycled items in your crafts!

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Comments by Blogger

Vicky HuntMarch 12, 2014
These are just adorable Tania! I have a few of those eggs I thrifted a couple years ago and I haven't known what to do with them. I might try this! They are just so sweet...:) Have a great Thursday!

Blessings, Vicky
MariaMarch 13, 2014
You are so so creative with these eggs, the colors are wonderful. Thanks for linkin gup your co host Maria