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Steps to Make Winter Snowflakes for Kids

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Making eco-friendly handmade winter holiday decorations is a great idea, which saves money and encourages your creativity. Recycling paper crafts for kids and adults are also a nice way to help protect the environment.  Everyday people throw away tons of paper in offices and homes. This section includes the steps to make snowflakes by used papers. We can choose any paper, craft paper , writing paper, old magazines, newspaper etc. for making snowflakes. Steps to making snowflakes by paper Handmade snowflakes are perfect craft for any special event in winter, Christmas and New Year Eve party decorating. Use square or rectangular pieces of paper and you will need six pieces of paper for each snowflake. 1. Fold a piece of paper diagonally to create a triangle. Cut the excess of paper, if you started with a rectangular piece.  2. Make a few cuts to create strips and then start to design a snowflake detail. 3. First fold the smallest stripes toward each o

5 Creative Ideas to Reuse Plastic Bottles

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Don't just throw the plastic drink bottle away after use; you can use it to create something awesome! R euse plastic bottles in all sorts of creative, fun, and crafty ways! It will help to save your money and increase your happiness. Here are some creative ideas for reusing bottles. Pen Holders Create pen holders and desk organizers with used plastic bottles. It needs to cut the upper part of the bottles and decorate them as you want. You can use only one bottle or more than one glued together (hot glue) or fit zipper around the bottle. Use your creativity and make them in different sizes and very colorful. Food Canister We can make food canister with two plastic bottles to store food like beans, noodles, sugar etc. Cut the bottles in different sizes: a longer one (to be the base) and a smaller one (to be the cover) and fit them together. Watering cans You can easily transform plastic container in to watering can . You only n