Things To Save For Future Craft Projects

Plastic Bottles and Caps of all sizes and shapes

Toilet Paper Tubes (empty)

Paper Towel Tubes (empty)

Newspaper and Free Ads (printed on news rag paper)

Used, Empty Stick-Type Ball Point Pens

Scrap Colored Paper

Gift Wrap and Ribbons (open your presents carefully)

Cereal Boxes, Other Clean Food Boxes made with thin cardboard

Card Stock (print can be painted over)

Cardboard Boxes and Pieces of Cardboard (of all types and thicknesses)

Empty Tissue Boxes

Empty Cardboard Tape Roll Circles (from masking tape, duck tape, transparent tape)

Plastic Containers and Lids ( good for more than leftovers)

Empty Round Salt Containers

Empty, Clean Bread Bags

Plastic Shopping Bags (grocery bag type)

Beads From Broken Necklaces or Old Beaded Jewelry You Don't Mind Sacrificing for Craft Decorating

Old Post Earrings  With Jewel or Decorative Type Front for Flower Centers (something you tired of or lost one)

Decorative Buttons From Clothes Too Old and Beat Up To Give To Charity (or find them at thrift stores, cheap)

Any Shiny, Sparkly Do Dads You Come Across (large, small, all)

Old White T-shirts (for container gardening-you'll see how we use them later to make watering plants easier - a plastic bottle craft)

Old T-shirts of any color (a few layers of rectangles or squares sewn together to make good hot pads to go under a hot glue tray to protect your table)

Empty Pill Bottles (remove and tear up the labels before throwing them away)

Baby Food Containers with Lids (clean well and dry)

Heavy Duty Envelopes (manila envelopes are great) For Saving Colored Paper Scraps

Sturdy Boxes with Lids from office supplies (the type that plastic sheet protectors come in)

Shoe Boxes

Sturdy Gift Boxes with Lids

Thread Spools (including the plastic thread cone cores from Serger Thread - great base for Christmas Tree crafts)

Old Paint Brushes (clean ones) - they make good glue brushes

Old Baking Sheets (great tray for hot glue guns and other things we're going to do)

Old Cutting Mats From your Kitchen (scratches okay - great for heavy duty stencils, just clean them up well with detergent and a little bleach to kill any germs on them)

Small Sticks and Twigs From your Yard

Pinecones

Acorns

Walnut Shell Halves

Styrofoam Egg Cartons

Cardboard Egg Cartons

Broken Egg Shells (remove the membrane inside)

Whole Egg Shells (use a straight pin to make a 1/8" hole in each end of an egg and blow the egg out for scrambled eggs, being careful to break shell pieces outward, run hot water through the egg shell to clean the inside or soak in soapy water, then place in an empty cardboard egg carton to dry and store)

Plastic Cookie Package Inserts (clean and dry)

Any Old Frames You Have or Can Pick Up at Thrift Stores

Rubber Bands, Paper Clips, Bread Bag Clips, Twist Ties

Coffee Cans

Pictures of Flowers, Food, Print with Interesting or Colorful Type, etc., from Glossy Magazine Pages (great for decoupage)

Anything that gives you a great idea for crafty, creative up-cycling, instead of trashing!