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4 January, 201910 December, 2019

How to Make a DIY Recycled Piñata

A piñata can be a fun centerpiece for more than just birthday parties. Colors, shapes, and themes are endless, especially if you have a few spare hours to make your own. A recycled piñata helps reduce our waste, while encouraging a little DIY fun.

DIY Recycled Pinata: How to make a recycled pinata

Tip: Make the piñata compostable by using cotton string (we use food grade kitchen twine), small amounts of natural or DIY paints, and home made paper-mâché glue. You can vary the materials according to the needs, but the more you recycle the better!

12 December, 20184 January, 2019

Easy Eco-friendly DIY Christmas Crackers

Christmas crackers are a family tradition. We like them for the silly hats and groan-worthy jokes, but at the end of the meal the table is littered with plastic trinkets that no one needs. So we thought, why not make our own? There are scores of instructions for complicated crackers requiring lots of cuts and folds, but we found an easier method using recycled craft paper. (You can buy cracker wrappers, but I promise making your own is not hard!)

We like to garden and we compost, so this year we used paper based washi tape, recycled craft paper, and paper raffia ribbon.