DIY coasters. Creative recycling has no boundaries. There are really numerous materials that can be reused to make coasters, but also trivets or saucers, depending on your needs. How to make coasters at no cost? By recovering waste materials and objects such as corks, old jeans, bicycle tires and Chinese chopsticks.
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Il creative recycling it has no borders. There are really numerous materials that can be reused to make gods DIY coasters, but also trivets or saucers, depending on your needs.
How to make coasters at no cost? By recovering waste materials and objects such as corks, old jeans, bicycle tires and Chinese chopsticks.
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Old CDs
Make a coaster to go from an old CD it's very simple. It is sufficient to arm yourself with creativity to cover the CD with colored fabric, perhaps creating a contrasting border. There is a very useful tutorial online. THU another creative idea to imitate.
Read also: 14 ideas for recycling old CDs
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Tin cans
Among the possible reuse of cans we find the creation of coasters. Make the coasters simply by cutting the top of the can into many strips and folding them back on themselves until get a star-shaped weave.
Read also: Aluminum: 8 ways to recycle cans in a fashion way
Old magazines
The pages of old magazines are always a useful resource for creative recycling. Use the more colorful pages, cut them into strips and intertwine them to create a sturdy, rectangular or square coaster. To create the coaster, follow the tutorial of Fidgety Fingers.
Read also: 10 ways to creatively reuse old magazines
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Old jeans
To make a coaster from old jeans it is necessary to have the denim made from them and the glue suitable for fabrics, as the tutorial from the Polkadotpineapple blog explains. Otherwise, you might consider lining a simple sturdy cardboard disc with fabric made from jeans.
Read also: Creative jeans recycling: 8 ideas to give new life to old denims
Bike tires
Nothing is thrown away. Not even the old bike tires. Just from the inner tubes it is possible to cut out pieces of the shapes you prefer, to obtain coasters perhaps a little bizarre, but in any case original, which you can keep aside to amaze your friends.
Read also: Bicycle tires and inner tubes recycling: 18 ways to reuse them
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Beetle tiles
If you have saved some Beetle tiles that are no longer used, take advantage of them to create a coaster. Just glue them onto a square-shaped piece of fabric or cardboard. To make the coasters even more original, try compose words with the letters at your disposal.
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Gravel
A coaster with gravel e pebbles? It can be done! This beautiful idea was reported to us by one of our users place. The technique is very simple and consists in gluing pebbles with a flat surface on a fabric or cardboard support.
Polystyrene trays
Polystyrene trays are one of the typical containers for take away food or fruit purchased at the supermarket. If you have any aside, cut out from the bottom of the square or round shapes and paint them in your favorite colors and patterns.
Read also: 10 creative ideas for the reuse of take-away waste
Chinese chopsticks
Here is another typical rejection of the takeaway: the classic Chinese chopsticks. To get square or rectangular coasters you will need cut the chopsticks in half and arrange them side by side until you get the desired shape. You can join them with glue or use twine and wire.
Read also: Use chopsticks and… recycle!
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Cork stoppers
The creative uses of corks they are numerous, starting from the creation of rugs, up to garlands and frames for paintings or mirrors. Just get it from each cap of the cork discs of the same thickness to start composing your coasters. You can join the cork discs to each other with a needle and thread. Follow the tutorial.
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Also read: 8 ways to creatively recycle corks
Marta Albè
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