Willowbank Community Garden: upcycling

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UPCYCLE | wine cork plant marker

1 | Save the corks.
2 | Write the names of your herbs on them with a permanent marker.
3 | Push wooden skewers into them.

UPCYCLE | plastic bottle funnel

{ Real Simple }

Simply bisect a plastic bottle and keep the top half to use as a funnel.

UPCYCLE | cereal box organiser

{ family fun }

1 |Cut the flaps from one end of each box.

2 | Stack the boxes. Some boxes, such as those from FedEx, have flaps that add thickness to the back of the box. To make your stack level, use scraps of cardboard as shims in between the front edges of the boxes.

3 | Seal the boxes together with packing tape.

4 | Cover the boxes with the wrapping paper.

5 | Line the raw edges at the front with the duct tape. ::

UPCYCLE | bird feeder

{ via family fun }

MATERIALS |
plastic bottle, knife, small eye screw, 2 wooden spoons

BUILD |
1. Start by drawing a 1/2-inch asterisk on the side of a clean 1-liter soda bottle, about 4 inches from the bottom. Rotate the bottle 90 degrees and draw another asterisk 2 inches from the bottom. Draw a 1-inch-wide circle opposite each asterisk, as shown.

2. Use a craft knife to slit the asterisk lines and cut out the circles (a parent's job). Insert a wooden spoon handle first through each hole and then through the opposite asterisk, as shown.

3. Remove the bottle cap and twist a small eye screw into the top of it for hanging.

4. Finally, fill your feeder with birdseed, recap it, and use a length of twine to hang it from a tree. ::