7 creative uses for discarded Christmas packaging

If you haven’t yet stuffed the rubbish bin under your house with all the papers and cardboard discarded during the festive season, then we have a few ideas for you.

You can recycle packaging in the most creative and most useful ways.

Do you love animals?

The soft, warm cardboard is a favourite refuge for all pets.

Ms Larsson, the creator of this sloping-roof house, assures us that it is a pleasure to hear the purr through the cardboard and peek at the hurried comings and goings of her cute housemate.

Do you want to leave your children speechless?

Pierce the largest surface of the box you have decided to use in several places, then insert the Christmas tree lights into the holes.

The children will be enchanted watching them.

If they are over five years old, you can even reproduce a famous constellation, such as the Big Dipper or the Little Dipper!

Are your handbags never enough?

Why not venture into new fabrics? The cardboard clutch bag is sure to impress! Very little is needed to make it. Needle, coloured threads, buttons, markers and a buckle of your choice.

Are wardrobes never enough for you?

You can store your most bizarre handbags, stockings and trinkets in cardboard boxes. Making them is very easy, all you need is some cardboard and leftover gift wrapping paper to create lively contrasts of colour and style.

Do you feel a bit designer?

Try your hand at the cardboard lamp. The effect of filtered light will surprise you.

Beware of the only risk: all your friends will ask you to make them one just like it!

Your children’s liveliness is irrepressible? Cardboard may be just the thing for you.

Sometimes very little is needed. A simple cardboard box can be transformed into a box for colouring and living in freedom.

Or if your little ones want to be like Mum and Dad then create a washing machine, then hope they stop pressing the buttons on the real one!

As soon as one party ends, you can’t wait for another one to start?

Then you can already start planning your next carnival costume. Rest assured, you will amaze everyone with the cardboard!

At the following links you will find all the tutorials for making our proposals now. Have fun and send us your creations to gboccenti@rajapack.it, we would love to publish them!

http://www.bloglovin.com/viewer?blog=26261&post=490239171

http://www.whatilivefor.net/2012/08/starry-cave.html

http://www.handmadecharlotte.com/diy-laced-cardboard-handbags/

http://www.handmadecharlotte.com/blog-crush-cardboard-collective/

http://www.upcyclethat.com/cube-cardboard-lamp/4030/

http://picklebums.com/2012/01/19/what-to-do-with-a-big-box-make-a-town/

http://www.estefimachado.com.br/2012/12/menino-tambem-encosta-barriguinha-no.html