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Picnic Plate Flowers

Let the kids get in on the recycling too! Try this colorful bouquet made from paper plates and a cleaned up plastic jug for a vase.

Crafts Supplies for Picnic Plate Flowers

Design by Laura C. Martin
Excerpted from Recycled Crafts Box © 2003 by Laura C. Martin, with permission from Storey Publishing, LLC. Photography by Ed Judice. Illustrations by Lisa Adams.

What you'll need:
Laundry jug recycled to hold plastic plate flowers
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  • Scissors
  • Small nail
  • Assorted plastic plates and bowls
  • Assorted plastic lids
  • Plastic straws
  • Craft wire
  • Buttons
  • Beads
  • Wooden kitchen skewers
  • Plastic spoons or forks (optional)
  • Masking tape
  • Plastic jug
  • Ribbon

See the Recycled Crafts Box Book for more projects like this. >>
 
Continued on page 2:  Instructions for Picnic Plate Flowers

 

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