Plastic tubing crafts

Medical Tubing to Make Lanyards & Bracelets: Pretty much the same way you work with paracord, you can also weave 1/8" IV lines, O2 tubing into beautiful lanyards for keys, knives....I'm also thinking of a way to use a syringe and inject paint inside the tube to create more colors. I don't know…

This is a guide about uses for oxygen tubing. Stretchy and soft, oxygen tubing can be used for more than just delivering H2O. There are many crafty and creative uses for excess oxygen tubing.

Bracelet out of yarn, PVC pipe, and oil... @Bailey Arritola, this is brilliant!

Check out this clear tube that is ideal for crafting. Share you suggestions about what should be made using it.

I got obsessed with an idea last week. That happens to me on occasion. It’s spring, which means the bright accessories are coming out, and I’ve got a short series of jewelry projects this week that let you wear glitter without getting messy! That’s right – you can sparkle on when I show you how...

PVC is literally our favorite material. We SWEAR by it! You might want to buy some PVC pipe when you see these amazing ideas for your home decor!

Look what this guy made for his wife for Mother's Day! "This will be a colorful addition to the patio!" We made these self watering flower towers for the Moms in our family for Mother's Day. It incorporated two ideas we had seen online.

Never ending supply of plastic bottles? It is always a great idea to reuse them. I will show you how to make these DIY plastic bottle bangle bracelets.

Craftibilities is a blog with tons of DIY tutorials, free downloads to make amazing crafts and teacher appreciation gifts. Creative fun for kids!

I'm thrifty (aka cheap!) and when I see empty containers and canisters I want to instangly hoard it. I know one day I will find a good use for all those tissue boxes, pringle cans,

This week Grandma Green learned the art of upcycling in her decoupage class and turned this old plastic tennis ball container into a vase!

Quilted Shade Canopy From Recycled Plastic : This shade canopy is made almost entirely out of recycled materials (we used old lotion bottle lids, but you can use any old collection of found/recycled materials, as long as they can be drilled into!) As you can see, we used zip-ties to connect ov…

Did you know you can easily bend PVC pipe? In the past, I've used connectors and fittings to get the angles I needed for projects but now I'll be using this simple technique more often.

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Shari Mendelson is an artist, based Brooklyn, NY

Creative plastic recycling ideas turn used plastic straws into amazing lighting fixtures, decorative curtains, storage containers, functional and useful items or unusual and inexpensive home decorations, offering great recycled crafts and diy projects for kids and adults