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This is a ridiculously basic how-to. Simply put, it is upcycling brightly colored, realistic images from food packaging into realistic looking, free, recycleable, toy foods for children to play with during imaginative food-related play (kitchen, restaurant, tea party, etc).
The main image is a selection of play food cards in my sons' toy kitchen. The second is a view of the kitchen, which is itself hacked from a modular shelving system (similar to the Ikea IVAR shelves, if you want to start from the same place I did), using a selection of found/recycled materials. The table that forms the "L" was being thrown out by a local daycare center and I rescued it with permission.
The main image is a selection of play food cards in my sons' toy kitchen. The second is a view of the kitchen, which is itself hacked from a modular shelving system (similar to the Ikea IVAR shelves, if you want to start from the same place I did), using a selection of found/recycled materials. The table that forms the "L" was being thrown out by a local daycare center and I rescued it with permission.
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You will need:
- a pair of scissors sharp/strong enough to cut food packaging
- food packaging boxes with life-size or smaller images of food
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I use them for making patterns in cloths making and quilting, to make little picture frames for the fridge, or a meriad of other craft things. some people just dont understand the value of just one person NOT contributing to the landfill.
I also make things from the plastic bags and had some eye rolls there too.
thanks for sharing this and I will be passing on the idea!
My mum used to save up my dad's daily paper and use them in crafts with us, along with our cereal boxes, inner tubes of toilet and kitchen roll and even the corks from a random wine bottle :)
Just to add, we're weren't poor, my mum and dad were just more into recycling and reusing then, as you said, adding to the landfills.
If you laminate them, they have to go in the landfill when you're done with them, or at least a part does, and I was trying to avoid that. :)
However, if you are making these for a daycare/school situation, where lots of kids will be using them, and you need them to be as sturdy as possible (and also where gathering appropriate food packaging may involve a class project), then laminating is definitely the answer.