Does anyone know any good ideas on what to do with any old magazines? I have a t!
Question: Maybe see if any hospitals or shelters have use for them....?
Answers: Maybe see if any hospitals or shelters have use for them....?
Maybe you can donate them somewhere in your area or save them up for reading later if you're bored. Or if you want to be creative make a collage and glue them on some of your stuff? I don't know lol, just some ideas.
sell them at a yard sale
I have found that old magazine can be crafted into plenty of different useful and elegant crafts. In most instances all a crafter needs is glue, scissors, a magazine and step-by-step instructions. There is no need to pay high prices to attend craft class and learn how to make this type of craft. Luckily, how-to craft with magazine project instructions are all over the Internet.
Below I have listed three types of the magazine crafts I have found available online: making beads, decorative containers and magazine mosaics.
Making Beads. Beads are useful for making bracelets, necklaces, earrings, buttons and other kinds of jewelry and accessories. To make beads cut magazines pages into different shape strips, triangles strips, rectangles strips, squares strips, etc. Before rolling the strip into a bead apply glue to the strip, for the exception of one end. Then with a thin round object (ex: a pencil, a crotchet needle, straw, etc) roll up the strip, starting from the unglued edge. The different shaped strips make different shaped beads.
Decorative containers. Bowls, baskets, coasters, vases and colorful boxes can be crafted from magazines as well. The steps to making these sort of decorations are similar to bead making, but instead of cutting a page into strips the whole page is used. Each page is folded into a long thin strip and then coiled. Other strips, depending on the decoration that needs to be made, are then added on the top, over, beside or added inside another strip.
Magazine Mosaics. I have seen this craft made on baby food jars, glass jars and as kids art projects. Ingredients include: magazine pages, scissors, white glue, water and a small brush. First trace a mosaic design onto the surface of a selected object (ex. glass jar). Cut out different colored pieces from magazine pages. Then glue them on to the object by brushing the top and the bottom with the glue water mixture recommended in the instructions.
Good luck!