12 Tips For an Ecofriendly Halloween
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Source: Good Housekeeping
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4. Decorate with Pumpkins As Halloween is pumpkins season you can profit from these and use these delicious fruits (yes pumkins are fruits) and decorate them before you eat them, or eat them first and then save the crust and use it as decorations. You can also decorate with other types of fruits from the Cucurbitaceae family such as squash, gourds, etc.Source: Good Housekeeping
6. Up-cycle you old clothes
Take a look around your wardrobe and try to find some stuff that you no longer use or that you don't like anymore, you could see for example at old socks, blankets, broken jeans, old T-shirts, etc. Create something new with them like for example garlands, napkin holders, favor bags, with you old clothes, or small bats or spiders with your old black socks.Source: Parents.com
7. Reuse your Egg Cartons
If you eat a lot of eggs at home, then start collecting the egg cartons from now so you have some material to create some beautiful egg carton bats. You just need some scissors, glue and paint. Take a look at the tutorial here.
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8. Transform your Milk Jugs
Collect your empty milk jugs for a few weeks and be ready to transform them into beautiful ghosts lamps. You just need some lights preferably solar lights, scissors and a black marker, you can follow the tutorial here.
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9. Save Toilet Paper Rolls
Remember to save the toilet paper rolls whenever your toilet paper is finished, this little carton cylinders are so useful, and Halloween is not the exception. Take a look a this beautiful toilet paper rolls bats for inspiration and try to make some on our own, you can find the tutorial here.
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10. Paint your Jars
If you have any empty jars in your trash from finished food, you can just paint them and transform them into beautiful pumpkins for Halloween. Just take away the lid, you can see my latest post here on how to do it, and start painting. Take a look at a tutorial on how to do it here.Source: Make it Love it
11. Get Recycled Material Invitations
If you are planing to make a party try to create an online invitation. If this is not for you then you can either try to make your own invitations with recycled materials such as cardboard or buy some eco-friendly invitations. Etsy has a big variety of them for example. Remember that invitations are only used once so its better to help our environment by trying to get them from recycled materials.
Source: Etsy
12. Transform your Bottle taps
Finally there is a use to all those bottle taps that are left every time you drink a glass bottled beer or soda. Bottle taps among other uses can be transformed into beautiful magnets to decorate your fridge or bulletin board. Simply follow the instructions here and you will get some beautiful Halloween magnets.
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