How to Make a Bag from Old Magazine's Pages

magazine bag

I see people involve themselves in environmental activities. Some groups of people are creating fund raising events to collect funds for pro-environment projects. I admire those people so much! I wish to be one of them someday. I'd like to do my part as an individual for the revival of the earth. We see climate change, disasters and calamities are very frequent nowadays. Although as Christians, we are ready for these things because they're all  written in the bible and we can not stop it, but that doesn't mean we should just watch our mother earth to destroy and sit back while waiting for the next happening.. This is the main reason why I started this blog handicraft. I want to share knowledge to my readers  how they can do their share to save our environment in a very simple way...recycling!

Today I'm gonna show you another way on how to recycle an old magazine by sharing the procedure on how to make a bag from old magazine pages This project is a bit similar to how to make bangles using plastic foils because of the folding procedure. The procedure on making a magazine bag is very easy, just follow the folding instructions below:

The step by step in plastic wrapper fold.

Make folded pages chains, for this project, I made 5 chains.

These are the edges, you have to connect them by inserting the ends and lock them with a string .

There you have the circle chains.

Connect the circle chains by a string (please bear with me if  you get confused with the colors) The string in the  picture is black.

After weaving the magazine bag, this is how the product will look like.

Again, you need a little stitching here to connect the bottom. 

Now we have the body. Add handles to finish the product and we have this result...

Does your imagination becomes more aggressive now? Are you thinking to make your own woven bag using other materials such as used plastics, candy wrappers of plastic foils? Yes you can! You can do it using other materials I've mentioned. It's fun and very exciting!, just think that you're doing this to minimize wastes and it will have a good effect on our environment. Have fun!

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How to Make Bangles from Plastic Foils

Junk food as what we usually call it, but some call it plastic foils. Whatever they call it, we still can use these waste materials to make creative, artistic and crafty products. Plastic foils can be from junk food packages, instant coffee, powdered milk or candies. We don't ask to ask why we have a large volume of these waste from our everyday consumes. We may never monitor it because of our busy everyday routine but most of our consumed products are packed in  plastic foils.

It is really important to know where or how to properly dispose our everyday waste. It's not good to clean our house while throwing all the trash outside it. Don't make our environment as waste absorber, we can do something to reduce waste that we throw outside. I may sound very redundant here but let's always practice to re-use, reduce and recycle. This is why I kept on searching for the possible ways to help protect our environment and it's by means of recycling.I am happy enough to make simple thing as writing article about recycling and share to my readers, in my own little way, I know I have contributed a little help to protect our environment.

In my last post, I wrote an article about making pillow out of these junk food wrappers, please take a look at the page. Now I am going to share a very exciting craft procedure that your kids will surely love. This craft procedure is about making bangles out of recycled junk food wrappers.

Two Color Junk Food Bangles

Junk food Bangles Finished Product

Materials:

Junk food wrapers
scissor
needle
thred

Procedure:

Cut 2x3 inches foil

center fold to mark

fold both sides to meet the mark then center fold again

(1) Fold as directed in the image no. 1

(2) connect two folded foils as shown on 2 and 3

(4) it should look like this after several connections

(5) connect the ends

(6) stitch to lock