Christmas Recycling

This year for Christmas, I decided to do some recycling.  Yes... recycling.  First of all, we had so many yogurt containers I had saved thinking that they could go into the bin, but they couldn't.  So... I upcycled them... into these!

I spent a lot of time on these.  Suprisingly.  There are 32 of them.  I baked spritz cookies (with the kids overseeing, haha) and wrapped them up before placing them in these little baskets.  They are really simple to make, but 32 of them is daunting.  The kids decorated some precut paper which I later added to the yogurt cups.  I used my BigKick to cut a bunch of tags which I stamped and added to the front.  The handles are made from pipe cleaners.  And the tissue paper... also recycled.  I keep a lot of stuff that would otherwise be trashed.  Can't bear to trash things that are so useful!

My husband got a shot of me assembling the premade baskets.  My daughter handed hers out at Cubbies, and both kids handed them out at sunday school.  There are a few left yet to go to some of their friends/cousins.

The other 'recycling' fun I had was with berry containers.  You know, those lovely clear plastic containers that house our blueberries and raspberries?  We made white cookies, I decorated them, and wrapped them up into these containers using my BigKick once again and some fun paper and whatnot to decorate the tops.

I love my snowflake Bigz die!  It is so much fun!  I made a bunch of snowflakes!  I can't wait to have more fun with cutting!

I have many other projects I wish to start soon that use recycled materials.  I just... need to get started!

So, what sorts of things do you recycle?