DIY Recycled CD Craft Ideas
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Do you have a pile of old CDs that you don't know what to do with? Perhaps you have a bunch of those free CDs and DVDs from newspapers.
Maybe you have some old and scratched CDs and DVDs to get rid off, or even some old CD-roms!
Your local charity shop does not want you to donate scratched discs, freebie CDs or DVDs discs - they can't sell then and they may have to just put them into the bin.
How about recycling them with some of these really creative craft ideas? You can use your old CDs as the basis for lots of DIY and craft ideas.
Those lovely shiny surfaces make it a wonderful material for creating bright sparkly objects and the uniform roundness of the discs make them the perfect base for making items where you need a number of identical round objects
Plus we have some other cool educational things that you can do with old CDs and DVDs too!
Recycled CD Mosaics
Old CDs provide a wonderful material for creating mosaics - they can be easily cut up into mosaic pieces with scissors and glued to almost anything!
CD mosaics are a great way of decorating a picture frame - make your project even more environmentally friendly by decorating a frame you already have or by using an old frame from a charity shop.
Make every day a disco day with this craft idea. You can make your own disco ball Christmas decorations. Perfect on the tree or if you use a larger ball as a surface - for example an unwanted toy - you could hang it up all year round and dance, dance dance!
Cover a tired old table to make a beautiful feature in your house. so much easier than using ceramics and no grouting to do either.
Decorate a plain wooden tray with pieces of unwanted CDs or DVDs to give it the WOW factor.
This beautiful cubic suncatcher would look fabulous inside or out.
Give your houseplants a touch of glamour by mosaicing a plain plant pot. If you cannot find one in the garden shed, it is usually easy to find unwanted planters at you local charity shop or thrift store.
Recycled CD Suncatchers
A lovely shiny CD makes a wonderful base for a suncatcher. Here are some brilliant ideas for crafting your own suncatchers from old CDs.
This lovely simple idea is great for kids - just decorate your old CD with Sharpies, add string and hang them up!
This is a really clever idea - you peel the shiny coating off your CD and use the transparent disc that is left.
Use fibre tip pens or thinned down acrylic paint to create your esign.
Scratch art works really well with CDs,.
Just scratch the colour off the disc, allowing the colorful metallic coating to show through.
Here is another quick and easy scratch art idea.
If you are patient and a dab hand with coloured glue pens you could make something like this beautiful work of art.
For inspiration here are some Rangoli Colouring Pictures and some more complex Mandala Colouring Pictures.
More Fun CD Recycling Crafts
This jolly turkey craft would make a lovely Christmas or Thanksgiving decoration.
I love this this cute fish craft too, using cleverly folded and applied craft papers to create the fins and tail.
You can't see them, but these fish also actually started out as old CDs!
Make one of these spinning tops and you get the fun of making them, and have a toy to play with as well.
What about this educational STEM idea - use your old CD to demonstrate how to make a rainbow.
Or you could even make your own working hovercraft from an old CD!
You could also use the CD or DVD as the base for an artwork. Make a beautiful autumnal mandala mosaic using seeds and spice.
If you love to try craft projects using recycled materials you will love these Recycled Postage Stamp Craft Projects, where you can use stamps to decorate greetings cards, create pictures and decoupage tables, drawers, plant pots and more.