Our community constantly tells us to recycle our old and barely used things. Although recycling is good for our community, there are many fun ways to help the environment! Instead of throwing out your old items, you can put them to good use. For example; Do you have a shirt that you don't like very much? Try upcycling it! By doing this, you can add extra designs or maybe even a little extra sparkle. Design it to your liking, and wear it over and over again! You can also use your old glass bottles as containers! You can store simple necessities in it such as chapstick or money. There are many ways you can reuse old objects! For more examples, go to this website: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech … day-things. For cute reusable decor ideas, go to this website: http://www.boredpanda.com/creative-repu … diy-ideas/.

One thing I did recently is I turned my old T-shirt into a rope toy for my dog. It was super easy, and a great way to reuse something I didn't need anymore.

I got an old shoe box, saved toilet paper rolls, and glued the paper roles in the shoe box to organize my pens, pencils, markers, etc.

Sometimes I use my old candle jars to keep my pencils in

Their are lots of ways you can reuse old items in your house. If you go on Pinterest, (an app) you can find so many ways to make old things into cute D.I.Y. projects (do it yourself).

I recently made an art supplies organizer out of a box of old snack boxes, (cereal, cheez-its, tea, ect), a bunch of toilet paper tubes, and a large shoe box. It was a great way to organize my art supplies up and use a bunch of old stuff that wouldn't have been used.

hey madilyn can you post a link to a web site (if there is one that you used) to make the rope toy?  I guess you'd need a good way to keep it intact in the mouth of a vicious t-shirt attack dog

http://lifehacker.com/turn-old-shirts-i … Ddog%2Btoy

You can make fun toys for small pets using recycled cardboard. I make little houses for my guinea pigs all the time and they love it.