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Memo Board from Packaging

February 4, 2014 by Nadia van Zyl 9 Comments

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This month’s challenge for the Project: Recycle & Create is Styrofoam or Packaging of a similar sort. We had these polystyrene sheets in our storeroom for a while now, and I decided to use them now, a perfect opportunity. So we made Lella her own memo board for her photos, school letters etc.
Memo board

What we did:
We used painters tape to make a pattern and painted over it with pink paint.

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We waited for it to dry and carefully peeled of the tape. The lines were not perfect, but I like it that way.

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We glued the 4 pieces onto an old calendar sheet(reusing that too).

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Then added the ribbon by securing it to the back with sticky tape. The ribbon that is used to hang it up was also secured that way. The sheets are light, and it is meant for light paper notes or photos so hopefully it will hold.

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I added the mini pegs to the ribbon for easy pegging of notes. Thumbnails can also be used. The flower just rounded it off, making it look more pretty, don’t you think?

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To see what other creative bloggers did with Styrofoam/Packaging, visit them at their sites by clicking on their names below:
P is for Preschooler
Powerful Mothering
Afterschool for Smarty Pants
Still Playing School
Lemon Lime Adventures
Creative World of VaryaMama Miss
There’s Just One Mommy
Little Bins for Little Hands
Peakle Pie
Sugar Aunts
Danya Banya
ALLterNATIVElearning
Widsom Knowledge Joy

Want to join in the fun? If you are a blogger, link up your Styrofoam/Packaging post below, if not, use the hashtag #createrecycle when posting a photo to Facebook/Instagram so we will find you easily.

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Comments

  1. Nicolette Roux @ Powerful Mothering says

    February 5, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    genius!

    What a great idea!

    Reply
    • Nadia van Zyl says

      February 5, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      Thank you;)

      Reply
  2. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    February 5, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    Great way to upcycle the packaging into something useful! (And it’s so pretty too!)

    Reply
    • Nadia van Zyl says

      February 5, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      Love this project!Thanks Emma!

      Reply
  3. Theres Just One Mommy says

    February 5, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    It turned out so pretty!

    Reply
  4. Natalie AfterschoolForSmartyPants says

    February 5, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    It looks lovely! Great idea for reusing old things.

    Reply
  5. [email protected] Lemon lime adventures says

    February 9, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    These turned out so pretty!

    Reply
  6. Kirsten says

    February 16, 2014 at 11:37 pm

    Oh Wow now that is so cute and what a great idea. Gotta love being able to recycle! Visiting from BYB

    Reply
    • Nadia van Zyl says

      February 17, 2014 at 5:54 pm

      Thank you Kirsten!

      Reply

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