Why throw away the used coffee pods before having recovered them to create decorations and small objects to beautify the home? Here is an incredible series of ideas to achieve something together with your children.
Recover the used coffee pods to make some nice item for beautify home and the corners that often remain anonymous: a really interesting opportunity to recover a material which is not neither biodegradable nor recyclable.
Here then it becomes a ‘opportunity to have, with a pinch of imagination and an object of now common use, being a machine present in homes, offices, public places and recreational bars, something new, which can embellish or give us a smile, or entertain our little ones while they are intent on preparing the Christmas tree.
How to recycle used coffee pods: ideas
Let’s try to give some incredible suggestion to create a decoration, a pendant or a pet with which to entertain the little ones of the house, when they want to fantasize about stories and create special situations.
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Trash can
Sometimes the candy is missing from the desk; you prefer to keep them in a drawer so as not to drop them. Why not have a small basket, in order to avoid eating too much, in which to arrange various chocolates and sweets from which to draw in moments of pause?
Coloring it, making us a cheerful face and a small handle will be immediate.
Jars for seedlings
The spherical shape allows you to transform the old capsule into a small one jar: finding the right plant will be a fun game to water as soon as you need it.
If you then want to turn them into precious jars, it will be easy to use silver paint to give them a tone and embellish them with small hanging crystals.
Chandelier
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Decorate the lampshade of a chandelier living room in an economic and ecological way: here is a surprising idea by recovering the coffee pods that are consumed in the office in a week and creating something colorful and cheerful.
By compressing them with a hammer and gluing them one by one on the paper or fabric lampshade, you will have a particular decorative shape.
Stencil
One of the typical games for children is to use colors to create artistic and imaginative squares: buy them some water paints and give them the empty capsules in their hands, after having eliminated traces and residues of coffee.
They will become many stencils with which to create and paint creatively.
Sphere to illuminate
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We say it immediately: it will not be easy to arrive at the final result. This balloon, or strobosphere for those who remember the 80’s nightclubs, it was created solely thanks to the recovery of used coffee pods.
By inserting more bulbs inside, you get a chandelier or truly unique and special Christmas decoration.
Christmas decorations
Christmas is approaching and you don’t know how to decorate the tree in an imaginative and creative way? Here is a series of old hand-painted waffles with free colors and chromatic games, of your choice.
By passing a rope, you will have created one special garland for your beloved Christmas tree.
Other idea in Christmas theme is to place a pine cone inside the wafer: you can make several, to give as a gift together with your gift or to be placed in some corners of the apartment.
Advent Calendar
Still on the subject of coffee, do not throw away the container for empty pods: you can create your own advent Calendar recovering some colored paper and drawing the numbers of the days missing from the most awaited event of the year.
Home decoration
After having compressed them and cleaned of all traces and residues, they can be made special decorations and with a high rate of customization.
By drawing the desired shape on a rigid cardboard, you can glue all the pods you want, for particular objects and embellishments to hang above the doors or on the entrance handles.
Biodegradable capsules
For those who lack manual skills and creativity, the possibility of not having an impact on the environment is linked to the choice and use of biodegradable capsules which are produced with organic molecules very similar to plastic.
In this case, they can come disposed of easily using i bins dedicated to wet waste collection.
Even simpler, therefore, since it will no longer be necessary to empty the residual coffee content, which will be taken to the nearest compost bin.
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There are many creative ideas that will help you recover and recycle the now old coffee pods.