Recycle your old plates into treasures of art!
Do you have old broken plates in your home or new broken plates and don't know what to do with them? Do you have old plates that are so antique you wonder what better use you can find for these old plates? There are so many things you can do with your old or broken plates.
For starters we can recycle them. No need to throw them out. Now you can stop worrying about what to do with your old or broken plates and allow me to introduce to you a bunch of creative ideas that are sure to be fun and that you can give as a gift too. I have even got some sneaky ways on how to pass your old plates over onto your friends! Cheers! Let's find out more shall we?
For starters we can recycle them. No need to throw them out. Now you can stop worrying about what to do with your old or broken plates and allow me to introduce to you a bunch of creative ideas that are sure to be fun and that you can give as a gift too. I have even got some sneaky ways on how to pass your old plates over onto your friends! Cheers! Let's find out more shall we?
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Hang your old plates as art! Wall tiles perhaps?
Which should you recycle into art? A square old plate or a round old plate? Well the shape of old plates don't matter because once an old plate is broken that's it. They're old! File the edges of those old plates and glue the backs of them onto your kitchen wall for a cool tile look or for smaller pieces glue them onto borders of picture frames and mirrors. The broken plate itself can be turned into a hanging wall art by attaching a string with glue.
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Feed your doggy using your old plates
Recycling your old plate into a doggy bowl is such a great idea especially if your old plate is the plastic unbreakable type. For puppies your old plates that has some depth will do well as it will be able to hold their milk.
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Send them home with friends
I love this recycle idea for old plates! So very sneaky. You know how friends never seem to have the time to return anything borrowed? The trick here is to send any food giveaways in these old plates! This way you'll be recycling and your old plate will end up stock in their cupboard not yours. Before you know it, they would have accumulated two or three of your old plates!
Make room for some new plates.
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Use your old plates for picnic and camping
Protect your new plates by substituting them for old plates when you go picnic or camp. If these old plates get broken..so what? At least you would be saving some money right? Recycle your old plates and save! It's hardly likely you will grieve over your old plate in comparison to your new plates.
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Think charity for your old plates
Donate your old plates to someone who will not mind recycling it! Ever hear what is one man's trash is another man's treasure? Your old plates may not get much love by you but you can give your old plates a new lover by donating them in a thrift store. So go ahead and recycle your old plates, donate it!
Could you get your old plate sold?
Give the money to charity or just donate the plate to a recycle center
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Recycle your old plates into a mosaic
Maybe you're one of those people who not only enjoy recycling but making mosaics too? Well why not recycle your broken old and any new chipped plates into fun mosaics? Decorate the entire surface of a coffee table or picture frame with your old plate pieces. Your friends will sure love what you have done with your old plates. Recycle your old plates and inspire others.
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Recycle your old plates into coasters
Know someone into glass cutting? Get your old plate cut and turned into a glass coaster. If it is a new plate that is chipped, cut it, file it and give away as a gift to a friend. This is a fun way to recycle old and new broken plates.
If you can hand paint or rubber stamp
you might try something like this..
Praying 4 you Tile Coaster
Makes a really unique and thoughtful gift. See this design on different products by clicking it to visit the store.
A Praying For You Gift is the perfect way to let someone know you are thinking of them always.
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Create a magnet with your old plates
Recycle any chipped old plate or new plate into a refrigerator magnet! File the edges smooth with sandpaper and glue a magnet backing heavy enough to hold it when you stick it on the fridge. Use your chipped plate magnet to hold paper and notes on the fridge. New or old chipped plates are fun to make as magnets and to give as gifts.
Let these magnets be a reminder..
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Recycle your old plates into paper weights!
Broken or old plates can be cut and re-painted if the color on the plate has faded. Cut your plate into a neat square or whatever shape you desire or if its a large chip, file the edges and use your plate as a paper weight. Can even glue artificial flowers on top to make it more attracted or around the edges. Perfect if you don't like painting!
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Use your old plates as a as center piece!
Your old or chipped new plates can be used as a center piece decoration for tables or in your kitchen. Fill deep or flat plates with flowers and make sure the flowers cover the edges of the plates to hide any chips or cracks. This is a cool unique idea to recycle your broken or old plates don't you think?
Here's some ideas for center pieces..
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Transform your old or new broken plates into jewelry
Cut your recycle plate into a desired shape like a square and file edges. Use a metalic marker to color the filed edges. Add a drop of heavy duty glue to the back and attach an earring backing. Do this with another identical cut plate and you will soon have a pair of stopper earrings for your ear! How cool is that?
Cool handmade earrings!
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Use them to catch dripping water
Old plates can be placed under small ware drainers to catch the water and then drain off. Handy for drainers that sit on counter tops. They can even be used in place of ware drainers to hold cups until they dry or even kept as a base in/on your cupboard for resting your cups.
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Turn those old or broken plates into a mosaic vase!
Yep. I'm backing you with another mosaic recycle old plates idea. Turn those old plates or broken plates into a mosaic vase! Simply take a colorful small vase and randomly place pieces of your old plates or broken plates (dispersely scattered) onto your vase.
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Recycle your old plates into fruit holders or a fruit ornament!
Fill up your old plates or chipped new ones with a combination of fruits. Can be kept in the refrigerator or on display. You can also create a fruit ornament with your old plates. Get plastic fruits and glue to your old plate.
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Recycle Chipped Plates into cake stands!
Chipped or old plates can come in handy as cake stands. All you need is a wooden prop or cup or something that acts like support below the plate and you are good to go. I'm sure your cake stand will look pretty too!
See some great cake stands here for ideas!
Stainless steel, glass cake stands and even a square stand!
Video on How to Make Flowers Out of Old Plates
This video is based on a paper plate but you can use the same concept and adapt it for glass old plates. Great recycle idea!
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ceramictiles
Jan 12, 2012 @ 6:23 am | delete
- Very interesting idea to use old plates in place of ceramic tiles. Not something we've really heard of before!
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Gloriousconfusion
Nov 19, 2011 @ 7:39 pm | delete
- Very inventive!
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fanfreluche
Nov 3, 2011 @ 10:00 am | delete
- I use old plates to put under my flower pot in case I water them too much, it avoid ruining my wood furniture
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Heather426
Oct 24, 2011 @ 2:39 pm | delete
- Wonderful ideas for old plates!
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Blessedmombygrace
Sep 3, 2011 @ 1:32 pm | delete
- Great ideas! Blessed.
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serenity4me
Jul 8, 2011 @ 10:28 pm | delete
- I use old plates (and sometimes new ones) to cut and use on mosaic furniture. I love hunting down and collecting the plates too. It's part of the fun, trying to find beautiful vintage designs at a bargain price so I won't feel bad for cutting them. Loved the lens, thank you!
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howtocurecancer
Mar 29, 2011 @ 12:47 pm | delete
- i like your idea! SquidLiked.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Nov 3, 2010 @ 6:19 am | delete
- Recycling is great and I love doing things with old plates!
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spunkyduckling
Nov 3, 2010 @ 6:55 am | delete
- That's great to hear! I will be adding some paper plate craft ideas sometime so feel free to check back. Thank for stopping by
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Light-in-me
Oct 9, 2010 @ 8:47 pm | delete
- You have some great ideas for old plates. I like the magnet one.
Nice job,
Robin :)
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spunkyduckling
Oct 10, 2010 @ 10:06 pm | delete
- Thank you. The idea for recycling old broken or chipped plates into magnets was my idea. :)
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BevsPaper
Feb 26, 2010 @ 8:37 pm | delete
- What clever ideas you have for what to do with old plates! Word of caution...if it is truly old...make sure it isn't valuable before you make it into a mosaic or wall tile.
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KathyMcGraw
Feb 21, 2010 @ 1:52 pm | delete
- You have a lot of good ideas here on how to recycle those old plates. I like the idea of making mosaics and jewelry, although I don't do many crafts anymore. Always better to reuse than to throw out :)
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Feb 17, 2010 @ 2:42 pm | delete
- LOVE the books about recycling. I like some of the ideas. I think it would be better if you had links to actual projects. Or some how-to lenses instead if just the ideas.
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HushNews
Feb 1, 2010 @ 7:16 pm | delete
- Fun lens with great ideas. O, love that animated banner above the guest book too! 5 Stars
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musicaldreamer
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- great ideas!
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Ramkitten
Feb 1, 2010 @ 3:20 pm | delete
- I'm actually now down to about six full-sized plates, I think, so hopefully I won't break any more any time soon. But if I ever find myself overloaded with them again, these are some great ideas to "lose" or otherwise use a few.
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spunkyduckling
Feb 1, 2010 @ 2:22 pm | delete
- Glad that they can come in handy...
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JaredB Feb 1, 2010 @ 2:53 pm | delete
- Good lense! Maybe you could break up some of the text into paragraphs.
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spunkyduckling
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- Thanks for the tip but i love the boxes so I'm going to have to keep them like this for now.
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kimmanleyort
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- Great recycling ideas here! I love the one about sending them to friends with food and not worrying about getting them back. lol - very focused niche.
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spunkyduckling
Feb 1, 2010 @ 3:09 pm | delete
- Thank you kim. Good to see you around. I can see why you love that one. It's funny idea with so much truth in it.
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spunkyduckling
Jan 22, 2010 @ 1:41 pm | delete
- You too. nah.. not me. i don't think i've got enough broken pieces around lol
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Jan 22, 2010 @ 11:52 am | delete
- Some unique and clever ideas for re-using plates! I'd love to try a mosaic.
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- You have great suggestions on here, Nicole! I love the ideas, especially turning them into mosaic art, hanging them as wall art, and using them for food giveaways (good one!). The layout is nicely done too. *blessed by an angel*
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spunkyduckling
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- Omg! This is a surprise arncyn. Didn't expect a blessing so soon. Thank you immensely. My favorite is turning your old plate into jewelry and a magnet
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- Great ideas for reusing old plates!
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Please do recycle me and my work!
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Recycle Book Plates
Can bookplates be recycled? Sure they can! Read on for tips on how bookplates stickers can be reused and even learn a little history about where bookplate stickers came from.Plus you can enjoy some wonderful selection of book plate stickers I have collected for you so do have fun. You'll discover round bookplates stickers and rectangular book plate labels, all of which come in colors of green or has a recycle green theme. And they can be personalized or you can use a bookplate template to make your own bookplate from scratch.
For every other book sticker (not green and recycle book stickers) check out my online collection by visiting the link where you can find ROUND book stickers.
Create a bookplate from scratch using a bookplate template!
If you would like to create a rectangle bookplate using your own image click here or for a round bookplate sticker you can make your own here.
What is a bookplate?
Ever wonder where book plate stickers first originated from? Who invented them? Here is a little history on these personalized name gifts.. its purpose and more.
The tradition of using bookplates dates back to hundreds of years! About four hundred years ago they were first introduced and overtime became less popular as books became cheaper to produce making them easier to be replaced.The purpose of bookplates were to claim ownership in that if a book got lost, misplaced, borrowed, and even stolen it is hoped that they would be returned to the respected owner with the aid of the bookplate which contained helpful information such as the book owners name and address.
There is an entire society that can be found online who contains a wealth of information on all you ever wanted to know about bookplates, who used them and who designed these book plate stickers. The only things is that none of these people reused bookplates - well at least to the best of my knowledge.
How to reuse stickers and bookplates?
The following simple easy steps have been adapted from how to use reuse stickers. Book plates are a sticker! And sometimes you may want to reuse it!
First before you can reuse your stickers again, you simply need to apply Vaseline or some cheap cream to the back of the sticker or bookplate sparingly and evenly. Now you can stick your stickers and bookplates any where you want to and when the time comes for you to reuse those book plates stickers you will be able to do that in a jiffy!
And the sticker lasts even with the Vaseline or cream at the back of it. Guaranteed! Will stick as usual. Upon removing the sticker won't leave any greasy traces behind either so feel free to reuse old stickers bookplates.
These sticker bookplates have a green theme!
They are either green in color, Eco friendly by nature or supportive of recycling and reuse!
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