To Do with CDs
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Cover With Felt and Use as Coasters
CDs can help to prevent those unsightly stains from cups left on the table. Simply cut a round piece of felt to fit over the CD and glue it onto the label side of the CD so that the shiny side will face up when you use the coaster.
Catch Candle Drips
You should always use a candle holder specifically designed to catch melting wax. However, if one is not available, a CD is great in a pinch. Make sure it’s a short candle that can stand on its own with a flat bottom. It should also be slightly larger than the CD hole. Place the candleholder on a stable, heat-resistant surface and keep a watchful eye on it.
Make Artistic Bowls
Looking for a funky, decorative bowl? Place a CD in the oven on low heat over a metal bowl until the CD is soft. Wearing protective gloves, gently bend the CD into the shape desired. Seal the hole by gluing the bottom edge to another surface such as a flat dish using epoxy or PVC glue. Don’t use the bowl for food.
Use as Sidewalk or Driveway Reflectors
Forget those ugly orange reflectors. Instead, drill small holes in a CD and screw it onto your mailbox post or onto a wood stake and push it into the ground. Install several of them to light a nighttime path to your front door
Kids' Stuff
Use an old CD to make a picture frame for someone you love. You need a CD, a picture of you that is larger than the CD hole, a large bead, ribbon, and glue. Glue the picture in the middle of the CD on the shiny side. If you wish, decorate the CD with markers or stickers. Use hot-melt glue to attach the bead at the top of the CD, let dry, and thread ribbon through the bead.
CDs can help to prevent those unsightly stains from cups left on the table. Simply cut a round piece of felt to fit over the CD and glue it onto the label side of the CD so that the shiny side will face up when you use the coaster.
Catch Candle Drips
You should always use a candle holder specifically designed to catch melting wax. However, if one is not available, a CD is great in a pinch. Make sure it’s a short candle that can stand on its own with a flat bottom. It should also be slightly larger than the CD hole. Place the candleholder on a stable, heat-resistant surface and keep a watchful eye on it.
Make Artistic Bowls
Looking for a funky, decorative bowl? Place a CD in the oven on low heat over a metal bowl until the CD is soft. Wearing protective gloves, gently bend the CD into the shape desired. Seal the hole by gluing the bottom edge to another surface such as a flat dish using epoxy or PVC glue. Don’t use the bowl for food.
Use as Sidewalk or Driveway Reflectors
Forget those ugly orange reflectors. Instead, drill small holes in a CD and screw it onto your mailbox post or onto a wood stake and push it into the ground. Install several of them to light a nighttime path to your front door
Kids' Stuff
Use an old CD to make a picture frame for someone you love. You need a CD, a picture of you that is larger than the CD hole, a large bead, ribbon, and glue. Glue the picture in the middle of the CD on the shiny side. If you wish, decorate the CD with markers or stickers. Use hot-melt glue to attach the bead at the top of the CD, let dry, and thread ribbon through the bead.
~~~CRAFTS~~~
Recycled CD Chalkboard Bunny
Supplies:
any unwanted CD disk
black acrylic paint or chalkboard paint
black, white and pink felt
1 large white pompom
6 tiny pink pompoms and 1 small pink pompom
goggle eyes
whiskers or black embroidery floss
chalk
sponge
magnet
Instructions:
1. Trace the CD onto the black felt.
2. Paint the CD black - this may take three coats for total coverage. Set aside to dry.
3. Trace the rest of the pattern pieces onto the felt colors that are shown in the photo. I forgot to draw on the paper the pink in the ears, so just cut out two pink pieces, slightly smaller than the white ear shapes, and glue in place as the inner ears.
4. Glue the ears to the back of the upside down heart face.
5. Glue the whiskers to the point of the heart, and glue the pink pompom on for the nose. Add the goggle eyes close to the nose.
6. For the feet, glue the palm in the center and glue the tiny pink pompoms for the toes.
7. Constructing your black CD:First glue the black felt circle to the back of the CD then glue on the magnet near the top. Turning to the painted side, glue your large white pompom to the bottom of the CD, and then glue the feet at an angle touching the pompom.
Put a line of glue on the bottom of the heart shaped head, and glue this to the top of the CD. Glue the outside of the paws to the edge of the CD and glue the paw tips in, so that you can put in the chalk and the tiny piece of sponge.
Put your sponge and chalk in the bunny's paws.
Now you have a cute recycled CD Easter bunny chalkboard for memos and messages.
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