Holiday Crafts Writing Prompt

Today's Writing Prompt comes from my good friend, Moderator_Elise, who is the mod for the Save the Planet Message Board.

Elise says:
Hi Everyone, I am cleaning out closets this weekend, and I started to think about how to recycle old clothes. What do you do with old clothes that are still good and usable? What about clothes that are worn out and can't be donated? Do you have any creative ideas for using those clothes so that they don't go in the trash?
I recently took some crummy old jeans, and I cut them up into 5" squares. I sewed them into beanbags for games at my daughter's school picnic. Any other cool ideas out there?
-Elise :-)

This post and the awesome replies on the Save the Planet Message Board got me thinking. . . the holidays are coming up. What crafty holiday gifts can we make for people with things that we would normally just throw away? Not just clothes but everything - magazines, ribbon, wrapping paper, jewelry, barrettes, gum wrappers. . . Clean out your room and see if there is stuff you don't use or like anymore that can be transformed into something new and amazing with your creative genius!

Tell us your ideas in the Comments.

— Sonja, STACKS Staffer

Comments

[Comment #1]

That's a great idea! Usually the clothes that don't fit me my mom gives to my sister. But if they're too worn out and dirty, she uses them as cleaning rags. With leftover ribbon, people can decorate the corners of their room, and with wrapping paper, we can make book covers.

[Comment #2]

What i think i should do if i have worn out old jeans that i bought for my birthday. These jeans were my favorite pair. A few weeks ago I changed them up by getting scissors and cutting off the legs and make them shorts. I took the legs of the jeans ans made them into gloves.

[Comment #3]

you could donate it to people who don't have lots of cloths

[Comment #4]

you can give to the people who don't have cloths

[Comment #5]

Make the old cloths into your family's next Halloween Stuff. Like the Costume.

[Comment #6]

I actually took old pajamas and made clothes for my stuffed animals!:)

[Comment #7]

You could cut them up and make new clothes out of them, like take an old dress and make a cool new shirt with it. :-)

[Comment #8]

I would make T shirts into backpacks by cutting off the main part of the shirt and sewing the part without the trim thingy together when the shirt is inside-out. Then cut a slit in the trim thingy and put a string/rope through it then put grommets in the bottom near where you sewed it and string the string/rope through them and tie them. Now you are done, I think I left some things out but you can comment again if you have questions.

[Comment #9]

i think this is really cool

[Comment #10]

What i do with my old clothes i'll give them to like goodwill or i will give them to my cousin or i'll give them to charity.

[Comment #11]

sup man

[Comment #12]

The clothes that I have I give away in garage sales that I don't need... otherwise I give them to my grandma and she uses them to make pillow cases and blankets for the clothes I don't need anymore or that don't fit. If I found some stuff in mu room i would most likely recyle at my school, like magazines gum wrappers, ribbons, etc.

[Comment #13]

You could cut two identical shapes,such as a teddy bear, and sew them together leaving one small hole. Use the rest of the jeans to stuff it. then, sew the hole. Now, you have a denim teddy bear.

[Comment #14]

Use some of your old clothes to make a quilt. Ask your family member to sew and cut the pieces out. Want something more easy? Find a local shelter and give your clothes to them. That's the holiday spirit!

[Comment #15]

Well I have a few ideas and I was doing the same thing this weekend as well. I was cleaning my closet when I found many many books, that are for kids younger than my age and I was thinking of donating them to charity, but I have to find one first.

[Comment #16]

The simplest method would be to give it to a thrift store like the Salvation Army. But that is totally no fun. I used an old sock and some jean scraps with other supplies to make a stuffed animals! You could also turn old t-shirts into pillows.

[Comment #17]

Hm, I think a good gift will be taking cloth scraps/jeans and sewing them in to bags. I think I'll try that, but without a sewing machine. The sewing machine will take electricity!!

[Comment #18]

I used to collect wrappers from lollipops and other candies to make mini bags for my pens and pencils. To make one, collect candy wrappers(the number of wrappers depends on how big you want the bag to be) and tape them together. Everyone in your class will love your new fashionable, homemade, Earth-saving pencil bag!

[Comment #19]

make cloths for hatite

[Comment #20]

I would make a quilt with the old clothes and sell it for $20 dollars or $30.

[Comment #21]

My mom is packing me and my little sisters cloths that are to small for us because we are donateing them we are actualy giving it to our cousins so they have some cloths because they barley have cloths because the cloths there cost to much in the "Philipeans" and we are also donateing some of our toys because we don't play with them much and some are actualy baby toys that is why we don't play with them, but we have never seen our cousins because my mom has lots of brothers and sisters and they had kids and they are all over the world but I have seen only one cousin of my her name is Rose she is nice.
So I am willing to donate my toys,cloths, and stuffed animals so they will have fun just like everyone who has lots of toys

P.S If we have some more we might send you some toys!

From,
Amber L.

[Comment #22]

You could take your favorite old t-shirt or jeans and make them into a carpet for your bedroom. that would be an fun profect to do on a rainy day. :)

[Comment #23]

i love this game it...ROCKS!

[Comment #24]

why won't you make a quilt to donate.

[Comment #25]

you could take some old gloves cut the finger tips off and make a little hat for a newborn baby or for a doll