Wed 27 Dec 2006
At this time of year, a lot people end up eating more than their of own body weight in individually wrapped chocolates and as pleasurable as it is to undo all those little tiny chocolately presents, it’s a whole lot of packaging going to waste too.
Around here (and at my mum and dad’s house), said wrappers instantly become cat toys but ones that are only interesting until the point the cat actually catches them (fickle cats that they are).
So what else can we do with them once the cats are bored? I’m thinking particularly those ones that fold out to be squares of transparent plastic or foil because they seem to be the most obviously reusable but any suggestions are welcome, of course.
(Photo by Gastonmag - insert your own “But Ambassador…” joke here)





Amanda Kerik
December 30th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Crumpled up they make quite good scouring pads.
You can wrap candy in it for a treasure hunt.
Crumpled around a small stick makes them into very basic beads - which 5 year olds would like I’m sure.
If you get enough of them you could smooth them out and use them as reflectors in solar ovens (black box with foil inside).
Use it to wrap special notes to your child and put it in her lunch box - the gold / silver will catch her eye.
If shaped right these could be play coins.
Maybe use them as very cheap gold foil in crafts.
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Rosie Angel
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am
\i \was a WW2 baby so i have memories of mass revycling form that time.
I belonged to a dance tropp and we used the metlliac sweet wrappers on our costumes….the ony faris not oncouons was butter musin so that got dye an buttons were made from cadrboard and the covered ewith the sweet wrappers. Jewellery was made this way too. it looked very effective undr the lishgts on stage.
so I AM SAYING USE FOR DRESSING UP AND FANCY DRESS PROJECTS,
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Emms
January 10th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Kids could use them to decorate their thank you letters after christmas
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Lesley
January 30th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
There’s a lovely story by Rumer Godden where two children make an icon for their Russian housekeeper from sweetpapers.
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Solomon Broad
January 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
See if your local primary school collects them for art projects.
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Rúna Björg
January 30th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
My sister uses them to make Christmas decorations.
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fishcake_random
February 5th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
you can use them for card making of scrapbooking.
you can also stich them together and make durable garden decorations.
cutting out shapes and using them as window decs.sun catchers.
making a mobile.
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lesley
April 11th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
do you think u can somehow set them in some clear resin to make durable beads for jewellery?
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Anonymous
November 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
yes, you can put almost anything into resin… you’d need to research thoroughly though!
xx
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renee
February 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
I’ve done this! It works great!
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joe
January 7th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
why are ya all jabbering on bwt sum crappy sweet wrappers? lol
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sue
February 12th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
get a brain, then come back.
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Rosie
March 31st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
joe if you cant offer an idea for recycling please dont just express you offensive opinions here. They are not welcome.. and do try to stop talking like a txt message.. you dont have to count your letters here.
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porsha
March 31st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
i like to recycle stuff that help the earth and
community.
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jess
June 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
renee- i wud love to see a picture of how you do this!!
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