Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle … shiny chocolate wrappers?

By: animepowerranger22

animepowerranger22 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:27:29 +0000

make candy wrapper wallets or bracelets!!!

By: Lillumz

Lillumz — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:10:47 +0000

I have used foil candy wrappers for origami. I flatten the foil with my nail and cut it into a square to be folded. It’s great for modular origami when you have tons of identical wrappers.

By: Deb Oakley

Deb Oakley — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:26:24 +0000

Just realized that Val hasn’t been here since 2008! So…if the rest of you are interested, give it a try!

By: Deb Oakley

Deb Oakley — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:25:14 +0000

Val – I remember making pic’s with my kids using crumpled up tinfoil (same difference). We took the backing off of a picture frame so we could get at the glass. We drew some basic figures/shapes then painted all around them with a few coats of black paint. After the paint was dry, we taped pieces of tinfoil (in this case, use the foil wrappers) over the unpainted drawings. When you turned the frame over, you saw the “sparkly” figures in a background of black. They loved doing it. Got any old frames? If you’re creative, you can make some pretty amazing pics.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:37:22 +0000

I am going to try and use the coloured cellophoane wrappers from Quality Street sweets for making a mosaic/stained glass effect bowl or tealight holder. Some PVA glue and clear varnish should be all I need!? My work colleagues think I’m mad but wait till they see the finished article. :-)

By: natashia

natashia — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:38:39 +0000

im a fashion student and have found that sewing or weaving sweet wrappers makes an interesting and colourful patern, if you sew sweet wrappers onto a peice of material you can create bags or garments and even sell them as they are becoming more popular now because of the eco friendly way of life becoming more common

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:48:36 +0000

because wrappers are making our world very polluted and we need to start recycling more

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:36:24 +0000

No, you can’t “recycle” them as metal, they have too many other chemicals and binders in them. You wouldn’t want to anyhow as they would probably have to travel outside the country to go to a processing plant (expensive and uses lots of oil.)

By: Liv

Liv — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:08:51 +0000

I HAVA HOMEWORK TO MAKE A RECYCLABLE CHOCOLATE WRAPPERS ANY IDEAS?

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:03:10 +0000

I was wondering if it made sense to collect the tin foil and once you have a large enough collection, can’t it be given to a manufacturer to recycle and reuse?

By: Val

Val — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:49:45 +0000

After the 2ww my dad used to make beautiful pictures with these lovely items. We would collect all our easter egg wrappers as well and he would transform them into works of art. I remember my crinoline lady on a bridge. Oh how I wish I could remember how he did it. I do remember a tranfer on glass and something to do with black paint. If anyone knows anything about this I would be thrilled to find out how it was done

Val

By: jess

jess — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:25:04 +0000

renee- i wud love to see a picture of how you do this!!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:07:51 +0000

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.

By: porsha

porsha — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:23 +0000

i like to recycle stuff that help the earth and
community.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:47:40 +0000

get a brain, then come back.

By: renee

renee — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:18:10 +0000

I’ve done this! It works great!

By: joe

joe — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:38:02 +0000

why are ya all jabbering on bwt sum crappy sweet wrappers? lol

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:27:35 +0000

yes, you can put almost anything into resin… you’d need to research thoroughly though!

By: lesley

lesley — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:06:59 +0000

do you think u can somehow set them in some clear resin to make durable beads for jewellery?

By: fishcake_random

fishcake_random — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:34:52 +0000

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.

By: Rúna Björg

Rúna Björg — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:58:49 +0000

My sister uses them to make Christmas decorations.

By: Solomon Broad

Solomon Broad — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:05:24 +0000

See if your local primary school collects them for art projects.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:52:24 +0000

There’s a lovely story by Rumer Godden where two children make an icon for their Russian housekeeper from sweetpapers.

By: Emms

Emms — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:19:18 +0000

Kids could use them to decorate their thank you letters after christmas

By: Rosie Angel

Rosie Angel — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:41:34 +0000

\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,

By: Amanda Kerik

Amanda Kerik — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:15:50 +0000

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.