30+ Recycled Newspaper Craft Ideas

By: Melissa Conner, Editor, FaveCrafts.com

Turn yesterday's news into today's treasure with these 30+ Recycled Newspaper Craft Ideas. From jewelry to wall decor, you can use newspapers and magazines to help create all kinds of fun accessories for you and your home.

The great thing about newspaper crafts is that newspaper is easy to find and inexpensive to buy...and there are so many things you can do with it once you're done catching up on the news. Create fun embellishments, make jewelry, and even weave newspaper together to make a plant holder for your living room. Newspaper crafts are fun and easy, and are great for weekend crafting and crafting with the kids.

And every household has a stack of magazines just waiting to be recycled. Now you can dive into that pile with our collection of fun and easy magazine crafts. Create wall decor, make party favors, and even turn colorful pages into jewelry with these easy and fun recycled projects.

If you like crafting with paper and are looking for unique and clever ways to rid your home of old newspapers and magazines, take a look at our collection of 31 Newspaper Crafts + Recycled Magazine Crafts. After browsing through these projects, you'll never be happier to receive the Sunday paper at your door!

Newspaper Crafts
Recycled Magazine Crafts

Newspaper Crafts

Turn the comics into beads for jewelry, the sports section into faux flowers, and start some seedlings growing in the home and garden section. After you catch up on world news, turn that newspaper into new home decorating ideas! These newspaper crafts are easy and fun to make, and are great for the whole family. From jewelry to wall art, these projects can help accessorize both you and your home!

Thrifty Christmas Gift Wrap

"Recycle cereal boxes for table centerpieces! Just cut them to the size you want then cover them with scrapbook paper. Add styrofoam and flowers for a beautiful holiday decoration!"

Dressed Up Decoupage Dresser

"Recycle cereal boxes for table centerpieces! Just cut them to the size you want then cover them with scrapbook paper. Add styrofoam and flowers for a beautiful holiday decoration!"

DIY Recycled Newspaper Tubes Bowl

"Recycle cereal boxes for table centerpieces! Just cut them to the size you want then cover them with scrapbook paper. Add styrofoam and flowers for a beautiful holiday decoration!"

For lots of helpful suggestions on how to cut and roll your paper to create all kinds of bead shapes and designs, click here to see our collection of

Recycled Magazine Crafts

Tired of rereading the gossip in your weekly magazines? Before tossing them in the recycle bin, take a look at these fun magazine projects. Crafting with magazines is a great way to work through all those catalogs and magazines that you have lying around your home...so gather up all your old magazine issues and get ready to get crafty!