Back in the summer my nieces & I made these super easy, very pretty suncatchers. I made these with a non-stop talking, bubbly 7 year old fashionista & a 10 year old whos creative brain is busting at...

Melted Plastic Beads - Coloured Torso: This instructable shows what you can make with plastic beads, also known as HAMA beads. I am in college doing art and design, and i was doing a project based on male and female, and i was using different media and coming up with different ideas.. ho…

At collage last year I was lucky enough to attend an artist's work shop at the Whitworth Gallery, and spent the day manipulating and melting plastics. Using a variety of techniques and highlighting areas with paints I was able to produce a wide range of textures, patterns and outcomes. I enjoyed using this technique and thought it a very cost effective material! This led me to try and recreate some of the surfaces I have recorded so far and spent a day playing with layering plastics, using…

Images Curtesy of http://www.gulnurozdaglar.com Sometimes the things people create, are so beautiful, so absolutely magical, and lovely that you can't even imagine what the creation is even made out of. It's even more amazing when you find out that the art is made out of something we consider to be garbage, or in my house…

We have been working on a 'Dale Chihuly' project this week. I saw a lesson on Pinterest. ~~~Oh, Pinterest, how in the world did I ever teach anything before I started pinning? I'll have to teach until I am 70 before I run out of ideas and lets face it, that's not gonna happen.~~~ The original lesson was from Arts for Life and I thought 'Cool!' and gave it a shot. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but my circles did not turn out quite so, uhm, circular. Not being one to give up easily (and after…

Our family loves the arts, and we also love creating our own works of art. A few months back I read about a very cool art project for kids on the blog Mary Making and it inspired me to do a similar project with my children. The project was to create a plastic sculpture that resembles one of Dale Chihuly’s fantastic glass sculptures. I wanted this to be an all-encompassing project, where we learned about the artist before embarking on the actual art project. I think that the idea of exposing…

Learn how to make your own art and crafts using melted plastic bottles. Melting plastic can cause dangerous fumes so follow these steps carefully.

Most of us simply toss empty plastic bottles away without a second thought. However, learning to melt and mold them is an inexpensive hobby that will let you explore your creative side while also giving those bottles a brand new existence. You can make a myriad of different things, from jewelry to figurines to holiday decorations, and are limited only by what your mind can conceive.

This project was inspired by another bloggers post, which I can’t find again on Pinterest, so will have to edit it back in later when I can find it. Anyway, I ended up doing something comple…