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Eco-Craft: An Eco-Friendly Menorah

Materials

8 Toilet Paper Roll Tubes
1 Paper Towel Roll Tube
1 long board or box
Recycled Aluminum Foil
Recycled Paper (I used scrap pieces of red, orange, and yellow recycled construction paper)
Non Toxic Paints (I used blue and white)
Non-Toxic Glue

This craft is eco-friendly because it recycles items that you probably already have before they hit the trash bin. So take a look around and see what you can scrounge together while assembling your materials. If you don’t have non-toxic paints, you could use leftover wrapping paper, markers, or the back side of scratch paper instead. No tin foil in the recycle box? Use muffin cups, extra garland, or a silver marker instead. If you don’t have enough toilet paper or paper towel roll tubes laying around, ask friends to give you theirs (yes, they will laugh). You should have plenty within a few days. You get the idea.

Putting It Together

Here’s how I put this craft together, but feel free to get creative and change it up to suit your materials and your kids.

  1. Using your non-toxic paints, paint each toilet paper roll tube and the long board blue. Paint the paper towel tube white. Let everything dry and decorate however you’d like.
  2. Cut out nine squares (about 2-3 inches in size) from the aluminum foil.
  3. Glue aluminum foil to the long board. Then glue each tube to the foil as shown in picture, making sure to place the paper towel roll in the middle of the board.
  4. Cut out the flame shapes from your recycled paper.
  5. Using tape, adhere the “flames” to the “candles.” Light the middle candle (the paper towel roll) first, and then one additional toilet paper candle on each night of Hanukkah.

Post Info

Date
December 3rd, 2007

Author
Jenn Savedge

Category


11 Responses to “Eco-Craft: An Eco-Friendly Menorah”


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    wonderful crafts well done !!! =P

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