So, there actually is a “National Cereal Day”?!
Not surprisingly, we say, “Reuse that packaging!,” and have rounded up some reuse ideas on this Unconsumption Pinterest board.
Cerealist (artist) Michael Albert uses cereal boxes as art material. Pictured: Albert’s ”Cheerios on Black” collage, 1998.
Today’s edition: Food packaging
1. Why not make globes/ornaments from cereal boxes or other paperboard packaging? Plumpudding made these globes using this simple tutorial from marthastewart.com.
2. More DIY inspiration: A very cool necklace, made by Bird Ross (photo via PaMdora’s Box).
Want to check out other ways to repurpose packaging? See this Unconsumption Pinterest board.
Creative new uses for packaging, continued:
Wall art, made by Chris Kaasman, via Inhabitat.
(Apparently, I live in a Honey Nut Cheerios state.)
Imagine if a cereal box could be reused as a USPS package. That’s the notion suggseted in the image above, by recent graduate BYU-Idaho Tyler McCann. He sent us news of his final BFA project, which is pretty cool:
The premise for this project is sustainability and your blog helped inspire my mindset while researching and designing.
The problem I found was that we are not making the best use of our resources … . My solution involves companies packaging together, so that the consumer can use the product and then reuse the package.
This method makes it easy for the consumer and cuts the impact on our resources and environment in half.
I would also like to credit my professor Shawn Randall as a mentor.
Good stuff, Tyler McCann!
More here: Graphic Design of Tyler McCann
Empty cereal boxes turned into … display pieces!
For other paperboard box reuse ideas, check out earlier Unconsumption posts here.
(photo via Taste With The Eyes blog)
![My ongoing search for new uses for cereal boxes led me to Michele Pacey’s Michele Made Me blog [mentioned previously (several times) here], where Michele provides tutorials for making these three neat, decorative pieces from paperboard boxes.
To make your own pieces, see Michele’s tutorials here, here (garland), and here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8kuaxkSuG1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
My ongoing search for new uses for cereal boxes led me to Michele Pacey’s Michele Made Me blog [mentioned previously (several times) here], where Michele provides tutorials for making these three neat, decorative pieces from paperboard boxes.
To make your own pieces, see Michele’s tutorials here, here (garland), and here.
Ideas for what to do with empty cereal boxes, continued:
Fold them into … other boxes! The “new” boxes could be used for gift-giving, or keep them to store your own small things.
To DIY, click through to the sources for tutorials: Top: Stuff You Can’t Have blog. Center: Instructables. Bottom: Evil Mad Scientist.
DIY project du jour:
Make mini notebooks from cereal boxes.
For how-to / tutorial, see Crème de la Craft.
Here’s a fun upcycling project from Piikea Street. Using cereal box panels and yarn for shaping, this simple art project can liven up a number of boring walls.
There’s something so alluring about paper, books and book covers for me. This is inspired by @unconsumption and one of the vendors at Market Collective in YYC. I formed a cover from a nearly finished box of Corn Flakes, and had my stray music bound for $4.20 at Sure Print in Crowfoot.
It’s pretty cool to get feedback saying we served as inspiration for something. Thanks, Breanne!
‘Recycle Re-silly Repeat ‘
Give an everyday box a new life for children with wonderful stickers.
“We make eco-friendly, 100% recycled, custom-designed stickers that (combined with a little imagination) turn any old box into a wonderland of possibilities. Good for the imagination. Good for the earth. Good for the pocketbook.”
Via Boxplay
Via nestfullofeggs:
cereal box pencil case
I love coming across something associated with a Friend of Unconsumption that another person’s posted on Tumblr. In this case, the “how to turn a cereal box into a pencil case” tutorial is one of friend Tiffany Threadgould’s (of RePlayGround) projects. Click on the photo to view Tiffany’s well-described tutorial over on Craftzine.
While you’re on Craftzine’s site, check out this other cereal box-upcycling tutorial — making trivets and coasters — posted earlier this week by Rachel Hobson.
