7 Recycled cardboard creations

Remember your school days when you were asked to make things out of waste. It’s true that you can actually make unimaginable things out of those used cardboard shoe and television boxes. Need not worry all you would need is some used cardboard boxes, knives or scissor and some glue. If you can’t find boxes at your home then ask your friends and neighbors or you can get it easily from a wine shop, electronics appliances outlet.

recycled cardboard creations

Here is a list of 7 such creative products that you can make from cardboard and that too at a low cost. You just need to have some patience and spare time.

1. A Solar-powered oven

Making a solar powered product out of cardboard sounds great isn’t it? You can get yourself a solar oven using things that can be easily available at your home. All you need is to find a place which receives ample sunlight for the whole day. Now attach some aluminum foil to a cardboard box that is spacious enough to keep food. And your home made solar powered oven is ready to use.

2. Kitty scratching pad or chaise lounge

Have you ever noticed you kitty playing around with cardboards. It’s true that cats are fond of them. Why spend fortunes to buy your kitty scratching pads as well as lounges from pet stores. You can learn how to make a cardboard lounge from Evil Mad Scientist’s blog, which also looks lot better than lying around some boxes. Design Sponge also offers kitty pad made out of recycled cardboard, which is a circular coil of corrugated cardboard sides that provides enough area for your kitty to scratch on.

3. A laptop case

You need to get bit more creative to make your inexpensive laptop case that is prepared from cardboard and duct tape to have cord and card holders as well as pockets like that of the usual laptop bags you get at the department stores at $30. Second, your case would look more unique, stylish and also be waterproof rather than those cloth cases. At the same time you won’t need to be worried about it getting stained with coffee or getting pen marks.

4. A sturdy laptop stand

Making a do it yourself laptop stand also needs lot of research and might also need you shell out some fortune. Are you looking for some cheap and temporary solution? You can get a cardboard laptop stand from ecoconscious blog’s green upgrader that can easily hold your standard sized laptop. This cardboard stand can easily come apart making you simpler to pack it into flat pieces and carry in your laptop bag.

5. Tangle-free cord containers

Are you looking out for an easy way to handle your clutter issue and that to once for all? It’s simple just bundle up all your longer extension cords, holiday lights as well as networking cables in to stretched loops. You might have lots of cardboard tubes in your recycle bin. Make use of these toilet paper tubes as cord holders and you are free of all those extra long cords lingering around at your home.

6. Phone dock

Making a phone dock needs more accuracy unlike other cardboard hacks. It requires A4-sized lighter cardboard, non tape adhesives, a thin-bladed knife and all you need to be softer on your hands. This phone dock is not only money saving but also provides space to keep your cell phones upright, handy and also charging when your busy working at your desk or anywhere else.

7. Camera/gadget bag

It’s always risky to keep your bags that hold laptops or your DSLR cameras unattended. You can get step-by-step instructions on how to make a stealth camera bag from Wired's How-to Wiki. It would cost you around $28 to gather some foam from a hardware store and an Army surplus shoulder bag. Now make use of cardboard to support the loose compartments of the bag. Apply foam to the cardboard and place it in those loose compartments making your shoulder bag fully cardboard-based at the same time make it look different and safe.

Aren’t all these things interesting? If you start using your brains you might come up with even more better ideas of using cardboards. All you need is some free time and strong sheets of cardboard.