|  | From Kate Pullen, your About Arts & Crafts Editor With tomorrow being Earth Day this week's projects have a recycling theme. One of the great things about making things by hand is that we can recycle a whole range of materials into our projects. Happy crafting! Kate | | Make Pull Tab Napkin Rings These pretty napkin rings are made from recycled pull tabs. What a great idea! Find out how to make them with this photo tutorial. | Make Yarn from T-shirts Collect up old t-shirts to make thick and chunky yarn which can be used for a variety of projects. | How to Make Plastic Bag Yarn Plastic bags are another source of material for making yarn. Find out how here! | DIY Gift Packaging Projects Save old greeting cards and packaging materials and recycle them into attractive handmade gift boxes. There are a range of projects with instructions and templates here for you to try. | | | | Related Searches | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Arts & Crafts newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com | | | | Phone Case Tutorials | | Advertisement | |