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05 April Crafts & DIY Projects Digest

Drinking Straws Basket

Recycling

It’s time to take care of the environment by using those straws to make a wonderful homeware. Today we’re going to use our drinking straws to make a gorgeous basket that will be great for our spoons, forks and other kitchen essentials. All you have to do is get some drinking straws, yeah, you can definitely recycle them and click on the link below to get started.

Materials needed:

1. Drinking straws 5/16″, transparent, 223 pcs. to be cut into halve to make up a total of 446 pcs. of short straw. 
2. Papers from old magazines, cut into strips of about 1/4″ width.
3. Hot Glue Gun and Glue sticks
4. Thick cardboard (for making templates)
5. Scissors
6. Tweezers (optional but handy to have)

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