Newspaper Basket

I find using waste material in some way or the other quite interesting. It is because it enhances your creativity and moreover helps in getting rid of the waste material in environmental friendly way. Now each house has newspapers which are of no use after sometime. We can create wonders using these newspapers; we just need time to make use of it. I used newspapers for making a small basket which can carry light weight things like cosmetics, medicines, flowers etc.. 

We just need newspapers and glue to make the basic structure of the basket. Firstly, roll a page of newspaper into a thin tube like structure with the help of a thin pencil. Then these tubes are rolled into spiral fashion to get circular shape. Size of the circles depends on your requirement. Lastly, just paste them carefully to get the desired frame.

One tip that you must apply while trying it is that once circles of newspaper are done then just apply glue on both sides of the circle to make it more secure.  Also you need to be very careful while pasting these circles together to make sure they don’t fall off. Once you are done with pasting just let it stand for about 4-5 hours. Afterwards, just do the coloring and you can also paste any kind of beads, stones or other things to decorate it.

The basket that I have made is circular and I have used three different sizes of the newspaper circles- Larger circle for the base and other two in the walls of basket. Have a look at the picture of the basket that I have made-

I am also working on the wall hanging using these newspaper tricks but it will take some time to get completed. Once it gets done then I will surely share on my blog. Till then just think the other ways in which we can recycle the waste material.