Below are some ideas for reusing playing cards. Feel free to post your own ideas in the feedback forum.
Bookmarks
If you have an incomplete deck of playing cards, don't throw them away! Use them as bookmarks! You will never again have to buy those expensive bookmarks at the bookstore!
By Kimberly
Decoupage
I read somewhere to decoupage them onto a card table and the backs of the chairs. It looks cute.
By Liz
Decorating Ideas and More
I recently saw an interior designer do a game room and they placed cards around the edges of a square card table making a border and polyurethane over them to make a game table. You could add to this by using Liz's idea of putting them on the backs of chairs as well.
You could buy a package of those jewelry rings that you connect lockets to necklaces, etc. and make mobiles, a curtain similar to the bead curtains of the 70's, or a window covering for kids rooms or game rooms. Use larger rings for the top row to slide onto curtain hangers.
You could even arrange them for a framed picture for the walls.
You could glue them together to make little fans for kids to use in church or on a hot day.
If they have a cute design on the backs, glue them to a piece of card-stock and make it a 3-D picture for a greeting card.
By Tawnda
Card Houses
Kids can build card houses out of them.
By kijay
Refrigerator Magnets
Let the kids cut cool designs out of them, and tape a small picture to the back (card value side) then affix a magnet for a cute refrigerator decoration.
By kijay
Playing Card Ornaments
I just found this. I think it would still be cool with regular playing cards (either the face or the back if it's got a neat pattern).
Crystal Card Game Ornaments:
http://www.azcentral.com/home/crafty/articles/1206craftyideas06.html
By calnorth
Card People
I saw in a cute valentine man made from a queen or king of hearts card. They used pipe cleaners for the arms and legs and had the arm holding a sucker. Sort of looked like the deck of cards from the movie Alice in Wonderland.
By Brandy
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