Making Earrings from Plastic Drink Bottles

You don't necessarily have to buy expensive materials to make classy looking jewellery. Here is just one idea for re-using plastic packaging to make something pretty to wear. I have used a drink bottle, but any other suitable clear plastic can be used to make these sparkly earrings.

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Supplies:

• 1 clear drink bottle or other similar plastic packaging
• glitter glue
• earring wires
• jump rings
• hole punch
• scissors

Steps:

1. Cut the base off your bottle.

2. Cut off a large piece of straight plastic.

3. From this piece cut 2 pieces that are approximately 4 inches by 3/4 inch.



4. Punch a hole into each end of each piece.

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5. Round off the ends.

6. Decorate one side of each piece with glitter glue.

7. Leave this to dry. This could take a while. You can speed up the drying by leaving them on top of a warm radiator.

8. Curl the pieces in half and join with a jump ring. Attach to an earring wire using another jump ring.

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9. Be sparkly and shiny.