Craft Solutions for Treatment Toss-Aways

It’s too late to submit to Ready Made Magazine’s Macgyver Challenge for creative uses of prescription bottles but we can work on our own crafts that make use of the remnants of cancer treatment.

From plastic, comes life.

The web is full of great recycled item craft ideas. Here are a few links that make use of some of the things we collect as patients:

CraftZine.Com has a great list of things to do with plastic bags (pharmacys, grocery stores, and doctors offices seem to always send you home with one of these).

For some great (and positively down-home) ideas on what to do with all of your prescription bottles check out this list at aboutmyplant.com, or this collection of ideas from FamilyCrafts.com - it includes this cool grow magnent (pictured), and BohemianRevolution.Com has a few great ideas as well.? Now we just need to figure out what to do with those far-out red ones from Target.

If you are handy with needlecrafts you might be interested in this Pill Needlepoint project over at Craftster.com or this headband pattern (perfect for creating the illusion of fluffy pre-chemo hair) from CraftZine.com.

Hopefully next-up on Ready Made’s Macgyver Challenge will be: nose clips, medical tubing, hospital gowns, and kytril packaging. Why not see what you can come up with?