Take another look before you toss!

• Transform an old denim jacket into a tote bag

• Create toy cars from discarded cardboard boxes and bottlecaps

• Re-use the pages of your glossy magazines to create whimsical pinwheels or paper dolls

• Weave a basket from plastic grocery bags

From back-to-school supplies to toys, greeting cards, costumes, accessories, home furnishings, and holiday mementos—today your entire family can reduce, re-use, recycle—and reinvent!

Richela Fabian Morgan is a contributing writer for DivineCaroline.com. She is also the author of two books, Noteworthy: Homemade Greeting Cards for Any Occasion and Baby by the Numbers, and the creator of a popular card-crafting kit. Morgan lives in Westchester County, New York, with her exceedingly non-crafty husband and their two especially crafty (in every sense of the word) children.