Do you know what’s great about DIY projects? Everything. When you make items yourself, you can choose projects that suit your tastes, create them in your choice of colours/textures, and then use them to your heart’s content. Not only is DIY projects interesting, it also encourages us to reduce waste, upcycling unused materials and making them to be useful for ourselves.
As you know, many restaruants and cafes have reduced the use of disposable straws in recent years as an effort to be more environmental friendly. For those who still prefer to use straws, many have adopted the use of reusable silicon straws so what happened to those disposable straws that you may find sitting idle at the back of your kitchen drawers? Let’s be creative and explore a piece of DIY home decor, a modern minimalist wall clock using these disposable straws!
Materials:
- Black Disposable Straws
- White cardboard (medium hardness will do)
- Clock Mechanism
- Craft Studs
- Black Permanent Marker
- Scissor
- Glue
