Eco-friendly Furniture Coasters: Make a Recycling Craft

Here is an eco-friendly craft in which juice container lids and rags are recycled to make furniture coasters. This craft can be assembled quickly and uses recycled materials. Here is how to recycle plastic juice container lids and rags to make free furniture coasters.

For the recycled furniture coaster craft, you will need:

Plastic juice container lid
Sweatshirt cloth or other thick material
T-shirt cloth or other thin material
Scissors
Sewing kit
Thimble (recommended.)

Recycled Furniture Coaster Craft Step #1: Cut the material for the craft:

Remove the juice container lid tab with scissors. Trace three circles on the sweatshirt cloth, using the juice can lid as a guide. Cut out the cloth circles an eighth inch wider than the juice container lid, so the lid edges will rest on cloth. Cut a circle from the T-shirt material extending an inch from the juice container lid each way.

Recycled Furniture Coaster Craft Step #2: Assembling the padding for the craft:

Sew together the three sweatshirt cloth circles with a heavy-duty sewing needle. While forcing the sewing needle through the sweatshirt cloth layers, be careful not to impale your thumb with the sewing needle. Only a few stitches are needed, enough stitches to hold the recycled material circles together.

Recycled Furniture Coaster Craft Step #3: Adding the padding to the craft:

Fasten the recycled cloth padding to the inside of the juice container lid. Glue or a heavy-duty staple can be used, but duct tap is easier. Fold a four-inch long piece of duct tape over itself. Attach the duct tape to the lid bottom and then attach the sweatshirt material to the duct tape.

Recycled Furniture Coaster Craft Step #4: Adding the finish to the furniture coaster:

Place the juice container lid on the T-shirt cloth circle, material side up. Fold the T-shirt cloth over and sew the recycled material to the bottom of the furniture coaster. The T-shirt material will wrinkle and fold, sew through the folds and anchor it into the sweatshirt material. Sewing into the sweatshirt cloth is difficult; take care not to stab your fingers with the sewing needle. Fabric glue can replace sewing, but I don't know if fabric glue will hold.

Repeat this craft as necessary until you have enough recycled furniture coasters for your furniture. These recycled furniture coasters work best with furniture with legs no wider than three inches. The homemade economical furniture coasters will protect your rug and are made entirely from recycled materials, saving you money.