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Home » Recycled Crafts » Pizza Box Crafts

Pizza Box Crafts

March 16, 2020 By Jamie Dorobek 12 Comments

Who knew pizza boxes could be used to make art easels, solar ovens, or a self storing tic tac toe set! Consider making one of these pizza box crafts before you toss your next pizza box.

Pizza box crafts

Before we get crafty, let’s cover a question I often get asked about pizza boxes–

Are pizza boxes recyclable?

In most cities, pizza poxes are not recyclable. Pizza boxes cannot be recycled because of the grease from the cheese. In fact, any paper product that is stained with grease or food is not recyclable unless you remove the tainted portions. Pizza boxes can be composted!

Pizza Box Crafts

Turn your pizza trash into treasure by making robot heads, art easels, or even a solar oven to cook s’mores!

1. Robot heads

Simply rip the top of the pizza box off, and use paint and markers to create a robot face. See more details at Creative Jewish Mom.

PIzza box craft

2. Tic Tac Toe

This craft works best with an unused pizza box. Simple dd tape or paint 4 lines to create the tip tac toe board, and then make a few “X” and “O’ to play the game. I love the “O” were turned into pizzas! This picture was oringially from Excited to Learn.

Pizza box

 

3. DIY Easel

All you need to turn a pizza box into an art easel is tape, a binder clip, and a butter knife. For the complete tutorial, check out Play Teach Repeat.

DIY pizza box easel

 

4. Cupcake Stand

Use tin foil and ribbon to turn a pizza boxes into a beautiful cupcake stand. Picture oringially from Mom’s Mish Mash.

DIY Pizza box cupcake tower

5. Monster 

Here’s a simple way to dress up a pizza box for a birthday party with construction paper! Just add teeth to transform the box into a monster! For more pictures, check out Today is my someday.

Pizza box monster

6. Marble Painting

Use a pizza box to contain a marble painting mess. Check out Playing house for more details. 

Marble painting with a pizza box

7. Solar Oven

With a little aluminum foil, construction paper, and a pizza box you can make a solar oven and cook s’mores! Who knew? For the complete tutorial check out Steve Spangler Science.

DIY solar oven smores

 

 

8. Landforms

I love the idea of adding wax paper to the bottom of a used pizza box and turning into a landform box with play dough. For more details, check out Crafting a green world.

Pizza box landforms

Pizza box organization

9. Nature Collection

Use your pizza box to collect and display nature treasures!  For more details, check out I love to create.

Pizza box nature collection

10. Portfolio

If you’re a teacher. pizza boxes are perfect for student portfolios. If you’re a parent, this is a genius way to save your child’s art through the years. For more details, check out Lakeshore Learning.

Pizza box portfolio

11. Drying rack

Stack and glue multiple clean pizza boxes together to create a drying rack for art work. Genius!

pizza box

12. Fundraiser idea

Create a unique fundraiser where each child decorates a pizza box and then parents order a pizza and it is delivered in their child’s box! A portion of the sales is donated to the school. Genius! For more information about how the fundraiser is organized, check out Iowa City Press.

Pizza box fundraiser idea

Pizza tables as organizers

Clearly, pizza boxes are very useful, but did you know the tiny, white, plastic pizza table in the center of pizza is also very useful?

13. Bobbin and thread organization

If you use a sewing machine, consider hot gluing a few pizza tables to a peice of scrap wood and using them to organizing bobbins. Find more details at Sew many ways.

Pizza box organizers

 

14. Drying racks 

The pizza tables are also very handy to use as drying racks for small craft projects. This would be very handy for spray painting project. Image and idea via Sew Many Ways.

Pizza box table drying rack

15. Phone holder

You never know when you need a little help holding your phone. Keep a pizza table in the junk drawer in case you need a quick family selfie or an easier way to read that new recipe you’re trying for dinner. Image and idea via Sew Many Ways.

Pizza table as a phone holder

Which pizza box craft were yo most surprised by? I’m all about the solar oven! How have you ever crafted or organized with a pizza box? I’d love to hear…

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Comments

  1. Sophia White says

    March 26, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    It’s a great idea to keep kids busy with some creative task!

    Reply
  2. Handbell Honey says

    September 7, 2013 at 7:53 am

    I store my vintage handkerchief collection in them. I tried to buy one @ our local pizzeria and they gave me one for free, It works great – you can iron them and lay them flat so they’re ready to go!

    Reply
    • Jamie Dorobek says

      September 8, 2013 at 12:44 pm

      That’s a great idea!

      Reply
  3. JJ says

    February 4, 2013 at 11:37 pm

    I use pizza boxes when I spray paint small thing, Works great.

    Reply
    • Jamie Dorobek says

      February 5, 2013 at 1:19 am

      great tip!

      Reply
  4. Janel from NellieBellie says

    January 12, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    This is great!! Pinned and stumbled!

    Reply
  5. Rachel G says

    January 7, 2013 at 9:11 am

    haha! I’ve never thought of making any kind of craft out of a pizza box. I do use the cardboard for a firestarter for our bonfires, but that’s it! 😛

    Reply
  6. Brie - BreezyPinkDaisies says

    January 6, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    I never thought of using a pizza box for storage or anything like these! Love it! I have used a pizza box to make a barn star though! Thanks for sharing

    Brie @ Breezy Pink Daisies

    Reply
  7. Megan says

    January 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    These are fantastic ideas. I never imagined using one for crafts…I guess I’ll have to next time. 🙂

    Reply
  8. Carrie says

    January 6, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    I have just started bookmarking some of the awesome & awe-inspiring crafting blogs online, especially those focusing on upcycling, and I LOVE yours, especially as our local PhDumpster guys call me the BIGGEST recycler in town! I’m fanatical, maybe even obsessive, about collecting & chronicling my 3 sons “skool years” and their journey into “pink-wearing, quiche-eating He-man-hood” & I use pizza boxes to hold all of those odd-sized bits & pieces from school, life, etc that you don’t want to fold or they’re too small, too big or too fragile for the tradional, larger paper memory boxes; also when it’s gift giving time for teens I like to get a $5 GC to our local Little Cae*a*s and put it in one of their pizza boxes along with a Dollar Store pizza cutter & you have an almost instant, cost efficient gift any teen will salivate over!

    Reply
  9. Hannah says

    January 4, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    What great ideas!! I’ll never look at a pizza box the same.

    Reply
    • Jamie Dorobek says

      January 4, 2013 at 5:10 pm

      haha! me either!

      Reply

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