Pizza Box Crafts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

6. Marble Painting

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

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.

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 organization

9. Nature Collection

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

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.

11. Drying rack

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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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