DIY Treasure Locket made from a Dental Floss Container
This post is sponsored by Care To Recycle®
Over the last several years, American households have made significant progress towards greener living. Over 70% of families say they consistently recycle and many kids are learning about recycling at school as well. My family specifically has recently started taking a more active and conscientious role in recycling, after being relaxed about it for far too long.
Although the majority of families recycle regularly, there is one room in the house that often goes overlooked: the bathroom. Forty-percent of Americans say they never recycle in the bathroom and only 1 in 5 people say they recycle bathroom products on a regular basis.
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. has partnered with Scholastic to create the Care To Recycle® Program. This program aims to raise awareness and teach students (and their families) the importance of recycling products used in the bathroom. Both parents and teachers can find helpful information on the Care To Recycle® website. I found the “Can and Can’t” Chart in the Family Magazine especially helpful!
With a little upfront planning, recycling in the bathroom can become a fun family challenge. From adding a recycling bin to every bathroom to finding creative ways to use non-recyclable materials, every member of the family can get involved in a unique way!
Our family decided to make something with something that is currently non-recyclable: dental floss containers! Here is the step-by-step tutorial for how we created our very own DIY Treasure Locket made from a dental floss container!
1. Pop out the top of the floss guide using an Xacto knife. It should come out easily if you pry the edges.
2. Make a small hole in each side of the dental floss container. This is an adult-only task. I found that if I poked a small hole with the point of the Xacto knife and then twisted it around in circles, it made a hole quite easily. Keep twisting until it is wide enough for your string/cord to fit through.
3. Guide the string/cord through the hole of the treasure locket and then tie a knot so it cannot slip out of the hole. Measure the length of the string/cord for the size of your child. Cut the excess off and guide the string/cord through the other hole, tying a knot to secure the locket.
4. Add decorations to the front of your locket. We used washi tape but you could also use stickers.
5. Encourage your child keep their tiny treasures inside this DIY Treasure Locket!
This “locket” is perfect for holding coins and lots of other tiny treasures!
In addition to tons of suggestions for bathroom recycling, the Care To Recycle® program’s “spokesducky” named Pete is hosting his own contest for kids in grades 1-3. Grand prizes include a new bike and helmet for the student and a $500 gift card for the parent or teacher! Your child must write a 150-word essay about why it is important to recycle bathroom products and how they are going to get their family to recycle these items. In addition to the essay, the student is also asked to make a decorative poster showing the ideas in their essay. Entries must be postmarked by October 27, 2015. Parents and teachers can find more details on
Find out more details about the contest here.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Johnson & Johnson. The opinions and text are all mine.
