Best Reuse Projects For Old Board Games

1. Steve Boudreaux

   posted on June 22nd, 2011 at 11:58 am

   Hold on, a minute. Many of the items in this feature are cool, but aren't you forgetting the ORDER of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?" It's not in that order by accident- a smaller footprint results by doing it in order- reUSING Monopoly houses and place-holding pieces, Scrabble tiles, and such, by offering them in CraigsList's "Free" section, so that those who have lost a piece, is much better than making them into shabby-chic jewelry. Please, let's keep our eyes on the bigger picture.

2. Greening Tomorrow

   posted on June 30th, 2011 at 5:05 pm

   Fun article! I actually put magnets on the backs of my scrabble game (lost some of the peices). We put all the letters on the fridge. Now we always leave eachother messages!

3. Lisa Kaas Boyle

   posted on July 7th, 2011 at 3:44 am

   At www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org we add Refuse single use plastic even before Reduce. Recycling is the last priority on the list because it uses resources, may not be cost effective and may pollute. Recycling plastic is generally down-cycling and just one more step from the landfill. Consider the exit strategy with each purchase you make and you will buy less.

4. Pamela Pruitt Hughey

   posted on July 8th, 2011 at 8:49 pm

   Cool

5. Kayla Barker

   posted on September 16th, 2011 at 3:33 am

   Well if you do that you could get one or to people responding that could use the pieces but then you could also end up with a bunch of game pieces laying around not being used instead you can use them aot sooner by making something with them.

6. Bonnie Blake

   posted on January 24th, 2012 at 10:39 pm

   Clean your closets creatively -recycle-reuse! Create art not landfill.

7. Eiko Shiga

   posted on March 28th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

   HELLO

2 Archived Comments

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   Susan

   posted on June 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm

   I have found that old game boards make great lap “clipboards” the best is they store away easily.
   The other game board idea is to use it as a traveling flannel board, I glued a peice of flannel on one side of one color and a differant color on the other.. What preschool teacher wouldn’t love to own one of these flannel boards..

2. 

   Matt Saling

   posted on June 16th, 2011 at 1:38 pm

   Be sure to check out the boardgame remix kit. It’s a clever idea that makes new games out of other existing games that you probably already have.

   http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/12/boardgame-remix-kit.html