12 inventive ideas for recycling potato chips (crisps) tubes in original ways

Sometimes you just need a creative, inventive idea to imagine that a common object that we often have laying around could be turned into something else. For example, the cardboard tubes of various types of potato chips (crisps) can be used for many creative projects - and aimed at creating simple decorative objects and also potentially useful ones.

To tidy up the house, as an original lamp, as useful dispensers of various products that we need every day: these are just a few ideas for recycling potato chips tubes. Find out more by reading the suggestions given below:

Chip tubes are useful containers that do not take up much space inside the freezer - excellent for not scattering small packages, such as those of popsicles, around the whole freezer.

Convenient dispensers for plastic bags can also be created, to be kept inside a cupboard or on an easy-to-reach shelf.

Make a small incision to creat a convenient slot in the plastic lid, decorate the tube and you will have a practical tissue dispenser.

Simply cut away a semicircle at the base of the tube and fill it with cotton wool pads - the potato chip container will become a dispenser for use in the bathroom. And you can decorate it as you please.

If you then cut out a vertical strip, you will also be able see how much you have to go before having to refill the tube with other discs (or whatever content is inside).

The tubes of chips can also become useful storage items, for example for holding the hair straightener or hair dryer. And maybe you can also fix them to the inside of the door of a piece of furniture or cupboard, or just place them standing out on some easy-to-reach shelf.

Cover them with fabric and also add external pockets: they will become colorful and useful tool holders, perfect for example to keep all the instruments needed to knit, crochet or some sewing project in one place.

You can also use them as material for some creative work to do with the children, perhaps turning them into cute characters, like the Minions of Despicable Me.

Indulge yourself by covering them with various materials, such as sticks, old coins, twine, colored yarns ... And here you will have the perfect vase for flowers or artificial / dry branches.

A cute lighthouse made from a tube of potato chips.

An ingenious idea for turning a cardboard tube into a lampshade for a DIY wall light.

Help the birds to feed themselves by coating the outside of the tube with suitable seeds, which you will then hang out in the garden.

Happy recycling!