If it's not flip-flop season yet where you live, it soon will be. After pulling last year's models out of your closet, you might be tempted to buy a fresh pair. Before you do so, check out these five ways to reuse (or renew!) your old flip-flops.
- Fashion forward. An old pair of flip flops can be revived by a hot glue gun and items that you have lying around the house. Glue accessories onto your footwear for an updated look. Nifty additions include silk flowers, shells and buttons.
- Set sail. If your flip-flops are no longer wearable, you can remove the straps, fill the hole with a slightly larger dowel and add a sail. Make two and you can have a race.
- Landscape. With enough flip-flops, you could cut them into small cubes and use them as spongy surface material under playground equipment.
- Functional. Cut up your flip-flops and glue them together into a new shape to create a wastebasket or door mat.
- Art. Carve shapes into the foam for a new set of stamps.