The World Cup 2010 is over for England. We are all asking the question…What is going to happen with the tonne of vuvuzela horns an African horn instrument. Well, on the one hand we can just all keep our vuvuzelas and blow them like crazy at our national football matches.  Since, the vuvuzela is endemic to South Africa the average British football supporter might not enjoy the noise this instrument produces.  So, let’s make use of our instrument and instead recycle it. This way we are still using every single piece of the horn and we will always remember the Football World Cup 2010.  Check out our 10 creative vuvuzela recycling tips:

Most of the creative recycle tips need some sort of plastic cutting or filling with clay or plaster.

1. Looped Earrings

Take your Vuvuzela and with a sharp knife cut rings. The diameter of your looped earrings will change, depending on which place you are cutting. Hopefully,  you have a colourful vuvuzela, so the loops will have nice red, yellow or green colours. If you do not have colour, touch up the loops with some extra colour. Take 2-3 rings, depending on thickness and tighten them together with string or thin jewellery wire. From the bead shop, get a an ear ring fish hook and tighten the rings to the hook. Viola, enjoy a great night out with the most special earrings ever.

2.  Photo Frame

The vuvuzela photo frame is a fabulous gift idea. Preserve and capture the moments for always in a vuvuzela photo frame. Cut a 1 inch ring of the vuvuzela at the widest end of the vuvuzela where it curls to the inside. Take a piece of cartoon and glue your picture on it to provide a bit more stability. Insert the picture into the ring and clue it to the curled area of the ring.  Now you just have to create a little stand with another piece of cartoon and your photo frame is ready. A football fan would love such as special and unique gift.

3.  World Cup Bracelet

The bracelet follows a similar method to the earrings. Cut 4-5 rings of the vuvuzela at a place which fits your arm. Make sure you use the right diameter. Wear all 5 bracelets together. You can decide to add some colour and make them each look different.

4.  Vuvuzela Shelfing

If you are so lucky and you have 2 vuvuzelas, you can build a little bookshelf or desk shelf. Just take the 2 vuvuzelas and balance a light piece of wood on the mouth pieces. This way you make sure that no one ever will blow the vuvuzela again and you have a nice display area for your souvenirs form South Africa or the pub around the corner.

5.  Vuvuzela Rolling Pin

Cut the Vuvuzela where you can see the dents in the horn. Fill this piece with plaster or clay. You can decorate the ends with beads. Now you have a great African rolling pin and you can bake amazing biscuits to relive the events of 2010.

6.  Orange Juice drinking Mouth Piece

This is a great and easy recycling idea. Just cut 2 inches under the  vuvuzela mouth piece. Take an orange, squeeze it until it is soft, then press the mouth piece into the orange. The juice should just come running out of the orange and you can suck on it to get more.

7.  Vuvuzela Coaster

The coasters are very easy. Again, cut some rings of the horn. Let’s say you want to do 4 coasters, cut 4 rings. Fill them with clay or plaster and push some beads in the soft clay or plaster. Let it try and add a coating of clear polish. Have a pint with 3 football mates, who would appreciate the vuvuzela coasters.

8.  Vuvuzela Jewellery Stand

If you just can’t get rid of your vuvuzela you can make a jewellery stand.  Coat the horn from the inside with Vaseline and cut it open along the entire length of the horn. Ty it up again with some strong duck tape so that the liquid plaster can not disappear out of the plastic. Fill the vuvuzela with plaster and let it dry. Then peel the plastic vuvuzela of the plaster. In some areas you have dents or a cove. Use this coves to leverage some hold for strong wire. Form a loop with the wire and slide it onto the plaster.Now you have place to hang your jewellery.

9. Vuvuzela Herb Stand

I love the vuvuzela herb stand. Like in idea 9, fill the vuvuzela with plaster, just to make it heavier, we are not going to cut it and take it off. Go to the DIY shop and get wood which is shaped in a circle and has a whole in the middle. The hole in the middle needs to equate to the  two prime dents on the vuvuzela of which one is close to the bottom (wider part) and one is close to the middle. All you do now is slide the wood on the vuvuzela and seal the wooden rings with silicon or glue. That’s it, add another coating of polish to protect the wood and put your herbs on the new herb stand.

10. Toilette Paper Holder

Toilette paper holder is a very useful tool. Cut the thinnest part of the vuvuzela about 7 inches and line some thread though the pipe. Line up a toilette roll and hang it in your bathroom.

11. Kitchen Paper Roll Stand

You can also use the vuvuzela as a kitchen paper roll holder. In fact, you don’t even have to change anything. Just put the role on the thin end of the horn and place it in your kitchen.

Enjoy your creative recycling of your vuvuzela.

-maricki

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