We usually take a glance at Real Simple's "New Uses for Old Things" section, but this one had us taking a second (and third!) glance:
Well, if you've tried our other recommendations for homemade art supplies like flubber and glurch, maybe you're up for a little lint modeling dough?
Find the recipe that includes lint, flour, water, and vegetable oil here.
What do you think? Would you actually try this? Maybe it's just me, but I think it'd have to be a really rainy kinda day before we'd resort to this one.
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No. Just, no.
Yuck. My 2.5 year-old is OBSESSED with lint (from the dryer, between his toes, in Dad's belly button, on the duvet, etc) and would totally love this, though.
Yuck. The dryer catches a lot more then lint... (ie hair) Nasty!
One of my older (thrift store) kids' craft books mentions this. I don't necessarily think it's gross, but I'm not sure I'd really feel like making it, either.
I agree, nothing wrong with the idea I suppose, but it's definitely not for me.
I recently read about someone using lint as garden fertilizer, that one left me scratching my head too.
I saw this on their site. And I threw up a little in my mouth. I don't know why, I'm not usually easily icked out but...eeeew.
Apparently I'm in the minority here - I think it's kind of neat. Sure, the dryer trap catches people and (in my house) dog hair along with lint, but we have dog hair on everything and I don't think it's that MUCH hair in the trap. It's not enough that I notice it when I clean it out. Not sure if I'd do it, but I think it's an interesting way to reuse material that comes from your clothes and other possessions, and, y'know, your head.
I have used dryer lint in my handmade paper. I find tweezers handy for picking out the hair, especially the smaller, curlyish ones (ahem.)
If you have no issues with, say, petting a dog or kitty, or pro-creation, the hair is the same, and you KNOW it is clean! Fresh from the dryer : )
Amy Poehler from SNL does a comedy sketch on Colbert where she tries to plug her book "Crafts for Poor People" in it she talks of dryer lint projects...
This has the potential to be fun IF the dryer lint isn't nasty. I remember my mom and little brother using dryer lint as the base for some really cool homemade paper. However, the lint they used came from laundry loads of things like brand-new blankets or fabric needing preshrinking from the fabric store.
Not even the most doting grandparent wants to get a dryer lint elephant craft.
You guys crack me up.
Its Amy Sedaris who wrote that book
Is this another April Fools? The elephant is kinda cute... it made me think about it twice! I guess maybe not...
Oh god. There are limits to resourcefulness. This made me laugh out loud.
Also: the dryer lint, like household dust, contains dead skin flakes in addition to the hair and whatnot. Happy crafting!
EWW! I'm all about being green, but some things just need to be thrown away.
I think I would do it just so he could tell his friends that we were so poor he had to play with dryer lint.
Thrifty or cheap? Creatively quirky or nascent madness? Borderline... on both.
Although... maybe dryer lint would make a good soft toy stuffing? Hmmmm...
If you're looking for something to do with lint then dryer lint, old candle stubs, and cardboard egg cartons combine to make excellent fire starters for camping (and have the advantage of being hygienic which that is definitely not).
Lol gag!! Looks like a cat's hairball!
75% of my dryer lint is pet hair! I wouldn't brush my pet and then make play dough out of it, so no, I wouldn't do this!
Ick. That Elephant is um, not cute.
lol sparklish! actually lol at all comments!
good effing grief!!!
I didn't have any dryer lint... so I just just my cat's coughed up hair balls. Cute right?