Mmm, aren’t those little, triangular-shaped cheeses delicious? They’re not that big but they’re perfect for spreading on crackers and fruits. “The Laughing Cow” is one brand of the triangular cheeses you can find at the grocery store. The thing about those little cheeses is that, if you love them, you love them. That means you’ll be buying many of them and throwing away all those wrappers – unless you use them for a fun project where you can make anything from buntings to magnets. Don’t have any of those cheese wrappers? Just download images of them online.
Make a bunting for your kitchen by punching one-eighth-inch holes in each of the two top corners of the cheese label. Do this to many of them then string them together with twine or small-diameter cord. To make it easier to thread them, make an aglet – the plastic thing at the end of a shoestring – on one end of the cord. You can do that by wrapping a piece of tape around it or using a drop of super glue on it. Thread the twine through the labels by going in through the back of the left corner, and out through the top right corner. Space the labels apart or butt them close together. Hang the bunting across the front of a shelf or elsewhere in the kitchen.
Buy magnetic sheeting and you can make pretty cheese label magnets for the fridge or other metallic area. Just place the triangle(s) on the sheeting after pulling off the peel-n-stick backing. Trim around them to finish. These are decorative and won’t hold weight. To make sturdier magnets use business card magnets. Do you have a metallic range hood? Put the cheese labels on magnetic sheeting and outline the edge of the hood.
Print the cheese magnets onto iron-on transfers and you can use them on aprons, kitchen towels, cloth place mats, and more. You’ll find the computer iron-on paper at Staples or a craft store. Follow the instructions on the package for printing and ironing.
Glue or tape the cheese label triangles to cardstock and make a decorative border for the fronts of shelves in your kitchen. If you have a ceiling fan with no fan pull, tape two of the triangles to cardstock, cut them out, then tape them together, trapping the end of the pull chain between them.
It’s not hard to accumulate lots of the small cheese wrappers, and if you eat a lot of these cheeses, you’ll have enough to do a nice project in no time. Don’t stop at just one project; do them all!
Cheese Wrapper Bunting and Magnets