If you have some stiff plastic credit card type cards laying around (used up gift cards, etc.), you can make your own guitar picks. All you need are some plastic cards, scissors, one guitar pick, a pencil, and sand paper.

With this simple do-it-yourself technique, you can have original and interestingly colored guitar picks.

Making your own guitar picks is not only easy and fun, but a sustainable practice. You are turning trash into useful tools!

Make some for gift giving as well. A guitar player always enjoys recieving the gift of some new guitar picks.

With a pencil, trace the shape of a guitar pick on the plastic card. You can cut several guitar picks from just one card.

With a sharp pair of scissors, carefully cut out the shape that you traced.

Next, gently sand all the edges of the guitar picks with a medium grade sandpaper.

Now comes the fun part - try your guitar pick out on your guitar. You've created a valuable tool from a piece of trash!