This Tower of Hanoi is NOT made from plastic! Instead, it’s made from that likely-looking piece of corrugated cardboard hanging out there in your recycling bin. Cut it up, add some decorations, and you’ll have yourself a brand-new version of a 140-year-old logic game.
You don’t need another set of plastic game pieces kicking around your home, though. Instead, here’s how to make any set of polyominoes that you want from sturdy, upcycled, recyclable cardboard.
These upcycled books are super handy, because you can make them in whatever size, style, and thickness you prefer.
Magnets are a fun and easy way to show off your tiniest art, upcycle your favorite photographs, or display comic book panels, sweet love notes, or pretty papers of all kinds.
Homemade games add an extra-fun element to any indoor play. You can customize your homemade games to perfectly suit the interests and current abilities of your kids, and older kids can even help with their creation.
In the past year we’ve been blessed with lots of new kid-craft books that use eco-friendly methods and materials, and have the explicit intention of encouraging children and their caregivers to live green lifestyles. Here are my favorites!
But alas, Shein is yet another imported fast fashion outlet, even more insidiously unsustainable than the other imported fast fashion outlets.
So if Shein is so unsustainable, why is it so popular, especially with young adults who should know better?
Check out some of my favorite methods for upcycling a hoodie, and find your next favorite fashion!
Are you a messenger bag person or a backpack person?
I think handmade gifts for teens are WAY more likely to be a hit.
Here are three different methods to turn stash and found materials into journals that you can design exactly the way you’ve always dreamed of.
It can be challenging to maintain an eco-friendly lifestyle when you have kids.
A brown paper bag journal is quick, easy, and makes a great writing and drawing surface! Grab a bag from the recycle bin and follow the easy instructions.
You’re going to have the coolest school supplies on the planet when you make yourself an upcycled folder from a cardboard record album cover.
Whether you’re making some of your kid’s school supplies from scratch, or you’d just like to personalize them, these DIY school supplies will make going back to school a lot more fun!
Read on to see how I embellish a composition book, and try it for yourself.
If you want to do something a little special with some of your building blocks, check out how I made these puzzle blocks, and try it for yourself.
Make ALL THE PIE on Pi Day!!!
You can’t always fix this. Sometimes, however, you can!
It’s a fascinating process, a pretty easy way to grow pumpkins, and a great way for a kid to follow the life cycle of a plant throughout its entire lifespan.
There’s a kind of knowledge that you get only when you’re wrist-deep in the guts of a subject, not just watching it and scribbling about it from the edges.
There is a Crayola marker take-back and recycling program!
If you’ve got a kid who loves art projects, then this dyed bean kid mosaic is going to be a rainy day hit!
School will be in session before we know it! Create your own (or your child’s) backpack this year with these amazing DIY backpack tutorials.
If you’re sending a kid to school this year, you’re probably spending over $100 on school supplies for that kid.
All kinds of discovery bottles are easy to make from upcycled plastic jars or bottles and mostly household ingredients.
There are a lot of simple, easy, around-the-house ingredients that will encourage babies through big kids (and even adults!) to be excited science explorers.
Muddy water with oil on top. Huh.
You don’t have to spend a bundle just to show kids that science is fun.
Doesn’t your packed lunch look so grammatically correct now?
Those little notebooks at the Dollar Store sure are cute, but even cuter are the notebooks that you make yourself.
From their science fair board to their cookie booth display, my girls go through a lot of tri-fold display boards. No longer!
It’s a real-life exercise that will make the concept of volume stick.
Kids with parents who have the time and energy or money and energy to provide them with pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning shouldn’t be the only kids who have pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning.
Packing a healthy lunch for your kid can be a challenge, especially on busy mornings. I am with you, parents! My kid’s schools this year all start 30 minutes earlier than last year, and mornings at my house feel crazy short.
Want to make your kid some cute school supplies for fall? You need zero sewing skills to make this pretty fabric folder.
