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One Dozen DIY Board Games

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10 Coraline Party Ideas That You Can DIY

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One Dozen Eco-Friendly Easter Baskets to Make

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Make a 16-Point Kite Paper Window Star

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10 Handmade Books for Children

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Halloween Egg Carton Crafts

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Ten Sensory Materials to DIY

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DIY Dyed Epsom Salt Sensory Material

Dyed Epsom salts are a cheap, easy, and fun sensory material for preschoolers.

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Homemade Two-Ingredient, No-Cook Play Dough

Want a batch of play dough in a hurry? This two-ingredient, no-cook play dough is ready in minutes!

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Easter Eggs Don’t Have to be Plastic! Here are 14 Eco-Friendly DIY Options

my kids have always had a bounty of Easter eggs for backyard egg hunts and decorating and displaying and hiding tiny treats inside, because I am obsessed with DIY Easter eggs. Every year, I can’t stop myself from making a few more of my favorites, AND finding a couple more new handmade egg projects to try.

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20 Cute and Clever Printable Class Valentines

I know printables can get a bad rap, but you really can make printables eco-friendly. And when you do, you can also save SOOO much time, effort, gas money, and product packaging by printing your own class valentines–and your kids can have exactly the valentines that they want!

Below, check out my list of my favorite printable class valentines. They’re all free to download and print, and some are even editable.

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Cinnamon Dough is THE Most Delightful Winter Craft

Cinnamon dough smells amazing. It’s as easy to make and use as play dough. It dries to near-permanence with just a couple of hours in the oven. It’s been my favorite winter activity to do with my kids ever since they were tiny, and now I’m sharing it with YOU!

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Thanksgiving Crafts from Natural Materials

Two Dozen Thanksgiving Food Crafts

Thanksgiving food crafts let you get crafty for the holiday without adding a ton of junk to the waste stream.

There is so much going on, food-wise, for Thanksgiving that adding a whole other component of holiday decorating–much less the crafting required to make those decorations!–can sometimes just be too much.

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Here’s the Best DIY Upcycled Cardboard Building Set

This upcycled cardboard building set is a terrific open-ended toy that won’t cost you a cent!

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DIY Corrugated Cardboard Tower of Hanoi

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.

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DIY Upcycled Cardboard Polyominoes

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.

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20 Homemade Indoor Games

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.

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Easy Stashbusting Project: Stitched Scrap Fabric and Felt Memory Game

This is a great way to use up small scraps from your recent projects, and especially other projects that you’ve sewn for these same kids.

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The Best Eco-Friendly Kid Craft Books Published in the Past Year

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!

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Three Dozen DIY Building Block Crafts

There are so many ways to create your own building block sets, so many ways to embellish old or thrifted block sets to make them playable in an all-new way, and so many ways to upcycle blocks so that you can enjoy them in brand-new ways.

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New Toys from Old Toys: Painted Building Blocks

Whether you’re refurbishing a kid’s hand-me-down building blocks for a new generation, or adding new interest to a current toy, painting building blocks is an excellent way to turn an old toy into something brand-new and exciting.

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How to Clean and Refurbish Old Wooden Building Blocks

Here’s how to deep clean wooden building blocks and simple wooden toys, how to refurbish them, and even how to polish them up so they look beautiful and fancy and like the high-quality heirlooms that they are.

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20 Summer Camp Crafts for a Kid-Friendly Summer

Take a few pages out of the camp counselor handbook and check out my list of my favorite summer camp-style crafts. They’re all highly kid-approved, and you can very likely source all the necessary supplies from around your house, yard, or recycling bin.

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Summer Camp Crafts: How to Make a Yarn Tassel

This DIY yarn tassel is the perfect outdoor craft when it’s beautiful outside, and also a pretty terrific indoor craft when outside sucks.

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20 DIY Cardboard Halloween Costumes

Cardboard is one of my favorite crafting supplies because it’s so accessible and so versatile. It’s easy to cut with a craft knife or a sturdy pair of scissors, it holds great with hot glue or duct tape, it takes paint like a champ, and it’s got great structure to support all kinds of weird, costume-y elements and accessories.

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