Are you getting your life ready for a new arrival? You can save money and conserve natural resources by sewing for baby instead shopping at the big box store!
Sewing for Baby: 25 Tutorials for Toys, Clothes, and the Nursery Read More 👉
This is a fun baby game that you can make with an old water bottle and other materials from your stash!
Baby Game: Recycled Water Bottle Sensory Play Read More 👉
Got kids who want to sew?
Let them at it! There are tons of easy, fun sewing projects that kids can do almost completely independently, projects that will result in cute, useful, genuinely satisfying results.
Kids Can Sew! 13 Easy Sewing Projects Just for Them Read More 👉
Got a kid who’s eager to learn to sew, but you don’t have the skills to teach them?
Kids Can Sew with Felt and Embroidery Floss Read More 👉
Try recycled Valentine’s Day ideas instead of buying new — like turning an empty shampoo bottle into a door knob mailbox!
Valentine’s Day Ideas: Turn a Shampoo Bottle into a Door Knob “Mailbox” Read More 👉
Need to find some kid crafts to keep your little ones entertained? These sites are packed with DIY ideas using eco-friendly materials.
Top 10 Kid Crafts Sites for Green Crafters Read More 👉
Most crafts for kids are aimed at ages two and up, but you can do this sensory play activity with babies eight months an older.
Crafts for Kids Under One Year: Sensory Play Read More 👉
What else can your kid do with her old, outgrown building blocks?
She can draw with them!
DIY Natural Toys: Art Dice from Building Blocks Read More 👉
My kiddo used to be over her building blocks. Whereas she once spent hours building entire wooden cities, she’s into superheroes now. So I made these outdated toys brand-new again, kicked her building block play back into high gear, and totally thrilled the socks off of her just by decoupaging comic book images onto some of her blocks.
Crafts for Kids: Decoupaged Building Blocks Read More 👉
A healthy bagged lunch is as much about the packaging as the food inside. Check out these DIY school lunch ideas for a waste-free lunch!
School Lunch Ideas: 7 Crafty Ways to Pack a Waste-Free Lunch Read More 👉
I know, when you think “school lunch ideas,” you probably think food, but how you pack that food is just as important. This simple utensil wrap doubles as a cloth napkin, and it takes maybe 5 minutes to make.
School Lunch Ideas: Make a Simple Utensil Wrap that Doubles as a Cloth Napkin Read More 👉
Since having a baby, I have been getting more into crafts for kids. I can’t wait for the day that my son asks me if we can finger paint, make miniature rockets, or build paper structures together.
Crafts for Kids: 26 Natural or Upcycled Projects for Your Child Read More 👉
The folks at Atlanta Veg Fest asked for volunteers to run some crafts for kids. This fruit and vegetable stamping project is a test run for my table at the show.
Crafts for Kids: Fruit and Vegetable Stamping Read More 👉
Make the Science Fair (or the Biography Fair, or the International Fair…) slightly less of a pain in the butt, AND save yourself a trip to the store to buy a cardboard or foam core display board, because crafting your own display board out of upcycled cardboard is so easy!
Back to School Ideas: A Project Display Board from Upcycled Cardboard Read More 👉
If you’re looking for a fun Halloween craft for kids, or even a craft for a school lesson on bats, we have you covered!
Crafts for Kids: A Toilet Paper Roll Bat! Read More 👉
Gently glowing, flickering luminaries are a beautiful sight in the evening.
They’re also an excellent, easy kid’s craft. Using any old glass jar as a base, kids will LOVE pasting colorful tissue paper squares to make pretty pictures, and they’ll be thrilled to see how gorgeous their creations look that night, with a lit candle inside to start the magic.
Tutorial + How-to: Upcycled Glass Jar and Tissue Paper Luminaries Read More 👉
I don’t know what it is, but babies love a crinkle toy! Here’s how to make a toy that your little babe will love.
Make a Toy: DIY Crinkle Toy Bunny Read More 👉
Before you take the scissors to that pile of screen-printed jersey knit, check out this master list of T-shirt crafts that you can wear–there are T-shirt mods for your top, T-shirt mods for your bottom (ahem…), T-shirt mods for kids, but all of it is just the way that T-shirts are meant to be.
Wearable.
How do I Re-use T-shirts: T-shirt Crafts that You Can Wear Read More 👉
Does your little one’s wardrobe need a little more oomph? Check out these onesie tutorials to deck them out!
5 Onesie Tutorials to Revamp Your Baby’s Wardrobe Read More 👉
Got a onesie that you can’t bear to part with? Here’s a onesie craft idea to turn it into a cute tee for your babe instead!
Onesie Craft Idea: Got a too-small onesie? Turn it into a tee! Read More 👉
Whether you’re a new mom or dad or know someone with a new baby, these DIY baby ideas are sure to rock your socks!
My son just started an infant-toddler program, and I needed to get his diaper bag ready for school! I wanted to make it easy for the caretakers to find all of his things, so I created these zipper pulls to show what is where in his bag.
Have a little knight in training at home?
It takes just a few minutes to make your favorite knight her very own shield out of recycled cardboard. A cardboard shield is cheaper than even a cheap-o plastic toy shield, doesn’t junk up the environment, and best of all–your kiddo can decorate it herself!
How-to: DIY Cardboard Shield from Recycled Cardboard Read More 👉
Not every LEGO project is a sustainable one–that LEGO TIE fighter set that you bought just to build and look at isn’t serving a purpose beyond helping you get your nerd on–but there are a few specific categories of LEGO projects that do help you avoid further consumption and disposal of new goods. Here are several great, sustainable LEGO projects to get you started.
LEGOs as an Eco-Friendly Craft Supply?!?: Sustainable Projects Made from LEGOs Read More 👉
Got some yarn leftover after your last knitting project?
Wondering if you should stuff it back in your stash for perhaps forever? Pass it on? Trash it?
Instead, how about you thrill your favorite little kid by using that stash to knit him or her the most awesome, clever, modern doll outfits ever?
Crafty Book Review: Knits for Dolls, by Nicky Epstein Read More 👉
It’s no problem to find crafts for kids to do.
It’s no problem to find crafts to do for kids.
Crafts that you can do along with your kids, however? Collaborative crafts that work well even when one participant is young and one is old? Projects that an adult doesn’t have be bored by or bossy about, that a kid can contribute meaningfully to, that they’ll both enjoy just as well?
Yeah, those are a little harder to come by.
Crafty Book Review: Side by Side, by Tsia Carson Read More 👉
Independence day is next week. Get crafty with the kiddos and make these fun DIY rockets – the perfect upcycled 4th of July craft!
Need the perfect set of coasters? These coasters, crafted from upcycled tiles, broken glass, and grout, will keep your tables covered. They’re the perfect outdoor project for a summer day, a great project to share with a kid or two, and a useful way to use up extra wall tiles, or even to redo old store-bought coasters. Here’s how to make your own set of mosaic tile coasters.
What’s more charming than feeding the birds?
Not a lot!
And who wants to buy a fancy, expensive bird feeder?
Not me!
To make it feeding the birds more fun, don’t fret yourself dropping the big bucks on pricey specialty bird feeders, not when there are so many great DIY bird feeders to build. From silverware to coconuts, cracked teacups to fallen tree limbs, you’ll find that a lot of natural or recycled pieces that you already have can be utilized to make sturdy, attractive, useful bird feeders.
DIY Bird Feeders from Natural and Recycled Materials Read More 👉
Got some stash yarn? Bonus points if it’s tangled!
If you’ve got yarn, and the few ingredients needed to make suet, here’s a tutorial for a yarn-wrapped suet cake–easy to make, easy to wrap, simple to hang, fun to watch when the birds find it.
Feeding the Birds: Yarn-Wrapped Suet Cake Tutorial Read More 👉
Yes, you can buy bubble solution anywhere. Yes, it’s super cheap.
No, you don’t really know what’s in it.
This bread dragon, served with a cashew and spinach spread, will grace the table at my kiddo’s dragon-themed ninth-birthday party, but our dinners are often served with bread turtles, bread snowmen, bread monsters, and more, all made by the kids just for fun and just as happily eaten–whole wheat bread, consumed without complaint!
Here’s how to make your own edible bread sculptures.
How-to: Edible Bread Dough Sculptures Read More 👉
Want to host an EPIC treasure hunt at your kiddo’s next birthday party? Do not waste your money on cheap plastic or nasty chocolate-filled gold coins; you’re just spending money on trash–literally, in fact, because you know the party kids’ parents are going to throw that junk out the second their kid goes to bed that night.
Instead, wow your kid’s friends with giant hunks of real gold treasure to hunt. The kids will love them, because they look way more awesome and like real loot than anything you can find in a big box party store. And if the kids do eventually get tired of playing with their gold nuggets, their parents can simply add them to their flower garden as decoration.
Because this gold treasure? It’s river rocks, y’all, painted gold.
Got a kid’s pedal bike? Need a kid’s balance bike? Here’s how to convert a pedal bicycle into a balance bike.
How-to: DIY Balance Bike from a Kid’s Pedal Bike Read More 👉
