How to Make Upcycled Marker Beads
Upcycled marker beads are easy to make, if a little messy.
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How to Reuse a Peanut Butter Jar
That empty peanut butter jar is a miracle of modern upcycling.
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DIY Kid Art Table from an Old Cabinet
Wondering what to do with your old bathroom cabinet or vanity? Turn it into a pint-sized DIY kid art table!
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How to Make Custom Homemade Envelopes
Here’s how to draft a template that is exactly right for every card, and how to assemble it so that it keeps your card safe in the mail.
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How to Make a DIY Photo Card
I promise that these DIY photo cards are even quicker and easier than driving to the store, looking at every single Hallmark greeting card on the rack, choosing one, paying for it, and driving home.
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Get Your Kid a Giant Box
I think that giant boxes are one of the most important things for a kid to have as a plaything.
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15 DIY Puzzles to Make and Play
DIY puzzles are extra fun, since not only do you get the pleasure of solving them, but you also get the pleasure of making them!
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Create Sand Art in Vintage Bottles
One of my children’s favorite projects to do with these vintage bottles is the age-old craft of sand art.
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15 Awesome Sea Glass Crafts for Your Beach Vacation
Sea glass is especially intriguing because it’s a product of both nature and recycling, a rare, almost impossible scenario in which nature turns litter into something beautiful.
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7 Cool Ways to Reuse Styrofoam Coolers
Did you somehow end up with one of those disposable coolers in your house? Here are seven great ways to reuse Styrofoam coolers.
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Handmade Review: Gardening on a Shoestring
Gardening can actually be kind of expensive, considering that you’re supposed to be saving money on grocery stores and florists by growing your own organic produce and flowers.
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Crafty Review: The Singer 2277 Sewing Machine
You know that kind of sewing machine that I’m talking about. Maybe it’s got a ton of fancy stitch settings. Maybe you just press a button and boom, it hems your skirt. Maybe it does some cute embroidery while it’s at it.
And yeah, maybe it costs a thousand bucks.
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Sew Much Better: Reducing Your Fabric Water Footprint
Cotton is a thirsty and chemical-intensive crop. Here’s how to choose fabric for your next project that reduce your fabric water footprint.
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The Right to Repair is Not Universal
Did you know that copyright law might stand between you and your right to repair something that you bought with your money?
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Spotted: Paper Fortune Cookies from Unsophisticook, and 4 other Stash-Busting Valentines
We have a homemade valentine rule in our house.
I mean, obviously.
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How to Make a Girl Scout Cookie Box Bunting
It’s a cute and colorful decoration for a kid, especially if she’s a Girl Scout, and it’s an excellent one for a Girl Scout cookie booth, as it shows off all the different types of cookies that are on offer.
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How to Repair a Dried-out Ballpoint Pen
You can’t always fix this. Sometimes, however, you can!
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Make an Ornament Hanger
There’s no reason to ever buy a package of ornament hangers at the store, not when you can make an ornament hanger from scratch in less than a minute.
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How to Tell if Wood Pallets are Safe for Crafting
Not all wood pallets are created equal! If you’ve got a DIY pallet project in the works, it’s important to learn how to tell if wood pallets are safe.
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How to Lengthen Pants with a Ruffle
I’m going to show you how you can lengthen pants quite easily by adding a bit of ruffled fabric at the bottom hem.
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Halloween Cleanup: Bulk Up Your Craft Stash
Think of your Halloween cleanup as a salvage mission! If you do it right, you can totally bulk up your craft stash.
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Chalk Techniques You Never Knew Before!
How do you make sure that your chalk art is as cute as your finished chalkboard?
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DIY Halloween Costume: Monster Headband
Turn an old headband into a quick and easy DIY Halloween costume using items you already have in your crafts stash.
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How Do You Engrave Rocks? You Use a Dremel!
How DO you engrave rocks? With a power tool, of course!
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My 18 Favorite Fall Nature Crafts for Kids
Whether or not you’re as obsessed with fall nature crafts as we are, I hope that you’ll find many ideas to delight you in the following list of our favorite projects.
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How to Make Waxed Fabric
The process is simple, the results are natural (although NOT vegan), and when you’re finished, you’ll have a sturdy, water-resistant fabric that you can sew into whatever you like.
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Upcycle Crayons into a Good Cause with the Crayon Initiative
Did you ever wonder what happens to those restaurant crayons when your meal is done?
One guy did, and the answer that he got is changing lives.
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There is FINALLY a Crayola Marker Recycling Program
There is a Crayola marker take-back and recycling program!
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Stop Making Crayon Candles
Pro tip: There is more than one way to make a crayon candle. Here, I’ll break down which method for making crayon candles works and which one doesn’t.
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Make Miniature DIY Flower Pots from Old Bottle Caps!
You’ve seen bottle caps turned into all sorts of cute things. But what about those bigger caps? Turn them into miniature DIY flower pots!
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How-to: DIY Wooden Children’s Toys Made from Pallet Wood
Upcycle old pallets into wooden childrens toys. It’s actually a lot easier than you might think!
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Is an Electric Tiller a Good Choice for You?
Here is my personal evaluation of the electric tiller as compared to some of my other favorite garden-clearing methods. Is an electric tiller for you? Read on and see!
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DIY Spooky Ghost Garland from Old Dryer Sheets
It’s not too early to start planning for Halloween. All you need is a little dryer sheet craft inspiration! (And some glue.)
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Balloon Releases are Bad, No Matter What Balloon Makers Say
I thought, “Hmm, is it possible that the negative effects of balloon releases are exaggerated? I took the two main claims from these seller and manufacturer sites–that latex balloons biodegrade, and that they do not harm wildlife–and I did my own research.
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13 Plastic Bottle Reuses (+ how NOT to reuse them)
The best way to reduce the number of plastic bottles in landfills is to avoid buying them in the first place. Reuse is second best, but when you can’t avoid them, try one of these clever plastic bottle reuses to give them a new life!
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