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Nature Crafts for Christmas: Tree Branch Paintbrushes

Let Your Kids Paint with Their Christmas Tree: Tree Branch Paintbrushes

Here’s how the kids turn their Christmas tree into these tree branch paintbrushes.

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Child's Sleeping Bag and 8 other Summer Camp Crafts

How-to: Make a Drawstring Backpack

Because these drawstring backpacks are so quick and easy to make, and because they take so few materials (you probably have all of it in your stash right now), it’s simple to make one for each activity that you or your enthusiastic young one likes to do.

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Best of Crafting Green: Our Top Ten Posts from 2014

Here at Crafting a Green World, we tend to think that every single post that we write is our Best. Post. EVER!

We’re enthusiastic like that.

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How-to: Make a Double-Sided T-Shirt Quilt

This quilt is light but warm, it’s nice and versatile, and it definitely includes the maximum number of T-shirts that you can possibly squeeze onto a T-shirt quilt.

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Make Vinegar Drain Cleaner that Actually Smells GOOD!

Vinegar Drain Cleaner that Smells Good

It’s super simple to make vinegar drain cleaner that works. But if you don’t like a room that smells like vinegar, you can also make one that works and smells nice.

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How-to: Easy Melted Crayon Ornaments

These melted crayon ornaments are so easy to make that the kids can do most of the work while you’re frantically cleaning the house for company.

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How to Make Mouthwash with Only 2 Ingredients

How to Make Mouthwash with Two Ingredients

Store-bought mouthwash often contains nasty chemical ingredients, and natural brands of mouthwash can be on the pricy side. Here’s how to make mouthwash with ingredients that you probably have in your house already.

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Spotted: Book Page Star from House Revivals (and 11 other Book Page Projects)

Got some beat-up books?

You’ve got free craft supplies!

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Spotted: Ceiling Fan Pottery Wheel + 7 More DIY Pottery Solutions

Some very, very clever people have taken pottery back to its uber-DIY roots and come up with the hacks that you need to do your own pottery, in your own space, on your own time.

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How to Make Clothing Tags Using the Epson Ribbon Printer

When your kid wears store-bought pants and shirts, you simply tell them, “Look for the tag, Sweetie. The tag goes in the back.” But homemade pants don’t HAVE tags in the back!

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40 Toilet Paper Tube Toys Your Kids Can Make

Kids love to make their own toys, and you’ll not find any crafting supply that’s cheaper, more plentiful, or more versatile than the lowly toilet paper tube.

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Kid Craft: Make Toilet Paper Tube Toy Binoculars

This craft project is so easy that an eight-year-old kid could do it.

Heck, this craft project is so easy that an eight-year-old-kid INVENTED it

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Upcycle that Burned-out Bulb! 14 DIY Light Bulb Crafts

Incandescent light bulbs may be going the way of the dinosaur, but there are still plenty of them around. Next time you come across one (hopefully as you’re switching it out for an LED!), here are great crafts to help you divert it from the waste stream.

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How-to: Light Bulb Christmas Ornament

Here’s how to turn an incandescent light bulb into a hollow light bulb Christmas ornament.

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The 16 Best Easy Origami Projects for Noobs

If you’re looking for a totally mess-free, eco-friendly craft project, then origami may just be it–no glue, no glitter, no paint, AND you can use upcycled and vintage papers! Try these easy origami projects that anyone can do.

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How to Hollow an Incandescent Light Bulb

Before you can craft a project with a hollowed out incandescent light bulb, you first have to hollow the dang thing out!

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My favorite homemade eye cream recipe. It has with only two ingredients!

Make Homemade Eye Cream with Only 2 Ingredients

This is my new favorite night cream. It’s a homemade eye cream, and it only uses two ingredients. I bet you even have one or both of them in your house already.

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30 Glass Bottle Crafts

Glass bottles, whether they held your spaghetti sauce yesterday (here’s how to get the label off) or a Coca-Cola fifty years ago (here’s how to make it look shiny and new!), make excellent craft supplies

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How to Clean Old Glass Bottles

Do you ever see old glass bottles, maybe at a flea market, maybe scrounged from an old dump site (we have one of those back in our woods, sigh…), and think, “That bottle would be so great… IF it wasn’t covered in 50 years’ worth of grime?”

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Green Your Halloween Cleanup

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Make a No-Sew Hood from a Babywearing Wrap

You don’t need a sewing machine to turn your kid into a vampire, assassin, young Jedi, ranger, or any other hooded creatures this Halloween. All you need is a wrap used for babywearing, and you’ll have this no-sew hood configured in no time.

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Make a Fall Wreath from an Ugly Old Wreath

Transform an old, hoaky wreath into a sweet upcycled fall wreath using materials from your stash and your recycle bin!

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9 Jack-o-Lantern Carving Tutorials That YOU Can Do!

You should not have to break your heart trying to carve a gorgeous pumpkin this year!

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Spotted: Tic Tacs Flashlight, and 9 other Upcycled Flashlights

Crafting doesn’t only have to involve Mod Podge or a sewing machine, and upcycling is more than just playing with toilet paper tubes and bottle caps.

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How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree

You don’t need to buy that canned stuff. Making your own pumpkin puree from scratch is super easy.

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How to Sew Cuffs to Lengthen Pants

This method that I’m going to show you is a way to both lengthen pants and, if not to actually shorten them, then at least to make the ubiquitous cuffs look intentional.

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Spotted: Dollhouse from Drawers, and 7 other Upcycled Dollhouses

Is your kid begging for a dollhouse? If so, then you are about to be a hero!

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Spotted: Homemade Chalk Paint Showdown

Have you been wanting to make some homemade chalk paint but weren’t sure which recipe is the best? Denise at Salvaged Inspirations tried a bunch of recipes, so you don’t have to.

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How to Make Patches for Pants as You’re Sewing Them

Sewing pants for a kid? Save yourself some trouble in the long run, and just add knee patches from the get-go. Here’s how to make patches that are built in!

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