These homemade fire starters are easy to make, they don’t cost a thing, and they’re totally eco-friendly! Finally – a good use for the lint from your dryer!
Make Homemade Fire Starters with Dryer Lint Read More 👉
Here’s how the kids turn their Christmas tree into these tree branch paintbrushes.
Let Your Kids Paint with Their Christmas Tree: Tree Branch Paintbrushes Read More 👉
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.
How-to: Make a Drawstring Backpack Read More 👉
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.
Best of Crafting Green: Our Top Ten Posts from 2014 Read More 👉
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.
How-to: Make a Double-Sided T-Shirt Quilt Read More 👉
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.
Vinegar Drain Cleaner that Smells Good Read More 👉
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.
How-to: Easy Melted Crayon Ornaments Read More 👉
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.
How to Make Mouthwash with Two Ingredients Read More 👉
Got some beat-up books?
You’ve got free craft supplies!
Spotted: Book Page Star from House Revivals (and 11 other Book Page Projects) Read More 👉
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.
Spotted: Ceiling Fan Pottery Wheel + 7 More DIY Pottery Solutions Read More 👉
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!
How to Make Clothing Tags Using the Epson Ribbon Printer Read More 👉
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.
40 Toilet Paper Tube Toys Your Kids Can Make Read More 👉
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
Kid Craft: Make Toilet Paper Tube Toy Binoculars Read More 👉
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.
Upcycle that Burned-out Bulb! 14 DIY Light Bulb Crafts Read More 👉
Here’s how to turn an incandescent light bulb into a hollow light bulb Christmas ornament.
How-to: Light Bulb Christmas Ornament Read More 👉
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.
The 16 Best Easy Origami Projects for Noobs Read More 👉
Before you can craft a project with a hollowed out incandescent light bulb, you first have to hollow the dang thing out!
How to Hollow an Incandescent Light Bulb Read More 👉
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.
Make Homemade Eye Cream with Only 2 Ingredients Read More 👉
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
30 Glass Bottle Crafts Read More 👉
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?”
How to Clean Old Glass Bottles Read More 👉
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.
Make a No-Sew Hood from a Babywearing Wrap Read More 👉
Transform an old, hoaky wreath into a sweet upcycled fall wreath using materials from your stash and your recycle bin!
Make a Fall Wreath from an Ugly Old Wreath Read More 👉
You should not have to break your heart trying to carve a gorgeous pumpkin this year!
9 Jack-o-Lantern Carving Tutorials That YOU Can Do! Read More 👉
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.
Spotted: Tic Tacs Flashlight, and 9 other Upcycled Flashlights Read More 👉
You don’t need to buy that canned stuff. Making your own pumpkin puree from scratch is super easy.
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree Read More 👉
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.
How to Sew Cuffs to Lengthen Pants Read More 👉
Is your kid begging for a dollhouse? If so, then you are about to be a hero!
Spotted: Dollhouse from Drawers, and 7 other Upcycled Dollhouses Read More 👉
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.
Spotted: Homemade Chalk Paint Showdown Read More 👉
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!
How to Make Patches for Pants as You’re Sewing Them Read More 👉
Sometimes you want to make a button but you only have, say, a toy dinosaur. Here’s how to make buttons out of basically anything you want.
How to Make Buttons out of Anything with Sugru Read More 👉
The following DIY 3D craft projects all let you experiment with adding dimensionality and movement to your work–no more flat surfaces!
13 DIY 3D Projects Read More 👉
These color viewers are a project that is suitable for a wide range of ages.
How-to: DIY Color Viewers Read More 👉
These DIY 3D glasses are an excellent kid-build, and really fun for kids to play with afterwards.
Kid-Made: How to Make 3D Glasses Read More 👉
Need some puffy paint for your paper crafting but don’t want to spring for the possibly toxic store-bought stuff? Make your own at home!
Homemade Puffy Paint Takes Only 3 Ingredients Read More 👉
For many items, copying an existing piece of clothing is not as hard as you might think.
How to Copy an Existing Piece of Clothing: Vest Read More 👉
