Five Picture Frames To Make Using Recycled Materials
Display your memories from the past year with these five picture frames you can make using recycled materials.
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How-to: Make Beads from Colored Pencils (You Get to Use Power Tools!)
It’s easy to make colorful, beautiful wood beads when you recycle them from colored pencils! For the how-to, check out this step-by-step tutorial.
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The Best Snow Ice Cream You’ve Ever Tasted: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes
Snow ice cream is a quick, simple, and delicious winter treat. Check out these tips, tricks, and recipes, then make the best snow ice cream you’ve ever had!
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Tutorial: How to Freezer Paper Stencil (or Fake Silk Screen) a Necktie
Give a necktie a personality make-over with this freezer paper stencil technique that looks just like screen-printing.
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Gingerbread Houses and Beyond: Christmas Candy and Cookie Construction Projects
Here’s how to build amazing, made-from-scratch Christmas creations out of candy, sugar, icing, and, yes, gingerbread!
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7 Handmade Baby Gifts
Handmade baby gifts have more heart than store-bought, so you know that your recipient will cherish them for a long time. Craft up these seven baby gifts this holiday season.
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How-to: A Quick Felt Board Playset from Eco-Friendly Felt
A felt board playset is quick and easy to make, whether you use wool felt, recycled-plastic felt, or felted wool sweaters.
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Tin Pail Transformations: Two Tutorials
Something plain and simple can become a pretty accessory for a wedding or a creative container for gift giving. See how a plain metal mini bucket gets transformed- twice.
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Upcycled Inspiration: Five Ideas for Crafty Reuse
We all have slumps sometimes, where those new ideas just aren’t coming. When ideas seem scarce, the best fix is often a little bit of crafty inspiration. These upcycled craft and art pieces are sure to give you ideas on how you can creatively reuse materials in your life and your craft!
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The Craftiest Advent Calendars that You’ll Ever Want to Make
Advent calendars let the fun of Christmas last the whole month of December. Check out these five projects and choose the fun, crafty, and eco-friendly advent calendar that you’re going to make this year.
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How to Make Recycled Paper Napkin Rings
We like the idea of making recycled paper napkin rings because it encourages the use of real cloth napkins over disposable paper ones. And, when they get worn, you can recycle them and make new ones! Here’s a way to spruce up your dinner napkins and table settings without spending a bunch of cash. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, here are a couple of recycled paper napkin ring ideas that should inspire smiles at the dinner table. Both of these ideas are made from used paper, string/raffia and twigs found in and around the house, and are 100% recyclable.
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Your Craft Space: Six Projects To Get You Organized
Six projects to help get your craft space organized.
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Make an Apple Pomander Just Like Ma Ingalls
A clove apple is an old-fashioned craft that’s just as beautiful and effective today.
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How-to: Fabric Wrapped Bracelet
Use an old plastic bangle and some strips of your favorite fabric to create a pretty fabric wrapped bracelet.
How-to: Aromatheraphy Play Dough
Infusing homemade play dough with essential oils brings therapeutic value to an already fun toy.
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Make the Last of Autumn’s Leaves Last Forever with Leaf Printing
Leaf prints can be done in any medium and on any material, and are a beautiful reminder of the growing season.
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How-to: Book with a Secret Compartment
You know that you have treasures. Make yourself a book with a secret compartment to keep them safe.
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Kid Craft How-to: Plastic Juice Bottle Shaker
A plastic juice bottle and a handful of beans are all your child needs to make herself a simple and satisfying toy.
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Make An Expandable File Folder from a Cereal Box
Cameron Blazer from the Cottage Industrialist has created a wonderful tutorial for creating a simple DIY expandable file folder from a cereal box and some other crafty bits.
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How-to: Thrift Store Figurine to Revamped Decor
A quick project that transforms forgotten figurines into unique pieces for your home.
Ten Tea Set Crafts
Take thrifted tea sets and turn them into unique projects for your home!
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Switch Your Balancing Butterfly to a Balancing Bat for Halloween
Whether or not you’ve made a balancing butterfly before, you’ll find the balancing bat to be just as magical, and perfect for Halloween.
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How-to: Thrift Store Wood to Refrigerator Magnets
Create one-of-a-kind magnets using recycled pieces of wood.
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How-to: Recycled Paper Envelopes
This how-to will show you how to create easy decorative paper envelopes from paper found in your recycle bin.
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Edible Crafts: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Playdough
Store bought playdough is full of artificial coloring, and after a while it starts to get dried out and unusable. Homemade, edible playdough is free from chemicals and creates much less waste, since the kids will eat their creations!
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Nature Craft How-to: A Watercolor and Tree Twig Pinwheel
A pinwheel is a gentle, natural, peaceful autumn toy that you can help a child make out of his or her own watercolor drawing and a straight twig fallen from your favorite tree.
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How-to: Cereal Box Notepad
A quick and easy project, that shows you how-to reuse your cereal boxes and create fast and cute notepads.
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How-to: Pizza Box Playset
Two recycled pizza boxes, hot glue, and waxed paper or aluminum foil are all you need to make an easy, versatile playset for your child.
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Three Tips for Canning Safety
Yesterday, we talked about how to get your craft on and preserve the summer bounty at the same time. Home canning is fun and rewarding, but you want to make sure that those tasty canned fruits and veggies are safe to eat when you pull them out of the pantry.
Five Newspaper Crafts to Help You Reuse before You Recycle
Before you recycle your newspaper, reuse it one last time to make one of these eco-friendly newspaper crafts.
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The Classic Newspaper Hat Tutorial, Now with Your Choice of Paper!
Ever wondered exactly how to make a newspaper hat? Here’s a variation on the classic newspaper hat tutorial that can use any paper you like.
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Graffiti Art: All Natural Graffiti Made from Moss
Unlike spray paint, moss graffiti art is all natural and healthy to work with. You can paint words or images, and the moss fills in like magic! It’s easy as pie to whip up a batch of moss paint. Here’s how!
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Grow a Magical Fairy Garden in Less Than One Week
You can have a beautiful and magical fairy garden in less than one week! The secret is chia seeds.
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How-to: Layer Melted Crayon Creations for More Creativity
Layering melted crayons rather than just throwing all your crayon stubs into a mold results in crayons that are cuter and just plain work better.
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