Did you get any fun gadgets over the holidays but need a case to prevent scratches and dings? You can use your crafty skills to keep your electronics safe and sound!
Green Geek Crafts: Five DIY Projects for your Gadgets Read More 👉
Display your memories from the past year with these five picture frames you can make using recycled materials.
Five Picture Frames To Make Using Recycled Materials Read More 👉
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.
How-to: Make Beads from Colored Pencils (You Get to Use Power Tools!) Read More 👉
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!
The Best Snow Ice Cream You’ve Ever Tasted: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes Read More 👉
Give a necktie a personality make-over with this freezer paper stencil technique that looks just like screen-printing.
Tutorial: How to Freezer Paper Stencil (or Fake Silk Screen) a Necktie Read More 👉
Here’s how to build amazing, made-from-scratch Christmas creations out of candy, sugar, icing, and, yes, gingerbread!
Gingerbread Houses and Beyond: Christmas Candy and Cookie Construction Projects Read More 👉
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.
7 Handmade Baby Gifts Read More 👉
A felt board playset is quick and easy to make, whether you use wool felt, recycled-plastic felt, or felted wool sweaters.
How-to: A Quick Felt Board Playset from Eco-Friendly Felt Read More 👉
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.
Tin Pail Transformations: Two Tutorials Read More 👉
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!
Upcycled Inspiration: Five Ideas for Crafty Reuse Read More 👉
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.
The Craftiest Advent Calendars that You’ll Ever Want to Make Read More 👉
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.
How to Make Recycled Paper Napkin Rings Read More 👉
Six projects to help get your craft space organized.
Your Craft Space: Six Projects To Get You Organized Read More 👉
A clove apple is an old-fashioned craft that’s just as beautiful and effective today.
Make an Apple Pomander Just Like Ma Ingalls Read More 👉
Use an old plastic bangle and some strips of your favorite fabric to create a pretty fabric wrapped bracelet.
Infusing homemade play dough with essential oils brings therapeutic value to an already fun toy.
How-to: Aromatheraphy Play Dough Read More 👉
Leaf prints can be done in any medium and on any material, and are a beautiful reminder of the growing season.
Make the Last of Autumn’s Leaves Last Forever with Leaf Printing Read More 👉
You know that you have treasures. Make yourself a book with a secret compartment to keep them safe.
How-to: Book with a Secret Compartment Read More 👉
A plastic juice bottle and a handful of beans are all your child needs to make herself a simple and satisfying toy.
Kid Craft How-to: Plastic Juice Bottle Shaker Read More 👉
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.
Make An Expandable File Folder from a Cereal Box Read More 👉
A quick project that transforms forgotten figurines into unique pieces for your home.
Take thrifted tea sets and turn them into unique projects for your home!
Ten Tea Set Crafts Read More 👉
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.
Switch Your Balancing Butterfly to a Balancing Bat for Halloween Read More 👉
Create one-of-a-kind magnets using recycled pieces of wood.
How-to: Thrift Store Wood to Refrigerator Magnets Read More 👉
This how-to will show you how to create easy decorative paper envelopes from paper found in your recycle bin.
How-to: Recycled Paper Envelopes Read More 👉
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!
Edible Crafts: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Playdough Read More 👉
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.
Nature Craft How-to: A Watercolor and Tree Twig Pinwheel Read More 👉
A quick and easy project, that shows you how-to reuse your cereal boxes and create fast and cute notepads.
How-to: Cereal Box Notepad Read More 👉
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.
How-to: Pizza Box Playset Read More 👉
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.
Before you recycle your newspaper, reuse it one last time to make one of these eco-friendly newspaper crafts.
Five Newspaper Crafts to Help You Reuse before You Recycle Read More 👉
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.
The Classic Newspaper Hat Tutorial, Now with Your Choice of Paper! Read More 👉
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!
Graffiti Art: All Natural Graffiti Made from Moss Read More 👉
You can have a beautiful and magical fairy garden in less than one week! The secret is chia seeds.
Grow a Magical Fairy Garden in Less Than One Week Read More 👉
