Need a little oomph to get you through a long craft session? Here are 2 easy energy bar recipes for craft addicts! One is vegan, the other…I’m not sure.
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Add fun and color to your fridge with these DIY mini magnetic chalkboards! They’re made from old mason jar lids.
Make DIY Mini Magnetic Chalkboards from Mason Jar Lids Read More 👉
You don’t have to spend a bundle just to show kids that science is fun.
Cool Science Experiments: Make a Soda Bottle Cartesian Diver Read More 👉
A lot of homemade soft scrub recipes call for toxic ingredients like bleach. This is the easiest, most budget-friendly homemade soft scrub that you can make. And it works like a charm!
Homemade Soft Scrub: Bleach Free and Effective (+ green cleaning basics!) Read More 👉
Having a tough time keeping the birds away from your strawberry patch? Decoy strawberries keep birds away from strawberries with homemade trickery.
Keep birds away from strawberries with DIY decoy strawberries! Read More 👉
How would you like to paint with crayons?
How to Paint with Crayons Read More 👉
Doesn’t your packed lunch look so grammatically correct now?
How to Make a Decoupaged Lunch Box Read More 👉
If you haven’t been feeding the birds all winter, this is a great time to start! And if you have been feeding them all winter, this is a great time to mix things up by adding some new homemade bird feeders to welcome the spring migrants.
The 20 Best Bird Feeders That You Can Make Read More 👉
Pysanky is like Egg Dyeing: Master Level, except that it’s actually quite accessible–my eight-year-old did it, and my ten-year-old, and my husband, and fumble-fingered ME!
We Made Pysanky Eggs–and So Can YOU!!! Read More 👉
Because you’ve got to give the kids something to do while you drink green beer.
Are you ready to make some vegan snow ice cream recipes that’ll knock your snow boots off? Butter Pecan and Chocolate Macadamia Nut – so yummy and easy!
2 Delicious Vegan Snow Ice Cream Recipes Read More 👉
Past me sure would have liked this video on how to sharpen a dull Xacto knife, instead of springing for new blades all the time.
Dull Xacto Knife? Sharpen it! [video] Read More 👉
Because you really don’t need that many hard-boiled eggs.
How to Blow out an Egg Read More 👉
Feel less guilty about polishing off that box of Thin Mints. Save the cardboard for one of these Girl Scout Cookie box crafts!
15 Girl Scout Cookie Box Crafts Read More 👉
Here’s how I constructed two superhero costumes out of nothing but old T-shirts, fold-over elastic, and some thread.
The Awesomes: Superhero Costumes Sewn from Old T-shirts Read More 👉
It is really not that hard to sew jersey knit fabric, and even to applique it, without any kind of fusible webbing whatsoever.
How to Applique Jersey Knit without Using Fusibles Read More 👉
A lens cap leash is nice if you’ve got a wandering lens cap, like I do, but it’s also extremely handy for keeping track of your lens cap for you while you’re busy shooting photos.
Make a DIY Camera Lens Cap Leash Read More 👉
The ubiquitous art of coloring Easter egga has gotten weird, as every year marketers try to make your kids want to buy something ever more elaborate, just to dye Easter eggs.
Coloring Easter Eggs: 20 Natural Alternatives to Easter Egg Dye Read More 👉
Whether you’ve got a craft fair, street festival, urban yard sale, protest rally, or, yes, Girl Scout cookie booth in the works, a DIY sandwich board is an excellent, albeit old-school, way to get the word out. Here’s how to make a sandwich board with materials that you can get for free.
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Show your feathered friends some love during these cold winter days by making them some homemade suet cakes.
How to Make Homemade Suet Cakes for Birds Read More 👉
From their science fair board to their cookie booth display, my girls go through a lot of tri-fold display boards. No longer!
Make a Science Fair Board that Your Kids Can Use Over and Over Read More 👉
My kiddos, looking for “prizes” to give away to good customers at their cookie booths this year, created bookmarks out of old Girl Scout cookie boxes.
Make Bookmarks from Girl Scout Cookie Boxes Read More 👉
The one play dough recipe that I always keep coming back to. This is the recipe I’ve been making for my kids for a full decade now.
The Only Play Dough Recipe that You’ll Ever Need Read More 👉
Repairing a broken toy is the WORST! Here’s how to fix a broken plastic toy so that it stays fixed.
How to Fix a Broken Plastic Toy Read More 👉
Did you try to apply eye shadow before having coffee and drop it on the floor? You don’t have to toss that crumbled color. Try this DIY makeup fix instead!
DIY Makeup: Fix Your Broken Eye Shadow Read More 👉
Here are 24 fun crafts for kids that will get you upcycling that old oatmeal canister into something new and fun and useful again.
Fun Crafts for Kids: 24 Ways to Reuse an Oatmeal Container Read More 👉
Here’s a way to build a box set book case that will help with organizing books and keeping them dust-free and ready to binge-read.
Organizing Books with a DIY Cardboard Book Case Read More 👉
It’s a real-life exercise that will make the concept of volume stick.
Cool Math Games: The Newspaper Structure Volume Challenge Read More 👉
What do you get when you combine junk mail and wildflower seeds? One totally eco-fabulous Valentine’s Day craft project, that’s what!
Valentine’s Day Craft: Plantable Seed Paper Valentines Read More 👉
If you, too, have a well-fitting leotard to copy, then you can make your own comfy cotton leotard out of a T-shirt. Here’s how to make a leotard from a tee.
How to Make a Leotard from an Old T-Shirt Read More 👉
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 👉
