DIY Ribbon Hangers
Spruce up your closet with these DIY ribbon hangers. It’s the perfect project for beginning crafters. And it’s green!
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A Betta in a Vase is NOT a Green Craft. Here’s the Safe Option.
This great-looking ecosystem is actually a very poorly functioning one.
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2 Easy Energy Bar Recipes for Craft Addicts
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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Make DIY Mini Magnetic Chalkboards from Mason Jar Lids
Add fun and color to your fridge with these DIY mini magnetic chalkboards! They’re made from old mason jar lids.
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Cool Science Experiments: Make a Soda Bottle Cartesian Diver
You don’t have to spend a bundle just to show kids that science is fun.
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Homemade Soft Scrub: Bleach Free and Effective (+ green cleaning basics!)
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!
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Keep birds away from strawberries with DIY decoy strawberries!
Having a tough time keeping the birds away from your strawberry patch? Decoy strawberries keep birds away from strawberries with homemade trickery.
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How to Paint with Crayons
How would you like to paint with crayons?
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How to Make a Decoupaged Lunch Box
Doesn’t your packed lunch look so grammatically correct now?
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The 20 Best Bird Feeders That You Can Make
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.
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We Made Pysanky Eggs–and So Can YOU!!!
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!
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Spotted: Toilet Paper Tube Shamrocks from Pretty Prudent (and More Eco-Friendly Shamrock Crafts!)
Because you’ve got to give the kids something to do while you drink green beer.
2 Delicious Vegan Snow Ice Cream Recipes
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!
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Dull Xacto Knife? Sharpen it! [video]
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.
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How to Blow out an Egg
Because you really don’t need that many hard-boiled eggs.
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15 Girl Scout Cookie Box Crafts
Feel less guilty about polishing off that box of Thin Mints. Save the cardboard for one of these Girl Scout Cookie box crafts!
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The Awesomes: Superhero Costumes Sewn from Old T-shirts
Here’s how I constructed two superhero costumes out of nothing but old T-shirts, fold-over elastic, and some thread.
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How to Applique Jersey Knit without Using Fusibles
It is really not that hard to sew jersey knit fabric, and even to applique it, without any kind of fusible webbing whatsoever.
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Make a DIY Camera Lens Cap Leash
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.
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Coloring Easter Eggs: 20 Natural Alternatives to Easter Egg Dye
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.
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How to Make a Sandwich Board
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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How to Make Homemade Suet Cakes for Birds
Show your feathered friends some love during these cold winter days by making them some homemade suet cakes.
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Make a Science Fair Board that Your Kids Can Use Over and Over
From their science fair board to their cookie booth display, my girls go through a lot of tri-fold display boards. No longer!
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Make Bookmarks from Girl Scout Cookie Boxes
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.
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The Only Play Dough Recipe that You’ll Ever Need
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.
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How to Fix a Broken Plastic Toy
Repairing a broken toy is the WORST! Here’s how to fix a broken plastic toy so that it stays fixed.
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DIY Makeup: Fix Your Broken Eye Shadow
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!
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Fun Crafts for Kids: 24 Ways to Reuse an Oatmeal Container
Here are 24 fun crafts for kids that will get you upcycling that old oatmeal canister into something new and fun and useful again.
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Organizing Books with a DIY Cardboard Book Case
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.
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Cool Math Games: The Newspaper Structure Volume Challenge
It’s a real-life exercise that will make the concept of volume stick.
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Valentine’s Day Craft: Plantable Seed Paper Valentines
What do you get when you combine junk mail and wildflower seeds? One totally eco-fabulous Valentine’s Day craft project, that’s what!
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How to Make a Leotard from an Old T-Shirt
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.
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Make Homemade Fire Starters with Dryer Lint
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!
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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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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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