18 Non-Candy Halloween Treats
Halloween is enough of a sugar rush as it is–no need to put even more candy, much less artificial food coloring, in your homemade treats and party food.
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13 Halloween Nature Crafts
Halloween crafts don’t have to be all plastic and pre-fab; check out these 11 Halloween nature crafts for some green ways to celebrate!
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8 Pumpkin Decorating Ideas that Let You Compost Your Pumpkin
It’s fall! And that means Halloween is coming! And that means it’s time for pumpkin decorating ideas!
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30+ Halloween Crafts from Recycled Materials
Keep your Halloween green, Friends, with these 32 Halloween crafts from recycled materials!
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How to Replace a Drawstring
ell whoever pulled it out in the first place to be more careful next time, because that’s five minutes of your life that you aren’t going to get back!
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26 Projects to Make with Plarn
Check out all of the awesome stuff that you can make with plarn, including how to make plastic yarn in the first place.
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12 DIY Halloween Costume Ideas from Everyday Items
If you’re planning to make your costume this year, check out some of these fun, DIY Halloween costume ideas!
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Make Plarn Sleeping Mats for the Homeless
The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic–Sleeping mats! Out of plastic bags!–but the truth is that it’s totally do-able.
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20 Recycled Autumn Craft Ideas
Celebrate the change in seasons AND divert some trash from the waste stream with these great recycled crafts for autumn.
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32 Nature Crafts for Autumn
Nature’s bounty is always extra generous in the fall. Make the most of it with these kid-friendly nature crafts for autumn!
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Halloween Recycling Tips – What to Recycle, What to Reuse
Halloween can be a pretty wasteful holiday. These Halloween recycling tips are all about what you can recycle, what you can’t, and some ideas to reuse non-recyclable Halloween leftovers.
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Craft Book Review: Fun with Stitchables and Beginning Embroidery
Fun with Stitchables is for children, meant to teach them embroidery and allow them plenty of practice with the cardboard lacing cards.
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Reader Questions Answered: Can You Waterproof Liquid Watercolor Wood Stain?
You can stain or paint your children’s toys so that they’re bright and vibrant, but then you’re going to need to seal that wood stain or paint using a clear polyurethane sealant.
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25 DIY Magnets to Make
You can make just about anything into a magnet, and I’m going to prove it to you!
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25 Awesome Ways to Reuse Plastic Bottles
From water bottles to 2-liters to detergent jugs, there are so many cool ways to reuse plastic bottles! Here are 25 awesome ideas.
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From Gross Toy to Great Toy: How We Refinished This Thrifted Wooden Shield
Some things you just cannot pass by, such as a great toy hiding underneath a gross one.
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One Dozen Ways to Embellish Wood
Want to bring your wood crafts up to the next level?
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Make a DIY Bird Feeder from a Fallen Branch
Have summer storms done a number on the big trees where you live? Grab a large, fallen branch, and turn it into a cool DIY bird feeder!
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Tutorial: DIY Magnetic Mosaic Kit
Do you ever have one of those moments when you look at something store-bought and think, “Hey, I could make that!”
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20 DIY School Supplies for Back to School
Whether you’re making some of your kid’s school supplies from scratch, or you’d just like to personalize them, these DIY school supplies will make going back to school a lot more fun!
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How to Embellish a Composition Book with a Coloring Page
Read on to see how I embellish a composition book, and try it for yourself.
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How to Make Vegan Buttermilk for Baking
Learn how to make vegan buttermilk in under a minute with only two ingredients that you probably already have on hand.
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Book Review of Outside: A Guide to Discovering Nature
If you know a kid who loves nature crafts, then it’s worthwhile to provide that kid with a guidebook to the natural world, one that shows her the processes that form all the things that she enjoys creating with.
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36 Ways to Reuse Egg Cartons
There are LOTS of really cool ways to reuse egg cartons! Here are 36 amazing reasons to save empty egg cartons instead of throwing them away.
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How to Make Origami Hearts
These hearts are so quick and easy to make that you’ll have a pile of them before you know it.
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6 Ways to Fix a Zipper
A broken zipper doesn’t have to be the end of your favorite jacket, boots, or pair of pants! Here are six video tutorials for how to fix a zipper.
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Should You Craft with American Flags?
Should you craft with American flags? Let’s take a look at the Flag Code and how it applies to upcycling. Crafting becomes a tricky issue when you’re dealing with a national icon.
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Craft Book Review: 51 Things to Make with Egg Cartons
Got some egg cartons taking up ALL the space in your recycling bin?
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30 Ways to Refinish Picture Frames
I love having art on my walls.
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10 Recycled, Handmade Finds on Amazon
I dug into what’s handmade on Amazon and found some really cool upcycled and recycled handmade products!
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How to Paint Carved Wood to Remake Your Kitchen Kitsch
My grandparents, who raised me, were the king and queen of kitchen kitsch.
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2 Easy Ways to Hem Cut-offs
Quick, easy, and when you’re done, they’ll look like a pair of store-bought shorts, not last year’s winter pants with holes in the knees.
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How to Upcycle CDs: 25 Projects
CDs get scratched, and DVDs get left in the car to melt, so I’ve always got my eye out for new ways to upcycle CDs and DVDs.
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Upcycle Motor Oil Bottles into a Workshop Storage System
Upcycle motor oil bottles and organize your garage at the same time! These bottles are sturdy and begging to be reused!
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Raubdruckerin Prints T-Shirts from Manhole Covers
They also print tote bags from utility grates, and gym bags from concrete!
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