A Thrift Store Mug Makeover for Father’s Day
This adorable Father’s Day craft only cost a buck! And you only need two supplies to make it. It’s time for a mug makeover for dear old dad!
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Create an Upcycled DIY Jewelry Organizer
Desperate for a way to organize and store your jewelry? Create an upcycled DIY jewelry organizer!
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20 Candy Wrapper Crafts
Do you have some surplus candy wrappers? Here’s what to do with them!
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Binoculars Craft for Two to Four Year Olds
Last week I taught a binoculars craft at my son’s preschool, and it was such a hit! Here are tips on how to do this craft project with the preschool set.
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How to Make a Kid-Sized Cardboard Gingerbread House
Here’s how to make your own giant cardboard gingerbread house.
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Patriotic Craft for Kids: DIY Windsock
A patriotic craft for kids is a great way to keep those little hands and minds busy at your Memorial Day cookout. So grab a toilet paper roll and let’s go!
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The Gnome Project: Jessica Peill-Meininghaus Makes a Gnome Every. Single. DAY
With the right choice of product and material, the process can be contemplative and enhance your skills and stretch your creativity.
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Build Your Own Yard Games: 18 DIY Projects
Lize-sized Monopoly, anyone? Giant Jenga? Supersized Scrabble!
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How can crafters help the homeless?
The plarn sleeping mats movement is gaining steam! What began at a church in Chicago has spread all the way south to Louisiana. Luling, Louisiana’s Wayne Abadie heard about Chicago’s Bag Mat Project and wanted to do the same thing in his own town.
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How-to: DIY Giant Dice
Small store-bought dice are fine for small board games, but for GIANT games, you need GIANT dice!
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3 Ways to Repurpose Your Bouquet
Don’t toss that Mother’s Day bouquet into the trash! There’s plenty of crafty petal power left in those babies! Try these easy ways to reuse your bouquet.
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12 Awesome Upcycled Vases that Don’t Look Upcycled
A spaghetti sauce jar makes a great vase, but not necessarily when it *looks* like a spaghetti sauce jar, you know? The best upcycled vases don’t look like you’ve just scrounged them out of your recycling bin, even though you have.
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Make Tissue Paper Decoupaged Glass Bottles
Decoupaging glass bottles is a cheap, easy way to upcycle something plain and ordinary into something unusual and outstanding.
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Create DIY Jewelry Storage from a Hanging Fruit Basket
Turn a salvaged hanging fruit basket into bright, cheerful DIY jewelry storage with just a few basic tools and supplies.
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Fruit Pizza Recipe that Kids Can Totally Make
If you’re looking for a kid-friendly dessert or a birthday party treat that won’t knock the children over with sugar overload, then this fruit pizza recipe is what you want.
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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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City Tries to Steal Craft Fair from Its Creator: The Glittergate behind Strange Folk
Friends, that’s not how we treat our artists, crafters, and other creative folk.
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30 DIY Side Table Ideas: Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate!
Don’t buy new — reduce, reuse, redecorate! Today we’re sharing 30 repurposed DIY side tables to inspire you!
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Make Do and Mend: Meet Reuse Superstar Jen Gale
I’ve been a fan of Jen Gale since learning about her make Do and Mend Year. Check out her TED Talk and a Q&A with Jen!
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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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Handmade Review: Recycled Hexie Quilts
Have you ever come across a once beautiful, now battered quilt at a yard sale?
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13 DIY Plant Markers from Recycled and Natural Materials
What are YOUR plant markers going to look like?
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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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Do Seed Bombs Work? (I Kind of Don’t Think So)
Y’all? I kind of don’t think that seed bombs work.
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Make a DIY Indoor Herb Garden for Earth Day!
Celebrate spring with an Earth Day Craft! What are we making? A DIY Herb Garden, of course! It’s so easy you won’t believe it!
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My Kid Play Tested YOXO (and I Took Photos and Wrote about It!)
I really like my kids’ toys to be American-made and either heirloom-quality or recyclable/upcyclable.
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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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Be a Butterfly Hero and Get Free Wildflower Seeds
The National Wildlife Foundation wants you to save the monarch butterfly, and they’re going to give you the stuff that you need to do it.
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DIY Luggage Tags Made from Old Hotel Room Keys
Does your luggage look like everyone else’s at baggage claim? Have no fear! A DIY luggage tag is easy to make, it’s green and super-cheap to make.
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13 DIY Playhouses to Make this Summer
THESE playhouses could actually come and live in your yard this summer!
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Knitted Pouches Help Rescued Wildlife
If you’re a knitter, I know the question that you’re squealing to your screen right now.
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8 Natural + Recycled Art Projects for Kids (toddler edition)
My kid is just starting to really be able to do art projects. At two, he’s finally learning that paint and crayons are for making art, not for eating. It’s like this whole world of art projects for kids is opening up to us. These are some of the natural and recycled art projects for kids that I want to try with my guy.
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In Bolivia, Knitters Treat Heart Defects
With the advent of 3D printing, I think that there’s been a sea change that is leading innovators towards the idea of more local, individual, custom-fitted treatment parts.
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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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