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Nature Crafts for Christmas: Tree Branch Paintbrushes

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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DIY Cleaning Products: A Handy Visual Guide

Learn why and how to make your own DIY cleaning products instead of buying them at the store with this handy visual guide!

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Homemade Coffee Creamer and other Coffee Crafts

Spotted: Homemade Coffee Creamer from Deliciously Organic, and 10 other Coffee Crafts

Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer, why are you made of cancer?

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8 DIY Winter Energy Saving Tips

These DIY winter energy saving tips are aimed at helping you lower your bills this winter and all year long.

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Child's Sleeping Bag and 8 other Summer Camp Crafts

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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Make a Lego Memory Jar from an Old Vitamin Bottle

Here’s a cool way to save all those precious memories you’ll make in 2015. It’s a Lego memory jar made out of an old vitamin bottle. Totally crunchy!

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Best of Crafting Green: Our Top Ten Posts from 2014

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.

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Holiday Waste: What to Recycle, and What to Upcycle

How much waste did you contribute to your local landfill this holiday season?

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Crafty Book Review: 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids

It can be hard to help kids think up fun activities to occupy them, especially when it sometimes seems as if all they want to do is play video games or watch cartoons.

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Spotted: Coconut Chia Seed Pudding, and 8 other Uses for Chia Seeds

Not only are chia seeds great for you, and easy to incorporate into tons of healthy, delicious recipes, but their ability to sprout and grow in the blink of an eye, in less than ideal circumstances, makes them a lot of fun for you and the kids to play with, too.

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How-to: Make a Double-Sided T-Shirt Quilt

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.

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Christmas Cleanup: 5 Things to Save for Your Craft Stash

here are five Christmas leftovers that you can now use to craft your way through 2015.

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Spotted: Chocolate Bark, and 6 other Crafty Recipes

Don’t like chocolate? Don’t be silly.

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10 Wrapping Paper Crafts to Reuse Holiday Gift Wrap

10 Wrapping Paper Crafts to Use Up that Gift Wrap

Now that the presents are all open and the stockings are empty, are you staring at a heap of gift wrap and feeling a little guilty? Reuse all of that pretty paper with some wrapping paper crafts!

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Spotted: Cross Stitch Cookie Tin, and 10 other Altered Containers

Check out these altered container projects.

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Make Vinegar Drain Cleaner that Actually Smells GOOD!

Vinegar Drain Cleaner that Smells Good

It’s super simple to make vinegar drain cleaner that works. But if you don’t like a room that smells like vinegar, you can also make one that works and smells nice.

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How-to: Easy Melted Crayon Ornaments

These melted crayon ornaments are so easy to make that the kids can do most of the work while you’re frantically cleaning the house for company.

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How to Grow Ginger

Have you ever wanted to know how to grow ginger? Well, here’s your chance. We’re paying tribute to gingerbread people with a ginger-inspired DIY.

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Spotted: Magazine Bows from How about Orange, and 13 other Handmade Bows

You can make gifts look beautiful even without store-bought plastic ribbons and bows. Make these handmade bows instead!

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How to Make Mouthwash with Only 2 Ingredients

How to Make Mouthwash with Two Ingredients

Store-bought mouthwash often contains nasty chemical ingredients, and natural brands of mouthwash can be on the pricy side. Here’s how to make mouthwash with ingredients that you probably have in your house already.

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Kids Level up Their Eco Skills at DIY.org

My two favorite things about technology are 1) its ability to empower everyone, especially kids, to learn what they want to learn and do what they want to do, and 2) its potential for presenting information and encouraging people, especially kids, in ways that interest and engage them.

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9 DIY Last-Minute Christmas Gifts to Make this Weekend

9 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts to Make this Weekend

We’ve got exactly a week to get Christmas sorted out, y’all. Are you panicking? Don’t panic. You’ve got this, because we’ve got nine last-minute Christmas gifts that you can make quickly in batches.

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Spotted: Book Page Star from House Revivals (and 11 other Book Page Projects)

Got some beat-up books?

You’ve got free craft supplies!

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Holiday Craft: Make a Leftover Rice Ornament

Who knew leftover rice could make such an adorable holiday craft? This crafty elf, that’s who! So let’s make one, or two, or three…

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Is Balsa Wood Eco-Friendly?

Balsa wood is a pretty genius crafting supply. But is it good for the planet? The answer is complicated.

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How to Make a Poncho from Your Favorite Blanket (no sew!)

Do you have a favorite blanket that’s outlived its usefulness as a throw? Heres how to make a poncho from it!

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Spotted: Ceiling Fan Pottery Wheel + 7 More DIY Pottery Solutions

Some very, very clever people have taken pottery back to its uber-DIY roots and come up with the hacks that you need to do your own pottery, in your own space, on your own time.

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12 DIY Christmas Tree Ideas for a Waste-Free Holiday

12 DIY Christmas Tree Ideas for a Waste Free Christmas

Uh oh. Did you forget to pick out a Christmas tree this year? The pickings are getting slim, but maybe that’s for the best. Instead of a sheddy tree that you have to curb at the end of the month, you can make a recycled forever tree that has a lot more heart. I’m loving these recycled DIY Christmas tree ideas!

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