I know that you love popcorn as much as I do, so I hope that you’ll also be as stoked as I am about this giant list of recipes and eco-friendly crafts all about POPCORN!!!
15 Popcorn Crafts for National Popcorn Day 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 👉
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 👉
How much waste did you contribute to your local landfill this holiday season?
Holiday Waste: What to Recycle, and What to Upcycle Read More 👉
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.
Crafty Book Review: 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids Read More 👉
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.
Kids Level up Their Eco Skills at DIY.org Read More 👉
Balsa wood is a pretty genius crafting supply. But is it good for the planet? The answer is complicated.
Is Balsa Wood Eco-Friendly? Read More 👉
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.
Spotted: Ceiling Fan Pottery Wheel + 7 More DIY Pottery Solutions Read More 👉
Detox baths aren’t the only place where you can gently sneak some of those healing herbs and oils into a kid’s system.
Spotted: Kids’ Detox Bath from The Paleo Mama + 7 Other Kid-Friendly Herbal Recipes Read More 👉
These are what you’re going to use for gift tags this year, and for menu cards, and for labels for your potluck dishes, and for party favors.
Spotted: Wood Slice Chalkboards from Little House Blog, and 11 other Wood Slice Projects Read More 👉
Want a totally eco-friendly way to modify wood, or cork, or leather without paint, without dye, without glue?
Dude, get yourself a wood burner!
Tools to Use: Wood Burner (Plus Six Projects to Use it on!) Read More 👉
These particular Halloween luminaries here?
They are stunning. Stellar. The most beautiful that I’ve ever seen.
Spotted: Halloween Luminaries from Adventure in a Box, and 12 More Luminaries to Make Read More 👉
Who doesn’t love having a spookily-lit Jack-o-lantern shining on their front porch?
Spotted: Solar Light Jack-o-Lantern, and 8 other Halloween Crafts Read More 👉
You should not have to break your heart trying to carve a gorgeous pumpkin this year!
9 Jack-o-Lantern Carving Tutorials That YOU Can Do! Read More 👉
Kids with parents who have the time and energy or money and energy to provide them with pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning shouldn’t be the only kids who have pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning.
Craft Free Speech: Make Moveable Alphabets to Donate to Your Community Read More 👉
Looking for a Halloween craft that doesn’t involve a bunch of junky plastic?
Let nature be your inspiration.
Spotted: Eggshell Ghost Mobile, and 15 More Halloween Crafts Read More 👉
Check out these grape and toothpick sculptures from The Artful Parent!
Spotted: Grape and Toothpick Sculptures + 7 More Ways to Play with Food Read More 👉
You can sculpt with them, pose them on any surface, and they’re re-usable, so when you’re done just unstick and unbend them and put them away for next time.
How-to: Bendy Yarn from Natural Ingredients Read More 👉
Animals both big and small, tame and wild, will appreciate these handmade animal houses, all made from eco-friendly upcycled or natural materials.
20 DIY Animal Houses and Habitats Read More 👉
Get yourself a selection of unwanted wool sweaters from the thrift store or from the closets of indulgent friends, and then check out my massive collection of wool sweater crafts.
35 Wool Sweater Crafts Read More 👉
If you’ve got a grown-up wandering Jew, some extra pots, and good potting soil, then you’ve got yourself another six to a dozen wandering Jews right there for the taking.
How to Propagate the Wandering Jew: It’s Super Easy! Read More 👉
Our local food pantry badly needed something fun (and quiet and still) for kiddos to do while their parents shopped for groceries.
Kid-Built, Decoupaged, Donated Bookshelf (with Ample Parental Help) Read More 👉
Dyeing Easter eggs can be such a pain in the butt!
Handmade Reviews: Earth Paint Natural Egg Dye Read More 👉
Store-bought furniture polish may make your wood table look beautiful, but the chemicals in it are skin, eye, and airway irritants, and it may be aerosol-based or contain petroleum byproducts.
Seriously, you don’t want to rub something like that onto the table where you eat.
Homemade Wood Polish with Only Two Ingredients Read More 👉
Got kids who want to sew?
Let them at it! There are tons of easy, fun sewing projects that kids can do almost completely independently, projects that will result in cute, useful, genuinely satisfying results.
Kids Can Sew! 13 Easy Sewing Projects Just for Them Read More 👉
Got a kid who’s eager to learn to sew, but you don’t have the skills to teach them?
Kids Can Sew with Felt and Embroidery Floss Read More 👉
This DIY infused vinegar isn’t for pouring onto your salads. It’s for making DIY cleaning supplies that actually smell good for once!
Make Infused Vinegar for Good-Smelling Green Cleaning Read More 👉
Worried about the ethics of the floral trade?
Struggling to find organically-grown, fair trade cut flowers?
You may want to skip the politics altogether, and simply make your own bouquet and other floral pieces for your wedding. You’ll invest more time in the process, definitely, but you’ll definitely save money, and your wedding will be all the greener for it.
Weddings + Showers: 18 Eco-Friendly DIY Wedding Bouquets and Flowers Read More 👉
Was it just luck?
Or, does the winner of the Make Your own Candy kit from Glee Gum just somehow love candy more than the rest of us?
Made Buy Hand: Who Won Some Candy? Read More 👉
1) Want to eat candy made from sustainably raised ingredients harvested in fair trade environments?
2) Want to make that candy yourself?
3) Are you feeling lucky?
If you answered YES to the three questions above, then this is the giveaway for you!
Made Buy Hand: Win a Make Your own Candy Kit from Glee Gum Read More 👉
Ever wondered if you could make your own chocolate?
You totally can!
It turns out that chocolate is a pretty do-able DIY project, and easy to customize with your own mix-ins and flavor combinations. Never had a peanut butter/sesame seed/dried cranberry chocolate bar? Well, now’s the time to make that happen.
Handmade Reviews: The Make Your own Chocolate Kit from Glee Gum (and a Giveaway!) Read More 👉
Got some teeny-tiny treasures?
Some scrap craft supplies?
How about just some of the colored sand or rice or pony beads that your kids play with?
If you do (and you totally do!), then you’ve got almost all the makings for an easy, special, stash-busting Christmas ornament craft.
Holiday Crafts: Filled Christmas Ornaments Read More 👉
Fortunately, the kiddos were perfectly happy with my suggestion that we carve the pumpkins into something appropriate for Thanksgiving, not Halloween, and that’s how we ended up with our leaf-carved pumpkins. They’re festive without being spooky, use real leaves as stencils, and are, thankfully, just as fun to carve as Jack-o-lanterns are.
Holiday Crafts: Leaf-Carved Pumpkin Read More 👉
‘Tis the season for making origami Mayflowers!
Tutorial + How-to: Make Origami Waterproof with Beeswax Read More 👉
