For something that’s supposed to get you back to nature, you can actually buy a butt-load of new crap just for camping.
The DIY Camping Trip: 14 Projects and Hacks for Your Next Camp-out Read More 👉
You will no longer be that jerk who has to use lighter fluid to get a good blaze going.
How-to: Kid-Made Fire starters Read More 👉
Do you, also, have a hankering to craft for your furbaby?
26 Eco-Friendly Things to DIY For Your Dog Read More 👉
There’s still a place for the printed invitation, especially one that’s hand-crafted from eco-friendly materials, perhaps even hand-delivered.
One Dozen Eco-Friendly DIY Party Invitations Read More 👉
You can sew a well-fitting skirt without knowing how to set pockets or sew a waistband or use a zipper foot or make a button hole!
How to Refashion Pants into a Skirt Read More 👉
Seriously, y’all, these are the easiest seed starting pots on the planet.
The Easiest DIY Newspaper Seed Starting Pots Read More 👉
Start spring off right by raiding your recycling bin and cleaning out your stash, because you’re going to love this list of spring crafts, all made from recycled materials!
16 Recycled Crafts for Spring Read More 👉
Check out these awesome homemade postcard tutes, and then go raid the recycling bin!
One Dozen Homemade Postcards to Make and Mail Read More 👉
Postcards made from food packaging?
Kind of the easiest thing EVER.
Make Postcards from Food Packaging Read More 👉
There is yet another wasteful enemy of Girl Scout Cookie Season: the Girl Scout cookie cases.
8 Cool Ways to Reuse Girl Scout Cookie Cases Read More 👉
Kids and their display boards, amiright?
How to Make a Display Board from Upcycled Girl Scout Cookie Cases Read More 👉
This coloring book page bookmark looks especially nice when made from one of those adult coloring book pages with lots of patterns, or when fussy cut to pick out an extra-cute detail from a larger coloring book page.
How to Upcycle a Coloring Book Page into a Bookmark Read More 👉
My favorite way to craft with T-shirts is to refashion them into yet more pieces of clothing.
Clothing Refashioned: 35 Ways to Refashion a T-shirt Read More 👉
If you sew, and especially if you love to upcycle, the upcycled denim skirt is a rite of passage. Here’s how to make one!
How to Sew an Upcycled Denim Skirt from Your Old Blue Jeans Read More 👉
Bring the outside in for Valentine’s Day this year, with any one of these nature crafts!
17 Valentine’s Day Nature Crafts Read More 👉
CDs, DVDs, and old vinyl records are a great base for constructing mandalas on top of, because they’re already perfectly round, and so sturdy that you can display your finished, upcycled mandala anywhere you’d like.
11 Upcycled Mandalas from CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl Record Albums Read More 👉
Looking for a little more love in your life? Then check out this love-themed artist trading card swap, run by Mark Montano of Big-Ass Craft Book fame.
Join the Valentine’s Day Artist Trading Card Swap with Mark Montano Read More 👉
This mandala, made from an upcycled CD and plenty of buttons, is an easy craft to make, and an easy craft to make look cute.
How-to: Make an Upcycled Mandala with Buttons and a CD Read More 👉
When I saw a tutorial for fabric-covered picture frames in the copy of Girls’ Night In that my tween was flipping through, I snatched it out of her hands (don’t worry–she’s used it it!) and took it as my immediate excuse to stop cleaning the house and refinish a picture frame right that second.
Handmade Review: Fabric-Covered Frames from Girls’ Night In Read More 👉
A great way to have an eco-friendly Hanukkah is to make your decorations from stuff that you’d otherwise throw away, especially when there are so many really cool Hanukkah crafts that you can make from recycled materials.
16 Hanukkah Crafts from Recycled Materials Read More 👉
The holiday-themed Starbucks coffee sleeves are especially festive this year, so I slipped them off of all of our coffee cups and upcycled them into gift toppers.
Make a Starbucks Coffee Sleeve Gift Topper Read More 👉
Let’s have a very merry upcycled Christmas!
Two Dozen Upcycled Crafts for Christmas Read More 👉
I know that this former grocery store standard is happily being phased out in many areas, but if you’ve still got a stash under your sink, then check out some of these brown paper bag crafts and get it cleared out before Christmas!
26 Brown Paper Bag Crafts Read More 👉
A brown paper bag journal is quick, easy, and makes a great writing and drawing surface! Grab a bag from the recycle bin and follow the easy instructions.
How to Make a Brown Paper Bag Journal Read More 👉
Even if you’re careful and eco-conscious, every now and then you probably use a disposable coffee cup. Don’t throw it out! Try these disposable coffee cup crafts instead.
11 Disposable Coffee Cup Crafts Read More 👉
If you like the look of the teacup candle, but don’t necessarily want to put forth the time and effort to make one, then let me talk you out of that and into the just as pretty, but MUCH simpler, alternate: the teacup candle holder.
How to Make a Teacup Candle Holder Read More 👉
Save some cash and reduce your impact this Thanksgiving with these recycled Thanksgiving crafts!
15 Thanksgiving Crafts from Recycled Materials Read More 👉
Y’all know we LOVE our toilet paper tube crafts here at CAGW!
Craft Book Review: Even More Toilet Paper Tube Crafts! Read More 👉
These reusable, DIY chalkboard gift tags came together in just minutes, from the scraps leftover from making my latest batch of album cover bookmarks.
How to Make Reusable Chalkboard Gift Tags Read More 👉
So you’ve found a favorite project to upcycle that unplayable vinyl record. You still need ways to reuse that album cover, right? What should you do?
12 Ways to Reuse an Album Cover Read More 👉
If you need something a lot sturdier than plain paper, but you still want to craft with some upcycled materials, then this cardboard record album cover and duct tape bookmark is for you!
Make a Cardboard Record Album Cover and Duct Tape Bookmark Read More 👉
There are tons of super cute ways to recycle a vinyl record. Read on to find your next favorite project!
30 Ways to Recycle a Vinyl Record Read More 👉
You’re going to have the coolest school supplies on the planet when you make yourself an upcycled folder from a cardboard record album cover.
How to Make an Upcycled Folder from a Cardboard Record Album Cover Read More 👉
Check out all of the awesome stuff that you can make with plarn, including how to make plastic yarn in the first place.
26 Projects to Make with Plarn Read More 👉
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.
Make Plarn Sleeping Mats for the Homeless Read More 👉
