How-to: Kid-Made Fire starters
You will no longer be that jerk who has to use lighter fluid to get a good blaze going.
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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 👉
Here in the U.S. we use over 11 million tons of glass per year. Recycling that glass is definitely better than throwing it away but recycling still uses energy from trucking the waste to the recycling center to the actual recycling process. Next time you’ve got an empty bottle, try getting your craft on instead with some of these projects!
8 Craft Projects for Glass Bottles 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 👉
There are so many ways to reuse old jeans! Grab some scissors, pull out the sewing machine, and let’s do some upcycling.
14 Ways to Reuse Old Jeans 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 👉
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 👉
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 👉
Check out this list below, and see how easy it is to upcycle that empty sack into something super awesome.
18 Feed Sack Crafts Read More 👉
Are you ditching incandescents this year? Save those old bulbs and make yourself a cute lightbulb terrarium!
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The next time that a Netflix DVD comes to rescue you from your lonely life, don’t just toss that flap. Instead, check out the list below, and find your next favorite upcycling project!
5 Projects to Make with That Netflix Envelope Flap Read More 👉
Mason jar lights? They found me.
DIY: Mason Jar Hanging Light Fixture 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 👉
Need a gift that’s easy to make but still personal? A matted photo that you make yourself can be just the thing!
Easy Handmade Gift: Matted Photo in a Thrifted Frame 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 👉
There are actually tons of ways to re-use those filled-in coloring pages. Read on to find your next favorite project.
23 Crafts to Make with Adult Coloring Pages 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 👉
You have enough cups to drink tea out of–take a few teacups out of your stash and make some of these teacup crafts, instead!
17 Upcycled Teacup Crafts 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 👉
If you want to be a character from Harry Potter, you need yourself a good Hogwarts robe.
Here’s an Easy Way to Make a Hogwarts Robe 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 👉
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 👉