Whether you’re rolling beeswax candles with kids or pouring a multi-color, multi-layer jarred candle, homemade candles give you the power to fill your home with exactly the sensory experiences you want, with no mysteries and nothing unexpected.
Homemade Candles are the Way To Go Read More 👉
Whether you pick a project right from this list or use it to inspire you to create your very own project, you’ll find lots of wonderful ways to use dried flowers right here!
36 Dried Flower Crafts Read More 👉
Done properly, and distributed carefully, seed bombs CAN work
How To Make Stamped Clay Seed Bombs 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 are so many ways to decorate real Easter eggs, and that’s how it stays fun every year.
40 Ways to Decorate REAL Easter Eggs Read More 👉
We did a lot of crafting here on Crafting a Green World in 2016.
Crafting a Green World’s Best of 2016 Read More 👉
Some of the best holiday decorations come from nature!
19 Nature Crafts for Christmas Read More 👉
From colorful leaves to acorns to pretty gourds, you’ll find plenty of beautiful things in the great outdoors to make the following festive projects.
15 Thanksgiving Nature Crafts 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 👉
Halloween is enough of a sugar rush as it is–no need to put even more candy, much less artificial food coloring, in your homemade treats and party food.
18 Non-Candy Halloween Treats Read More 👉
Halloween crafts don’t have to be all plastic and pre-fab; check out these 11 Halloween nature crafts for some green ways to celebrate!
13 Halloween Nature Crafts Read More 👉
Celebrate the change in seasons AND divert some trash from the waste stream with these great recycled crafts for autumn.
20 Recycled Autumn Craft Ideas Read More 👉
You can stain or paint your children’s toys so that they’re bright and vibrant, but then you’re going to need to seal that wood stain or paint using a clear polyurethane sealant.
Reader Questions Answered: Can You Waterproof Liquid Watercolor Wood Stain? Read More 👉
Some things you just cannot pass by, such as a great toy hiding underneath a gross one.
From Gross Toy to Great Toy: How We Refinished This Thrifted Wooden Shield Read More 👉
Whether you’re making some of your kid’s school supplies from scratch, or you’d just like to personalize them, these DIY school supplies will make going back to school a lot more fun!
20 DIY School Supplies for Back to School Read More 👉
I believe that you can teach children about the environment while keeping it positive and even making it fun! This book can help.
The Kid Planted a Redwood: A Review of 23 Ways to be an Eco Hero Read More 👉
This method is an especially nice look when you want something festive, such as the red and green of Christmas, or the pink and more pink of Valentine’s Day
Make Striped Rolled Beeswax Candles Read More 👉
The process is simple, the results are natural (although NOT vegan), and when you’re finished, you’ll have a sturdy, water-resistant fabric that you can sew into whatever you like.
How to Make Waxed Fabric Read More 👉
There are lots of different ways that you can make a candle. Here’s how to make candles using poured beeswax that you dyed yourself!
How to Make Candles with Poured Beeswax Read More 👉
Because you’ve got to give the kids something to do while you drink green beer.
Because you really don’t need that many hard-boiled eggs.
How to Blow out an Egg Read More 👉
Feel less guilty about polishing off that box of Thin Mints. Save the cardboard for one of these Girl Scout Cookie box crafts!
15 Girl Scout Cookie Box Crafts Read More 👉
The one play dough recipe that I always keep coming back to. This is the recipe I’ve been making for my kids for a full decade now.
The Only Play Dough Recipe that You’ll Ever Need Read More 👉
You don’t have to buy a bunch of valentines from the store so that your kid can have a happy day. Let them make these class valentines themselves instead!
20 Different Class Valentines that Kids can Make 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 👉
Kids love to make their own toys, and you’ll not find any crafting supply that’s cheaper, more plentiful, or more versatile than the lowly toilet paper tube.
40 Toilet Paper Tube Toys Your Kids Can Make Read More 👉
Even though *I* may not super love this 4M Recycled Paper Bead Maker, because I can make better beads by hand, my eight-year-old kiddo DOES love it. Super hard.
Crafty Review: 4M Recycled Paper Beads Kit 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 👉
Chances are, you’re giving out candy this Halloween. But how about trying something really scary: non-candy trick-or-treats.
4 Halloween Non-Candy Trick-or-Treat Options Read More 👉
We love green craft supplies around here, and we talk about how to find green craft supplies quite a bit. What we don’t often dive into are the toxic chemicals you’re avoiding when you choose natural craft supplies. Here are seven common toxic chemicals that might be lurking in your crafty stash.
Are there toxic chemicals in your craft supplies? Read More 👉
Dyeing Easter eggs can be such a pain in the butt!
Handmade Reviews: Earth Paint Natural Egg Dye Read More 👉
Are scrap booking and other paper crafts your thing? Here are some recycled and reclaimed supplies for all of your paper projects!
Paper Crafts: Choosing Eco-Friendly Paper and Embellishments Read More 👉
We are ending our Green Crafts Showcase, and we will now be showing off our favorite green crafts – and craft supplies! – on our brand new Pinterest account!
Showcase Your Green Crafts on our New Pinterest Boards! Read More 👉
How to make your own greeting cards that aren’t super cutesy and twee?
Include something vintage!
I made these DIY greeting cards not with rubber stamps of teddy bears or foam stickers of ducks in bonnets, but with vintage book pages. Pages trimmed from a ratty, torn copy of The Turn of the Screw and an old dictionary, embellished with paint, compose the front images of a set of all-purpose blank cards, suitable for either the kids or the adults in the family to use.
Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright Read More 👉
As always, you guys have come up with some incredible green craft projects for this month’s Green Crafts Showcase! Here are the top 5 projects.
Top 5 Projects from the June Green Crafts Showcase Read More 👉
