21 Things to Make with Rocks!
Check out some of my favorite things to do with rocks!
21 Things to Make with Rocks! Read More 👉
Check out some of my favorite things to do with rocks!
21 Things to Make with Rocks! Read More 👉
Don’t head to the store for a bunch of stuff to help your house look more spring-like, because nature is on your side.
17 Nature Crafts for Spring 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 👉
If it’s important to you to have a green Hanukkah, then check out these Hanukkah crafts that you can make from natural materials!
10 Nature Crafts for Hanukkah Read More 👉
If you’ve got something small that you want to show off, but don’t want to get damaged, keep it safe AND on display by turning it into a treasure in a bottle charm!
Make a Treasure in a Bottle Charm Read More 👉
Pine cone season is here! Try some of these adorable pine cone crafts for fall and winter.
15 Pine Cone Crafts for Fall and Winter 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 👉
Nature’s bounty is always extra generous in the fall. Make the most of it with these kid-friendly nature crafts for autumn!
32 Nature Crafts for Autumn Read More 👉
If you know a kid who loves nature crafts, then it’s worthwhile to provide that kid with a guidebook to the natural world, one that shows her the processes that form all the things that she enjoys creating with.
Book Review of Outside: A Guide to Discovering Nature Read More 👉
Have you and your kids hit a summer crafting slump? Get outside and get crafting with these great nature crafts for summer!
16 Great Nature Crafts for Summer 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 👉
Whether or not you’re as obsessed with fall nature crafts as we are, I hope that you’ll find many ideas to delight you in the following list of our favorite projects.
My 18 Favorite Fall Nature Crafts for Kids Read More 👉
If you spend any time outdoors, you come across the occasional bird feather. And if you simply enjoy collecting natural objects, or if you enjoy crafting with them, you probably want to pick up that feather, take it home with you, and display it or make a pretty feather craft pretty with it.
Did you know that’s probably illegal?
Your Found Feather Craft Project is Probably Illegal Read More 👉
Y’all? I kind of don’t think that seed bombs work.
Do Seed Bombs Work? (I Kind of Don’t Think So) Read More 👉
My kid is just starting to really be able to do art projects. At two, he’s finally learning that paint and crayons are for making art, not for eating. It’s like this whole world of art projects for kids is opening up to us. These are some of the natural and recycled art projects for kids that I want to try with my guy.
8 Natural + Recycled Art Projects for Kids (toddler edition) Read More 👉
Show your feathered friends some love during these cold winter days by making them some homemade suet cakes.
How to Make Homemade Suet Cakes for Birds 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 👉
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 👉
Beeswax cut-outs take seconds to make, and can be used to decorate candles (even boring store-bought ones!), make candles of their own, or just hang out in your house and look pretty.
How-to: Make Beeswax Cut-outs to Decorate Candles (or Your House) Read More 👉
Want to snazz up your pine cones, AND keep them forever?
Here are three different easy methods for making your own dipped pine cones – they’re gorgeous, they may even match your wall colors, and you can keep them just about indefinitely. Even better? Pine cones are free! Just head out to your back yard or to the park with the kids and a basket and collect those natural craft supplies to your hearts’ content!
Decorative Dipped Pinecones: Three Methods Read More 👉
So you made candles, or preserved autumn leaves, or cooked up furniture polish, or crafted modeling wax for the kiddos, and now you’re left with a crock pot or bain-marie half-full of melted beeswax (or its vegan wax substitutes).
Here’s the easy way that I store my leftover wax, measured into known amounts so that future projects are easier to put together, and pretty enough that the wax can be stored right out in the open, leaving more storage space for my fabric stash.
How-to: Save and Store Melted Wax for Future Craft Projects Read More 👉
Picking up fallen sticks around the yard is less of a hassle when you have something more fun to do with them than just tossing them in the ubiquitous brush pile by the street.
Nature Crafts to Make Using the Sticks from Your Yard Read More 👉
My kiddos do a LOT of painting, with all different kinds of paints. They’ve done tempera and acrylics, oils and watercolors–heck, they even spray paint!–but I can say for a fact that they have never before used completely natural, completely toxin-free, completely artificial chemical-free paint (other than mud, of course) until they painted with Earth Paint.
Review: Earth Paint Eco-Friendly Paint for Children (and a Giveaway!) Read More 👉
When I saw that my family was clearly not going to eat through that entire 10-pound bag of navel oranges before the last ones went bad, I thought briefly about marmalade and fruit leather, but then I thought, “Nah–craft supplies!”. Read on to see how to turn leftover oranges into shelf-stable craft supplies, and how to make a garland that shows off the lovely translucency of the preserved orange slices.
Preserving autumn leaves allows you to use their beautiful colors in fall crafts all year long.
Even if you already have a go-to method for preserving leaves, check out these other options–you might discover a way that will work even better for a particular project, or you might find a new favorite preservation method altogether.
Fall Crafts: 4 Ways to Preserve Autumn Leaves Read More 👉
Take the ephemeral beauty of autumn leaves and make it last forever when you preserve leaves with the one simple, natural ingredient that is pure beeswax.
How-to: Preserve Autumn Leaves with Melted Beeswax Read More 👉
Snow ice cream is a quick, simple, and delicious winter treat. Check out these tips, tricks, and recipes, then make the best snow ice cream you’ve ever had!
The Best Snow Ice Cream You’ve Ever Tasted: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes Read More 👉
Leaf prints can be done in any medium and on any material, and are a beautiful reminder of the growing season.
Make the Last of Autumn’s Leaves Last Forever with Leaf Printing Read More 👉
You can have a beautiful and magical fairy garden in less than one week! The secret is chia seeds.
Grow a Magical Fairy Garden in Less Than One Week Read More 👉