Craft Book Review: DIY Box Creations for Really Big Boxes
My kids and I love big boxes!
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How to Embellish a Composition Book with a Coloring Page
Read on to see how I embellish a composition book, and try it for yourself.
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How to Make Origami Hearts
These hearts are so quick and easy to make that you’ll have a pile of them before you know it.
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20 Handmade Stationery Projects
Got thank-you notes or birthday invites to write? Here are 20 ways to create your own, recycled handmade stationery!
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How to Make Custom Homemade Envelopes
Here’s how to draft a template that is exactly right for every card, and how to assemble it so that it keeps your card safe in the mail.
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How to Make a DIY Photo Card
I promise that these DIY photo cards are even quicker and easier than driving to the store, looking at every single Hallmark greeting card on the rack, choosing one, paying for it, and driving home.
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How to Make a Brown Paper Bag Sash
Be Miss America. Be a Lookout, complete with Basilisk Slayer badge. Be the Ambassador from China.
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The Invasive Paper Project: Papermaking with Invasive Plants
Is it kudzu that is the menace where you live, or is it honeysuckle?
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11 Upcycled Greeting Cards
Whether you’re an avid scrapbooker or a total novice, there is 100% an upcycled greeting card that you will love to make in the list below.
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Crafty Book Review: Upcycled Collage Greeting Cards from The Complete Photo Guide to Cardmaking
When has being bad at something ever stopped me from doing that thing?
Um…. NEVER!!!
Spotted: Paper Fortune Cookies from Unsophisticook, and 4 other Stash-Busting Valentines
We have a homemade valentine rule in our house.
I mean, obviously.
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How to Make Embroidered Greeting Cards
Y’all are going to be shocked at how easy these cards are to make!
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12 Upcycled Art Journals
Here are art journal tutorials that look like they will absolutely work, and that 100% use upcycled materials, and that seem, you know… really good!
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How to Make an Upcycled Notebook
Those little notebooks at the Dollar Store sure are cute, but even cuter are the notebooks that you make yourself.
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20 Different Class Valentines that Kids can Make
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!
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Cool Math Games: The Newspaper Structure Volume Challenge
It’s a real-life exercise that will make the concept of volume stick.
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Spotted: Book Page Star from House Revivals (and 11 other Book Page Projects)
Got some beat-up books?
You’ve got free craft supplies!
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Crafty Review: 4M Recycled Paper Beads Kit
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.
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Spotted: Halloween Luminaries from Adventure in a Box, and 12 More Luminaries to Make
These particular Halloween luminaries here?
They are stunning. Stellar. The most beautiful that I’ve ever seen.
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How to Make Buttons out of Anything with Sugru
Sometimes you want to make a button but you only have, say, a toy dinosaur. Here’s how to make buttons out of basically anything you want.
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25 DIY Scrapbook Supplies
Step away from the scrapbooking aisle!
You don’t need those over-priced, store-bought supplies, not when you can make your own so easily, and from eco-friendly materials, too.
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How to Make Decorative Tape
Who needs washi tape when it’s this easy to make your own decorative tape?
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20 Upcycled Bookmarks to Make
You HAVE to have plenty of bookmarks.
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Tutorial: Make a Favorite Quote Bookmark
Whether your handwriting is awesome or ugly, Tolkien’s best is still the most meaningful when written in your own hand.
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Make Comic Book Bookmarks
Don’t you dare dog-ear that book! That’s what bad people do.
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Kid-Built, Decoupaged, Donated Bookshelf (with Ample Parental Help)
Our local food pantry badly needed something fun (and quiet and still) for kiddos to do while their parents shopped for groceries.
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Cool Math Games: DIY Multiplication Touch
Got a kid who’s learning her multiplication facts?
Forget the flash cards! Instead, build this cool math game to play with your kids.
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Weddings + Showers: 18 Eco-Friendly DIY Wedding Bouquets and Flowers
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.
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Tutorial + How-to: Brown Paper Bag Travel Journal
You don’t want to forget all the wonderful memories that you made on your vacation, do you?
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Crafts for Kids: Decoupaged Building Blocks
My kiddo used to be over her building blocks. Whereas she once spent hours building entire wooden cities, she’s into superheroes now. So I made these outdated toys brand-new again, kicked her building block play back into high gear, and totally thrilled the socks off of her just by decoupaging comic book images onto some of her blocks.
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Handmade Reviews: Uncommon Cards
You don’t need a store-bought, factory-made greeting card.
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Tutorial + How-to: Upcycled Glass Jar and Tissue Paper Luminaries
Gently glowing, flickering luminaries are a beautiful sight in the evening.
They’re also an excellent, easy kid’s craft. Using any old glass jar as a base, kids will LOVE pasting colorful tissue paper squares to make pretty pictures, and they’ll be thrilled to see how gorgeous their creations look that night, with a lit candle inside to start the magic.
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Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright
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.
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Crafty Book Review: Side by Side, by Tsia Carson
It’s no problem to find crafts for kids to do.
It’s no problem to find crafts to do for kids.
Crafts that you can do along with your kids, however? Collaborative crafts that work well even when one participant is young and one is old? Projects that an adult doesn’t have be bored by or bossy about, that a kid can contribute meaningfully to, that they’ll both enjoy just as well?
Yeah, those are a little harder to come by.
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