10 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts to Make
Father’s Day is this Sunday, right? Dang it! Here are 10- last-minute Father’s Day gifts that you can make just in time.
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Label ALL THE THINGS! DIY Eco-Friendly Labels for Everything
It IS possible to DIY eco-friendly labels for all your stuff.
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Embossed Aluminum Pendants: An Upcycled Kid Craft
If you’ve got kids (or a Scout troop, or a day camp…) who love making jewelry, then they’ll love making these embossed aluminum pendants.
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How to Make a Mixed-Media Collage with Beeswax
With beeswax, you can make a mixed-media, collaged art piece that’s almost entirely glue-free.
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DIY Plastic Jug Watering Can
Not only does this project take about one minute to complete, but it also works better and holds more water than a lot of those cheap-o watering cans that look cute but cost real money.
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16 Totally Different Discovery Bottles to Make for Kids
All kinds of discovery bottles are easy to make from upcycled plastic jars or bottles and mostly household ingredients.
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DIY Density Discovery Bottles
There are a lot of simple, easy, around-the-house ingredients that will encourage babies through big kids (and even adults!) to be excited science explorers.
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Ocean in a Bottle: Witness my Epic Pinterest Fail!
Muddy water with oil on top. Huh.
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How to Make a Candy Wrapper Picture Frame
Candy wrappers do have one redeeming quality: they’re so cute! Here’s how to make a candy wrapper picture frame to show off your favorite photo.
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Your Found Feather Craft Project is Probably Illegal
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?
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How to Whiten Bones
This is me, doing the weirdest, most random, most vaguely disturbing projects out there, so that you don’t have to!
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Check Out My DIY Rain Barrel (and how we built it)
Even though rain barrels are pretty much all the same concept, each one tends to be put together in its own way. This is my DIY rain barrel. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
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20 Candy Wrapper Crafts
Do you have some surplus candy wrappers? Here’s what to do with them!
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How to Make a Kid-Sized Cardboard Gingerbread House
Here’s how to make your own giant cardboard gingerbread house.
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The Gnome Project: Jessica Peill-Meininghaus Makes a Gnome Every. Single. DAY
With the right choice of product and material, the process can be contemplative and enhance your skills and stretch your creativity.
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Build Your Own Yard Games: 18 DIY Projects
Lize-sized Monopoly, anyone? Giant Jenga? Supersized Scrabble!
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How-to: DIY Giant Dice
Small store-bought dice are fine for small board games, but for GIANT games, you need GIANT dice!
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12 Awesome Upcycled Vases that Don’t Look Upcycled
A spaghetti sauce jar makes a great vase, but not necessarily when it *looks* like a spaghetti sauce jar, you know? The best upcycled vases don’t look like you’ve just scrounged them out of your recycling bin, even though you have.
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Make Tissue Paper Decoupaged Glass Bottles
Decoupaging glass bottles is a cheap, easy way to upcycle something plain and ordinary into something unusual and outstanding.
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Fruit Pizza Recipe that Kids Can Totally Make
If you’re looking for a kid-friendly dessert or a birthday party treat that won’t knock the children over with sugar overload, then this fruit pizza recipe is what you want.
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City Tries to Steal Craft Fair from Its Creator: The Glittergate behind Strange Folk
Friends, that’s not how we treat our artists, crafters, and other creative folk.
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A Betta in a Vase is NOT a Green Craft. Here’s the Safe Option.
This great-looking ecosystem is actually a very poorly functioning one.
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Handmade Review: Recycled Hexie Quilts
Have you ever come across a once beautiful, now battered quilt at a yard sale?
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13 DIY Plant Markers from Recycled and Natural Materials
What are YOUR plant markers going to look like?
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Do Seed Bombs Work? (I Kind of Don’t Think So)
Y’all? I kind of don’t think that seed bombs work.
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My Kid Play Tested YOXO (and I Took Photos and Wrote about It!)
I really like my kids’ toys to be American-made and either heirloom-quality or recyclable/upcyclable.
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Cool Science Experiments: Make a Soda Bottle Cartesian Diver
You don’t have to spend a bundle just to show kids that science is fun.
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Be a Butterfly Hero and Get Free Wildflower Seeds
The National Wildlife Foundation wants you to save the monarch butterfly, and they’re going to give you the stuff that you need to do it.
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13 DIY Playhouses to Make this Summer
THESE playhouses could actually come and live in your yard this summer!
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Knitted Pouches Help Rescued Wildlife
If you’re a knitter, I know the question that you’re squealing to your screen right now.
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In Bolivia, Knitters Treat Heart Defects
With the advent of 3D printing, I think that there’s been a sea change that is leading innovators towards the idea of more local, individual, custom-fitted treatment parts.
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12 DIY Rain Chains for Your Yard
What is a rain chain? Here’s how rain chains prevent erosion and 12 DIY rain chains you can make from recycled materials!
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How to Paint with Crayons
How would you like to paint with crayons?
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You can paint with Easter egg dye!
Did you know that you can paint with Easter egg dye? The result is similar to watercolor painting, and it’s a great way to use up leftover dye after you’re done with your eggs.
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How to Make a Decoupaged Lunch Box
Doesn’t your packed lunch look so grammatically correct now?
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