10 Ideas for Better Board Game Storage
Grrr, why do board games suck so MUCH to store?!? Here are ten crafty ways to make your board game storage neat and tidy.
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Let Your Kids Paint with Their Christmas Tree: Tree Branch Paintbrushes
Here’s how the kids turn their Christmas tree into these tree branch paintbrushes.
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Spotted: Homemade Coffee Creamer from Deliciously Organic, and 10 other Coffee Crafts
Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer, why are you made of cancer?
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How-to: Make a Drawstring Backpack
Because these drawstring backpacks are so quick and easy to make, and because they take so few materials (you probably have all of it in your stash right now), it’s simple to make one for each activity that you or your enthusiastic young one likes to do.
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Best of Crafting Green: Our Top Ten Posts from 2014
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.
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Holiday Waste: What to Recycle, and What to Upcycle
How much waste did you contribute to your local landfill this holiday season?
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Crafty Book Review: 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids
It can be hard to help kids think up fun activities to occupy them, especially when it sometimes seems as if all they want to do is play video games or watch cartoons.
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Spotted: Coconut Chia Seed Pudding, and 8 other Uses for Chia Seeds
Not only are chia seeds great for you, and easy to incorporate into tons of healthy, delicious recipes, but their ability to sprout and grow in the blink of an eye, in less than ideal circumstances, makes them a lot of fun for you and the kids to play with, too.
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How-to: Make a Double-Sided T-Shirt Quilt
This quilt is light but warm, it’s nice and versatile, and it definitely includes the maximum number of T-shirts that you can possibly squeeze onto a T-shirt quilt.
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Spotted: Chocolate Bark, and 6 other Crafty Recipes
Don’t like chocolate? Don’t be silly.
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Spotted: Cross Stitch Cookie Tin, and 10 other Altered Containers
Check out these altered container projects.
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How-to: Easy Melted Crayon Ornaments
These melted crayon ornaments are so easy to make that the kids can do most of the work while you’re frantically cleaning the house for company.
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Spotted: Magazine Bows from How about Orange, and 13 other Handmade Bows
You can make gifts look beautiful even without store-bought plastic ribbons and bows. Make these handmade bows instead!
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Kids Level up Their Eco Skills at DIY.org
My two favorite things about technology are 1) its ability to empower everyone, especially kids, to learn what they want to learn and do what they want to do, and 2) its potential for presenting information and encouraging people, especially kids, in ways that interest and engage them.
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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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Is Balsa Wood Eco-Friendly?
Balsa wood is a pretty genius crafting supply. But is it good for the planet? The answer is complicated.
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Spotted: Ceiling Fan Pottery Wheel + 7 More DIY Pottery Solutions
Some very, very clever people have taken pottery back to its uber-DIY roots and come up with the hacks that you need to do your own pottery, in your own space, on your own time.
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How to Make Clothing Tags Using the Epson Ribbon Printer
When your kid wears store-bought pants and shirts, you simply tell them, “Look for the tag, Sweetie. The tag goes in the back.” But homemade pants don’t HAVE tags in the back!
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40 Toilet Paper Tube Toys Your Kids Can Make
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.
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Christmas Craft: Make Papier Mache Star Ornaments
Raid your recycle bin for newspaper and cardboard and make these colorful papier mache star ornaments with your kids.
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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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Kid Craft: Make Toilet Paper Tube Toy Binoculars
This craft project is so easy that an eight-year-old kid could do it.
Heck, this craft project is so easy that an eight-year-old-kid INVENTED it
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Spotted: Vintage Wedding Dress Pendant from Little Red Window, and 4 other Wedding Dress Crafts
What do you say–would YOU be brave enough to cut into a wedding dress?
Upcycle that Burned-out Bulb! 14 DIY Light Bulb Crafts
Incandescent light bulbs may be going the way of the dinosaur, but there are still plenty of them around. Next time you come across one (hopefully as you’re switching it out for an LED!), here are great crafts to help you divert it from the waste stream.
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How-to: Light Bulb Christmas Ornament
Here’s how to turn an incandescent light bulb into a hollow light bulb Christmas ornament.
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The 16 Best Easy Origami Projects for Noobs
If you’re looking for a totally mess-free, eco-friendly craft project, then origami may just be it–no glue, no glitter, no paint, AND you can use upcycled and vintage papers! Try these easy origami projects that anyone can do.
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How to Hollow an Incandescent Light Bulb
Before you can craft a project with a hollowed out incandescent light bulb, you first have to hollow the dang thing out!
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Spotted: Kids’ Detox Bath from The Paleo Mama + 7 Other Kid-Friendly Herbal Recipes
Detox baths aren’t the only place where you can gently sneak some of those healing herbs and oils into a kid’s system.
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20 DIY Drawer Projects
There are so many great things that you can make with old drawers!
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My Antique Drawer Craft Storage System
An organized, tidy craft storage system is the difference between a person who is uncommonly artistic and crafty and a person who is basically an extreme hoarder in need of a televised intervention.
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30 Glass Bottle Crafts
Glass bottles, whether they held your spaghetti sauce yesterday (here’s how to get the label off) or a Coca-Cola fifty years ago (here’s how to make it look shiny and new!), make excellent craft supplies
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How to Clean Old Glass Bottles
Do you ever see old glass bottles, maybe at a flea market, maybe scrounged from an old dump site (we have one of those back in our woods, sigh…), and think, “That bottle would be so great… IF it wasn’t covered in 50 years’ worth of grime?”
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Book Review: Living in a Fairytale World, by Mister Finch
Sometimes an artist needs some inspiration.
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Spotted: Wood Slice Chalkboards from Little House Blog, and 11 other Wood Slice Projects
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.
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Craft Elegrams to Raise Funds for The Nature Conservancy
Craft an elegram and save the elephants!
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