How-to: Make Recycled Crayons
Save your broken crayons, and use them to make fun, new recycled crayons that will thrill the kids.
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35 Wool Sweater Crafts
Get yourself a selection of unwanted wool sweaters from the thrift store or from the closets of indulgent friends, and then check out my massive collection of wool sweater crafts.
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Decorative Egg Cozies from So Jane
The Decorative Egg Cozies project uses scrap fabric and simple applique techniques to create a portable little warmer for the soft-boiled egg, a popular Victorian-era breakfast.
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Spotted: Healthy Food Art from Meet the Dubiens
Need to get healthy food into a kid? Sometimes you have to get creative!
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DIY Pot Handle Covers from Wise Craft
Pot holders are all well and good, but sometimes you just don’t need one more thing sitting on your counter while you’re trying to cook.
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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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Kids Can Upcycle!: 15 Upcycling Projects for Kids
Kids love to make their own toys, and when they upcycle those toys from stuff that you’d otherwise put in the trash or the recycling bin, then they’re not only having fun and saving money, but also learning valuable lessons about eco-friendly creativity.
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NBA Asks Kids to Upcycle
Does your kid want to go green with the pros?
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Spotted: Honey Bear Paint Bottles
Wondering what to do with your honey bear bottles after all the honey’s been squeezed out?
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How to Grow Microgreens in Plastic Salad Containers
I eat a lot of grocery store salad throughout the winter, but I don’t stress about those awful plastic salad containers.
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How to Propagate the Inch Plant: It’s Super Easy!
If you’ve got a grown-up wandering Jew, some extra pots, and good potting soil, then you’ve got yourself another six to a dozen wandering Jews right there for the taking.
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20 Upcycled Bookshelf Tutorials
Need a new bookshelf? IKEA is NOT the answer.
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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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Handmade Reviews: Earth Paint Natural Egg Dye
Dyeing Easter eggs can be such a pain in the butt!
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21 Cool Math Games and Activities from Natural and Recycled Materials
If you want your kid to love and be good at math, but you’re not interested in unleashing more plastic pennies onto the world–or you just don’t want to spend your hard-earned money on junk like plastic pennies–then you’ll love these great ideas for math games, projects, and activities, all made from natural and recycled materials.
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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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Pretty in Pink Once Again: 23 Prom Dress Refashions
Please, won’t YOU rescue an ugly Prom dress today?
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Clothing Refashion: Prom Dress Pants
Prom dresses are some of my favorite articles of clothing to upcycle. Thrifted, that fancy fabric is cheaper by the yardage than purchased new, and they always include gorgeous embellishments and perfect hardware that careful cutting can preserve.
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Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe–It’s a Money-Saver!
We ALL have laundry to do (right now, probably…), but conventional store-bought laundry detergent, with its petrochemicals, optical brighteners, and synthetic fragrances, isn’t great for the environment OR your skin. And the super-fancy natural stuff? Well, it’s out of *my* price range, for the most part.
Instead, I rely on my homemade laundry soap. It’s easy to make, the ingredients cost pennies per load (about three, give or take a penny), and it’s much healthier for your body and the environment than most store-bought laundry detergents.
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Homemade Wood Polish with Only Two Ingredients
Store-bought furniture polish may make your wood table look beautiful, but the chemicals in it are skin, eye, and airway irritants, and it may be aerosol-based or contain petroleum byproducts.
Seriously, you don’t want to rub something like that onto the table where you eat.
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DIY Pantry Staples: 35 Crafty, Creative Recipes
Want a pantry that’s as crafty and creative as the rest of your house?
Save money, eat more healthfully, and use your imagination to boost the flavor of your favorite foods when you restock your kitchen with these DIY pantry staples.
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Create Custom Potato Chips from The DIY Pantry, by Kresha Faber
For those who might wonder if making your own potato chips from scratch is more work than just buying potato chips from the store, then the answer is yes.
Obviously.
Seriously, why would you even wonder that?
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38 Clothing Refashion Tutorials to Upcycle Your Wardrobe
Tired of your boring old clothes?
Turn them into new clothes!
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Clothing Refashion: A T-Shirt Refashion Done by My Kid
My kid and I have this thing in which she designs an outfit and then she and I (mostly me) sew it. The Most Fabulous Scrapwork Orange T-Shirt now exists in the world, and here’s how we created it.
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Kids Can Sew! 13 Easy Sewing Projects Just for Them
Got kids who want to sew?
Let them at it! There are tons of easy, fun sewing projects that kids can do almost completely independently, projects that will result in cute, useful, genuinely satisfying results.
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Kids Can Sew with Felt and Embroidery Floss
Got a kid who’s eager to learn to sew, but you don’t have the skills to teach them?
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Handmade Reviews: Stashbuster Catnip Mice from Crafty Creatures
You DO love your kitties, though, right?
You DO want them to have the bestest, cutest, most catnip-filled mice that human hands can make, right?
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Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate: Card Catalogue Photo Drawer
We needed a way to store and display our family photos.
We own an antique card catalogue.
We combined the two, and came up with a card catalogue photo drawer, an accessible, out-of-the-way, organized, dust-free way to store photos.
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Handmade Reviews: DIY Disinfecting Wipes from Homemade Cleaners
It’s not right that I have to drench my house in toxic chemicals just to keep the puke bug away.
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Tutorial + How-to: DIY Award Ribbons
Winning is fun.
Make it even more fun by adding swag!
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Make Infused Vinegar for Good-Smelling Green Cleaning
This DIY infused vinegar isn’t for pouring onto your salads. It’s for making DIY cleaning supplies that actually smell good for once!
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Handmade Reviews: Rustic Chic Wedding, by Morgann Hill
Want an eco-friendly wedding with plenty of handmade components, but you don’t necessarily want it to *look* like it was cobbled together by a gang of amateur crafters?
Rustic chic is the look that you’re looking for. A rustic chic wedding emphasizes vintage and natural materials, and a simplicity of construction that both makes the projects more do-able, and keeps them from looking overdone. With rustic chic’s additional emphasis on salvaged, one of a kind components over mass-produced commodities, it’s also a look that works well with modest budgets.
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Clothing + Fashion: The 14 Best Ways to Patch Jeans
Hole in your pants?
You can fix that.
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