DIY Recycled Weaving Looms
Interested in weaving? Don’t want to spend money on a loom? Got some random stuff lying around?
Chances are that there’s a DIY loom for you.
Crafty Book Review: Sew Pretty T-Shirt Dresses
Our version of Cool Water from Sew Pretty: T-Shirt Dresses is entitled Willow’s Rock Star Dress, and has pink skulls, glow-in-the-dark bats, orange flames, and a guitar player wearing a sparkly silver tutu and crown.
How-to: Upcycled Toy Charm Necklaces–They’re Toys You Can Wear!
These toy charms can be worn on a necklace or bracelet, one at a time or in a whole herd. They make fine jewelry on their own, but the secret trick to these little charms is the latch that allows you to release them from their jewelry status. In the blink of an eye, you’ve gone from having a necklace full of toy dinosaurs to a handful of toy dinosaurs, ready to make standing in line at the grocery store SO much more bearable.
Here’s how to make your own.
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India Tree Natural Food Coloring: Is It Worth It?
Pink cookies! Rainbow cupcakes! Whacked or not, I MUST occasionally have colorful baked goods, so I’ve recently switched my allegiance to India Tree natural food colors, which have no high fructose corn syrup and no synthetic dyes. India Tree food coloring has some pros and cons, and I’m not going to tell you that it’s all 100% amazeballs and you’re going to be making rainbow pancakes by morning with it, but here’s what we did with it, and here’s what we thought of it.
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How-to: Scrap Fabric Cupcake Flags from Cut up This Book! Special Occasions
Cupcake flags don’t have to be store-bought and disposable. Using the food flag templates from Cut up This Book! Special Occasions, you can craft little party flags from vintage or stash papers, or, as I did here, from the very tiniest pieces of scrap fabric.
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Last-Minute, No-Prep, Stash-Only Earth Day Crafts for Kids
Did you get caught with your eco-friendly pants down and nothing planned to celebrate Earth Day with your kiddos today? No problem! Every day is Earth Day, and just to prove it, here’s a list of kid-friendly Earth Day projects that require no prep work and use only materials that you probably have around your house.
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How-to: Replace the Straps on a Tank Top
There’s not an easier clothing modification to make than swapping out the shoulder straps on a strappy tank top. It takes just a few minutes to do, and it completely changes both the look and the fit of the top.
How-to: Upcycled Paper Swatch Cards
Do you have art or craft supplies that you collect? If you’re out shopping the sales, however, it can be hard to remember if you have that exact color of something already, or if you should snap it up while it’s cheap. Especially for things like markers, paint, and fabrics, which come in more colors than it’s possible to own, these little swatch cards, made from upcycled paper, come in really handy.
The swatch cards are small enough to put in your pocket if you know you’re on your way to the art supplies store, handy to reference when you’re there, and quick to duplicate when you’re back home with your new supplies. Here’s how to make them
DIY Wire Hanger and Found Object Plant Markers, Part 2: Wire-Wrapped Found Object Plant Markers
Gather up an assortment of found and natural objects, some bendy wire and strong glue, and any broken jewelry or stash jewelry findings that you may have lying about. You’ll use them to craft these sturdy, original, and informative plant markers.
DIY Wire Hanger and Found Object Plant Markers, Part 1: Wire Hanger Shepherd’s Hook
These wire hanger and found object plant markers are sturdy enough to stand up to several seasons of use in your garden. Made from things like broken pottery, pretty rocks, and all sorts of little embellishments, they’re as cute as you want to make them. And since you can make these entirely from your stash, they are entirely free!
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How-to: Upcycled Cardboard Embroidery Floss Spools
DIY cardboard embroidery floss spools are quick to make, at least as sturdy as store-bought floss spools, and they’re free!
Here’s how to make your own.
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How-to: Make Monsanto Seed Bombs to Genetically Modify Your Entire Neighborhood!
With just a few minutes of work, you can make dozens of Monsanto seed-filled seed bombs that will allow you to surreptitiously seed your entire neighborhood, street medians, and city parks with the Monsanto seeds that will lead to fewer weeds, fewer bugs, and a greener, happier future for our children.
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How-to: Papier Mache Easter Eggs
Ditch plastic Easter eggs entirely! These papier mache Easter eggs are just as fun to hide and find, and they have just as much room for treats inside.
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The Eco-Friendly Easter Basket: Tips for a Sustainable Easter Morning
It’s so easy to have a junky Easter. Everything in the big-box stores is cheap, everything is made in China, and EVERYTHING is plastic.
Want to do better?
Whether you want to incorporate just a few eco-friendly ideas or go whole-hog sustainable, check out the following plans to green every part of your Easter basket.
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Cardboard Constructions for Kids: Bigger Projects to Make Using More Upcycled Cardboard
Thrill a kid in your life by building them something huge out of cardboard. All you need is a collection of cardboard boxes and a lot of imagination!
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Announcing the Winner of the Full Circle Crafts Giveaway
Did YOU win a recycled snap book? Read on and let’s see!
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Giveaway! Win One of Two Sets of Eco-Friendly Craft Supplies from Full Circle Crafts
Full Circle Crafts is giving away a set of eco-friendly craft supplies to TWO lucky winners!
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How-to: Make a DIY Restaurant Review Log Using the Eco-Friendly Materials from Full Circle Crafts (and a Giveaway!)
I’ll show you how we made our restaurant book using the eco-friendly supplies given to us by Full Circle Crafts, and–best yet–tell you how you can enter a giveaway to win even more Full Circle Crafts supplies.
How-to: Sew a Postage Stamp Quilt from Small Fabric Scraps
Would you like to sew a quilt using only your fabric scraps that are so small that any normal crafter would toss them in the trash?
You bet you would!
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Handmade Memory Games Crafted from Sustainable Supplies
Kids love to play Memory! Here are a ton of handmade memory games that you can craft using sustainable supplies.
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How to Sew a Circle Skirt from a Kid’s Bed Sheet (or other Directional Fabric)
Directional fabrics, including children’s novelty sheets, require a slightly different, and only a little more complicated, method to sew a circle skirt with nothing upside-down.
Here’s how to make your kid a circle skirt where Charlie Brown ALWAYS faces the right way.
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A Child’s Formal Dress Sewn from an Upcycled Silk Sheet
Need something sustainably fashionable for that next big event, formal occasion, or fashion show fundraiser? Here’s how I sewed a formal dress for my daughter to model in our town’s Trashion/Refashion Show–from bloomers to bodice, it was created entirely from one silk sheet.
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How-to: A Hoop Skirt Made from Wire Hangers
Using nothing but wire hangers, hot glue, and duct tape, I created a hoop skirt. Here’s how:
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Buy Handmade Makeup from Independent Crafters
Like everything else handmade, handmade makeup is the way to go when you want something just a little different from what everybody else has.
Use Faber-Castell Pitt Pens to Draw on Wood, Rocks, and Shells
Do I really need to tell you WHY I want to draw on rocks? Or wood? Or seashells? Just think up a reason that makes sense, and pretend that’s why.
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How-to: Remake Scrapbooking Chipboard
Scrapbooking chipboard is really easy to repaint and embellish. Here’s how I did it.
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Review: The Pick Punch for Making DIY Guitar Picks
Play the guitar? Use a guitar pick? Ever wanted to make your own?
You can!
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How-to: DIY Body Glitter from Healthy Ingredients
Need some sparkle? DIY body glitter takes just seconds to make, is perfectly customizable, and works even better than expensive, store-bought body glitter with freaky ingredients.
And, by using the secret ingredient that you probably already have in your cupboard as the base agent, your body glitter not only won’t be freaky, but will actually be healthy for your skin.
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How-to: Kid-Made Puzzle Piece Valentine
Your kiddos can create one handmade Valentine from just two perfectly fitting jigsaw pieces. Give them most of a box, and they can make all the Valentines for their class party. It’s a fun upcycling project that won’t cost you a cent.
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Crafts to Make with Puzzle Pieces
Have a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces? You totally do!
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How-to: Refurbish Thrifted Dishes with Ceramics Markers
I need all my stuff to be crazy awesome (or just crazy!), so I like to pretty up my thrifted dishes using the most simple, most brilliant craft supply that you’ve ever heard of: ceramics markers.
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How-to: Start Seedlings in Food Scrap Containers
Seed starters made from food scraps are even more economical than recycled seedling pots–you’ve got to eat even more than you’ve got to read the newspaper!–and even better for your garden, because all those eggshell seedling pots, orange peel seedling pots, and pumpkin shell seedling pots? That’s compost, right where your garden needs it the most.
Here’s a selection of food scrap seed starters–no matter where your tastes lie, you’ll find something here to eat and then plant.
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How to Refresh Black Clothing with Fabric Dye
Black clothing is the hardest clothing to maintain, because it’s so vulnerable to fading. Even red clothes fade more gracefully than black! Here’s how to use black fabric dye to refresh your faded black clothing.
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How-to: Mend Ripped Jeans
Here’s the easy way to mend tears in your jeans.
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How-to: Kid-Made Recycled Cardboard Pendants
Kids love to make their own jewelry, and these pendants, crafted from upcycled cardboard, are especially fun to create and wear. The pendants cost no money, slip easily inside a letter to a pen pal, and, if the kid gets tired of wearing them, can be tossed right back into the recycling bin.
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How-to: Make Beeswax Cut-outs to Decorate Candles (or Your House)
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.
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