How to Upcycle an Old Globe into a Chalkboard Globe
Upcycle a beat-up, inaccurate old globe into a useful and artistic write-on chalkboard globe.
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How-to: Beautiful Butterfly Wings Upcycled from Wire Hangers and Old Clothes
Beautiful butterfly or fairy wings are easy to make with two wire hangers, an old stretchy shirt, and some simple sewing. Your child will be thrilled!
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Closet Clean-Out: Five Ways to Upcycle Wire Hangers
There’s no need to fill the landfill with your wire hangers when there are these five great projects to make with them instead.
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How-to: Lengthen Your Pants with One Easy Alteration
Being able to hem a pair of pants is all well and good, but what do you do when you need to lengthen them? You check out this tutorial, that’s what!
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Sew Subversive Teaches You How to Upcycle Clothing with Style
If you’re into upcycling clothing, then Sew Subversive is not optional reading. Basically, it’s your Bible.
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How-to: Recycled Cardboard Valentine Mailbox
Don’t send your kid to school with a decorated paper bag on Valentine’s Day! Go the extra mile to make this quick, easy, and adorable realistic Valentine mailbox, and you’ll be the parent that everyone else is gossiping about for a while.
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Crafty in the Kitchen: Homemade Granola
Make your own healthy, natural, and delicious homemade granola–it’s easy!
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How to Make Glue with Natural Ingredients (5 recipes!)
No matter what project you’re working on, we can show you how to make glue to suit your needs. Try one of these five recipes!
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How to Make Laundry Soap for Three Cents a Load
Have you been wanting to make your own green cleaning supplies? Here’s how to make laundry soap that’s eco-friendly and only costs three cents a load!
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Green Crafter Book Review: Carefree Clothes for Girls
Carefree Clothes for Girls offers loads of patterns for easy, comfortable outfits sewn in natural fabrics, but will your girl like any of them?
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How-to: Sew a Simple Drawstring Bag with Stashbusting Materials
Stash fabric and the need for portable storage are practically all that you need to sew up these quick, easy, and awesomely useful drawstring bags.
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Buntings, Banners, and Pennants Made with Natural and Recycled Materials: Five Projects
If you love buntings, check out this collection of five very different bunting projects that use up all sorts of stash materials, from yarn to blue jeans to scrapbook paper.
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How-to: Create an Inspirational Bunting with Stencils and Stash Fabric
With a few bits of stash fabric and some simple freezer paper stenciling, you can create a bunting with an inspirational saying.
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Tutorial: How to Sew a Sweet and Simple Pillowcase Skirt
If you can sew a straight line (and even if you can’t), then you can sew a pillowcase skirt.
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Six Sweet and Simple Skirts that You Can Sew from Recycled Fabrics
Check out these five skirts that you can sew using recycled fabrics ranging from T-shirts to bedsheets.
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How Much Did You Save with D.I.Y. Gifts?
By crafting handmade Christmas gifts this year, I saved a ton of money and gave a lot more presents to a lot more people.
Hands-on Pottery Painting Studios: Easy, Eco-Friendly, and Not at All Lame
Your grandma’s not the only one who goes out to hands-on pottery painting studios these days. Are you missing out?
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How-to: Make Beads from Colored Pencils (You Get to Use Power Tools!)
It’s easy to make colorful, beautiful wood beads when you recycle them from colored pencils! For the how-to, check out this step-by-step tutorial.
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The Best Snow Ice Cream You’ve Ever Tasted: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes
Snow ice cream is a quick, simple, and delicious winter treat. Check out these tips, tricks, and recipes, then make the best snow ice cream you’ve ever had!
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Tutorial: How to Freezer Paper Stencil (or Fake Silk Screen) a Necktie
Give a necktie a personality make-over with this freezer paper stencil technique that looks just like screen-printing.
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PLA: Plastic Made from Corn Makes for (Slightly) Less Evil Craft Packaging
If you must use plastic in your craft packaging, then PLA is the plastic to use.
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Gingerbread Houses and Beyond: Christmas Candy and Cookie Construction Projects
Here’s how to build amazing, made-from-scratch Christmas creations out of candy, sugar, icing, and, yes, gingerbread!
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Crafting with a Sugar High: A Review of Candy Construction
Crafting with candy is delicious and fun, but is it really an appropriate activity to share with children?
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How to Turn Your Craft Hobby into a Business: A Review of Craft Inc.
Want to turn your craft hobby into a legitimate business? Craft Inc. tells you how to do it…sort of.
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Cleveland Rocks with Bazaar Bizarre: December 11-12, 2010
Bazaar Bizarre is coming to save Cleveland from the horrors of mass-produced holiday gifts.
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Christmas Craft-a-long Week One: Make Something for Your House
Join our Christmas craft-along all throughout the month of December! Submit photos of YOUR handmade Christmas crafts to the Crafting a Green World flickr pool, and see your project featured on Crafting a Green World.
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How-to: A Quick Felt Board Playset from Eco-Friendly Felt
A felt board playset is quick and easy to make, whether you use wool felt, recycled-plastic felt, or felted wool sweaters.
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The Craftiest Advent Calendars that You’ll Ever Want to Make
Advent calendars let the fun of Christmas last the whole month of December. Check out these five projects and choose the fun, crafty, and eco-friendly advent calendar that you’re going to make this year.
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7 Thanksgiving Crafts You Can Make out of Natural Materials
Which do you prefer: crafting with recycled materials or crafting with natural materials? Either way, there are tons of Thanksgiving crafts out there for you.
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Thanksgiving Crafts that You Can Make out of Recycled Materials
Decorate for your Thanksgiving holiday entirely with crafts made from recycled materials, using these six tutorials.
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Make an Apple Pomander Just Like Ma Ingalls
A clove apple is an old-fashioned craft that’s just as beautiful and effective today.
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How-to: Aromatheraphy Play Dough
Infusing homemade play dough with essential oils brings therapeutic value to an already fun toy.
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Make the Last of Autumn’s Leaves Last Forever with Leaf Printing
Leaf prints can be done in any medium and on any material, and are a beautiful reminder of the growing season.
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How-to: Book with a Secret Compartment
You know that you have treasures. Make yourself a book with a secret compartment to keep them safe.
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Kid Craft How-to: Plastic Juice Bottle Shaker
A plastic juice bottle and a handful of beans are all your child needs to make herself a simple and satisfying toy.
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Replace Candy with Sugar-Free, Eco-Friendly Halloween Treats
Pick from these ideas for non-candy treats that trick-or-treaters will love.
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