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How to make mini button book notebooks using buttons and scrap paper. Perfect little fairy notebooks for drawings, paintings or for tiny botanical treasures.

This homemade play dough is a staple in our house and I love that it is natural and so easy to make. This is our tried and true salt dough recipe that we’ve been using for several years and it always turns out great. This play dough is made using staple pantry ingredients and you

Here are our go-to methods for drying the orange slices that we use for holiday decor. Dried oranges are really versatile and can be used for so many things during the holiday season. Best of all, at the end of the season you can throw them into a simmer pot or use them as potpourri

This mini clay star garland is so easy to make with homemade clay made using ingredients that you already have in your pantry. This is a standard and common recipe that uses a 2:1 ratio of baking soda to cornstarch. It can be easily adjusted as needed. We made around 140 mini stars using the

We make an advent spiral out of salt dough every year, and it is a tradition that has led to some of my very favorite memories. I remember making our very first advent spiral one a few years ago when Elliot had barely begun to walk, and this year I was able to watch as

How to make floating acorn cap beeswax candles using real acorn tops, beeswax and cotton wick.

Autumn for us means lots of nature collecting and collecting acorn caps to make felted acorns is one of our favorite traditions that we've been doing since Elliot barely began walking. We’ll be using a wet felting method to create the acorns and then attaching them to the caps using glue. Wet felting is really

Happy Earth Week! What better way to celebrate than by making wildflower seed bombs which will provide habitat and food for our essential pollinators?! Seed bombs are so easy to make and the process to make them is simple— soil and seeds are encased in clay, which then dries and hardens. The clay layer on

Every year we end up with an abundance of autumn leaves lying around and crafting with them during Halloween is something that our family looks forward to each year! This post is an update to the Halloween activity blog post from two years ago, since last year we also made bats in addition to our

We made quite an impressive batch of hand-rolled beeswax candles this year to give out as gifts, so naturally we also had to make them into valentines! You can make six of these smaller candles out of each single 8” x 8” beeswax sheet, so the kit from the shop has enough materials to make