Nature Crafts ✿ DIY Projects

DIY crafts natural dyes, and decor projects made primarily from natural materials including plants, flowers, stones, pinecones, branches, twigs, beeswax, clay, and other wonderful things that nature provides. Ideas for kids, teens, and adults.
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12 Simple Winter Garden Art Ideas
Winter is just far too long to let it go undecorated. In addition to growing veggies indoors and outdoors during the cold weather months, I keep just about all of my garden art outside as well. It keeps the garden looking interesting (and alive!) and makes winter a little less daunting.
How to Make Luminary Candle Bowls (Beeswax Craft)
Create stunning beeswax candle bowls with this DIY tutorial. This article from Empress of Dirt provides step-by-step instructions on how to make these unique and beautiful candle bowls. Follow along and add a touch of natural beauty to your home décor .
Naturally Crafty: Stuff to Make From and For the Garden | Empress of Dirt
Get inspired by nature and create beautiful crafts using items found right in your own backyard! Whether you're a seasoned crafter or just starting out, there are endless possibilities for creating unique and eco-friendly crafts with natural materials.
How to Make Pinecone Animals (Penguin, Owl, & Mouse)
Learn how to make pinecone animals including a penguin, owl, and mouse. They are fun as ornaments and as natural play toys for school age children.
How To Preserve Leaves With Beeswax
This popular method preserves leaves by dipping them in melted beeswax. It’s an excellent way to capture the beauty of fall leaf colors—red, orange, yellow, green, and gold—for use in crafts and decorations. You can also preserve wildflowers with this method.
6 Creative & Practical Uses For Beeswax
Beeswax has all sorts of creative and practical uses. Naturally made by honey bees, it lasts forever, never expires, and makes beautiful candles, beauty products, batik fabrics, and more.
Create Dye From Plants
Many of the plants we grow like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries can be used as natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.
Getting Started With Wood Burning Art (Pyrography)
Use this beginner’s guide to learn recommended supplies and tips to get started with the art of wood burning. With some basic materials you can create an assortment of art including decorative garden signs, wall art, and plant markers.
25 Creative Ways to Reuse Christmas Trees
If you want to upcycle or recycle your Christmas tree after the holidays, there are all sorts of crafts and decorations to make from the wood, branches, and twigs for your home and garden.
Create Seed Pod Bouquets for Winter Birds
Here’s a sweet way to dress up your garden for the winter: bundle up old flowering perennials with burlap ribbon and leave the seeds for the birds. You will nourish wildlife and, come spring, it’s easy to cut the plants back as new growth appears.
12 Lavender Crafts and Recipes
Crafts and DIY projects for lavender lovers including sachets, soap, and other soothing gifts.
DIY Tree Branch Crib (Eco-Beneficial Fence Idea)
This DIY crib provides a place to stash trimmed branches in the garden as they gradually decay. It’s both a low-cost privacy fence and important source of food and habitat to countless birds and other animals.
Creative Garden Projects for Kids
Gardening Lab for Kids has 52 fun experiments to learn, grow, harvest, make, play, and enjoy your garden.
How to Dye Fabric Using Plants From Your Garden
Many of the plants we grow like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries can be used as natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.
How to Press Flowers & Leaves (Best Methods)
You can press flowers, leaves, and other plant parts fast using these new methods or follow the traditional way with materials you have at home. I’ve also listed 25 ways to use pressed botanicals in creative projects.