Homemade Two-Ingredient, No-Cook Play Dough
Want a batch of play dough in a hurry? This two-ingredient, no-cook play dough is ready in minutes!
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Back to School Ideas
20+ Handmade and Eco-Friendly Graduation Cards and Gift Embellishments
I have a high school graduate this year (YAY!!!), and wow, have I been tempted to buy all the cute graduation-themed stuff! Tbh I had to start controlling myself last November, because all the cute New Year’s Eve stuff ALSO had my kid’s graduation year on it–so cute!
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DIY Corrugated Cardboard Tower of Hanoi
This Tower of Hanoi is NOT made from plastic! Instead, it’s made from that likely-looking piece of corrugated cardboard hanging out there in your recycling bin. Cut it up, add some decorations, and you’ll have yourself a brand-new version of a 140-year-old logic game.
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DIY Upcycled Cardboard Polyominoes
You don’t need another set of plastic game pieces kicking around your home, though. Instead, here’s how to make any set of polyominoes that you want from sturdy, upcycled, recyclable cardboard.
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15 DIY Journals, Sketch Pads, and Other Upcycled Books
These upcycled books are super handy, because you can make them in whatever size, style, and thickness you prefer.
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Make Magnets from Any Paper: My Three Favorite Methods
Magnets are a fun and easy way to show off your tiniest art, upcycle your favorite photographs, or display comic book panels, sweet love notes, or pretty papers of all kinds.
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20 Homemade Indoor Games
Homemade games add an extra-fun element to any indoor play. You can customize your homemade games to perfectly suit the interests and current abilities of your kids, and older kids can even help with their creation.
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The Best Eco-Friendly Kid Craft Books Published in the Past Year
In the past year we’ve been blessed with lots of new kid-craft books that use eco-friendly methods and materials, and have the explicit intention of encouraging children and their caregivers to live green lifestyles. Here are my favorites!
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Why Shein Sucks, and What You Should Wear Instead
But alas, Shein is yet another imported fast fashion outlet, even more insidiously unsustainable than the other imported fast fashion outlets.
So if Shein is so unsustainable, why is it so popular, especially with young adults who should know better?
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20 Ways to Refashion a Hoodie
Check out some of my favorite methods for upcycling a hoodie, and find your next favorite fashion!
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30 Free Messenger Bag Patterns and Tutorials
Are you a messenger bag person or a backpack person?
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25 Handmade Gifts for Teens
I think handmade gifts for teens are WAY more likely to be a hit.
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Three Ways to Make an Upcycled Journal
Here are three different methods to turn stash and found materials into journals that you can design exactly the way you’ve always dreamed of.
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50 Crafty And Eco-Friendly Kids’ Activities
It can be challenging to maintain an eco-friendly lifestyle when you have kids.
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How to Make a Brown Paper Bag Journal
A brown paper bag journal is quick, easy, and makes a great writing and drawing surface! Grab a bag from the recycle bin and follow the easy instructions.
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How to Make an Upcycled Folder from a Cardboard Record Album Cover
You’re going to have the coolest school supplies on the planet when you make yourself an upcycled folder from a cardboard record album cover.
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20 DIY School Supplies for Back to School
Whether you’re making some of your kid’s school supplies from scratch, or you’d just like to personalize them, these DIY school supplies will make going back to school a lot more fun!
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How to Embellish a Composition Book with a Coloring Page
Read on to see how I embellish a composition book, and try it for yourself.
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Make DIY Puzzle Blocks from Ordinary Building Blocks
If you want to do something a little special with some of your building blocks, check out how I made these puzzle blocks, and try it for yourself.
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How to Repair a Dried-out Ballpoint Pen
You can’t always fix this. Sometimes, however, you can!
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How to Grow a Pumpkin (out of Another Pumpkin!)
It’s a fascinating process, a pretty easy way to grow pumpkins, and a great way for a kid to follow the life cycle of a plant throughout its entire lifespan.
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Hands-on History: Make an Upcycled Cardboard Model Ship
There’s a kind of knowledge that you get only when you’re wrist-deep in the guts of a subject, not just watching it and scribbling about it from the edges.
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There is FINALLY a Crayola Marker Recycling Program
There is a Crayola marker take-back and recycling program!
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Kid Mosaic: Dyed Beans in an Upcycled CD Case
If you’ve got a kid who loves art projects, then this dyed bean kid mosaic is going to be a rainy day hit!
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20 DIY Backpack Tutorials for Back to School
School will be in session before we know it! Create your own (or your child’s) backpack this year with these amazing DIY backpack tutorials.
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15 DIY School Supplies from Recycled Materials
If you’re sending a kid to school this year, you’re probably spending over $100 on school supplies for that kid.
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16 Totally Different Discovery Bottles to Make for Kids
All kinds of discovery bottles are easy to make from upcycled plastic jars or bottles and mostly household ingredients.
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DIY Density Discovery Bottles
There are a lot of simple, easy, around-the-house ingredients that will encourage babies through big kids (and even adults!) to be excited science explorers.
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Ocean in a Bottle: Witness my Epic Pinterest Fail!
Muddy water with oil on top. Huh.
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Cool Science Experiments: Make a Soda Bottle Cartesian Diver
You don’t have to spend a bundle just to show kids that science is fun.
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How to Make a Decoupaged Lunch Box
Doesn’t your packed lunch look so grammatically correct now?
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How to Make an Upcycled Notebook
Those little notebooks at the Dollar Store sure are cute, but even cuter are the notebooks that you make yourself.
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Make a Science Fair Board that Your Kids Can Use Over and Over
From their science fair board to their cookie booth display, my girls go through a lot of tri-fold display boards. No longer!
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Cool Math Games: The Newspaper Structure Volume Challenge
It’s a real-life exercise that will make the concept of volume stick.
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Craft Free Speech: Make Moveable Alphabets to Donate to Your Community
Kids with parents who have the time and energy or money and energy to provide them with pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning shouldn’t be the only kids who have pre-reading supplies to enrich their learning.
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