Recycling paper: Cupcake liner garland

This project is super easy to make and adds such a pretty feeling to your celebration. Two 36″ strands require 4 – 5 packs of baking cups, depending on how loose or tight you want your garlands to be.

Tools & Materials:

Vintage fabric

Craft & white cupcake liners. The white liners were tea dyed to soften the color a bit.

Heavy duty threading needle

Twine

Ribbon

Glue gun

Recycling: Ten Creative Ways to Recycle Scrabble Tiles

Ten imaginative examples of repurposing that show why Scrabble is among the best board games of all time.

Image: Richard Nagy, used with permission.

Scrabble, the board game loved by word enthusiasts around the world, not only provides hours of entertainment, but also the raw material for some cool arts and crafts projects.

Image: Richard Nagy, used with permission.

Whether it’s the Scrabble tiles or the game board, there are many ways in which a Scrabble set can be reused other than to draft a ransom note. We’ve picked 10 of the best.

Recycling crafts for kids: Cricket Craft

Here is another repost, we are doing bugs at preschool, so this fits right into what we are doing.




I found this cute craft on the Better Homes and Garden website. My kids saw it and could not wait to make it (because it is a bug). I made some modifications to it to make it a little easier for younger kids. Do not be scared of the paint because you do not have to use it. I know paint can be messy.

You will need toilet paper roll, scissors, glue, pom-poms, paint or markers or green construction paper for the body (to make the toilet paper roll green), wiggly eyes, chenille stems, green foam sheet or construction paper and a pencil.

Have the kids paint the toilet paper roll green. OR you can have them color it with a marker OR just wrap it in green construction paper and glue it.

While the paint is drying, I get all the pieces set up to glue on.

zipper....rectangularish square?

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this project was inspired by a link Pamela sent me a to this fab Express zipper headband. Pamela was so cute, she said when she say this headband she thought of me. aww, shucks! that made me feel warm and fuzzy :) after checkin out Express's rockin headband, i was bound and determined to make a zipper pentagon like theirs.... but uh...well, that didn't turn out so well...it became a rhombus or some unknown geometric shape. so i decided to try a square instead.....

zipper daisy TUTORIAL

you guys know i love ya, right? well, i'm sharing the love and showin you how i make my zipper daisies :)