We are thoughtful about recycling throughout the house, but for some reason the bathroom recycling just piles up, like it’s too much effort to collect and put in the bin in the garage. We’re not alone in this problem, as a survey conducted in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. found that 34 percent […]
Trash Tower Building Challenge
I’m so excited to be with you today as part of the 28 Days of Hands-on STEM Activities for Kids series from Left Brain Craft Brain. This past week bloggers have been looking at the theme STEM goes green, and it was a lot of fun to pull this project right out of our recycling […]
Embossed Texture Plates DIY {Iron Craft Challenge}
The Iron Craft challenge this week was to make something involving the letter E. I was thinking about embossing, and then I remembered a big stack of cardboard sheets I’d recently acquired (they were used as packing material in a box of books) and decided I really wanted to make embossed texture plates for the […]
My Favorite Upcylced Craft Supplies
This week I’m taking part in the Natural Parenting Blogger Earth Month Blog Hop. Today’s posts are all about natural parenting, green toys and crafts. Making things out of things that would otherwise be considered trash or headed to the recycling bin is a lot of fun. The girl loves to make constructions from random […]
Experimenting with Glitter and Paint
I’ve been doing some cleaning in the girl’s art area lately, and one good thing about that is that it means we’re finding things we forgot we had. It was nearly a year ago the last time we played with paint and glitter gel, and the girl found the remains of the bottle over the […]
Five (Plus) Things to Save for Art Journaling
I mentioned the other day that people might be hesitant to start a new creative hobby like art journaling because they feel like they need to go out and buy a lot of supplies before they get started. But the truth is you have a lot of things in your house that will serve you […]
Painting on Cardboard {Art Experiments}
For her birthday, the girl got a cool set of dinosaurs to paint. We spent the morning after her party painting them (she let me do one; isn’t that sweet?) and kept coming back to the paint through the day. She painted some on paper, but she really wanted to paint something else that wasn’t […]