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1. Making Your Own Recycled Yarn Make cool stuff and help the Earth at the same time. If you like to knit, crochet, or any other yarn craft have a go at using recycled materials. You can make your own yarn using plastic bags, thrift store sweaters, scraps, and t-shirts.
2. Recycled Crafts Recycled crafts make great gifts for friends and family, with so many different benefits. You'll find out how buying crafts using recycled materials is good for so much more than the environment. Read about some of the most common as well as the mo...
3. Fun with Paper Toys Paper toys are popular with children and adults. The simple appeal of taking a flat sheet of paper and turning it into a paper toy with 3 dimensions is a universal past-time enjoyed by all generations. Some paper toys are functional, while other pape...
4. Altoids Tins - A Myriad of Uses Altoids and other candies sometimes come in great little tins. It really seems a shame to throw away such useful little boxes, they just call out to be made into something new. There are so many things that can be done with these little mint tins.
5. Recycle and Reuse Christmas Greeting Cards Everyone loves to receive postcards, and greeting cards for special occasions. They're simple, thoughtful, and beautiful - especially Christmas and holiday cards. They're so memorable and nice, that many people hold on to their greeting cards for yea...
6. Recycle and Reuse: Household Crafts Recycling by definition is the processing of used or waste material so that it can be used again, instead of being wasted.* The word recycling is used more casually to describe the process of keeping things from ending up in the trash. Whether this m...
7. Make a Mexican mask for Halloween: "La Llorona" Since my mentee Jeimy is Mexican, I thought it would be fun to make another spooky Mexican mask for Halloween. This one is inspired by the story of "La Llorona," who killed her own children and now wanders the earth dressed in white and cry...
8. How to cast a plaster mold for paper mache puppet heads, hands, and feet. Jeimy and I are trying our hand at a method of puppet-head construction we saw in an online tutorial: we are modeling heads from plasticene, casting them in plaster of paris, and then lining the molds with papier mache. Neither of us has done this b...
9. Michel Nedjar and his Purim Puppets While I was in Paris I saw the exhibit of Michel Nedjar's "Poupées pourim" (Purim puppets) and was dazzled. It's impossible to capture in pictures the exquisite, powerful intricacy of Nedjar's work. The colors, textures, shapes, and weird int...
10. Instructions for making a giant puppet and an "El Tigre" head I learned so much at the recent workshop given by Donovan Zimmerman of the Paperhand Puppet Intervention and Mark Donley of the Hillsborough Arts council that I was inspired to come home and continue the giant puppet project. In this lens I'd li...
11. Eco-Friendly Craft Ideas and Supplies Those of us who are artsy and crafty have been enjoying the challenge of turning "trash" into "treasure" as long as we can remember. If you're like me, you want to enjoy this avenue of recycling with as many non-toxic and eco-friendly craft supplies...
12. The Frugal Crafter I'm Jenn, and I'm an arts and crafts addict. I'm also a stay at home mother whose husband is a university student, which means that I'm generally flat broke! How on earth can a woman with not much cash indulge her passion for arts and crafts? Easy....
13. Useful Upclycled Crafts Remember the saying "one mans trash is another man's treasure"....well how bout your own trash could be TURNED into a treasure! Before you throw whatever it is away, check here for Great crafts, ideas, and tips for upcycling, repurposing, reusing old...
14. All Kinds of Crafts All the Time I've put together some crafting links, crafting ideas and more for you, you and your kids, your kids, or someone else you know that may interested in making crafts. Take a look. Add your own ideas. Give feedback. Pass the lens along if you find it he...
15. It's The Frugal Crafter!: The Cheapest Crafts Ever If you enjoy this lens or find it to be useful and informative, please rate it up at the very top of the page! The Cheapest Crafts Ever offers lots of cheap and easy arts and crafts projects using dirt cheap or recycled materials. Many of these proj...