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Family Recycling and Crafting with Recyclables

This is a great time to reconnect with our families and bond over helping the community and our environment. Recycling is something the entire family can do together, making sure that only the correct things end up in the blue bin. You can also use recyclables for some fun arts and crafts projects, keeping kids busy and engaged.

A cake sitting on a table next to flowers, with DIY bath bombs in the background.

Tea Infused Bath Bombs

These DIY bath bombs are easy to make and inexpensive. They make a great gift for anyone who loves baths, like your mother, grandmother or best friend. These tea infused bath bombs include loose tea blood orange tea which adds a lovely scent and makes them perfect for relaxing and soaking in the tub.

Bath bomb made with blood orange tea - easy DIY craft

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A mason jar filled with green sand and candy canes, featuring a peppermint sugar scrub inside.

Peppermint Sugar Scrub with Free Printable Gift Labels

Peppermint Sugar Scrub makes a great homemade gift, perfect for a friend who deserves to pamper themselves. It is also quick and easy to make, so it is an excellent last minute DIY gift for the holidays!

Peppermint sugar scrub.

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A vibrant melted crayon ornament hanging on a Christmas tree.

Melted Crayon Ornaments – Easy DIY Holiday Craft

These easy melted crayon Christmas ornaments are pretty and fun to make. Make great memories with your family this holiday season creating this fun DIY ornament. They also are a great homemade holiday gift idea. #christmas #DIY #homemadechristmas #ornament These easy melted crayon Christmas ornaments are pretty and fun to make. Make great memories with your family this holiday season creating this fun DIY ornament. They also are a great homemade holiday gift idea. #christmas #DIY #homemadechristmas #ornament

These easy melted crayon ornaments are pretty and fun to make for Christmas. Make great memories with your family this holiday season creating this fun DIY ornament. They also are a great homemade holiday gift idea!

These easy melted crayon Christmas ornaments are pretty and fun to make. Make great memories with your family this holiday season creating this fun DIY ornament. They also are a great homemade holiday gift idea. #christmas #DIY #homemadechristmas #ornament

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DIY Dog Treat Jar

Pamper your dog by making this cute DIY Dog Treat Jar. It is easy to make and perfect for holding your furry friend’s favorite treats in their own special Dog Treat Container!

Two pine cone ornaments hanging on a tree.

Pine Cone Men Ornaments

Two pictures of pine cone ornaments with the text pine cone ornaments.

Ever since I was a child I have loved making homemade ornaments for our Christmas tree! These are some cute Pine Cone Men Ornaments that my kids and I made for this year’s tree!A pine cone christmas ornament hanging from a tree.

I remember making these ornaments with my mom, so I wanted to recreate that experience with my kids.  Over the weekend we set off to collect pine cones and acorn caps from our backyard, and found quite a few pine cones and not as many acorn caps.  I think our search would have been a little more fruitful if we had done it a month earlier, but planning ahead is not my strong point.  You could of course buy some of each at a craft store if you don’t have an easy source available.

Candy Corn Wreath

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I saw a cute Candy Corn Wreath on Pinterest, and decided I had to make one of my own.

A festive wall decoration made of candy corn.
I had almost an entire bag of candy corn left after making the Candy Corn Fruit and Yogurt Parfait earlier in the week, so this seemed like the perfect way to use it up. I suppose eating it would have worked too, but that seemed like a bad idea!

Candy corn can be pretty addictive to eat, so turning it into a decoration is a great way to eliminate the temptation.

Three flower pots with butterflies painted on them.

Thumbprint Flower Pot

Thumbprint flower pots.

Looking for a cute and easy way to bring Spring inside? This Thumbprint Flower Pot is an easy spring craft that will brighten up your house!

Thumbprint flower pot with yellow daffodils.

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Last week my daughter bought me a mini-daffodil plant, because she knows they are my favorite flower. Flowers are a great way to brighten up the winter doldrums and remind ourselves that spring is just around the corner!

So I asked my daughter to make me some flower pots to hold the daffodils, along with some herbs that I have had sitting on the window sill in the kitchen. She found this pin on Pinterest which made thumbprint polka dots all over a terracotta flower pot, and changed it up by making thumbprint butterflies on the flower pots.

See how to make the flower pots:

Peeps peeps peeps garland.

Easter Peeps Garland

Looking for a simple Easter decoration? Check out this Easter Peeps Garland I made – it is fast, easy, cheap and quite cute!

Peeps garland adorned on a brick wall.

To make the Peeps garland I gathered two packages of Peeps along with a whole bunch of jelly beans. Then I threaded a needle with white thread and started stringing Peeps interspersed with jelly beans.

Egg-ceptional Easter: How to Make Stunning Herb-Patterned Easter Eggs

I have been making naturally dyed Easter Eggs for years, and it is always fun to see the colors that you can create from nature.  This year I saw some Onion Dyed Easter Eggs on Pinterest that had leaf patterns imprinted on them.  I decided to make some of my own, using herbs along with a wider variety of natural dyes. Here are my natural herb stenciled Easter Eggs!

Natural herb stenciled easter eggs.

They came out even better than I expected, and weren’t too difficult to make either.  Pantyhose are used to hold the herbs tight against the eggs during the dying process.  Although the original project used blown eggs I hard boiled my eggs, because it seems simpler to me, and because my kids love hardboiled eggs for a snack.  Here is how I created the Easter Eggs.

Easter eggs with herb stenciled designs.

A spring wreath made of tulle.

Spring Tulle Wreath

It looks like spring might finally be here – our snow is melting and we can actually see grass! To celebrate I made this pretty Spring Tulle Wreath with Butterflies.

A spring wreath made of tulle.

It was very easy to make, and took less than an hour from start to finish.  And it is brightening up my front door now and reminding me that nicer weather will be here soon!

12 Easy Easter Decor Ideas

12 ideas for easy Easter Decor - decorate with plastic eggs, Peeps, washi tape and more

Easter is less than a week away! Decorating for Easter doesn’t have to be complicated, there are lots of fun things you can do with simple things like plastic eggs, paper and even Peeps. Here is a great collection of 12 Easy Easter Decor idea that you can use to make your Easter table festive and fun for family and friends.