Crafts & Activities for Kids

Crafty Kit for Making Organic Garden Seed Cookies

This adorable retro-minded craft kit allows your child to whip up a tasty (okay, not tasty, but useful) batch of organic garden seed “cookies.” The Garden Cookie craft kit comes with organic soil, organic clay, plant recipe cards, clay, soil, muslin bags, oil cloth, (all Made in USA), cookie cutters and rolling pin (Made in China). [...]

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Nature-minded Craft Ideas that Celebrate Autumn

Today is the first day of autumn, which is totally reason enough to celebrate, but in case you need more reasons here are some festive fall crafts you and the kids can do together. So first I saw these ADORABLE Toadstool Acorn People (above) which are so cute that they could have been enough to tide [...]

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125+ Low-cost Screen-free Activities for Kids

As noted, we’re trying to cut back on screen time. Also as noted, when we asked our kids to come up with screen-free ideas, most involved lots o’ money, like ice skating, shopping, going to the beach, concerts and so on. We explained to the kids that they need to get jobs if they want [...]

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20 magical & creative DIY cardboard toys

I read a while back that while toys are a major seller in the U.S., green toys aren’t so much. In fact, the research I read said that green toy sales make up just 1% of all toy sales. That seems nuts considering all the problems with conventional toys. Still, in some ways I get [...]

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Help grow a green art company – Artterro on Kickstarter

Artterro is a small, sustainable business making wonderful eco-friendly art kits for kids and right now they’re looking for help to take their business to the next success level. The Basics: Artterro is participating in Kickstarter in order to raise $30,000 (or more) to help them fund their next production run at the non-profit Goodwill [...]

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Green Review: Artterro Art Journal Kits

We’re in the middle of our Artterro Eco Arts & Crafts Giveaway so I wanted to fill you in on one of the great prizes, the Artterro Art Journal Kit. Use: Crafty free-form fun that allows imaginative kids (or adults) to explore their artistic creativity through art journaling. Available in many different colors as shown above. Cost: A super [...]

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Homemade Memory Game for Holiday Fun

For Christmas this year, Cedar and I were going to make homemade wool felt play food kits for the kids in our family, as holiday gifts. However, we’re not the best sewers. We made some and did okay, but we need more practice before our sewing crafts are gift-ready. Still, since we wanted to make [...]

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Green Product Review: Artterro Wool Felt Bug Kit

Review summary: An excellent buggy art kit that requires almost zero parent help – although, you’ll probably want to make a bug too! Product: Artterro Wool Felt Bug Kit Use: Crafty buggy fun for creative kids – and even adults. Cost: An affordable $19.95 at Amazon or at the Artterro online shop. Eco-perks: For more information [...]

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DIY Recycled Holiday Luminaries

Recycled luminaries are actually a great year-round craft. You can make them spooky for Halloween or use pretty patterns to lighten up a birthday picnic table. They’re especially nice during winter holiday celebrations though both indoors and out on the porch. I like how this person below, hung their luminaries in the window. Nice. Gather: [...]

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Green Gifts for Crafty & Creative Kids

You very rarely can go wrong when you give crafty gifts for the holidays. Most kiddos love arts and crafts of all sorts, and nowadays there’s a fairly amazing array of eco-friendly art products out there. Here are some excellent green arts and crafts gifts for inspiring creativity this holiday season. If you’re looking for [...]