This guide contains craft ideas for bricks. Do you have a couple extra bricks laying around but just don't know what to do with them? Bricks can make beautiful craft projects, from yard art to book ends.
Step by step instructions for making cute gift pouches out of scraps of used pieces of cloth.
Recycled Candle Wax Air Freshener
Use candle wax scraps to make an air freshener.
Laundry Detergent Cap Cupcake Pincushion
This video teaches you how to make an adorable pincushion out of a laundry detergent cap.
This is a guide about making a wheelbarrow planter. Using an wheelbarrow as a planter is a favorite creative planter solution. Whether you have an antique or a newer one you are decorating this can be a fun project and perhaps become a centerpiece of your garden.
Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids
This is a guide about Valentine's Day crafts for kids. Kids love to create crafts for any occasion. Valentine's Day is a popular time for making crafts, with hearts abounding.
Vinyl Record Bowl Instructions
This is an easy recycled craft that you can make in 20 minutes or less. It makes a hip container for that small potted plant that you are planning to give someone as a gift this Christmas.
Use some felt and pearls to create cute flower pins to wear for Valentine's Day.
This is a guide about making vinyl record bowls. Vinyl record bowls are easy to make and a are cool way to recycle your old records.
This short video gives you quick lesson in making a bowl from a vinyl record. It's quick, easy and fun.
Homemade Valentine's Day Gifts
This is a guide about homemade Valentine's Day gifts. Valentine's Day is a time when we want to show our affection for friends, family, and significant others. What better way to do this then by giving them a homemade gift.
Brown Paper Hanging Heart Decoration
Create an inexpensive hanging heart decoration from a brown paper bag or brown craft paper. You could also use a white lunch bag, wrapping paper, scrapbook paper, or construction paper to create your hanging heart. Embellish it with whatever items you have on hand.
Instead of just giving towels as a baby shower or bridal shower gift, create cats by folding the towels and adding a few embellishments. Create a basketful of cats by placing several in a basket for a cute gift!
How to Make a Duct Tape Luggage Tag
Kristy Kalnitzky with Duck Brand duct tape has a quick and easy way to make your own luggage tags from duct tape. Be sure to watch the related videos for more fabulous duct tape crafts.
Use a Leather Jacket to Cover a Worn Footstool
I had a woven footstool that was beginning to come apart. Instead of purchasing expensive reed to re-weave it, I decided to cover it with genuine leather from a secondhand coat I purchased for two bucks! I left the woven part of the stool intact to create stability.
Make this cute little gift for your Valentine and sweep him off his feet this year!
When my children were home, we were on a pretty tight budget. I would save the white foam meat trays and use the cookie cutters to cut designs in the meat trays.
These are sure to brighten up any fridge and make a perfect little gift for grandparents.
Paper Plate Valentine Card Holder
Use paper plates, various types of paper, and a scrap piece of ribbon to create cute holders for Valentine's Day cards. A quick, easy and inexpensive craft for kids.
Recycled Bedspread and Bed Spring Bunny
What better way to give your home a touch of spring than with a bed spring bunny. This bunny head is made using an old chenille bedspread, a recycled bed spring, and a few other odds and ends you probably already have in your craft supplies. The finished bunny stands 11 inches tall.
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Craft Project: Message Pillow for Father's Day
Tell Dad your feelings on this pillow where it will be displayed for all to see.
Craft Project: Flag Painted Shutters
Recycle an old window shutter into a painted flag decoration for the Fourth of July and other patriotic summer holidays. This project is quick to create and because it is painted in a primitive style, mistakes and imperfections add to the finished result.
Craft Project: Decorated Popsicle Stick Frame
This was a craft project that I did with my 3 year old (the first two parts, anyway). The first part was blowing tempera paint bubbles onto paper with a straw. Then we made the Popsicle stick frame and decorated it. Finally, we used tempera paint to stain the unfinished shadow box.
Craft Project: Recycled Paper Pottery
Looking for something to do with junk mail from your grocer or old magazine pages? Make "Paper Pottery"! Colorful vases, bowls, plates, and more can be made with different themes using old maps, books, colors, invitations, holiday cards, etc.
