Tiny Choices Crafting!
By Karina | June 29, 2009
I wanted to share with you a website I found a few months ago – I’ve been reading it and secretly saving up for a post date. It’s called “Fun in the making” and it says right at the top: Welcome to Fun in the Making, a site dedicated to eco-friendly crafting, recycling, reuse, sustainable living, thrifty living, Earth day (every day) craft projects and making anything the green way … and it is so great! There are lots of fun crafts for kids, smart reuse ideas, and interesting notes on gardening and cooking. Here are a few of my favorie posts over the last year:
- I believe the way I found the page was by looking for hankie ideas. There is a great idea to build hankies out of old tshirts, or, you can use those tshirts to create a charming pennet flag.
- I just had very nearly decided to toss the MRI from my knee when my ACL was busted, but my partner put the kibosh on that plan and now that I see these neat halloween lighting and lampshade ideas, I guess I’m pretty glad that we still have those films lying around.
- What with the whole CSA season in full swing thing, I had sort of been thinking of a food dehydrator – but I guess it’s just as easy to use the oven!
- Did you know you can use beer cans to lure slugs out of your garden? Eep!
- These egg heads with grass hair are a great rainy day craft for kids.
- Bell Jars or Cloches are just some of the most lovely garden implements ever. Here are some homemade cloches out of old jars!
- If you’re in a state where you can keep your old license plates, try these really super license plate bookends.
- And last but certainly not least, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this robot party the author put together with her kids. It is so cool! Koala robot party favors! Make your own robot table! And! a ROBOT COSTUME! for a DANCE PARTY!
Go check it out – there are some lovely ideas over there.
What is your favorite green craft idea?
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My parents used to keep a ceramic bowl full of beer outside to lure the slugs. It was kind of gross to later find a bowl full of dead slugs floating in beer. Who knew nearly-empty cans would work as well?
Wow! What an amazing blog! I’ve been reading several craft and environmental issues blogs for a while now, but hadn’t found such a perfect intersection of the two as you have with Fun In The Making. Thanks for the link, Karina!
Some pros and cons of using an oven versus a food dehydrator ,an oven lacks air movement and keeping the oven door open requires 25%+ more energy. An oven works and it is good for experimenting, but I like having a dedicated dehydrator. Best.
This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it’s so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: “if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn’t wipe it off with paper, would you? You’d wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won’t even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without feeling guilty. It’s cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You’ll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but remember the water use of industrial users far exceeds the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.
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