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This mini clay star garland is so easy to make with homemade clay made using ingredients that you already have in your pantry. This is a standard and common recipe that uses a 2:1 ratio of baking soda to cornstarch. It can be easily adjusted as needed. We made around 140 mini stars using the

Excited to share a tutorial today by our friend Sarah showing you how to make this beautiful mushroom mason jar lantern! It can be made using materials that you already have on hand or can obtain easily— a recycled jar, kite or tissue paper and mod podge. Sarah is the co-founder of Chasing Windmills, a

Bean and seed mosaics are still a favorite craft in our household, and it’s always one that I recommend when someone is looking for something easy to do with their children. We made our annual leaf ghosts last week, so naturally we needed to make some ghost seed mosaics to go with them! This is

Have you made a weaving board before? Nature weaving is of the easiest crafts because you can use any cardboard that you already have along with flowers from your garden. We are currently raising Monarchs this season from egg to butterfly to study their life cycle, so naturally we had to add in a few

These mini pressed flower notebooks are a sweet way to upcycle scrap paper and preserve your favorite spring flowers. The process is similar to the diy seed packet journals that we made recently except that all of the pages are cut to size together at the end. This was a fun way for us to

Guest post by Johanna Bless of Bless Nest Learning. In this post I’m going to show you how to make a butterfly or fairy wings costume using pressed flowers and contact paper. Superbloom blessed the California hillsides this past spring, and it was definitely a sight to behold! We came home from hikes with wildflowers

Bean and seed mosaics are a staple craft in our household and there are so many different variations that can be made for each season and holiday. This is a great low-waste craft since you can recycle any cardboard that you already have as well as any dried beans, seeds or grains in your pantry.

How to make a handmade wood flower press for preserving spring and summer flowers and foliage. Pressed flowers can be used for many crafts.

Autumn for us means lots of nature collecting and collecting acorn caps to make felted acorns is one of our favorite traditions that we've been doing since Elliot barely began walking. We’ll be using a wet felting method to create the acorns and then attaching them to the caps using glue. Wet felting is really