Bottle Cap Stamps

Here is one of my daughter's Earth Day projects! We saw the idea for this here! These were super easy to do! Just a couple collected bottle caps and some puffy fabric paint and presto, cute and unique stamps!!! Just be sure that your bottle caps are thoroughly cleaned and dry before adding the paint. Allow the paint to dry 24 hours and oh yeah, have fun!

Happy Crafting!

Origami Flower Pots

For a fun way to recycle old newspapers (trimmed to size) try this out! You can use them to plant bulbs or seeds in and give them as gifts or use them yourself! This is another fun idea from my 8 year old daughter's "green theme" birthday party. We are having all the kids plant crocus bulbs inside them and then they will be able to take their plants home with them to place in their own gardens! The paper will biodegrade so you can actually just plant the whole pot into the ground! They are so much better for the environment than those plastic pots that just get tossed into the trash! For mine I used scrapbook paper that was outdated, I knew I wouldn't be using them on a layout so this was a great way to use up those papers cluttering my space. Try it with old newspapers, junk mail, old notes to self, used coffee filters or pages from a paperback book that is ready to retire. How about drawings from your kids, you know, the ones that you toss, be honest we can't keep them all! Plus I bet your toddler or younger child would love to see that their pretty drawing turned into some pretty flowers! Have fun with it! Enjoy!

T-Shirt Bag

After running across this cool tutorial at Instructables, I just had to try it out! Since I didn't have any t-shirts that were ready to be re-purposed I headed out to our local Salvation Army/ thrift store and found some perfect T's to transform! For just $6 I ended up with 8 awesome bags to use as goody bags at my 8 year old daughter's "green theme" birthday party! Her favorite one is the pinkish red one with the kitten dressed in ruby slippers and diamonds. This was seriously super easy to do! Check it out and have fun!

Snack Bags!

Yay for my first craft post! I first made these for my soon to be 8 year olds "green theme" birthday party as part of the favors. These super cool eco-friendly snack bags are made from empty potato chip bags! You use them just as you would a Ziploc bag, except you can't put anything super gooey or wet in them. Some suggestions would be cookies, chips, pretzels, carrot and celery sticks, crackers and maybe even apple slices. They are hand washable with soap and water and can be stood open and upside down to air dry. In the pictures the bags that I had made have tags on them with care instructions... sorry they block some of the view! They were really easy to do too! Want to make some for yourself? Go to French Sleep Deprivation Study for the tutorial!