Tiered Serving Stands

Although repurposing glass bottles into tiered serving stands may seem challenging at first, it’s a rewarding project that combines creativity with sustainability.

Start by selecting recycled bottles of various sizes for stability and visual interest. Using a glass cutter, carefully cut bottles to desired heights, guaranteeing you sand edges thoroughly.

Securely join tiers with strong epoxy, allowing proper drying time to confirm stability. Decorate with glass-specific paints, etching, or ribbons for a personalized touch.

These stands are perfect for serving appetizers at gatherings or organizing toiletries, office supplies, or even showcasing small plants, making your space both functional and eco-friendly.

Garden and Outdoor Decor

While glass bottles can light up your home, they also bring charm and functionality to your garden and outdoor spaces. Bury them upside down for colorful garden edging or stack them to create raised beds.

Bury glass bottles upside down for vibrant garden edging or stack them for creative raised beds.

Build stunning garden art with bottle trees, mosaic walls, or wind chimes. Enhance your water features by crafting bottle bubblers, waterfalls, or stream beds.

Additionally, use bottles for pest control by making slug traps or designing wasp catchers. Innovate sustainably today!

Preschoolers

1. Giant Dice. Do you think that your kids would love to play a life-sized game of Candyland? I bet they would!

2. Grow A Garden With Your Preschooler. It doesn’t matter if it’s a plot of land or a flowerpot in your window–the important things are that you do it with your kid, your kid shares the work, and you talk and talk and talk (and read and read and read!) about what you’re seeing and doing.

3. Salt Dough Play dough is awesome, but if you want to make something to keep forever, you want to make it out of salt dough.

4. Dyed Pasta. It’s an incredible sensory toy, and simple to make!

5. DIY Plaster Of Paris Kits. Don’t waste your money on those figurine painting kits–you can make your own plaster of Paris figures much more affordably.

6. Fingerpaint. The ingredients for this paint are found right in your kitchen.

7. DIY Pirate’s Treasure. It glitters, so it must be gold! These painted rocks make a great anytime treasure hunt. If your kids love to hunt Easter eggs, they’ll love to hunt pirate gold!

8. Fruit And Vegetable Stamping After they make art with it, they might even want to taste it!

9. DIY Moon Sand Kids love this, and if you make it yourself you’ll know exactly what’s in it.

10. Bendy Yarn They’re just like Wikki Stix, only you know exactly what’s in them.

11. Homemade Bubbles These bubbles DON’T require Dawn!

12. DIY Color Viewers These don’t take long to make, but your kids will NOT stop playing with them.

13. Kitchen Sensory Play. You don’t have to buy special materials for your preschooler to explore–everything that you need is already in your kitchen.

Scrap Fabric Rag Rugs

Sewing projects aren’t the only way to exercise your textile creativity. Ever looked at your growing pile of scrap fabric or old clothing and thought, “I should really do something with all that”?

Scrap fabric rag rugs are a fabulous, fun, and (most importantly) eco-friendly way to turn that mountain of potential textile waste into a charming piece of sustainable home decor.

Not only does it cater to our crafty adult friends, but it’s one of the best sustainable crafts for children, thanks to its simplicity and safety. No fancy supplies needed either, just the following:

• A decent-sized pile of scrap fabric (the more colorful, the better!)
• Scissors
• Non-slip rug pad or gridded mat
• A touch of patience

Begin by cutting your scrap fabric into 1-inch wide strips, then tie these strips tightly onto a non-slip rug pad or gridded mat until it is fully covered, resulting in a charming, cushy rug made entirely from upcycled materials. If you want to go for a 100% recycled craft project and ditch the mat sublayer, you can weave the long strips of fabric together, rather than tying them on.

No loom? DIY one out of cardboard or recycled wood scraps and panel nails.