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New Year Eco Crafts: Cardboard photo props.
Just cut out some massive corrugated cardboard numbers and use them as photo props on NYE and New Year's Day. You can leave them plain or...
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Valentine Eco Crafts: Potato Printing.
Potato printing is a simple and fun way to decorate cards. Both poster paint and watercolour paint types work well for potato printing -...
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Valentine Eco Crafts: Biodegradable Sun Catcher.
Until biodegradable 'Zero Plastic Sellotape' made an appearance, we avoided making sun catchers as they involved sticky-back-plastic...
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Valentine Eco Crafts: Reusable Cardboard Bunting.
To make this reusable 3D bunting, you'll need corrugated cardboard, scissors, red and pink poster paint, two paintbrushes, a hole punch...
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Spring Eco Crafts: Grow an Avocado houseplant.
This one takes a while but you'll get a gorgeous (and enormous) houseplant out of it. You won't grow any actual avocado fruits on the...
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Easter Eco Crafts: Paint Easter chicks with dandelions.
Yellow dandelion flowers are abundant at this time of year - so put them to good use by printing with them, their delicate petals make...
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Easter Eco Crafts: Reusable Easter Egg Bunting.
I made this without much input from the kids - the cardboard is too thick for children to cut, so I enjoyed a bit of 'me time' crafting....
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Patriotic Eco Crafts: Use Natural, Plastic-Free Wool to Bind a Keepsake Decoration.
Adapted from the 'Union Jack Yarn Heart Garland' on the favecrafts website. I've added the lengths of wool required for each stage (as I...
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Easter Eco Crafts: Loo Roll Printed Easter Cards.
Use 3 toilet roll tubes for the bunny - pinch two of them into 'ear' shapes (pinch hard at one side to make the pointy tip of each ear...
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St George's Eco Crafts: Loo Roll Dragons.
Gather together... 1 loo roll tube. Green paint(s) - a mixture of dark and light greens makes a scaly-skin effect. Paintbrush. Newspaper...
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Rainy Day Eco Crafts: Homemade Playdough.
This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...
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Rainy Day Eco Crafts: Plastic-Free Slime.
All shop-bought 'slime' will be packaged in plastic as well as containing plastic in the 'slime' itself. Some homemade 'slime' recipes...
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Summer Eco Crafts: Flying Seagull Puppet.
This flying seagull puppet is plastic free and can be fully composted (or the string removed and re-used and the paper recycled) when...
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Autumn Eco Crafts: Homemade Playdough.
This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...
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Halloween Eco Crafts: Handprint Spiders.
Simple to do but AMAZING for developing the all-important 'pincer grip' in toddlers. I avoid plastic googly eyes as they are single use...
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Halloween Eco Crafts: Homemade Playdough.
This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...
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Remembrance Eco Crafts: Homemade Playdough.
This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...
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Winter Eco Crafts: Snowflakes with Scissors.
So many snowflake patterns require a specialist craft knife and a cutting mat, these snowflakes require simply a pair of scissors. I used...
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Christmas Eco Crafts: Compostable Countdown Santa.
This craft gives toddlers a helpful visual image of the countdown to Christmas, and it is completely compostable once the festive season...
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Christmas Eco Crafts: Homemade Playdough.
This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...
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Winter Eco Crafts: Love the garden birds.
These hanging bird seed shapes are ideal to make with children, as the coconut oil requires very little heat to soften it - so the...
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