Hanging Fabric Collage
While my daughter could spend all day at the park, she’s not so interested in hanging out in our garden these days. I’m wrapping my head around the dilemma of spending too much time inside, and have a few theories…
Category Recycled
Bubble Print Lunch Bag
We made prints from some bubble wrap I rescued from a recent package. It was one of those projects that came together quickly — I can’t remember why exactly, but I didn’t have my camera ready. The good news is…
Creative Challenge #5: Plastic Bottles
Make something with Plastic Bottles In honor of Earth Day, I’d like to raise a little awareness toward the enormous amounts of plastic bottles used around the world, coupled with some thoughts on recycling and upcycling those bottles into creative…
Glittery Collage with Acrylic Gloss Medium
Have you used gloss medium before? It’s a clear acrylic paint that is great for sealing two-dimensional projects. I was cleaning out the laundry room and came across an old bottle of acrylic gloss medium and varnish. Have you ever…
Growing Big Ideas
“Ideas aren’t self-contained things; they’re more like ecologies and networks. They travel in clusters.” -Kevin Kelly, Futurist and Author of What Technology Wants We had a big pile of CD cases, just waiting to be repurposed into…something! BioColors paints are…
Recycled Sculpture
How to make a recycled Sculpture with kids What you see here is one of the most successful art projects that’s hit our household thus far. And it was free! What was the allure? Working on a large scale Low…