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Wildflower Seed Paper - 10 Steps on Making Your Own - Earth Day

Wildflower Seed Paper: 9 Steps to Make Your Own

Celebrate Earth Day or any day by making your own wildflower seed paper. A great activity for all ages. This handmade, Earth-inspired paper is made with recycled paper and embedded with wildflower seeds. A meaningful way to celebrate our planet! Makes a beautiful gift for family and friends. Material Needed: Scrap paper (suggested types listed...

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Go outside and collect some natural material to make these fun crafts - National Garden Bureau

Making Winter Crafts with Natural Items

Make your own winter crafts using the material you find in nature. Mother Nature’s Cabinet of Curiosities “The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” Henry David Thoreau At no other season of the year is nature so generous with her gifts as in autumn/early winter. Children gain a large body of valuable knowledge...

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Crafting with Luffa Sponges is fun and easy to do - National Garden Bureau

Crafting with Luffa Sponge Gourds

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to

Luffas can be used in a variety of ways as a food source, skin scrubber, and home cleaning sponge. The dried fibrous skeleton of the gourd also makes a great natural craft material. You can create fiber crafts, mixed media art projects, and home items using dried vines, gourds, and seeds. Luffa vines are sturdy...

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Sunflower DIY Projects to make for summer and fall - Year of the Sunflower

Sunflower DIY Ideas

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Recipes

Easy Sunflower DIY Projects Ideas to Create on Your Own Feelin’ Sunny: Make These Sunflower DIY Projects Now! From crafts to cooking to kids’ parties, try these bright ideas for sunflower DIY projects. Cheery, bright sunflowers: they’re the perfect plant to entice pollinators, add garden drama (the good kind, that is!), lure little ones to...

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Garden Hangouts and Hideaways are perfect for a summer of fun in the garden - National Garden Bureau

Garden Hangouts and Hideaways for Kids

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to, Kid's Gardening

Create a new kind of summer camp in your own backyard with flower forts, bean tunnels, vine-covered teepees, and other secret garden structures for kids. Pry the kids away from their screens and create a special outdoor space just for them! Everyone needs a space of their own, a place to unwind and relax, especially as...

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Growing and Enjoying Luffa Sponges

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Vegetables

Growing your own supply of natural sponges is easy and fun. Luffa (loofah) sponges do not come from the sea but from the vegetable garden. These natural scrubbers belong in the family of plants that include gourds, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and melons. They are most closely related to cucumbers in appearance and growing habits. They...

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How to Plant a Sunflower House

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Kid's Gardening

Let's Plant a Sunflower House Download this Garden Activity from KidsGardening 2021 is the Year of the Sunflower so what better time to plant sunflowers in a way that gives the kids a place to play! Sunflower plants have cheerful blooms − they look very much like faces surrounded by colorful petals! They come in...

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5 Heart-Shaped Houseplants

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to, Indoor Gardening

These 5 Heart-Shaped Houseplants are perfect gifts for someone special. Show your love and appreciation to someone special with Heart-Shaped Houseplants. This year, what do you appreciate most? COVID-19 might have stopped our social gatherings, but it hasn’t stopped people's love for collecting plants. This year is the perfect year to get your special someone...

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Lavender Gifts of Love

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to

3 easy to make Lavender Gifts of Love Lavender Gifts make the perfect all-natural Valentine’s day or “just because” present. Lavender is an ideal herb to use when making sachets, bath salts, and sugar scrubs gifts for your Valentine or anytime. These simple products can be given separately or put together in a box or...

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Holiday Gardening Gifts!

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Gardening Books, Planting

It might be a very strange holiday season this year, and we might not be able to see our loved ones in person, but that doesn't mean you can't give them something special! Give your special gardener the perfect Holiday Gardening Gifts they will love even after the holiday season like a new tool, book,...

Wildflower Seed Paper: 9 Steps to Make Your Own

Making Winter Crafts with Natural Items

Crafting with Luffa Sponge Gourds

Sunflower DIY Ideas

Garden Hangouts and Hideaways for Kids

Growing and Enjoying Luffa Sponges

How to Plant a Sunflower House

5 Heart-Shaped Houseplants

Lavender Gifts of Love

Holiday Gardening Gifts!

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