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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

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
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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5 Lovely Uses for Lavender - #yearofthelavender - National Garden Bureau

5 Lovely Uses for Lavender

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Easy Lavender Gifts You Can Make Yourself! As gardeners, we love to share a little bit of our garden with friends and loved ones by using our garden's bountiful goodness. It can be as simple as an aromatic bag of potpourri or a jar of jam made with homegrown berries. No matter what we grow...
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Fall Inspiration with Pansies!

Pansies, a Fall Inspiration

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Flower Gardening
Pansies the Perfect Fall Addition Pansies, with their large flower face and excellent cool-weather tolerance, are the perfect addition to your fall garden design. Exciting new varieties have multitudes of large flower heads, that are often winter-hardy in the warmer climates and return full flower ahead in the spring! Learn more at our Year of...
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