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This homemade play dough is a staple in our house and I love that it is natural and so easy to make. This is our tried and true salt dough recipe that we’ve been using for several years and it always turns out great. This play dough is made using staple pantry ingredients and you

How to make mini button book notebooks using buttons and scrap paper. Perfect little fairy notebooks for drawings, paintings or for tiny botanical treasures.

Here are our go-to methods for drying the orange slices that we use for holiday decor. Dried oranges are really versatile and can be used for so many things during the holiday season. Best of all, at the end of the season you can throw them into a simmer pot or use them as potpourri

This mini clay star garland is so easy to make with homemade clay made using ingredients that you already have in your pantry. This is a standard and common recipe that uses a 2:1 ratio of baking soda to cornstarch. It can be easily adjusted as needed. We made around 140 mini stars using the

Autumn for us means lots of nature collecting and collecting acorn caps to make felted acorns is one of our favorite traditions that we've been doing since Elliot barely began walking. We’ll be using a wet felting method to create the acorns and then attaching them to the caps using glue. Wet felting is really

How to make mini bees using redwood cones or small pinecones and embroidery thread, an easy and low waste nature valentine.

Making your own twine is a great way to upcycle all of those fabric scraps that you've been saving. Transform them into something beautiful and useful!

We made quite an impressive batch of hand-rolled beeswax candles this year to give out as gifts, so naturally we also had to make them into valentines! You can make six of these smaller candles out of each single 8” x 8” beeswax sheet, so the kit from the shop has enough materials to make

How to make a handmade wood flower press for preserving spring and summer flowers and foliage. Pressed flowers can be used for many crafts.