Diy insects

Make a cute grasshopper using recyclables. This is a fun nature-inspired craft for kids!

Talented woodcarver and artist Bobby Duke (previously) gave a rather amusing tutorial showing how to make a variety of graceful insect sculptures using

For an upcoming show, I want to create oversized dragonflies. My first challenge is to make the wings using un-steeped (white) tea bags. I want the wings to have a translucent look so you can see through them but crispy and brittle, not flexible like plastic. I've tried many products that looked

Make Fork Bugs (Magnets): I recently came into the possession of a lot of forks. Like, 30 or so. I had no idea what to do with them, so I started looking around online. I found lots of cool sculptures and models of animals made out of recycled metal, so I figured I'd give th…

When my boys found a stunning (also dead) dragon fly, I wondered if we could preserve it in resin to keep. Like museum specimens or old-school paperweights …

Like many children, Otis loves his nature collection. He loves to collect items from his nature walks including dead bugs. In the past, we've stored his nature collection including his bugs in a lovely wooden box (it has sections and a glass cover) which has worked really well and looks beautiful on his shelves. But what if you didn't want the child to touch the bugs, what if the bugs were too delicate to be handled by young children, what if you wanted to pass the bugs around to many young…

This downloadable kit will be available alongside the six currently available downloadable kits in the Beastie and Bone online shop on the 29th when this month's shop update goes live! There will also be new linocut prints, recycled paper prints, restocks of previously sold-out popular prints and stickers, and a new big paper art original work! #darknaturalism #darknature #darkdecor #entomology #giantmoth #papermoth #fauxtaxidermy #curio #paperbutterfly #forestcore #papercraft