I don’t often show art here, mainly because kids are pretty darn good at covering your walls all on their own. However, I LOVE these eco-art pieces, not just because they’re adorable, but because they’re also affordable. These lovely nursery rhyme collages by Rebecca Peragine are available in matted prints, posters or canvases plus various sizes, so you pick the pieces you can best afford, which is awesome.

All of these beautiful nursery rhyme collages are original designs created from scrap papers reproduced for her collection of nursery rhyme prints and posters are printed on high quality 100% recycled paper with …read more

Here’s a round up of some fun crafts for the kiddos…

Thanksgiving Crafts and Turkey Projects – most use recycled goods
A Waste Not Pilgrim: Thanksgiving Craft
Recycled bird feeder – hey, our bird friends gotta eat too
Cardboard Tube Pilgrims & Indians
Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids 3 Turkey Craft Ideas – recycled items used

November current events at Tree Hugging Family – themes, reviews, news, and more…
[image via Buy Nothing Day]

Many crafts look, well, crafty and homemade, which granted is part of the charm. However, if your goal is a more elegant kind of Thanksgiving decor, that you can still make yourself, try these crafts…
Flower & Spice Table Toppers – these are gorgeous and use minimal supplies. Perfect for your table. PS if you want your table topper to smell more holiday-like, sprinkle with a little clove and cinnamon essential oils.

[image via Family Corner]
Nature Themed Autumn Craft  – from Tree Hugging Family’s past.
Beautiful autumn leaf cards – you could make these for place cards on your table.

[image via CraftIdeas.info]
And don’t …read more

All Free Crafts has cool craft ideas all the time, but I didn’t know about their Halloween Crafts. Many are recycled, super cute and spooky, and look like loads of fun.
For example:
Egg Carton Bat…

Plus other Halloween crafts like:

Recycled Lightbulb Witch
Recycled Frankenstein Can
Recycled Pumpkin CD
Egg Carton Pumpkins

Visit to see all the fun recycled crafts. Also, don’t forget, even if a Halloween craft is not noted as being recycled or earth friendly, you can always take an idea, run with it, and see how you can make it more green.
Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes and everything else …read more

With all the holidays coming up, it’s the perfect time to make luminaries. You could buy some; they’re not always expensive. For example, this three piece Chelsea Luminaries set (below) from Improvements is almost half off right now; (and they’re pretty).

Still, even if you can get them on the cheap, why not make them yourself? This is a great way to recycle cans, and a fun project for kids to help with.
Make your own luminaries:

With rainy and or cooler weather setting in, now is a good time to stay inside and make some eco crafts. I’ve collected a few that fit the season.
Recycled Blooms: Ok, this may seem like a spring-based craft, but consider making some autumn toned blooms for the Thanksgiving table this year – cheaper than real organic flowers for sure, and your kids will be proud to have their blooms displayed.

[Craft image via Parents Magazine]
Eco-Friendly Halloween Crafts: Instructions are included for Egg Carton Bats, Egg Carton Spider, Milk Jug Pumpkin, Pumpkin Masks, Ghost Windsock, and a Toilet Tissue Roll Bat.

[Craft …read more

With summer here, maybe you’re looking for something new to do. We’ve posted lots on fun kid activities, so I thought I’d round up a good bunch of stuff that you and more importantly, your kids, might enjoy. Don’t forget, if all else fails, there’s always a picnic at the park.

Nature based fun:  

Nature Experiment – Make Your Own Rain Bowl
Journey North: One of the best earth-based youth activities available
Make Your Own Solar Light!
Ditch your watch and use the sun to tell time

Messy & colorful fun:  

Make Your Own Natural, Colorful Dyes
Homemade Organic Paint Soap for Kids
Fun Beach or Sandbox …read more

Instructables and Discover magazine have joined forces and right now are running the Green Science Fair For a Better Planet contest and event. I actually meant to post on this sooner (bad me). The contest is complied of every sort of green project you can think of, but each project needs to be instructions, a how to go green, make a green something, or use green ideas for something off the charts odd.
Voting ends tomorrow. So right now you can go vote or even still submit, if you’re quick. There are all kinds of things to see at the event …read more

Recycle Works has an excellent page of creative reuse project links – perfect for kids and adults. Some of what you’ll find includes:
Colorful envelopes made out of old magazine or calender pages.
Bird feeder from a milk carton
One of their links will take you to the KinderArt Art From Recycled Materials page, which is great. You’ll find stuff like…

Egg cup flowers
Keychain
Art Savers
A Bug Village
And lots more

Another of their links will shoot you over to the Goddess of Garbage a dumpster diving, creative sort, who makes things like candle holders from found objects.
Plenty of reuse projects for the whole summer. Plus at …read more

Me actually – I don’t like plastic bags. However, if you’re going to have them why not recycle them into lovely flowers.

Learn how at one of the better new green blogs to appear last year – Keetsa. Can you imagine a recycled plastic bag wedding!