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 Craft

Plant based fun:  

• Build A Plant Maze!
• 10 Fun Organic Gardening Projects for Kids
• Just How Strong Are Plants?

Recycled fun:

• Perfect Summer Recycled Dollhouse Project
• How to Make Paper
• Homemade Recycled Stickers
• Make Some Wind Clackers
• Egg Carton Buggy Mobile
• Indoors Recycled Tumbling Fun
• Creative Reuse Art Projects

Yummy fun:

• Candied Flowers
• Build A Solar Cooker
• 32 Unique Homemade Popsicle Recipes & Ideas
• Tofu Recipes for Kids

Now you can’t say the kids are bored – there are enough projects here to get you going on the path to summer fun.

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The Perfect Dollhouse: A homemade miniature villa from Family Fun. It’s a tiny, completely custom, recycled dollhouse box. So tidy, that it slides right under a bed. So creative, that it’ll be a hit all summer. The sky is really the limit with this project. You probably have tons of recycled bits around the house that will work for this cool project.

They only have tiny pictures online, but great step-by-step instructions for all sorts of furniture. Like:

How cute is all this stuff! Visit the entire article for many more furniture ideas, plus the items used to make them.

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in June 2008

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