I love making my own cleaning products whenever possible because they’re safer for your health and better for the environment. This DIY all-purpose cleaner is so easy to make and there are so many variations that can be made depending…
DIY Natural Dyeing With Blackberries
I love experimenting with natural dyes and thought it’d be fun to make one using freshly picked berries. Blackberries create a color that ranges from bluish lavender to purple-gray. This isn’t really considered a dye (technically it’s a stain), but…
A Prehistoric 3rd Birthday Party
And just like that, my little boy turned three. He asked for a dinosaur party this year and I thought that it’d be fun to put one together that also incorporated details from our weekly nature studies. He loves dinosaurs,…
DIY Recycled Flower Crayons
Did you know you can recycle crayons? A favorite project of ours is to give crayons a new life by recycling them into new ones. The beauty of this project is that it is quick, easy and you probably already…
How to Naturally Dye Easter Eggs
There’s an endless list of things that I love about natural dyes. I love their imperfect nature and seeing how the colors vary from batch to batch. We’re naturally dyeing both real and wooden eggs this year, similar to the…
How to clean animal bones for display
We’ve been finding a lot of small animal bones lately and they’ve been a great addition to our nature studies. I had a lot of people ask about our process to clean them, so I decided to document our most…
