Happy Earth Day

 I have gone through my blog to gather up all our recycled/upcycled and Earth friendly projects for inspiration.

We don't have any specific plans for Earth Day this year so please leave me a comment if you have any suggestions.

Recycled Art Wrapping Paper
Free Crafty Fun
Melted Crayon Art
Bird Feeders
Playing with recycling
Fabric Roads
Earth Day Flowers
Nature Treasure Hunt
Nature Table
Nature Crafts
Nature Wreaths

For all of our Upcycled projects just click here.  I also realized that almost all of my sewing pojects are upcycled materials.  I think I may need to spend some time relabelling older posts to make sure they are in the right categories.

Free crafty fun

My boys are very active!  We've been outside so much this summer that when the weather turned cold for a few days I had to get creative quickly.  Here are some pictures of the fun things we've done recently for free (or almost).

We got out the paints and dug through the recycling bin for some flyers and such to paint on.

Look at the concentration

So proud of his work

TJ is a very tactile guy skips right to the hand prints 

Gets right into his work

My boys love to be loud and make music.  After finishing some tins of cookies that we got from my grandmother, we made our own band.  TJ was so excited to start a marching band, which we took outside.

What fun thrifty things have you been doing with your kids?

Recycled Art Wrapping Paper

We have a lot of parties to go to this month.  We also have a lot of art work around our house.  TJ loves to paint every time he goes to the Early Years Centre.  Once we fill up every possible surface of the house with his work, I start to collect it all to use for wrapping paper.  At Christmas everyone loved to receive a gift wrapped in original TJ work.

What do you do with all your kids extra art work??