Nature Crafts
Mini Wind Chimes
Wind chimes have their attraction, but sometimes the sound they make can be just too much noise to be enjoyable. These two miniature wind chime craft projects offer a welcome tinkle of sound, rather than a bellow, in a spring or summer breeze.
Our first project is a Terra Cotta Pot Wind Chime that [...]
Clay Pot Crafts
Turn the broken shards of a terra cotta clay pot into pretty, and practical, Broken Clay Pot Plant Markers. All you need to make them is a dowel or stick, some acrylic paint, a sealer - and, of course, the broken pot pieces (we broke our own).
Here’s a flight of fancy in clay pot [...]
Attracting Purple Martins
If you’ve ever erected a bird house mansion, in a futile attempt to attract to purple martins to nest in your yard, then you might be interested in the information in this article, which outlines the minimum nesting requirements for these active little birds. I never realized, for instance, that bird houses for purple [...]
Pine Cone Christmas Crafts
Pine cones are a bountiful gift from nature that work wonderfully for Christmas crafts. Try making these Miniature Pine Cone Christmas Trees, shown at left, from little more than pine cones and bottle caps, or top a clay pot with a pine cone, at right, to make an easy Pine Cone Topiary.
We also have two pretty angels to [...]
Lavender Crafts and Recipes
Take advantage of lavender harvesting time to make yourself, or someone else, some pleasing lavender crafts. Brand new to the site is this Lavender Fan, (at left) easily made from long-stemmed lavender and a variety of ribbon, yard or metallic cord. Lavender Wands (at right) are made in a similar way, by weaving ribbon under and over the [...]
Butterfly Arts and Crafts
Butterflies have long been the inspiration for art and crafts, exciting our senses with their ethereal grace and beauty. Whether you wish to attract more butterflies into your own backyard, or would like to make your own butterflies from a variety of craft media, we have some great butterfly resources for you.
Enticing butterflies to visit is easy when you make [...]
Solar Cooking
I cooked my first meal in a homemade solar cooker today - it was a broccoli cheese casserole that seemed a good choice to me, since I had no idea how my solar box cooker would work, and by the time I had the box constructed it was late afternoon already and I was running out of sun [...]
For the Birds
It’s not too late to set out a bird box in your backyard. Although the chickadees, wrens, sparrows and tree swallows (shown at left) that took up residence in my tree boxes this spring are busy feeding babies now, I know from previous years that many backyard birds will raise two families over the spring and summer, so you [...]
Recycled Mini Greenhouses
Don’t spend your money on seed starter mini greenhouses - make your own from recycled food containers with a transparent plastic cover.
Those convenient domed containers used for rotisserie chicken make ideal mini greenhouses if you clean them thoroughly before use. I have successfully started calendula seedlings in homemade newspaper pots that were housed in a [...]
Hummingbirds and Orioles
Spotting the first hummingbird of the spring season is always cause for excitement in my southern Ontario backyard. Bird lovers throughout the northern United States also await the first sighting of these colorful, attractive birds. You can track the migration, and add your own first sighting, to this online hummingbird migration map.
According to http://www.hummingbirds.net, “if you [...]
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