Go Green With Crafting

Earth-Friendly Ideas for Home-Made Creations

© Shirley Siluk Gregory

A guide to online resources for crafters who are interested in using non-toxic materials or recycling household "trash" into creative goods.

If you're someone who's both concerned about the environment and the creative type as well, you can do more than chuck your trash into the recycling bin. Scout around the Web even a little bit, and you'll find tons of creative ideas for turning aluminum cans, plastic shopping bags and other "garbage" into useful items for yourself or others.

Even if you're not interested in crafting with recycled materials, you can still be creative in an Earth-friendly way by choosing non-toxic paints, fabrics, clays and beads whenever possible.

Following are some of the best sites I've discovered for the green- and craft-minded:


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