Green Options

The key elements to a great scrapbook are great pictures, decorative papers, and the perfect embellishments. Finding unique handmade scrapbook embellishments is a great way to enhance your eco-friendly scrapbook. Kits and Caboodles makes an adorable selection of scrapbook embellishments using recycled and upcycled papers.

Andrea, the creative woman behind Kits and Caboodles uses a variety of paper sources to make her eco embellishments and other craft goods.  She is a huge supporter of reduce, reuse, and recycle.  Her creative product packiging made from found and repurposed materials is just the start.

I’ve been very inspired this season by 30 three-, four-, and five-year-olds.

In my daughter’s Montessori classroom, the children are crafting shoebox busy boxes for the CASA children’s advocacy group. Each shoebox, which will also be decorated by the preschool children, will be filled with craft kits, books, and small toys. These shoeboxes will be given throughout the year to CASA advocates, who in turn will give the shoebox to the child for whom they are advocating, at their first meeting. The shoeboxes will serve as an icebreaker, provide cooperative activities to help adult and child bond, and relieve boredom for children who must sit through court trials and meetings on their behalf.

The best way to save money this Holiday season is to keep things simple and homemade. This causes us to ponder how to make the Holidays fun and exciting for kids. Most kids LOVE crafting, homemade craft kits are inexpensive and sure to score big points with the younger set.

Read on to discover some awesome homemade craft kits to gift the kids with this Holiday season.