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Simple Cardboard Box Loom

Learn to Weave with a Simple Cardboard Box Loom

Have a cardboard box and some popsicle sticks sitting around your house? You’ve already got the basic building blocks for a simple cardboard box loom! You don’t need to spend tons of money on new equipment just to give weaving a try. In fact, you don’t really need to look beyond your recycle bin. This […]

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Cardboard Chuckwagon: DIY Food Truck For Kids

Cardboard Chuckwagon: DIY Food Truck For Kids

When I was a kid, a giant cardboard box was just about the best toy ever. My friends and I built forts, castles, and storefronts. We used them as sleds, cars, and rockets, and we even got inside them and rolled down hills. (In retrospect, the latter was probably a bad idea. But it sure […]

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How-To: Sewing Machine Cat Scratcher

Got cats in the craft studio? Put ’em to work (okay, play) with this awesome sewing machine cat scratcher tutorial!

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How-To: Constellation School and Office Organizers

How-To: Constellation School and Office Organizers

Transform cardboard boxes into awesome space-inspired storage solutions for school or the office with this fun constellation organizers video tutorial!

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How-To: Toy Cardboard Sewing Machine

How-To: Toy Cardboard Sewing Machine

Have a little helper in your sewing room? Make crafting time even more fun with this fantastic tutorial for making an awesome toy cardboard sewing machine!

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Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material

Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material

You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday.

This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin.

The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard!

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