Homemade gifts and crafts using recycled valentines, wrapping paper

Did your little Miss take her neatly-labeled valentines to school and arrive home with reciprocal Valentine cards from friends? So now, what to do with these prized missives? Clean freaks will toss when she isn't looking. Sentimental (ahem, packrat) parents will urge saving. Artsy (messy) moms won't know what happens to valentines because they will filter into general room litter. None of these is very satisfying considering cost, work and love put into valentines. Here are five cheap, homemade crafts using recycled and repurposed children's valentines. Perfect to use as gift crafts for Easter, Teacher Appreciation Month, Mother's Day, Father's Day or Grandparent birthday gift.   Mothers Day gifts, homemade crafts using recycled valentines

Inexpensive Father's Day Photo Frame Crafts from Recycled Materials

Need a cheap (as in cost, not quality) gift for Father's Day? How about a free one? Even better, right? So make photo frame crafts from recycled materials. Personalize with special pictures of you and dad. Here are simple photo frame crafts made by decoration plain picture frames. Collect plain wood, plastic or metal frames. Watch clearance sales, garage sales, rummage sales, even junk piles for photo frames to refurbish. Now read on Easy, Inexpensive, Green Mother's Day / Father's Day Photo Frame Crafts

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Free Printable Photo Frame Craft Activities

Free Printable Cut and Paste Photo Frame Craft Projects
Family Fun has an excellent website full of free printable crafts, cut and paste projects, seasonal crafts, holiday crafts, room decor, games, puzzles and activities. Here are craft project free printable photo frame crafts. Read More

Homemade Photo Frames for Gifts

Cheap Homemade Mothers Day, Fathers Day Photo Frame Crafts
Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May and Father's Day, the third Sunday in June are excellent occasions to make crafts as gifts. For Mother's Day and Father's Day, we like to decorate photo frames and insert pictures of the family. Read More

Spring Cleaning and Redecorating Tips: Frame Childrens Artwork

Spring Cleaning and Redecorating Tips: Easy, Green, Inexpensive Decor
Does your home decor need freshening up? Redecorating is expensive. Here's an idea. Is your fridge door plastered with kids' art projects? Don't toss your child's art; she labored loving to produce it. Recycle her art and decorate on a shoestring.
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