The term “succulent” refers to a wide variety of plants, with many different colors and textures. Because they thrive in a range of conditions and require minimal care, succulents are excellent plants for centerpieces. Whether you're creating centerpieces for a party, for your dining room, or even to spruce up your office, you have endless opportunities with succulents.

Everyone loves decorating with flowers, but even with careful upkeep, your beautiful blooms will eventually droop. The solution? Creating your own floral substitutes! With a bit of colorful construction paper or tissue paper, your pretty, self-crafted bouquets will brighten up any room.

The art of preserving leaves dates back to when botanists traveled the world in search of new plant species. They needed some way to preserve the specimens on site for further studies when they got back to homeland. When they pressed the flowers or leaves, they'd get very brittle and discolored. However, with wax paper and an iron, you can preserve leaves that will last almost

Bright, colorful flowers can be given as a gift to convey affection, sympathy, or congratulations. Flowers quickly die and wilt, however, which may leave you wondering what you can do to avoid discarding them. Fortunately, there are some easy and inexpensive ways to reuse dead flowers, from turning them into a fragrant potpourri to pressing them into a frame.

There are few things as relaxing and inspiring as clouds, but you can't always go outside to look at them. Make a hanging cloud to enjoy the sight of the sky anytime you’re stuck indoors.

Leaf prints are fun and easy crafts for kids of all ages. They're also a great scrapbooking idea or a way to enhance gift wrap, cards and other paper crafts. As an added bonus, you get two activities in one in that you'll need to take a nature walk and collect leaves of all shapes and sizes. Return home and use your leaves for your craft projects.

The Kindness Project is a social media activity focused on spreading positivity throughout neighborhoods. It requires you to paint rocks in bright colors, then write nice messages on them. These rocks are known as "Kindness Rocks." Once you paint the rocks, leave them in easy-to-find places in your neighborhood for other people to find. They may just brighten someone's day!

Walnut shells contain a natural dye that is perfect for transforming into ink. You'll find various possible recipes here for creating your own walnut ink.

Sea glass is a type of rare mineral that’s created when ordinary beach sand becomes weathered by the salty waves and wind over many years. While the murky, frosted glass is a naturally-occurring composite, it’s also possible to make your own by replicating the conditions under which it forms. You can do this by taking ordinary scrap glass and weathering it artificially in a small rock

Here's one for all of those harakeke (flax) weavers out there. If you’re interested in adding a bit of colour to your latest creations or just want to experiment with them a bit, then the following instructions are for you. Using crepe paper as a dye is a simple, cost effective, and surprisingly easy thing to do. All you have to do is follow the steps below!