Plant A Seed Or Swap One, It's A Natural!

It's Spring and that means Spring cleaning inside and out. While cleaning out your garden why not have a seed and plant swap with neighbors or friends?

Every month, during the monthly meeting of The Garden Club at Highland Lakes, in Palm Harbor, Florida, residents bring cuttings and seeds to share with neighbors.  It's a great way to dispose of their bountiful crops while adding to the beauty of the community.  So, why not make your world a more beautiful and healthier place and have a swap, too!  It's so easy.

If you want to start a seed swap or swap of any kind, check out this article"How to have a swap", it's full of great tips.

For tips on Green Gardening check out Planetpals Green Garden Journal. It's chock full of compost, organic and recycle garden ideas.

Happy Gardening Pals! 

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Kentucky Derby Recycle Decorations That Make You A Winner

We bet you will have a winning party with these recycle crafts for your Kentucky Derby event.

Use ribbon scraps, paint swatches, chop sticks and a variety of other recycled items to make these clever and fun

Kentucky Derby symbols that will jazz up your table settings! Add Mimosas, Mint Juleps, Fried Chicken and other Kentrucky Derby favorites and your friends will be racing over to your winning party!

Cinco De Mayo Recycle Crafts

Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). 

Cinco de Mayo traditions include parades, mariachi music performances and street festivals in cities and towns across Mexico and the United States.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Green. Here are some recycle craft ideas for celebrating!

We have collected some great green ideas to help you celebrate.  Get directions to ALL our Cinco de Mayo craft ideas here

Greenville - Kids Recycle City Project For Play

Playmobile, recycled boxes and recycled materials become the basis for this green city

Watch the whole project on UTUBE!

   
If you have been reading our blog, you know we love recycle toy ad ons.  It makes for more creative play and adds an element of ingenuity and engineering to every project.  In the past, we designed a Playhouse modelled after a doll house, as well as a campground using Legos, Playmobile and other small toys.

The Greenville project was a natural to follow! So here is what we did:

We took the same boxes from our playhouse and reconstructed them as well as added others to make a city scene. Obviously, utilizing what toys we already have.

The city includes a supermarket, furniture store, cafe, fruit stand, flea market, animal petting area, zoo, walkways, sitting areas, ice cream wagon and more.

We used recycle materials such as bottle caps, candy containers, pizza inserts, food boxes and cardboard tubes to make shelves, buildings and accessories.  All mixed with our collection of playmobile and other small toys.  Lastly, we made signs from the back side of food boxes, paper rolls and paper.

The boys ages range from 5 to 9. Each one brought their excitement, creativity and expertise to the table!

close up of strip mall 

recycle toys add another dimension 

the size of it!

See our other buildings and get a free building plan.

 Watch CJ (5) Working on the Greenville sign: 

Take a tour of Greenville with Brenden: 

Got Boxes, Got Recycle Buildings!

Make A Variety of Buildings with Many styles to choose from

At home or at school this craft is cool!
A lesson in engineering and architecture.

Make your very own buildings from recycled items you find around your home. *Reshape them!  Make an apartment building, strip mall with stores or a one level house! 

Download these Building Ideas, Patterns and Layouts

How to make this Doll / Toy House:

Tools needed for a Doll House

• Boxes
• Paper Tube Roll
• Tape
• Recycled papers: Magazine, giftwrap, school papers
• Glue
• Staples / Stapler ((optional) *with small children be cautious)
• Paint , markers, (optional)
• Fabric (optional)

To see the complete step by step directions and to download Free Building Ideas, Patterns and Layouts go here 

We mix this toy with Playmobile people, furniture, animals and make a whole scene for boys and girls. 

Buy playmobile now!  Loads of sets available

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