Eight Great Green Halloween Kid Crafts

Halloween is so much fun. It’s a lot of fun to celebrate and there’s no stressful present buying involved. It’s just fun and games.

And crafts! Lots and lots of crafts.

Searching the web, I found a lot more great green Halloween crafts that you can do with your kids.

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A Review of Sewing for Dummies 3rd Edition

It’s no secret that I am sewing challenged. Me and sewing machines…well let’s just say we’ve never gotten along all that well.

My mother has an antique sewing machine, several in fact, but there is one in particular that I blame for my aversion to sewing. See, when I was little I was playing with it and managed to stick the needle through the palm of my hand. After that I’ve tried to steer clear of sewing machines. I don’t have the faintest clue on how to use bobbins, needles or other miscellaneous sewing what nots associated with sewing machines.

So when I was offered the chance to review the 3rd edition of the book Sewing for Dummies I jumped at the chance thinking this may be my chance to learn to sew.

The book is a fabulous with easy to read intructions to everything sewing. I have learned about assembling a great sewing kit, choosing fabrics, working with lace, adding zippers, sewing piping, adding cording and fringe trim, sewing on buttons, adding darts, hemming by hand or machine, and reading patterns.

All of this is useful and wonderful stuff but for things like sitting down and getting to know your sewing machine, I didn’t find it very useful. Obviously every machine is different so including step by step details for a particular sewing machine wouldn’t be effective in this general sewing book, but that’s what I really need.

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Not sure what you want to be for Halloween yet? Or don’t have the time to whip up something new?

Check out National Costume Swap Day!

Green Halloween and Kiwi Magazine have teamed up to create National Costume Swap Day as a way to keep costumes out of landfills and put them in the hands of children and families looking for new to them costumes without spending a fortune. And by swapping just half of the costumes kids wear at Halloween in one year, over 6,250 tons of waste can be saved from landfills!
The first National Costume Swap Day is scheduled for Saturday October 9, 2010. If you are interested in participating in a swap gather up your old costumes, masks and Halloween accessories and find a swap close to you.

Don’t see one is your area? Organize one of your own or find an online costume swap. Green Halloween has some great tips for organizing and participating in swaps.

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Rosie Hippo Offers Eco and Ethical Toys

Rosie Hippo is a fabulous online store where you can shop for handmade, organic, fair trade, ethical and eco-friendly toys. All that are high quality unique toys your kids will love.

They have toys made of ethically sourced and eco-friendly wood, toys made from fair trade materials, they have stuffed animals, pretend play toys…anything and everything that can spark your child’s imagination while giving them something safe to play with.

I call my youngest child my little monkey and monkey man because he loves monkeys, absolutely adores them. Plus he hops around and climbs everything like a little monkey.

Rosie Hippo has the absolute cutest hand crafted, fair trade monkeys. They are so adorable. In fact they are so cute my little guy did not want to share when I received the two pictured above for review. He wanted to keep them both and not give the pretty pink and charcoal one to his big sister. He was determined to keep them both for himself but finally caved and gave her the pink one… but he keeps stealing it back. I keep finding all the monkeys together in his firetruck bed.

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