| Care2.com - Arts and Crafts - http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/home/996 Offers an extensive collection of quick and easy ideas for decorating with nature using natural materials easily found around the home, garden and outdoors. Useful as a great arts and crafts project for your children, or just to have fun yourself, bring winter nature indoors for the holidays and decorate and wrap holiday gifts with pinecones, evergreens and more. Includes many environmentally friendly project ideas. - [Read more] |
| The American Gourd Society - http://www.americangourdsociety.org/ This organization promotes gourd related activities, including cultivation, craftwork, artistic decoration, and a gourd show competition. Includes seasonal growing tips, a FAQ, a bulletin board, and slide shows, their historical uses and annotated listings of related resources. - [Read more] |
| Egg Lessons - http://lujs.tripod.com/EggLessons-INDEX.HTML Offers instructions, and resources for eggshell carving and sculpture. Offers safety tips and lists suppliers of tools and of ostrich, emu, duck, and other eggs used by egger crafters. - [Read more] |
| Cob Building - With Groundworks - http://www.beckybee.net/ Building Earth homes, cob is best described as mud daubing. Earth, sand, and straw are mixed together and massaged onto the foundation, creating thick, long lasting, load bearing walls. It's like hand building a giant pot to live in. Furniture, alcoves, fireplaces, and shelves can be sculpted in as you build. Includes information, ideas, pictures, and books. - [Read more] |
| Dorodango - http://dorodango.com/ Hikaru dorodango are balls of mud, molded by hand into perfect spheres, dried, and polished to an unbelievable luster. The process is simple, but the result makes it seem like alchemy. Includes instructions and a photo gallery. - [Read more] |
| Wheat Weavers - http://www.wheatweavers.com/ Skillfully handcrafted, woven wheat decorative items reminiscent of the Southwest, using only the finest varieties of grain, and then weaving them into designs to reflect both contemporary and traditional influences. - [Read more] |
| Cob Projects - http://www.cobprojects.info/ Cob is a building material composed of clay, sand, and straw. Site includes project instructions, cob videos, a discussion forum, homes, pictures from group members, and information. - [Read more] |