Fairy Godmother Academy

Make your own cool green gifts, decorations and ornaments for the holidays!

Greengirl here with a bunch of cool ideas for celebrating the holidays AND saving the green earth! When you cut down on buying a bunch of stuff and make your own gifts and wrapping instead, you do three great things: you keep trash out of the landfills, you protect the earth from a bunch of chemicals—and best of all—you make beautiful gifts that really come from the heart. Plus, these ideas have style! Check it out:

1. Turn chipped teacups into soy or beeswax candles. Can’t you just see these at Granny Mo’s house?

2. Stencil cuptowels, tshirts, or scarves—make anything beautiful and unique.

3. Make seed tape you can give as a gift or use to wrap presents—and then plant right in the ground!

4. Use seeds, pods and flower buds as stamps to create bookmarks or gift wrap.

5. Make jewel-like marble magnets with family photos, cool images, or drawings.

6. Make felt magnets (or ornaments) of your favorite flowers and leaves so you can see the green world year-round.

7. Collage a small canvas with Wisdoms, drawings, photos or poems to show someone what they mean to you.

8. Make cool realistic leaf ornaments from recycled aluminum cans.

9. Make intricate snowflakes for your tree or mantel. Check out these really cool leaf ones!

10. Make beautiful recycled paper bows.

11. Make green gift tags, present bags and boxes from recycled paper and fabric.

12. Wrap your presents using Furoshiki, the Japanese art of cloth folding.

13. Fold paper cranes for luck. These would be beautiful as gifts, ornaments, or decorations for the holidays.

14. Make Tibetan prayer flags with your family and friends. Hang them in a special spot as a reminder of all your dreams, hopes and prayers.