How to Build a Tiered Chessboard
Build a 3 dimensional chessboard with this beginner woodworking tutorial to DIY your own fantasy chess game
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A Pirate Party and Treasure Hunt
Celebrate your teenager’s birthday with an awesome pirate party, including an escape-room style treasure hunt. There’s ideas for a messa...
Build a Modern Horizontal Fence
Learn how to build a horizontal wood fence in your yard with this simple DIY tutorial. Learn how to install posts and attach wood slats, sp...
Camp Half-blood Party
Celebrate with all of your demi-god friends—a Camp Half-blood birthday party to remember, based on the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series.
Because one Percy Jackson party isn’t enough, a few years after we celebrated my daughter's 12th birthday with a Percy Jackson-themed party, my secon...
Cardboard Box to Pirate Treasure Chest
How to make a treasure chest from an Amazon shipping box.
Turn any cardboard box into a pirate’s treasure chest. We made this treasure ch...
Dinosaur Birthday Party
A dinosaur birthday party with DIY dinosaur fossils, a volcano cake, a scavenger hunt, and lots more prehistoric fun for your future paleontologist
How to Install Forbattra Trim in an Ikea Kitchen
Finish your DIY Ikea kitchen with custom trim that connects the Sektion cabinets to your wall or ceiling for a truly built-in kitchen look.
Growing a Green Bean Teepee: Our Summer Project
Kids can make a green bean teepee for a fun summer hideout. A perfect summertime garden project for even the smallest backyard.
Steampunk Bubble Gun: How to Make Plastic Look Like Tarnished Brass
Our family loves the Pixar movie "Inside Out". so we dressed up as the emotion characters for Halloween, but with a twist. We made them st...
Make a Rabbit Hole Entrance to a Wonderland Party
Build an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole out of cardboard that will make the entrance to your Mad Hatter’s Tea Party even more magical.
This project was part of my daughter's Alice in Wonderland Tea Party that you can read about here. The rabbit hole was part of the decorations for the party, but ...
Dinosaur Terrariums Inspired by Prehistoric Planet
After watching Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV+, we created these dinosaur-themed fairy gardens to study the different habitats that dinosau...
How to Make a Hexagon Gift Box with a Bee Theme
Make a hexagon gift box using a piece of poster board, then add some bee details and your gift box will look like it's from a beehive. Fill...
My Experience with Radiant Heat Flooring using the Cozy Winters Rug Heater
Learn about the types of radiant heating and an easy way to add radiant heat to any room with a rug heater
Avatar the Last Airbender Family Cosplay
Avatar the Last Airbender family costume for Halloween, including character costume ideas for Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, and Toph.
Butterfly Life Cycle Project
Grow your own butterflies and watch their life cycle as they turn from caterpillars into chrysalis. My son’s kindergarten class pl...
DIY Fingerless Leather Gloves
How to make fingerless gloves for a women’s steampunk outfit or any DIY costume with leather wrist guards.
Make a Pattern with Plastic Wr...
Paper Lanterns Inspired by Aladdin
Make simple paper lanterns with construction paper for party decorations or fun room decor inspired by Disney’s Aladdin.
My teenage dau...
A Pill Bug Trap Made from a Potato
Pill bugs, or rollie polies, can eat crop plants in a vegetable or fruit garden. Learn how to make a trap out of a potato to stop them from ...
How to Make a Captain America Shield
Make Captain America’s shield from Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame movie using floor mat and spray paint.
We just saw Avengers: Endgame, a...
Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Birthday
A Mad Hatter tea party for an Alice in Wonderland birthday with invitation, decoration, games, and fun ideas for a teenager’s birthday, in...
How to Steampunk a Costume
What is steampunk? How to make a steampunk costume inspired by your favorite character. In other words, how to steampunk something.
How to ...
How to Replace a Light Fixture
Learn how to install a new ceiling light and how to remove an old fan or light from this video tutorial. Remove a dated light fixture a...
How to Add a Spice Rack to an Ikea Cabinet Door
Adding a spice rack to a cabinet door is an easy DIY home project, especially on an Ikea kitchen cabinet. It makes spices and jars easy to r...
2019 Home Improvement Resolutions
Our home improvement goal for 2019 is to finish all those to unfinished projects around our house and yard. This year we will get it done.
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How to Buy the Best Sheets for Your Bed
What makes high-quality sheets so soft and comfortable? Here’s what you need to look for when buying new sheets for your bed.
Californi...
Tardis and Dalek Costume: Simplicity Pattern 1095 Review
Use Simplicity’s 1095 pattern to make a TARDIS or Dalek costume for Halloween or your next cosplay, but alter it a little by adding your o...
How to Make a Fez Hat for Doctor Who
How to Make a Fez Hat for you Doctor Who costume or cosplay, specifically for the 11th doctor played by Matt Smith.
My son was the eleven...
How to Make Foam Armor for Arms and Legs
How to Make Foam Armor that looks like hammered metal for a Roman Centurion costume, including the forearm armor called bracers and the leg ...
Doctor Who Family Costume
Cosplay as Doctor Who this Halloween with costumes for the 11th Doctor, Amy Pond, the Last Centurion, a Dalek, and the Tardis.
We are a f...
A Christopher Robin Tea Party
Celebrate like Winnie the Pooh with a Christopher Robin tea party and invite all your friends and their favorite stuffed animals. Just don't...
Mini Chairs
Make a mini chair for Marvel Studio’s Ant-man and the Wasp to use while they are small. Or make one of these miniature director’s chairs...
Coiled Paper Picture Frame
Decorate a wood craft frame with coiled paper to make quilling designs from paper strips. Perfect for a DIY Instax photo frame.
May Pintere...
How to Attach an IKEA SEKTION Cabinet Door
See the IKEA SEKTION cabinet door instructions in real life images, step-by-step tutorial so you can see where each piece and part of the do...
Avengers T-shirt
How to make your own Avengers t-shirt, like this DIY Captain America shirt with the shield symbol on it. Learn how to use foil transfer with...
Loft Bed Refinish
An old loft bed refinished to fit in a little boy's Star Wars room, plus tips and ideas for refinishing large furniture. This loft bed refin...
Clean Silver Without Polish
An easier way to clean silver without all the hassle of polishing. Remove tarnish and make your silver shiny with this easy DIY alternative ...
How to Repot a Silk Tree
Learn how to repot a silk tree so you can change the ugly pot that came with your faux plant to a planter that looks more proportional and m...
Make a Basket with Living Grass
Grow wheat grass in a basket for a beautiful addition to your Easter decor. The living grass basket can be used as an Easter basket, a cente...
How to Make a Mini Book Necklace
Make a miniature book charm for your necklace. A photo tutorial on how to make perfect little mini journal to wear as jewelry. Or just make ...
February Pinterest Challenge: DIY Journal Necklace
Welcome to the February Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop! The purpose of this hop is to motivate us to not just hoard pins, but to make it happe...
Cute Paper Fruit Embellishments
Learn how to make these adorable cut paper fruit characters with an easy-to-follow video tutorial. They make the perfect embellishment for c...
How to Repair Bathtub Chips and Peels
Read how to fix a chipped bathtub and how to repair a cracking and peeling bathtub with an epoxy finish. There’s no need to refinish the e...
How to Make a Roof Vent Cover
Winterize your home by putting a cover over your turbine roof vent, or whirlybird vent. See how to make your own roof vent cover with an eas...
Refinish an Old Globe with Chalk Paint
Refinish an old globe using chalk paint to create a beautiful and changeable piece of home decor.
In the post A Design Makeover, one of t...
How to Make a Pop-up Card Inspired by Paddington 2
How to make a pop-up card with a paper bouquet of flowers, video tutorial, inspired by the pop-up book from the movie Paddington 2. Give a p...
2018 Home Improvement Resolutions
Our home improvement goals for 2018 involve a lot of getting things finished and looking good so we can enjoy our home and yard.
2017 Home ...
Top 10 DIY Projects in 2017
Check out Simple Practical Beautiful’s most popular DIY Projects in 2017. A year of Do-it-yourself furniture, crafts, cleaning, succulents...
25 Gifts for Girls that Encourage Creativity
Gifts ideas for girls that will promote creativity and ingenuity for girls that are ages 8-12, including art gifts, science gifts, building ...
Coco Guitar
How to make the Disney Pixar’s Coco Guitar into a miniature or key chain. Use foam to make Ernesto’s guitar from the movie Coco.
My d...
Herb Butter Spread
A recipe for delicious whipped herb butter with rosemary that makes a perfect gift with fresh bread. I’m excited to be joining the ...
DIY Bread Set Foodie Gift
Give a fresh bread gift basket with a cutting board and bread bag. Use a wood burning tool to decorate and customize the cutting board and t...
DIY Spa Gift Set
How to make a DIY spa gift set with handmade lavender soap and bath salt that will make a perfect Mother’s Day, Christmas, or birthday gif...
Make a Jean Purse from an Old Pair of Jeans Pants
Make a stylish jean purse or bag by upcycling an old pair of jeans and an old belt. A great way to repurpose old jeans, plus you can make a ...
IKEA Kitchen Services Review
An IKEA kitchen planning service review and IKEA delivery service review, plus some tips and ideas about planning and installing an IKEA SEK...
Ringwraith or Nazgul Costume
Create a Nazgul costume so you can become one of Sauron’s Ringwraiths this Halloween or at your next cosplay, including the distressed clo...
How to Make a Sword from Wood
How to build a sword out of wood, then make it look metal and battle-worn. This sword was made for a Nazgul costume for a Lord of the Rings ...
The Lord of the Rings Costumes
How to make costumes for The Lord of the Rings characters, including Frodo the hobbit, Galadriel the elf queen, Arwen the elf warrior, Eowyn...
It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Make a Charlie Brown shirt out of yellow polo shirt with easy instructions for how to make the zig zag pattern.
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How to Make Galadriel’s Crown
Make an elegant DIY crown for your Galadriel costume using a glue gun and a few simple craft supplies. Easy to make and great for any elf co...
Toddler Frodo Costume for Halloween
How to make a Frodo costume, including Frodo’s sword and magic ring. A toddler hobbit Halloween costume from The Lord of the Rings.
Our f...
How to Assemble an IKEA SEKTION drawer
See the IKEA SEKTION drawer instructions in real life images, step-by-step tutorial so you can see where each piece and part of the drawer a...