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Aunt Annie's Crafts
Craft projects and more!
Crafting fun for everyone!
Step-by-step instructions. Printable patterns. Updates each week.
Welcome to Aunt Annie's Crafts!
Take a look around. You'll find crafting fun for children, teens and adults. A craft how-to is featured each Monday, with a special craft treat added each Wednesday, and at the end of the week it's Friday Fun with simple crafts for families, groups or classrooms.
Featured this week: Box with shaped sides that lock together!
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Interlocking Box - Try your hand at making boxes that feature sides that lock together. The interlocked sides create a striking design that you can further enhance with patterns and designs. These square boxes are ideal for gifts of cookies or brownies.
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Wednesday Treat: New interlocking box templates with stripes and dots!
This week's Wednesday treat is a set of printable patterns for two sizes of Interlocking Boxes. The boxes incorporate designs from the Golden Stripes and Sky Blue Mixed Dots ePapers.
Come back on Friday for a Friday Fun craft project!
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This Week's Friday Fun: Recycle a seed catalog into a play garden!
Seed Catalog Garden - Make a garden in the middle of winter by cutting up seed catalogs. Cutting up the catalogs, making the garden, and playing with it will keep kids busy for hours.
For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!
Featured last week: Make easy and fast cards using clip-art!
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Matted Clip-art and Photo Cards - Learn matting techniques and color combining concepts to use with clip-art and photos to make stylish greeting cards. This tutorial is all about combining colors. You'll learn how to select a mat color that suits the clip-art or photo that you've chosen as the central theme of your greeting card.
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Wednesday Treat: Template for 12-sided, dodecahedron 2016 calendar!
Last week's Wednesday treat was a printable pattern for making a 2016 calendar in the form of a dodecahedron, a platonic solid with twelve pentagon faces. Follow the instructions in the Platonic Solids craft project to make a 2016 calendar for your desktop or to give as a gift.
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Last Week's Friday Fun: Turn a cup into a quick party favor!
Paper Cup Party Favor - Half the fun of giving a party is selecting a theme and making the decorations. You can easily and quickly make party favors for any theme by decorating paper or foam cups with ribbon and images printed from your computer.
For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!
Previously featured...
Here's a sample of the crafting fun from previous weeks. Visit the Project Index to see it all.
Looking for crafts for family, classroom or group craft time?
Check out the Friday Fun index for quick and easy crafts.
Project Index
- Valentine's Day Crafts
- ePaper Downloads
- Flexagons and Tangrams
- Crafts and Recycling
- Pop-up Cards
- Puppets Around the World
- Make Boxes and Bags
- Games To Make
- Friday Fun Crafts for kids, families and groups
- Greeting Card Tutorials
- Craft Material Recipes
- Papermaking Projects
- Party Decorations
- Gifts by Kids for Mom
- Spring and Easter Crafts
- Father's Day Crafts
- Gifts by Kids for Dad
- Halloween Crafts
- Thanksgiving & Fall Crafts
- Christmas Crafts
- and more!!!and more!!!
Greeting card tutorials
Greeting card tutorials are a regular feature on Aunt Annie's Crafts. Each tutorial builds on prior card projects. It's like taking a class on making handmade greeting cards.
This month's featured card idea is Matted Clip-art and Photo Cards! See how to use clip-art and photos to make easy and quick greeting cards. If you are new to card making, the tutorials in the Card Class are a great place to learn many techniques for making beautiful cards. Then for more ideas and techniques, go on to Card Class 2.