Craft Recipes

About the projects

This series of projects features recipes for making craft materials at home. The series starts with homemade finger paint, a cheap and easy way to make a wide range of finger paint colors anytime you want! Then have some fun with the sticker seal gum making your own unique stickers. In the coming weeks and months other projects featuring craft material recipes will be added.

The projects range in difficulty from EASY to AVERAGE.

Browse down this page for descriptions and illustrations of the projects, then select a project and have some crafting fun!

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  Finger Painting - Follow this simple recipe for making finger paints and then get creative! The kids (and grown-ups, too) will have great fun smearing paint on paper and creating fanciful pictures.

  EASY

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  Sticker Seal Gum - Learn how to make homemade seal gum for stickers. With this adhesive you will be able to make your own stickers from ordinary paper.

  EASY

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  Modeling Dough - Follow this recipe to make a simple modeling dough in less than 15 minutes. This recipe makes a dough that is easy to work into shapes that can be air dried and painted or use it time and time again as a play dough.

  EASY

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  Homemade Bubble Solution - Playing with soap bubbles is pure fun and fascinates even the youngest child—cats and dogs, too. It's amazingly simple to mix a bubble solution from just a few ingredients.

  VERY EASY

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  Quick Papier-mâché Pulp - Use this craft recipe to quickly make a colorful papier-mâché pulp that can be molded into shapes. This paper pulp doesn't require glue and you can skip painting the finished pieces. This is a great craft material to use for family, group or classroom crafting time.

  EASY

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  Dracula's Blood Recipe - Here's a recipe to make fake blood for Halloween. Drip some from the corners of your mouth, and in your best imitation of Dracula say, "I want your blood."

  VERY EASY