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Aunt Annie's Crafts
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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: Printable patterns for elephant puppets!
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Elephant Finger Puppets - Make elephant finger puppets that are animated with three of your fingers—two fingers for the legs and another finger for the head. These puppets are easy to make—just cut, fold and glue. These puppets go with lion, rabbit and sheep puppets in the Three-Finger Puppets craft project.
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Wednesday Treat: New digital papers with purple triangles!
This week's Wednesday Treat is a new set of purple triangle digital paper downloads for you to print and use in any of your crafts or card making. These ePapers feature triangles in plum to lavender and coordinate with last week's Plum and Lavender Checks digital paper download.
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This Week's Friday Fun: A summertime craft for everyone—God's Eye!
God's Eye - If you are looking for a craft that kids love and is great for groups, look no further. God’s Eyes are made with just a few supplies and even small children get wonderful results.
For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!
Featured last week: Make a holder for your handmade cards!
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Pocket Folder for Greeting Cards - This simple folder is perfect for storing your handmade cards, and with multiple folders, you can arrange the cards by theme or occasion. When selling or giving your cards as a set, make a folder to match your handmade cards.
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Wednesday Treat: New digital paper with plum and lavender checks!
Last week's Wednesday Treat was a new Plum and Lavender Checks digital paper download for you to print and use in any of your crafts or box and bag making. This ePaper is the third in the Checks Variety set which coordinates with the XO Repeat ePapers and Triangle Patchwork ePapers.
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Last Week's Friday Fun: Use soap bubbles to make prints on paper!
Bubble Print Paper - Use paint and bubble blowing liquid to make this kid-safe alternative for marbled paper. With this technique you will make pastel prints of soap bubbles on paper that then can be used for other craft projects.
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
- Pop-up Cards
- Friday Fun Crafts for kids, families and groups
- Fourth of July Crafts
- Father's Day Crafts
- Gifts by Kids for Dad
- Spring and Easter Crafts
- Gifts by Kids for Mom
- Valentine's Day Crafts
- St. Patrick's Day Crafts
- ePaper Downloads
- Flexagons and Tangrams
- Crafts and Recycling
- Puppets Around the World
- Make Boxes and Bags
- Games To Make
- Greeting Card Tutorials
- Craft Material Recipes
- Papermaking Projects
- Party Decorations
- 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 tutorial is Step Pop-Up Cards. In this tutorial, see how easy it is to make a step pop-up mechanism, also sometimes called a platform or double-slit pop-up. Once you learn this technique it's a simple matter to create pop-up cards of your own design. 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.