Crafting fun for everyone!

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: Make stuffed bunny and chick from felt!

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  Stuffed Felt Animals - The project features stuffed felt animals—a chick and a bunny. Beginning sewers will use the overcast stitch to assemble the animals, while more experienced sewers can improvise with stitches and embellishments of their own choosing.

  Come back on Wednesday for a new craft treat and later in the week for a new Friday Fun craft!

• Wednesday Treat: Easy and fun Easter card that looks like a baby chick!

  

  This week's Wednesday treat is instructions for making Easter Chick Cards. See how easy it is to make an Easter card by tracing your child's hands. This is a fun project for kids of all ages. Even toddlers will enjoy this project that uses cutouts of their traced hands for the wings.

• This Week's Friday Fun: Origami fun for Easter or just because!

  

  Jumping Origami Bunny - This funny bunny paper craft can be folded in just a few steps. Press down on his back to watch him "spring" up! The bunny is a twist on the traditional origami leaping frog.

  For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!

Featured last week: Make bunny, chick and flower envelopes!

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  Easter Envelope Patterns - Make Easter envelopes with chick, bunny and flower designs from printable patterns. These envelopes fit the Fun Shaped Cards and have matching designs. They can also be used for other handmade cards. See the project for envelope dimensions.

• Wednesday Treat: All occasion greeting card ideas!

  

  Last week's Wednesday treat was ideas and instructions for making All Occasion Ribbon Edge Cards. Create cards to have on hand that can be used for any occasion. These cards feature a ribbon backed decorative cut edge and stamped block backgrounds. Use these card ideas as a springboard to make cards of your own design using the tools and supplies available.

• Last Week's Friday Fun: Make large felt letters to spell out a name!

  

  Stuffed Felt Names - Kids love to see their names spelled out! In this craft project, see how to cut out, sew, and stuff individual felt letters, and then join them together to create a bright and cheerful personalized wall hanging that's perfect for the bedroom door, on the wall, or over the crib.

  For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!