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: Create your own board game!

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  DIY Racetrack Board Game - It's fun to play games and fun to make games, but it is even more fun to create your own game! In this craft project you will make a do-it-yourself racetrack game board with space stickers that you can arrange to make your version of the Race Game.

• Wednesday Treat: Make a shamrock decorated box for St. Patrick's Day!

  

  This week's Wednesday treat is a new set of shamrock pentagon box patterns!  For your St. Patrick's Day gifts make these boxes with five-sides that are decorated with shamrocks. For how-to instructions, see the Pentagon Box craft project. See more St. Patrick's Day crafting.

  Come back on Friday for a Friday Fun craft project!

• This Week's Friday Fun: Make a flurry of tissue paper snowflakes!

  

  Easy Paper Snowflakes - Learn an easy way to make snowflakes from tissue paper. With this technique you can make a whole flurry of snowflakes in a hurry! Using tissue paper makes cutting through many layers easier, but you can use any lightweight paper you like.

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

Featured last week: Use clip art to make colorful greeting cards!

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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.

• Wednesday Treat: New Dot Painting series striped digital paper!

  
  

  Last week's Wednesday treat was a new digital paper addition to the Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting series. The new Dot Painting Stripes ePaper features stripes that coordinate in color with other Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting ePapers.

• This Week's Friday Fun: Recycle a jar into a snow globe!

  

  Snow Scene in a Jar Snow Globe - Whether you have snow where you live or not, you can have wintertime fun by making a wintry snow scene in a jar. All it takes is a few plastic toys, rocks, glue, glitter and water to turn a small jar into a winter wonderland where a gentle shake makes it snow.

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