About the projects
Friday Fun is all about simple craft projects for family, classroom and group craft time. Some families
are setting aside a time each week for family crafting fun. Why not join in the fun?
Greeting cards for kids: For pop-up cards and more easy to
make greeting cards that children can create, see the projects listed in
Greeting Cards Kids Can Make.
Also, check out
Gifts Kids Can Make for Dad and
Gifts Kids Can Make for Mom.
The projects range in difficulty from VERY EASY to
AVERAGE.
Browse down this page and the Full Friday Fun Craft Index for descriptions and illustrations of projects, then select a project and have
some crafting fun! Or jump to the category index for a listing of all Friday Fun crafts.
Description ↓
In this project, create a necklace from scraps of suede leather
and a length of plastic lacing. This is a simple leather craft
suitable for beginners and children.
AVERAGE
Description ↓
This craft project is a kid version of the grown-up
Pocket
Greeting Cards Tutorial. These fun and unique cards for
Mother's Day feature a pocket on the front that the kids can fill
with little gifts for Mom.
VERY EASY
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The crafts of Mexico are renowned for bright colors and bold designs
especially the nierika made by the Huichol people. In this
project learn how to do Huichol-inspired yarn paintings then use the
technique to make decorative plaques or to enliven the surfaces of
boxes, cards, notebooks, and more.
AVERAGE
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See how easy it is to make paper flowers. It requires no patterns
and uses simple materials. This is a skill well worth learning!
EASY
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Make a handwoven bookmark simply and easily while learning the basic
concepts of weaving using a cardboard loom. The bookmark makes a wonderful
gift, or maybe use it as a rug in a doll house. Make the loom in different sizes and sew the fabric
into coin purses, coasters, hot pads—whatever you can imagine!
EASY
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Learn how to
make a magical world inside an Easter egg with real eggshells, cutouts or
stickers, and your imagination! Smaller crafters may need help snipping
their eggs.
AVERAGE
Description ↓
Aunt Annie
teaches you how to make a dye bath for brightly colored Easter eggs. Dye
your eggs a solid color, or
marble them for added oomph!
VERY EASY
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Make colorful tissue paper with this super easy technique.
Simply pleat a piece of tissue paper and paint the folded edges. The painted tissue paper may be used to wrap packages, to
cover box lids, line envelopes, and in greeting cards, suncatchers,
collages, and much more.
EASY
Description ↓
Learn how to
imitate on paper the fabric decorating technique from Java called
batik. The process uses crayons to color a design on paper, that is
then wadded and painted with black to make the cracks that are
typical to batiks. You can use the resulting pictures to make cards,
decorate notebook covers, or hang on the wall.
EASY
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Paper snowflakes and a little dab of paint go together to decorate your windows.
Even the youngest children in a family or group can help with this project by dabbing paint on the stencils.
EASY
Description ↓
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.
EASY
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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.
AVERAGE
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It is easy to recycle an empty jar into a wonderful container for
Valentine’s Day candies. Just add some cutouts from old Valentine’s
Day cards or leftover Valentine's Day napkins to make a decorated
jar nice enough to give as a gift.
EASY
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Make this royal Valentine crown for that special someone, or as a
fun party craft with a group of children. Just a few simple supplies
are needed to create this very special Valentine. This craft can be
used for any holiday.
EASY
For more classroom, group and family crafts, checkout the Full Friday Fun Craft Index with descriptions and illustrations of projects.
Or jump to the category index for a listing of all Friday Fun crafts.
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