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 ↓
Not only does every child love stickers, but stickers are also an easy way to decorate and personalize
any of your handcrafted cards or printed output. Whether it's a card, letter, certificate or photo, a sticker is a fun way to
liven things up! Use Aunt Annie's sticker sheets or design your own
stickers to use, share and trade!
VERY EASY
Description ↓
Learn how to make paper mosaics to
decorate crafts and give as gifts, while recycling the paper scraps from other projects.
Make one for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa.
VERY EASY to EASY
Description ↓
In this project, learn how to recycle milk and juice cartons, or any
size gable top carton, into strong gift boxes. You can either wrap the
boxes in your favorite way or transform the carton into a house or a
cuckoo clock using Aunt Annie's patterns.
EASY to AVERAGE
Description ↓
What goes best with kids and a hot summer day? Well, ice cream, of course! With this recipe and technique
each child gets to make an individual serving of ice cream, and it only takes a few minutes from start to
finish. Go ahead, get going—you’ll have a ball!
EASY
Description ↓
Cut five-pointed stars from red, white and blue paper and string them
to make a garland! Use the garland to decorate for Memorial Day, Flag
Day or the Fourth of July.
EASY
Description ↓
You've been cutting, folding and pasting to make your crafty creations, but now there are bits and pieces
of paper left over. Recycle that leftover paper to make simple and beautiful bookmarks using a hole punch.
VERY EASY
Description ↓
This craft
project is a kid version of the grown-up
Serendipity Square Cards tutorial. Like in the
adult version, scraps of paper are used to make colorful serendipity
squares that can be combined in many ways to make one-of-a-kind
greeting cards for dad!
VERY EASY
Description ↓
In this project, learn how to make soaps with different colored
layers using the melt-and-pour soap making technique. You can create guest soaps in
colors to match your kitchen or bath decor or to give as a special gift.
The whole family can have fun making soaps.
EASY
Description ↓
More puppet fun! This time using clip art to make paper bag puppets.
Quick, easy and fun activity for families and groups.
VERY EASY
Description ↓
Make a set of cards for the game of memory. This is a fun and very easy
project that young kids really love doing! It is great for families or groups, and with a
little preparation by the adult or teen leaders, this project is fast and fun.
VERY EASY
Description ↓
Gather those stacks of school papers together
and make them into a quick and easy booklet. This simple technique can be used to make booklets of all sorts—diaries,
collections of articles and clippings, school reports and more.
EASY
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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
Description ↓
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
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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