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 ↓
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
Description ↓
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
Description ↓
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
Description ↓
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
Description ↓
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
Description ↓
Create chains of paper hearts by cutting accordion-folded paper
strips. You can easily make paper heart chains for Valentine's Day.
It's just like cutting
Paper
Doll Chains—only easier! Use strips of red paper, plain
or patterned, to decorate for a party, in the classroom, around the
house or for a special dinner with your loved ones.
VERY EASY
Description ↓
Simple, easy, and effective. Draw hearts freehand for this Valentine
card, and just fold, cut and glue! Cutout cards are a great Valentine’s
Day craft for children and classroom groups.
VERY EASY
Description ↓
It's easy and fast to make these tasty treats, then wrap them up
with ribbon and cellophane. Use these fancy spoons to add a special
touch to a dinner party, make a unique Valentine's Day gift, or brighten
someone's day! Make mocha coffee in a flash by using a chocolate
spoon to stir hot milk into your coffee!
EASY
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See how easy it is to recycle paper scraps and magazines to make
colorful paper beads. After winding the paper into beads and varnishing
them for a shiny finish and durability, the beads can be strung into
bracelets, necklaces and even beaded room dividers!
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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