Full Friday Fun Index

Kids' Halloween Spook House Dangler Cards - Make your own haunted house dangler card for Halloween! This fun and easy craft is perfect for kids of all ages. Just follow the instructions to create a spooky house with jack-o'-lantern dangler and ghostly residents inside. Your spooky Halloween dangler card is sure to be a hit!

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Halloween Mobile - Make your own spooky Halloween mobile! This easy craft is perfect for kids of all ages, and you only need a few simple materials. Follow the instructions to create a unique mobile with ghosts, jack-o'-lanterns, bats, black cats, and more. After you're finished, you can hang your mobile in your room or give it as a gift to your friends.

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Stained Glass Leaves - This easy and fun craft is perfect for kids of all ages, and it's a great way to recycle crayons. Simply collect some fall leaves to trace and follow a few simple steps to create your own stain glass-like masterpiece. Once your craft is finished, you can display it in your home or give it as a gift to a friend or loved one.

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Homemade Modeling Dough Recipe - Make your own modeling dough today and let your imagination run wild! This easy recipe makes a soft and squishy dough that you can air dry and paint, or use again and again as play dough. Create anything you can imagine! Make silly animals, colorful flowers, or even jewelry, backpack mascots, and keychain fobs. The possibilities are endless!

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Sponge Stamps and Art - Do you know that ordinary kitchen sponges can be used to make stamps? Kids will love making their own unique stamps to create artistic masterpieces for display in the refrigerator door gallery. Follow these simple instructions and you'll be able to make stamps of your own design in minutes.

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Sewing Cards - For generations, children have been playing with sewing cards. In this project, see how easy it is to make your own sewing cards out of cardstock, then sew on them with colorful yarn. Adults can take the sewing cards a step further to make scrapbook and greeting card embellishments.

VERY EASY

Children's Craft Box - Give your kids a craft box filled with craft tools and supplies, and let their creativity run wild! With a few simple rules (cover the work area with a plastic tablecloth before starting and clean up after yourself), kids can create whatever they can imagine.

VERY EASY

Sticker Fun - Learn how to make your own custom stickers with kids! This fun and easy craft is perfect for a group activity. Kids can use their imaginations to create all sorts of stickers, and they can even use their own drawings or photos. Once the stickers are made, they can be used to decorate cards, letters, and other projects.

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Yarn Octopus - See how easy it is to make a little yarn octopus that is the perfect size, about 5", to hang on your backpack.  These little cuties are just right for your yarn leftovers. It also makes a terrific gift or craft bazaar sale item.

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Origami Flying Bird - A bow isn't the only way to top off a gift package. All it takes is a square of paper and a few folds to make an origami bird to decorate your present.  The flying bird has fewer folds than most origami birds. This makes it an ideal origami craft project for beginning folders and children.

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Recycled Milk Carton Gift Boxes - 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 church, house, cuckoo clock, or Valentine's Day mailbox using Aunt Annie's patterns.

EASY to AVERAGE

Layered Soaps - 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.

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Washcloth Bath Bags - Sew up a nifty bag for your bath from a washcloth and ribbon. Put soap or bath salts inside and relax in a sudsy tub of warm water. But don't stop there! The bath bags also double as bath mitts for the kids. They also make great gift bags for handmade soaps!

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Keepsake Booklets - 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.

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Paper Mosaic - Recycle your paper scraps into a colorful mosaic with this easy-to-follow tutorial. All skill levels can enjoy this project, and it's a fun way to use up leftover paper. You can even make a one-of-a-kind gift for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa! Get started on your own paper mosaic today!

VERY EASY to EASY

Clip Art Bag Puppets - More puppet fun! This time using clip art to make paper bag puppets. Quick, easy and fun activity for families and groups.

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Memory Game - 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.

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Ice Cream in a Bag - 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!

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Punched Bookmarks - 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

Mexican Huichol Yarn Painting - 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

Stenciled Stars Patriotic T-Shirts - Take a plain T-shirt or a tired old T-shirt and perk it up with stenciled designs. Use the printable stars stencil pattern to make star-spangled T-shirts for Independence Day. The whole family can pitch-in to make custom T-shirts in patriotic colors.

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Handwoven Bookmarks - 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!

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Suede Leather Pendant Necklaces - 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.

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Tissue Paper Painting - Using  this super easy technique, make colorful tissue paper with designs that resemble Japanese shibori or tie dyeing. The painted tissue paper may be used in your paper crafts, to wrap packages, to line envelopes, and in greeting cards, suncatchers, collages, and much more.

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Crayon Batik - Learn how to use crayons to create a batik-like drawing with the black cracks that are typical of batiks from Java. You can use the resulting pictures to make cards, decorate notebook covers, or hang on the wall.

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Peek-a-boo Easter Egg - 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

Purim Crown - Make this royal crown decorated with six-pointed stars for Purim. It is a fun party craft with a group of children. Just a few simple supplies are needed to create this very special crown featuring Stars of David.

EASY

Easy Valentine Cards - 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

Valentine Garland of Hearts - Make this delightful tissue paper garland that is sure to brings smiles. Drape it over doors, in windows, over furniture, along stairs. It is quick and easy to make.

VERY EASY

Heart Shaped Cards - Make simple and fun Valentine cards in the shape of a heart or with a heart-shaped top. Most of the cards have a circus theme and one is especially designed for giving to your sweetheart.

VERY EASY