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Crafting fun for everyone!

Craft Project Index

Crafting fun for everyone!
 
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About the projects

Browse down this page of featured crafts and the Full Craft Project Index for descriptions and illustrations of the projects, then select a project and have some crafting fun! Or jump to the category index for a listing of all crafts.

Mexican Huichol Yarn Painting

Huichol yarn painting from Mexico using variegated yarn
Friday Fun 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

Greeting Card Case

Greeting Card Case
Description ↓

Follow the instructions in this project to make a storage case for holding greeting cards. Make a special gift by combining this case with your handcrafted greeting cards. The printable patterns in this project make up into three case sizes, including cases sized for the cards featured in the Greeting Card Tutorials.

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Stenciled Stars T-Shirts

Stenciled T-shirts with stars
Description ↓

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.

AVERAGE

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Patriotic Star Garland

Star garland with red, white and blue five-pointed stars
Friday Fun 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. This is an easy craft for kids and families.

EASY

Handwoven Bookmarks

Craft project: Handwoven bookmark
Friday Fun 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

Step Pop-Up Cards

Step Pop-up Card tutorial
Description ↓

Make a pop-up greeting card for a variety of occasions. See how easy it is to make a step pop-up mechanism, also sometimes called a platform or double-slit pop-up. Once you learn this technique, it's a simple matter to create pop-up cards of your own design.

AVERAGE

Suede Leather Pendant Necklaces

Suede Leather Pendants
Friday Fun 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

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Mother's Day Gift Bags

Tube-shaped Gift Bags for Mother's Day
Description ↓

Make gift bags for Mom using free patterns/templates specially designed for Mother's Day. Print the black & white patterns on colored paper and the colored patterns on white paper. Use the bags for small gifts, including homemade cookies or brownies.

EASY

Tissue Paper Painting

Use for painted tissue paper
Friday Fun Description ↓

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.

EASY

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More Step Pop-Up Cards

Step pop-up card ideas
Description ↓

Everyone enjoys receiving a card with a pop-up inside. It's easier than you might think to add a pop-up to one of your handmade greeting cards. To get you started, five cards with step pop-ups are included in this project, including ones for Mother's Day and Father's Day.

EASY to AVERAGE

Kids' Pocket Mother's Day Cards

Kids' Pocket Mother's Day Cards
Friday Fun 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

Simple Paper Cutting

Simple Paper Cuts craft project
Description ↓

In this project, Aunt Annie introduces you to the art of paper-cutting through the techniques of cut-apart and layered paper. These techniques can be used to decorate greeting cards, stationery, boxes, gift wraps, or any paper craft project.

EASY

Crayon Batik

Crayon Batik
Friday Fun 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

Paper Flowers

Paper flowers
Friday Fun Description ↓

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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