Full Craft Project Index

Fishing Game (Jul 10, 2023) - Make 3-D fish and, to catch them, a fishing hook and rod. The fishing game is enjoyed by kids of all ages and can be made easier or more difficult, depending on the children's capabilities. Make a game set to keep and another to give as a gift.

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Clip-Art Bag Puppets Friday Fun (Jul 7, 2023) - More puppet fun! This time using clip-art to make paper bag puppets. A quick, easy and fun activity for families and groups.

VERY EASY

Pocket Folder for Greeting Cards (Jul 3, 2023) - Learn how to make a beautiful and functional pocket folder for storing, packaging, and presenting your handmade greeting cards. This easy-to-follow tutorial uses a single sheet of cardstock to create a two-pocket folder that holds four cards and four envelopes. Perfect for gift-giving or selling your handmade cards.

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Memory Game Friday Fun (Jun 30, 2023) - Make a set of cards for the game of memory. This is a fun and very easy craft 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

Stars and Stripes String Light Covers (Jun 25, 2023) - Turn your patio string lights into dazzling stars and stripes with easy to make light covers. Each light cover is made of four circles glued together to make a four-sided tetrahedron. Cut a slit in one face and slip the string light through—that's all it takes!

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Ice Cream in a Bag Friday Fun (Jun 23, 2023) - 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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Mold and Deckle (Jun 19, 2023) - A mold and deckle is an essential tool for handmade papermaking. Instructions are given for making the Mold and Deckle from wood, recycled picture frames or, especially for beginners and children, a simple plastic canvas and cardboard version.

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Punched Bookmarks Friday Fun (Jun 16, 2023) - 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. A great craft for classrooms and groups!

VERY EASY

DIY Achi Game Board (Jun 12, 2023) - Take a little day trip to the West African country of Ghana with Achi, one of an ancient group of games of alignment. In the United States, one of the most popular games of alignment is tic-tac-toe—try Achi, and see how it is both different and similar! You can make this board game with either felt or paper.

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Kids' Serendipity Squares Father's Day Cards Friday Fun (Jun 9, 2023) - 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

Father's Day Pop-Up Card (Jun 7, 2023) - 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 one for Father's Day.

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Father's Day Dangler Cards (Jun 5, 2023) - Wait—how does it work? Dad will be impressed by this handmade novelty card that stands up on its own, showing off a dangling piece with images and a Father’s Day message. Father’s Day crafts from kids are the things Dad loves most—he might even put this homemade card on his desk so he can look at it every day.

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Mexican Huichol Yarn Painting Friday Fun (Jun 2, 2023) - 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.

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Greeting Card Case (May 29, 2023) - 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 (May 26, 2023) - 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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Patriotic Star Garland Friday Fun (May 22, 2023) - 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.

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Handwoven Bookmarks Friday Fun (May 19, 2023) - 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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Step Pop-Up Cards (May 15, 2023) - 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.

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Suede Leather Pendant Necklaces Friday Fun (May 12, 2023) - 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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Mother's Day Gift Bags (May 8, 2023) - 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.

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Tissue Paper Painting Friday Fun (May 5, 2023) - 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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More Step Pop-Up Cards (May 1, 2023) - 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.

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Kids' Pocket Mother's Day Cards Friday Fun  (Apr 28, 2023) - 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 (Apr 24, 2023) - 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.

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Crayon Batik Friday Fun (Apr 21, 2023) - 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.

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Paper Flowers Friday Fun (Apr 14, 2023) - See how easy it is to make paper flowers. It requires no patterns and uses simple materials. This is a skill well worth learning!

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Sponged Paper Cards (Apr 10, 2023) - See how easy it is to create custom decorative papers for use in your card making. The beauty of sponging is the limitless range of color possibilities—make whatever color paper you desire! Make the springtime sample cards or come up with your own design.

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Peek-a-boo Easter Egg Friday Fun (Apr 6, 2023) - 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.

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Half-Moon Petal Envelope (Apr 3, 2023) - Have fun making these delightful square envelopes with half-moon flaps that fold like petals. Spring and Easter designs are included in the project. Use these envelopes as a gift wrap for small gifts or to store keepsakes.

VERY EASY

Basic Egg Dyeing  Friday Fun (Mar 31, 2023) - 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