Full Craft Project Index

Three-Finger Puppets (Sep 11, 2023) - Make animal puppets that you animate with just three fingers! Choose from a fierce golden lion, a timid rabbit, or a funny bighorn sheep. Your puppets can be friends or foes in any story you can imagine, or act out the included Aesop fable, The Lion and the Rabbit. Ready? Set! Go on your puppet journey today!

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Children's Craft Box Friday Fun (Sep 8, 2023) - Make 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

Petal-top Hexagon Box (Sep 6, 2023) - Make a beautiful and unique gift box with this set of printable patterns! Choose from two sizes and several designs to create a box that is perfect for any occasion. The petals on the box top fold over into a flower-like closure, making these boxes truly unique.

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Hexagon Box (Sep 4, 2023) - Make hexagonal boxes with printable patterns, including ones with Adinkra symbols. The versatile boxes can be used as gift boxes, trinket boxes, or decorative accents. They can also be stacked to create a taller display.

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Sticker Fun Friday Fun (Sep 1, 2023) - Learn how to make your own custom stickers! This fun and easy craft is perfect for people of all ages. Kids can use their imaginations to create all sorts of stickers, and adults can use their creativity to make stickers that are more sophisticated. Once the stickers are made, they can be used to decorate cards, letters, and other projects.

VERY EASY

Pentagon Box (Aug 28, 2023) - Make a pentagonal-shaped box with an attached lid in various sizes using printable patterns. The boxes range in size from 3" to 1¾" and nest together for storage. Use the boxes individually, or stacked, as gift boxes, favors or for storing jewelry and other trinkets. Also included are boxes decorated with stars & stripes or with shamrocks.

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Yarn Octopus Friday Fun (Aug 25, 2023) - Make your own adorable yarn octopus! This easy craft is perfect for kids of all ages and uses up your yarn scraps. Perfect for a backpack charm, gift, or to sell at a craft fair. Instructions include tips for making the octopus in any size.

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Card for Him (Aug 21, 2023)  - See how easy it is to make a card for the man in your life. Whether you are making a birthday card, a congratulations card or a card for some other occasion or event, it's easy to personalize the card in this project with colors and designs that suit him.

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Origami Flying Bird Friday Fun (Aug 18, 2023) - 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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3D Paper Fish (Aug 14, 2023) - Make your own 3D paper fish! These beautiful and easy-to-make fish are perfect for decorating your home or wrapping gifts. With just a few simple steps, you can create a school of fish that will swim and dance in the breeze!

VERY EASY

Recycled Milk Carton Gift Boxes Friday Fun (Aug 10, 2023) - Learn how to make strong and beautiful gift boxes from recycled milk cartons! With just a few basic supplies, you can turn milk cartons into any design you want, like a church, house, cuckoo clock, or Valentine's Day mailbox. Patterns are available on the webpage. These crafts are a great way to teach kids about recycling and creativity.

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Make a Custom Oval Box and Pattern (Aug 7, 2023) - It's easy to design and make an oval-shaped box to exactly meet your needs. In this project, you will create a custom pattern for any size oval box. Construct your oval box following the instructions in the Oval Box with Lid craft.

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Layered Soaps Friday Fun (Aug 4, 2023) - Learn how to make beautiful, layered soaps in any color or scent with this easy-to-follow tutorial. With the melt-and-pour soap making technique, you can create custom soaps that are perfect for guests, gifts, or just for yourself. The whole family can have fun making these soaps together, so gather your supplies and get started today!

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How to Ply Handmade Paper (Jul 31, 2023) - This project shows you how to use paper plying to create decorative effects on your handmade paper. Paper plying is the technique of making paper with two or more layers. The resulting two-sided paper can be used in all of your paper crafts. You can even create paper sculptures by making 2-ply paper with embedded wire.

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Washcloth Bath Bags Friday Fun (Jul 28, 2023) - 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!

VERY EASY

Leather Bookmarks (Jul 23, 2023) - In this project, make a simple leather bookmark in one of fifteen fun and simple designs. The fun shapes include an eagle and a rocket. Bookmarks always make great gifts and leather ones last virtually forever. If you are new to leather craft, start with this project!

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Keepsake Booklets Friday Fun (Jul 21, 2023) - 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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Double-sided Paper Window Card (Jul 17, 2023) - Learn how to make quick and easy window cards using double-sided paper or cardstock. With this tutorial, you'll learn how to cut, fold, and glue your card, and then decorate it with stamps and cutouts. Since the two sides of double-sided paper are meant to go together, you'll always get a color coordinated card!

VERY EASY

Paper Mosaic Friday Fun (Jul 14, 2023) - 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.

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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!

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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!

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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 and another for Mother's Day.

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