Full Craft Project Index

Foam Ball Hand Puppets (Aug 15, 2022) - Create quick and easy clown hand puppets based on Styrofoam® balls used as the puppet head. You can use felt cutouts and/or pom-poms and wiggly eyes to add a funny face to your clown puppet. Once you have made the clown puppet, try your hand at making other puppet characters by changing the felt cutouts and the fabric drape!

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Circly Paper Chain Snake Friday Fun (Aug 12, 2022) - Link rings of construction paper together to form a long multi-colored snake that makes a terrific decoration hung from the ceiling, draped around the room, or framing a bulletin board. Turn the activity into a contest to see who can make the longest snake, create the funniest (or scariest) snake, or the most creative snake.

VERY EASY

Strip Folding Cards (Aug 8, 2022) - In this greeting card tutorial, learn how to use folded paper strips to give your card added depth with three-dimensional layers. This card making technique is a great way to enhance a small image or photo and to use decorative paper leftovers.

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Bread Clay Recipe Friday Fun (Aug 5, 2022) - This recipe makes a durable and very pliable clay that can be colored vibrantly. This air-dry clay is particularly good for making items that will get heavy use, like beads and playing pieces for games. All you do is mix white glue into shredded white bread and add color with a bit of paint.

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Match Cards (Aug 1, 2022) - Make a set of match cards using Aunt Annie's designs or print blank cards to create your own unique deck of cards. Included in the project are the rules for playing three different games with the match cards and a bit about the history of playing cards.

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Sweet Strawberries Friday Fun (Jul 29, 2022) - Make strawberries from walnuts in the shell that are painted red. This is a quick and easy project that both kids and adults will have fun doing! The strawberries can be used as decorations on gifts or around the house and make a wonderful gift to brighten anyone's day!

VERY EASY

Basics of Quilling (Jul 25, 2022) - Quilling is the art of rolling narrow strips of paper into coils or scrolls, and arranging them to form elegant filigree. In this project, you'll see how to use a toothpick to roll coils and scrolls then pinch, shape, and arrange them into decorative patterns.

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Doorknob Hangers Friday Fun (Jul 22, 2022) - In this project, see how easy it is to make doorknob hangers to communicate with your family and friends. Create a hanger with any message and pictures you like. You might put 'Do Not Disturb' on one side and 'Wake In Time for School' on the other side. Use your imagination!

VERY EASY

Geometric Solids (Jul 17, 2022) - In this project, make four of the five Platonic solids—cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron. These geometric models can be used for things beyond learning about solid geometry. Decorate them and make a colorful mobile or use them as gift boxes.

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Weave a Placemat Friday Fun (Jul 15, 2022) - Turn a sheet of construction paper into a placemat with paper weaving. These simple-to-make colorful placemats will brighten your table. Select a color theme and get weaving!

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Flared-Top Boxes (Jul 11, 2022) - Make these wonderfully elegant boxes based on Chinese takeout boxes. They increase in size from a square or rectangular base to lid flaps that flare out from the top. The project includes printable patterns for flared boxes in a variety of sizes and shapes. These boxes have many decorative uses.

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Love Bugs Friday Fun (July 8, 2022) - Make cute little bugs to give as gifts. They are molded in plastic spoons using plaster of Paris. This craft is great for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and any gift-giving occasion. Children of all ages, even as young as two, will enjoy making these love bugs as pins or magnets.

VERY EASY

Stenciled Flower Pots (Jul 4, 2022) - Turn a plastic flower pot from ordinary to extraordinary with stenciling. In this project, you will learn how to apply acrylic paint stencils to a small plastic flower pot. This technique can then be used to decorate larger plastic flower pots, plastic hanging baskets, plastic wastebaskets, or just about any plastic container.

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Coin Barrettes Friday Fun (Jul 1, 2022) - Use a few pennies and a store bought hair barrette back to make these lovely hair holders. For silver barrettes, use dimes or nickels and mix up the coins for another look. The craft is quick and simple! Make a set for yourself or to give as a gift.

VERY EASY

Easy Party Favor Bag (Jun 27, 2022) - In this project, learn how to make a small party favor bag that is self-closing. These easy to make bags are ideal for packaging small party favors of food, candy, soaps or jewelry. Choose from four sizes of printable patterns with or without the colorful dot designs.

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Fourth of July Crackers Friday Fun (Jun 24, 2022) - Make a Fourth of July cracker that goes POP! See how to make this novelty box that is shaped like a firecracker and makes a pop sound without any fire. Best of all, you can use it over and over again! It makes a great party favor or fun gift box. Use it for any celebration, not just the 4th.

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Dangler Cards (Jun 20, 2022)  - Go beyond the ordinary with this novelty card featuring a dangler that twists and turns. See how easy it is to make this freestanding greeting card with a 3-dimensional opening for hanging your special dangler. Great for birthdays and other occasions!

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Simple Father's Day Cards Friday Fun (Jun 17, 2022) - Make these simple cards with paper cutouts that spell out "D-A-D." It takes very few supplies to make these fantastic looking cards. Dad (and Granddad) will love these special kid-made cards.

VERY EASY

Father's Day Gift Bags (Jun 13, 2022) - Make gift bags for Dad using patterns specially designed for Father's Day. Print the black & white patterns on colored paper and the colored patterns on white paper. These bags are in perfect sizes for homemade cookies or brownies.

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Woolly Octopus Friday Fun (Jun 10, 2022) - In this craft project, learn the British way of making a yarn octopus. This technique is a disarmingly simple way to make a cute toy with items found in most people's homes, and it will use up those leftover scraps of wool (yarn).

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Decoupage Box (Jun 6, 2022) - In this project, you will learn the basics of decoupage by decorating a box made from cardstock with images printed on your color printer. The same technique can be used to decoupage wooden boxes, glass vases or plates, etc. With the wealth of images available for downloading and printing, this traditional craft is well-suited for today.

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Stuffed Felt Names Friday Fun (Jun 3, 2022) - Kids love to see their names spelled out! In this craft project, see how to cut out, sew, and stuff individual felt letters, and then join them together to create a bright and cheerful personalized wall hanging that's perfect for the bedroom door, on the wall, or over the crib.

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Catch the Hare Game Board (May 30, 2022) - Make a roll-up game board for the game of Catch the Hare that includes a pocket for storing game pieces. The game board is made of paper and felt using iron-on adhesive, and requires no sewing. This Moorish hunt game is known as Cercar La Liebre in Spain and dates back to the 13th century.

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Easy Pinwheel Friday Fun (May 27, 2022) - Just in time for a breezy spring day, make this colorful paper pinwheel with nothing more than paper, a pencil and a straight pin. Children of all ages will be delighted with this whirling windmill. Make several as party decorations or favors!

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Flexagon Boxed Set (May 25, 2022) - Make a gift that will fascinate puzzle-minded kids and adults. In this project, you'll make a set of hexaflexagons and a matching hexagonal box for storage. Flexagons are folded paper polygons that have the neat feature of changing faces as they are flexed.

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French Board Solitaire (May 23, 2022) - Patience games come in both card and board versions. In this project, you will make a simple game board for the French version of board solitaire, sometimes called peg solitaire or patience. The rules for playing French board solitaire are included in the project.

VERY EASY

Stars and Stripes Pennant Banner Friday Fun (May 20, 2022) - Make red, white and blue pennants with stars and stripes, then string them together to create a banner. The banner can be used to decorate inside or outside for Memorial Day, the 4th of July, or anytime you have a patriotic theme party.

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Scalloped Edge Cards (May 16, 2022) - In this greeting card tutorial, learn how to make a fancy edge on your handmade greeting cards using scallops (or waves) and a paper punch. This is a quick and easy way to add a strong design element along the right-side or bottom edges of your card.

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Seed Catalog Garden Friday Fun (May 13, 2022) - Make a make-believe garden anytime of the year by cutting up seed catalogs or magazines—you could even use clip art you download and print. Cutting pictures, making the garden, and playing with it will keep kids busy for hours.

VERY EASY

Dragon Finger Puppet (May 11, 2022) - It's easy to make a dragon finger puppet with an empty toilet paper tube and a printable pattern. Just wrap the tube cover around the cardboard tube, add the ridge tail, legs, and some flames. Your feisty dragon will give the other puppets a scare.

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