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Handmade crafts are fun to make and make lovely gifts too. Here you’ll find a wide range of craft projects to try, many of them using everyday, often recycled, materials.

 

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person holding a square parcel wrapped in brown paper, string and a leaf

Gift wrapping and making gift tags

Brown paper wrapped in brown twine in a bow

Make your own wrapping paper

Multi-coloured shadow box shrine made with a variety of materials displaying a paper image of the singer Dolly Parton with the word "Dolly" displayed to the left of her

Shadow box shrine

Matchbox Shrine in a variety of colours made with paper and sequins with air dry clay decorations in the shape of skulls against a pink and gold background

Matchbox shrine with air-dry clay decoration

Multi-coloured abstract tunnel card depicting a nature scene

Simple abstract 3D tunnel card

multi-coloured weaved wall hanging in a variety of string and thread material against a teal blue background

Weaved wall hangings

a pair of handmade yellow polymer earrings with small leaf imprints made by Gemma Forde

Polymer Jewellery

wooden bobbins with various coloured thread on a dark wooden table

Bobbin crafts

a pair of hands throwing clay

Treat and trinket bowls

a ceramic cloud keepsake with the word dream engraved into it

Ceramic keepsakes

two pink flowers on a blue sky background

Ceramic flower stem holder

two pillar candles lit in the foreground with candle lighting glowing in the background

Candles and lighting

multicoloured peg dolls made from clothes pegs and scraps of fabric by Kate Nisbet

Summer kid's crafts

a hand holding a crayon and drawing on paper with a pot of multicoloured crayons next to it

Summer holiday activities

a close up of a stack of scrap paper on a work table

Scrap paper crafts