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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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Main Image: a close up of a leather and bead necklace made by Kate Nisbet

Leather and bead necklace

Main Image: photo of a dementia-friendly craft - indoor allotment. The card board is painted white with multi-coloured spots - with a succulent plant in the middle.

Dementia-friendly Indoor Allotment

Part of Dementia Action Week 2024

Main Image: two people sat looking at a photo album together, smiling.

Scrapbooking a Memory Page: Dementia-Friendly Craft

Part of Dementia Action Week 2025

Main Image: A baby board book collage journal, the cover of the book is a grey tabby cat, with the title "Mog the Forgetful Cat, Judith Kerr"

Upcycle Your Baby Book into a Collage Art Journal

Main Image: A beautiful fabric collage bird, made using a variety of fabric scraps in blue and orange colours. Made using fabric collage techniques and slow stitching methods.

How To Turn Fabric Scraps into Beautiful Collage Birds

a white paper cut dragonfly made by Keeley Pearce

Paper Cutting a Dragonfly

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

Summer kid's crafts

Main Image: A simple stencil art collage in red acrylic paint - stencil of a lady, apple, crown and abstract shapes.

Easy Stencil Art Tutorial for Beginners

Main Image: A fabric notebook cover, in denim! Using a small jean pocket and belt loop as a pen holder on the front cover.

How to make a Fabric Notebook Cover

Main Image: Beautiful coffee filter art with multi-coloured tie dye effects.

Coffee Filter Art

Main Image; Beautiful bas-relief art work by artist and ceramicist, Mary Seton Watts, aka Mary Seton (Fraser) Tytler.

Artist in Focus: Mary Seton Watts

two handmade concrete plant pots made by Kim Searle

Upcycled garden decorations

Part of Upcycling Week 2022

multicoloured birthday balloons floating in the air

Party decorations

hand sewn vintage tea party bunting against a blue sky backdrop

Vintage tea party bunting

Main Image: Photo of handmade Easter collage cards, on blue paper with brightly coloured paper collage Easter eggs.

Handmade Easter Collage Cards