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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: close up of a collage art journal made with colourful scrap paper, on a dark wooden table.

Make a Collage Art Journal with Scrap Paper

Main Image: Person wearing friendship bracelets using paper bags, holding their hand up to the blue sky on a sunny day.

How to Make Friendship Bracelets using Paper Bags

Main image: Cute Handmade Macrame Keychains made by Kate Nisbet, using white, cream and blue wool with wooden bead accessories.

Cute Handmade Macrame Keychains Tutorial

Photo of handmade beaded earrings, with gold metal and blue beads in arch shaped patterns in the hoops.

Handmade Beaded Jewellery Making Tutorial

Main image: An Abstract Collage Face made from a Cereal Box - brown cardboard with details painted in black.

Make an Abstract Collage Face from a Cereal Box

Main image: abstract art, made with playdoh stamps and ink - abstract stamp shapes in black ink on white paper.

Playdoh Stamp Art – Abstract Art Tutorial

Main image: A whale tail shape seashell collage wall art on canvas.

Beachcomber Décor - Seashell Collage Wall Art

Main Image: a sunflower garden wall plaque - fabric flower on a wooden plaque with alphabet tiles that read "YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE"

How to Make a Sunflower Wall Plaque

Main Image: Kusudama Origami Paper Flower made from scrap paper/ old sheet music, with a purple button at the centre.

Use Scrap Paper to Make Kusudama Origami Flowers

Main Image: A cream and blue air dry clay, incense holder wall hanging/shelf.

DIY Air Dry Clay Incense Holder Wall Shelves

Part of Pride Month 2025

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