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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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Colouring book, scrap paper, scissors, paint brushes, coloured pencils lay on a black table, ready for a fun and creative art ideas using word prompts session.

Fun and Creative Art Ideas Using Word Prompts

Silver clay jewellery, handmade pendants in earrings and a necklace with a leaf design imprinted.

Make Silver Clay Jewellery Pendants

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

Handmade Easter Collage Cards

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

Coffee Filter Art

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

Weaved wall hangings

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;: Photo of DIY pet toys for cats, brightly coloured, handsewn fish cat toys.

DIY Pet Toys for Cats and Dogs

DIY Teapot Sewing Kit - a while teapot with a floral design on the front, with the lid being opened by a hand to reveal a pincushion inside the lid

DIY Teapot Sewing Kit - Mother’s Day Gift Idea

Colourful Abstract Watercolour and Ink Wall Art by Rosie Johnson, different coloured circles and paint splatters.

Abstract Watercolour and Ink Wall Art

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

Summer Holiday Art Activities for Kids

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

Painting by Swiss-German Artist Paul Klee. A combination of square and circular shapes, in reds, oranges, yellows, browns, greens and blues.

Artist in Focus: Paul Klee

A beautiful painting by Artist Rachel Ruysch. A large white flower, with an orange flower and dark green leaves surrounding it.

Artist in Focus: Rachel Ruysch

A beautiful abstract art painting by artist Arthur Dove

Artist in Focus: Arthur Dove

Main image: a DIY decorated tote bag, with fabric cupcakes and bunting, lay out on grass

DIY Decorated Tote Bag