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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: polymer clay canes, in multicolours, with a flower type pattern (or millefiori patterns) used for making jewellery pendants, for earrings, necklaces, keyrings and more.

How to Make Polymer Clay Canes

Main image: an eco friendly, foraged Christmas wreath, with holly, foliage and red berries, on a pale green door.

Eco-Friendly Christmas Wreath Making Tutorial

Main Image: Black lettering and floral illustrations on white paper letters

Handmade Christmas Letter: Victorian Letterlocking

Main image: cute handmade Christmas card with three adorable reindeers faces on the front.

Make Cute Handmade Christmas Cards

Main image: a homemade modern weaved stool, in a black and white geometric pattern.

Modern Stool Weaving Techniques

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

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 abstract art painting by artist Arthur Dove

Artist in Focus: Arthur Dove

Main image: mini macrame Christmas treed, DIY Christmas Ornaments in pink and blue macrame cord.

Mini Macrame Christmas Trees

Main image: two mini origami notebooks in red and blue stacked one on top of the other.

Easy Origami Art Book

Main image: three homemade scented candles with festive ribbon and decoration.

Easy Homemade Scented Candles

a close up of handmade candles with wax and a wick

Homemade candles

Main image: a selection of DIY kid's Halloween lollipop wrappers, in various different monsters, made with tissue paper, pipe cleaners and googly eyes!

DIY Kids’ Halloween Lollipop Wrappers

Main image: a paperback book turned into a cute hedgehog using book folding techniques and buttons as the eyes and nose, with a little ribbon accessory on the head.

DIY Hedgehog Book Folding Tutorial