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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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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

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

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

Scrap paper crafts

two recycled Christmas cards on a wooden table

Recycling Christmas cards

a picnic basket on a red and white check gingham pattern picnic blanket filled with wine and cheese and grapes

Posh picnic crafts

a close up of a book used for origami

Origami workshop

a DIY table centrepiece made from mason jars, string, wire, candles and a slab of wood

Make an upcycled table centrepiece

multicoloured yarn tassels on a blue background

Left over yarn

various salt dough making tools on a blue table

Salt dough decorations