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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 yellow paper folding fish with googly eyes, craft for kids.

Crafts for Kids – Paper Folding Animals

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

two small painted pebble cactus

Painted pebble cactus

Homemade Air-Dry Clay Pendants and flowers on a black background

Homemade Air-Dry Clay Pendants

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

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: 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