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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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person holding a square parcel wrapped in brown paper, string and a leaf

Gift wrapping and making gift tags

Brown paper wrapped in brown twine in a bow

Make your own wrapping paper

Multi-coloured shadow box shrine made with a variety of materials displaying a paper image of the singer Dolly Parton with the word "Dolly" displayed to the left of her

Shadow box shrine

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

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

Weaved wall hangings

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

Summer holiday activities

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