Homemade Crafts

There are many wonderful crafts you can make at home.

Although many people purchase gifts at a store, a store-bought gift is often impersonal and generic. One solution is to create handmade crafts at home, which will show the receiver that you cared so much for them that you made their present with your own hands. There are so many options when making homemade crafts that you can create a meaningful present for nearly every type of person.

Things You'll Need

• Baking soda
• Citric acid
• Essential oil
• Witch hazel
• Spray bottle
• Soap molds
• Silk fabric
• Buckwheat hulls
• Needle
• Thread
• Incense blanks
• Twine

Instructions

Make homemade bath fizzies

1. Pour 2 cups of baking soda into a bowl.

2. Add in 1 cup of citric acid.

3. Drop in 1 tbsp. of essential oil, mixing it in thoroughly with your hands.

4. Fill a spray bottle with witch hazel.

5. Spray the mixture lightly until it is packable with your hands.

6. Use your hands to press the mixture into a soap mold.

7. Once the mold is packed, pop out the bath fizzie, and allow it to sit on a counter top until it dries. Keep packing soap molds until you have used up all of the mixture.

Make homemade eye pillows

1. Cut out a rectangle of silk fabric that measures around 8-inches wide and 18-inches long.

2. Fold the rectangle in half, keeping the printed side, if there is one, on the inside.

3. Stitch around the perimeter of the rectangle using a chain stitch, leaving around 1-inch not sewn. Turn the rectangle inside out.

4. Pour around 2 cups of buckwheat hulls in a bowl, and add in 20 drops of lavender essential oil. Mix the two substances together well.

5. Pour the buckwheat mixture into the pillow. Tuck in the opening, and sew it closed. You can place the pillow over your eyes to help with relaxation.

Make homemade incense

1. Fill a jelly-roll tray with essential oil so that it reaches around 1/4-inch in depth.

2. Dip incense blanks into the oil, allowing them to soak in the oil for at least five minutes.

3. Lift out the sticks, and tie the ends together with twine.

4. Hang up the incense by the twine to enable them to dry completely.

References

• Teach Soap: Homemade Bath Bombs
• Homemade Simple: Homemade Eye Pillow
• Soy Wax Candles: Homemade Dipped Incense