Easy Hand-Made Crafts
Many people enjoy making crafts as a means to relax. Others make crafts to give as gifts, or even to sell at craft fairs and flea markets. For someone who is just starting out with craft making, there are easy crafts in popular categories that can be made even by beginners. Starting with easy crafts is a great way to get started.
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Wooden Crafts
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You don't need to be a skilled woodworker to create hand-made crafts with wood. A beginner can use simple items such as craft sticks in a variety of colors or pieces of wood picked up from outside to create craft baskets, craft stick people and houses (doll houses or birdhouses) and jewelry or knick-knack boxes. These wood types can be glued together and painted, then decorated with beads and glitter. Simple wood crafts are ideal for adults and children at a beginning level.
Jewelry Kits
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Purchase a variety of colorful beads and fake gems at any hobby or craft store, along with gold and silver chain in bulk. You can easily make a variety of necklaces and bracelets to give as gifts or even to sell. Young girls can occupy themselves for hours making a selection of jewelry. Making the jewelry isn't difficult and is only limited by imagination.
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Homemade Music Instruments
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You can make a number of musical instruments with items around the house that you would throw away. Oatmeal boxes and tape can be fashioned into a drum set. Plastic bottles with beads can be turned into a shaker. You can use a soda can and coins to imitate the sound of a tambourine. Rubber bands and a stick and cracker box are all you need to make a homemade guitar. Instead of throwing these things away, put together a family band.
Clay Crafts
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You can purchase model clay in many colors and in bulk at craft stores and make your own figurines, ash trays, bowls or even a piggy bank. You don't need a lot of sculpting skills to roll up clay and fashion it into something creative. Buy a clear varnish and some paint to finish your projects.
Puppets
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Using either a sock or paper bag, buttons, yarn, glue and colorful markers, you can make character puppets that kids will love playing with. With the bag or sock as the foundation, you can give your puppet button eyes, yarn hair and color on an outfit. This is an easy craft project that can be used as a party event or just for a night of family craft making fun.
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