Easy Craft Ideas

These easy craft ideas will help you to get started experimenting with different types of crafts.

Of course, if you are building a craft business, you will likely specialize in and be highly adept at one type of craft. However, it's always fun and sometimes smart from a business perspective to build skills in other typse of crafts.

Learning to work with different types of media and possibly incorporating those ideas or techniques into your main medium can provide new inspiration for you and can help to make your work stand out from the crowd. If you are combining two or more different types of art and craft ideas into your projects, when others are not, your work will stand out from your competition. Also using two or more types of media can make your work more difficult to copy. Would-be copycats will see that they would need to master two different sets of skills in order to copy your work, and that can sometimes be enough to deter people from stealing your designs.

The art and craft ideas below are designed to give you an overview of what is required to get started experimenting with different types of crafts. You may want to try working in different media just for fun, or you may decide to incorporate some of these techniques into your items that your sell through your craft business.

Melt and Pour Soap
Making melt and pour soap is an easy way to get started with soap making. Soap making is fun, and if you're a bit unsure about working with lye, then the melt and pour method is a good way to get started making soap without lye.

Making Resin Jewelry
Making resin jewelry is surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it. It may take a little bit of trial and error to work out all of the details, but once you have experimented with a few batches of resin jewelry, you'll be amazed at what you can make with just a few simple and inexpensive supplies and pieces of equipment. Here are detailed instructions for making resin jewelry.

Baby Room Mural
Instructions for painting an easy baby room mural.

Baby Room Curtains
Here's how I made the baby room curtains for my son's room using two flat twin bed sheets and some fabric that was left over from his baby blanket to create an inexpensive but coordintated look.

Baby Blanket Pattern
Here is a baby blanket pattern for the easy crib blanket I made for my son's room.

Belly Casting
Learn belly casting techniques, and create your own pregnancy belly cast with these simple instructions.

How to Make Candles
If you're just learning how to make candles, these tips on making votive candles will get you started.

Felting Wool
If you've never tried felting wool, you'll be amazed at what you can make with just a few low-tech and inexpensive tools and supplies. Here is a summary of basic wool felting techniques.

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