Crafts
Welcome to the wonderful world of crafts! Get ready to unleash your creativity and make amazing things with your own hands. Dive into a world where imagination and art come together to bring endless fun and colourful creations.
Make a time capsule
Preserve memories of life in the 2020's for the future.
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Make plaster cast fossils
Preserve your precious artefacts using plaster of Paris.
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Make seed cards
Give your friends and family the gift of flowers with these DIY plantable cards.
Tie-dye a T-shirt
Fill someone’s life with colour by making them a brilliant rainbow T-shirt.
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Make a recycled greeting card
Create a card using home-made paper for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
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Seasonal crafts
Feed winter birdlife
Food is scarce over winter, so give your local birds a helping hand with this easy-to-make seed teacup.
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Make autumnal art
With its falling leaves, ripening nuts, acorns and conkers, autumn is a beautiful time of year. So, grab your pens, pencils and paints and let the season inspire some colourful autumn-themed nature art.
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Make the best conkers
Use science to dominate every conker game this autumn.
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Make edible playdough
Turn a sweet and fluffy treat into a modelling material you can eat.
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Build a camping cooler
Keep your drinks and snacks cool when camping with this clever clay device.
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Build a newspaper table
Unlock your inner engineer and discover how paper tubes can make amazingly strong structures.
Get crafty in the kitchen
Why not head over to the kitchen for some baking or cooking?
We have loads of fun activities for you in our Kitchen Chemistry activity hub.
Make a bouncy ball
Create your very own bouncing ball using just three ingredients.
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Make a sugar scrub
By mixing a few ingredients, you can make a body scrub that is good for your skin.
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Bake doggy biscuits
Perform a random act of kindness to make your furry friend – or someone else’s dog– happy.
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Nature crafts
Make a bug hotel
Make your windowsill or garden a happy place for insects with a bug hotel
Make a sundial
Build an ancient clock that tells the time using the Sun.
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Make your own bird box
Make a house and home for birds with these simple instructions.
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Make a butterfly feeder
Attract butterflies with this beautiful feeder perfect for placing on your windowsill.
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Make wildflower seed bombs
Get mucky with this exciting new project, which in turn will produce food for vital insects.
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Make a model earth
Experience the mysterious “overview effect” without leaving the planet.
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Make a paper boat
Test the principles of floatation with just one piece of A4 paper.
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Make a fizzing bath bomb
Bathtime will go with a bang with this bubble experiment.
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Make an origami memory jar
Write your resolutions on a strip of paper and fold them into stars to pop in a jar.
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Film a stop-motion animation
Become an animator whizz with this simple project.
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Make an autumn tree
Celebrate National Tree Week with this simple project.
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Christmas Crafts
Make salt dough decorations
Get into the Christmas spirit and use chemistry to create some home-made festive ornaments.
Make bioplastic festive decorations
Using household ingredients and some clever chemistry, conjure up some simple, eco-friendly plastic decorations.
Gift ideas
Make bath bombs
These explosive chemical creations will make fantastic fizzy gifts for friends.
Make a desk tidy
Recycle wrapping paper and packaging to keep your pens and pencils in order.
Make maracas
Give the gift of music this month with this fun craft project.
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