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

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Preserve memories of life in the 2020's for the future.

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Make your own soap

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Craft a thoughtful present.

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Make plaster cast fossils

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Preserve your precious artefacts using plaster of Paris.

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Make chunky chalks

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Create cook coloured chalks shaped like eggs.

Make seed cards

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Give your friends and family the gift of flowers with these DIY plantable cards.

Tie-dye a T-shirt

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Fill someone’s life with colour by making them a brilliant rainbow T-shirt.

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Make a recycled greeting card

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Create a card using home-made paper for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.

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Make a powerful paper plane

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Discover a clever design that travels fantastically far.

Make a recycled kite

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It's easy to build your own simple flying machine.

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Seasonal crafts

Feed winter birdlife

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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 ice ornaments

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These "super cool" decorations are perfect for hanging outdoors.

Make autumnal art

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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

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Use science to dominate every conker game this autumn.

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Make a loo-roll birdfeeder

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Attract feathered visitors with this easy feeding station.

Make a bug maze

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Put creepy-crawlies' instincts to the test.

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Make edible playdough

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Turn a sweet and fluffy treat into a modelling material you can eat.

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Build a camping cooler

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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.

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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.

Kitchen Chemistry activities

Make a bouncy ball

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Create your very own bouncing ball using just three ingredients.

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Make a sugar scrub

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By mixing a few ingredients, you can make a body scrub that is good for your skin.

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Make a kaleidoscope

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Create colourful light patterns with a kaleidoscope.

Make recycled paper

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Help to save trees by creating your own paper.

Build a crazy catapult

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This device uses energy to propel objects through the air.

Create a glider

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Try making this great glider, which doesn’t need wings to fly.

Make a bag for life

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Turn a baggy old T-shirt into a bag for life.

Bake doggy biscuits

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Perform a random act of kindness to make your furry friend – or someone else’s dog– happy.

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Make a harmonica

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Discover the science of sounds with this homemade musical instrument.

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Nature crafts

Make a bug hotel

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Make your windowsill or garden a happy place for insects with a bug hotel

Build a butterfly hotel

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Make a cosy home for butterflies and help protect the insects.

Make a sundial

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Build an ancient clock that tells the time using the Sun.

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Make your own bird box

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Make a house and home for birds with these simple instructions.

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Make a butterfly feeder

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Attract butterflies with this beautiful feeder perfect for placing on your windowsill.

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Make wildflower seed bombs

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Get mucky with this exciting new project, which in turn will produce food for vital insects.

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Make a model earth

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Experience the mysterious “overview effect” without leaving the planet.

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Make a paper boat

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Test the principles of floatation with just one piece of A4 paper.

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Make a fizzing bath bomb

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Bathtime will go with a bang with this bubble experiment.

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Make an origami memory jar

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Write your resolutions on a strip of paper and fold them into stars to pop in a jar.

Make a glow lantern

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Make your own spooky glowing night light.

Film a stop-motion animation

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Become an animator whizz with this simple project.

Make an autumn tree

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Celebrate National Tree Week with this simple project.

Build a bristle bot

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Turn an old toothbrush into a mini robot.

Create a moving robot hand

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Engineer a mechanical model.

Create a double doodle

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Write two things at the same time.

Create a pair of decoder glasses

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Make spy specs that read secret messages.

Make an egg carton crab

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The Wildlife Trusts teach you how to make a charming crab made out of egg carton.

Christmas Crafts

Make salt dough decorations

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Get into the Christmas spirit and use chemistry to create some home-made festive ornaments.

Make wrapping paper

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Make some pretty marbled paper to wrap your festive gifts.

Make bioplastic festive decorations

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Using household ingredients and some clever chemistry, conjure up some simple, eco-friendly plastic decorations.

Gift ideas

Make bath bombs

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These explosive chemical creations will make fantastic fizzy gifts for friends.

Make a desk tidy

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Recycle wrapping paper and packaging to keep your pens and pencils in order.

Make maracas

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Give the gift of music this month with this fun craft project.

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