Download Craft Party
Letizia Aderson
Crafts for kids are always the best thing to have at any party. Picking out the perfect craft for your party theme should be the first on your list. Its great to keep kids busy!! I picked up all the fun festive crafts from Walmart. I love that I can find everything I need all at one place, not to mention that Walmart Home always has the best prices. There are so many fun crafts at Walmart for kids of all ages. I rounded up some of our favorites below.
Nothing is quite as fun as learning a new craft, so naturally, a craft party is the best kind of party. From super fun food and drinks to crafty decorations and awesome DIY projects, there are so many ways to have a great (and totally creative) time with friends.
It's easiest to start planning your craft night by getting a sense of the number of guests you'll have. This is a practical consideration; take a look at your crafting space. This could be your dining room table, a few card tables set up in your living or family room, an outdoor space with picnic tables, or even your floor. How many people can comfortably fit there, assuming they need about three feet each to spread out?
Send out invitations by email, text, or over social media, but be sure to mention you'll be crafting as an activity. You don't want anyone wearing their favorite cashmere sweater and then worrying all evening about spilling paint on it.
It's totally okay if you don't have a theme for your get-together, but it can be fun to use a theme in your planning. This is especially great if you're having the craft night around the time of a major holiday or event. These are a few ideas to consider:
Learning something new is amazing, especially if it's a new craft. You can use online tutorials or have an expert come in and teach you a new skill. This could be anything from crochet to pottery. It's really all about what kinds of new crafts you and your friends might want to learn.
Wearable craft projects are some of the most fun, and they give you instant enjoyment because you can show them off. From making jewelry to hand dying scarves, there are so many options. These are a few to consider:
Getting creative with home decor is such a great way to show off your personal style. After all, if you're displaying something you made, it couldn't be more meaningful. There are so many awesome home decor crafts, but these are a few that are perfect for parties:
Dried flowers always look beautiful, and you can do lots of fun projects involving them. Pick up your favorite dried blooms at a craft store or floral supply shop and try some arrangements with your friends:
Those worn-out jeans or that stained shirt can take on new life at a crafting party. There are a ton of ways to repurpose old clothes, but you can also just embellish them to hide flaws. Here are a few fun projects to try:
The holidays are a perfect time to hold a DIY craft night. You can get together to make custom Christmas decorations that you'll love for years to come (you'll always remember making them together) or meaningful gifts you can give to everyone on your list:
We all know crafting is thirsty work. If you're serving alcohol, have a selection of wine or beer, as well as some fun cocktails. You can match the cocktail color to the colors of the craft materials or just make a fruity cocktail you know everyone loves.
People will get hungry as they're crafting, but you can't just serve any type of appetizer or snack at this type of party. It's best to pick foods that are easy to eat in a single bite, since people will be using their hands for other things. Here are a few great ideas:
While a great craft project will keep everyone occupied for an entire party, you can also combine it with other activities. These are a few suggestions to consider for an adult craft party that's about more than just crafting:
Planning and hosting a craft party doesn't have to feel overwhelming. There are tons of options for projects and themes, but ultimately, they're all about being creative with people you enjoy. Consider asking friends to bring supplies or food to help cut back on the work and expense. Then all you'll have to do is provide the space and help organzine the event.
Oh Target, the ultimate inspiration stop. After our Easter dinner party I was itching to host another get together. Spring is so light, airy and colorful and always just feels like brunch to me so a few girlfriends, brunch, some help from the Target Home section + crafts = a gorgeous, fun and easy spring brunch!
I love pulling together a fun party spread to get together with friends. Spring is such a fun time to gather together, eat, drink and craft! With some inspiration from Target I quickly pulled together this brunch spread using some great serverware and dinnerware pieces.
Having neutral serveware like cake stands, bowls, and beverage dispensers makes pulling together any type of party a breeze because they go with anything. Plus, you can add in new pieces all the time and everything will work together.
Give heartfelt homemade gifts this year and host your own holiday craft party! Keep reading for all my tips and DIYs for the ultimate crafting day to fill your home and heart with joy while deepening friendships and building community.
In this podcast (episode #327) I'm sharing how some friends and I are creating a crafting day. We focused on crafts that can be made in a group environment, as well as creating an environment where we could create as many things as possible so we all go home with our hands and hearts full!
We hosted our very first live workshop this last year and we were so thrilled to meet and develop friendships with fellow homesteaders who were in (or close to) our area. It was actually some of these new friends who came up with the idea to have a craft day where we could continue to build our relationships and create some awesome crafts at the same time.
I loved the idea so much that I knew I needed to share it with you, so in this podcast (and blog post) I'm sharing our planning and preparations so you can learn and apply them to create your own craft day.
Each of the crafts needs to be simple enough to be able to create and finish within the timeframe of a party. If you're making multiple crafts, these projects should ideally take roughly 30 minutes to make.
Choose crafts that use common items, this will help keep the overall cost down for all your crafts. Our goal was to keep costs between $20-30 per person, but we would be taking home a minimum of six different crafts.
One of the ladies that will be at our craft day owns a flower farm, so she has enough dried flowers to provide for us to make some beautiful gift toppers. I'll do my best to snap some photos from the day and share them on Instagram!
Hey, Pioneers, welcome to this episode of the podcast. Number 327. And I thought today would be a fun time to go over with you some of the things that we're doing this holiday season that you may wish to incorporate on your homestead, but specifically with creating a community and/or deepening relationships type environment. I'm going to be sharing how we are creating a crafting day for adults, though you could definitely do this with children as well.
And I will also be going through the crafts that we settled on to make that can be made, I should say, in a group environment. And what we decided on in order to get the most amount of things created so that we could go home with multiple gifts to either keep for ourselves or give out to others for the holiday season, but also so that we have enough things going on that we're all learning but that we can still really enjoy the fellowship side without being overwhelmed with trying to do too much.
And what's been great is not only did I develop friendships with them, especially with some of the girls who live within like an hour away from me, which is actually where I live that's pretty close. But they've developed friendships with one another as well. And so, they coordinated and invited me, I'm so glad that they did. But they had an idea of, what if we get together and all of us get together around Christmas time and we can all come and share some of our favorite crafts or maybe some skill sets that we have with one another and just spend some time making some homemade, awesome gifts that we can give out to people learning new skill sets from one another? But really just that in person, community and relationship building.
So we are, at the time of this recording, we have not had our crafting day yet, but we've been going through the planning. And I thought, this is something that I wish I had done previously. And I'm so glad that we are going to be doing this, but many of you can do this too. So I wanted to just share the breakdown of what we were doing. And you can even make some of these crafts, if you don't have a group of people to get together with, or some of these homemade things, I will have links in the show notes that have tutorials so that you can also go ahead and make some of these if you're like, yeah, that'd make great gifts and I'm going to go ahead and do it.
But we picked one of the ladies, her house has a large kitchen, a large dining room, large work area, and is in the general vicinity, kind of in the middle point, at least for most of us so that we can meet, and is also willing to host having that many ladies at her house. We are going to have five ladies getting together. Of course, you can invite guys if you wanted to, or have a men's party. But I know, for most of us who are doing the crafting, a lot of times it's going to be for the girls. One of the things that we wanted to focus on as we were picking the crafts so that we could do multiple things and not just only have one project get done, is things that don't take too long or too labor or time intensive.
We also tried to look at crafts or items that would use a majority of supplies, that if not all of us, at least maybe some of us had things already lying around or had on hand so that we weren't purchasing a ton of supplies and then creating a large expense. For example, one of the girls is a seamstress, so lots of fabric, ribbon, that type of thing. I already do a lot of salve making and wood butter in our store. Wood butter is using bees wax and organic coconut oil. And it is an amazing conditioner for all of your wood products. We have a large butcher block as our island, so that has to be treated. And I try to use as many wood products in the kitchen as possible, from wooden spoons, to the wooden bench knives, dough scrapers, cutting boards, anything like that.
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