Three Crafts Girls Will Love

Girls of all ages seem to have an affinity for pretty things.  They want their clothes just right and their makeup perfect. They like to create beautiful things as well.  Here are three crafts girls will love – to make and to give.

Jewelry making can be an expensive hobby, but it doesn’t have to be to begin with.  There are a few required tools to start with, however.  To make beaded earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, you will need to purchase these items:

  • Beads in various sizes 
  • Head pins
  • Earring hooks 
  • Wire cutters
  • Round nosed pliers 
  • Elastic thread
  • Jump rings and other findings

Here’s how to make a simple bead earring set:

1.  Place the desired bead onto the head pin, either as a single bead, or in a particular design.
2.  Leave at least one inch between the last bead and the end of the head pin. If there is more wire than one inch, trim it with the wire cutters so it’s only one inch.
3.  Use the round nosed pliers to bend the wire away from you, forming an “L”.
4.  Place the pliers in the middle of the bent piece and curl it toward you to create a circle.
Do not close the circle yet.
5.  Place the earring hook onto the curl and then close the curl.
6.  Make the second earring to look like the first.

There’s no limit to the earrings you can make with a little time and practice.  Who knows, this may be the start of a great craft for the older girl to enjoy. For other instructions for making jewelry, go to your favorite search engine and look for “free jewelry instructions”.

Girls and women alike enjoy using their hands to create beautiful art pieces with nothing more than some fabric and colored thread.  Cross-stitch is one of the simpler of the needlecrafts.  All you need is even weave fabric like Aida, a pattern, a needle, the required floss, and an embroidery hoop.

Find the center by folding the fabric in half and then in half again.  Mark this point.  The center of the pattern is generally marked with points along the edges.  Follow the arrows to find the center.  Using two threads of the symbol closest to the center, create a stitch by going up in the upper right corner of the center square and down through the lower left. Continue this half stitch going to the right until you reach another color symbol. Come back through the upper left corner, and go through the lower right corner. The complete stitch looks like a cross, thus the name cross-stitch.  Complete the colors, moving from one to the next, until the entire pattern is complete.  Choose the best framing for the finished project and display it with pride.

Scrapbooking is another craft that is popular, especially with girls.  Not only can a girl use scrapbooking as an artistic outlet, they can also journal in them, store all their photos of their friends, and use them as a photo diary of sorts.  The ideas for scrapbooking are limited only by each person’s imagination.  Funny or chic, serious or playful, there’s no right or wrong way to create a scrapbook.  Each is a one-of-a-kind creation to commemorate a girl’s life.

Girls love to create things that are meaningful to them. These three crafts are something girls will enjoy doing, perhaps for the rest of their lives.  Encourage them to try a craft and watch what they can create.

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