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Unlock Your Creativity With These 12 Craft Night Ideas To Try
Homebodies and party animals unite on craft nights! They allow you to indulge in enjoyable activities without the added cost of venturing into town. Whether you're an avid crafter or an amateur artist, these craft night ideas for adults and children will have anyone unlocking their creativity. From date nights to hanging out with your kids to Friday ladies' night, we'll take you through the many craft night ideas that will keep you occupied when staying at home.
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- Picture Perfect Paintings: Mini Canvas Abstract Painting
- Scrapbook Your Favourite Memories Together With The Peony Pop-Up Scrapbook Project
- Make A Fashion Statement With Matching T-Shirts
- Create A Beautiful Bouquet: Beginner and Intermediate Floral-Themed Projects
- Unwind and Slime With The Elmer's Unicorn Slime Project
- The Button Friendship Bracelet Project For Best Friends
- Cuddle Up With The Baby Chenille Toy Lion
- Personalise Lace Up Shoes With Shoelace Accessories
- Paint Your Favourite Designs On A Glass Or Mug
- Candle Making For An Aromatic Ambience
- Create Show Stopping Polymer Clay Earrings
- Store Your Jewellery With A Homemade Trinket Tray
Date Night Craft Ideas For Quality Time Together
Date night with your partner doesn't have to involve getting dressed up and heading into town. You can have just as much fun on a date night at home. These arts and crafts date night ideas will have you bonding with your partner while challenging your creative skills.
Picture Perfect Paintings: Mini Canvas Abstract Painting
A classic for craft nights, painting is a great idea for those wanting to experiment with their artistic skills with ease. Paint portraits of yourself or of each other! Or paint your favourite photo of the two of you together. Have both of you select your favourite photo without showing the other and get to work!
Another fun addition to your painting project is to not show each other your painting until they are both complete. Position your canvases on an easel opposite each other, making sure they are facing away from your partner on your dining table or benchtop. Reveal the final product to each other at the conclusion of your date night for a fun and friendly competition. With this craft idea not only have you had fun in making your own art piece, you have also gained two works of art to incorporate into your home styling!
If painting portraits is not your strength, try some easy painting projects such as this Fruit Painting Project or Monochrome Painting Project! Or if you're confined to a smaller space, the Mini Canvas Abstract Painting Project is a great painting craft when space is limited. This project also results in a painting that is easy to display on your side table, bookshelf or mantlepiece due to its compact size.
And don't forget to shop Spotlight's selection of paint and painting supplies so you're ready for any painting project that comes your way.
Scrapbook Your Favourite Memories and Make a Keepsake
There's nothing like reminiscing over old memories and times from when you first started dating your partner. Scrapbooking is a great way to take a trip down memory lane. Now's the time to display your favourite photos and mementos you have saved from your time together. Using glue or craft tape, secure items such as concert or movie tickets from dates, pressed flowers from bouquets or even old love notes and make the perfect collage of your time together. Check out our Peony Pop-up Scrapbook Project for inspiration on how to display your scrapbook pages.
For more fun add-ons to decorate with including paper, rhinestones and feathers, check out our scrapbooking supplies buying guide and shop our selection of craft supplies to complete your scrapbook
Make A Fashion Statement With Matching T-Shirts
Twin with your partner by making matching t-shirts. Perfect for matching pyjamas, gym shirts or to add to your everyday t-shirt collection, create the design of your preference. Starting with a clean, washed shirt, decide on how you wish to decorate your top. With multiple ways to create matching shirts, whether you colour coordinate with tie-dye shirts, use iron-on letters to spell out your favourite quotes or utilise a Cricut and its accessories to create your own stencils and iron-on motifs, you can create a fashion house in the comfort of your living room.
Whether it's date night, an anniversary or even Valentine's Day, the Valentine Tie Dye T-shirt Project is a lovely clothing project for couples to recreate. Using a tie dye kit you can create matching or colour coordinating tie dye shirts complete with a joyful message! Write your chosen message with a fabric marker and you and your partner will have a love-filled clothing piece to add to your wardrobes. You can also inject an element of surprise by swapping shirts, choosing colours and the message for your partner's shirt and then revealing your design to your partner once your creation is complete.
Alternatively, you could paint directly onto your T-shirt, making a colourful display. We recommend doing a practice sketch of your design on paper before outlining it on your shirt to help you decide what you want your design to look like. For more information on decorating t-shirts, check out our how to paint on fabric article.
Create Beautiful Bouquets
Together with your partner you can create gorgeous floral bouquets that refresh your shared space. Beginner crafters can enjoy the gorgeous DIY Felt Roses Project. Using felt and other floristry supplies, the provided templates make this project incredibly easy to recreate. On the other hand, couples with more advanced crafting skills and those equipped with a Silhouette Cameo machine or Silhouette Portrait machine can enjoy Silhouette Lupine Flowers. More of an intricate project, you can find the flower design in the Silhouette Studio ready to download and have your machine cut it out. As this project requires a little more assembling and machine work, it's best for those crafters with a bit of experience under their belt.
Once you've completed your new flowers, together you can create a vase to display your creations in. Check out our Upcycled Sculpey Vase Project for the perfect final touch to your bouquets. This project involves breathing new life into old vases by painting them and creating decorative clay pieces to glue onto your vase for an added artistic accent.
Craft Ideas To Try With Your Kids
Running out of activities for school holidays or simply wanting to find a fun activity to bond with your child? Look no further than these fun craft ideas for kids. From the little kids to the adults, these craft ideas are set to be fun for the whole family.
Unwind and Slime With The Elmer's Unicorn Slime Project
A fan favourite amongst kids, making slime may seem to be a messy project but is surprisingly just as easy to clean up as it is fun to create! With so many colourful possibilities, you can use food colouring to create slime in the colour of your choice. Check out our Elmer's Unicorn Slime project for inspiration on how you can use food colouring to create colourful slime.
Create a slime that satisfies the senses with the sensory charm of various beads. For those kids wanting extra pizzazz, don't forget glitter for a sparkling, glistening finish. Check out more slime project inspiration online at Spotlight!
The Button Friendship Bracelet Project For Best Friends
Perfect for sleepovers or Saturday night fun at home, making friendship bracelets will have you twinning with your child while creating a stylish fashion statement. With various beads to choose from, including plastic beads and glass beads, you can make cute matching bracelets or opt for making subtle friendship bracelets you can coordinate with your outfit. Beads are also available in bead packs, providing a range of different colours, shapes and sizes of beads all in one place, making it easy to create a cohesive pattern.
For a simpler friendship bracelet, our button friendship bracelet project is beginner friendly for the little crafters. Need more help when it comes to friendship bracelet making? You can read through our helpful article on how to make beaded friendship bracelets for more information, tips and tricks.
Download the Button Friendship Bracelet Project
Cuddle Up With The Baby Chenille Toy Lion
Racking your brain for craft night ideas? Look no further than creating a toy with your child to love and to hold! Extend your child's toy collection while sparking their creativity by engaging in a toy project. Making a toy with your child provides not only a bonding experience but also results in gifting your child with a new lifelong companion. It infuses even an additional touch of love that only comes with homemade gifts. At Spotlight, we offer a range of toy and bear making supplies including eyes, hobby fill and other accessories to add.
Consider recreating the Baby Chenille Toy Lion for an adorable stuffed toy, made with love. This is a great toy to make alongside children who can choose their favourite-coloured yarn to create their toy with. Or, if you're welcoming a new addition to your family, this toy makes for a great gift to newborn babies as a memento for them to keep as they grow up.
From cuddly animals to toy storage and accessories, be sure to browse Spotlight's range of toy projects and discover a collection of cuddly companions that are sure to excite your child.
Personalise Lace Up Shoes With Shoelace Accessories
Any child will be feeling confident with every step they take in their fashionable shoes. This shoelace accessories project outlines how you and your child can add a personal flair to their lace up shoes.
With this project, a child can select their favourite beads, whether they choose based on colours, hobbies or interests, and simply thread the beads onto their shoelaces. You can also create a beaded strand or chain to tie around the shoe for a great fashion statement. This project encourages children to express themselves in their fashion choices and also is a low-mess craft with no paint or glue required!
Ladies Craft Night Ideas For The Perfect Girls' Night In
We've all heard of heading into the city for a girls' night out. What many people may believe is girls' night in is actually underrated. Often a girls' night in involves watching movies and hanging out with your bestie. Transform your girls' night by hosting a craft night! Discover a range of wine and craft night ideas for your next ladies' night that will have you and your best friends bonding over both delicious cheese boards and artistic talents. For both amateur artists and crafting connoisseurs alike, these girls' night craft ideas are perfect for staying in while still having a fun time with your best friends.
Paint Your Favourite Designs On A Glass Or Mug
It wouldn't be a ladies' craft night without some form of painting. Set up your craft station, protected with a tablecloth to prevent spillages damaging your table and complete it with paint, paint palettes, paint brushes as well as a cup of water to rinse your paint brushes between colours.
Place a wine glass at each seat. Allow each guest time to decide on their design before getting to painting! Set up a charcuterie board in the centre of your painting station to allow guests to easily snack while they work on their masterpiece. This setup may also be repeated or replaced with mugs for a mug painting craft night instead! The Pebeo Travel Nostalgia Mugs Project is a great example of this. For this project, you and your friends can personalise mugs with your favourite travel memories!
Not only do your guests get to participate in an artistic activity, but they also get to express and infuse their creativity into their everyday life with their painted wine glasses or mugs. Read through our guide on how to paint on glass to ensure both you and your craft night guests are prepared.
Candle Making For An Aromatic Ambience
Combine relaxation with the fun artistic charm of making your very own candles. Candle-making combines craft with relaxation, allowing you to test your talents while basking in the refreshing aromas of fragrant oils. Candles are available in many shapes and designs, and at Spotlight we offer a range of moulds, wicks and other candle-making supplies for you to choose from. You can also choose from a selection of fragrance oils for the scent of your choice. Check out the Candle Making Fact Sheet to make sure you're prepared with everything you need to make your very own candles!
Follow up your craft night the next week with a spa night and host a relaxing time for your friends to hang out at your place among the aroma of your newly made candles.
Create Show Stopping Polymer Clay Earrings
A classic of the girls' night craft ideas is that of jewellery making. Making earrings is a great and easy choice for jewellery-making nights. Create earrings that you can integrate into your everyday jewellery collection. Alternatively, separate into pairs on girls' night and make earrings for your partner. Gather inspiration from several of our jewellery projects such as our Crafter's Choice Polymer Clay Earrings Project. With this project both beginner and experienced crafters will love creating stylish pieces to elevate any everyday look.
Whether you create matching earrings with your friends or infuse your own personal style into your pieces, this craft night idea is both fun and artistic. You can find all your jewellery-making supplies including earring findings and pliers right here at Spotlight!
Store Your Jewellery With A Homemade Home Made Trinket Dish
Combine your ladies' craft night ideas by making a jewellery and trinket tray to house your newly made earrings! Set up your craft night workstations with air dry clay at every table setting. With a range of colours to choose from, if you do decide to eventually paint your own design, we recommend using white clay for your trinket tray. You may choose to extend this activity over multiple girls' nights, following up the making of the trinket tray with painting your own designs. Once everyone's creations have dried (this usually may take a few days) use acrylic paint to finalise your designs. The result is a stunning trinket tray infused with your own personal style that looks perfect on bedside tables, in bathrooms or on desks.
Download the Sculpey Hand Dish Project
Host a Fun Craft Night For Your Friends and Family With Spotlight
Staying home has never been more fun with these entertaining crafts! Stimulate your senses and engage your creativity while hanging out with loved ones. From arts and crafts date night ideas to girls' night to ideas for your children, we have you covered on all things craft! You can find all the craft supplies you need at your nearest Spotlight store.
Don't forget to check out our range of free projects and discover even more craft night ideas for you to try!
