Fun and Easy Craft Ideas for Adults

Crafting can boost your mood and mental health while giving you a hobby to do which keeps your brain active. Sticking to a crafting project can bring you joy, keep you busy away from technology, and reduce stress. There are endless possibilities with crafts and your imagination is the limit, giving you the chance to create whatever you want.

Crafting is a wonderful hobby to stimulate your mind, so whether you’re looking for new crafts to try, or want to start crafting, these fun and easy craft ideas for adults will kickstart your creativity.

Modern side table

If you are an expert with wood or want to learn a new skill while crafting, then making a modern side table is an ideal craft. You can try a standard, small round table or a larger rectangular table to put in your home. You could even add a removable top for storage inside the table using a cake pan!

Flower candle holder

Add some color and warmth by creating a flowered candle holder. You could create your own glass or plastic candle holders or buy some little candle pots to decorate. You can paint flowers onto the pots or use hand-pressed real flowers and petals to glue on the pots. Add a finishing touch of a tweed bow or a silk ribbon.

DIY soap

Have luxurious, fragrant, and natural soap in your home that you’ve made yourself! You can use various forms of milk, such as goat’s milk, and floral or citrus scents, such as real lavender or orange slices with essential oils. Stock up on soap molds to create a clean soap shape that you love. 

Creative pinboard

Restore an old window frame or an old metal frame to create a very creative pinboard that will enhance any living space. You can personalize your pinboard by hanging sentimental photos that capture fond memories, cards, letters, and any other sentimental trinkets or artwork you love. Add little clips to use for hanging and paint your frame to further personalize it, making it a feature décor item in your home.

Hanging shelves

Shelves are ideal as there’s always a need for storage solutions around the home. Hanging shelves are perfect for storing objects and items without taking up too much space, as they hang on the wall. Hanging shelves are also super easy to make by using a cut-down piece of wood, sanding it until it’s very smooth, treating it, and rope attached to either end of the wood to hang onto the wall. Add a lovely keyring hoop to the end of the rope and hammer a nail into the wall to hang the shelf.

Patterned lampshade

Make your own lampshade to revamp any lamp in your home. You can choose a fabric you love and that shows your personality to create it. Choose a vivid color and funky pattern to instantly brighten your home. Make sure that the lamp shade fits the chosen lamp you want to revamp and create a personal, fun, and colorful home.

Industrial shelves

Create some industrial-looking shelves to add a fun, modern twist to any space. This craft is ideal for those who are good at working with metal and welding to weld the metal frame together. For the legs, steel box sections are ideal as they have a rectangular cut to aid with stabilizing the shelves. Add wooden panel shelves for that rustic, industrial touch, and paint your steel black to make it pop!

Decorative metal owl

Create a funky metal ornament to showcase in your home, using various types of metal and metal objects. You can use old gears, nuts and bolts, and shaped, melted steel. This craft is a little harder so is a fun idea for those who are excellent at working with metal and welding. 

Crochet cushion cover

For crochet lovers, or those who want to learn, making your own cushion cover is an excellent way to add a personalized homely touch. The possibilities are endless with this as you can choose any yarn you like. Go vivid and bold with brightly colored yarn or keep it neutral or monochrome with your beiges, whites, creams, and blacks. However you want your cushion to look, you can have a stylish crochet creation to put on your sofa or bed that will brighten your home up.

Metal Christmas Tree

Turn old gears and car parts into a festive decoration with a twist. Choose a metal lamp base and stack gears on top of each other on a sturdy metal pole. You can top with whatever you like from as simple as a star cookie cutter to a gauge to keep the industrial Christmas feel. Your metal Christmas tree will truly be a talking point this festive season. 

Try some of these fun and easy DIY craft ideas for adults to create a fun pastime and hobby that stimulates your mind. Reduce your stress and get stuck into a craft project that you will love and that caters to your skill level!