58 Crafts for Adults That Won’t End Up in the Trash in Two Months
From watercolor paintings to t-shirt yarn rugs and resin jewelry
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How to Pick the Right Craft
You’ve been bitten by the creativity bug and are ready to get started on the right project…but it’s important to know that your time and effort will be rewarded and your confidence remain intact when the craft is complete. For this reason, we have assessed the skill and commitment required to accomplish each endeavor on the list. These measures are, of course, somewhat subjective, but the below explanation of our methodology should help you find the perfect fit.
How We Determined the Difficulty Level of Each Craft
We have broken down the difficulty level of each craft according to three categories: easy, medium and pro.
- Easy: projects with straightforward and practically foolproof instructions that require no prior crafting experience to follow. Think: painted wine bottles or mason jar photo frames. (When we say easy, we mean it.)
- Medium: projects that demand a bit more precision or skill, but can generally be completed successfully, regardless of experience level (it just might require a bit more focus or practice on your end).
- Pro: any project that requires either a moderate level of precision and skill and involves fussy materials or special equipment, or projects that require a particularly high level of precision and skill, with or without fussy materials and special equipment in the picture.
How We Determined the Time Commitment of Each Craft
We’ve done our best to gauge how long it will take for any given project to be done from start to finish with three major (and rather broad) designations—under an hour, over an hour and over a day—to guide you. Just keep in mind that these are only rough estimates, and that we could not take into consideration one of the biggest possible variables—namely, the pace at which you choose to work (or your schedule permits). It’s also worth noting that, when assessing time commitment, we only accounted for required down time (i.e., allowing for coats of paint to dry or clay to bake in the oven) when that down time occurs in the middle of the crafting process, not at the very end.
Emma Singer
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- Has 5+ years of experience writing family, travel and wellness content for PureWow
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- Studied Sociology, Political Science and Philosophy in the CUNY Baccalaureate independent study program.
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