Quick, easy crafts for women?

I would recommend making jewelry. It's something really nice that's relatively inexpensive.

Get paper mache little picture frames and decorate w/beads, sand, etc. Go to a craft store and look around. Pat Catan's (craft store in OH) has a bargain section so look for one of those in your store. Try looking at kits; some are for 1 project, some are for up to 12. The ones I'm thinking of all have to do with little foam projects so it might be too cheap looking.

Go on familyfun.com. A lot of times they have cute ideas. I work at a daycare and have got ideas from that site before.

Good luck! OH--make picture frames from popsicle sticks!

I agree with the first answer. There's no glue mess or paint involved. You can buy a package of straight wires and some beads and they can make a pair of earrings in about 5 or 10 mins. Then you just bend the with end of the wire into a loop so the beads don't fall off and put them on the wire earrings which you can pick up anywhere cheap also.

Hello, I know that this does not relate to activities that you would be able to do together at the same time. However, there is a very cheap alternative for creating great looking pages for photo and arts layouts called digital scrapbooking.

There are plenty of free kits and embellishments to make great looking pages for photos, and all it costs you is the ink to print them out.

Maybe for an exercise for your group would be to give your group (e-mail) some page layouts, tell them to put them together with their photos, and bring them in for comparison one day.

Check out the blog link, which has freebies and kits, and there are other link sites from there that you will find many freebies as well.

Hope this helps and have fun!

This should be an easy as well as easy on the budget craft and is always nice to have it also makes a nice welcome gift for anyone and a lot of the materials can be purchased at one dollar stores

Dried Potpourri

Materials:

Dried flowers buds

Dried petals

Allspice

Cloves

Cinnamon sticks

Star anise

Fixative (orrisroot, fiber cellulose, oakmoss, sandalwood chips, gum benzoin, storax)

Fragrance or essential oil

Small glass container with airtight lid

1-gallon covered glass container with lid

Stainless-steel mixing tool

Add essential oil to fixative (10 drops oil to 4 tablespoons fixative) and mix thoroughly. Store mixture in small capped glass container for a month.

After storing seasoned fixative, add it to a blend of flower petals, blossoms and spice that have been combined as desired.

Store potpourri blend in gallon glass container for another month to fix the scent.

Use as desired and store in covered glass container.

Wet Potpourri

Materials:

Glass jar with lid

Pestle or potato masher

Kosher or sea salt

Fresh flower petals

Vodka

Pour thin layer of salt into bottom of jar.

Add a thin layer of fresh flower petals. Use pestle or potato masher to crush petals into the salt. If desired, add a few drops of vodka to hasten drying and preserve the scent.

Add another layer of salt; repeat layering and crushing contents until jar reaches desired depth.

Good Luck !

You could do embroidery on flour sack tea towels. You can usually find the towels at Walmart, 6 to a pack, and the floss is very cheap and can be shared. Another place to look for supplies is a Goodwill. They always have plastic bags full of laces and yarns and such for pretty cheap.

HELLO,

ONE FAIRLY CHEAP CRAFT IS PLASTIC CANVAS.YOU CAN USUALLY BUY A SHEET FOR UNDER A DOLLAR.

SOME WOOL (YOU COULD USE SCRAPS OF WOOL)

AND YOU CAN MAKE LOTS OF THINGS.PINS,CALENDER'S,KLEENEX BOX COVERS..

HOPEFULLY THIS HELPS YOU OUT.GOOD LUCK