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25 Super Cute DIY Craft Hacks For Teen Girls

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Teenage girls are a force of their own and being in lockdown with my tween has been trying to say the least. She is at the age where she thinks she is 16 but still acts like a 10-year-old.  So, finding suitable activities is really hard, they want to be “grownup” but still need simple instructions to make and create things. When I came across this roundup by Craftyshacks I knew I had to share it with my fellow teenage girl or boy Moms. Even though I am a craft blogger I still need new and relevant ideas to entertain my own kids.

Wall hangings are very popular right now with all ages and you will see a few of these featured in the roundup. I love the idea of them making items for their own bedrooms, something practical and useable.

You can see the full teen craft roundup here. 

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Cross Stitch the National Parks in Tiny Form

I love little cross stitch patterns, but it’s especially fun when a small cross stitch design has a lot of detail going on. That’s the case with this collection of national parks cross stitch patterns from Stitchin Madness. 

This isn’t really a pattern, it’s a full-on book with designs for all 63 of the national parks in the United States (which includes the Virgin Islands). Each design is unique and shows a distinctive feature or the park or what the landscape there looks like. 

The book includes a full table of contents and numbered pages to make it easy to find the design you want to make. 

Each design is 40 by 40 stitches without the park name included, and 40 by 50 stitches if you add the name. They’re designed for 14 count fabric and if you make all of them you’ll use 72 colors, though each individual pattern uses a lot fewer colors than that. 

These would be so fun to make as you visit different parks, or make the whole set to frame together if you’re a big travel person who loves the national parks. They’d also be fun as greeting cards or even ornaments for your tree with the year you visited added to it somewhere. 

The photo above shows a nice collection of some of the patterns in hoops, but I could see them done in little frames as well. This should give you a taste for what the designs look like and might even include your favorite park (mine is Acadia because I went there on my honeymoon; it isn’t on here but you can see it on the product page. 

If you’re ready to stitch the national parks, or even just a handful of them, check out this pattern book from Stitchin Madness on Etsy. I’d love to know which national park is your favorite or what you would stitch up first!

[Photo: Stitchin Madness]