Christmas Gift Guide For Crafty Boys

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I love buying gifts for creative and crafty kids. Here is a roundup of some of our fav. Obviously, girls can like these too we don’t discriminate but we just composed this list to make it easier for moms and dads.

So what is our best advice when buying DIY craft kits for children?

firstly look for crafts that require minimum parent input and crafts that contain all the items they are going to need to complete the project. There is nothing worse than a kid starting his or her kit only to find out they need supplies to finish the kit!

Creative kids usually like to see results fast so avoid kits that take several days for “drying time” or have a large “setting time”. Pick a craft kit that suits your child’s interest, for example an army-themed craft kit, a woodwork themed craft kit, or an art project that uses paints, nature or fashion.

Rip and Stick Duct tape wallet kit.

Woodshop Wood model kits

Melissa and Doug DIY Racer

Guy Gear Cobra bands kit

Just for Boys tag building kit

3D woodcraft kit

Pops Fun Flyers

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I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching.

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies.

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems.

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess.

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes.

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]

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