Craft Ideas for the Month of January 2025

Happy New Year, everyone!

Are you hoping to find unique, interesting and useful craft ideas for the month of January? There are an overwhelming number of possibilities — so many that I couldn’t even begin to mention them all. However, there are some recurring themes that many crafters find themselves returning to in January. The following suggestions cover the most important basics and the most popular January craft ideas I’m currently aware of. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting us know about them.

January Holiday Crafts

New Year’s Day

New Year’s Day is one of the more prominent January holidays on the Gregorian calendar. Many people make the first day in January — New Year’s Day — a day of goal-setting and reflecting. If you’d like to do that too, you might enjoy checking out our post on New Year Year’s Resolutions for Crafters. Once you set some crafting goals for the year, you might end up having a clearer idea of what it is you actually want to work on and achieve in the new year.

Martin Luther King Junior Day

Martin Luther King Junior was an inspiring speaker, leader and activist in the USA’s civil rights movement. Those of us in the USA collectively mourn his loss and celebrate his numerous accomplishments with a federal holiday known as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is observed on the third Monday of January each year. This year, Martin Luther King Junior Day falls on Monday, January 20, 2025. In the USA, this day is an official federal holiday, complete with a day off of school or work (if your employer observes federal holidays, that is.) However, you should be aware that MLKJ’s actual birthday was January 15, 1929.

I don’t personally have any suggestions for craft projects that would be ideal for celebrating this holiday. If you have suggestions, I welcome them; you’re invited to share a comment, below.

However, I’d like to point out that you can tapestry crochet portraits of anyone who inspires you, including Rosa Parks, MLK, Thurgood Marshall or any other civil rights activists you admire. I make this suggestion as a fan of Carol Ventura’s tapestry crochet work and her blog; She has done some amazing work, but if I had to choose a piece of hers that gets my vote as being the most outstanding artwork in her collection, it is her spectacular tapestry crocheted portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Check it out!

Planner Crafts and DIY Calendars

If you’re actively using the Gregorian calendar to plan your life, you typically need to start using a new planner or calendar on January 1 of the new year. This is not always the case, as some planners span more than one year; for example, in 2023, I didn’t need a brand new planner on January first, because I was using a Happy Planner that covers one-and-a-half years. So that year, I was able to skip out on the hunt for a new planner. I didn’t get so lucky this year, and I am still scrambling to finalize which planners I’ll be using for 2025.

If you need a new planner or calendar, please keep in mind that you don’t have to buy a ready-made one; you can make your own calendars, planners or bullet journals — or you can use craft techniques to personalize store-bought planners, calendars, bullet journals and other journals. The following pages on our website might be of interest:

• January Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners
• Do Happy Planners Start in January?
• Planner Layouts: Find Layout Ideas for Your Planners

Card Making for the New Year

If you enjoy paper crafts, January is a fantastic month to consider making cards to send to your inner circle. Some crafters lump New Year’s cards in with their Christmas cards — but some prefer to make cards just for the sole purpose of wishing their loved ones a Happy New Year. So if you’re up for another round of card making so soon, and you didn’t already send out cards saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in December, New Year cards are a fantastic January craft idea to consider.

Get a Jump Start on Your Valentine’s Day Crafting in January

Valentine’s Day is also coming up soon — and if you like to make fun Valentine gifts to give to your significant other or your friends / family, January is a fantastic time to work on these projects. You can tap here to find our ideas for Valentine Cards to Make, or tap here to find our main directory of Valentine’s Day craft ideas.

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Winter Craft Ideas

I’ve put together a list of winter crafts that are seasonally appropriate for January crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

I hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your January crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!

Over to You:

Which craft projects are you interested in working on next? Let’s talk about it in the comments.

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