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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 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.
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 last 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 2024.
If you need a new planner or calendar, now’s a fantastic time to check out our pages on that topic. 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:
- How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
- How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea
Card Making Ideas 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
Get a Jump Start on Your Valentine’s Day Crafting in January! You’re invited to check out these free crochet patterns for heart and flower motifs.
Card Making Idea: Learn how to make a Valentine card with a heard design with our free card making instructions.
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
We’ve put together a list of winter crafts that are seasonally appropriate for January crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.
We hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your January crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!
Posted By: Amy Solovay
This page was last updated on 12-31-2023.