December Crafts

Hey there, creative friend!

If you have time off work (or school) this December, perhaps you’ll want to use some of your free time for crafting. You have zillions of options for things you could work on. Are you hoping to find unique, interesting and useful craft ideas that are suitable for making this month? If so, I invite you to consider the following suggestions:

Snowflake Patterns

Snowflakes are popular winter motifs that have inspired countless craft projects! If you want your next craft project to be a snowflake design, you’re invited to check out this page of snowflake patterns.

December Planner Crafts and DIY Calendars

If you’re a planner user, and you haven’t already started thinking about which planner you want to use in 2026, you might want to spend some time this month considering your options.

If you don’t already have a go-to favorite planner brand in mind, I highly recommend considering discbound planners like The Happy Planner because they are refillable, and also because you can add pages and move pages around in them (this was a game changer for me as a former spiral-bound planner user who was frustrated by my inability to those things).

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:

• Classic Happy Planner Review
• 7 Mood Tracker Ideas + a List of Moods for Your Bullet Journal, Planner or Calendar
• Do Happy Planners Start in January?
• Planner Layouts: Find Layout Ideas for Your Planners

Winter Card Making

If you enjoy paper crafts, December is a fantastic month to consider making cards to send to your inner circle. If you’d enjoy working on making December birthday cards, or cards for other occasions, you can click or tap here to view our main directory of card making ideas.

December Knitting Ideas

Learn Modular Knitting Techniques With Vivian Hoxbro’s Modular Knitting Book

It’s typical for knitting projects to start at the bottom and progress upward, but you don’t have to knit this way. There are many other possible approaches. If you’re a knitter who hasn’t yet learned how to knit in directions other than up, and you need useful ideas for new techniques to try, I suggest spending some of your December down time learning modular knitting techniques.

It took me years worth of reading back issues of Vogue Knitting magazine to figure out how to do these things, and in hindsight, I wish I’d had a concise knitting manual that taught all these techniques in one place. Vivian Hoxbro’s Knitting Handbook is the book I wish I’d had at the time.

Winter Craft Ideas

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

So there you have it: A list of suggestions for December crafts. I hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your December 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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Amy Solovay is a real, live, human content creator and educator who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Sweet Briar College; she has also earned a separate Associate of Arts degree in textile design from FIDM LA (The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles). She is NOT a robot and does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to write book reviews or articles for this website.

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