Stay-at-Home Crafts

Arizona was placed on a stay-at-home order on March 30 due to COVID-19.

It has been a little over a month of home quarantine, and I was thinking of things we can do with items already in our home. I have not even been going to my favorite dollar store! Here are craft y bits you can make with items you already own.

Because we are staying safe at home, we have not been doing some of our favorite things. We decided to write down things we felt like doing but could not. Aft er the stay-at-home order is lift ed, we will have a list of activities to do. Some examples are seeing our favorite people, ice skating, eating in our favorite restaurants, going to the beach and watching movies at the cinema. You can put your ideas on strips of paper, craft sticks or just on a notepad to keep a running list of what you look forward to doing soon.

Another quarantine craft is sending a secret message to someone in your house or elsewhere. Start with a white paper. Using lemon juice and a Q-tip, you can write a message. Dip the Q-tip in lemon juice to use it as a pen to write. Allow it to dry, and you can roll the message up to put it in the bottle and deliver it as a secret message. If you do not have a bottle, just slip it under someone’s door in your house. Leave instructions to view the message over a heat source like a light bulb, lighter, iron with no steam, or blow dryer. Make sure they know to have a parent around, because paper can catch fi re easily. Enjoy your secret message!

Th e last easy home activity is making a sugar scrub for dry hands. I know my hands are dry from washing them so many times a day. We used coconut oil and sugar, but you can use any oil you have at home. Mix together half oil and half sugar and you have an easy way to moisturize your skin. You can store it in a mason jar or anything with a lid. If you do not have something like that, you can even store in a Ziploc bag. I hope this helps your dry skin!

I hope you are all staying home, staying safe and enjoying home craft ing. Stay-at-Home Crafts Three projects to do with simple items around the kitchen By Shannon Fisher Shannon Fisher is a local wife, mom of two girls and owner of Shannon Fisher Photography. She taught high school and elementary art before opening her photography business.