Today, we’re rounding up our favorite crafts that can be made completely (or mostly) while sitting in one spot. Crafting while catching up on your favorite show sounds like the perfect combination to us!
We’ve included a variety of projects in this post, including wall decor, accessories, garlands, and more.
Are you ready to do some “TV crafting?” Let’s do this!
Related: Weaving for Beginners, 20 Easy Felt Crafts, and 20 Easy Clay Craft Ideas.
These wool ball clip-on diffusers for your car are a fun and easy craft, and they make great gifts. We 100% prefer essential oils over synthetic car fragrances!
These agate coasters look like they’re from Anthropologie, but they can actually be made in your living room. They’re so pretty!
Elsie spent a couple of nights watching Netflix while making this stitched floral purse. If we didn’t know better, we’d say it was a cool vintage find.
We love a good homemade wreath, and this floral hoop wreath is so cute and inviting.
Looking for more wreath ideas? Check out our best wreath DIYs for any season!
If you’re new to weaving, our friend Rachel is the best teacher we know. You can learn the basics of weaving and get started on your first piece.
Make a simple wooden ball photo holder to display Instax photos (or any kind). This craft can be made in 5 minutes, so you could make a bunch of these during an episode of your favorite show.
Can you believe this oversized rainbow wall hanging is made with pool noodles? It’s perfectly adorable for a nursery or bedroom.
How about a jewelry DIY? These geometric acrylic earrings are really cute. If you prefer gold jewelry, we have a DIY for geometric gold statement earrings, too!
Emma’s faux wall weaving DIY doesn’t require any weaving experience—just tassel-making experience (and they’re super easy to make).
Have you ever tried embroidering? This cactus embroidery DIY includes a pattern and all the steps you’ll need to make one of your own!
We are true “garland people” and we love making them for the holidays (or anytime, really). This yarn pumpkin garland is so cute for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Looking for more garland DIYs? Check out our full archive here!
Make a necklace out of lava stones and essential oils so you can bring an energizing (or calming) scent with you wherever you go.
If you’re looking for an autumn-inspired project, you could make a pumpkin spice latte pincushion. Isn’t it amazing? Bonus: no sewing skills are required!
Speaking of no-sew projects, you could make your own braided velvet headband or padded headband.
And last but not least, dress up a pair of plain boots (or flats) with this easy mask + paint tutorial. How fun are these?!
We recommend adding snacks AND drinks to enhance your crafting and TV-watching experience. Here are a few recipes to try!
- Rocky Road Caramel Popcorn
- Elsie’s Homemade Chex Mix
- Black Bean Hummus
- The Best Homemade Margarita
- Apple Cinnamon Hot Toddy
- Grapefruit Citrus Sparkling Mocktail
And if you love movie nights, be sure to check out Elsie’s movie room tour + home theater ideas!
I love the archive posts! Sometimes they remind me of one I’ve loved in the past and wanted to try. And it’s nice to have them all right there, rather than searching. I’m a lazy researcher and the easier to get to all the things I want, the better!
Thanks Rachel!
Love all of these ideas! I’m a big fan of crafting while binge watching Netflix 🙂 I think weaving might need to be my next challenge. These wall hangings are beautiful!
As a longtime reader i’m getting a bit fed up of these rebranded posts without them saying they are? Where’s the new content?
Hi! I’d love to provide you with a bit of context here. 🙂 In almost 15 years of blogging we posted again and again on the same subjects (sometimes nearly identical posts year after year). We recently learned that editing (we always update the posts before re-sharing them) and reposting is more beneficial for the long term health of the site. We will continue doing this. There are so many posts in our archives that we can add more context to, better photos, better instructions etc.
We still post a large amount of brand new content every month as well.
I do not know what you’re watching. I only watch interesting things like movies or documentaries. Such things can be done in spare time and not while watching tv.
This is a great DIY idea. A million thanks.
Great ideas! I love to be able to work on a craft project while watching something on Netflix. Thanks!
Jess
http://mybetternature.ca/
I can’t choose my favourite craft, they all look so fun! One thing’s for sure, though – I couldn’t do them while watching TV, I’m inexperienced so I’ll need to be paying full attention to the DIY, haha!! 🙂
Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog
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But once you get some experience, you will be able to! I like to crochet while watching tv, once i’ve Got my pattern figured out. Simple hand sewing like hemming is easy while looking up intermittently, too.
That wall hanging is gorgeous!
Paige
http://thehappyflammily.com
What fun ideas! I’ve never done any weaving, but it looks so beautiful that I’m going to have to give it a try.
Thanks for the gathering of all these ideas!
Love this! I only have time after the kids are in bed and my energy by that point is minimal – these are perfect!
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