7 Best Craft Kits for 2024

Make a New Year’s resolution you know you can keep, to make 2024 better than last year. If you’re hoping to learn a new skill, be more productive, relax more or spend less time on your smartphone, we can help with our amazing online craft classes with kits. Let us inspire your creativity, give you productive things to do at home, and teach you new skills.

With tougher tiers and rumours of lockdown number three looming in the UK, choose craft boxes to help make the third one a charm. You’ve probably done it all by now, from indoor PE to watching every boxset and movie on every streaming service. Now have a go at taking some time for yourself to enjoy new hobbies. 

Craft classes are brilliant when you’re looking for fun things to do at home and completing a new craft can help you feel more empowered. Learn to bake online, try some DIY pottery or get expressive with some paints. Crafty virtual experiences can help with creativity, mindfulness and productivity. If you're feeling a little stressed, we also have lots of relaxing art and craft classes to help calm your mind and give you a chance to zone out. Make 2024 a better year by learning new skills and getting creative.

1. Aiming for a relaxing 2024? Try a pottery kit

If moving into the new year stresses you out, try some pottery at home. It is a great way to calm you and get you feeling zen. Work away your anxieties as you get stuck into your clay. Once you’ve moulded a new clay creation into being, we’re sure you’ll agree that this is a relaxing thing to do at home.

When you choose a pottery online class, you will also get a pottery tool kit to help you get the best out of your craft. Your teacher will guide you through all the rolling pins, scrapers, knives, brushes and more in the pottery starter kit with great tips on how to use them.

2. Use a cocktail kit to shake up your boring days at home

Can’t wait for those bars and pubs to open up again? Try cocktail making at home to liven up your nights. Mixing a drink isn’t as hard as you might think, and with a little bit of help from a cocktails online class, you’ll learn all sorts of tricks.

A cocktail making kit will come to you with shakers and strainers as well as the alcohol and mixers you’ll need to make the drinks. You’ll learn some of the best cocktails to make at home that taste yummy and will impress any guests at future dinner parties.

Staying at home not your thing? Why not rock up to a cocktail making class in London?

3. Calligraphy kits will get you away from the screens

Although technology is great at connecting us when we have to stay indoors, screens and Zoom calls have ruled our 2024. If your New Year's resolutions involve less screen time, try learning lettering calligraphy. 

Fall in love with the traditional ways of writing by working with the great tools inside your calligraphy starter kit. You’ll receive brush lettering pens and ink to work with. Brush lettering is a beautiful form of art with all sorts of styles to learn. Try a calligraphy class and kit to liven up your greetings cards and use for scrapbooking to add a special touch.

4. If you’re looking for more time with nature, make a DIY terrarium

Being stuck inside so much might have you missing the outdoors. Why not bring it inside to make your house feel more natural. A glass terrarium is a great way to add a pop of green to your indoor space. They’re easy to care for and are really pretty.

With one of our live online classes, you can get your green thumbs out and learn how to make a terrarium with ease. There are loads of fantastic DIY kits and classes to help you make a wonderful pet plant. Your terrarium kit will come with the best terrarium plants, including succulents, ferns and cacti, as well as some decorations to make it fancy.

Working with plants and soil can be great for your mental wellbeing as it can increase serotonin and balance your mood. So building a terrarium could be the exact positivity boost you need for the new year.

5. Painting kits will fill your life with colour

New to the brush and easel? You can learn painting online so easily with help from talented teachers and an art kit. Before you know it, you’ll be making your own stunning masterpieces to hang on your walls.

There are so many different art classes online in all sorts of styles. You can try watercolour painting, drawing classes and resin art. If you think some liquid luck might help you with a brush, try a paint and sip at home class where you can enjoy your favourite drink to get your imagination flowing.

If you’re looking to make 2024 more exciting than last year, try some art online to inspire your creativity.

6. Try a baking set to get crafty in the kitchen

If you fancy some sweet treats, an online baking class will warm you up and fill your house with wonderful smells. It’s a great way to boost your positivity and give you a dose of dopamine to help you feel relaxed.

Our virtual baking classes are led by expert teachers who will make your baking experience a breeze. No worries for our first time treat makers, you will have all the help you need and loads of baking supplies to help you.

Your baking kit will help you make some of the tastiest dessert recipes out there. Make a sweet treacle sponge, a festive stollen, or some decadent brownies. There’s so much to learn with online baking.

7. Candle making kits will brighten up your 2024

Are you a candle lover? Try candle making at home to learn a new skill and fill your home with wonderful homemade candles. You will get tons of inspiration from your amazing teacher and the candle making equipment that is sent to your door. 

Scented candle making kits can be customised to your preferences. Love floral notes? Try lavender or rose-scented candles. More of a citrus fan? Lemon or orange notes will put a smile on your face. Whatever it is, pick your scent and colour to make the perfect candle for you. When you learn how to make candles at home, you can personalise your creations completely to fit in with your decor. Candles also make fantastic DIY gifts for your loved ones. 

There are so many fantastic kits for you to try - you’ll never be stuck for things to do inside again!