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Happy Barnet Craft Challenge 2020

The Happy Barnet Craft Challenge 2020!

It’s year three of the Happy Barnet Craft Challenge!! Can you believe it!!

For 2020 we’ll habe more craft challenges and ideas, how-to posts and newbie guides to encourage you to try new things and find new inspiration for all your crafting projects!

The Challenges:

Take a look at the list of craft challenges below and pick as many as you feel comfortable completing. They are grouped into two sets:

  • Yellow Challenges = fun and inspiration

  • Blue Challenges = learn something new

Keep Track

Download our craft challenge tracker sheets here so you can tick off the challenges as you go! And of course, if you share in our groups, you’ll receive one of our coveted “challenge completed” ticks! oooooooh

Join in!

It doesn’t matter what craft(s) you enjoy or how experienced you are, everyone is welcome to join in and our Facebook group is one of the best places to do that. You can also follow our posts on the Happy Barnet Twitter and Instagram accounts. And don’t forget to use the #happybarnetcraftchallenge hashtag so we can see your projects and share them with our other craft challengers….and feature them in our challenge galleries!!!

I’d also love to hear your ideas and always welcome guest posts and video demos. Get in touch via our social media or email hello@happybarnet.com


Learn Something New (the blue challenges):

The blue challenges! It’s all about trying and learning something new!

If you’ve taken part in our craft challenge before you’ll know the blue challenges stay the same each year. How you approach them though will be different each year!

Links below to any relevant blog posts and gallaries

  • Teach a craft to someone else

  • Get a friend to teach you a new craft or technique

  • Use a craft kit or tool you've never used before

  • Attend a craft workshop

  • Try a new craft from our demos or newbie guides (or give a demo!)

  • Make something from a craft book you already own 

  • Learn a new technique in a craft you're already comfortable with

  • Take part in a craft-a-long

  • Learn a new craft or technique from a YouTube video

  • Use a material you've never used before

  • Try something you've previously been intimidated by


Fun and inspiration (the yellow challenges):

It’s time for some fun and inspiration, it’s the yellow challenges!!

These are all new this year apart from the bonus challenge which was just too good not to repeat!

Hyperlinks to relevant blog posts and gallaries as they are written

  • Make something in the 2020 colour of the year: Classic Blue

  • Make something featuring the 2020 Chinese zodiac animal, the rat

  • Get ready, set, play! Make a toy, game or puzzle

  • Make something inspired by a book, story or character

  • Get personal! Make something personalised for you or someone you know

  • It’s the year of the nurse, be inspired by nursing, health or medicine

  • Get waving! Be inspired by flags, pennants or bunting

  • Go green and make something eco-friendly

  • Add a pop of colour and make something with spots or dots

  • Set yourself a challenge OR ask a fellow craft challenger to set a challenge for you

  • BONUS CHALLENGE! Make to donate, create something for charity


Hope you enjoy the challenges this year and look forward to seeing what you make!

Happy Crafting

Barnet x

ps Don’t know where to start? Try our random challenge picker!

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