Craft Party Kits for Adults

Craft parties for adults can be a little more challenging than craft parties for kids. Adults are a little more discriminating about their entertainment. They may not be as interested in, for example, macaroni art than kids are. Adults also tend to have a wider range of skill levels in any particular craft, from brand new beginner to experts.

Fortunately, craft kits are a great way to take some of the pressure off of both hosts and guests. We have a selection of craft kits that are great to use at a craft party with adult guests. Check out some of our favorites and find out why we love them.

Focus on more sophisticated crafts

Kid level crafts aren’t likely to be creatively satisfying to adults because adults have greater capabilities and skill levels than kids. This means that for adults, you want to focus on more sophisticated crafts for your party. However, not all of your guests are going to be experts in the chosen craft, so it’s still important to make sure that it’s an entry level project in that particular craft.

For soap making, we love melt and pour for beginners. While creating melt and pour soap does have some advanced techniques and amazing options, at the beginner level it’s a lot easier than cold process soap. 

We recommend the Swirled Heart Soap Kit for an introduction to soap making. It gives you the opportunity to make beautiful and creative soap, but keeps things a little simpler. It makes cute bars of soap scented with our Pink Mimosa Fragrance Oil.

They’re built in party favors that your guests will be happy to take home or share.

Make crafts that your guests can take home and enjoy

What’s better than something you can hang on the fridge? Something you can take home and actually use. Save photos for keepsakes and enjoy the results of your own hard work. That’s a reason to love personal care products as the focus of craft parties for adults.

Our Natural Bath Bomb Kit is a simple project that creates a little luxury that your guests can take home and enjoy. One kit makes around 15 bath bombs for folks to take home and enjoy, and bath bombs are a really beginner friendly project, too.

Work together on a single project

It’s really great when people can each work on their very own project, but it’s a completely different vibe when everyone works together on a single project. This will usually mean that each person takes charge of a different part of the project. 

Everyone working on the same project can really develop a sense of common purpose, which helps to bring people together. It’s an especially great way to help guests who may not know each other develop a friendship.

Cold process soap is a great way to bring everyone together in pursuit of a common goal. Our Natural Soap Kit for Beginners is one of our top selling kits, and it accounts for crafters with a diverse range of skill levels. It makes plenty of soap to share; 10-12 bars.

Encourage creativity

It can be great for everyone to work on similar projects; it definitely makes hosting easier. But there’s also ways to encourage creativity during your craft party for adults! The happy medium is to have everyone work on the same thing, but with a few different options so your guests can make their project their very own.

Creativity has a host of benefits for all of us, including mental health benefits, cognitive benefits, and even physiological benefits.

Our Face Mask Party Kit has what you need to host a crafting party for 5 guests, and everyone can make their own custom face mask. It comes with different clays and different fragrances and allows everyone to make just the product they want.

Make something Instagram-worthy

Everyone likes to show off what they’ve made, so making something extra pretty is always fun. Not only can your guests be extra proud of what they’ve made, but they can also bask in the admiration they receive on social media.

There are a lot of personal care products that look gorgeous; just check out #brambleon on Instagram to see them! A great, beautiful, and useful craft project is lotion bars, and we have just the kit for that. Our Lotion Bar Kit creates moisturizing bars with cute bees in the middle. A bonus is that lotion bars are exceptionally practical. They’re easier to carry in your pocket (or on a plane) than liquid lotion.

Bonus tips for hosting a craft party for adults

Hosting a craft party for adults is a little bit different than a craft party for kids. Here are some quick tips to get you started.
Make sure you have plenty of space. If your guests are bumping elbows, it’ll be more likely that mistakes and spills will happen.

• Make sure you have the supplies you need. Finding out that you don’t have everything you need during the party is stressful. Our kits make it easy to make sure you have everything on hand.
• Serve some cocktails and mocktails. Fancy drinks are a fun part of adult craft parties, but make sure you have a non-alcoholic drink or two for guests who don’t drink.
• Serve snacks in a separate area. Not only will crafts crowd your working area, but you might also get snacks in your work, or work in your snacks.
• Set aside photo time after you’re done. Give your guests an opportunity to get photos of their work and photos of them with the other guests. This is how memories are made.
• Make a test project ahead of time. Making the project yourself in advance will give you the opportunity to see if there are any snags in the process, and prepare you for showing others how to make the project.

Craft parties are a great way to connect with friends and family members and bond over creating something amazing. Crafting kits make them so much easier to host, too, meaning that you get to spend more time having fun.