99 Things to Make and Sell at Fetes or Markets

When you’re looking for ideas and inspiration for things to make and sell at a craft stall it can be useful to have a huge list of ideas in front of you. Perhaps you have some fabric and you’re wondering what to make with it, perhaps you’ve got a jar of beads or buttons and don’t know what you can do with them, or maybe you’re looking for something a little different to make this year.

I haven’t given specific links for most of these – you will get further with a quick Google or Pinterest search once an idea takes your fancy, and you will be swamped with options. Happy crafting!

• Aprons (for kids and adults, perhaps even matching aprons!)
• Baby bibs or clothes (including wraps, posset cloths, pram covers or knitted hats)
• Badges (hire a machine – find out more here)
• Bath bombs/bath salts (there are hundreds of flavour and colour combinations)
• Beeswax wraps
• Bird feeders
• Booboo packs/bump packs (made with rice or beans)
• Bookmarks (find cute printables online, fold origami, paint, felt or stitch)
• Busy boxes (or look for cute ideas using Altoid tins)
• Buttons craft (make key rings, Christmas tree decorations, picture frames, flower posies etc with donated buttons)
• Candles
• Cat biscuits
• Cat toys
• Christmas cards
• Christmas decorations and gifts
• Christmas stockings (make them able to be personalised, don’t forget Santa sacks for the pet cat and dog)
• Coat hangers (crocheted, knitted, padded etc)
• Craft kits/jars of craft supplies (good way to use up random leftovers)
• Crocheted cactus
• Cupcakes (pre-decorated or with DIY decorations)
• Cushion covers
• Dog treats (biscuits – find recipe here)
• Dog bandanas
• Doll clothes/Barbie clothes
• Door stops or draught stoppers
• Dreamcatchers
• Dress-ups (crowns, capes etc)
• Earphone pouches
• Fabric bunting (for babies, boys and girls, footy colours etc)
• Fairy floss (hire a machine)
• Fairy gardens (decorated potted plants or terrariums)
• Fairy wands
• Felt food (here is a link to over 100 DIY felt food tutorials)
• Flower crowns (fresh or fabric) or sell DIY kits
• Fresh flowers posies or jars
• Fudge
• Gift cards (birthday cards, thank you, sympathy etc)
• Gingerbread men (pre-decorated or with DIY decorations)
• Gourmet flavoured salt or olive oil (homemade)
• Hair clips
• Headbands
• Heat mats/place mats
• Heat bags (and hot water bottle covers)
• Henna tattoos
• Herb gardens or seed kits
• Jams and preserves (don’t forget lemon/passionfruit curd)
• Jewellery – earrings and necklaces
• Lavender bags
• Library/book bags
• Lolly bags
• Lucky Dip
• Magnets
• Marble bags
• Mosaics (use old mirrors or CDs)
• Origami Christmas decorations
• Origami corner bookmarks
• Oven mitt with matching tea-towels
• Paper flowers
• Painted pots for plants
• Pet rocks
• Pillowcases
• Pinatas
• Pin cushions
• Plants
• Playdough (scented, coloured, glitter etc)
• Plum puddings/Christmas cake
• Pom Poms
• Pot Pourri
• Produce bags
• Quilling
• Quilts/baby quilt
• Recycled paper (note paper or cards)
• Rocky Road
• Salt dough Christmas decorations
• Scrunchies (school/faction colours)
• Sensory bags
• Sleeping masks/eye masks
• Slime (pre-made or DIY kits)
• Snow globes
• Sorbet/gelato (homemade)
• Stress balls (or juggling balls)
• Stuffed animals (felt, fabric, knitted)
• Succulents (use pretty secondhand tea cups/tea pots)
• Sugar scrubs
• Table runners/napkins
• Terrariums (succulents or air plants)
• Toffee apples
• Tombola
• Tooth Fairy pillow or decorated box
• Tote bags
• Tutus
• Upcycled furniture or photo frames (or planters made from soccer balls)
• Vases (painted, wrapped with twine etc)
• Wind-chimes made from recycled cutlery and teapots
• Wizard wands
• Wooden toys/birdhouses
• Wreaths
• Zippered bags/pencil cases

Best places for more inspiration

Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com.au/fundraisingmums/fete-ideas/

Author: Shannon Meyerkort