If you can’t pry your cell phone away from yourself or your kids, here are fun craft ideas involving cell phones. Plus, great for gifts.

1. Cell Phone Pouches – simply made by sewing (or velcroing) fabric together,  or gluing felt and decorating it with a fabric pen. Can make it various shapes (eg. animals) and colors.

2. Cell phone hooks, loops or neck straps.

3. Stickers to attach to the phone’s outer shell. Blank stickers (ideally ones that can be removed)  that can be decorated with markers or crayons.

4. Cell phone charms that can be hung to phones or ipods.

The featured pouch is by jinkycrafts.com.

While in  Japanese, here are some great ideas.

Here’s a YouTube video on how to make a cellphone pouch.