Arts and crafts facts for kids
Arts and crafts describes a wide variety of activities involving making things with one's own hands. Arts and crafts is usually a hobby. Some crafts (art skills) have been practised for centuries, others are more recent inventions. A quote by Apoorva Rathore: Art cannot be taught, it comes from thinking. But it can be improved by practice.
Both children and adults enjoy arts and crafts. Children in schools may learn skills such as woodworking, wood carving, sewing, or making things with all sorts of material. Many community centres and schools have evening or day classes and workshops where one can learn arts and craft skills.
Although "crafts" today are usually hobbies enjoyed by amateurs, the word was used many centuries ago by professional people who had a guild system. Young people were learned from a master-craftsman (i.e. they were "apprenticed"), and they often took many years to learn their skills to perfection.
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Crafts involving textiles
- Banner-making
- Calligraphy
- Crocheting
- Embroidery
- Felting
- Knitting
- Lace-making
- Millinery
- Quilting
- Rug making
- Sewing
- Shoemaking
- Tapestry
- Weaving
- T-shirt art
Crafts involving wood, metal or clay
Crafts involving paper or canvas
Crafts involving plants
Other crafts
Images for kids
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Works Progress Administration, Crafts Class, 1935
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Draw and color Bat-Trang-Ceramic
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Handcrafted shoes from bamboo made by artists of West Bengal, India, at a fair in Kolkata
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A hand made sofa set made from fibers extracted from bamboo at a fair in Kolkata. Made by artists of West Bengal, India.
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Making conical hats (nón lá) in Huế countryside, Vietnam
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Typical Filipino handmade brooms in a restaurant of Banaue Municipal Town
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Women's dress
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Handmade dolls featuring traditional attire in Afghanistan
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Handicrafts for sale in Mysore, India.
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See also
In Spanish: Artesanía para niños
