Handicraft facts for kids
Handicraft is all about making cool stuff with your own hands or simple tools. Think of it as creating something special without big machines or factories. These items are often beautiful and useful at the same time. They usually follow traditional ways of making things that have been passed down through generations.
Handicraft items often have a lot of cultural or religious meaning. They are very different from things made by mass production, which means making many copies quickly. Handicrafts are also different from "arts and crafts" because they are usually made to be used for something, not just to look at.
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What are Common Handicrafts?
There are so many different kinds of handicrafts! People use all sorts of materials to create amazing things. Here are some of the main types:
Working with Fabric or Leather
- Bagh prints
- Banner-making
- Calligraphy
- Canvas work
- Cross-stitch
- Crochet
- Darning
- Embroidery
- Felting
- Knitting
- Lace-making
- Embossing leather (making raised designs)
- Lucet
- Macrame
- Millinery (making hats)
- Needlepoint
- Needlework
- Patchwork
- Quilting
- Ribbon embroidery
- Rug making
- Saddlemaking
- Sewing
- Shoe making (cordwaining)
- Silkscreening
- Spinning (textiles)
- String art
- Tapestry
- Tatting
- T-shirt art
- Weaving
Working with Wood, Metal, Clay, Glass, or Stone
- Bead work
- Bone carving (like buffalo or camel bone)
- Brass broidered coconut shell craft of Kerala
- Buffalo Horn Plates
- Carpentry (working with wood)
- Ceramic art (making things from clay)
- Chip carving
- Copper arts
- Dollhouse construction and furnishing
- Doll making
- Enameling and Grisaille (decorating metal with glass)
- Fretwork
- Glass etching (carving designs into glass)
- Glassblowing
- Jewelry design
- Lapidary (cutting and polishing stones)
- Lath art
- Marquetry (inlaying wood or other materials)
- Metalwork
- Mosaics (making pictures from small pieces)
- Pottery
- Puppet making
- Repoussé and chasing (shaping metal from the back)
- Scale modeling
- Sculpture
- Stained glass
- Toy making
- Wood burning (pyrography)
- Wood carving
- Wood turning
- Woodworking
Working with Paper or Canvas
- Altered books
- Artist trading cards
- Assemblage (3D collage)
- Bookbinding
- Cardmaking
- Collage
- Décollage
- Decoupage
- Embossing paper (making raised designs)
- Iris folding
- Origami or paper folding
- Paper craft
- Paper making
- Paper marbling
- Paper modeling, paper craft or card modeling
- Papier-mâché
- Parchment craft
- Pop-up books
- Quilling or paper filigree
- Rubber/acrylic stamping
- Scrapbooking
Working with Plants (not wood)
- Basket weaving
- Corn dolly making
- Floral design
- Pressed flower craft
- Straw marquetry
Other Cool Handicrafts
- Balloon animals
- Cake decorating
- Egg decorating
Images for kids
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A crafts class in 1935, part of the Works Progress Administration in the USA.
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Children and their guardians doing "arts and crafts" at the Buell Children's Museum in Pueblo, Colorado.
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Drawing and coloring Bat-Trang-Ceramic.
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Handcrafted shoes made from bamboo by artists in West Bengal, India.
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A handmade sofa set made from bamboo fibers by artists in West Bengal, India.
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Making conical hats (nón lá) in the countryside of Huế, Vietnam.
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Typical Filipino handmade brooms in Banaue.
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A women's dress.
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Handmade dolls wearing 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
