List of Arts and Crafts With Pictures
Here are some creative arts and crafts activities that people do for hobbies or sometimes a part-time income.
They involve making things for yourself or others to enjoy and are a positive and relaxing way to make good use of precious free time.
These crafting processes require ingredients for manufacture plus your own effort. At the finish you will have created an item that can be enjoyed, gifted or perhaps even sold. Many successful and large businesses start from a single person with an idea and some time - working away in a shed or spare room.
Enjoy crafting as a relaxing hobby or maybe the start of a work from home dream. For anyone who works in what can seem a pointless office job - creating something real with your hands and ingenuity is an excellent change.
They involve making things for yourself or others to enjoy and are a positive and relaxing way to make good use of precious free time.
These crafting processes require ingredients for manufacture plus your own effort. At the finish you will have created an item that can be enjoyed, gifted or perhaps even sold. Many successful and large businesses start from a single person with an idea and some time - working away in a shed or spare room.
Enjoy crafting as a relaxing hobby or maybe the start of a work from home dream. For anyone who works in what can seem a pointless office job - creating something real with your hands and ingenuity is an excellent change.
Basket Weaving
Basket weaving or basketry is often performed in recreational and recovery centres.
It is cheap, safe, easy, engaging and often therapeutic. Those same qualities make it an ideal relaxation hobby.
Soak the reeds or willows and use them to weave baskets for beginners.
There are many other designs you can create but weaving baskets is a good starting point for most people.
Many arts and crafts hobbies provide a connection with our past. Creating and crafting using traditional materials and techniques.
It is cheap, safe, easy, engaging and often therapeutic. Those same qualities make it an ideal relaxation hobby.
Soak the reeds or willows and use them to weave baskets for beginners.
There are many other designs you can create but weaving baskets is a good starting point for most people.
Many arts and crafts hobbies provide a connection with our past. Creating and crafting using traditional materials and techniques.
Candle Making
Candle making is a straightforward hobby to get into. Melt and mix wax using different colours and scents and pour into a variety of moulds.
Starting with spare jam jars or old glasses is a cost-effective way to practice and learn.
Always remember to put the wick in. Although candles are often purely decorative they still retain an important function in the event of power cuts.
This ancient practice is now a popular hobby with classes for beginners. There is a huge variety of liquids, scents and moulds to purchase and it is a relaxing and creative process.
When the candles are made they can be kept, gifted or sold.
Starting with spare jam jars or old glasses is a cost-effective way to practice and learn.
Always remember to put the wick in. Although candles are often purely decorative they still retain an important function in the event of power cuts.
This ancient practice is now a popular hobby with classes for beginners. There is a huge variety of liquids, scents and moulds to purchase and it is a relaxing and creative process.
When the candles are made they can be kept, gifted or sold.
Craftivism
Craftivism means crafting items that make a statement or protest about issues.
A scarf or quilt with a political statement or badges against pollution for example.
The beauty of craftivism is expanding on your craft skills to contribute towards humanity in some way. The items can be sold to generate funds, build awareness or simply to feel part of something.
A scarf or quilt with a political statement or badges against pollution for example.
The beauty of craftivism is expanding on your craft skills to contribute towards humanity in some way. The items can be sold to generate funds, build awareness or simply to feel part of something.
Felting
Making things out of felt. You don't seem to need many tools or great expenditure to start with. Just a simple absorbing hobby making felt creations.
Glassblowing
Very hot glass bends and bubbles and can be worked and shaped. This makes a fun activity where the heat forges the glass into wonderful creations.
Horology
Horology is the study and repair of watches and clocks.
It is a fascinating, absorbing and satisfying hobby which can also be a profession.
Timepieces are wonders of tiny engineering. With many small moving parts they will eventually require some maintenance to prolong their lives.
That is where the horologist comes in.
It is a fascinating, absorbing and satisfying hobby which can also be a profession.
Timepieces are wonders of tiny engineering. With many small moving parts they will eventually require some maintenance to prolong their lives.
That is where the horologist comes in.
Jewellery Making
Welding very small pieces of metal, glass and other precious things into pleasing aesthetic designs.
Enjoy as a hobby or to create pieces for sale as a typically small artisan style jewellery business.
Enjoy as a hobby or to create pieces for sale as a typically small artisan style jewellery business.
Knitting
There is a version of knitting called extreme knitting or maybe ironing - where people travel to extraordinary places to perform the task.
This section refers to normal knitting - a comfortable chair, pair of knitting needles, some yarn and a pattern.
Knitting is like a secret club and once you learn the ways you will be hooked.
But not crochet-hooked. That's something slightly different.
This section refers to normal knitting - a comfortable chair, pair of knitting needles, some yarn and a pattern.
Knitting is like a secret club and once you learn the ways you will be hooked.
But not crochet-hooked. That's something slightly different.
Needlecraft
Sewing, stitching, needlework. A needle and thread or a fancy sewing machine.
This craft can be a chore when it is sewing on buttons or an enjoyable creative pursuit.
Many hours of sewing can be used to create pieces of craft art.
Think of tapestries!
This craft can be a chore when it is sewing on buttons or an enjoyable creative pursuit.
Many hours of sewing can be used to create pieces of craft art.
Think of tapestries!
Pottery
Place some clay on a potter's wheel and shape into a vase or jar. Satisfying and relaxing hobby that fulfils the object of taking you away from the worries of the world.
It is all about the tactile nature of moulding wet clay with bare hands. After drying in the kiln - paint can be added to your ceramic art to keep, sell or gift.
A few pottery puns and sayings.
Seize the clay
Glazed and confused
Potter warning - I throw things
Totally kiln it
It is all about the tactile nature of moulding wet clay with bare hands. After drying in the kiln - paint can be added to your ceramic art to keep, sell or gift.
A few pottery puns and sayings.
Seize the clay
Glazed and confused
Potter warning - I throw things
Totally kiln it
Quilting
Quilters spend time stitching together patches of fabric to make a large piece - perhaps a tablecloth or bedspread.
It is a slow-paced creative art form enjoyed by many people.
It is a slow-paced creative art form enjoyed by many people.
Rock Balancing
Rock balancing may not be a traditional arts and crafts activity but it seems an artistic pursuit. The idea is to balance or stack rocks on top of each other.
Take a hike into the countryside near a stream where there are plenty of stones and try to create a balanced piece.
Many stone stackers create the temporary artwork and photograph it. They replace the stones in their original positions, the point being to leave the countryside in its original state.
A rock balancer leaves no stone unturned. Something like that.
Take a hike into the countryside near a stream where there are plenty of stones and try to create a balanced piece.
Many stone stackers create the temporary artwork and photograph it. They replace the stones in their original positions, the point being to leave the countryside in its original state.
A rock balancer leaves no stone unturned. Something like that.
Scrapbooking
Collecting precious memories of family, experiences, life history into a scrapbook.
Old photographs, menus, postcards, wild flowers - a varied collection of items to form a treasured family possession to be handed down.
Requirements are time, a scrapbook and glue.
This hobby is being taken over by the internet where online scrapbooks with audio and video can be created and shared.
Like pretty much everything else in life the internet promises a better way and destroys the old. Keep scrapbooking real!
Old photographs, menus, postcards, wild flowers - a varied collection of items to form a treasured family possession to be handed down.
Requirements are time, a scrapbook and glue.
This hobby is being taken over by the internet where online scrapbooks with audio and video can be created and shared.
Like pretty much everything else in life the internet promises a better way and destroys the old. Keep scrapbooking real!
Sewing
Sewing is a hobby or occupation. Making clothes, designing and repairing - a traditional activity that has green credentials.
Don't throw away old clothes - fix them instead!
Don't throw away old clothes - fix them instead!
Soap Making
Making soap is another pursuit where the end product can be sold at craft fairs, given to friends as presents, or simply used at home.
Ingredients, time and a little skill are required for a satisfying and creative pastime.
Here's a soap making joke.
Sud off.
Ingredients, time and a little skill are required for a satisfying and creative pastime.
Here's a soap making joke.
Sud off.