Arts and crafts
Crafting is a hobby activity, which consists of the playful part in various craft disciplines. As a didactic concept of early education is tinkering in the German speaking part of the plant and textile education course.
Background
Tinker is a valuable means of education, as can learn technical skills in the game and the game engine is designed to promote. Crafts differs from the craft in that in itself the purpose of the activity (mostly to have fun ) the activity of creating satisfied, not the later possession of the manufactured article. For child development tinkering has a high value because the tactile sensing the environment and even manual skills are important, sub developments in later stages of life can be difficult but compensated. Some museums offer in the field of museum education partly also craft afternoons for families.
However, it is also an umbrella term for creative hobbies that are operated experimentally. Often hobbyists direct a separate room, for example, in the basement as a workshop or a hobby room, in order to pursue this activity undisturbed can, without fear of losing valuable furnishings to have.
Materials
The materials can be completely different: beads, fabric, polystyrene, clay pots, flute cleaners, paper, faux fur, leather straps, plaster, acrylic, glass, wood, metal, paper, cardboard, or stone; but there are also many hobbyists who objects from bottle caps, beer caps or matches and produce even more. The raw materials for handicrafts are often found at the hardware store or in special craft stores. Also, some mail order companies that specialize in the sale of craft materials.
Crafts for and with children ( n )
Children are always looking for new things; who responds to the needs of the children, is able to promote his pupils. By tinkering with children you can reach a lot more than you think is possible: confidence in their own creativity, exploring the possibilities of one's own ability, development of diverse forms of expression, language ability and mathematical ability. These aspects can promote with simple craft ideas. It can be used with a wide variety of materials. You can make different things with a variety of things. Tinkering with lost and found items, such as food, recycled material, sand, stones, bark. As a natural art, or " Land Art " tinkering with natural materials is referred to in the outer space. It is advisable that you let the creativity run wild with the seasons. At the beginning of spring decorate funny clowns, cheerful and brisk bees beetles table and spring bouquet. In summer you can summer caps, handicraft garlands for parties, windmills etc.. In the fall, many natural materials such as chestnut offer to it to tinker hedgehogs and squirrels. In winter, stars and Christmas balls to decorate the Christmas tree. Many craft ideas are easy to imitate and amazingly easy.
Overview creative crafts
Formerly belonged needlework (knitting, crochet, sewing) and work work ( carving, match and bottle caps work ) to the gender- dependent powered craft work, so today's DIY is always less related to a specific gender. In more recent times for crafting includes special techniques such as decoupage, Window Color, Tontopffiguren, scoubidou, greeting cards, friendship bracelets, beaded animals.
For the decoupage items with the top layer napkins (the pressure layer) decorated and connected with clear coat to the subfloor. Window Color denotes classical Windowcolour that are sold in small plastic bottles - first an edge line is set, then filled with a fill color of the subject. With the new Windowcolour removable, reusable windows images can be created. Tontopffiguren are made of fired clay pots, which are otherwise in the gardening use. Also a combination of tinkering with an artistic touch can be found in mobiles. This is also true for the creative design of dream catchers. With the Japanese paper folding origami complicated objects from a piece of paper can be designed. Less free one is the cardboard model (or model sheets ), where one can reconstruct only predetermined models.
Scoubidous are made of plastic straps key chain; They are manufactured using a special weaving technique. Friendship Bracelets are woven from sewing thread and given to friends - with a little skill can be names and forms weave. Pearls animals are made of beads and wire or plastic thread - created by threading the beads in precise order as 3D objects like a raven, a turtle or Santas. Even the crafts with natural materials is possible. When chestnut men tinkering eg raw materials ( seeds of the horse chestnut tree ) can be used from nature and everyday objects combined (cords, matches, etc.). Besides manufacturing vessels of clay (pottery ) materials such as FIMO offer new opportunities. The manufacture of fantasy and animal figures falls easily through the pre-colored materials, a kiln is no longer necessary.
Craft techniques
Depending on the age of the divisions were always popular, - but especially for boys - reflecting the current high-tech trends in the game. This began with metal construction sets and Anchor Stone Blocks and model steam engines, later went on to components made of plastic ( eg Lego or fischertechnik ) and model railways. Today we are following the technological developments in electronics tinkering and tinkering around the computer - for example, Case Modding and Car tuning - arrived; but also software development (programming) can be counted in the broadest sense. One group of hobbyists called Maker. Model today plays a smaller role than in the past. Particularly good deals in commercially sold kits always let the creativity broad freedoms and restricted the user does not focus too much on the replica of a certain object a.
Crafts in different countries
United States
Unlike in the German-speaking countries where 'tinkering' often - although educationally valuable but involve little prestige - is classified children's employment, Arts and Crafts applies in the United States as a serious hobby with high art of handicraft, which is extremely popular with women. Department store chains that specialize in relevant technical requirements (such as Michaels, AC Moore, Hobby Lobby, Ben Franklin Stores and Jo -Ann Fabrics) are similarly distributed in the U.S. such as gardening and hardware stores or specialty stores for kitchen needs.