Definition of arts and crafts Arts and crafts
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What does arts and crafts mean?
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| arts and crafts - the arts of decorative design and handicraft; "they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass production" | ||
| artistic creation, artistic production, art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" | ||
| plural, plural form the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | ||
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Wiktionary 
- arts and crafts (Noun)
All the handicrafts based upon making decorative and useful things manually.
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Arts and crafts is a term which is used to describe 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.
Both children and adults enjoy arts and crafts. Children is schools may learn skills such as woodwork, carving, sewing, or making things with all sorts of other things. 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.
