arts and crafts
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2.1
- noun
- /ɑrts ənd kræfts/
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manualidades
- This weekend, we are hosting an arts and crafts workshop to teach children how to create their own decorations.
- arts and crafts shops
- fine arts and crafts
- Indian arts and crafts
And so, you know, soccer and, and running and arts and crafts and drama and like all the things.
- And so, you know, soccer and, and running and arts and crafts and drama and like all the things.
- This was, these were big sort of touristy markets and they were selling arts and crafts.
- I don't know a silly goofy dance or childish jokes or cheesy movies or doing arts and crafts or whimsical hobbies.
- The The Traumatic Life event involved in my school arts and crafts lesson.
Examples
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Items from local artists and the arts and crafts of southwestern Indian tribes are available.
Academic text (1996) -
Kargopol's main treasure is its magnificent churches, along with a wealth of varied arts and crafts.
Academic text (2001) -
I am not very good at arts and crafts.
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It's an arts and crafts project.
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When I was at camp, my favorite activity was always arts and crafts.
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Now we go to our local arts and crafts store to get some supplies.
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The building had been restored and now houses arts and crafts shops.
Academic text (1994) -
Finally, creativity centers have as their focus arts and crafts, music, creative writing, and poetry.
Academic text (1995) -
Patients fill a cavernous day room engaged in arts and crafts.
Fiction book (1996) -
The elders wanted the youths to learn how to make the traditional arts and crafts.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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3.7
Skilled work done by hand, often as a job
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3.5
An object made by hand or the skill of making things by hand
How Handmade
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward coordination of 'arts' and 'crafts' joined by 'and', so its meaning — activities involving artistic and handmade skilled work — is directly recoverable from the constituent words. This composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of combining two related activity nouns, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand it.
Etymology
Arts and crafts shows a simple picture: arts means creative work and crafts means skilled making with the hands. A long time ago, people who wanted things made 'by hand' instead of by machines used the phrase for decorative handmade objects, so today it means activities where people make things by hand.