Crafts

He teaches arts and crafts in a school.

I had the students make crafts with construction paper.

Children often use construction paper to make crafts.

Sami had some arts and crafts things to do.

She secured the edges of her crafts with her trusty adhesive tape.

Sellotape is a useful tool for every arts and crafts hobbyist.

Tom likes doing arts and crafts.

After school hours, my brother and I often stopped by my Auntie Mila's house at Kamias Street in Quezon City to play with my cousins. It was an ancient mansion that was once a foreign embassy. Workers supposedly moved it brick by brick from an outlying province into the city. Auntie Mila was a person attuned to Philippine native culture. She liked all these handmade wooden and shell native crafts. On the other hand, her husband, my Uncle Joe, was very pro-American and inculcated their kids in the English language early on because they intended on later emigrating to the USA. I thought to myself that it was unusual that these cousins spoke English at home as if they were actors on television. But they did speak Tagalog with us. Uncle Joe was from a province, Pangasinan, where Tagalog was a second language; there, people spoke the language Pangasinan amongst themselves. He spoke also the regional language, Ilocano.

To help rural women break out of the cycle of poverty, Empilisweni helps them find markets for the crafts and home furnishings they produce, as well as the crops and poultry they raise. Although the income may be small, the money comes in regularly and allows the women to plan for their families.

Here you can find food, crafts, tractors, and fun for the whole family.