SOME CRAFTS FOR TEENS

BEING CREATIVE

        Crafts are very effective in increasing the creativity. As for teens, there are lots of crafts that can keep them engaged as well as make their mind think of new ideas. There are numerous websites that offer simple craft tips, there are also books that guide in crafts. The interest in craft depends upon one’s nature as well as age. Some teens might love to indulge in paper crafts, while some might love pottery or carpentry. It also depends upon the gender. Females might love making their own lip glosses or hair, hand bands etc.

          Teen aged boys can be trained or encouraged to produce crafts related to hunting, sports or personal accessories. Guiding to make a bow and arrow, or wallet designs, shoes painting, etc could be fun for them. On the other hand for the girls designing wallets, hair bands, wrist bands, knitting clothes, sewing etc can be great fun. Designing clothes could be another great factor. These days computers, laptops and digital cameras are famous among the youths. One can use them in various productive ways. Taking photographs of stars, scenery, animals etc can be very productive. It would not only be limited to craft but it also imparts great knowledge to them.

WONDERS OF CRAFT

          Making posters, wallpapers through graphic designing or painting is also a very nice way.  These days face painting and T-shirt painting too has been popular.  Following craft work not only keeps them engaged but also diverts their attention from the other temptations of youth age such as smoking, drinking or parting over night. These crafts prevent their mind from being empty and as we know “Empty mind is Devil’s workshop”.

          

METAL WORK

METAL MODEL

As the name suggests, metal working is the art of working with the metals. The metals are cut, shaped and built into different functional as well as aesthetic materials. It can include making of fine jewelry to large ships and bridges. Metalworking is a science, art, hobby, industry as well as trade. Metalworking has evolved from the discovery of smelting various ores, producing malleable and ductile metal useful for tools and adornments. As of today, there are various skills, tools and machines involved in metal works.

WEILDING

The advance that brought metal into focus was the connection of fire and metals. Eygptians are considered to be the first ones to work with gold. The ancients knew only seven metals: Iron, Tin, Lead, copper, mercury, gold and silver. More individuals than ever before are learning metalworking as a creative outlet in the forms of jewelry making,hobby restoration of aircraft and cars, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, tinkering, and in other art and craft pursuits. Metal working is generally divided into the few categories like cutting, forming and joining. But with each step we have different processes such as in forming we have casting, plastic deforming, sheet forming and so on. The cutting step involves threading, turning, grinding, filing and machining. We can join these metals by wielding, brazing, soldering or riveting.

METAL FABRICATION

Fabrication is an industrial term referring to building metal structures by cutting, bending, and assembling. Many of the metal works are done by manual labor and few are done mechanically. These metal works are used in constructing gates, bars, windows, kennel, bridge, chairs, beds ans much more. Finally we can conclude that it has wide scope in our daily life from the plate we eat to the house we stay are all contribution of metal works.