To HATE 'craft'?

[SlightlyJaded]

That's it really.

DD woke up poorly today. My kind friend took DS out for a couple of hours and lo and behold...

Me: what would you like to do this afternoon? Anything you like

Her: Craft

Me: (heart already sinking) OK what kind of craft? Shall we do the sewing dolly you got at Christmas?

Her: No. I want to do cutting and sticking

Me: Right...

Her: And glue and glitter

Me: Are you sure you're feeling well enough?

Me: Oh ok, so let's see what we need?

Her: I think we'll need everything

Me: ok what are we making?

Her: I don't know but anyway mummy, you're not making, you have to watch me. Because I am ill

cue 10 minutes of glue blobbage, glitter spillage, 4 million snippets of useless paper - all stuck to kitchen table

Me: so what are you making darling?

Her: I don't think i want to do craft anymore. Will you play a game with me?

watch in silence as cat pads through glitter glue blob and begins journey up stairs

WHY would someone have a craft room.

DD still has all her craft shite in boxes under her bed (she is a hoarder and won't get rid) so every time she goes under her bed looking for something, a whole load of glitter and sequins somehow gets out.

at sequins. Sequins and little feathers on gluey fingers.

mrsjay you are quite correct that adults should not peruse craft-based hobbies. It's is iffy and a bit wrong and yet a quick search eBay tells me that there are millions of grown women scrapbooking etc SCRAPBOOKING FOR ADULTS?? What the actual fuck is that about?

Actually, you know when people ask you what is the one bit of advice you would give to a new mother? I would say

Do not buy, and return unopened if bought, the following items:

Aqua beads
Hamma beads
Play doh
Glitter / glue / sparkly shit
Ice cream maker
Lip gloss / bath bomb / perfume making kit
And king of them all - Bastard Moon Sand

Yes craft is for other people ie nursery/childminder/school. Summer holiday on maternity leave was murder from a glitter and glue perspective - at eight and a half months pregnant I willingly played pirate football on the trampoline to avoid craft.

Stickers. I fucking hate stickers.

I hated craft even as a child. I remember being 5 or 6 at school and the teacher telling us all to stick pasta shapes on cardboard, cover it with tinfoil and create a "terrain" and I clearly remember thinking, "This is boring!". I never liked crafts at school and thankfully my parents and childminders never forced it on me.

My DH was the same.

Interestingly my DD (3.5) much prefers to play rather than paint or stick. I always offer to get paints and glitter glue out (thinking that I should) but she always says No.

I am so happy .

Adults who do scrapbooking and card making need more in their lives - what's so bloody creative about buying a load of glittery tat things someone else has designed and sticking them on top of each other?

Disclaimer: I do enjoying making stuff myself - sewing etc - and would love a craft room, but I draw the line at most of the contents of Hobbycraft anything where someone else has done half the work for you.

mrsjay - I see your friend's craft room and I'll raise it. I live in a craft town. A woolly, weave-y, glittery, felty, painty craft TOWN! Hence rapid name change, because not only am I admitting here that I HATE all craft with a passion, I'd also out myself fairly rapidly and be hounded out of said town with pointy sticks.

The dc know not to ask me. Luckily their father is pretty good with a Pritt, and they bring all manner of cardboard shit back from the grandparents.

Give me a good jigsaw any day.

My 3yo calls it arts and craps. I haven't corrected her :o

I remember having to make a puppet for school

Had to model a head out of plasticine. And then apply layer of papier mache...wait to dry... apply another, and repeat for weeks. And then cut the head in half and remove and then papier mache it together again. And then paint the bloody thing. And THEN make a costume for the bastarding thing.

I am not joking at all when I say that I would have rather spent Monday afternoons for a whole TERM doing sums. So, so boring and messy.

there is a whole adult craft community i just dont get it . crafthater friend who i really do like honestly lives in a crafty town with craft fayres and everything , I think its fine to stay ANON though because you may be run out of town with pitchforks

My aunt sends me a lovely xmas card each year.. that she has spent at least about 3 hours making.. which works out, even at minimum wage to be in the region of £20 per card... surely there is a reason why Hallmark and Clinton exist....

Exactly Wannabee!

Two types of crafting IMO, there is the totally acceptable knitting/crocheting/lace making/wood working type of crafting and then there is cutting and sticking type (which most people grow out of by the age of 5).

Yes jigsaws are bliss by comparison.

still feeling uncomfortable at the thought of Getorf's little feathers stuck to gluey fingers. That is EXACTLY what 'craft' comes down to*

And to living in Craft Town

I do think that knitting and woodwork etc is more of a skill than decoupage and crapbooks.

My gran used to knit - that looked hard.

This thread has highlighlighted one of the reasons I struggle to connect with my craftastic SIL, who also has a room full of the stuff, own sewing machine ( for personalised bunting and such, not stuff like curtains), handmade cards blah blah.

The smugness of it is another aspect, eg distributing hand-made-by-DC (yeah right) xmas offerings and getting stroppy when they go in the recycling in jan (oops)

Despite (or maybe because of) only rare forays, I have spent one afternoon too many in agony / in A&E with glitter in the eye. Ouch!

There are a few joys though, eg peeling PVA glue off fingers, the smell of playdough.

Where is crafttown?

Is it Stroud?

Whilst YANBU, I actually love doing craft with DS when we're both in the right mood - it's utter chaos, mess everywhere, but he enjoys it, and it saves me from fighting him all the way round the park because he wants to pick up all the dog turds or jump into a patch of nettles. What I like best about it is binning most of it, admittedly. But we get the odd gem, which is kept.

Also love baking with him, again, total chaos, but we get food out of it. Mostly edible! (not when he does baking at nursery, strangely, it is grim)

Not so keen on the idea of craft for adults, but I'd love to be more artistic and able to paint/do art of some kind. Everything I draw seems to look like a spider, sadly. Except spiders, which look more like sheep. sigh.

I think craft towns are dotted about in mostly rural areas and have a market on a wednesday

I hate crafts, but do have a craft box in the garage. It's not allowed to be accessed by the children on school days. Only weekends.

Agree with a lot of the above.
-Glitter is banned.
-Glitter glue is banned.
-Moon Sand. Bought it once. Never again
-Hama beads. Meh! I can put up with that but often burn or warp the much worked on figure . You don't press hard enough with the iron, it doesn't mould together. You press harder and it warps like buggery.

They can have crayons, paper, sellotape, every empty loo roll and cereal box, and water based paints ONCE THEY HAVE PUT THE TABLE PROTECTOR ON!

Also, trying to teach a left-handed daughter to crochet, knit or sew will end in tears. We've been reduced to making pom-poms.

After years of being a SAHM it was wonderful to send my children to after school club, where craft activities are put on for them No more glue and cutting in this house.

God no, it's the work of the devil. It has to be the very end of the holidays and we've exhausted all other activities, funds, friend invites before I get that sodding craft box out. Bloody hate it! And yes, that is what I pay for at nursery - isn't that why it's so expensive?!

My craft town is in Scotland. I actually love living here but I wanted attention .

There are some really talented people. Sadly, I am not amongst them.

I knit. I have a sewing machine. These are adult pursuits which produce useful and attractive objects. Did all to do with a four year old and done glitter.

Ds's teacher let them loose with a glue gun the other day ffs.

And that is why they go to Nursery ...

Lego - good
Jigsaws - good
"some" games - good
Craft - bad