Craft making is the process of creating handmade decorative and/ or useful things using the appropriate tools. Anything can be used as a material: recyclable items, natural materials, things we can find at home but also specialized materials such as silicon glue, clay, wood, fabric etc. A handmade item is unique and holds a special meaning as it has been carefully created by its maker who has invested his/ her mind and soul into making it. It has got sentimental value.
Art-making has been proven to significantly reduce the physical and psychological discomfort that patients with chronic illnesses feel from long term therapy. The feeling of creativity, control and prospective is cultivated through art. “Happy state is a creative state” as Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst, has noted.
