ACTIVITY 1.1
Do I know what a handicraft is?
answer: handicraft is a manual skills requiring skills by hands of individual. It is a creative art made a creative thinking of a person.
Do I own a handcrafted item? What handicraft/s do we have in our house?
answer: Yes I own a handcrafted items in my house. Preferably recycle plastic bottles, "nigo"/ weavers, shells designing, woodworking items like table lamp, knitting yarns to make desired design, embroidery- this is what my mother used to do at home and many more.
Do I like to use handicraft items? What are my reasons for using handicrafts?
answer: I like to use handicraft items because it is credibly interesting for me. Why? It is because I love to do recycling materials for the environment since from the day I was born, I already became a lover's nature as what my mother said. Also, in relating to it, I like to do designing in any kind of materials. Let us say, in the future, I wanted to become a good and effective designer. One of the reason why I like to used handicrafts is because it is so interesting, pleasing to see and can be develop the ways of creative thinking skills.
Do I have parents or relatives who have the skills in doing handicrafts? What can I learn from them?
answer: My mother also is a good designer. I guess I inherited my skills from her but I do not think skills of every individual can be inherited. I do not know but maybe. My mother is my inspiration for taking responsibility and developing of my own capability. The way I look at her while doing some knitting or designing or painting or anyone else, I felt like I am imagining myself to her. Speaks like I can do better what she can capable of and I can be my mom like the way she used to do while designing.
What handicrafts can I do?
answer: I can do handicrafts like knitting, handmade paper making, recycling plastic bottles or wines, stitching and shell designing.
What are my skills and talents that may help me in doing handicrafts?
answer: As for me, I guess skills like creative thinking, diligent, patience, being artistic and having talent in drawing might help in doing handicrafts.
Do I have the passion to learn skills in handicraft?
answer: Yes I do since skills in using my hands is my passion. Learning skills more and better is a good opportunity for me to take the reliability in coping with and reach my higher goals in developing my skills.
Do I envision myself being an expert in one handicraft technique? Or entrepreneur for handicraft products?
answer: I guess I can do it and I hope so. Taking a good chance for advancement or progress in enhancing and improving the learning skills in handicrafts is a better way to improve lifestyle in a field of business. As for that, I want to make an effective handicrafts business in the future.
ACTIVITY 1.2
How do handicrafts promote the way of life or culture of a place?
answer: Handicrafts promote a way of life or culture of a place by the products of a certain places they have. Like for instance, recycling plastic materials like plastic bottles and wines, and woods and so on. In this way, they can promote it by having entrepreneurial business and selling it to the good markets or of to anyone.
In what ways do entrepreneurship or the entrepreneurs help preserve culture and traditions?
answer: helping to preserve cultures and traditions of an entrepreneur or to the entrepreneurship through taking good care of the materials they have in a particular places and making it a good products of handicrafts and selling it in a lower prize so that it will be sold out quickly and can earn more money.
In what ways do handicraft industries help the entrepreneurs, artisans and the country as a whole?
answer: maintaining a good quality of materials is an effective way of that the handicraft industries might help the entrepreneurs, artisans and the country as a whole so that the customers are willing to buy your products.
Are there handicrafts that are not suited for boys? Or for girls? What are the reasons and instances behind this perception? Is this kind of thinking productive?
answer: I guess it only depends of the capability of every individual. As you can see, we are all unique when it comes to creative thinking in designing products or materials. Any girls can do boy's stuffs same as the boys can do girl's stuff. But unfortunately, some people did not have given this kind of skills or talents.
