creative activities
It is a question of creative activity when one seeks to manually achieve something with what one has by calling on one’s imagination and to his creativity. In these activities, the notion of pleasure is important.
This trend is found in many areas such as decoration, sewing or knitting, beauty, gardening, crafts of all kinds, etc. It even happens that we do creative activities without really thinking about it. report, for example:
- as part of’manual activities with our children;
- when doing coloring to relax ;
- when we customize a bag, a piece of furniture, etc. to appropriate it;
- when we imagine a recipe from the ingredients that we have at home, etc..
If you take the time to think about everything you do, you’ll find that you engage in a lot of DIY activities. Over time and since the various confinements, DIY has evolved towards Upcycling, or recycling from above, which consists of transforming or restoring objects to give them a new lifeand towards Do It Greenor “do it the eco-friendly way”, which consists of making your own beauty or household products.
Faced with this enthusiasm, events, such as fairs, are organized around this practice, more and more content is available on the Internet to make it easy to get started and shops, some of which are online, such as Creaveaallow to easily find and buy everything you need to the realization of your ideas.
Why are creative activities attracting more and more French people?
More and more French people have started doing Do It Yourself and this subject represents 40% of the blogosphere in France. We can then wonder what are the reasons for this enthusiasm. Here are a few.
To fight against boredom during confinement
The various confinements linked to the health crisis were marked by a boom in creative activities with the French. Yes, in order to occupy our days during this period and not fall into boredom, we had to be creative.
And it must be said that there is no shortage of creative ideas and there is something for almost everyone. Knitting, DIY, embroidery, jewelry making, etc. have then become activities in which to engage. Since then, this enthusiasm has not been denied, because many French people have taken a liking to these activities and continue to indulge in them.
Against the consumer society
With do it yourself, we are not inventing anything, because it was a common practice among our ancestors who did a lot of things by themselves, by force of circumstance. It was in the 1960s, with the proliferation of ready-made products, that these practices gradually disappeared.
Nevertheless, since the 2000s, since the awareness of its harmful consequences, this lifestyle based on excessive consumption is no longer unanimous and we are witnessing a return to the habits of the old. Indeed, the mode of consumption, but also of current production is called into question.
The standardized products are no longer popular and their mode of manufacture considered as suspect pushes to be detached from it. Moreover, we can only see that the products, the furniture are less resistant than those of our ancestors, so, in reaction, we tend more and more to adopt the DIY to consume in a way environmentally friendly. It is also an opportunity to reclaim one or more skills that were gradually forgotten.
For the spirits
Homemade is so popular, because it is good for morale. In fact, it allows you to mobilize your skills for your well-being, not to mention the pride you can feel about the result. Here is how it is an actor of your well-being:
- creative activities allow you toexpress your emotions in any other way than by words;
- they are also a good way torelease your stress ;
- the time of a creative activity, you can leave aside all the hassles of everyday life and refocusa bit like practicing meditation;
- they are also a good way to gain confidence in yourself and your abilities. Who has never felt joy and pride when pronouncing the famous phrase: “I did it! “.
For the sharing aspect
On the Web, a large community gathers around DIY, but you can also meet other people with whom share these manual activities in workshops, clubs or courses.
DIY can thus make it possible to create a link with other people who devote themselves to the same activities as you.
It is also an opportunity toexchange knowledge, tips, etc. For a friendly moment, you can also engage in creative activities with your children. Not only will you help him develop his imagination, his fine motor skills, etc., but it will also be an opportunity to share around a common activity that everyone can bring to the other.
For the economic aspect
L’economic benefit is not always an obvious criterion. Indeed, depending on the manual activity to which you like to devote yourself, it can have a fairly significant cost. However, in the event that the DIY allows you togive an object a second life or get an item of clothing that you should have bought, then it can be a solution to save money.