What does handmade mean?
Word: Handmade
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Handmade means made by a person using their hands or simple tools.
Synonyms: handcrafted
Sounds like: handmaid (an old word for a woman servant)
How do you spell handmade?
Syllables: hand - made
Tricky part: The d at the end of hand is hard to hear before the m, so it often gets left out.
Watch out for: hanmade, hanmaid
Memory tip: Make a fist and look at your whole hand: all four of its letters, d included, stay when the second half joins on.
Handmade in a sentence
Example 1: Didi gave me a handmade card with a paper flower on it.
Example 2: Every stitch in this handmade quilt was sewn by my grandmother.
Example 3: Handmade toys from Channapatna are painted in bright colours.
Fun Fact
Khadi is handmade cloth, spun and woven by hand. Mahatma Gandhi wore it and asked Indians to choose it over factory cloth from Britain.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) handmeid
b) handmade
c) handmayd
d) handmad
Show answer
b) handmade. Made ends with a silent e here, just as it does when it stands alone.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
handmade
a) hand-sewn
b) homemade
c) hand-painted
d) machine-made
Show answer
d) machine-made. Handmade things are made by people; machine-made things come from a factory.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
medahnad
a) hnadmade
b) hadnmade
c) handmade
d) handmaed
Show answer
c) handmade. Start with h and find the body part you clap with; the letters left over spell a word that means built or put together.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) pottary
b) embroidry
c) weeving
d) handmade
Show answer
d) handmade. Pottery takes er before its y, so pottary is out; embroidry and weeving each lose a letter of the real word.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which item is usually handmade?
a) a plastic bucket from a shop
b) a steel spoon from a factory
c) a printed school textbook
d) a clay diya from a village potter
Show answer
d) a clay diya from a village potter
2. Why do handmade things often look a little different from each other?
a) they are all printed together at once
b) they are all pressed from one mould
c) each one is made separately by a person
d) a machine copies each one exactly
Show answer
c) each one is made separately by a person
