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DIY facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

DIY or Do it yourself is a method of home improvement, where the home owner gets materials and tools for themself, then does the work on their own, without professional help.

DIY can also mean using any skill to do work or a hobby for fun and not hire help. An example is an activity in arts and crafts. A DIY culture is also used in the alternative rock, punk rock, and indie rock music scenes; and in the zine community.

Images for kids

  • Arthur Rothstein, Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942

    Boy building a model airplane, Texas, 1942 (photograph by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration)

  • Movable shelves built on discarded toy vehicle

    Shelves attached to a toy vehicle

  • California-dome-house

    Fiberglass dome house, California, in style of the Whole Earth Catalog building techniques

  • Electronics World Sep 1959

    Electronics World 1959, home assembled amplifier

  • Mennonite Women Dressmaking Pennsylvania 1942

    Mennonite woman dressmaking (1942)

  • Vehicle at Maker Faire, San Mateo, 2016

    DIY vehicle at Maker Faire, San Mateo, 2016

  • Zines-fromlondonsymp07

    Zines, London

  • NYCR Barbot

    Drink mixing robot

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Hágalo usted mismo para niños

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