The study was carried out on development of instructional manual for teaching crafts in N.C.E Home Economics Programme in North-West Nigeria. The study was conducted to findout the extent to whichcrafts areas are been taught to students and to improvise an instructional manual to help with areas of crafts making that is of difficulty to the students. Four objectives were stated with four correspondent research questions and null hypotheses. All N.C.E three students and lectures in the Colleges of Education was used for the study with a population of 256 in the eight colleges of education offering Home Economics in North West Nigeria. Research and Development (R and D) design was used for the study. Three major instruments were used for the study namely: Structured questionnaire designed by the researcher, Development of an instructional manual for teaching crafts, and a rating scale for assessing the developed manual.Data collected were statistically analyzed using frequencies and percentages to answer research question one and two while mean and standard deviation was used in answering research questions three and four,Independent sample t-test was used to answer null hypotheses one to three while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used in answering research hypotheses four. The findings revealed that all the 11 textile design crafts outlined in the curriculum were all taught to the students, however, findings also revealed that 7 items out of 11 require improvement therefore should be included in the contents of the developed instructional manual for teaching crafts. The findings also revealed that most of the human and non-human resources needed for effective implementation of craftswas proven to be lacking.It was recommended that teachers should throw away their past poor or outdated practices by constructing and reconstructing their practices continually until it results in the kind of best teaching that will enable all their student meet today?s high expectation of skills.