Difference between Do the dishes and Make the dishes

do the dishes—

1. (U.S.) wash the plates, etc. after a meal:

• Why am I always the one who has to do the dishes?

2. cook meals:

• They also wanted to know how to do these dishes themselves. That’s what started her small cooking studio.

make the dishes—do the dishes 2:

• The women teach their students how to make the dishes they have been eating for generations.