With Debbie's techniques - like creating a beautiful butterfly without glue or using leftover paper scraps for flowers - you really can do crafts without making a huge mess. The projects in each chapter create their own wonderful worlds for children to play in. Whether they want to create a world under the sea, a magical garden, or a monster puppet show, Debbie provides step-by-step photos to make these projects extra kid-friendly. Projects include Shimmery Jewel Dragon Flies, Paper Roll Octopus, Rubber Glove Dragon and Plastic Bottle Alien. Besides being low-mess, all of these 70 projects can be made with supplies you already have at home - clothespins, paper towel rolls, construction paper, pipe cleaners and tissue paper - making craft time easier than ever. Debbie Chapman is the founder of One Little Project, a blog that focuses on cooking, baking and crafting. She has over 270K followers on Facebook and over 178K on Pinterest.

This book looks at how people lived and worked through the ages. It is a visual guide to beliefs, trade, culture, entertainment, food and farming in the world's great civilizations. It offers fascinating facts about the lifestyles and skills of ancient societies, and how they developed through time. Step-by-step projects describe how to make necklaces, clothes, food and models inspired by the past. You can play an Indian board game, cook Celtic oatcakes and wear a Japanese theatrical mask. You can learn about food, materials, and early inventions such as the wheel - and discover what a Mesopotamian schoolboy packed in his lunchbox! More than 1500 photographs and illustrations show what life for these peoples was really like. This lively thematic history investigates many aspects of the world's civilizations and cultures. You can follow the development of art, leisure, beliefs and festivals, home life, work and trade through history and around the globe, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, to China and India and the Americas.

This title features 50 fabulous papercraft projects to make yourself. You can create your own stationery, decorations, toys, games, masks, disguises and accessories. You can make a simple bookmark or fancy wrapped parcels, fashion a pair of funny monster feet or a cardboard crocodile, pretend to be a cowboy, produce your own jigsaw puzzle or play a magnetic fishing game. Easy techniques include paper folding, rolling, painting, printing, stamping, papier-mache, stencils, decoupage, and much more. It offers ideas for all children aged 7-12 to make themselves or with grown-up guidance. Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs throughout the book make each project straightforward to follow, with over 400 images in total. All you need is some paper or cardboard, a little bit of patience and your imagination! We use paper every single day. Newspapers tell us what is happening in the world, cardboard protects the things we buy, paper wraps our parcels and fills our books, and decorative wallpaper covers our homes. Paper is all around us, and life would be very difficult without it. But paper can be used in other ways too, and this book shows you how to create all kinds of fun objects to use for decoration or to give as gifts to your friends. Produce a decoupage picture frame or rubber-stamped stationery. Make papier-mache Christmas ornaments or your own playing cards for a lively game of snap. All the projects in the book use paper in its many forms, and each one shows you what materials to use and how it's done. Some of the projects can be made all by yourself, others may need an adult's help - but you're sure to want to try them all!

Make adorable mini plushies with Sew Your Own Ice Cream Animals by Klutz! The follow-up to the cute and popular Sew Your Own Donut Animals and Sew Squishy Cubes. In this adorable kit, kids can sew four ice cream animal treats with an extra topping of personality! Each scoop is its own animal so you can swap them around and put them in a sundae or on a cone. Included in the kit: a booklet for guidance and inspiration pre-cut felt pieces embroidery threads in different colours and a needle stuffing four pom-poms paper sundae dish paper ice cream cone. What is Klutz? Klutz is a premium brand of book-based activity kits, designed to inspire creativity in every child. Our unique combination of crystal-clear instructions, custom tools and materials and hearty helpings of humour is 100% guaranteed to kick-start creativity. Super-clear instructions Open-ended Creativity Rewarding Reading Skills to Build On Everything You Need

A treasure trove of fun for every horse-loving girl! Horse Play! is packed with great activities and projects, from crafting a mini barn and pasture to designing your dream horse, sewing a pony pillow, making a shelf for model horses, and colouring a pull-out poster. Quizzes, checklists, and fill-in-the-blanks invite you to test your knowledge of horses, breeds, riding, and horse care. And this kit-in-a-book also includes stickers, a stencil, pop-out cards, and complete plans for a Horsing-Around party with games, invitations, a horse pinata, party grub, and must-watch horse movies.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the history and symbolism of flowers for every plant lover. Sunflowers are symbols of friendship. Gardenias represent secrets and mystery. Irises say, I trust you. Flowers bring color and beauty to the everyday world around us, but flowers aren't just pretty: Throughout history, they have been used to express ideas about ourselves and the people we care about. From asters to zinnias, from baby's breath to forget-me-nots, learn the magical, meaningful language of flowers with this magnificent guide to floriography. The secrets of every bloom and blossom are revealed ... and with personalized quizzes and handy charts, you'll discover your own flower power!

This title features 25 fantastic ideas for crafty and crazy conjuring. You can learn how to tie impossible knots, produce coins out of nowhere, read your friend's mind, suspend a hanky in mid-air, and predict the future! It is ideal for ages 7 to 12, with simple tricks to begin with, and more sophisticated illusions for master magicians. 25 brilliant ideas and over 250 clear photographs show you what to do every step of the way. It includes details about useful materials and equipment, as well as tips on presentation and performance style. It offers everything you need to know to put on your very own magic show - including a grand goodbye finale. Just saying the word 'magic' makes you feel that something wonderful is going to happen...and it will! How do we know this? Because author Nick Huckleberry Beak is a magician, and he is going to show you how to do some of the best and funniest conjuring tricks around. It takes just three things to make a magic show: an audience, a pocketful of good tricks and YOU! A great magician does not need flashy wands, fluffy bunnies or expensive magic sets. What you need is enthusiasm and practice.Almost all of the tricks in this book can be done using bits and pieces that you will find in your own home - from runaway ribbons to mysterious money. We know that you are going to have heaps of fun entertaining your friends and family with these illusions. But be warned: once you start, your audience will keep on asking for more!

In fifteen easy projects, from bouncy bean bags to a rolled-edge sweater, author and knitting expert Melanie Falick teaches kids of all ages how to knit. Through step-by-step instructions and candy-colored illustrations, beginners learn the fundamentals: knitting tools, finger-knitting, and basic stitches such as knit, purl, mattress, overcast, embroidery, and stockinette.

"Kids Knitting" emphasizes fun in every step of the learning process. Sunny paintings by Kristin Nicholas illustrate the individual steps of each technique. Bright boxes of blues, greens, and reds explain everything from button-sewing to tassel-tying. Charming photographs by Chris Hartlove feature finished projects modeled by the creators themselves--all kids who knit.

Best of all, kids get to keep and use whatever they make: bookmarks, backpacks, bracelets, even their own set of customized knitting needles, topped with acorn caps or polka dot balls.

Turn sheets of paper into exciting 3D flowers, animals and accessories--no previous origami experience necessary! Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, is not just a great craft activity--it's an exciting way to expand your imagination. Children will have many hours of fun folding the easy origami projects in this book and learning about the surprising art of paper folding. This origami book for kids has been revised and reformatted; geared specifically to 8-12 year olds, it is an introduction to Japanese culture and crafts. With full-color photos, step-by-step instructions, and 8 sheets of origami paper, beginning folders can master the straightforward designs. The 19 origami projects include: Lotus Flower Japanese Fan Chopstick Wrapper Dollar-Bill Dragon Chinese Zodiac Traditional Crane Japanese Daruma Doll And many more... Learning how to fold two-dimensional paper squares into three-dimensional objects is not only fun, but helps develop hand-eye coordination and spatial skills by engaging a child's whole brain. Each paper model explores an important aspects of Asian culture--creating an appreciation and awareness of cultural differences in children.

Klutz creates award-winning, premium activity kits for kids. Sew your own pizza pouch, cookie keychain and cupcake plush! Little makers will start by practising on 2 cardstock projects with plastic needles specially designed and safe for small hands. Then using the pre-cut and pre-punched felt, kids can create 3 cute projects-a pizza pouch, a cookie keychain, and a cupcake plushy. It's the sweetest way to build fine motor skills and learn how to sew! Includes everything you'll need for 2 cardstock practice projects and 3 final projects Practice basic stitches with a donut and sandwich, then make a cupcake plushy, cookie Keychain, and pizza pocket All felt pieces are pre-cut and pre-punched to make stitching easy for little hands Includes an "idea book" With easy to follow instructions Promotes fine motor skills, dexterity, and practical knowledge of sewing WHAT YOU GET 59 pre-cut and pre-punched felt pieces Custom plastic needle safe for little hands 2 sets of sewing cards 2 colors of yarn 5 pink foam yarn stoppers Red pom-pom Key ring Stuffing WHAT IS KLUTZ JR? For 40 years, Klutz has been the authority on creating high-quality, innovative book and craft kits. Now we've turned our attention to our youngest learners to keep wonder, curiosity, and creativity alive while nurturing useful skills. Super-clear instructions Open-ended creativity Rewarding reading Skills to build on Everything you need Empower with quality content & components Stimulate by allowing kids to express themselves Inspire through lightly guided play

Complete step-by-step instructions teach the basics of how to sew, embroider, crochet, felt, knit and weave, including basic tools and techniques needed to get started. Each craft features three kid-tested projects, graded from total beginner to something a bit more sophisticated. Kids will learn how to sew bean bags (and what games to play with them), create a T-shirt dress, embroider their own "scout" badges, make toasty felted mittens and fingerless gloves, create a funky "monster" zippered change purse, knit a padded cover for their phone or table, crochet an elegant beaded bracelet or necklace, make and play with hacky sacks, and weave decorative patches on their jeans or jackets. Pop-out gift tags are provided to encourage sharing of their one- of-a-kind creations.

This sweet-tart prompted diary with a Smile charm is a must-have for the passionate fans who feel that Raina Telgemeier's multi-million selling graphic novels and memoirs speak directly to the challenges they face.

Raina Telgemeier's voice is so relatable for her audience of middle grade readers that they feel she is tapping into the joys, challanges and anxieties of their daily lives. This lightly prompted and illustrated journal is the perfect companion to her perennially bestselling books. It's a place for kids to safely record their innermost hopes and dreams, their secret fears and anxieties--all designed with Raina's art and dotted with her prompts so they will feel as though they are recording their thoughts for her.

Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design, build and create!

Get ready to build your very own fairground! From a carousel to the big wheels and roller coasters, step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you need to make every element a model fairground needs. Learn about principles of design and engineering as well as craft techniques to unleash your creativity!

Every project has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and craft equipment.

Why not check out the other books in the Maker Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that constitute them.

For children aged 9+, this photographic series will be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.