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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Practical interests & handicrafts > Handicrafts > General
Globetrotters get ready for this ultimate activity book all about
holidays. Navigate an Egyptian maze, design your own luggage labels
and make your own ice cream! Packed with stickers, pull-out
decorated holiday-themed pages, puzzles, colouring, games, and
projects to make and try at home, kids will be enthralled by this
fabulous activity book. Snip! Stick! Colour! Create!
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.
The companion to The Call of the Wild + Free: styled in the lush
aesthetic of the Wild + Free brand, a four-color book offering
crafts, activities, and essays, that parents, educators, and
caregivers can use to inspire their children. Wild + Free
Handcrafts is a beautiful, four-color resource book for parents,
educators, and caregivers to enjoy doing hands-on activities with
kids. A handcraft engages one's hands, requires a level of learned
skill, encourages children to do their best work, and produces an
end product that is useful. It has been used in homeschool settings
for decades as one way to encourage them to work with their hands
and discover a skillful craft they love to practice. It also is a
great way for traditionally educated kids who are home for the
summer, or in afterschool programs, or with their families on the
weekends, to do fun activities that will stimulate their
imaginations and creativity. This book will feature crafts such as:
Felted acorns Paper beads Nature wreaths Cocoa mint lip balm Woven
willow hearts Finger knit bracelets Eco-dyed kitchen towels Fairy
tale treehouse Flower crowns Bug hotel With the same lush
photography as The Call of the Wild + Free, this book includes
step-by-step pictures that show parents how to do the craft, and
essays on the usefulness and purpose of handcrafts as a tool to
spark children's curiosity and wonder.
This title is suitable for ages 5 years & over. Winky Cherry
introduces sewing to young seamsters - from simple stitches and
doll making to understanding and using a sewing machine - in this
series. The guides feature clever rhymes and simple instructions,
which teach sewing skills, as well as responsibility, commitment,
focus, patience, co-ordination, and organisation. Levels progress
through hand sewing, embroidery, doll making, machine sewing,
patchwork, and quilting. This kit introduces kids to sewing basics
such as threading a needle, making knots, using pins, using dots,
overstitching, and lock stitching. Step-by-step instructions guide
children through stitching and stuffing felt animals. Including a
book, two sets of bird shapes precut from quality felt, three yards
each of four colours of crochet thread, and an additional 43
patterns, this kit is also a companion to "Yes, I Can Sew!".
For everyone who loves paper dolls, here's an irresistible
treat--Madeline and Pepito, straight from the old house in Paris,
with outfits for school, party time and play. Featuring two
punch-out dolls and six pages of cut-out clothes and accessories,
there's even a very French armoire to keep clothes in when you're
finished playing. Full color.
What to do with old plastic toys, bottles, jugs or bags? Recycling
is great, but upcycling is better! Repurpose old plastic into cushy
pillows, quirky troll villages or even a funky bird feeder! Get
eco-creative with more than 10 easy, upcycled crafts.
This series plants a long-term love of craft. Each book is by an
established artist in the craft medium. Featuring 15 projects with
clear step-by-step instructions, Cut It! teaches kids how to enjoy
the craft traditions of paper. How? By cutting "flat" into an
imagination-rich new idea! Patricia Moffett offers her expertise in
professional design and crafting to kids in a way that they love,
and helps you share the joy of creating beautiful paper items with
a new generation of young crafters.
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.
Presents more than sixty projects made from natural materials that are available almost anywhere.
Ricki Carroll, best-selling author known world wide as the Cheese
Queen, and her daughter, Sarah Carrroll, takes kids ages 8 and up
on a cheese adventure! Beginning at the source--the cow--Say
Cheese! tells the story of how milk becomes cheese and the many
different styles made around the world, weaving in cheese science,
fun facts, and a game to learn how to 'say cheese' in 30 languages.
Part cooking project and part kitchen science, the core of the book
teaches kids and their families the fascinating process of making
12 different cheeses and related dairy products from scratch-
including ricotta, feta, mozzarella, yogurt, and creme fraiche - in
just a couple hours. An additional 10 kid-friendly recipes for Mini
Lasagnas, Cheesy Pizza, Birthday Cheesecake, and more round out
this celebration of everything cheese.
From Denise Scicluna, the author of Rock Art, comes this guide to
creating cute and characterful animal rock art projects in a
variety of styles. Getting started in rock art couldn't be simpler.
It doesn't require expensive materials or complicated techniques -
all you need is a rock, some paint or marker pens and your
imagination! It's great for beginner and more seasoned artists
alike, and is the perfect family craft. Discover more than 50
adorable rock art ideas for animals in a variety of styles.
Projects include woodland creatures such as foxes and squirrels,
zoo favourites like pandas and tigers, birds, bees, butterflies,
bugs, and a whole host of other animals for you to recreate. With
clear step-by-step instructions accompanying each design, lots of
variations, and bags of inspiration, Pebble Pets will soon have you
on your way to creating your own rock art menagerie.
?You?re either a cat person or a dog person, ? the saying goes.
With this craft book, though, children don?t have to choose one or
the other. All they have to do is have fun cutting, pasting and
assembling their own personal pet (potty training not required).
Ages 6 and up.
The comic convention is just a few short weeks away. All Bea and
Connor need now are great costumes but won't they cost a fortune to
make? Not if they follow some simple instructions from Bea's pet
hamster: Costume Critter, the world's cutest cosplayer! With Create
a Costume! you can create fun, easy, budget-friendly costumes. And
you don't have to start from scratch: a few simple modifications
can transform thrift store clothes into a variety of costumes. Even
mastering the sewing machine isn't as hard as it looks! You can
make amazing costumes - all you need are the right tools, a little
know-how, and a lot of imagination.
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 fully revised Little Book contains a variety of easy, fun
activities which suit different ages, stages of development and
levels of skill with scissors. For the youngest children, the act
of snipping is endlessly fascinating, while older children want to
explore the ability to shape and control. These activities are
designed to take children from basic chopping to more complex and
purposeful cutting and fashioning.
In Clay Lab for Kids, art teacher and winner of the Netflix
bake-off show Nailed It! Cassie Stephens presents 52 hands-on
projects made with kid-friendly clays that get kids working
creatively and thinking three-dimensionally. Squishy, colorful, and
infinitely shapable, clay just might be the most versatile art
material for kids. Author-artist-teacher Cassie Stephens has
created all-new clay projects for kids of all skill levels. Start
with the basics of rolling, coiling, and pinching pots, and move up
to making "Jurassic fossils," animal marionettes, monster magnets,
and boxes with secret compartments. All of the projects use
kid-friendly, no-kiln clay (air-dry, homemade, and polymer) and
water-based paints, perfect for home and classroom, plus there's an
entire chapter of recipes for mixing up inexpensive homemade clays
in the kitchen. When creating with clay, kids are introduced to a
wide range of cognitive and manual skills: they'll work
three-dimensionally; make figurative models; use their imaginations
in making jewelry and toys; design with color; and decorate with
paints. The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of
books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of
topics, including art, astronomy, bugs, geology, math, and even how
to create your own circus-all authored by established experts in
their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear
step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished
samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a
yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are
open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with
different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults,
they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain
firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids.
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to
book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with
UCL Institute of Education (IOE) This is not Rubbish is a
non-fiction text exploring how different objects may be reused and
recycled. The repeated sentence structure offers readers the
opportunity for a very first independent reading experience with
the support of the illustrations. Reading Champion offers
independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce
their developing reading skills. This non-fiction text is
accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book
has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's
reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
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