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This title helps you find out about the land of the pharaohs, with
15 step-by-step projects and over 400 exciting pictures. You can
step back in time to the world of the ancient Egyptians and uncover
the treasures and secrets of this mysterious 3000-year-old
civilization. It includes fact boxes that provide additional
information and highlight links with the present. It is ideal for
home or school use and for ages 8 to 12. It features 15 easy and
fun projects that allow you to bring the past to life - make a
miniature pyramid, build a model boat suitable for sailing on the
Nile, create your own water clock, sculpt a canopic jar, and bake
pastries from an age-old Egyptian recipe. More than 400 photographs
and illustrations include specially commissioned cross-section
diagrams, historical maps and hieroglyphs. You can learn what life
was like for the people of the Nile Delta. You can delve into the
dark secrets of their funeral rites, mummies and tombs, and the
many strange gods they revered. You can learn about their love of
fine art and crafts, and their amazing architectural skills. A
variety of practical projects will help you to experience how
ancient Egyptians lived. You can make a crown fit for a pharaoh,
build a scale model of an Egyptian house, and play a traditional
board game. This accessible book is ideal for fun and learning, at
home or at school.
Packed with games, strategies, lessons, and challenges, Photo
Adventures for Kids makes learning about photographic composition
and framing easy and fun. Look up! Look down! Move around!
Everywhere you go, there are great pictures just waiting to be
made! Kids love to take pictures. With Photo Adventures for Kids,
you can encourage your child's passion while exploring the art of
photography together. With this book, your child will become an
official Photo Adventurer and go on a very important mission to
solve the greatest mystery of photography--learning how to find a
great photograph no matter where they are. Whether they're at home
or at school, in the backyard or on a field trip, in the city or in
nature, they'll learn the important lesson of how to "see" where
the best photographs are hidden in any location. Packed with games,
strategies, lessons, and challenges, Photo Adventures for Kids
makes learning about photographic composition and framing easy and
fun. The book also features a cutout "viewfinder" device at the
back of the book, which kids can use to explore their environment.
In Photo Adventures for Kids, your child will learn all about:
Composition Framing Perspective Leading lines Subject placement And
much more! The mission is to find great photographs anywhere and
everywhere. Hurry! Adventure awaits!
Create adorable sushi characters with Mini Sushi Bar by Klutz! Make
sixteen sushi treats with this wholesome kit using clay, foam and
other included materials. Learn about different types of sushi as
you roll and sculpt the cutest foods at the buffet. After, pack
your adorable sushi pieces in a paper-craft bento box or spread
them out on a fancy dinner display, complete with miniature
chopsticks! The kit includes: an instruction book for guidance
different coloured clay bead eyes cheek sequins glaze mini soup
bowl mini chopsticks sushi tray paper-crafts sculpting tool. 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
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.
Using dynamic how to photos and step-by-step instructions written
for ages 8 to 12, Amie Petronis Plumley and Andria Lisle teach a
variety of techniques using both hand and machine sewing. The 15
projects range from decorative to practical, including an appliqued
family crest wall hanging, a patchwork pet bed, a crazy quilt
journal cover, and a quilt made from recycled T- shirts. Every
project features encouraging suggestions for making truly
one-of-a-kind items that express the creative spirit of each young
maker.
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or
mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art,
the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you
need to make every element a model biosphere needs. 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 illustrated series will
be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for
DT classes and clubs.
Packed with make and do activities and over 200 stickers, What the
Ladybird Heard Make and Do Book is a great gift for any child -
ideal for rainy days and holidays. Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two
crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer's fine prize
cow. But little do they know that the tiniest, quietest creature of
all has overhead their plot, and she has a plan of her own! Join
the farmyard adventures and find out how to make a clucking red
hen, a farmyard playset, and your very own pair of flapping
ladybird wings! Based on the bestselling picture book What the
Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own space centre!
From rockets and rocket launchers to a Mars rover and a night sky
projector, step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions
you need to make every element a model space centre 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 building and will go through
creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a
castle and its grounds, 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
illustrated series will be great for rainy days and science days
and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.
Through a series of simple coloring exercises, the fascinating
world of colors will unfold before the eyes of your child. Children
slowly improve their fine motor skills as they encounter pages with
more colors and more complicated shapes.
Discover science, technology, engineering, art and maths (STEAM)
through original craft projects and recycle at the same time! This
brilliant series combines learning science with seasonal craft
projects, scientific experiments and fun activities. In Winter why
not create some ice balloons, investigate crystals or design your
own bottle bird feeder, plus many more fascinating ideas to try
out. Combining fun photos, illustrated step-by-step artwork and a
dose of eco-friendly fun, STEAM through the seasons will ensure
plenty to occupy any 6-8-year-old!
Make some magic with the delightful Enchanted Fairy House: Magical
Garden kit by Klutz! Bring three whimsical little fairy dolls to
life! Mix and match colourful glitter skirts, wooden beads, flowing
yarn hair and faux flowers to design and dress the fairies. After,
build their home and decorate it with tiny furniture, enchanted
flowers and faux moss. The kit includes: an instruction book for
guidance a fairy-sized storybook about the fairies paper punch-outs
wooden beads wire yarn in three colours faux flower petals glitter
fabric glue faux moss. 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
Corrugated Castle. Fancy Foil Fish Mobile. Paper Bead Bangles. Braided Rag Coasters. Old Shoe Flower Pots. Puppy Dog Sock Puppet. With a little imagination, just about anything we think of as trash can be transformed into an art project good enough to give as a gift or to keep and treasure yourself. In her first Storey Kids book, "Nature's Art Box, master crafter Laura C. Martin showed kids how pebbles, twigs, seedpods, and shells can be turned into things of beauty. Now in "Recycled Crafts Box, she uses as her art supplies the paper, plastic, metal, and cloth we usually consign to the recycling bin or the garbage can. The way Martin sees it, just about everything around us holds artistic possibilities. Plastic picnic plates can be cut up to make a bouquet of flowers that will never wilt (and don't need watering). Roll leftover gift wrap into tight tubes and cut it into small sections to make one-of-a-kind beads. Decorate the sides of old paint cans with acrylic paint and tie sturdy rope to the handles to make a pair of stilts. Along the way, Martin offers sidebars on the history of rubbish and profiles of artists whose medium is junk. She passes along important lessons about being a good steward of the Earth. But the lessons are light and fun--never preachy. Fun for kids, perfect for involved and home-schooling parents, and ideal for schoolteachers who have seen their art supply budgets slashed, "Recycled Crafts Box shows budding artists how to make something beautiful and save the planet at the same time.
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.
Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is celebrated for five days
with various activities and food. This book explores the festival
and the story behind it and features six simple origami projects
for your own festive fun! The book shows how people around the
world decorate their homes with lights and rangoli patterns, and
how they end the Diwali celebration with a special day for brothers
and sisters. Attractively designed, its simple text and wonderful
full-colour photos make this an essential book for children
celebrating or learning about the festival. The origami activities
are accessible to all and are explained with step-by-step
illustrations. Your fantastic creations can be used as decorations
for the festival, for presents, to impress your teacher for a
Diwali school project or simply to wow your friends! The book is
part of the Origami Festivals series, which bring religious
festivals to life through origami art. Each festival is examined in
detail, from its history to its significance today and the manner
in which people worldwide celebrate it. Origami craft activities
engage the reader in each festival and add a fun art and design
element to the series. A religious and interactive craft series for
children aged 9+.
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.
Get outdoors and unlock your creative side with these fantastic art
projects for summer. Follow the step-by-step photographs to make
garden bunting, a fairy ring, a flower print picture and lots more.
Plus, find out all about summer with the seasonal fact panels.
Perfect for kids aged 5 and up, The Outdoor Art Room is designed to
get children out into the fresh air and interacting with nature. A
range of simple arts and crafts projects as well as fun activities
help them discover new things about their environment and the
seasons at the same time as being active and having fun. Care is
taken to ensure that these projects do not create any adverse
environmental impact.
Hand lettering is making a comeback, spurred by platforms like
Instagram and Pinterest. And not just adults are getting into hand
lettering and calligraphy. Kids, too, can find relaxation as well
as inspiration in using hand lettering and calligraphy to create
handmade projects for themselves, their families, or gifts. The
Kids' Book of Hand Lettering will introduce young crafters to the
joys of hand lettering through 20 fun and inspired hand-lettered
projects that are easy to create at home. Nicole Miyuki Santo will
walk children through the basics of hand lettering and calligraphy,
including different lettering styles and tools (gel pens, permanent
markers, and brush pens) before they begin their projects, which
include room signs, bookmarks, party balloons, picture frames, tote
bags, pillowcases, and more. With full-color instructional and
inspired photos, practice pages to try out various hand lettering
styles, and pep talks throughout to help spark the creative juices,
The Kids' Book of Hand Lettering is sure to become a modern-day
hand-lettering staple for crafty kids (and their parents).
Stay close to family and friends with this beautifully illustrated
stationery set to tear out and colour. Packed with
exquisitely-detailed artwork inspired by the gardens of the Royal
Horticultural Society (RHS), there are 26 cards and envelopes to
decorate, complete with sticker seals. Get creative with different
colours and materials to decorate these Christmas-themed cards.
Packed with snowflakes, winter flora and wildlife, this stationery
set has enough blank space inside for a message. Use the 40
stickers to give your cards a truly special touch! With
easy-to-follow instructions and tear-out pages. Customise each card
to create a unique gift to treasure forever. The perfect activity
for all ages. Also in the series: The Springtime Garden Cards and
Envelopes My Unicorn Garden Cards and Envelopes
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