Little princesses will adore the delicious products of this how-to book, which features 24 jewellery-making projects. Easy instructions and dozens of illustrations show how to transform pretzels, gumdrops, and other candies into radical rings and wonderful wands, princess pins and heavenly headbands, knockout necklaces and excellent earrings, and beautiful bracelets and glamorous glasses.

You can make masks from balloons, kitchen sponges, funnels, strainers, paper plates and other household items. It features inventive ideas that include a tiger face made from a basket, crazy cardboard glasses, a wicked witch, a teapot, and a spooky skeleton that actually glows in the dark! It covers simple instructions and over 250 fantastic photographs show you what to do every step of the way. It is ideal for 7- to 11-year-olds, with easy projects to start off with, and more sophisticated ones for older kids. So, choose a mask and have fun making and wearing it! Masks have a long and fascinating history. Their use and meaning have varied from culture to culture, but they have always transformed the wearer. Some were used in performance art, as in ancient Japan and Greece - and now you too can make your own Japanese Noh mask and a Greek tragedy mask. Masquerade is the tradition of using masks in balls and festivals. At the Carnival in Venice, thousands of people still dress up every year in fabulous masks - just like the Venetian mask and Spanish giant in this book. The projects are both easy and fun to make. They use all kinds of methods and materials, from papier-mache to everyday objects like leaves or even a kitchen sieve. Masks can be made for all sorts of uses, such as going to a costume party, for a school drama production or even just to hang as decorations on a wall.

This title features 25 amazing step-by-step badge-making projects. It features great ideas for making your own badges, including how to create a dotty dinosaur, a papier-mache cat, a funky bow tie, a lollipop and a birthday badge. It shows you how to make designs that use everyday materials, from sweets and sequins, to buttons and bows. It contains ideal projects for 8 to 12 year-olds, with simple designs to start off with, leading to more challenging ones for older kids. Over 150 photographs, with clearly explained instructions, show you what to do every step of the way. This is an exciting collection of fun-to-make badges that kids will love to create and wear themselves or give away to friends. With original ideas and designs like Felt Scotty Dog, Driftwood Boat, Fluffy Snowman and Paper Flower there are plenty of badges to inspire creative boys and girls of all ages. A clear and helpful introduction explains the materials you will use, like papier mache, salt dough, fake fur, glitter, buttons and paints. Techniques such as how to make dough and how to trace designs are included, together with easy-to-follow instructions for each project, whether it's painting, sticking or cutting. With lots of different badges for lots of situations - to keep or give as unique presents - each project is illustrated with step-by-step photographs and a clear picture of every finished badge.

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!

If the thought of getting crafty with your children fills you with glittery dread then this book is for you.

Quick Crafts for Parents Who Think They Hate Craft is packed with 40 projects free from crazy origami to lose your cool over and PVA glue to clean out of everyone’s hair. Get creative with your children even if you’re short on time (or patience).

Split into 4 sections: play with it, wear it, spruce it up and useful things, all of the crafts have been created to ensure that play can continue once the crafting is over. Go on a swashbuckling adventure complete with pirate hook and sword, whale watching in the bath or a leafy jungle safari with hairy baboons and rattling snakes.

Crafting doesn’t have to leave you cranky and the floor sticky!

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 title is suitable for children aged 8 to 12 years old. 'The Japanese Gilded Panel Kit' was inspired by a pair of six-panel folding screens in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which were painted and embellished by Suzuki Kiitsu, a Japanese artist who was considered the last master of the Rinpa style of painting. This kit includes a pre-printed cardstock panel, two sheets of gold-leaf paper, a wooden burnishing tool, four tubes of paint, a paintbrush and a museum label, plus instructions, photographs and information about the design.

Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design, build and create! Get ready to build your very own castle! From battlements to jousting grounds and secret rooms, step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you need to make every element a model castle requires. 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 illustrated series will be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.

Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this write-in journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself
As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year.
If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why? What song could you listen to 100 times? What TV show are you totally obsessed with right now and why? What's the fiercest outfit in your closet?
Put your personal spin on these questions and many more--and since this is an authentic Dork Diary, Nikki chimes in with her answers and artwork as well

For good old-fashioned fun, nothing beats this 1887 gem Truly a "handy" book, it shows girls how to make their own amusements, with illustrated explanations that range from hobbies such as needlework and painting to suggestions for planning picnics and playing games. Hundreds of simple and timeless ideas and activities include creating handmade dolls, preserving wildflowers, weaving a rope hammock, building bookshelves, and making gifts for friends and family. The projects, which require only common household items, encourage young imaginations and foster creativity. In addition to traditional arts and crafts, the well-rounded offerings include hiking and other outdoor adventures.
Authors Lina and Adelia B. Beard wrote and illustrated many children's books and were instrumental in founding the Campfire Girls. This volume is a companion to "The American Boy's Handy Book, " written by the Beards' brother, Daniel. Its sensible, self-assured tone outlines a lively portrait of girlhood that's full of possibilities. Parents, grandparents, teachers, and camp counselors will find it a treasury of inspiration for wholesome, fun-filled activities.

In just five simple steps, children can make fun, memorable crafts out of plastic, including an octopus, a hairy bug, a puppet theater, and gifts for friends. Fourteen projects make clever use of plastic items we find in our everyday lives, such as cups, plates, hair curlers, and drinking straws. Children five years and older will develop fine motor skills, feed their creativity, and be encouraged to find new uses for items we often see as disposable.

The books in this series encourage children to use everyday materials in a series of exciting art projects, whether as entertaining ideas for rainy days at home, or for early school classrooms. In "Make it with Fabric", kids use both cloth and yarns of many colours to make animal faces, a rag doll, a hand puppet, a pen and pencil case and more! The 12 projects are presented in photo-illustrated spreads which feature easy-to-follow steps. Useful notes for parents and teachers appear at the end of the book, which give guidance on how the projects can be adapted to suit children of different ages.

This title contains easy step-by-step activities that include fancy dress ideas, pumpkin-carving techniques as well as lots of spiders, witches and bats to paint, print or make. There are also invitations, decorations and cooking activities, which are ideal for Halloween parties. It includes two pages of stickers to use with the projects or for your own picture and is filled with colourful illustrations and inspiring photographs.

Let your imagination run riot in this ultimate activity book on pirates. Design your own pirate flag, learn to read a treasure map and make a pirate's cutlass. Packed with stickers, pull-out decorated pirate-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!

In just five simple steps, children can make a variety of festive holiday crafts such as a reindeer and sleigh, a Christmas tree, and a winter wonderland out of everyday household objects. Fourteen projects make clever use of commonly available materials and simple tools, turning empty toilet paper rolls, clothespins, and card stock into lasting crafts and toys. Children five years and older will develop fine motor skills, feed their creativity, and be encouraged to find new uses for everyday objects. A ranking system for craft difficulty levels is included, from one star to four stars, for stress-free project selection.

Step into the magical world of The Repair Shop with this first, classic craft book for children. Get into crafting with this imaginative and beautifully illustrated step-by-step craft book written by the awe-inspiring team behind The Repair Shop. Featuring 50 classic crafts that will get young creators hooked on simple but satisfying activities, with plenty of tips, tricks and fun facts to learn along the way, this first craft book is packed with skills and inventive ideas that will inspire an enduring love of craftsmanship from a young age.

Discover your new craft obsession with TINY WORLD: SOAP!, all the materials and a step-by-step book for creating a soap donut. Welcome to Tiny World, a series of cutie-patootie mini-craft kits created especially for beginners, ages 10 and up. Coupled with materials to make an adorable, miniature project, this full-color, photographic, thirty-two page book provides an overview of soap making and step-by-step instructions to create your very own teeny-tiny donut. The easy-to-learn project can be completed in just a few hours or less and looks fabulous on your bookshelf and desk, and to show off to your friends.

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.

Children love to make up stories, and group storytelling offers great fun as well as learning opportunities for families, classroom groups, and any gathering of friends. "Show Me a Story" is filled with creative craft projects and activities for jump-starting and fostering imaginative narratives for children of all ages. From visual prompts for younger children, such as story stones and a storytelling jar, to word grab bags and journaling exercises for older ones, this book includes everything needed to spark an infinite number of child-created stories.

Celebrate springtime with this big, bright book full of simple yet charming craft ideas for little children. From blossom pictures and butterflies to bunnies and chicks, there are all kinds of things for children to have fun making, using everyday materials from around the house. Spotting, counting and matching puzzles as well as step-by-step drawing activities will provide hours of Easter holiday fun too.

Make the same pioneer crafts that Laura did!