Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites is packed with make-and-dos and inspiring activities for budding young artists. Paint portraits inspired by medieval legends, design your own wallpaper using potato printing, and create photocollages influenced by the beauty of nature. Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life or the movement followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the movement's body of work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making.

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.

Create awesome DIY electronics projects using fabric, paper, and craft-no coding or electronics knowledge needed! This fun TAB guide features 20 creative and quirky projects that bridge the gap between electronics and craft. Each hands-on project builds electronics and craft skills in a fun way, using cheap, readily available electronics and craft materials-conductive thread, sewable LEDs, copper tape, small motors, and simple sensors. Designed to get children involved with electronics, The Crafty Kid's Guide to DIY Electronics: 20 Fun Projects for Makers, Crafters, and Everyone in Between is divided into sections focusing on paper circuits, soft circuits, wearables, and robotic creatures. The projects are ideal for family making and crafting sessions, crafty people who want to take their creations to the next level, as well as for makers inspired by the cosplay and wearable scenes. The book will also appeal to traditional electronics hobbyists with a sense of humor! *Provides an entertaining, hands-on introduction to electronics and making *Suitable for beginner to intermediate makers ages 8 and up *Written by a dedicated maker and experienced author

Help Your Kids Unplug and Challenge Their Creativity with Fun Things To Do! (Ages 6-8)"Parven Kaur is a mom and writer who focuses on Internet safety and digital literacy. Her blog, Kids N Clicks offers sound advice and recommendations on all things related to digital and screen media for parents." Amy Web of The Thoughtful Parent This activity book in the style of "wreck this journal" for kids encourages children ages 6 -8 to spend less time on their devices, and more time engaged in fun and challenging activities. Fuel your child's creativity. This hybrid kid's activity book and creative journal is filled to the brim with challenges and prompts that promote positivity, while also developing your child's mindfulness and creativity. The book cultivates a growth mindset for kids encouraging them to think outside the box and be creative, while developing their ability to learn new things. Screen-free entertainment. Your child won't want to put this book down. From a scavenger hunt of household items, to coloring-in illustrations and puzzles, this adventurous book is crafted to give your child a digital detox. They'll want to pick-up this book and do more challenging and fun activities, instead of sitting down in front of a screen. Unlike TV and video games, this book benefits your child: Building their confidence by encouraging them to try new things Promoting mindfulness, positivity, and self-reflection with creative journal prompts Growing their self-esteem by keeping them active and engaged in learning with challenges, crafts, and more! If your kids enjoyed books like Growth Mindset Activities for Kids; Learn, Grow, Succeed!; or You Got This, then they'll love Challenge Accepted!

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.

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.

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.

This title offers: 36 awesome planes representing every skill level, beginner to advanced; extensive photo support - each and every fold is pictured; flying success in no time; and, step-by-step instructions and tips for perfect performance. Zoom! Soar! Step-by-step instructions, easy-to-follow detailed illustrations, and clever organization based on the steps to becoming a real pilot make these paper airplane books like no other. Start with the straightforward designs for beginning paper pilots as they enter flight school and progress through the ranks to the advanced designs of a paper airplane captain! This title features: Step-by-step Instructions; Fact Boxes; On-Page Definitions of Glossary Terms; Full Colour; Table of Contents; Glossary; Index; and, Read More Resources.

Painting rocks and hiding them for others to find is the latest craze sweeping the nation and this book has everything you need to know to get started. From preparing rocks to paint, to hiding and tracking your creations, this book will make sure you get the most out of this fun family activity. Packed full of ideas for cool designs, hints and tips on hiding and finding rocks and lots of info on the rock painting community, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to get involved in this exciting new hobby.

35 creative projects for children using natural and recycled materials Making their own toys, games, gifts and ornaments encourages children to use their creative flair - and if they can use component parts that are adapted or recycled, so much the better for them and the planet. None of Emma Hardy's projects in Green Crafts for Children use any special materials. Instead, they all rely on items that are likely to be in the cupboard, can be found around the house or garden, or collected on walks in the park or at the beach. There are recipes for salt dough and methods for easy felting, plus ways to imaginatively use old gift-wrapping paper and worn-out clothes, as well as pine cones, tree bark, shells and other natural bits and bobs. Gifts for relatives and friends are here, together with games and toys that can be made and then played with again and again. From painted stones and a friendship bracelet to a simple dolls' house and a driftwood boat, children will love the projects in this engaging book. In fact, kids need never be bored again.

Make the same pioneer crafts that Laura did!

Foil Art is a fun and totally mess-free way to create out-of-this-world space pictures! Colour in the rockets, aliens, planets and astronauts then take your space pictures to the next level by adding foil to create super-shine metallic finishes to your pictures. Add shiny foil to the moon landers, space rockets, aliens and astronauts by choosing a foil sticker and positioning on the page wherever you wish. There are 350 stickers for you to use and decorate your pictures. Perfect for creative kids who like to craft, are great at colouring and love using their imagination!

Everything you need to embroider, frame and hang a beautiful owl, including a piece of cotton fabric printed with an owl design, a needle, embroidery hoop and green, yellow and orange thread. There's also a 16-page book with simple, step-by-step instructions showing you exactly what to do, and links to video clips of embroidery skills.

This title features fun-to-do experiments for kids, shown step by step. It includes 16 stimulating projects that help children to learn about science by conducting their own experiments. It introduces and explains very simple ideas in physics, chemistry and biology: light and shade, water, weather, sound, and everything children can see, touch and hear. You can find out how mirrors work, tell the time by the sun, investigate sound by making a string telephone, and see how the wind moves a homemade sail boat. All the experiments are shown in clear step-by-step photographs, and use simple materials and very basic equipment that can be found around the home. It is the perfect starter book for ages 3 to 7 years - for older readers to use with minimum supervision, and for younger children to enjoy with adult help. The world around us is a source of incredible wonder and amazement to children. This book will reveal and explain how things work, and respond to youngsters' first questions.It encourages readers to devise and carry out their own practical experiments - such as exploring the way light travels in straight lines by making shadow puppets, and melting ice cubes to learn about temperature - instilling real understanding and the excitement and enthusiasm that will carry them positively into more 'serious' science in the future.

Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design, build and create! Get ready to build your very own theatre and film set! From set design to special effects and red curtains, step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you need to make every element a model theatre or film set 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 photographic series will be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.

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

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Transform simple balls and coils of modeling clay into an awesome alligator, laughing lizard, magic trinket box, and other sculptures, signs, and ornaments! These full-color illustrations and clear directions explain basic techniques as well as every step of the crafting process for 24 projects, including a happy heart, snazzy snail, dancing polar bear, and other treasures.

Each project is graded according to level of difficulty and includes a list of materials consisting of colored clay and ordinary household items. The step-by-step instructions feature numerals corresponding to color photos that provide easy-to-follow examples. Crafters of all ages will adore these fun-filled projects and their products, which make charming keepsakes and unique gifts.