35 step-by-step card-making projects for children aged 7+ Whatever the occasion, you'll find the right card to make in My First Card-Making Book. In Chapter 1, Everyday Cards, there are lovely ideas such as the felt flower card, patchwork card and button nest card. The cards in Chapter 2, Fun Cards, will help you bring a smile to someone's face with ideas including the finger puppet card and lollipop card. You can make Christmas really special with the creative cards in Chapter 3, Festive Cards, including the cut-out bauble card, cosy fur-trimmed cards and cute and easy colour-in Christmas card. Finally, in Chapter 4, Special Occasions, you'll find celebratory cards to mark special occasions such as getting married or having a baby, as well as Easter and Valentine's Day cards. Each of the projects is broken down into simple illustrated steps and has a skill rating, starting with very easy and progressing as you become more experienced at card-making. Get started now, and make someone's day with a home-made card, crafted with love.

Create fascinating gizmos from simple electronics and household items, from a gravity-powered car to a light-up backpack to a geodesic mini greenhouse. This highly practical handbook is packed with guidance, tips and inspiration for making simple but clever gadgets that will give kids a real sense of achievement, as well as impressing friends and parents with their skills. The perfect book for fun STEM projects to keep kids busy when they're stuck indoors, or for home-schooling inspiration. Page after page of makes allow budding engineers and inventors to pick and choose projects that suit their interests and skill level. Each project comes with a short explanation of the science behind it, and every stage is heavily illustrated and photographed to ensure that following the instructions is easy and fun. Parents might learn something, too!

Learn to draw with Rhinoceros and his hilarious friends! With step-by-step instructions and colourful illustrations, this practical fill-in art activity book gives you the skills to unleash your inner artist. this book starts with how to draw a straight line and ends with landscapes covering tone, perspective, people and animals in between. Practically Awesome Animals is a series of practical activity books that use step-by-step instructions and hilarious animal characters to teach kids how to draw, bake, cook and create comics.

25 of the world's leading designers contribute one object each for kids to make themselves

For the young makers in the family, this beautifully designed handbook offers 25 unique and practical objects for kids to make and use. Each project features fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions, a photographic list of materials, the approximate cost, timing, and a photograph of the finished product. The 25 contributors range from lauded graphic designers to successful industrial designers, all of whom considered this young audience in the creation of their projects. This unusual and engaging book of activities grants children access to world-class design in their very own homes, and may even inspire a few to become designers themselves!

An excellent book on parties and home entertainment, originally published in the 1920s. It contains many, many ideas for fun things to do at home, and is of still of much practical use today. Contents Include: The Art of Successful Entertaining - Planned Parties - Party Games - Puzzles and Paper Games - Indoor Pastimes - Fun for the Children - Simple Conjuring and Juggling - Amateur Theatricals - Community Songs - Simple Card Games - Auction and Contract Bridge - Billiards, Snooker and Bagatelle - Chess - Draughts - Music for All - Garden Games

The adolescent years are often years of confusion and turbulence. One of the solutions to this rather difficult time is to help teenagers use simple Feng Shui techniques to create self-esteem, balance and success. By learning these techniques teenagers can help themselves think better, organize better, and make clearer decisions. By changing the bedroom floor plan and adding new and different objects positive changes are likely to happen.

Amuse-bouche (a-MOOSE-boosh) noun
1: A small complimentary appetizer offered just before dinner by a chef.
2: The French literal translation: amuse (to amuse) + bouche (mouth) = "amusement for the mouth"
3: A tiny bite that gives an idea of the chef's artistic approach to food.
A Moose Boosh (a-MOOSE-boosh) noun
1: A small collection of spoken word poems to be read aloud before or after dinner by anyone.
2: These spoken word poems are little amusing stories about food and nutrition.
3: These poems are a new addition to meal time, meant to make the elusive family dinner special again.
Eating at the dinner table is so much more fun when you can share a few silly poems before you eat. Parents will see how children experience food (for real ) and kids may just try a few more bites, or at least ask where their food comes from. Artist and poet Eric-Shabazz Larkin, in a high-spirited debut as author and illustrator, captures the joy of eating together and will bring the whole family back to the ever-elusive dinner table.

The 1950s saw the start of a big snack food revolution. Since then, innovations in food science technology have made snacks inexpensive, convenient, and delicious. But is all this snacking good for us? Learn about the history of snack food, the science behind food technology, and how snack foods affect health. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds reading skills while engaging students' curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. Packed with factoids and informative sidebars, it features a hands-on STEAM challenge that is perfect for use in a makerspace and teaches students every step of the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields. Discover engineering innovations that solve real-world problems with content that touches on all aspects of STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math!

Create fashionable good luck charms for you and your friends with Friendship Wish Bracelets by Klutz! More than just a fashion statement, these bracelets are good luck charms too - use the hemp cords and beautiful glass beads, charms and crystals to weave together pretty bracelets to gift ... or to keep for yourself! Included in the kit: a booklet for guidance and inspiration hemp cords glass beads clay beads crystal rock beads bracelet maker with clip wish cards. 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

Packed with craft activities and over 200 stickers, the Tales from Acorn Wood Make and Do Book is a great gift for any child – ideal for rainy days and holidays.

Welcome to Acorn Wood! Come and meet Bear, Fox, Rabbit, Pig and all their friends in this fun craft book. Make your own woodland animal masks, create a fun hide-and-seek cup and ball game, and find out how to turn wooden spoons into brilliant animal puppets!

Based on the bestselling lift-the-flap Tales from Acorn Wood stories by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.

The Little Witch's Book of Spells is an enchanting compendium of spells, potions, and activities for kids 8 to 12 years old. Young witches-in-training will discover spells to resolve problems, foster friendship, and engage with the natural world. This spellbinding book guides readers on how to craft a magic wand, befriend a fairy, and read tea leaves, as well as glossaries of magical terms and symbols. * A playful and immersive guidebook to all things magical * Filled with simple activities using easily found ingredients * Complete with lush illustrations The Little Witch's Book of Spells harnesses magic and the imagination to help little witches feel powerful, tap into creative energy, and practice self-love. Spells and activities include Best Friends Forever Spell, Jump Rope Protection Spell, Get Well Soon Elixir, Blanket Fort Magical Fortress Spell, How to Make a Magical Fairy Garden, and Mermaid Bath Spell. * Perfect for young readers interested in magic, fans of Harry Potter, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and fantasy series featuring witches * A mystical, fun, and empowering book of spells that will have any child enthralled by the magical world * Makes a great gift for millennial parents who want to encourage imagination, creativity, and play * Add it the the shelf with books like The Book of the Secrets of Merlin Wizardology by Candlewick Press, Fairyopolis: A Flower Fairies Journal by Glen Bird and Liz Catchpole, and The Unofficial Harry Potter Spellbook: Wizard Training by Michael Gonzalez.