Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781581802924
Instructions for creating crafts and gifts using natural materials found outdoors.
Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1633624242
Explore the natural world in a new and creative way. Crafters practice comprehension skills as they use text and diagrams to follow the steps for each project. The activities push students to learn and apply domain-specific vocabulary, practice new techniques, and build on concepts that may already be familiar. Other tools, including an index and additional resources, encourage readers to locate information and explore further independently.
Author : Annalees Lim
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482402041
So many great craft materials can be found in nature. Twigs, pebbles, pinecones, and even sand can be part of simple, fun projects. Readers will not only like trying out new crafts, but also enjoy exploring nature to find what they need for each! Colorful photographs and clear instructions guide readers through twig birdhouses, pressed-flower coasters, and more. Readers will paint, glue, and snip their way to lovely crafts that can add a little natural wonder to any room!
Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000582256
Popular eCommerce platforms like Etsy have attributed to a sharp increase in creative craft entrepreneurs, and craft entrepreneurship has strong links to the cultural and lifestyle field. This timely book looks at craft entrepreneurship and defines what qualifies as craft entrepreneurs and their products in a global context. The edited book begins with an overview of the craft sector and each chapter provides a holistic picture of what craft entrepreneurship entails. Different kinds of creative crafts are examined, providing a discussion of what entrepreneurship in creative crafts involves, how they differ from other types of products, and how craft makers may engage in entrepreneurial behaviour and marketing. The book helps readers understand the current state of development of the craft sector, its various challenges, and what the future holds for these businesses. Craft entrepreneurship is a new, emerging area of entrepreneurship study, and this book will interest scholars and those who are interested in craft making and wish to develop it into a small business.
Author : Kimberly Monaghan
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161374255X
Parents, teachers, and caregivers looking for ideas on how to get children outdoors and instill in them a love of nature can find more than 75 creative crafts, games, and activities using objects that kids can collect from nature in this idea book. As children make race cars out of rocks, create paint from plants, and assemble funny grass masks, they learn to be environmentally friendly—absorbing information on recycling, reducing waste, and inspiring others to protect nature. Organized by the various natural materials needed, the crafts offer a new twist on perennial homemade gifts and school projects.
Author : Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1491748575
There is an age-old controversy regarding the major source of human knowledgewhether it arises from experience or from reason. The Natural Dynamics of Imaginative and Creative Technology presents a revolutionary reconciliation on this topic. As an arbitrator in the philosophical battle of mind-body dualism as championed by Aristotle and his contemporaries, this study offers a balanced approach. It stands out as a peculiar and distinct library in the dynamism of knowledge, with particular reference to the domain technological prowess. Author Anthony Aliche writes with passion as he seeks to represent a stipulative monolith in the ethical pattern of the present and upcoming generations for a clear achievement of the millennial development goals. Humanity has launched itself into a detrimental quagmire, allowing appetitive elements to gain the upper hand and oversee the affairs of the rational elements. To combat that challenge, Aliche offers a blueprint that, when used in its conclusive mission, will uplift humanity beyond the bounds of sense experience and materialism and into the domain of true knowledge and realities.
Author : Ben Ristow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350120693
Craft lives inside the artist, and it operates in the mind, not in standards or techniques. Creative writers navigate thresholds in consciousness as they develop their arts practice. Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing explores what it is to be an artist as it traces radical, feminist, and culturally embedded traditions in craft. The new term "craft consciousness" identifies the nexus from which writers explore making processes and practitioner knowledge. Writers, as with all artists, create and reimagine themselves anew, and it is in this perpetual state of becoming that they find ways to enlarge their sense of artistry through an exploration of forms, processes, and mediums beyond the written word. For writers, this book initiates a reexamination of the mission of creative writing through disrupting patriarchal, racist, colonialist, ableist, and capitalist associations with dominant craft. Drawing from twenty-five interviews with living artists outside of writing and in a host of fields from conceptual art to leatherwork and dance, the book shines a light on how the processes associated with craft are embodied. Craft is an internalized matrix; it need not be commodified for the marketplace or codified in the standards necessitated by institutions of higher education. By redesigning writing workshops and MFA/PhD programs through craft consciousness, new potentials and collaborations emerge, and it becomes more conceivable to imagine dynamic, inclusive relationships between writers, scientists, and other artists.
Author : Amy Renea
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1624141986
A beautiful and practical step-by-step guide to growing and gathering plants and using them to fill your life and home with natural homemade creations.Crafting with Nature offers an incredible collection of easy projects using natural materials you can gather or grow and form into beautiful and useful crafts. Readers will love making and using items like the DIY Solid Lavender Perfume, or sewing beautiful Rustic Wooden Buttons they made from gathered branches onto a favorite sweater, or decorating their homes with a Lambs Ear Flower Stalk Wreath with lambs ear they grew in the garden. The book also includes gift ideas and recipes such as Amy's Red, White and Blue Jam using home-grown blackberries and Ginger Pickled Tomatoes with fresh-picked tomatoes from the garden. Each chapter focuses on a different common plant, starting out with a beginner-friendly guide for how to gather or grow it (most are commonly found in home gardens), then ideas and projects for what readers can make with it. The book has a total of 58 detailed step-by-step tutorials and 44 quick-and-easy inspiration ideas and crafting techniques. Amy Renea is the founder of A Nest for All Seasons, chosen as the reader's choice best gardening blog in the Better Homes & Gardens Blogger Awards.
Author : Carol Tubbs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 104014229X
For more than 20 years, Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition has been an illuminating reference for the use of creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals. Carol Crellin Tubbs has included a range of craft and creative activity categories, from paper crafts, to cooking, to the use of recycled materials, and everything in between. Each chapter includes a brief history of the craft, several projects along with suggestions for grading or adapting, examples of related documentation, and a short case study. The text also features chapters on activity analysis, general strategies for implementation of creative activities, and documentation, as well as a chapter describing the relevance of this media from both historical and current occupation-based perspectives. In this updated Fifth Edition, the craft projects have been updated and numerous resources and links for more ideas have been added. There are new chapters on making therapy tools and crafting with a purpose, and the recycled and found materials chapter has been expanded in keeping with cultural trends. A flow chart has been added to each case study to help students better understand the process and rationale for tailoring activities for individual client needs, and project suggestions for working on specific performance skills or client factors are scattered throughout the chapters. Other additions include a behavioral observation checklist as an aid in evaluation and documentation, and several illustrations to help students distinguish between the use of occupation as means and occupation as end. This Fifth Edition also includes an updated instructors’ manual with additional resources and suggestions for lesson planning. Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition not only provides a wide assortment of craft ideas and instructions, but also provides multiple suggestions for therapeutic uses for activities in each category. It includes ways to grade activities to best achieve therapy objectives, and examples of documentation for reimbursement. For each craft category, there is discussion on precautions for use with certain populations, contextual limitations, and safety considerations. Information is presented in several different formats such as examples, tables, illustrations, and other formats to promote student understanding. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. . Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition is the foremost resource for using creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals and should be used by all occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and recreational therapists.
Author : Bob Henderson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1554882400
Nature First combines the Scandinavian approach to creating a relationship with nature (known as friluftsliv) with efforts by Canadian and international educators to adapt this wisdom and apply it to everyday life experiences in the open air. The word friluftsliv literally refers to "free-air life" or outdoor life. A word saturated with values, the concept can permeate deeply and playfully into ones cultural being and personal psyche, thus influencing the way one perceives and interacts with nature on a daily basis. For centuries, the North American approach has been one of domination and bringing nature under control, in many cases abusing our natural environment in the process. The friluftsliv way of being on "talking terms with nature," developing an "insider’s" relationship with nature, offers the rich potential of allowing us as cohabiters on the Earth to recreate, rejuvenate and restore the balance among all living things. Nature First is the first English-language anthology to bring together the perspectives and experiences of North American, Norwegian, Swedish and other international outdoor writers, all friluftsliv thinkers and doers. Here, the thirty contributors’ use of history, sociology, psychology, philosophy and outdoor education writings blend to provide an understanding of how friluftsliv applies to everyday life. The book presents an alternative to much of the personal growth/adventure-based literature that tends to dominate our current approach to the outdoor activity. Folklore, heritage, adventure travel, crafts, place-based education and the daily outings of families all have a role to play in promoting an understanding of both the ordinary and the mystical importance of this Nordic tradition. Dedicated to parents, travel guides, educators and generally to participants in the outdoors, Nature First provides a compellingly fresh approach to life in the out-of-doors.
