Earth-Friendly Crafts


Book Description

Suggests a variety of crafty ways to reuse everyday items.




Earth-Friendly Animal Crafts


Book Description

Animal lovers will adore these hands-on projects, which use recycled materials to make animal-themed crafts. Photos and detailed instructions walk readers through each step. Convert a recycled jar into a retro bird feeder, turn recycled paper into wild lion wall art, and transform old T-shirts into a dog toy. A QR code provides a link to additional how-to photos for each piece.




Earth-Friendly Science Crafts


Book Description

Science stars can transform recycled materials into science-themed crafts. Convert old clothing into space gear using ice, turn broken crayons into a candle with heat, and grow crystallized candy in a recycled jar. Photos and detailed instructions walk you through each step of the activity. Additional pictures of how to make each project are accessible online via a QR code.




Earth-Friendly Engineering Crafts


Book Description

Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed engineering projects, including constructing an airplane from a plastic bottle, transforming an old T-shirt into a working wind sock, and building a small city from plastic containers.




Earth-Friendly Tech Crafts


Book Description

Create new technology crafts from old household materials. Devise a sundial from recycled cardboard, refresh old earbuds with string, and make a cell phone charging cradle from a recycled container. Detailed instructions and photos of the steps and the finished product will guide crafty techies through each activity. Additional pictures of how to make each project are accessible online via a QR code.




Earth-Friendly Earth Day Crafts


Book Description

Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed craft projects, including turning recycled paper into a barrette, giving old shoes new life with painted shark portraits, and building a beehive out of used straws.




Easy Earth-friendly Crafts in 5 Steps


Book Description

"Presents earth-friendly craft projects that can be made in 5 steps"--Provided by publisher.




Earth-Friendly Math Crafts


Book Description

Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed math projects, including turning cardboard into a working scale, using fractions to give rain boots a splash of color, and letting geometry inspire emoji photo props from recycled paper.




Eco-Craft


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Projects: sweater rug, painted bottle vases, six-pack screen, bowled over, embellished pot, CD-case towel rack, coffee-bag tote, bamboo trays, inner-tube bulletin board, drawer dividers, do lunch right, message on a bottle, hangers on, tray jolie, stop the draft, can be beautiful, milk-jub pendant, baby-jar chandelier, grocery-bag shade, pots of light, for the birds, seed balls, music boxes, fall line-up, ornamental metal, magazine shapes, by the book, wrapped up.




Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!


Book Description

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.