I Can Make Nature Crafts


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Using household odds and ends and natural materials from any walk outdoors, the reader can make a variety of nature crafts.




Nature Crafts for Children


Book Description

Keep your kids' boredom at bay with 35 environmentally-friendly ideas they'll love to make. Designed with the environment in mind, this brilliant collection of craft projects will keep kids entertained for hours. It features decorations, toys, jewellery, gifts, and more, every one of them incorporating natural materials – woodland folk are created from pine cones and seed pods, a length of bark is the base for an animal painting, and a piece of slate is transformed into a pretty brooch or badge. The fun ideas range from bark rubbings for budding artists to herb head flowerpots for junior gardeners and are sure to give kids the creative bug. Best of all, finding the project materials encourages kids to get outside! They can gather shells on the beach to make the shell mice, or collect leaves and twigs on a countryside walk to make a printed fox wall hanging. Even their own garden will become an exciting source of crafty materials.




Nature Crafts


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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!




Creating Crafts from Nature


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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.




Super Simple Seashell Projects: Fun and Easy Crafts Inspired by Nature


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Bring a bit of the sea home! In Super Simple Seashell Projects kids will decorate a paperweight, a flowerpot, a pencil cup, and more. All of the projects are super simple and super fun! Each project includes how-to-photos and easy instructions. Nurture a young readers' natural side by checking out the rest of the Nature Crafts series too! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.




Super Simple Pinecone Projects: Fun and Easy Crafts Inspired by Nature


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Super Simple Pinecone Projects is full of fun crafts! Kids will discover how to create animals, flowers, bobbleheads and more with pinecones! All of the projects are super simple and super fun! Each project includes how-to-photos and easy instructions. Nurture a young readers' natural side by checking out the rest of the Nature Crafts series too! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.




Super Simple Leaf Projects: Fun and Easy Crafts Inspired by Nature


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Use foliage to create fun crafts with Super Simple Leaf Projects! Kids will learn how to preserve leaves and use them to make leaf imprint coasters, place mats, note cards and more. All of the projects are super simple and super fun! Each project includes how-to-photos and easy instructions. Nurture a young readers' natural side by checking out the rest of the Nature Crafts series too! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.




Crafting with Nature


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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.




Kid Style Nature Crafts


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Enjoy great fun all year-round with these amazing projects, all inspired by the teeming miracles found in nature--ready for discovery. Every project comes with color photos, kid-friendly instructions, and fascinating sidebars to tell readers a variety of things from trivia to do-you-knows to how-tos. Full color throughout.




Super Simple Twig Projects: Fun and Easy Crafts Inspired by Nature


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Branch out with Super Simple Twig Projects! Kids will make a basket, a vase, a picture frame, and more. All of the projects are super simple and super fun! Each project includes how-to-photos and easy instructions. Nurture a young readers' natural side by checking out the rest of the Nature Crafts series too! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.