The Crafty Art Book


Book Description

Filled with gift ideas and wonderful ways to wrap them and present them, The Crafty Art Book is an appealing and imaginative book that is guaranteed to keep kids occupied for hours on end. Fifty original projects will inspire children to drop the remote or computer mouse and pick up brushes, paper, and Popsicle sticks to create fun and practical crafts.




Crafty Creatures


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30 craft projects to sew, knit, and create the cutest critters 30 Crafty Creature Projects is packed with ideas to create lots of cute, cuddly and adorable creatures. Award-winning author, Jane Bull, puts a modern spin on traditional handicrafts such as sewing, knitting, and model making in this exciting craft ebook. Inside you'll find over 30 inspiring projects ranging from delightful felt cats and teeny tiny animals, ideal for necklaces and key fobs, to cute phone pouches and coin purses. The step-by-step photo sequences of projects ensure you'll be able to pick any activity and sew, knit or assemble the adorable animals with ease. Each easy to make project tells you what materials you'll need and techniques for knitting or stitching the projects are embedded in the relevant section for immediate reference. 30 Crafty Creature Projects is perfect for budding crafters, providing creative projects that are great to keep or make as gifts for friends and family.




The Crafty Art of Playmaking


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In The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights, students of drama, and anyone who has ever laughed their way through one of Ayckbourn's plays.




Sneaky Art


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Presents simple handicraft projects that can be snuck into everyday places, including a small wash line, tissue-paper cupcakes, cork sailboats, and paper fortune cookies.




Playing with Books


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A guide to repurposing used books and pages into unique, accessible art projects—the perfect gift for artists, crafters and book lovers. In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art. The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, recycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun. The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.




Crafty Science


Book Description

This hands-on crafty science book introduces inquisitive children to the wonders of science through craft projects with everyday objects. Award-winning author Jane Bull combines art, craft, and cooking activities with gentle scientific learning, showing children that science, technology, engineering, art, and maths are all around us - and in everything we make and do! Crafty Science contains over 20 fun-filled projects, each accompanied by a 'What's the science?' section explaining how it works. Children can learn how to make a toy raft and discover what makes their boat float, design and colour a paper butterfly and watch it balance on the tip of a pencil, or create an ice sculpture and learn about the changing states of solids and liquids. With Crafty Science, difficult concepts like buoyancy, gravity, and aerodynamics become meaningful and accessible to young children through play. They'll discover the world around them like they have never seen it before!




Organic Crafts


Book Description

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.




The Bumper Book of Crafty Activities


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With step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this boredom-busting book shows children how to create more than 100 great projects using readily available materials. Kids can learn collage, clay modeling, beadwork, decorative painting, papermaking, paperfolding, printing, creative lettering, mosaics, papier mache, origami, and cardmaking--all in seven steps or fewer. Each new section has an introduction on the history of the craft and the techniques employed. There are also further ideas and developments on the projects to inspire children and adults to get even more creative.




The Crafty Chica Creates!


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The Queen of Latina Style, Kathy Cano Murillo, is back with fantastic art and craft projects—including brand-new ideas and previous favorites—in The Crafty Chica Creates.




Crafty Dolls


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Make adorable dolls and discover inspirational ideas for designs and outfits with DK's new title, Crafty Dolls. In this book, you'll find pretty patterns and basic templates. It's full of ideas for how to make rag dolls, knitted dolls, and doll clothes. Learn basic skills to knit and sew an amazing collection of clothes for a rag doll's wardrobe.